Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1934 — Page 3

OCT. 9, 1931

LABOR ACCLAIMS 30-HOUR WORK WEEK, PREPARES FOR FIGHT ON INDUSTRIAL UNIONS A. F. of L. Pledges ‘Uncompromising’ Battle for President Green’s Project; Lewis, Gorman Lead Drive for Policy Change. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.—Shoulder to shoulder, mine worker John L. Lewis and textile worker Francis J.*Gorman worked today to steer the American Federation of Labor from its traditional place among craft unions into the somewhat unexplored field of union organization by industries.

The problem was the next big question before the fiftyfourth annual convention which unanimously and enthusiastically committed organized labor to ask and work “eternally, immovably and uncompromisingly” for acceptance by industry and government of the thirty-hour work week. The formal program for today's session railed for addresses by inter- : national visitors in denouncing j Nazism and Fascism, to both of which President Green and his associates have indicated their un- > alterable opposition. The latter issue will be fought on j the floor today when the committee on adjustments makes its report on the executive council order reinstating the carpenters, electricians and bricklayers internationals into the building trades group and ordering anew election of departmental officers. Council Change Proposed The building trades dispute is one involving only a section, although a j powerful one, of the labor federa- | tion. But the debate between craft j vs. industrial unions was one which i is reaching deeply into the founda- j tion stones on which the late Sam- j uel A. Gompers built the mighty | organization known as the Amerlean Federation of Labor. With it is interlocked, through Mr. Lewis’ dynamic pressure, the proposal to enlarge the executive council from its present limit of eleven members, three ex-officio, into a larger, more aggressive group of twenty-eight, three ex-officio. Both proposals may reach the floor almost simultaneously as the resolutions committee indicated its readiness to release reports on most of the 200 resolutions presented during the opening sessions of the convention last week. Also to come from the busy committee’s • hopper were resolutions , seeking to censure President Roosevelt’s appointment to Clay Williams of the Reynolds Tobacco Company as head of the NRA administrative setup; to criticise the modus operandi of the NRA; to demand legislation for unemployment insurance and old age pensions, and the definitely Communistic plans for a general twenty-four-hour strike the day congress reconvenes and for disapproval of President Green’s position during the San Francisco general strike. Gorman Joins Fight The youthful Mr. Gorman, who directed the strike of 500.000 textile workers in the south and east —the greatest labor walkout of the New Deal—threw himself energetically into the industrial union fight from the moment he arrived by airplane to jepresent the United Textile Workers. "I don’t care what kind of union you call it—vertical, industrial or what—just call it union but go ahead and organize,” Mr. Gorman said. "Stand together for one year and you can bring this vast army into the federation. This convention can lay the foundation for it.” Mr. Gorman set the organizing goal for this year at 1.000.000 new’ members. The textile workers at present claim 300.000. 3 OFFICERS CONVICTED IN GUARD CONSPIRACY Trio Faces Sentence To'day on Pay Roll Charge. Ji'l I niti ti I'rt S* EVANSVILLE. Ind., Oct. 9.—Convicted on charges of conspiracy to file false salary claims against the government, three officers of the Indiana national guard unit at Mt. Vernon were to be sentenced today by Judge Robert C. Baltzeil in district federal court. The officers. Captain Philip E. Rowe and Sergeant George Albright, and Fred A. Grabbert, were found guilty in a brief trial here yesterday. They were convicted of filing a salary claim of $71.40 a month for Ernest L. Hill, animal caretaker, of which he received only $25. and the remainder was transferred to Grabbert and Albright. YEGG CRACKS SAFE IN CENTURY BUILDING Optical Firm Employe Reports Theft of Between $55 and S7O. An employe of the American Optical Company. 745 Century building. reported to police today that between $55 and S7O had been stolen from the firm's safe during the night. The thief apparently had pried the office door open and broke the combination off the safe. A Package a Day Fights Tooth Decay! Vitamin “D” Gum You need Vitamin “D", rarely found in every-day foods, to fight tooth decay. Children need it for strong boi|es. Get Vitamin “D” in this new delicious way. 5c a package everywhere.

