The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1927, Page 2

~*~ Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927 ~ (Continued from Page One) claims. The rest of the policies are losses in one form or another to the tens of millions of policyholde: lapse their contracts eve’ “Save Your Old Age The six million policies which ter- minated last year on the books of the “Big Four” were distributed as fol- lows: rs who Deaths . M Surrender Lapse At this point reader t “Big Fo some of the ertising literature and read the uring promises contained therein. ve for Your Old Age’ “Are the Wife and Kiddies Protected.” “Are You Mak Sunset D: Read the a policy in the all of your ee beat the system, save ar Ford or Rockefell ng Provision for Your other de it. Then tak mination f what chance ing your pi tiillion ter t the nd see ter- of ated policies nearly Out Chaplain Bars Workers’ Books From Leavenworth million are total loss lapses. These big-hearted companies adver- tise the fact that they pe and endowments in full- 1 claims when they m of it happeni: ment policy does raature money | Tn view And when an endow- you get your without interest. he fact that weekly pay- Jo not have a cash re- e until they have been nd, as most of before they have , all money been depe by the erst- while policyholder is irretrievably lost. Conservatively estimated the “Big Four” made ars la me, What happens to this mon ) Who Gets It? e policie 1 in foree three y pwards of fifty million year on lapsed poli These companies are so led mu- all money ack to the poli written. by uperinten- ord is men- y made on endent never king about it. reports for nee not the me and the Superint thinks of ask ie INSURANCE COMPANIES ROB = | In the face of these s the kings of the “Big Four” about t is an enormous joke. But nothing to laugh about. Needle Trade Defense Bazaar—Bazaar—Bazaar! Only a couple of days left!—and But your chances are 10 to 1! Three books mailed by The Daily Worker Publishing Company to the “New Era,” organ of the prisoners at Leavenworth, Kansas, have been returned marked “dis- approved.” The notice of “disapproval” no’ we must have carpenters, elec- ans and sign painters or we will be in trouble. This means you, we need you without fail. ° * *. The Straw Hat Season. Bald men don’t need hats of course. comes from the chaplain’s office and is signed by the prison’s chap- lain, James W. Reed. The books returned are “The Awakening of China,” by James Dolsen; “The Government as Strike Breaker,” by Jay Lovestone and “Elements of Political Education,” compiled by Bukharin. Copies of the “I Confess” and Coolidge’s speeches are allowed in the prison. Wave Lengths Given. WASHINGTON, May 9.—Sixty new temporary broadcasting permits were issued today by the Federal Radio All others can get their new summer hats at the Bazaar at half price. Leave it to the Joint Defense Com- i mittee. Millinery will be combined with the | Dress Department in the rear balcony |so the ladies‘can have no complaint that too much attention is being paid to the men, ; * . ° A Clothing Store. | Nothing less! |the gentle Mr, Beckerman’s Amalga- mated will probably make the best the Bazaar, Besides the complete line of the G. G, G. clothes, obtained The workers from! | showing of any individual group at} commission. This list practically eom- | by them, there will he a great deal of | clothes made by individuals. All suits | and topcoats will be altered to fit, right at the Bazaar, where a complete | the commission’s temporary up, it was learned. Of- said that within a few weeks location of semi-perma- pletes dio set nent lengths would be an-| tailoring outfit including a machine} nounced: F and pressing table will be installed. . . * Boy Victim of Shotgun. « A Few More Booths, j The Bath Beach Workers Club and Women’s Council No. 10, have applied for a booth. Two photographers Accidentaily shot by a rifle in the hands of his high-school chum, James Steel Helmet Parade in Berlin Shows Impotence; Dawes Plan Still Rules BERLIN, May 9.