Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1936 — Page 3

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Leaders in Strife Outline

of Craft Type Unions and Industrial

Organization of U. S.

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labor’s jurisdiction. More recently the American Fed eration of Labor granted a charter to a new autmobolie workers union, which provides that all employes directly engaged in the manufacture of parts and the assembling of those parts into completed automobiles come under its jurisdiction. Only highly skilled tool makers and die sinkers and those employed in job or contract shops are excluded. This particular grant of jurisdiction means that 98 per cent of those employed in the automobile production Jdndustry are eligible to membership in the Automobile Workers’ International Union. All this means that the American Federation of Labor follows an organizing policy which squares fully and completely with the realities and facts of life. It is not governed by dogma, nor does it attempt to apply a rigid and inflexible form of organization philosophy. It fully realizes that while industrial processes have changed, human nature remains the same. Neither invention, science or mass production have changed either the basic characteristics or the hopes, aspirations and yearnings of human life. Skilled workers are no different now than they were before the development of mass production and the establishment of mass production industries. They still wish to utflize their skill and training, and as key men use their acquired skill, genius and training to secure for themselves the highest wage possible. “Must Consider Human Equation” It is this human equation which must be taken into account in the application of either the vertical or ‘horizontal plan of organization. The American Federation of La-

bor would ignore the experience and knowledge gained through more than a half century of its existence if it followed any other course Or subscribed to any other plan. The American Federation of Lapor has been in existence for ‘almost 60 years. During that period it has blended into a co-ordinated organization millions ° of workers, skilled and unskilled, men and women employed in different trades and callings. It has learned much ‘and sacrificed much. The organizations which compose it, shape .its policies in democratic fashion and by majority vote. The policies thus adopted become the laws of the American Federation of Labor. «Seen Rise of Other Groups’ It has witnessed the rise and decline of the Knights of Labor, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the one big unibn. The Amerjcan Federation of Labor still remains as a part of the institutional life of the nation. Through the application of both plans of organization, the industrial as well as the craft union, the organized workers have lifted their standard of living and advanced their economic and industrial interests. Organizations made up of transportation workers have through a co-ordinated system dealt most effectively with the owners and man= agement of the nation’s transportation lines, The theory that workers will come running in if they are accorded a particular form of organization, is fallacious, it is not in accord with the facts.

Can Create Own Organization

If these unorganized workers want a particular from of organization which they could not secure through affiliation with the Amer- " ‘jean Federation of Labor, there is nothing under the sun to stop them from creating such an organization. They have the legal and moral right to do so and, that being true, what is there to prevent them from organizing into their own constructed and established organization? ; It is the opposition of the employers, and not the form of organization, which prevents the workers from becoming organized. These are the real obstacles and difficulties which stand in the way of organizing the unorganized, and particularly those employed in the mass production industries. “The American Federation of Labor favors the application of beth the craft and industrial form or unionism in all its activities, as each pecillliar situation may require and as circumstances will permit. We endeavor to apply the rule of reason, to constantly keep in the lessons which ence has taught, in all the efforts put forth

to organize the unorganized, rather than to risk in the field of experimentation or to substitute untried proven, practical NS

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workers—constitute only a very small proportion of the operating forces. Modern basic industry is also organized on a national basis. Its corporate units, often located in many states, are controlled and cirected by a national holding company. : Management Is Impersonal ent is impersonal. It is usually divorced from ownership

a rule, determined by private banking houses, which furnish needed capital and credit. More than 15 years ago, the leaders of craft unions practically confessed their inability to organize the mass-production industries. Outside of the building trades, they sought refuge in industries sheltered by public policy such as Navy and private shipyards ‘or steam railroads, or in small and more or less local manufacturing establishments. As the result, the- combined strength of the organized labor movement, as contrasted with what it should be, became a relatively unimportant factor in American economic and political life. Thirty million workers in the basic industries—10 times the strength of the American Federation of Labor—were abandoned. Until recently, they were without hope of industrial freedom or the measure of economic well-being to which they were entitled. The committee for industrial organization is not opposed to established craft unions. It has merely taken up the matter of organizing the neglected 30,000,000 industrial workers—a task which the past records show the craft unions could not accomplish successfully. The committee expects to bring economic freedom and advancement to these abandoned millions of mass-production workers... It hopes that their organized strength will make for a new constructive labor movement in America.

