The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1927, Page 2

Puge Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1927 GOVERNOR'S APPOINTEE OKAYS PRUDENTIAL'S CROOKED ACCOUNTS RESUME OF INSURANCE EXPOSE The DAILY WORKER herewith continues its exposure of | the “Big Four’ Insurance Trust. The “Big Four” is composed! of the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Hancock and the Colonial | Life Insurance Companies. In previous articles Mr. Harrison has adduced evidence proving misrepresentation, fraud, suborna-| tion and m e of “mutual” funds, There are 40,000,000 Amer-| ican workers paying tribute to the “Big Four.’ Names promi-| nent in government and financial circles have peppered the series| thus far, Notably in this respect we find Charles M. Schwab, of | the Bethlehem Steel Corp., Haley Fiske, president of the Metro-| politan Life and outstanding labor-baiter by virtue of his mem-| bership in the National Civic Federation, Albert H. Wiggin, ' Joseph P. Day, New York's super-realtor and many others. . Ld ®@ BATON ROUGE * WHERE THEY BREAK THE LEVEE Los Angeles Labor ‘Council Rrepares To Exclude Lefts LOS ANGELES, April 28.— Infor- mation has leaked out to the effect that reactionary officials of the Cen- tral Labor Council are going to be- gin a wholesale expulsion campaign against the left-wing and progressive delegates of the Council at its next meeting. They have been given doc- uments by the police department’s “Red Squad” and compiled a list of ten to fifteen delegates who are charged with being Communist sym- pathizers, and if precedents will be followed, there is no doubt that an at- tempt will be made to unseat these eration! Civie Federation. talists in the United States. him in the Civic Federation is: TION. William D, Baldwin, Chairman of Who is Behind the Prosecution of the Militant Needle Trades Workers? Who Are Matthew Woll’s Fellow Conspirators? They Are Leaders of the National Civic Fed- ‘ites is Acting President of the Labor Hating There is a United Front of the Special American Federation of Labor Committee, headed by Vice President Woll, and the Na~ tional Civic Federation, dominated by the most powerful capi- Matthew Woll is the connecting link in the conspiracy. With ON THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERA- the Board, Otis Elevator Co, By CHARLI ARTICLE XVII. The Superintendent of In appointed by governo: is three years and his ary, in ad- dition to whatever he makes dis- pensing favors to the insurance trust, is $10,000 per year. Under the State 3 YALE HARRISON. ance is His term Reorganization Plan will be 312,000. The present incumbent is one James A, Beha, he is Al Smith’s per- sona appointee. He the custodian of the insurance funds required un-/| der law to be deposited with the State @f New York. Supposed to Watch. @nce a year all companies opera- ting in the State of New Yo must, submit reports to him of their activ- idties for the proceding year. It is his duty to make abstracts of these reports, incorporate them into a docu- | | $221,254.7% balanced the entire ac- count for 1925? Washington officials admit that the floods of the Mississippi could have | If, on the other hand, the $221,-| merely direct them against the poorer sections of the country, by deliberately 254.71 entry is correct, then Superintendent »f Insurance should immediately call for an examination of the company’s books. This is an old story now. The 1925 report was issued in September In his statement to the Legis- lature Mr. Behe said: “The Superintendent of Insur- ance transmits herewith for your consideration Part II of his annual report, containing detailed informa- tion abstracted from audited state- ments of stock and mutual compan- ies authorized to transact business | in this State... .” Who audited the Prudential state- ment? And how did this “error” by the auditor? All Got Jobs, breaking the levee above New Orleans, the merely direct them agajnst the poorer sections of the country, by deliberately | ‘Call Militia to Help Flood Poorer Parishes, (Continued from Page One) northern tourists, the old French| residents of Saint Bernard and} |Blaquemine parishes do not feel so} happy. Their homes, their crops, | their lives too, unless they hasten, | | are to be flooded from that dynamited | \levee at Poydras. Since Tuesday night the Poydras | jpike had been a stifling course of | get| heavy dust, kicked up by the exodus| their voices in protest against the The neat homes Not all of of the fugitives, are closed and shuttered. Coast Workers Want Sacco and Vanzetti Set Free at Once (Special To The Daily Worker) | LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 28.