The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SN OO EC A Enormous Salaries For| Se Who is Behind the Prosecution of the Militant Insurance Officials | Needle Trades Workers? Who Are Matthew Woll’s Fellow Conspirators? (Continued from Page One) Glancing down the Metropolitan | Life expenses one finds: 52 million dollars paid in commissions to agents, | nearly six million dollars in Home| Office salaries, $376,801.27 for lunch- | eons, then Home office salaries again | They Are Leaders of the National Civic Fed- eration! Woll is Acting President of the Labor Hating Cappelini Faces = i eedle Trade Defense | H i Rovoit of Mingrg | +----—--—--—->--—---——- 1 FONT Fought The Concerts At the Bazaar. Vogue Workers Collect. | “ . . For Arbitrar Act = be.the musical program, which|the Vogue Shirt Shop, 28 W. 28rd,| Ur es His Murder is being arranged by George Kouk-| Street made a change collection | lley. We were fortunate in getting|among themselves for the benefit of | aoa . - (By Federated Press) a total of 18 million dollars in all.| cicilion against Rinaldo Cappellini,| them being Inna Roubleff, Russian | buy shirts at the manufacturers’ price| BOSTON, May 10..(FP).—Vanzetti The cost of thrift is a great one in-|1..° Mussolini of «District 1 of the|Pianist-Composer, ‘Mischa Violin,|from the company. The result waS|ied the big Plymouth Cordage strike | Salaries paid to the high-pressure | otosday when the grievance com-|Emonts, Cellist, Flor Celeste Car-| fashional shirts now on the market.| forgotten nor forgiven. John Noble) | There is a United Front of the Speci I American Federation Penires wie rs silent rales de mittee of the Hudson Coal Co., repre-|bonell, Soprano Coloratura, Laura| The workers became so enthusiastic| of the exclusive Boston law firm of ,Of Labor Committee, headed by Vice President Woll, and the Na- offices sound still more interesting: | | t 11, 1927 One of the features of the Bazaar; One hundred and ten workers of | nearly seven million dollars making| «,, Sehiee aoe distinguished artists among) the defense, and used the money. to | re 2 SCRANTON, Pa. May 10.—Open;™many disting’ i , ‘geod | Spb . Civie Federation. deed. |United Mine Workers, broke forth| Famous Russian Violin Virtuoso, Jos,/a donation of two dozen of the most! in 1916, And his enemies have neither | |senting 22 local unions, appealed to| Newell, Harpist and Irma Dubova,|that they are making a new collec-| Loring, Coolidge and Noble has writ- Haley Fiske, $150,000; Fred H. Ecker, |the international ex $125,000; D. E. Waid, $113,000; E ward Duffield, $75,000; Louis Kamm, $100,000; George K. Gore, $40,000 Robert Lynn Cox, $38,000; Lee K. Frankel, $35,000; F. O. Ayres, $88,000, and so on down the line. These are the admitted expenses and salaries, what the actual expendi- tures are which are covered by actu- arial flimflam only a legislative in- vestigation will show. * . . Industrial life insurance, in princi- ple, is a good thing. ated at present, it is exorbitant in price, so harsh in its conditions that As it is oper-| utive board to| probe actions of the district president. | Mussolini Cappellini has suspended Stanley Dziengie! ki “without any | reason whatsoeve d without giv-| ing him a proper hearing, the com- |mittee charges. The resolution for- warded to Indianapolis reads: | “Whereas, President Cappellini had} charges preferred to the district ex-| | ecutive board against stanley Dzien-| gielewski, a member of Local Union} No. 1672, U. M, W. of A., without any} ason whatever, and | Whereas, district executive board suspended Stanley Dziengielewski| from United Mine Workers of Amer- | Soprano. | tion and by the opening day of the European Training. | Bazaar, they hope to have at least A word about the artists: Inna/another 8 dozen shirts in addition to Roubleff was born in London, Eng-|a half dozen shirts promised by the land of Russian Parents. At 6 years| firm. With a few exceptions all the of age she began her musical educa- | workers in the shop donated in this tion, and later continu@d her studies} collection. Just two weeks ago in Petrograd. She is a graduate of | twenty-eight of these same workers the Royal Conservatory and has re-| subscribed to the $100,000 Roll Call ceived the highest honors as a pianist- | Fund. composer. . * * Mischa Violin was born in Russia A