MOTHER KILLS SON, SELF, POLICE CLAIM

Shoots Child, 5, Then Dies by Gas, Report.

Funeral services were being arranged today for a mother, who, police said, committed suicide yesterday morning after she had killed her 5-year-old son. After shooting her son and herself ‘with a rifle, Mrs. Bessie Wiland, 35, of 742 N. Denny-st, turned on the ote of a gas stove; according to poce, } * Notes she wrote to her husband, Rohe, a railway mail clerk, showed she apparently had planned to take her own life but save that of her son, and that she changed her mind at the last minute, police said. The bodies were found by Mrs. Wiland’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Minnie Wiland, Falling Waters, W. Va., when she returned home from church. The elder Mrs. Wiland said she left her daughter-in-law in good spirits, although in recent weeks she had been in ill health, police said. She said they returned from West Virginia Saturday. The bodies of the boy and his mother were sent to the Burt S. Gadd Funeral Home. Later they will be taken to Martinsburg, W. Va., for burial services.

FOOD IS RATIONED TO PENNSYLVANIANS

G. O. P. Legislators’ Homes Picketed as Tax Bill Is Deadlocked. By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa. July 13— Police in Pennsylvania's large cities doled out emergency food rations today to the half-million unemployed cut off from relief by the Jagish ature’s failure to pass a tax As tors gathered to begin the eleventh week of a special session, unemployed leaders threatened a “hunger march” on the capital. During the week-end homes of Republican Senators who have held up a $55,000,000 relief bill were picketed. Gov. George H. Earle appealed to four state Republican leaders to break the deadlock. :

STRAUB DESCRIBES WAR GAME PLANS

Adjutant General Is Speaker Be- |.

fore Service Club. Elmer F. Straub, Indiana ad-

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which is represented by thousands’ v of stockholders. Its policies are, as| &

Fighting for life against the rav

drought, the corn in. this field (above), four miles , north of Columbus, Ind, in Bartholomew County,

ages of prolonged | Yesterday began

and if rains fail

is doomed, farmers said.

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_curl up as shown in the photo, it is the death signal,

to come within a few days the crop

12 DEAD HERE IN HEAT WAVE

Bureau; Corn Almost Total Loss.

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the office of the milk administrator said, and milk received from producers in this shed. was in much better condition due to heavy icing ordered last week by the administrator. : i Thousands of city dwellers sought relief over the week-end in - state parks and on the highways. Others stayed at home, closed dqors and

heat out. The dead: Miss Harriet Osborn, 1230 Win-throp-st, died in an ambulance on the way to St. Vincent's Hospital this morning after she collapsed on her way to work. Miss Osborn, em-

had been for a long auto ride yesterday and complained of the heat last night, friends said. MRS. LOUIENE MOORE, 1213 LeGrande-av,” died at 5 this morn-

and was 65. Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, said heat caused her death. ; evi KIM SHING CHIN, a laundrynan, 249 Massachusetts-av, died yesterday afternoon. He came to this city when he was 15 years old and has operated laundries in several locations. He is survived by a son, Newton C. Chin, and a daughter, Mrs. Rosa Hui. He was 77. MRS. MARY DEAVER, 306 W. Ray-st, was found dead in her

home late Saturday. The coroner

attributed death to heat. She was 56. : WILLIAM J. BRADLEY, 415 N. Senate-av, was found dead in his bed yesterday afternoon. He was 73. He was a lifelong resident of Indianapolis and was steward in the old Occidental and Dennison Hotels. Two half brothers survive, both in Indianapolis. They are Michael E. and George Bradley. Services are to be at 8:30 &. m. tomorrow in the J. C. Blackwell Funeral Home and at 9 in St. John’s Catholic Church. MISS INEZ ELLIOTT, 595 E. 32d-st, died in Methodist Hospital. She was under treatment for a heat stroke. She was 55, and is survived by a sister, Miss Sarah M. Elliott. Private services are to be Wednesday. Burial is to be in Grown Hill JOHN WHITEHEAD, died yesterday in City Hospital admitting room after he became ill in a rooming house at 284 N. Lynn-st.: He was 48. PETER STANICH, died yesterday in City Hospital of the effects of a prostration Saturday afternoon at Concord and Walnut-sts, He lived at 2320 W. Michigan-st, and was 48. He was a moulder for the Na-