CANDIDATES TO MEETWORKERS Citizens’ Nominees Are to Convene With First, Second Ward. The five school board candidates j sponsored by the citizen's school i committee will meet the committee’s precinct workers in the First and Second wards tonight in 502 Illinois ] building. The candidates are Mrs. j Mary D. Ridge. Carl Wilde, Alan W. Boyd, John F. White, and Earl Burhanan. Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Twen-ty-second ward workers will meet the candidates tomorrow night at the South Side Y. W. C. A., 1627 Prospect street, and there will be a meeting Thursday night at the j home of Dr. S. A. Furniss, 834 North West street. A series of teas for women ward workers is being arranged by a committee whose chairman is Mrs. James L. Murray. Other committee ! members are Mrs. Carl J. Manthei, Mrs. P. A. Keller, Mrs. Bob Shank, Mrs. James C. Todd and Mrs. Edna i Christian. The first tea will be given tor j Twentieth ward precinct workers tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. Marvin Curie, 3921 North New Jersey street. Ninth ward women will meet Thursday afternoon in the Dearborn ballroom with Mrs. M. H. Harmon in charge. Dates for other teas will be announced later. Eighth, Eleventh and Fifteenth ward workers met the Citizens committee’s candidates at a meeting in the Illinois building headquarters last night. John White Speaks Election of the Citizens School Board ticket was urged last night by John F. White, board candidate, at |an organization meeting in the ! Illinois building. The ticket, which also includes Mrs. Mary D. Ridge, Carl Wilde, Alan W. Boyd and Earl Buchanan, is indorsed by the same group of citizens which elected the incumbent board five years ago. Mr. White paid high tribute to the incumbent board and recalled what he described as the record of inefficiency and nepotism of the 1929 board. CAB PASSENGER HURT City Woman Taken to Hospital After Crash. Miss Katherine Robinson, 34, of 1050 East Market street, was sent to city hospital today suffering from a cut behind the right ear which she received when the taxicab in which she was riding was struck by | an auto driven by Tandy Brunton. 25. of 234 Hanson avenue. Brunton was arrested charged with failure to have a driver’s license.

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Stalin ‘Cold’ Doesn’t Think New Deal Can Bring Planned Economy.

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BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, Oct. 9. Joseph Stalin, secretary general of the communist party and ruler of Russia, does not believe President Roosevelt's New Deal methods can result in planned economy or permanent relief of unemployment. he told H. G. Wells, British novelist. A transcript of their talk was obtained today. Stalin expressed admiration for the President’s initiative and courage, but he said he believed the President’s aims could be realized only by the overthrow of capitalism. He said further that he was convinced president Roosevelt would fail of re-election if he tried actually to satisfy the interests of the working class. Stalin and Wells talked for three hours in the Kremlin, examining from different points of view' the world economic crisis and the political results to be expected from it. a u tt WELLS, in general, defended the thesis that society could be remodeled in the interest of the masses by socially-minded capitalists and the technical intelligentsia. Stalin argued this goal could be reached only through proletarian revolution. Stalin's statements included the following: 1. Capitalists will not agree to any social program that would completely eliminate unemployment, because the supply of cheap labor would be eliminated. 2. Society is fundamentally divided into exploiters and exploited, and any effort to reconcile their interests would be impossible. 3. Communists do not idealize violence, but find it necessary to meet force from the ruling classes. Said Stalin here; ‘fascism is a reactionary force which tries to preserve the old order by means of violence.” Baker Issues Warning By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Local communities must be prepared to pay their own local welfare bills despite increasing national relief, Newton D. Baker, chairman of the 1934 mobilization for human needs, said today.

