The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1927, Page 2

~; ~~ ~ . See tee BRITISH TORIES JAIL THOUSANDS FOR FREE SPEECH Baldwin Finds No Civil Liberty in England BERLIN, May “The Tory Gov- ernment is increasing its repressions on all sections of the movement,” says Roger Baldwin, director of the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union, describing civil liberties in, England in a ciren- Tar letter. Baldwin was permitted to enter England for two weeks only after he} had promised the Home Office to} “abstain from all political activity# | ‘Free speech as it was so long prac- ticed in England is gone,—though the Hyde Park forums still run Sundays without interference,” he says. “But whenever any serious industrial or political situation rises the lid is clamped on agitation through prose- cutions under ‘emergency regulations’ or old libel and peace laws. | Arrested For Meeting | During the coal strike from May'to | December, 1926, | | i] { | 7316 prosecutions | ‘were brought, chiefly for speeches, | distributing literature and holding } wmectings. 910 workers were sent to| prison, 22 men are still in prison, — ‘ten of them for one to eight years. 250 strike cases are still pending in the courts. The court contests and the relief wf prisoners has been carried on al- wmost wholly by the Class War Prison- ‘ers’ Aid, which has the support of ‘many local unions and the left wing ef the Labor Party. The Labor Party itself has helped only the cases of a few prominent members. Quite the most active group in London is ‘the insurgent left of the Party, many of them. former Communists,—young, vigorous intellectuals and trade- unionists with an international out- look, Lansbury, the only old man among them, expresses theif policies and makes the contact between the Communist wing and the progressive forces, One of them put the situation graphically by saying that in England now “There is plenty of petrol lying around, but no matches; while in France there are plenty of matches but no petrol.” And a German friend here adds that in Germany there are neither. Communists In Vanguard The work in England for prisoners on the continent is also entirely due} te the efforts of the Class War I'risoners’ Aid, which organized the | expeditions of parliamentary delega-| tions of Labof members to Bulgaria in 1925 and to Poland a few months ago. The relief work for Bulgarian P oners and families which followed was independently organized and pro- duced the amazing total of over $5000 in small gifts from workers who were themselves in distress. Much publicity has resulted and many meetings have been held in London for these victims THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1897 WAITING ON NARROW LEDGE FOR RESCUE BOAT . Snapshot of refugees huddled on a high point of the Stop's Landing levee, Mississippi — through which the flooded Mississippi cut a great gap, flooding Greenville and a dozen other towns. These par- ticular refugees, lined ap on the narrow ledge with the waters roaring a ll around them and their homes lost to sight, are from Shaw, Miss., and are awaiting rescue steamers from Vicksburg, Miss., itself men- aved by the flood. Beckerman Speaks sy Naination «| HH (Continued from Page One) | ypocri ica y 0 jnote. France, Japan and Italy had| }agreed, or rather their representa- | . . tives had agreed to go in on the | Trate Union Unit |proposition, but it was understood | |that the work was that of MacMur-| {ray and the Englishman, and that| By H. Xi. |France and Japan expressed the| ROCHESTER, N. Y. May 4—A| greatest reluctance about the deal.| DIE-HARD BALDWIN HISSED ON STRIKE Suspend Laborite for resolution, adopted by approximately 700 workers assembled in a May Day | meeting under the auspices of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America calls upon Governor Fuller to releas¢ Saccg and Vanzetti. Ironically, the union smashing gangster Beckerman of New York City graced the rostrum as the prin- Italy is playing Great Britain’s game, .. For the time being ;Coolidge and| Five Days Kellogg are fighting MacMurray and | ss a. ry |the British in thelr demand for talc | LONDON, May 4—tfisses, groans jing a vigorous attitude toward the| 20d ¢atealls greeted Prime Minister |Chinese. How long they will persist Baldwin this afternoon whan he = jin this view is uncertai There is|'? defend ne dabor-sninanilig enti: tremendous pressure being brought strike bill introduced by his die-hard to beat on the administration that it | @binet. “Liar,” shouted John Beckett, national,” their way to the audience. back up the blood-and-intervention policy of the British. In China, the | traders and gospelers are crying into | |the skiés demanding armed interven- | | tion, | Policy Is Uncertain. | The fact that so far Kellogg and| cipal speaker of the day. Wolf in Sheepskins. Using the vague promise of a for- ty hour week and an