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureat me Sunrise ........ 4:27 | Sunset ........ n:14 TEMPERATURE | ~July 18, 1935— Misses $8. 1p.m

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Precipitation 24 hrs. ending at 7 a. m. .00 Total Precipitation since Jan. 1 15.38 an. ”

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MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Generally fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow. Illinois ~~ Generally fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow. a Lower Michigan—Generally fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow except somewhat cooler extreme north tomorrow. ; ! Ohio — Generally fair and continued warm tomorrow. Kentucky—Generaly fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow.

‘WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. ither. s A Amarillo. Tex. ir 30.08 Temp Bismarck, N.

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HOWARD HUGHES’ CAR

Movie Producer Faces Questioning ‘by Los Angeles Investigators. By United Press

sleep, today awaited questioning by district attorney’s investigators on an automobile accident in which ah elderly pedestrian was killed. The millionaire - aviator-oilman-film producer was taken into custody on a technical charge of suspicion of negligent homicide and remained in jail for 12 hours while detectives attempted to learn the identity of a woman who was with him at the time of the accident. Hughes refused to reveal the name of his companion. Witnesses to the accident said she slipped from the flier’'s automobile after the crash in which Gabe S. Meyer,

KILLS PEDESTRIAN

LOS ANGELES, July 13.—Howard | Hughes, refreshed by a night's|

59 TAKE TESTS FOR POLICEMEN

12 Highest Ratings to Win Places on Local Force; Fire Classes Begin.

With several weeks of preliminary | training in the police school completed, 52 applicants for 12 Police | Department vacancies are completil ing final tests prepared by Prof. J. J. Robinson of the Indiana University Law School. The three-hour written examinations, together with oral and physical tests and school work rating is to form a basis for the final selection under the merit system now in force for both police and fire de-

partments, Rating is continued

throughout

Capt. Otto Petit and Srgt. Harry Canterbury. : . Examination papers are numbered, and do not carry names of applicants . The merit bo: feels this tends to eliminate possibility ‘of “political pull.” Li a Am J Applicants approved Tast week for training: to fill eight places on the Fire Department are to begin classes. today, Chief Fred C. Kennedy said. Forty men are to report for initial schooling... “7 Towbars

4 ARE FOUND SLAIN

Invalid Woman Killed Mother, 2 Sons and Self, Is Belief.

‘By United Press i SHEPHERD'S FORD, Va, July 13.—Belief that Mrs. May Smallwood killed her 93-year-old mother, her two. sons and then herself, was expressed by officials today after the four bodies were found in the smoking ashes of their beds. Mrs. Smallwood, daughter-in-law of ‘Sherif W. W. Smallwood of Clarke County, long had been in ill health. Two days ago she suffered a renewed attack of an illness which physicians told her would be fatal. The dead in addition to Mrs. Smallwood, were:

93-year-old invalid. Her two sons, Elbert, 23, and Malcolm, 19.

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amphitheater under the stars, the voices of the substitute professors for this institute of public affairs— big figures in business and finance, preachers, philosophers, college presidents, editors, and occasionally, the man-in the street who can’t sit still without saying some-

thing. Big business, not now so, proud and blatant as once it was, pleads plaintively for understandi for a "cessation of criticism. Ii protests

| persecution. Big business will keep

its neck in its collar and grumble quietly to itself during this campaign, if the cue may be taken from President Chester M. Colby of the National Association of Manufacturers, which has raised its voice often and bitterly about the New

Asks or Truce

necks, and he asks for a truce.

stick.

For whatever these men say pub-

for the knife.

think so.

they would do to part of his program—social security. Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of Chase National Bank, who is their spokesman

Gov. Landon, tells you. He would scrap contributory old-age pensions ‘and provide only for the needy aged. He would leave unemployment insurance to the states. His comprehensive address here may he taken as the campaign document on social security for big business and finance. If is well reasoned and will have it§ appeal.