Half Day’s Pay. and studied abroad. Mr. Violin is aj young artist who appeared as soloist| with the San Francisco Symphony | Orchestra. Mr. Violin is most cer-| tainly a violin virtuoso of rare ac- ceived the following resolution, to- gether with a check for $113.80. Whereas the International Official- dom formed a united front with the The Joint Defense Committee re-| ten Governor Fuller, urging him not | to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The cat comes out of the bag when it is recalled that Noble’s firm repre- sented the Plymouth Cordage Com- pany at the time of the big strike, This big corporation dominates the old Pilgrim town, It is popularly called the “Cordage Trust.” And never before the big strike had its plants been crippled by a labor walk-/ jout. For weeks the manufacture of |rope and binder twine was cut off at a time when prices were rising And Vanzetti’s eloquence and energy was constantly on the picket line. |tional Civie Federation, dominated by the most powerful capi- talists in the United States. Matthew Woil is the connecting link in the conspiracy. him in the Civic Federation are: ROBERT M. THOMPSON, 16 E. 43rd St. Director, American Ice Company. President and Director, Arizona and Swansia R. R. Co. President and Director, Southwest Metals Co, JEREMIAH W, JENKS, 13 Astor Place, N. Y. C. Chairman of the Board of Directors, Alexander Hamilton Institute, Director, American Motion Picture Corporation. Director, National Bank of Nicaragua. Director, Pacific Railways of Nicaragua. TALCOTT WILLIAMS, 40 Flatbush Ave., Bklyn. Director, Simplex Refrigerating Co. With only one pe fen eves OReEES) tf i ivi fair i i bab ral? duc ‘ocaceg P. E. CROWLEY, President, New York Central Lines, New York City. and the directorates of the “Big |i¢# without giving the man a fair and|complishments and has made for him-| bosses and : The company had to pay. Large Star ml ne » dD ss, New ¥ a stay Liesl rith Wall St proper hearing before the executive) self a reputation in all parts of the| Whereas they use guerillay the In-|wage increases followed the strike. Otto M. Eidlitz, Building Trades Employers Association, N. ¥. C. > ie Sake ax oan anti sie board, therefore be it world. } | dustrial Squad and all the black for-| Vanzetti has never been forgiven. For President and Director of Mare Eidlitz and Son, Inc., 4 E. 42nd St. te iets. eee hr Resolved, that we, the members of Professionals. ces to compel the workers to register | 18 weeks a watcher followed him. The The sr Batik for Savings in the city of N. Y. Men like Charles M. Schwab, Albert | General Grievance Committee of Hud-| Jos, Emonts is a cellist of no small/in the scab union, and plain-clothes “shadow” dogged his ado est isle ble sags H. Wiggin, Frederick H. Ecker and | 8°" Coal Company composed of twen-| ability and received first prize as a| Whereas through attacks of the| heels as he went about the town. He arector, Commonwea: ank, Henry Ollesheimer have no business | ty-two local unions, at a meeting held this date, protest. and condemn the Soloist. He is a graduate of the| Forward and the Schachtman-Mc- was blacklisted by the Cordage com- Director, Mutual Bank, on the directorate of a “mutual” life . r ve she : Belgium Conservatory and toured sev-|Grady Company, nine of our best pany and the smaller employers they | MARSHALL FIELD, Banker, N. Y. C. insurance company. These men are |9¢tion of the district executive board, eral European countries and gave| union members were thrown into jail,| controlled. And seeking livelihood and | President and Director of Marshall, Field, Glore, Ward and Co. Inc directors of the banks and railroads in |2"4_be it further concerts with tremendous success. | and |freedom he bought a push cart and/ 29 way Street, which the billions of dollars of “Big Four” funds are deposited and invest- ed. For instance the Chase National Bank is one of the depoistories of the Metropolitan Life Insuranee Company. Bankers Hover Around Four directors of the Chase Nation- | “Resolved, that we appeal tod in- ternational executive board to inves- |tigate Stanley Dziengielewski’s case immediately. The situation in Dis- trict No. 1 Is bad enough now and) |this action of district executive board| | will cause more friction and dissatis-| He is at present in New York andj, Whereas we know