— The workers of the coast are raising | attempt of the New England capi- talists to murder Sacco and Vanzetti. | members in a red-baiting campaign, Lead By Buzzell. The first step in this direction was wher Secretary Buzzell of the Cen- tral Labor Council, appeared before the Carpenters District Council, who had endorsed Sam Globerman’s can- didacy for the Board of Education, and demanded that the endorsement be withdrawn on the grounds that the candidate was a Communist. He claimed to have minutes’ and other records, thru the stool-pigeons he is associated with, to prove that Glober- man is secretary of the Workets (Communist) Party. An investigation committee was elected, which did not even interview the accused man, but reported back recommending withdrawal of endorse- ment, which carried, (although a strong fight was put up against it), thru pressure of the reactionary ma- Director, American Motor Body Co. " Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Director. Member U. S. Branch Advisory Board of London, England, Limited. Director, Hale and Kilburn Co. Director, Home Insurance Company. Director, Martin Rockwell Corporation. The Director of Metropolitan Trust Company of the city of N. Y. Director, National Surety Co. President and Director of the Otis Building Company, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Otis-Fensom Elevator Co., Canada: Director of Sundh Electric Co. The Director of U. S. Life Insurance Co. in the city of N. Y. Trustee, U. S. Savings Bank, Director of What Cheer and Hopes Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Needle Trade Defense The crying need of money to pay for defense has brought out a great the Defense fund, Send in the R.A.I. |C. SHARES, It is a well known fact that past| these home were deserted placidly./ | insurance superintendents have been| There is about Poydras and its neigh- | | borhood a charm and gtace of an-| aes care of by the insurance trust. | | ‘n this connection one remembers with | tiquity which shows that many have | veel sae aay ethics eS feeling of revulsion John A. McCall] lived, labored, loved, and died there, ed ae ea oxtete Te eatana | 282 who played a most disgusting) And not far away are the red | specifically in Hoa cin ‘of ‘the ‘Pradén- |role prior to’ and during the late brick ruins of the old Versailles plan- | tial Life Insurance Company. This | Armstrong Insurance Investigation. | tation home, which seem hardly less | company, not satisfied with the usual | By his failure to call the Prudential| ancient than the water oaks and| ane, wh Gaacait Gigs ether, }. | surance Company to task in the/ their festoons of gray moos. Poydras | adagep apa Dict an Di non eo” | Association of Life Insurance Presi-| is old. ment called the New York Insurance Report and submit it to the Legisla- ture, ate Bas : ons i aves to ats saperinter, | dents’ bribe, Mr. Beha has conclu-| Some Would Fight. } dent. | sively demonstrated his unfitness to] And it was accordingly not easy to hold the responsible position he does. | win the agreement of all persons in| i. Beha Earning His? \the settlement to desert their homes | SE Sep ‘ + 3y condoning and overlooking a|to the flood. Some of the most} phe Ayo eee the, Aage, | ¥indle of such magnitude Mr, Beha|deeply rooted inhabitants in a flare | eiation.of Tite Inwbvanse Preaidents| has offered sufficient reason to be-| of defiance refused to move. For the| to the tune of $221,254.71 | lieve that he has his eye on a soft) most part these have been won over| ae ees ee job with the “Big Four’ when his through intercession by influential | Let Prudential Steal. On pages 490 and 491 of the 1925 This item was entered under the |? At a well attended open air meet-| ing held here at the Plaza, the as- sembled workers listened as speaker | after speaker exposed one of the most shameful plots in the history of the labor movement, Many ban- ners were displayed that told of the resentment of the workers towards those responsible for that state of things. Speakers addressed the meeting in all languages. There were repre- sentatives of the American, Italian, Mexican and Negro workers on the speakers stand. * chine, Fear Globerman. The fear of the influence of Glober- man’s candidacy, which has been offi- cially endorsed even by the Central Labor Council itself, prompted the of- ficials to take the next ‘step to pre- vent their own defeat; expulsion of delegates, Another reason is Buzzel’s desire to have the opposition elements in the Council, so-called “progres- sives” who are flirting with the left- wingers for their votes, branded as “reds” if they take the floor to de- fend the right of delegates te sit in San Francisco Holds Meeting. | the Council regardlezs of their politi- 1 ‘ cal belief. