The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1927 Page Vhree Pittsburgh Workers Hold Anti-Imperialist Conference on May 24 PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 14, A call for a united front confer- ence against intervention in China, Mexico and Nicaragua to be held on Sunday April 24th at 2:30 P. M. at the Walton Hall, 220 Stanwix Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., was sent out to all labor, fraternal and lib- eral organizations of the city and vicinity. The call was aicnad by several labor organiz ding the Joint Board of the Bakers’ Union, consisting of Local 12, 44, 204, 242, and the machinists’ and tailors’ lo- cals, Organizations that ‘did not receive the call are requested to communicate with Brother Weis- bart, Room 301, McGeagh Bldg. Kead The Daily Worker Every Day Put Stool Pigeon On Stand in Trial Of Major Zaniboni ROME aut “44.—Interest in the \trial of Major Tito Zaniboni, charged with planning an attempt on the life jof Premier Mussolini, today centered ‘around the evidence of Carlo Quaglia, who is said to have given the police ‘the information which led to the arrest of Zanibgni. Zanthoni in an earlier statement had said that Quaglia had no direct knowledge of his plot, but could only |surmise his plans. He stated that {he had used Quaglia as a messenger \and an intermediary. | Quaglia today offered new evidence that Zaniboni came to Rome in Octo-| {ner 1928 to get support from General \ Capello, a co-defendant, |\CURRENT EVENTS 8y1.J. OFLAHERTY (Continued from Page One) pany to tour nationally known lec- turer, talks on psychology, hered- ity,psycho-analysis, laws of health, suecess, happiness, Caucasian su- premacy. ideal; a super race; each race separately for office and travel? G 342 Times. We presume the jecturer is a healthy physical specimen who is willing to offer himself as a sacrifice on the al- tar of national duty to the end that a super race may be evolved in our} time. Still, super-men have been having a tough time lately, tho there | may still be some dollars left uncer- | ralled in the bible belt. ee as ILL ROGERS notes that Senator | ary-Haugen | MeNary of the M farm relief bill dined at the White House and expressed his desire to draw up a new farm bill with the | clauses objected to in the last bill by the president eliminated. Rogers that the “dirt” objected to ponents contained what there was in the bill. ¥ the objectionabie clauses the dirt farmers wonld only have another law to fight ithout against. going to depend on bourgeois politi- cians to get relief for them? The far- mers of Plentywood, Montana have shown the way by organizing a Far- mer-Labor Party. Let us have more | Farmer-Labor Party activity and less White House dinners. * * * O* the thirty-six persons indicted by the federal government for the famous glass-casket swindle, only one suffered imprisonment, and he | got only six months. Twenty-six of . the defendants were convicted but How long are the farmers) with the exception of one they were | either parcled by the court or par- doned by the president. Those gentle- men swindled the public out of large sums of money, a sufficient sum to enable them to purchase “justice.” | Had they fallen foul of the law in an | ‘effort to organize a labor union, they | | would not get off so easy. * Ogg, | Ag Bae Massachusetts legislature has no power to intervene in the Sacco-Vanzetti case according to the attorney general of that state. The fear the popular interest that a dis- would arouse. They want to proceed with their conspiracy against those two Italian workers unhindered. Had ers out of their savings their lives would not be in jeopardy. Even if they got caught a few years in prison would be the worst they might expect. Struggling to help their fellow-men and women is a serious crime in a, | capitalist country. Close Massachusetts Woods BOSTON, April 14.—Because of the forest fire menace, Governor Al- van T. Fuller this afternoon issued a | proclamation suspending the opening | of the fishing season and closing the | Massachusetts woods to all persons |except owners, tenants, agents and pee Mec Carrington Gets $100,000 CHICAGO, April 14—Mrs. Anna !Walsh Carrington today won a di- vorce decree and a property settle- | | ment estimated at $100,000 from Col. | Kdward C. Carrington, her millionaire | | book-publisher husband. Rashenber Sustaining Fund BOOKS ARE READY financial interests of Massachusetts | cussion of the case in the legislature , Sacco and Vanzetti swindled the work- | | CHUNG-KIANG, ONE OF CHINA’S WALLED CITIES Southern forces in chips es civil war. | eS | = S| oe | es] > Z| | a | °| a | Z| ac! is ctl > oe Rh i A American marines passing Britis! their monied masters, SCOTT NEARING TELLS HOSTILE COLLEGE STUDENTS Marines, A FEW vill College Student By a M The authorities at McGill College in| Montreal are dead set against radical! ideas. In this they differ from most of their students who wouldn't recog- nize a radical idea if they came in| contact with it! This was proven a few days ago when Professor Scott ing ad- dressed a gathering bf about “two! hundred McGill College students on _the subject of “Can Students Make History?” The officers of the Mc- Gill Labor Club who sponsored the | meeting had a delicate