that the present recently signed up with the New York Symphony Orchestra, as a soloist. functioning for .the good and wel- Laura Newell is a harpist of rare| fare of the workers, we therefore ability. She was formerly Soloist; Resolve to express our confidence with the Cleveland Symphony Or-jand pledge our financial and moral chestra and is now Soloist with the! support to the present administration administration of the Joint Board is} al Bank are also directors of the Met- | igs sachet ee) maemabirahip in ropolitan. The Metropolitan always |* pena roth . Pilate ae oe sees to it that there is an average|, *° ? wig 0.000,000. L, Lewis, and be : The mere fact that the four mil- aad newspapers and United Mine ts which the | Workers’ Journal. lions of dollars in as “Big Four” control is in liquid form is sufficient reason for keeping | Rush More Marines to | Capital Theatre Symphony Orchestra.| of the Joint Board. Knowing that} Irma Dubova, a descendent of | Count Leo Tolstoi is a Dramatic So- |prano. Miss Dubova has appeared in | Concert here. She has a remarkable voice and was enthusiastically re-| ceived, only three weeks ago when she gave a recital at Aeolian Hall. . ° * |a large sum of money is required for the defense of our martyrs, we donate one half day’s pay for that purpose. We call upon other workers to follow (Signed) Workers of the 8S. & L. ‘Cloak Company. are eae) éur example. j | went peddling fish and eels from door to door in the Italian and Portuguese quarters of the town. But the company had not forgotten. When Vanzetti was tried for attempt- ed highway robbery before Judge Thayer at Plymouth in the summer of | 1920 one of the 12 men on the jury | was a foreman of the Plymouth Cord- age Co. named Nickerson. The fore- man was néver challenged by Van- zetti’s attorney. John Vahey. Vahey, since exposed by Vanzetti for his be- trayal of his client, is said by a The Director, Bank of Manhattan Co, Director, Chicago and Northwestern Railway Co, Director, Columbia Gas and Electric Co. Director, Marshall Field and Co., Chicago. The President and Director, Marshall Field and Co., 38 Wall Street Corporation, D. L. CEASE, Secretary, not listed Directory of Directors, Who’s Who. Ralph M. Easley, Chairman Executive Council. Elihu Root, Honorary President and on the executive committee on the part of the public. ¢ Office at 31 Nassau Street, N. Y. C.—Carnegie Corporations of N. Y. Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Elihu Reot, Jr., with Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland, 31 Nassau St. brother attorney to have been a stock- American Smelting & Refining Company, Director. holder in the Cordage Co. Schwab, Wiggin et al away from the ‘Put wn Nicar aris | Bazaar Opens Tomorrow. A Few More Booths. nes hinds aa ee vit Charge Trio Attack \Fire in Comus Hold trough. | Down Nicaraguans| ‘he Cioakmakers and Furriers De-| Belated requests for booths at the | too, Vanzetti says. Brown, he charges, ; i There is a law to this effect on ad |fense Bazaar, opens at the Star| Bazaar have been received, from the| knew that he was in town peddling | Queens Working Girl Now Under Control the New York Statute books. It would | be well for Superintendent of Insnr- ance James A. Beha to se2 that iaw is enforced. Guilty Silence and otk he ext, (Continued from Page One) | “Being ready as ever for concilia-| his | tion, I sent delegates. I learned, and was greatly surprised, that Colonel Stimson had notified my delegates r facts have been) and General Jose Moncada, general- se to date. The offi. |issimo of my army, that if we did not These Casino, 107th Street and Park Ave. tomorrow. We will have a collection | of fine merchandise that will have to be sold within a period of four days. This affair is featured by the great quantities of unbroken lots of mer- Cloakmakers Women’s. Council No. 2, Consumers League Bronx and the Furriers Women’s Council. Talking about booths, makers with 300 caps for the Spring and Summer promise to do a good the Cap-| fish on the day he was alleged by the prosecution to be at banditry. Had the Cordage-superintendent given his testimony Vanzetti would have been freed. Three men were under arrest at the Glendale police station in Queens yesterday on serious charges made by a fifteen year old girt who said they kidnapped her last night in an auto- | mobile and attacked her in the Mount | The fire in the hold of the southern Pacific steamship Comus, off the Florida coast is under control and the vessel is safe, according to a radiogram recéived here yesterday. < is. sold. There will be aj job. These caps were all made of TCL ” se . 