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WALL STREET JOURNAL PAYS CITYTRIBUTE Publication Praises Local Conduct of Financial Affairs. Highest praise is paid the city of Indianapolis for the conduct of its financial affairs over the last few years by the The Wall Street Journal, the country’s foremost financial journal, in the issue which is on the city's news stands today. The New York publication luads the fact that Indianapolis neither has deferred nor omitted pay days for its employes; has met promptly interest and principal on its bonded indebtedness, and is paying off. rather than refunding, matured bonds. ‘Such indications of sound and sane city administration permitted the city to sell quickly its last temporary notes at 1.45 per cent and its two most recent bond issues at 3 j 2 per cent and 3% per cent,” says the Wall Street Journal. The Journal’s story, in full, follows; Woollen Is Praised “The manner in which the city of Indianapolis has conducted its financial affairs over the past few years has won for it unprecedented support from financial interests and investors. The city has neither deferred nor omitted pay days for its employes; has met promptly ihterest and prinicipal on its bonded indebtedness; and is paying off. rather than refunding, maturing bonds. “Such indications of sound and sane city administration permitted the city to sell quickly its last temporary notes at 1.45 per cent and its two most recent bond issues at 3Vi per cent and 3% per cent. Much of the credit for the city’s present favorable condition falls to Evans Woollen Jr., city controller in the current administration which automatically ends next January. “ ‘ln spite of several unfortunate factors’, the controller stated, ’we have succeeded in bettering the city’s credit and financial condition. Taxable property in Indianapolis has been reduced $85,000,000 —from $690,000,000 to $505,000,000. We had a tax delinquency of 15 per cent in the spring of 1933; this has been reduced to about 7 per cent but still is a handicap. There has been an increased demand for some of the humanitarian services of the city government, such as the charity clinic in the city hospital, where the number of patients has trebeled in recent months. Bills Paid Promptly “ ‘But the addition to the splendid credit situation above cited, let me explain that the 1935 tax, to insure its adequacy to meet all budget demands, contains an allowance for delinquencies. Beyond this there is a margin of safety of about $150,000 in the form of a sinking fund balance which, although available at any time, is not being drawn upon for curent purposes. “ ‘A former practice here of letting the city’s utility bills drag and of funding them by bond issues has been abandoned; now all the city’s bills are paid promptly. Next year’s budget, of course, provides for a

Speakers, Subbing for Pritchard at Negro Rally, Praise Republican Civil War Success, Rap Roosevelt

BY TIPTON BI.ISH Time* Staff Writer WHILE more than seventy white and Negro Republicans waited impatiently for the scheduled appearance of Walter Pritchard, Coffin candidate for mayor, at 834 Roache street last night, they listened to city and county candidates fight the Civil war again and to party wheelhorses who indulged in a vicious and loud ••whispering campaign” against President Roosevelt and his father. After all candidates for county and township offices in attendance at the meeting had spoken their pieces, promising continuance of relief to all those now on the rolls and assuring their listeners that the protection of

BICYCLE PARADE TO OPEN HEW STREET Sullivan on Program for Pennsylvania Fete. A bicycle parade open to all cyclists in the city, with cash prizes, aggregating SSO, will be one of the features of the carnival celebration Friday night to mark the formal opening of new pavement on North Pennsylvania street from St. Clair to Sixteenth street. Prizes will be awarded to the best and most uniquely decorated bicycles. The celebration is sponsored by merchants and citizens of the community and will include an open-air dance. Joseph F. O’Mahoney is general chairman. A speakers’ stand will be erected at Elf venth and Pennsylvania streets and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will be the principal speaker. CLASS HOLDS REUNION 1908 Graduates of I. U. Medical School Attend Dinner. A reunion dinner of the 1908 class of the Indiana university medical school was held at the Columbia Club last night. Speakers were Dr. William N. Wishard. Dr. E. D. Clark, Dr. Goethe Link and Dr. W. D. Gatch. Thirty-five members of the class, which was the first to be graduated after the amalgamation of the medical schools of Indiana, attended the dinner. continuance of current payments of utility and other operating bills. “ ‘A system of budget control has been set up whereunder balances are encumbered as soon as obligations are incurred, making the true position of any fund immediately ascertainable. ~~j “‘A former deficit in the city general fund has been converted into a balance which, for Jan. 1 next, after payment of all obligations, is estimated in excess of $600,000. ‘"‘The present city budget has been cut by more than $1,800,000 — from $8,708,000 to $6,870,000.’ ”

the Negro was safe only in the hands of a Republican administration. the meeting was turned over to a group of neighborhood spellbinders who took the floor while SOS calls were sent to Republican headquarters urging Mr. Pritchard to hurry into the fray. One of these spellbinders, J. C. Bankett. Negro, who described himself as a writer on economics, said that he had campaigned for Roosevelt in 1932, but that since then he had seen the folly of his ways and had come back into the Republican fold. He then began a vituperative attack on the President, characterizing his as ‘ the worst moneychanger of them all.” It was a matter of heredity, he shouted, for the President's father was a

FIRE AROUSES SLEEPER Trailer Dweller Burned After Turning in for Final “Winks.” A few last-minute winks before arising this morning proved costly to Clay Hudnell, 30. who lives in a trailer at 1002 West Morris street. Mr. Hudnell was taken to city hospital in an ambulance and was treated for burns on the right hand, shoulder and side of his face. He said that he went back to bed after starting a fire in the stove and awoke to find his bed clothing ablaze. He was burned extinguishing the blaze.

