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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-18
CITY ADVERTISEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

CITY ADVERTISEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
OFFICE OF THE BOARD
TO w lPSpp ~ M%v IND Sa6N NsE le 1925.
Notice is. hereby, given by, the Board Of
Public Works OF the City of Indianapolis
Indiana. that on the 18th day OF May,
showing the A pFi4s fscie asssssments for
the following described public improve.
ment as authorized by the Improvement
Imppoyement Resolution No. 1874.
YANDES ST.
From the north curb line of Fifteenth
TO south property line Of Sixteenth 81
BY grading and paving the walks with
cement paSSed next to the enr9 I'M Inc a 10
to a uniform width of i21s feet,
All to be as shown on plan and as speci-
Persons interested in or affected by said
notified that the Board of Public Works OF
said city has fixed Wednesday, May ~
1925. 2 D. m, as a date upon wnlcn re-
monstrances will Nbe received. or heard
az ainst the amount assessed against each
piece Of property described in, said roll,
and win determine the question as to
been or will be benefited in the amounts
named on said roll or in a greater or less
sum than that named on said roll,
facie assessments, with the names of own
to be assessed. is on file and may oe seen
at the office of the Board of Public Works
u S"'u '''' CHARLES +. COFFIN.
w. H. FREEMAN.
M j. SPENCER.
Board of Public Works City of Indian
NAY is and 25. 1928.
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Produce Markets

Fresh Eggs Oobbing. general run de-
livered in Indianapolis dozen. loss on
27@Ssc: Poultry buying prtcesl-HaeGnHs'
lac: ducks. fSS$14sSS; geese; AZ 14 e;
a 2Ac; squads. $3.50 dozen. Butterfat-
Local jobbers repaying, 46@4Ic 10. Tor
butterfat: creamery butter twholesa!e SELF
ing prices), 49951c. Packing stock but
ter. 1oc.
CHICAGO. May .-Butter-:Receipts.
rsts. Ssh koss scon 01ns % g a5S:
i hsss5fe a I'll c. cheese@Twins 52x G;
SaFs' fowls: $gsise; daeisssa poo geese sss
$S @lSe; Potat9es-iR.escsiDtss 5 5ns7 eeT g
M MlsSGRsnn and nSun %iocsnsia round Whites
S11O@1 .25; Alabama and Louisiana Tn
amphs. $40 a 3 30; Louisiana Burbanks.
s2S5: Florida No. 1, S7Q7.15.
FO S1iEgaE 81 2se L NS and SS stock
2ssSs 16SrToileFS. A @SVe; iilht 6rosiers: 80
tubs. As u a 40 fsc; extra ,firsts. 4$h g
"a 2bc. Eggs-Northern Ohio extras.
34jbo; extra hrsts. 33lc; Ohio frsts,
SO y c: western frsts. .32c. Potatoes-==Ney
York. So a 2. 80; Florida. new Rose No; /.
S650G6.75 a barrel; Louisiana and Ala
bama. 1925 a $50 per 100-pound sack.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-18

1000 Citizens st. Railway 5s at. SO
$1,000 Citizens st. Railway 5s at. 80. 81 u
81 shares T. II. /. & e. com at. -. IL
20 shares Belt r. n. com at. ...... "a
81 900 Liberty Loan End 4 4 8 at. .101.24
70 shares Indianapolis g.. BY. at. IN
10 shares Indianapolis st. Ry. at. ;. 40
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-18
Statement of Condition OF the
Mutual Benefit Health and
Accident Association