9 ials of the “Big Four” have deemed | accept the continuation of Diaz in paint phos pred Gg val Tins | goode donated a friends of the de- LT.U. Officials Are | Judith cemetery, in a deserted sec- eal git) 4 Bt ot i oa i vie to sie nt ho’ wnat the /thd presidency, American marines | of men’s suits and overcoats, a thou-|fense and do not cost a penny for Out Building Fences tion of Ridgewood, Queens. ‘Detec-} When the liner baru t. Augustine, stora will soo low over. would disarm our soldiers, | cand ladies’ cloaks, suits and dresses,|labor or material, tives say the men confessed. The Comus, which sailed from New Mvery reader can make this cam- “I cannot understand why the g0v-|a thousand lediee’ pocket books poe | * + . SCRANTON, Pa. May 10—Reac-| The girl said she was returning} York last Saturday with passengers aign still more effective by seeing | ernment of the ‘United States, heed- bags, brief cases and. other leather Somé Letter. fals buzzed| home from a paper box factory in|and freight, was due to reach New that a copy of the paper finds its way | less of publie opinion on this contin- into the hands of a swindled “Big/ ent and in the United States, should Four” policyholder. persist in supporting the Diaz presi- It is well to remember that the | dency even at the risk of shedding rse is the vital organ of the “Big| blood of the American soldiers, when the Nicaraguan people have never of- | fended them nor threatened the basic interests of that great nation, whose | power and prestige, based on justice debe cheehe cece ete deate det and impartiality, wovld greatly en- courage the fraternal solidarity of | Put Some this continent.” * * * | Will Die Honorably. Power In MEXICO CITY, May 10—A flat| - denial that the Nicaraguan liberals | Th t K k! |had accepted the terms that Henry | a i. . Stimson, Coolidge’s representative, _— was attempting to impose upon them, = was issued yesterday by Dr. Pedro| Jose Zepeda, Sacasa’s minister to| Mexico. We are going to struggle honor- | ably until we die,” he said. He brand- ed the action of the United States as | a violation of the most “rudimentary precepts of international law.” a ks NICARAGUAN LABOR LOSES WASHINGTON, May 10.—Nica- raguan labor loses far more than the | upper-class leaders of the Liberal par- | ty can lose, in the surrender forced upon the Liberals at the points of ten | thousand modern guns by the. Wash- Don't waste your energy in idle protest. When reaction attacks The |tion of George Koukley have been By LAURENCE TODD, | Sacco and Vanzetti, he said, had goods, in addition to great. quantities | Friends of the Joint Defense; of shirts, shirtwaists, hoisery, under-| I am a member of Local 85, Ledger wear, jewelry, novelties, neckwear,| No. 5193. white goods, ete., ete. send it to you. If I could I would The Committee in charge will have | Surely send more. Tomorrow I go to a Brand New Chevrolet Touring Car! the synagogue to make a memorial that must be sold at the Bazaar. |for Sigman and Company with the Three fine concerts under the direc-|curse upon him that he suffer like my wife. arranged for Thursday, Friday and (Signed) M. Kovalsky. Sunday evenings. There will also be | dancing every night with a grand ball for Saturday. A. Garfied Hays Asks! Thayer to Quit ‘ % | Many Towns in 5 States; ‘| Kills Over Two Hundred CHICAGO, May 10,—Nearly 200 persons met death in five storm- stricken states yesterday and early today, according to incomplete re- ports which showed the following death totals: Missouri, 78; Arkan- sas, 62; Texas, 85; Kansas, 10; Tl- linois, 8, The property damage will run into millions of dollars. WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI (Continued from Page One) until some action has been taken to impeach Judge Thayer.” He said that when he goes to radi- cal meetings, he reads signs saying “Saeco And Vanzetti Must Not Die,” but that in conservative groups, he hears people say “Saeco and Vanzetti Must Die. They have been convicted by a jury, and a jury never makes a mistake.” perhaps