job on thei hands. ‘The authorities had prohibi- ted the meeting from being held any. where on the campus, and had re- ‘fused to allow any notices about the meeting to be put up. At the same |time a rumor had spread that some) the | meeting with the view of breaking | fraternity boys would attend it up if the speaker got too radical. {Hence the nervousness felt by the ‘officers of the Labor Club, | When Scott Nearing arrived he was finformed by the secretary Philip |Mathams (who was sandbagged for ‘his radical utterances by some fel- This city, on the Yangtse river, above Nanking, has been the scene of bitter fighting between Northern and pointed gene -rudential Life Caught Giving Great Bribe i (Continued from age One) \take care of the “boys” up in Albz And so on. You get the point. Where They Learn. And also, it is the alma mater oi y of our brightest life insurance officials. Robert Lynn Cox, one of the assemblymen who sat on the fa mous (or is it notorious?) Armstrong | Insurance Investigation Committee tn 1905, got his start in the insurance business with the Associz ion of Life It will be remembered that the “in- dustri life insurance companies, ie., the “Big Four” were slated for a probing, as the tabloids haye it. They day before they were to come before the investigating committee the hearings were adjourned, Mr. Cox, who was then Assembly- man Cox, y shortly afterwards ap- | manager of the Asso- ciation of Life Insurance Presidents | ——— —————— | at a salary of $20,000 per year. Mr, | Cox is now a second vice president of |the Metropolitan Lite. As a “mutual” hh troops with pack animals. itting at home, fear that the Chinese Nationalists will clean out the bunch of them, vie if they @ dia conquer China, they would be Set 3 at each others’ THINGS — | low-students last week), that the meeting would be held off the cam- pus, at the university Y.M.C.A. build- ing. He was stead of advertising the lectttre to be | viously arranged, the club had an- nounced the subject to be “Can Stu- dents Make History Mathams made it plain, however, | that Ne ig was to bring the que | tion of British Imperialism into the | lecture and was by all means to be radical as he wished. The advice vas hardly necessary. Nearing as- peat the officers of the Labor Club that once the meeting opened and he | was allowed to start, then he would jcertainly finish his intended lecture. | It need hardly be said that no dis- turbance was made. All the students were quiet and attentive. The boys who had come to sneer, remained—not exactly to cheer,—but to be educated. “What he said wasn’t radicalism, but common-sense,” remarked one of the fraternity boys. The innocent child (who was short on grammer) didn’t know that “yadicalism” and “common- sense” are synonyms! LF. LOREE, LABOR FOE, PLANS RAL ‘MERCER; BACKED BY PENN R.R. AND KUHN, LOEB & CO. By LAURENCE TODD ) (Federated Press). WASHINGTON, April 14 (FP).—L. F. Loree, president of the Dela- These two outfits are good friends now, for throats immediately. also advised that in-} on British Imperialism as was pre-| ware & Hudson and notorious as the most determined foe of labor organ- izations, among all-rail executives in America, is announced as the guiding spirit in a huge new merger which may create a system connecting New York and northern Pennsylvania with Buffalo, Toledo, Chicago, St. Louis, |Kansas City and gulf ports. capital, Loree is backed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on the one hand and the According to gossip in banking circles in the | HE Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER Sus- taining Fund Books are out. They are being sent out to all Party units and to all DAILY WORKER Builders Clubs. The books provide a simple and easy method whereby The DAILY WORKER may se- cure regular and systematic support from its friends and sympathizers. The funds | thus collected will be used to build up our -paper, to cover the cost of adding new fea- tures, to attract new writers, and to meet the expenses of the trial we are facing against the attacl: of various patriotic societies. See your * local DAILY WORK- ER Agent. Be sure you haye a_ book. Join the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund. DAILY WORKER 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Inclosed is my contribution of rye dollars ..., cents to the Rathenberg Sustaining Fund for a sttonger and _ better DAILY WORKER and for the defense of our paper. I will pay the same amount regularly OVErY vise ee Name State . Ske Attach check | or ‘money order. Pennsylvania Railroad on the other. In railroad quarters the opinion is | held that this attempt to create a | is a step in the development of the amalgamation process which has been ‘led by the New York Central on the one hand and the Pennsylvania on the other. Loree is a natural ally of |the Pennsylvania, while the Baltimore & Ohio is bound to be on friendly | terms with the New York Central. | To Help Penn. Railroad, | The New York Central finds its traffic system today almost sur- rounded by the connéctions of the Pennsylvania, which has likewise out- flanked the B. & 0, And Loree, if he ‘has, as is now reported, secured con- ‘trol of the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash, to connect up with the