eloquent appeal in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti as a smoke screen behind which to con- ceal his treachery to the workers in “ the needle trades industry, this Judas | Coolidge have not made public the | appealed to the membership of the |0te is a matter for concern. It de-} union for “unity.” While at the very |notes that they are uncertain as to| moment he spoke ‘the leaders in the|their policy. If they were fixed in furriers’ union weré being railroaded|their determination to keep out of | to jail with the able assistance of | China it would be extremely favora- “brother” Beckerman and his ilk, | ble to their cause to.publish the docu- | Cireus Methods Used. ment, point out its dangers, and in’ an| Apparently sensing the hostile at-|a¢companying statement announce titude of the audience towards the their intention of maintaining friend- | speaker, the local machine forces|!y_ Yelations with the embattled | made ample preparations to meet the |Chinese. The fact that they have not | oceasion. done so, that Mr. Coolidge saw fit to Upon introducing Beckerman, tire |#ive the press the impression that | band struck the strains of the “Inter- | there was no note, is subject to but whereupon the audierice one interpretation—that for the tine) rose. This was apparently done to | being they are temporizing and‘ that | create the impression that the audi-| they may change their position and | ence rose to honor Beckerman. | want to be free to reverse themselves To prevent a possible anti-Becker- | With the least possible trouble if for | man demonstration the committee in| 5°M€ reason or the other they decide | charge forbade the distribution of lit- |t0 do so. erature of any description in the hall. | In spite of this several hundred leaf-| For several days there has been a MacMurray Resignation Expected. | lets, condemning Beckerman, found|!™or about the capital, which re-| | fuses to be downed, that MacMurray | Gateshead member, when the prime minister launched into a vicious de- nunciation of the trade unions, A rear followed from the die-hards on the government benches. Polite Laborites Shocked. When David Kirkwood, member from Clydeside, leaped up and chal- lenged the speaker to suspend Beckett, Winston Churchill moved the suspension of Beckett for five days. The vote of 82 to 88 in favor of the | motion indicated that Beckett’s and Kirkwood’s tactics had displeased some of the polite gentlemen sitting on the labor benches. Vicious Attack On Labor. , The prime minister again launched into his denunciation of British la- bor affairs after Churchill’s motion had been passed, The gévernment’s Will would outlaw general and sympathetic strikes as well as boycotts and would place severe restrictions on picketing. Sacco-Vanzetti Case Is Formally Before Fuller (Continued*from Page One) accompanied defense counsel to Ded- ham jail for a last conference yester- ~ the basis for the profits by which of persecution on the continent, but with no such spirit and effect as the | great demonstrations in Paris. The! Labor Party makes a gesture of sym- pathy now and then,—but its foreign affairs department is so anti-Com- munist that it will not cooperate in any way with efforts in which Com- munists participate. It takes the lead | Beckerman literature above referred of the Socialist International, which | to: emphasizes the Russian political pris- oe we oners and attacks the Int’l, Red Aid. DOWN WITH BECKERMAN. Refuse Military Service | May Day is the day that Interna In Holland, where I spent a week, | tional Labor has consecrated to th theré are two situations of interest to | cause of justice and righteousness, t us,—one, the prisoners serving for re- | fusal of military service, and the other, the agitation against repression of native movements fot independence in the Dutch East Indies. The only | hopes. political prisoners in Holland are the | ow ean A. Beckerman, the man anti-militarists. Of all European | Who has Joined the bandwagon of the countries Holland alone has a long|™ost reactionary wing of the labor} history of struggle against compul- Movement, the gang that at all times sory military service. has denounced and expelled radicals Over 1200 youths have gone to\0 all shades, the crew that does not prison in the last 25 years,—most of | hesitate to smash our union—to hand them from the small towns and coun- | it over to the bosses and to assist in try districts of the north and east|the jailing of workers who dare to where the old tradition of fieedom | Tesist these betrayals, HOW CAN HE among a sea-faring people is strong, |BE THE MAIN SPEAKER AT OUR Sectarianism and individualism mark |MAY DAY CELEBRATION? Dutch life. Most of the present-day | How can Beckerman, the sponsor of prisoners are anarchists,—not non-re- expulsion and intimidation against the sistant pacifists by any means,—with | active sy Rico Pe sg ae a considerable