Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1934 — Page 2

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POLICE. MINUS CLEWS. SEARCH FOR CAB KILLER Robbery Dropped as Motive irj, Slaying of Taxi Driver. Working on the theory that the motive behind the cold-biood**d murder of Arthur Alexander, 43-year-old cab driver, was not rpbbery, detectives today sought his killer. apfwrently without definite clews or definite suspects. The bortv of Mr Alexander, who lived at 1649 Central avenue, and was an employe of the United Transportation Company. Inc., was found yesterday morning, slumped down in the driver s seat of h*s cab which was jiarked in front of 734 North Sheffield avenue. Questioning of persons living in the neighborhood developed the fact that the cab had ieen there since 8 30 the night before. Tracing of Mr. Alexander's last recorded call showed that he had been killed some time between 8 20 when he dropped a fare one-half block from *he Intersection of Morris and Harding streets, and 8 30 when the cab ; i wa sight and parked on North Sheffield avenue. Funeral services for the murdered man will be held at 1 30 tomorrow afternoon in the Shirley Brothers' mortuary. 944 North Illinois street, with burial in Greenfield, where Mr. Alexander was born and from where he came to Indianu|*>lis twenty-six years ago. Surviving are the widow. Mrs. Esther Alexander, a laundry employe; the murdered man's stepdaughter. Maxine Stillwell. 14. and two brothers. Pearl Alexander. Bloomington, and Je se Alexander, 42 South Tuxedo street, who. like his brother. Is a chauffeur. • *‘l don't think the motive was robbery'." Detective Chief Fred Simon said today as his men work-d on the ease under Dectective Lieutenant Donald Tooley of the homicide squad. "We have no definite leads, however. It is silly to talk of suspects without those leads. Right now. anybody in Indianapolis might be a suspect

HERMAN L. RIDENOUR SELECTED AS NRA AID Loral Adjustment Board Adds Man to Legal Staff. Apnintmcnt of Herman L. Ridenour. 2153 Broadway, as associate legal director of the Indianapolis NRA adjustment board, was announced yesterday bv Leo Smith, chairman and chief legal adviser. Mr. Ridenour's appointment follows closely on the heels of his successful presentation for a personal client of the first NRA back wages case to be tried m Marion county superior courts.

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Ki wants Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Twelfth district legion. luncheon 1361 j Jforth Delaware street. Purdue Alumni Association, luncheon. Scvenn. Lions Club, luncheon, Washington. Lamdba Chi Alpha, luncheon. Washington. Indianapolis Home Builders, dinner Hoosier Athletic Club.

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The New Deal and the Joneses

The Jee ha<' denitel iteeil ed that the N* Ofl It mi mveterv it ill rrrfhit in the ntht * nnil eipUined la the ilmnU ImtnX' f the ••>(* Imrnon. The* r ffllini U iiltinrrd In their ilaili nf the riant program and its meaning. • their eonmoilan In Ihln artiele. eighth of a serlea. irntm BV WILMS THORNTON CHAPTER EIGHT COME in. Jim. You haven’t been ove- for a dog s age." greeted Pa Jones. Jim Manning relaxed his mx feet of sinewy body in a chair Jim is a machinist, by trade, and corresponding secretary of the local i union. A neighbor, he has known the Jones for years. "Been pretty busy," I suppose, kidded Pa Jones, "organizing the unorganized and unenlightened, eh? A meeting every night. I expect.” "Well, we nave been busy,” admitted Jim. "We've take in quite a lot of new members, and then more of our fellows are at work now, and it makes more work for us down at the union.” “You know. Jim. you fellows kind of give me a pain." began Pa, in friendly fashion. "Here you got the NRA. which practically gave you 'he world with a fence around it, and yet you come out with more 'trikes than the country's had for a long time, and just when business begins to pick up a little, too. I don't get it.” nan lIM smiled slowly. “The fence had too many holes, I guess,” he returned. “You’ve noticed that practically all these strikes have been for observance of what we union people think are our rights under the NRA codes. "Os course a good many of them have had a wage angle, too, but enforcement of the labor provisions of tlie codes has had so few teeth in it and is so slow that we’ve generally had to strike to see that they were enforced and that we got the rights we had coming to us under the law." "It’s easy to see why the present trikes are so big,” explained Jirrt. "When NRA was started, it gave the manufacturers the right to combine in code associations, to act together in making rules for the industry. They hadn’t been allowed before by the anti-trust laws to do that. But naturally one of the things they united on was labor policies. "Therefore, when labor organizes, it has to organize on the same basis, by industries, and when it strikes, it has to strike against the whole industry, even such plants as want to be favorable to labor, but which can't be bccar.se they have to abide by conditions set by the majority on the code authority.” “Well. I can see that,” admitted Pa Jones, “but I can t see this majority rule principle that the national relations labor board set up the other day. “Seems to me that takes away rights from the rest of the men in a plant who don't belong to the union. Id like to see you make me join a union if I didn't want to ” mum OF course I hope you’d want to,” smiled Jim. "But majority rule is a practical matter. Suppose the men in a plant vote, and a majority w ants to be represented by its union. You cant, as a practical matter, have two sets of bargainers.