Stock Head Speaks Softly

As for relief, Arthur M. Baliantine, Undersecretary of the Treasury for Herbert Hoover, gives the clew. Cut it down to need instead of distributing it on a Christinas tree

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Mr. Colby says business men are getting ‘tired of sticking out their

Practical ones among his listeners know that while big business may walk softly, it will carry its big It will let the politicians speak its words, and it will do the deeds—fat campaign contributions.

licly, they are bitter privately. The war against the New Deal is still on. They fear, though, that they may lose this battle, and the neck {in the collar is worth two laid out They may have to livé with Franklin D. Roosevelt four years more, though they hate to

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By United Press WASHINGTON, July 13.—Friends of Alfred E. Smith reported today 1 that he had decided to boycott poli-

campaign. Insiders professed to have heard the leader of the Democratic stop-

basis; let local communities handle it. And balance the budget or else face huge taxes which will hit everybody—and perhaps, in the end, inflation like 'S. Wall Street and the Stock Exare still resentful at Franklin D. Roosevelt. But the Stock Exchange president, Charles R. Gay, while defending tion as a necessary stabilizer of the market, says the abuses must be stopped, and altogether speaks very softly. Some of his colleagues In Wall Street would prefer him to shout. But he agrees with Mr. Colby about keeping the neck inside the collar. ; : Those who chase the will-o’-the-wisp—or perhaps it is not the will-o’-the-wisp—are here in the persons of a little group of propagandists for the Douglas social credit plan. ‘They seek every chance to get a hearing. 3 For their champion they have drafted the dean of the American theater, Walter Hampden.

Becomes Political Speaker

Abandoning his roles of “Hamlet” and “Cyrano De Bergerac” he becomes the political sp8aker. For the first time in his life he speaks his own lines—and his listeners walk out on him; walk out on him

despite a “Twelfth Night” setting under the stars in the amphitheater, despite that presence and voice which have held thousands of audiences tight to their seats for hours.

He is ‘disappointed, but undeterred. He is.a man with a cause. Constantly at his side is his tall young son, Paul Hampden, once employed by General Motors, who also speaks in elaborate detail about the money plan devised by the English major. “Amateur economists” desvised all the famous laws of economy and philosophy, “young Hampden says with a confident smile. He is serious about his cause-—and patient with scoffers. Is this to take the place of “share-the-wealth” and the Townsend plan, as America follows the caterpillar around and around the edge of the bowl? Offhand it seems too complex for most people.

Some Look Like Early Heroes

Some here look to the early heroes, Jefferson and Madison and Monroe. Perhaps: they havz ile answer. . ; But Jefferson and Monroe sleep on the wooded hill overlooking this city, shades of a state that hugged the shores of the Atlantic, where life was simple. The greenest freshman : ‘here

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Correspon State Agriculture Department articles worth $25 were stolen fi the auto of W. D. Miller, 2101 New Jersey-st, a department resentative, yesterday, police informed.

A masked bandit jumped ) d shrubs in front of 3601 Col lege-av early today and robbed W ter Hinds, 36, of 4844 Guilford-a milk driver, of $16, his wallet and | route book. :

A gunman robbed Joseph B. Hol tetter, 20, and Miss Dorothy Des Jean of 4464 Guilford-av, last as Mr. Hostetter was driving ana into the garage at the rear of 1 Jean’s home. The loot included $45 wrist watch, a high school and a small amo of change.

A Negro ban umped on running board of an auto driven | James Gant, 20,.0f 4852 Kenwooc av, at 52d-st near Meridian-st night and took. $18.

A burglar failed to open an door of a safe at the Blue Ve Creamery Co., 50 N. West-st, el today. The safe’s combination ! knocked off.

FEAR RENEWAL OF HARLEM RACE RI

Police Reserves Patrol District A Uprising Is Quelled.

By United Press 3 NEW YORK; July 13.—Res policemen from virtually every si tion in Manhattan patrolled Harle today to prevent a resumption race rioting in which three po men and an uncounted number Negroes were injured last night. The riot, begining shortly be 11 p. m., was instigated by a s¢ box street speaker; police said. audience of more than 400 Neg stoned a restaurant owned whites, smashing a large win and kicked in the door of a hal dashery. Three officers who attempted stop the mob unassisted were & severely. Three hundred pc rushed to the district used clu blackjacks for 15 minutes before last of the rioters fled.

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