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 28. a las —The largest working gathering held Will Work Carefully. left-wing will watch this group here in six years assembled in Cali- | poe w \ fornia Hall to join in the nation-wide | carefully, to see if they will have the a response from the workers who find all sorts of ways to build the fund. The two most favorite means are shop Collections and Collections at House Parties. Many such collections find their way daily to the office and the income from this amounts to large sums. ° * * We Hope So Too. | Joint Defense Committee, . Gentlemen:—“Enclosed find check of $15.00. Five Dollars was given | to me by Mrs. M. Rosenzweig and | $10.00 is from me. “Hoping you will get a few thou- sand $15.00 checks, I remain, “Respectfully yours, —Ezekiel Mendelsohn.” A few thousand such checks would almost solve the problem of-raising | Defense, The workers of H. Birman’s Shop delivered a small collection of $13.00 which was very welcome and they were followed by Anna and Louis Lazaar of 1328 Webster Ave.,/ with a collection of $50.00 raised ftom their guests at a House Party. We urge friends to take an example and make collections at House Parties and the like. Outside of New York, the Cloak- makers and Furriers Defense has ob- tained the best results from the city of Detroit. Not only has Detroit made a fine record in proceeding rapidly in fixing itself as second in the list of cities contributing to the » also much good work is be- ing done. At a conference held last Sunday, representative of many working class heading of “disbursements.” On page 504 of the same report under the he ng of “partial list of salaries, compensation and emoluments, ete.” the Prudential actuary again lists payment to the Association; this time tenure of public office expires. In harboring this ambition he does not differ materially with past super- intendents, Governor Smith appointed James A. Beha to his present lucrative po- | neighbors, but it is known that there | are many old irreconcilables, partic- | j ularly in the parts of St. Bernard | |parish away from the settlement. | | “There has heen some talk of| danger of shooting when the en- protest to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the electric chair. John D. Barry, feature writer in the Scripps Daily News, was chair- man of the meeting. The other speak- ers were George Speed of the I. W. courage to defend them against ex- pulsion. There are two tendencies within this opposition group; one is led by a former Socialist, Fieder of the Electrical Workers Union, ‘hich is purely reactionary in character; the organizations, it was decided to ar- jrange for two tag days to be held }on May Ist and 8th. The conference committee has issued a call to all | workers in Detroit to-assist with the | work on these two tag days, money to pay for the defense, but our trouble. is that most workers cannot afford such amounts, while the manu- facturers are with the union smashers. * ° « sition. Governor Smith is empowered | > . to removi im. | * Now either one of the two entrees | Temove him |a@ ptominent is correct. Did Mr. Beha notice this|_W° "ee Governor Smith, if he| leader. “We are hoping that every-| obvious piece of thievery? Did his | TUrtures any 1928 ambitions, to im-/ thing has been worked out, and that | army of assistants observe this | eee remove . Mr. Beha from | with our assurances of ample in- blatant fraud? pati crag’ up the Si age od | demnities, and of every possible means Or on the other hand did he ac-|P8y¥ment insurance swindle to the| of relief, our friends in Poydras will cept the report of his future em- gratification of 40,000,000 American} be reconciled but we are not sure | ployers without checking it up and fas eee who now suffer/that this is completely so.” incorporate it in his report. from | o fraudulent and legal | An immediate relief fund of $150,-| Legislature Too. machinations of the “Big Four. |000 has been raised among 60 New} After Mr. Beha okayed this theft Orleans bankers and