Dela- ware & Hudson in the east and with | ; |his Kansas City Southern, his Mis- |souri, Kansas & Texas and the Cotton | | Belt road in the southwest, will be | ‘in a position to help the Pennsylvania | to make war on the New York Central | |and the B. & O. more effectively than | hefore., | Labor men remember Loree as a | superintendent of the Pennsylvania | lines west, many years ago. He went ‘to the B. & O. as general superin- tendent but was quickly let out. He was employed by the Rock Island, and was paid three years’ salary although he worked only a few months, At last he landed on the Delaware & Wudson, He is chairman of the. board, and of the executive committee of the fifth trunk line system in the east | | power, | employes in train servic: | H. man of the board of the M K. & 4 | He is said to control the Cotton Belt. To Smash Brotherhoods. About the year 1913 Loree in a publie speech to railroad officials de- clared in- substance that he would welcome an opportunity to smash the railroad brotherhoods, and that the executives should adopt means—with arms if necessary—to cope with their In January, 1914, a group of n the D. & were discharged under conditions which brought on a strike, All four train service brotherhoods, together with the telegraphers, quit work for 15% hours, Everything stopped still. Loree surrendered, His gencral man- ager and|superintendent were let out, with several minor officials. Loree ) never again attacked the brotherhoods in the open, But he remained their ‘ bitter enemy. During hearings on Parker rail mediation bill in the last congress, he led the minority of rail executives who refused to agree ever) | to deal with their employes under the terms proyided by this legislation, New Merger. This new merger seheme brings up the question of the ultimate fate of the Western Maryland, recently. pur- chased by the B, & O. after its long lockout of brotherhood members. The b. & O. and New York Central are relatively friendly in their dealings with rail labor. It is the theory of some of the rail experts that the Wes- al rd Kansas City Southern, and iv chvit-| tern Maryland is to be handed over the Watson- | second vice president he receives | $38,000 per ye: It is not being specifically charged |that Mr. Cox epted a bribe in taking the Association job. If he was not corrupted that would make in- But now is the be- lated time to look into this whole matter fraud, corruption and swindle which taints the “industrial” | j insurance busines: Another Good Job. The same mysterious circumstances which surround Cox’s appointment also color ex-senator William J. Tully, who. immediately after his part as one of the Armstrong Investi- gators was appointed solicitor for the Metropolitan Life at a 000 per year. Tully old Metropolitan. Recently his pay was raised to $30,000. The “Big Four” are members of the Association of Life Insurance Presi- ‘dents. They are assessed a certain ‘membership fee each year, In 1925 the Metropolitan Life, the But largest life insurance company in the world, paid in fees to the Association —___.. | the sum of 000. . Took the Money. Havin | During the same year, the Pruden- tial Life Insurance Company paid in . | Broken Nicaragua | 5 Will Go fo Chin ‘teresting news. of fees to the same organization for the same services over $210,000. Think of it! Nearly a quarter of a million dol- | lars belonging to the ‘‘mutual” policy- holders of Prudential was given to the Association of Life Insurance | Presidents. Why? | FS vessice aera April 14—W ie What great service did the Assocla- j Miewel af gt. t a part of the | tion perform for the Prudential that marines in Nic gua in the near ‘it merited a payment of nearly a quarter of a million. Why was it that the Metropolitan, a larger company than the Pruden- tial was only assessed ,000 while the Prudential “kicked in” ten times as much. : When Mr. Cox of the Metropolitan | was questioned on this blatant fraud he excused the Prudential by saying that their entry was made in error, that no company paid over $25,000. The entry was made in the official report of the Prudential to the super- intendent of insurance. The entry !was made under the heading of “dis- bursements” and this “error” balanced the income. If the Prudential really paid 000 as is stated by Cox, then ‘how did the Prudential accounts bal- ance their books for the year. Prudential fee was entered and pub- lished on pages 490 and 491 on the official Insurance Report for the State of New York, issue 1926. How did this outrageous piece of manipulation get by the Superinten- dent? Mr. James A. Beha is the,present superintendent, he is a personal ap- pointee of Governor Smith. Will Smith Investigate. It is high time that the Governor | future appeared | Reports from dicafed that the of Dr. up. The Di ely here today. Admiral Latimer constitutional army Juan Sacasa has been broken government, supported by the U. 8. marines and warships, “smothered” Sacasa, through pre- venting supplies from reaching his army. How long he will stay smothered, however, is another matter, in the opinion of Central American authori- ties here. Once the marines and wai ship§ relax their control of the situs ation, enough munitions may dribble back into Nicaragua to start the con- flagration anew. There will be mo general with- drawal of the U. S. forces for some time, although it is expected that some units will be sent to China. ‘Levee Breaks in Ark., Volunteers Stem Tide ; MEMPHIS, April, 14.