—The “Steel Helmet” demonstration of young nationalists continued today in the environs of Berlin on the heels of a warning sounded by Foreign Min- ister Stresemann that his policy of reconciliation with the allies and the Dawes Plan must go on. At the same time Count West- arp, leader of the nationalists, in a speech at Rostock, declared: “The German nationalists will continue to work for the restoration of the monarchy.” The net results of the ‘ me demonstration according to the police was six seriously in- jured, forty slightly injured, and 1,000 arrested, most of these hav- ing been released already. Prince Eitel Friedrich, Prince August Wil- helm and Prince Oscar today marched with the “Steel Helmets” at P a ‘Steel Hel- Flood Spreads Over State; Bankers Gain (Continued from Page Ona) interests will set up rehabilitation cor- porations through which the resources | federal intermediate credit system will be made available to them. A survey preliminary to es- tablishment of similar machinery in Louisiana was ready in the office of | State Relief Dictator John M, Parker |today as secretary Hoover arrived aboard the river steamtr Control. It's Business. | The government could have given money outright, but Coolidge “econ- }omy” policy, which permits extra- ordinary expenditures merely for of the road. | provided by the government will per- administration. Danger Grows. In the extreme northwestern quar- | ter of the state the Arkansas over- flow is still rising in Morehouse and Ouachita Parishes, with Monroe, the/ sixth city of the state, defending he levees as never before in history. | Emergency calls for diking materials | were sent ta Western Louisiana last | night as the waters reached th: | danger mark on the raiiroad embank-| ments which form the protecting wall | around the eastern edge of the city. | Phone reports to State Relief Head- | quarters here today were that armies | of men worked in endless chain for-| mation throughout the night piling | OPENS NEW MEXICAN REGION | Completion of the Salsipuedes viaduct, Mexico, over Salsipuedes (Pass-If-You-Can) Canyon, is the last link in a new 103-mile stretch of railroad linking central Mexico with the rich west coast of Mexico, The bridge is 680 feet long and 240 feet high. Cost of the bridge and railroad was $14,500,000. COOLIDGE CELEBRATES THIRD TERM CHANCES BY | BOASTING OF STRONG ARM POLICY IN NICARAGUA WASHINGTON, May 9. (FP).— Out of the White House, still ringing with the jolly report by National |know that Butler had made a most | satisfactory report. | However, Congress has still to meet Chairman Butler that the Western) jn December, and the Smith and Vare Prairies are afire with enthusiasm for! scandals have still to be explored, and| Coolidge, comes a new doctrine of! these two senators-elect, or senators- | international conduct. It is so simple yon-elect as the Senate may deter-|_ that it ought to apply equally well to| mine, are ‘bringing pressure on Cool-| American politics, such as the trouble-|jdge to stand by them. If he side-| some incidents of Mr. Frank Smith in| steps, as he has sidestepped Sinclair o 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- | eration! : || Woll is Acting President of the Labor Hating } ‘ ; | There is a United Front of the Special American Federation jot Labor Committee, headed by Vicé 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: GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, President and Trustee of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York, 130 BE. 15th St. | Director of Astoria Light, Heat and Power Co. | The Director, All Electric Illuminating Co. | Director, Bronx Gas and Blectrie Co. Director, Brush Electric Ilumjnating Co. of N, Y. Director, Central Union Gas Co. Director, Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Co. Director, East River Gas Co. of Long Island City. Director, Municipal Lighting Co. Director, National Coke and Coal Co. Director, National Surety Co. Director, New Amsterdam Gas Co. Vice Pres,, New England Conservatory of Music (also trustee). Director, New York and Queens Electrical Light and Rower Co. Director, New York and Queens Gas Co. Director, New York Edison Co. } Direetor, Northern Union Gas Company. | Director, New York Life Insurance Co. Director, Northern Westchester Lighting Co. Director, Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Co. | Director, Standard Gas Light Co. Director, United Electrie Light and Power Co. Director, Westchester Lighting Co. ADDITIONAL MAY DAY GREETINGS | | | | | MacDonald, 18 years old, is dead at have ,donated their services to the Peekskill today. <a Na in | Bazaar already. The Bronx Workers ‘ | Club, the West Bronx Workers Club LEEEEREEE EELS or ‘the Bronx Youth Workers Club |have combined on one booth. There | will be a drug store, but no hospital sand bags against the ominous tide. | | Large sections of the threatened sec- | | tor behind the railroad embankments | have been evacuated. Monroe’s