business leaders. | of some two hundred thousand. dol- | 'welve Known Dead in) ey yess si eine ca sist te lars from the “mutual” Prudential | * . BAENY UNGESICI! Bs Mus BEGG, Ad It | policyholders, the report went to the Automobile Shop Fire | il be largely defrayed by private | Legislature. Again it ‘was okayed. AE | purses, There is no assurance that | If the item as reported under the) (Continued from Page One) | the old residents ever will be com- | partial lis# of emoluments is reported | one many fect the explosion filled | Pensated. | correctly. then how does the Pruden-| the room with flame. A second explo- | Flood Preventible. | 3 4 | “ | tial account for the fact that the | Sion followed in a few seconds. Brick| WASHINGTON, April 28.—The | | walls crumbled. | it is set down as $24,998.44. gineers go to break the levee,” said | New Orleans civic Sections of floor | disastrous Mississippi floods probably | crashed to the floor below. One work- | will result in the administration pre- | er was blown ont of a fourth-story | senting to the new congress in De- | window to the pavement. Bricks |cember an ambitious and far-reach- | showered on the sidewalk across the | ing system of flood prevention, it W., Edgar Owens, of the Mnternation- al Labor Defense; Jack McDonald of | tary of Los Angeles County Building the San Francisco Labor College and| Trades Council, and who is expected E, Levin of the Workers (Commu- | to run on the opposition slate against nist) Party. | Buzzell for secretary of the Central A large collection to assist in the Labor Council. campaign was taken up. | ¥ vA = | Progressive,” and was secretary of MADRID, Iowa, April 28.—Pro-| the Labor Party in this city in 1923, testing against the attempt to rail-|at which time he was more or less road Sacco and Vanzetti to death, | friendly to the T. U. E. L. group, at United Mine Workers, Local 840,/the time when dozens of carpenters have passed a resolution calling upon | were expelled by the officials, follow- Governor Fuller of Massachusetts to | ing upon police raids on the headquar- grant them a pardon. | ters of the T. U. E. L. It is only now ooo | that the T. U. E. L. is beginning to Madeiros, Witness For |*°¥ve since that period. . | Four Slates. Sacco-Vanzetti Saved | If this opposition group does not ‘ |adopt a clear-cut progressive pro- (Continued from Page One) | gram, there will be four slates in the near future such a petition will be| siciq in the June elections of the Cen- filed by either or both of those men,| +1.) Labor Council; Buzzell, the pres- or by counsel in their behalf. ent secretary; Horn, former secretary othér is led by John Valentine, Secre-| Valentine claims to be a “fearless | Women’s Council Knows How. | Tillie Littinsky of Women’s Coun- cil No. 7, Brownsville, made a real | collection, She made a visit among| her friends with two Bazaar Honor | | Roll Lists and brought back $161.00. ae See RAIC Shares. Workmen’s Circle Branch 715 of | Brockton, Mass., sends in three shares | of the Russian American Industrial Corporation with the following letter: | “Worthy Friends of the Joint Defense Committee”: | “We are in receipt of your appeal | and send you three shares of the R.A.LC. amounting to $30.00. One of the shares is the property of the! branch and two are from individual members. | “We donate these to you. Fill in| the necessary information and cash | them for the defense. | “We wish you success in | your work | A mass meeting for the near future is being arranged. It was decided to elect a committee to hire a theatre and make other necessary arrangements for the run- | ning of the geat moving picture “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair for a date ‘late in May. The executive committee conference is to meet weekly. Many organizations have already contributed to the defense, among them 8: locals of the Bakery Drivers Union. Flora Anna Skin Ointment for PIMPLES, BLACKHEADS, LARGE PORDS freckles, rash, itching skin, eczema or stubborn skin trouble of any kind will be banished by use of FLORA ANNA SKIN OINTMENT, $1.00, Sold on money back guar- antee, of the BOOKS BY FRIEDRICH ENGELS PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNISM— (Original draft of the Communist Manifesto) 10 Cents) SOCIALISM, UTOPIAN AND SCI- ENTIFIC —25 Cents ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRI-| ey reat. Walter 0. Briggs, head | VATE AND THE STATE Cloth. 