vrt, l , it M \m flfj . REAL ESTATE *' ,XVKS ™ EXT Indication* are that within the next year or two improved real estate nil! enjoy a marked increase in value, Aow is the time to accumulate a down payment on a home. Building and Loan Associations of Marion County will accept investment accounts for as little as twenty-five or fifty cents a week. These Associations have demonstrated the desirability of Building and Loan Stock as a sound investment. Small sums, invested regularly, will soon grow 7 into a down payment for a home of your own. Invest now 7 and be ready when your opportunity comes. j''^ ; J Invest for Repairs | / \ " Weather strips for doors and win/dows, insulation for attic and walls, will save fuel and improve the health IIMBBW of your family this winter. Prepare V- for rold weather and save money by /■* remodeling now. THE MARION COUNTY / The Demonstration Homes 63 V Hawthorne Lane (just begun) flllll fl I 11 #" I II A|| 2243 North LaSalle Street (work begun) Ls|||| fl|§y || gßi|| H 3040 Kenwood Avenue (finished) D U I L U S ll ij £ L U I 1 M Smock and Dudley Sts.. Edgewood (finished) 1054 Harlan Street (finished) I*ls Ruckle Street (finished) ff® 1™ I I LI Westfield and Kenwood (work begun) H — l l "1 * S | I IT 1 1 I |

"Suppose the union men got an agreement that they'd work for $5 a day. Suppose the company union minority was willing to work for $4 You can t run a plant like that. "Majority rule is the same principle we use in our government every day. You voted for Green for enator, didn't you Well, Brown won. Yet you dont feel deprived of your rights. Brown, once elected, represents vou as well as me. “It's the same way in a plant. Then men who vote on the losing ide have their chance at the ballotbox. "If the union loses, it's the same thing—the union men have to let themselves be represented by the company-union majority. "That's pretty had to laugh off. ot course.” admitted Pa Jones. “But I think you go pretty far in demanding a closed shop—that a man has to belong to your union and pay dues to get work at all. I wouldn't be blackjacked into that. “Now wait a minute, John,” said Jim quickly. "You notice that in most of these strikes we re not asking the closed shop. Were asking recognition of the union when we can show a majority. “Were fully confident Chat if we can get that, we can accomplish enough so that men will want to belong to the union.” ass WELL, I’m not so much for this organization thing. Any of my help at the store can come to me at any time and thrash out anything they want. “I pay as much a* anybody else, and alway. will, and the time hasn't come when any walking delegates have to come to me to talk for my help,” said Pa, a little belligerently. "Sure. A lot easier for them than for a steel worker too see Myron Taylor,” chuckled Jim. “You’ve got three men at the store besides John Jr., haven’t you? And I notice you belong to the Associated Independent Grocers yourself. “That doesn’t look as though you’re entirely against organization.'’ "I had to join that to hold up my head against the chain stores," asserted Pa T ones.

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'Exactly. Think how much more , necessary it is for a plain workman like me to have someone to help him hold his head up. I think congress is going to have to make the NRA labor provisions clearer this winter. "We hope they will make the rights of both workman and employer clear enough, and enforce them strongly enough, so that there won't be so many strikes and lockouts in the future.” 000 "QURE.” agreed Pa. "But then O you’ll have to stick by decisions yourselves that are made binding on employers. You can’t have all the graVy and none of the responsibility. You’ll have to learn to 'take it’ when you’re fairly beaten, and not try to bulldoze workmen who want to work and don't want any part of your union. ‘I don’t see where hitting a nonunion workman on the head with j a brick because he won’t join a union is any better than firing a union man because he does. They're both rough stuff, and they're both out with me.” "Yes, there's a lot to be done,” admitted Jim thoughtfully. “To give everybody his rights and freedom without taking away anybody else’s rights and freedom—that’s a problem big enough for any man’s country. But I still believe we can I do it!” fCopvright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc.) NEXT: The CCC —a letter comes to the Joneses, and tells them how at least one neighbor boy was picked out of the gutter and given anew start. HOTEL~ WORKER ROBBED Youth Loses Week’s Pay to Bandits Near His Home. Thomas Keller, 23, of 724 Noble street, an employe in the Claypool’s night shift, was slugged early today and robbed of $22, his w'eek’s pay, as he was nearing his home after having taken a cab to the intersection of Lord and Noble streets. His assailants were two men, one of whom fell on the wet pavement of Lord street as he fled after the crime.

MERCHANTS OF CITY TO STAGE JOBLESS FORUM Indianapolis One of 200 Key Cities in U. S. to Hold Probe. Frederic M. Ayres, president of L. S. Ayres & Cos., today announced that Indianapolis will be one of 200 key United States cities where open forums will be held Jin. 7 on unemployment reserves. Asa member of the retail merchants’ committee for the study of unemployment legislation, Mr. Ayres will have charge of arrangements for the forum. Samuel W. Reyburn, New York, is chairman of the committee. Material for the discussion and information on legislation will be furnished from the answers to a questionnaire which now has been studied intensively and answered* by merchants from all over the country. Those questions which will be discussed are: How will unemployment insurance benefit those now employed? How will it benefit those not employed? Who pays for it, the employe, the employer, the state, the nation or the customer? What lessons for as do the experiences of Germany and Great Britain with it contain? What are the basic principles that shbuld govern any sound program of such insurance? Mr. Ayres said men of national importance will be speakers for the occasion and that a second study pamphlet of the committee presenting the views of merchants and manufacturers will be issued before Dec. 1. This wall be available to all merchants in the country, he said, and to associations and educational institutions who have joined the study.

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