number of religious pa-|"0lon, Beckerman the despot an cifists. The morning I visited the | 2angster, HOW CAN HE EXPRESS prisoners at Scheveningen, where the | LABOR’S HOPES? x 25 boys of 19 now serving time are|_ His presence at a May First Cele- kept together in one section, a Baptist | ration is an insult to all class-con- was just leaving after his 10 months’ | Scious workers. To have him as a of it, Ten months is the usual sen-| Speaker is a distortion of the high tence by the courts-martial. The per- ron Which this day has been con- $, ili " is six Sacrated, sah ger scat -eAoen months, | First of May ig NOT the day of the Mustolinis, but the day of the hoping The situation in the Dutch East In- ns oh . oppressed, dies, where 60 million natives furnish! “Down with Beckermanism. Long live May Day, International Labor Day! Fight in Shopping District. A duel in the heart of New York’s shopping district yesterday between Charles Picopalli and Stefano Avan- zalo, attracted hundreds of men and women, and resulted in the former being taken to Bellevue Hospital with a fractured skull. That the clothing workers of this city do not approve of the brand of “unity” which Mr. Beckerman peddles was evidenced by the fact that out of a total membership of over 12,000 in this city scarcely 700 attended the May Day meeting. The following is a copy of the anti- sion. Only those-who believe and cham- pion these ideals can express Labor's 7 million Hollanders maintain a rich industrial life, is too. complicated to say more than a few words here. As a. result of uprisings against oppres- sion last year, 10 native leaders have heen condemned to death, 500 exiled to barren New Guinea, and some 1500 are in prison, most of them without trial. The Indonesian students in Holland carry on an agitation in their behalf, and an amnesty committee of coiinsighbllieiibnnssibices prominent liberals has beén recently Chaplin Would Stop Charges. formed to intercede with the govern-} LOS ANGELES, May 4.—Attor- ment. Most of the prisoners had|neys for Charles Chaplin, the com- nothing to do with the armed violence. | edian, prepared today to file in Su- Even the Colonin! Secretary stated} perior Court a motion to strike .out to me that hundreds were arrested in|certain startling changes in Lita a time of excitement who were inno-|Grey’s divorcé complaint. Conferen- cent of erime, but who had expressed | ces to bring about elimination of the nationalist sympathies. objectionable accusations failed. f ‘ the abolition of all forms of oppres- | jhas resigned. The state department | |and the White House have denied it, |d@y afternoon before the actual sign- |but it persists and is likely to turn| ing of the petition. It was scheduled jout to be true. So far this has been | t? be delivered to Governor Fuller to- |what has happened to international | @y. He has indicated that he will jaffairs here. The state department |"@me one or two special representa- \and White House deny and invariably tives, probably the chairman of the jit turns out to be exactly the oppo-| State parole board, to report to him | site, |on all aspects of the ease, including | Minister Is “Career Man.” | the outrageous Bridgewater case. | There is no doubt but that at pres-| ” President Lowell of Harvard Uni- jent MacMurray is very much at log- | V¢Tsity, visited Fuller yesterday for an |gerheads with the administration | hour's conference. Although he would ver the conduct of Chinese matters, | Not comment on his visit, it was gen- acMurray is one of the bureaucratic | erally understood that he was closeted Tique of ‘so-called “career men” in| With the chief executive over the |the state department, an arch im-| Sacco-Vanzetti cage, probably backing |perialist and snob. He is said to be |UP the arguments of his law depart- |a man of capacity and very much | ™ent and of his relative, Bishop Law- English in his manners and way of |Tence of the Massachusetts Episcopal |viewing things. He was ordered re-|church in appeals for a complete re- |turned when the Cantonese began | View. their drive northward last year, but | | things developed very rapidly and he jwas told to remain—which was: a Outstanding among the appeals re- ceived yesterday for a commission was that from the San Francisco branch of’ the American Civil Liberties Union. Ambassador MacVey, who has just |It was signed exclusively by people /returned from Japan to take care of | Whose names are in Who’s Who, in- |personal business matters, has given | cluding Dr, David Starr Jordan, chan- |the president and Kellogg some first-|cellor of Stanford University, Gert- hand information on the Japanese |rude Atherton, the novelist, Judge |Position. It is understood that he has | Jackson, H. Ralston, the labor attor- tough break for the Chinese. |told the president and Kellogg that \the wisest policy is one of caution| and coolness and strongly urged against