popu- | lation is more than 17,000. A week ago the locality was considered so secure that a refugee camp was es- Illinois, and Mr. Bill Vare in Pennsyl- vania. The “Hands Up” Policy This doctrine was stated in con- Nicaraguan Liberals. It was: The mit the local banks a good percen-| method by which we get peace in Nic-| |tage as profit, and this is a business| aragua is not important; the thing) probe the mystery of the documents that the public should keep its eye on is the fact that we get what we go after, which is pacification. That is to say, Coolidge sent Stim- son to Nicaragua to tell the Liberals that the United States government \had decided to conquer them by gun- | fire unless they surrendered immedi- ately. The method did not matter to the Coolidge administration; the Latin American republics might protest if they dared, but probably they would not dare. Washington demanded in- stant surrender, regardless of inter- national law and regardless of the American constitution, which entrusts the war-making powereo Congress. Celebrating Good News The White House was feeling good enough to confess its strong-arm pol- icy, because there had been a happy political breakfast. Butler had been called upon to tell the guests, includ- ing Sen, Borah and Speaker Nick Longworth, how Butler had found the party clamoring for four more years fand Doheny in recent months, they} may embarrass him in the convention. | | There is where the beauty of the “no | squeamishness” rule for Nicaragua naval and military purposes, is in the | nection with the Stimon letter to Gen. | comes in, if the administration decides Also, the loaning of the money | Moncada, military commander of the/|to look upon Smith and Vare as mar- |tyrs to Democratic intrigue. Mayle Congress, next winter, will which came into the hands of Presi- dent Calles of Mexico, and which have {never been explained by all the press | yarns printed as to their probable con- | tents, If Congress does get the facts, it will perhaps answer these questions, |now current in “high circles”; Was | of Secretary Hoover, invited to inspect 200 documents in possession of the Mexican government? Did these doc- juments include files of letters from |Ambassador Sheffield to Secretary | Kellogg, and from Kellogg to Shef- |field? Did Kellogg, writing to Shef- jfield, bitterly complain against | Hoover, whose commercial agents in | Mexico- were sending to Hoover a | great deal of information on Mexican conditions? Did Hoover get copies of these letters? Did he take them to Kellogg and demand an explanation? | Did Kellogg explain that the ugly re- marks on Hoover were interpolated in the letters by forgers? Did such an GREETINGS from A DAILY WORKER Reader.., George Barr Baker, confidential agent | MAY DAY GREETINGS from Street Nucleus 31 CHICAGO, ILL. — tablished within the city limits. “h Vee of Coolidge, when Butler went into the | interview between the rival cabinet of- Put Some’ ([""* ‘ bp * * id West to inquire. ficers take place only a few days be- ES letter From 4 5 nar ee Coolidge Again Refuses. *| Longworth grinned and passed his|fore Coolidge told the world that Power In Eater rs riends o! e Relief Com-| yw ASHINGTON, May 9.—Senator | plate for some more sausage, while|Hoover would not be made secretary I am sending my present to the! | Bazaar for the defense of the union. | | Although I am a prisoner’s wife, I am | not in prison as yet. I am trying my/| best and using my freedom in help-| ing my brothers in prison, who were/| sent there by Sigman and hjs clique. | Hoping you will make a big success, I remain, Mrs. H. Rosenblum (Wife of | | Harry Rosenblum, Cutter Local 10, Ledger No. 9423.) This letter was accompanied by a/ | beautiful hand embroidered bungalow | apron which will be auctioned off at| the Bazaar. That Kick! | . | Bazaar Conference Tonight. | | All workers for the Bazaar will| meet tonight at 7:30 P. M. at Local 16 W. 21st Street. Final plans | will be made, committees assigned and | the work in general will be explained in detail. There will be a special conference of workers who will be in the res- taurant. The restaurant can return big profits if propertly managed and this depends on the loyalty and work |of the volunteers who will be in the | restaurant, The best workers are | needed for this job and these are re- quested to be present tonight without fail, Mass Murder Expert’s Super-Torpedo Dream Is Halted by Death’s Hand Death ended the efforts of Hus- son Maxim, famous expert on mass murder, to