not quite conformed with the best Massachusetts traditions; that | Sacco had gone so far as to say that | Harvard was not a college for poor |men’s sons, and quoted Vanzetti who stitutions are at stake.” He said he had just returned from I borrowed a dollar and | Great Tornado Destroys | ti international offic’ | er sie § the Rustica Ph and | the eastern district of Brooklyn where Delaware Typographical Union con- Orleans next Friday. Another ship is standing by the Comus. |she was employed. ference held here this week. Local |newspaper officials were featured) guests, | Carroll Asks Pardon From Hospital “Jail” A petition for clemency for Earl! Carroll, New York theatrical pro-| ducer, who was sentenced to a year) and a day in Atlanta prison for per- jury, has been received at the de- | partment of justice, but has not been | called to the attention of President | Coolidge. Carroll is still in a Green-| ville, S. C. hospital. ‘Darrow Joins Body To Fight Lynching Clarence Darrow has joined the ex-| |ecutive board of the National Asso- | | ciation for the Advancement of Col- | \ored People, an organization fighting lynching and working for political and | READ THE DAILY WORKER EVERY DAY Guard the Freedom of the Press The attempt of certain societies, with the help of the social equality for Negroes. The Association has wired Governor Martineau of Arkansas demanding stern repression of lawless outbreaks against Negroes in the state. A col- ored man, the week before, had been government, to suppress The DAILY WORKER, is nothing more or less than an attempt to interfere with the fundamen- tal right of the freedom of the press. It is an endeavor to stifle the most militant voice of opposition to the adventures of American imperialism in China and Nicaragua. It seeks DAILY WORKER and |; siaiaeoue so ea, |Said he had worked with men of all| Boston where there was a rumor that | burned to death in the streets of Little, to crush the organ of the struggle against the capitalist of- Weer wont to Hento | ie a ss et al abi nationalities, and did not want to kill| Gov. Fuller had already asked an im~ Rock. fensive which is seeking to destroy the labor movement. The refuse to recognize the Diaz Conser- | vative regime in, Managua—Diaz is | kept in office by American guns un- til after the election promised for 1928, and meanwhile Diaz will not tolerate the trade unions that have been the backbone of the revolt in strike your blows where they will be most ef- fective. Ki n With a Sub. | anyone, that he loved them all. Different in 1920. When this statement was applauded | by the students, Hays retorted, “Yes, | you applaud now, I don’t know how | many would have applauded in 1920.” | Hays concluded, “Sacco and Vanzetti partial committee to look into the case, but suggested that the audience “send a very respectful request to the governor” asking him to appoint a commission. The resolution unanimously adopted, follows: Every subscription is a | have done more for justice while they “1.—-That we address to His Ex- | the industrial centers. No pledge of | neutrality toward -workingclass ac- | tivities is made by Henry L. Stim- son, agent of Secretary Kellogg in the blows that are dealt rence eet heoiie en of the country. | r. T..S, Vaca, Liberal spokesman > The DAILY [ Washington, bitterly comments striking answer to the enemies of Labor—every sub is more strength to upon the Stimson performance. |possible to Gov. Fuller. have been in jail, than any two men out of jail during that time.” Robert Dunn, representing the Civil Liberties Union, called the Sacco-Vanzetti case “a ghastly frame-up,” and urged the students to get as many letters as . Prof. Morris R. Cohen of the Phil- cellency, Governor Fuller our peti- tion that in the interest of faith and confidence in American government, he appoint a commission to re-exam- ine the entire case of Sacco and Van- zetti. “2.That we express to His Ex- Women Decide Kelly's Fate. LOS ANGELES, May 10.