60 Cents THE PEASANT WAR IN GER- MANY Cloth. KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS. By D. Riazanov. Cloth, PROPERTY $2.50 street, in one instance breaking the windows of a restaurant. The cloth- ing was burned from the bodies of several wrkers. How many were bur- ied in the ruins no one knows. Twenty nine were taken to hospitals. Two | died later the same day. Indifferent to Safety. | The Briggs Manufacturing Co. has | resisted every advance made in the safety code. A former Detroit com- missioner of buillings and safety en- | gineering has been quoted as saying as he resigned because of a controv- ersy over one unit in the Harper Ave- nue plant of the Briggs company. His successor has denied this was the }cause of the resignation but has ad- | mitted the files of the department |show a controversy took place, with the Briggs Manufacturing Co. mani- festing barbarous indifference to the safety of its thousands of men and |women workers, The profits to be gaiaed ‘from such an enterprise in the | open-shop stronghold of Detroit were |of the company, was the millionaire |backer of Gene Buck’s extravagantly lavish shok, “Yours Truly.” | More workers have lost their lives $1.50 |in a single disaster before. The Briggs | \fire was especially notable, however, because it occurred in a modern in- dustry, conducted supposedly along scientific or enlightened lines. And lit took place in a modern biulding, built in 1922. The slaughter, never- | theless, would have been greater had | it not oceurred while only a compara- tively small foree was at work. Hunger Drove Workers. In asking for jobs there the worker who lost their lives in the fire had to choose between working at the Briggs plant and going hungry. They were aware daily of their danger, But they were tied to their jobs by needs as strong as the chains of ancient involuntary servitude. About 100,000 are out of work in the Detroit indus- trial district. For every job at the Briggs plant there were 100 appli- cants at the employment window. was forecast here today in official | circles. | Secretary of the Treasury Mellon | | said he believed it would be possible | to work out a program based upon | prevention of spring floods and the | development of hydro-dlectric power plants in the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri River Valleys that will be of inestimable value to the nation. No excuse has so far been offered as to why this has not been done al- ready. Demand Freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti PASSAIC,N. J., April 28—The workers of Passaic and vicinity gathered tonight in an open air meet- |ing at Belmont Park, Garfield, | Among the speakers were: Albert Weisbord, former strike leader and at present one of the labor candidates in the race for city commissioners; |Robert W. Dunn, of the American | Civil Liberties Union; Pat Devine, Carlo Tresco, Louis G. Quintiliano and Francesco Coco. The following resolution passed: “RESOLVED, That this meeting of workers and vicinity, 4s in favor of all workingclass organizations uni- ting their forces to free Sacco and Vanzetti whose persecution is @ general attack on the freedom of ex- pression so necessary to the workers: “That we stand solidly behind the movement for a National Con- ference at which the question of na- tional action could be discussed, and | | was | Passaic’s Workers | be it further resolved “That we request the Governor of Massachusetts to intervene and give justice to our two persecuted fellow workers, who have devoted their lives to the cause of labor, by giving them their absolute and unconditional freedom.” “Such a petition would naturally call for an investigation by the execu- tive, and any such investigation would naturally include in its scope one Celestino Madeiros, who is now under sentence of death, which sen- tence is to be executed during the week beginning 12:01 A. M., Thurs- day, April 28, 1927. In order that any such investigation may not be hampered by the execution of Ma- deiros, I have decided to respite the execution of the said Madeiros on the recommendation of Attorney General Arthur Reading to and including Sun- day, July 10, 1927.” Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail it, Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and ‘carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name .. Address Occupation eecveeecesevccecs Union Affiliation............eeee06 Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to Workers Party, 1113 W. 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