double the deadliness of the naval torpedo, While the body. lay sesterday at Lake Hopatcong, the plans for suhstituting nitro- glye fcr super-heated stuam as a motive power for torpedoes were definitely delayed until Maxim's suecessor gets on the job. A. foe of pacifists to the end, the inventor contended that. the United States, committed to imperialism, was bound to clash head-on with other first-rate powers, and should be in a position to conquer. His efforts were devoted toward mak- ing the Yankee brand of imperial- ism invincible. Maxim’s most famous discovery || was smokeless powder. Don’t waste your energy in idle protest. When reaction attacks The DAILY WORKER and you want to fight — strike your blows where they will be most ef- Every subscription is a striking answer to the enemies of Labor—every sub is more strength to the blows that are dealt every day by The DAILY WORKER. Don't only kick. Kick in! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: of ek Outside New ¥ In New York Per Yr. $8.00 Six Mo, 4,50 & Mo. ., 2.50 The DAILY WORKER 33 First Street New York Enclosed mos, sub to: PEER EEE EEE EE ‘, eal | President Coolidge saw no need for ‘Unknown Man Found Reed (D) of Missouri today urged all | Borah laid away a second cup of cof- democratic and a few liberal senators | fee. Neither of these possible candi- to join with him in demanding that} dates disputed Butler’s romance. President Coolidge call a special ses- | Someone said afterward that the sion of congress to administer flood | breakfast party renominated Cal by relief. |acclamation, Later in the day the Despite Reed's insistence, the White House let the hungry press White House reiterated today that ;- — \of state, if Kellogg should resign? Interesting questions, which Baker, | Hoover and Kellogg could answer. By answering, they would throw much light on a dark diplomatic seeret which has led to endless whispering in Wash- | ington, an extra session at this time. PASSAIC STRIKE FILM IS Murdered in Queens) CHICAGO (FP).—tIt took over a |producers who, had been engaged to make the famous Passaic strike film, realized that the textile workers shot wound in the left side of the | W@nted pictures of actual happenings head, at 126th Place and the Conduit |*"¢ not studio pipe dreams. When Blvd., South Ozone Park, Queens. Po-| this finally penetrated, the profes- lice and medica] examiner Howard W, |%inal producers quit and the strike organization began grinding its own | movie camera and piecing together its The body of an unidentified man about 24 years old was found lying face downward today, with a gun- jmonth before the professional movie| TRULY LABOR PRODUCT; PROFESSIONAL MOVIE PEOPLE COULDNT DO IT jfrom the strikers and photographed the real happenings. It was danger- ous but it was genuine adventure, not the warmed-over thrills carefully dolled up by Hollywood methods. Romance was there too, in the hard fight of the striker families, young and old, parents and children, against the mill owners and their allies in the government, police and church. “The result is the remarkable film | BULGARIA The following is an example of the conditions in the Bwlgarian prisons: In the district prison of Philippopel, which contains 1500 political prison- ers, the following case# are worth mentioning: Sentenced to death—22 prisoners, among them a women. Sentenced to 15 years hard labor—- the peasant Stajke Zerwoski because he had hidden some time from the police which burnt down his house. The teacher Walko Nozarew, 50 years jold, because he had hidden from the | police for 10 days during the mass | arrests; a family (mother and daugh- |ter, the father received imprison- | ment for life) because they had hid- | den their son or brother respectively, ‘from the police; the old women, Rada | Kementscheschiawa, 68 years old, be- |cause she had hidden her son from | the police (her son was sentenced to |death). As a consequence of the moral and physical tortures through which she passed the old woman be- came insane, but had to remain in prison, Probe Forest Fires. Search for the mysterious firebug | whose depradations have left a $300,- | 000 trail of damage from Purchase to | Mt, Kiseo, was concentrated at Tar- ‘rytown yesterday, following the re- port of four fires over the week-end, all of which were found to be of in- |own continuity, The result is a labor| that is still drawing large audiences 'film that has fascinated thousands of! in many places. Numbers of workers |worker audiences in big