BUS COMPANY ASKS CODE EXEMPTIONS City Railways Operators May Protest. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—Motor bus employes of Indianapolis Railways Inc. have until next Saturday to protest the proposed wages and hours exemptions sought by the company from the NRA code. The company has petitioned to be exempted from the code hour limitations of forty-four hours a week for general shop employes, fortyeight hours for garage service men and bus operators. They also would be exempted from the weekly minimum wage payment of $14.50, or from 30 to 40 cents an hour for part-time work. Objection to the exemption proposals should be filed with C. P. Clark, acting deputy administrator of the transit industry code, Room 3204, department of commerce building, it was announced by G. A. Lynch, NRA administrative officer

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‘‘money-changer" and a "slave driver" before him. “When the elder Roosevelt died, he left an estate of more than $20,000,000, and not one cent of that money was made in the United States,” Mr. Bankett told his listeners. "All that money was made in China and it was made for him by Chinamen, little better than slaves, who were paid 8 cents a day for their backbreaking labor. Is it any wonder, then, that the President, is what he is?” a a a PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, he insisted, never was anything more than a Tammany politician the caliber of Farley and Jimmy Walker, adding that before his election as Governor of New York, the President had "engaged in only three actual business en.erprises in his career.” The first of these, he declared, was to sell millions of dollars worth of now valueless German marks to the American people at the height of the German postwar inflation. Mr. Roosevelt's second accomplishment in the field of international business, he continued, was to unload on the American public the worthless bonds of LatinAmerican countries. “After this great humanitarian had gotten rich at the expense of the American people, he was engaged in the business of selling gambling devices and slot machines,” Mr. Bankett said. "That, my friends, is the man who would lead the American people on the road to Moscow!” When asked by an Indianapolis Times reporter what proof ne had for these allegations, Mr. Bankett replied: “Why everybody knows all that. I read it in the Chicago Tribune.” a a a DELBERT O. WILMETH. congressional candidate then arrived and took the floor to declare that lack of confidence in the President was leading the country even deeper into depression. He also asserted that he was in favor, among other things, of more political meetings in voters’ homes. When Mr. Wilmeth had departed, the floor again was turned over to Negro orators who urged support of the Coffin nominees because of the Republican party’s excellent record in the conduct of the Civil war and the period of reconstruction. Judge Pritchard had not put in an appearance at 10:20 and his audience still was waiting patiently, but whether it was for the judge or for the announcement that Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, it was difficult to say.

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EPISCOPALIANS SET FOR START OF CONVENTION Liberalization of Divorce View Among Problems Facing Parley. By United Press ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. Oct. 9 Delegates from all sections of the country arrived today for the fiftyfirst triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States, opening tomorrow for an eighteen-day session. The crowded program will include consideration of financial problems, the'rise of women in church councils, the work for Christian unity over the world, further liberalizing of the church's attitude toward divorce and the conflict between "high church" and "low church” elements. The general convention will p.iss upon a proposal that four seats on | the national council be given hence- ‘ forth to women. The council yesterday approved. A number of moves are expected, some to modify, others to strengthen the action taken three years ago in providing for marital courts in ; each diocese. While technically the church still refuses remarriage to divorced persons, the marital courts were empowered to consider all the circumstances and to allow annulment for a number of causes. Provision also was made for instruction in marital duties, including sex and birth control problems, for persons about to be married. Feeling between high and low church elements is expected to manifest itself when the Rev. Frederick S. Fleming of Trinity church. New York City, introduces his proposal that the presiding bishop be given the title of archbishop. A resolution will be introduced to drop the word "Protestant.” This is expected to precipitate a quarrel between the high and low church groups. The Indianapolis delegation to the convention will be headed by Bishop Joseph M. Frapcis and will include the Rev. William Burrows, the Rev. E. Ainger Powell. Mr. and Mrs. R. Hartley Sherwood and Mr. and Mrs. William Hammond. TRUCK MEN TO MEET .. , .. Problems of Operators to Be Discussed at Session. Problems of dump truck operators will be discussed at a meeting sponsored by the Marion County Dump Truck Club at 7:30 tomorrow night in Room 537. Illinois building. Invitations have been extended to all interested truck operators.