hasty decisions. Note Is Impudent. | Whatever the cause and counsel, | for the time being the administration jis proceeding, carefully and deliber- {ately and by ‘doing so has thrown askew the hot-headed mailed-fist schemes of the interventionists and militarists, There can be no doubt but that Washington’s refusal to play in on the threatening note prevented \its presentation. The note was de- \elared to have informed Chen, the foreign minister of the Cantonese, | that not only make a liar, but that the Cantonese were not to be trusted jand fixed a time limit for the offer- jing of “satisfaction.” It was in sum and substance a threat and a chal- llenge, in brutal, ferocious language. | The policy of the administration may change. The fact that it is at- |tempting to keep the note a secret is evidence that there is some uncer- | tainty as to what it proposes doing. In the meantime Washington is awaiting MacMurray’s withdrawal. It is said that if he gets out that Ad- miral Bristol, who has represented the country in Constantinople for a number of years, will succeed him. WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI torney and 47 other distinguished scientists, educhtors, lawyers, writers and artists. 326 students of Bryn Mawr Col- lege and 25 students at Clark Univer- sity, Worcester, Mass, added their pro- tests to the impending legal murder of the two workers. The Clark stu- dents declared, in part: Strong Statement “The literary secession of Boston from Massachusetts seems eminently probable of emulation in the judicial secession of Massachusetts from the Union should you fail to intervene in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. It is up to you whether you will see justice done or whether you will allow a fish pedler and shoemaker to hang and so hang your judiciary in the eyes of all intelligent people. It is possible that you have learned of what the fore- man of the jury replied to a friend who had said he did not believe the men were guilty of the crime charged: | ¥#! ‘Damn them. They ought to hang anyway, “That makes the issue plain enough for you to immediate action, That makes it plain that the men were tried not for murder, but for not loving the United States, for draft dodging, for circulating radical literature and for speaking disrespectfully of Harvard College. That makes it plain that the men were convicted for being’ intelli- gent.” RIVER CURRENTS SWEEP ON INTO NORTHLOUISIANA Thousands Homeless TALULLAH, Tia., May 4, — The Mississippi today won northeastern Louisiana from its defenders. De- feated in a two-weeks’ struggle with the raging flood, residents of the northeast quarter of the state gave up their fight with the devouring river today to flee for their lives, From a point 30 miles north of the Arkansas border, the river has be- corie an inland sea, at many points fifty miles wide. Water pours in on |nine parishes from three directions. | Rail traffic is prostrated and com- munications are failing rapidly. Thou- sands of exiles are scattering over the fertile countryside in-a wild dash for }high ground. Approximately five thousand square miles of the richest agricultural land in the state is laid | waste, Everything Swept Away. | Houses are being swept away, live- | stock and crops devoured, and hu evacuated with new hordes taking to the roads southeast and west as the waters rise hourly. High Water. Waters from the Milliken bend | overflow reached the edge of Talullah, | the parish seat of Madison parish be- | fore daybreak. Six to twenty feet of | water was anticipated over vast areas | of Madisoh’s 660 square miles before noon. To the north, back waters from Arkansas swept down through More- house, West Carroll, East Carroll and | Richland parishes to join with the Milliken Bend flood in a sweep sonth through Tensas, Catahoula and Con- cordia, At Concordia parish the third |inflow from the Glasscock break which has been widening hourly since Saturday augments the back levee river in its sweep south along the red crumbling levees threaten to ex- }and St. Landry parishes. Negroes Victimized. Vicksburg had more than 7,000 re- fugees in camp at daybreak with new throngs arriving hourly. Some pulled across the black and treacherous river throughout the night in rowboats, others trekked over the bridge from the Louisiana side. Hundreds came in the fleet of rescue boats which was turned into the territory immediately after the Milliken Bend break yester- day afternoon. Madison parish, in which the latest break occurred is one of the richest |in the state. Cotton is the principal | product of Madison's 400,000 acres of normally productive land. There are 18 cotton gins in the parish, which has a population of approximately 12,000, Tallulah has a population of 1,500. In Tensas parish, which has a population of approximately 13,500, Negroes outnumber whites by three or four to one. The refugee camps