—Without a moment's warning, the main leved at | Tulot, Ark., crumbled today and a fifty foot stream of water began pouring through. } Following the break, every store in {Truman and Tulot was closed and, ordered an investigation into the | the entire male population of the malicious “industrial” insurance sys- two towns rushed to the “scene. tem. At, noon more .than 500 volunteers Forty million worker-insurers are involved in this s Every two weeks they pay millions upon millions of dollars to the “Big Four.” It is ‘not a local issue. It is a national issue, Practically every worker in the state of New York is interested and affected, Most of the heads of the families covered by this type of life insurance ‘are uhion members, The “Big Four” are ruthless in suppressing all at- tempts at unionization. Now is an excellent opportunity for Governor Smith to prove his oft-repeated siate- ment that he is the friend of Labor. Now is the time to drive Cox, Tully all into the open. were working frantically in an effort to stem the raging current. If the break is not repaired in a few hours, it will flood Tulot and Truman with several feet of water. Families in the two towns are moy- ing out to safety. to the New York Central as part of a vast extension of the N. Y. C. sys- tem, and that its agents will presently he disclosed when the mask of mys- \tery is torn from the operations of the Van Swearingen brothers, of | Cleveland. H In other words, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the most valuable part of the | ¢ Van Swearingen scheme, offers a| Will the Governor do it? highly profitable direct eastward | x Ro ake te 7 route from Cincinnati to tidewater at | Earthquake In icity Cleveland, and ‘controls entry from) BUENOS AIRES, April 14—A the south into Washington, both of {which are needed by the N. Y, Cyr It is rumored that the N. Y. C, has seeured control of the Washington, | Baltimore & Annapolis electric rail- road, which would be made a steam | railroad, connecting up Washington | Several deaths, : with Baltimore. The N. Y. C. gets to No details have been received here. Baltimore from New York over the ran ae Central of New Jersey and the Read- World End Not in Sight. ing. PARIS, April 14.—The “Pons-Win- Thus the N. Y. C. would get into |necke” comet, which passes “close” to Baltimore and Norfolk with coal | the earth on June 28, holds no menace roads—the Western Maryland north | for humanity, according to M. Michel | of the Potomac and the C. & O. on | Jiacobini, famous astronomer of the! the south of the river—and would | Paris observatory. “surround” the Pennsylvania, whose} The nucleus of the comet will be | Norfolk & Western parallels the G.| almost six million miles from the | & O. from Cincinnati to Norfolk. earth, Jiagobini said. severe earthquake has shaken the city’ of Mendoza, according to reports re- ceived here. Unconfirmed reports state that the Mendoza Cathedral collapsed during the earthquake and that there were The , Filipino Independence Conference Indignant At Coolidge Hypocrisy CHIC 4GO, April om is ¢ » for Pre: bill f 14 (FR). <pressed by nino Tnde- Coolidge’s pendence at veto of the in the indep ki ed unanimously both hou » Philippine le lature,” conference state ment ago headquar- ters, for independ- y that the en the right wanted in- n by President mp him vorld im- Coolidge for as a pri perialism. ‘ he says, fis av Few people wi independ- P + ence for t | “ft is now plain that if the Fili- pino people are ever to have their independenee it can only be by con- certed struggle on the part of the Filipinos th ves and their al- lies in the United States and else- where, not by the grace of our im- perialist government.” Entire ‘Families Wiped ‘Out by Texas Tornado ROCK SPRINGS, Texas, April 14, Fifty-one identified dead, 150 in- jured, 93 of whom are in San An- tonio hospitals, ar on their way there, and property losses exceeding $500,- 000 was the latest checkup today of the toll of ,the disastrous tornado | that laid this town in ruins Tuesday night. So. far it has been impossible to get accurate check of the number of missing, for in some cases all the membe of the family are either dead or so seriously injured no coher- ent statement ca obtained from them. It ved, however, that many bodies will be found in the surrounding country, probably miles ;away, carried there by the terrific force of the tornado. Searchers today were scouting the countryside in the neighborhood of the town, seeking th ing. Sey- eral of the injured were blown a dis- tance of several miles. be THE YOUNG WORKERS COMMUNIST LEAGUE Offers a_ special of pamphlets of all young workers, and ‘farmers. ONLY ONE HUNDRED PACKAGES ON SALE Each package contains the fol- lowing pamphlets: Children of the | Revolution By Anna Louise Strong 50¢; Challenge of Youth By Sam Darcy Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg By Max Shachtman. Millions and Misery package interest to students -.-15e 05e | Regular price 85¢ SPECIAL OFFER 50 cents a package. 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