cities and havo seen it several times. It is now little towns all over the United States |the principal source of relief funds as well as in forsign lands, | Alfred Wagenknecht, the Passaic \velief director, stopping in Chicago for a few days, recounted the history of the film. epochal Passaic textile strike,” he said, “We wanted it not only as a vital (bit of American labor history but to show the countless friends of the Passaic strikers all over the land terrific police violence and other ob- |stacles the workers had to face and also how effectively and carefully the generous relief contributions were put |to use, “So we engaged two professional producers from Boston for the job. | They knew what we wanted but they hung around in their studio, planning fake scenes and talking of putting pretty girl strikers into the fore- ground of the film with lots of ro- mance for the American movie public. We protested and told them to go to the picket lines and relief kitchens. But they did not like the idea of hav- ing their heads battered by police clubs for taking pictures-of the law- less cossacks doing their stuff, and #0 we had to get rid of them. Workers Got True Picture. “We then bought a movie camera and # projector, got together # staff “We wanted a photo- ; graphie record in movie form of the) whet the struggle was about, what, |for the Passaic workers, who have ‘settled their strike with most of the \tnills but are now disastrously hit by unemployment.” The film headquarters are in the office of the Passaic local of the United Textile Workers, 784 Main Ave., Passaic, N. J. The Chicago of- fice, where bookings are also made, is managed by Natalie Rogers, Room | 48, 106 N, LaSalle St. Thousand Acre Hunting Preserve Menaced When Woods Fire Creeps Near The shooting lodge of Edward F. Hutton, millionaire New York stock broker, five miles south of River- head, L. 1, was endangered by a woods fire yesterday. A hose com- pany front the Riverhead depart- ment extinguished the fire before it reached the buildings. The lodge is located on a 1,000 acre hunting preserve at Red Creek. The district attorney of Suffolk county has instituted an investiga- tion of a fire Saturday night at the duck farm of Alexander B, Soyars. | Read The Daily Worker Every Day| § THE FIRST OF MAY I , s the Appropriate Day h) for Jewish Workers to Begin. Reading the JEWISH DAILY FREIHEIT The only militant Jewish Labor Paper in America. ee | | from an Oppressed Worker -E. Michalowich. For first hand information on the Labor Movement in Amer- ica and the world over—read the Freiheit daily. Pn nn ne ewes. DEFENSE BAZAAR NEWS Great preparations are being made for the Defense Bazaar to be held in the Star Casino, May 12-13-14-15, The Bazaar must be given attention by all workers’ organizations, indi- viduals and storekeepers. The names of new organizations that have decided to participate in the Bazaar are reaching the office daily while packages are constantly being received from friends. Not only is the work being done in New York, but the Bazaar is attracting attention in all parts of the country as well as Canada, from where articles have already been received. Thanks to the devoted work of large groups of workers, it will be possible to sell all sorts of merchan- dize at half price. Vegetarian Club Restaurant. A meeting of the Vegetarian Club will be held next Tuesday, 81 FE. 110th Street. Arrangements will be made to organize a vegetarian restaurant at the Bazaar. The meeting will be opened with a lecture on the relation of vegetarianism to the class struggle. hihi wary Housewives to Help, The United Council of Workingclass Housewives has issued an appeal to all workingclass women to join the Women’s Defense battalion for the purpose of making articles and col- lecting articles for the Bazaar. For a thorough understanding of the outstanding political events—read the Freiheit daily, For detailed reports of the Communist Movement in ev- ery country of the world— read the Freiheit daily, OO a yD For enlightened. reports on the only government of workers 7, hogy ints, the ihr of a Soviet Republics— read the Freiheit daily. For a better understanding of the political machinations of the American plutocracy. read the Freiheit daily. For an intelligent compreh sion of the powerful left wii movement in Unions the world over—read the Freiheit daily. A staff of correspondents in all large centers of Europe. Read the Freiheit * —Read it daily. 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