are for the whites, the Negro flood vic- |tims shift for themselves. Open New Channel. Five days dynamiting at Poydras crevasse has opened a spillway 1,600 | feet wide into St. Bernard and Plaque- | mine parishes affording a third chan- nel to the gulf, over the homes of the former residents of these parishes, Argentine Menaces Yankee Exploiters WASHINGTON, ‘May 4A thorny threat was projected today among ‘the verbal‘ roses that have marked the speeches at the third Pan-Ameri- can Commercial Congress here. On the heels of President Coolidge’s renewed expression of political and commercial co-operation with the countries of Pan-America, Luis Duhau, president of the Argentine Rural Society, definitely hinted to- day at a boycott of American manu- facturers to batter down the Ameri- can tariff wall against Argentine agricultural products. U. S. Diseriminates. In a speech to the congress today, Duhau declared that Argentine farm- ers intended to proceed on the prin- ciple, “buy from those who buy from us. Argentine’s own tariff, he pointed out, is directed principally at manu- factured goods, and “is fiscal rather than protectionist, but almost all the U. S, duties falling on Argentine pro- ducts are wholly protective.” He pointed out that in beef alone, Argentine’s production is glutting the British market, while the American market is closed because of the tariff A Duhau’s declaration of war on the American tariff was the high spot of today’s session, Confiscate Distillery BAY SHORE, L. 1, May 4.~Con- fiseated by one unarmed state trooper working single-handed, the contents of what police declare to be the larg- ost distillery ever seized on Long Is- land, were being held for the federal authorities today. Ruin Big Cotton Fields; | | dreds of towns and villages are being | BILL; GALLED LIAR tend the sea into Avoyelles Rapides | Who is Behind the Prosecution of the Militant Needle Trades Workers? | Who Are Matthew Woll’s Fellow Conspirators? They Are Leaders of the National Civie Fed- eration! Woll is Acting President of the Labor Hating Civie Federation. | 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- talists in the United States. Matthew Woll is the connecting link in the conspiracy. With him in the Civic Federation is: \ E. K, HALL, Vice President Telephone and Telegraph Co., N. Y. City, 195 Broadway. The Director Bell Telephone Co. of Canada. Director Bell Telephone Securities Co. Director Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Director Chiban-American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Director Gumberland Telephone and Telegraph Co. tad Director Electric Bond and Share Co. Director Electric Utilities Corporation. Director Lehigh Power Securities Corporation. Director Michigan State Telephone Co. Director Montclair Esséx Trust Co, Director New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. Director Ohio Bell Telephone Co. Director Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co, Director Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. Director Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. Director Southern New England Telephone Co. | Director Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. | Director Utah Power Securities Corporation. FIFTY MILLION PROFIT NOT REPORTED BY MUTUAL LIFE DIRECTORS’ RING | (Continued from Page One) Among these 1,000 persons the num- Metropolitan balance averaged $20,-| ber of deaths increase each year. But 000,000. under the level premium system prac- Charles M. Schwab, Henry Olles-| ticed by these companies, the premium heimer, Albert M. Wiggin and Fred-| charge is always the same, That is, in erick H. Ecker all directors or offi-| the earlier years the insured pays not cials of the Metropolitan are also| only a premium large enough to cover directors of the Chase National. | his risk, but something over to take The Prudential Life, another mem-|°@t¢ of the future increased risk. ber of the “Big Four,” employs the | Young Pay Twice same system of interlocking directors.| For instance, a man 25 years of age. Among its important depositories; pays twice as much as that which rep- resents the risk of his dying in that year. | are the Seaboard National Bank, First National Bank and the Farmers Loan and Trust Company. On the director-| Now, weekly payment life insurance ates of these banks we find Howard | policies are forfeited unless full prem- Bayne, Chellis A, Austin, George M.