—The fate of Paul Kelly, screen juvenile on trial for the murder of Ray Ray- mond, musical comedy star, will be decided by nine women and three men, selected for the jury box today in Judge Charles S. Burnell’s Su- perior court. land of Mussolini could boast of no more brazen act of autoc- racy, than this which is being carried on under the smoke screen of American democracy. The workers will not permit their organ to be silenced. Against the forces of reaction we will mobilize the forces of labor, the forces of progress. To allow the employers to suc- ceed in plans against The DAILY WORKER, means to leave the workers defenseless before the attacks of the bosses. The attack of the combined forces of reaction against The DAILY WORKER, and against the freedom of the press must be met with the combined forces ; is j ASG eellency our belief that the public re- Don’t only kick... . | Wall Strest bankers, investing in| ceoohy Department of City Cbllege,| port of auch a commission will be a of the labor movement mobilized Kick in! | Oneeetone cote ated the | #Pok¢ of the intense antipathy to Sae- | vital service to the jadicial and gov- for the protection of its MOSt fmmwsutsicwnnnsmmmems SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | Chamorro-Diar military adventure °f,and Vanaettl by Judge Thaser and | ernmental oatitations of Ameria” As @ Doctor |_ mititant organ, and tye protec- | DAILY WORKER Outside of In New York which has cost thousands of lives in | other conserva ge sornpand “phd Prof, William P. Montague, of the S It tion of the right to freedom of id ee Street, pare See Per Fr. $8.00 Nicaragua in the past two years, for | er at saison tate Pom pion gest Ma of Columbia, CS expression generally. The fote- | New York, N, Y, Hd id Six Mo, 4.50 various economic. reasons, Chief of . : most advantage of the ction- Inel is my contri 3 uo.”.. 00 3 Mo... 2.50 | these wan the threat that labor or-|With the famous Dreyfus cate in AE By B. LIBER ge rea osed is my France, where Dreyfus was convicted, aries is their ability to secure ganizations might come to play as! 1i0 a he could not ibly hat Railway Carmen Want Justice. dail Sead art aged The DAILY WORKER jthey have in Mexico, Nicaraguan | (> tH urged the students to have in- |20od of Railway Carmen of América, 18 _ interesting . m or a st and better workers‘ might preach high wages, | short hours, national self-improve- | jment and anti-imperialism to the workers of the rest of Central and. 38 First Street New York Enclosed $ on, aud te: South America, grein e7 eC Py A ta, grein senor pa uy A britic waya! | bee payee organizations | PVCFY e+ sssseeeeeeeeeeceenees |and marines have trampled this bud- nion Theological Seminary, Wl | must on e job—part: s BN NE A Rey AN |ding labor agitation into the tropic | spoke of the war hysteria when Sacco | !*#in Service Men Press Wage Case. Fe ls Aa A | units ete tuitions: Chloe, Neto 8 . atre | mud, and Vanzetti were arrested, and said,| CHICAGO (FP), May 10,—Winding apr thas Siamese |. seve smbine Into ome molid | ABBRHE sssresseseearersenees te | Pict SIAN “[ was convinced those men were not |p the presentation of witnesses in ia able to observe inn ves must combine into one sol bi intl | Miners Hurt in Blast being given any fairness whatsoever. | their arbitration plea for a $1 a day pi Ue ae hag ttaeve united front for the defense of [WY -s-sscrseraeeereeenennes MAL: 4-09 en's | POTTSVILLE, Pa. (FP).—Eight But I am so worried about Sacco andj increase from the western railroads, rend.” The DAILY WORKER and the / state ............ce.ceceeeee ‘anthrasite miners were severely | Vanzetti as I am about our American | the Order of Railway Conductors and $1.50 Postpaid. defense of the rights of labor. Atiich chelk ot ‘Gee. burned in a gas explosion in a Read- | institutions. the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- i d money Coal & Iron Co. mine. Three are) “When I look at the case, I pray |men are now ready to submit a mass |The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO, ! PRAEEEE EEE ESS capesied to &e. | | telleetual integrity and “not let others do their thinking for them.” Demécracy at Stake. Lodge 974, has adopted a resolution requesting the governor of Massachu- setts to intervene and give justice to Sacco and Vanzetti. for the peope. » Our deriootatic imeuf statistical data in their behalf. new volume is the kind of a book that can be recommend- ed to every worker. 33 First St, New York. NF DAILY WORKER and for the feteaee of our paper. I will pay t meet this situation by immedi- ately raising money for the de- | fense of The DAILY WORKER. samé amount regularly | dollars .... cents 10 the } i * y