|iums are paid for three years. No Lamonte and David F. Houston. |eash may be realized on them until The assets of the “Big Four” are|they have been in force for ten full absolutely in the hands of the officials | years. |of these companies. | Forfeited policies are termed The “Big Four” are supposedly| “lapsed” policies. The lapse of a pol- | mutual companies, that is to say, they | icy means. a total loss of his deposits |are operated, presumably, in the in-| to the insured. |terests of the 40,000,000 worker-in-| The experience of the “Big Four” surers"who compose its membership. | Shows that the rate at which policies In theory its machinations are “co-|die is greater than the rate at which | operative.” the insured dies. | Actually we find that Haley Fiske,| The life of a straight life insurance | $150,000 a year president is interested | policy is great not because life is short |in the following multi-million corpora-|but because the terms are~harsh, the tions: rates high and the general policy con- { Chatham & Phenix National Bank) ditions are such that if the policy- National Surety Co. | holder ‘was aware of them at the time Metropolitan Trust Co. * | of insuring his life, he would not have Pittsbutg & W. Va. RR We find that Frederick H. Ecker, | $125,000 a year vice president of the Metropolitan Life, is interested as di- reetor of the following chain of gi- gantic corporations: Chase National Bank Chicago, Eastern RR | Denver & Rio Grande Interboro Rapid Transit Wheeling and Lake Erie RR | Cinn. & Western RR. | One could go on like this indefinitely! showing that the officials of these| |enormous “mutual” life insurance companies have holdings in the very |corporations in which the so-called | mutual funds are invested. Very Exclusive Group At this stage of their elephantine West Side Belt RR | | Signed his application. People who take out fire insurance | generally continue it, because fire in- |surance may be dropped without the insured losing anything. But in life insurance where large premiums are paid in early years on |aecount of a greater risk in later years, the policyholder who drops his ‘policy not only loses the actual cost of the risk, but money paid for the | risk which was never assumed by the /company. | During 1925 of all policy termina- tions only 9% were paid as death claims, 1% as matured endowments and 75% were total loss lapses. What is the explanation for this | terrific lapse rate? It can only be this: Men are induced to take out in- surance by misrepresentation or by promises which statistics show can never be realized. With Tariff Battle development the “Big Four” have combined assets of about four billion dollars, over which a small, but select group of financiers exercise dictator- ial weaver. Wtefenso of retaining these colos- \sal assets, which are called the “re- serve,” rates are arranged in such a manner that these assets continually keep pyramiding. It is claimed that these, ‘tremendous trust funds are necessary for the payment of future claims. The industrial life insurance busi- ness is based upon dhe following theory. While the duration of life of any individual is uncertain and var- ies, the average duration of the lives of a great number is certain, You cannot tell how long any one man will live, but you can sayewith absolute certainty that the average age of any 1,000 men, age 35, will at- tain is 66.8 years, and, that on an average they will live 4 years longer than another 1,000 men who are 40 years old, In technical language this is termed “expectancy of life.” These®figures used by the “Big Four,” while [Saab inaccurate will serve to show that the use of Mortality Tables enables the prediction of death losses to a mathe- matical certainty. I Make More If each of these 1,000 men wanted $1,000 of insurance payable at death, |the premium for each (overlooking _ management expense for the moment) is that amount, which invested and compounded at the rate which it is assumed the investment will pay will aggregate $1,000. At the present time, these corporations assume that their investment. yield will be 8 or 3% %, Extravagant management expenses renders the cost of insurance so high that the defrauded policyholders can- not afford to carry it for any length of time. It'is assumed that the aver- age duration of weekly payment life insurance is less than three years. In this respect it is estimated that last year the “Big Four’ made over $50,000,000 in profits—profits which the present insurance laws do not com- pel these corporations to declare to their “mutual” policyholders. Needle Trade Defense The Progressive Bakers Club has. decided to work for the Bazaar and sible. As an immediate measure it was decided that the club should donate all the bread needed in the Restaurant, 7 Many of the members bought do! lar. certificates, 50 Bazaar: ticke Were taken and 25 defense co books were taken to be sold by members, 5 Letter From Workers. Dear Friends: f The Joint Executive Board of our. organization acted upon your letter of April 19th and voted to donate neckwear for your Bazaar on May 12th to 15th, and to have a booth at. which neckwear will be sold, droge rie letter us ir is if necessary, Fraternally yours, 2+ —Associated Silk Workers, whereas in their public reports it is much nearer 6%, $ erect Read The Daily Worker Every Day. y to help thé defense in every way pos- ©