Accident Association
Omaha Nebr.
Seventeenth and Douglas SITS.
On the 31st day OF December. 1924
H. s. WELLER. President.
G. H. CRAMER. Secretary.
Assessment Company
NET ASSETS OF COMPANY
Cash in banks ION interest
and not on interest) .....$ 79.91494
Real estate unincumbered.. 24,so1 10
Bonds and stocks owned
(market value) ........ 359. 272 A
Mortgage loans on real estate
free from any prior incum-
brance) .........,...... 213,575.OO
Accrued securities Interest
and rents. etc. ......... 16,4S5.04
Premiums and accounts due
and In process of collection 11.17S.45
Total net assets ........$ 7O5. 2s7 .Oe
LIABILITIES
Bills and accounts unpaid. $50. 6s,537 30
Losses unadjusted and In sus-
pense ............... 1852, e2e so
Other liabilities OF the conf
pany 1905 SO
Total liabilities ..........$ 43o.249 .S5
State of Indiana. Office of Commissioner
Of Insurance
l. the undersigned. Commissioner of In
surance of Indiana. hereby certify that the
above Is correct copy OF the statement
of condition OF the above mentioned COM
pany on the 31st day of December 1924,
as shown by the original statement. and
that the said original statement Is now
on file in this office
In testimony whereof. hereunto sub
scribe my name and afix my official seal
(SEAL) this 9th day OF April. 1925.
IT 8. McMTJRRAv. JR.. Commissioner
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Amount of capital paid up. 81. oOO.O 100000
NET ASSETS OF COMPANY
Cash in banks Ton interest
and not on INTEREST," ;..S 261 .S5d AZ
Real estate unincumbered 155.O00.O0
Bonds and stocks owned =
:, market valuel ....,.... 6,930.330.95
tate (free from any prior
1ne and rents St stc) ....... se.2es.s4
Collateral loans .......... $4,000
Reins. recoverable ........ $1,000
U. 8. Thrift Stamps .....,.. 1000
Premiums and accounts due
and in process of collec- o-r ooo "a
Bills receivable ....... 44.026.03
Gag! Asa Deposit. i.ia:. bur. SSS ss.sS
Total net assets ......S 9.215.150.27
LIABILITIES.
Reserve or amount neces-
sary 70 reinsure outstand-
Losses ase due due and unpaid sSS.bs4 90
Losses adjusted and not due 1900
Losses unadjusted and in
Bills land and accounts unpaid 3.s46.SS
Other liabilities of the COM
pany 1B6,1bZ.Oo
Total liabilities 81. 6O7 .4s6.Is
SSpltS n. ..-.....-.-..-... d'S599999999ee.9999
Greatest amount in any one
State Of Indiana. office OF Commissic SSG'o Of
Insurance
l. the undersigned. Commissioner Of In
surance Of Indiana. hereby certify that
the above is a correct copy of the State
ment of the Condition of the above men,
toned Company on the 31st day of De-
cember, 1925. as shown BY the original
statement. and that the said original state
ment IL now on file In this office.
In testimony whereof. hereunto sub
scribe my name and affix my official seal.
lSEAL1 this 9th day OF April. 1925.
T. s, McMURRAY. JR.. Commissioner.
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Local Bank CIearinqS

Bank clearings Monday amounted 70
So. Boz. 900. Bank debts were S6.433. 600.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-18

l. che undersigned. commissioner of in
surance of Indiana hereby certify that
the above is a correct copy OF the state
ment of the condition of the above mem
toned company on the 3lst day of De-
cember. 1924 as shown Dy the original
statement and that the said original state
ment is now on file In this office.
In testimony whereof / hereunto cub
scribe my name and affix my official seal
SEAL this eth day Of April. 1925.
T. s. McMURRAY. JR.. Commissioner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-18

l. the undersigned. Commissioners OF In
surance of Indiana. hereby certify that the
above is a correct copy of the statement
of the condition of the above mentioned
company on the 31st day of December.
1924. as shown by the original statement.
and that the said original statement is now
on file in this office.
In testimony whereof I hereunto sub
scribe my name and affix my Official seal
[sEALl this 9th day of April. 1925.
7. 8. McMURRAx. JR.. Commissioners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-18
Statement Of Condition OF the
Income Guaranty Company

Statement OF Condition OF the
Income Guaranty Company
Niles. Mich.
On the 31st day of December. 1924.
A. N. HEPLER. President.
JOHN G. llALMBERG. Secretary.
Assessment Company.
NET ASSETS OF COMPANY.
Cash in banks Ton interest and
not ION interestl S24 ,9S5. 90
Bonds and stocks owned (mar-
ket value) .............. 1b,S05.95
Accrued securities Interest and
rents. etc. commemorative. 1887
Premiums and accounts due and
in process of collection. $4,000 SO
Cash on hand .............. 1.2O9.18
Total net assets S74. 116 90
LIABILITIES.
Reserve or amour. NECESSARY to
reinsure outstanding risks. Sos. 421 SO
Losses unadiusted and in sus-
pense 3O.2S3.O4
Bills and accounts unpaid. 80. 1875
Other liabilities of the COM
pany $500. 1897 90
State of Indiana. office of Commissioner
of Insurance.
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Statement of Condition of the
Security Insurance Company
New Haven. Conn.
115 Elm st.
IN tha Q1af dav ~ naoannner 1904

New Haven. Conn.
115 Elm St.
On the 31st day of December. 1924.
JOHN w. ALLING. President.
w. PERDUE. JOHNSON. Secretary.
Amount OF capital paid up. 81. zoe, 100000
NET ASSETS OF COMPANY
Cash in banks ION interest
and not on interesD Us 1S2.l10.44
Bonds and stocks owned
market valued $3.50. 6,707, 9S2 90
Mortgage loans on real es-
ineumbrance .. cy Dio 695.aoo.o 90
and rents. stcJ $50. s2,s7929
Premiums and accounts due
Ae tiSn 6i6srvls: secured: O2S s.lSss5
Total net assets ....... 50. 204. O95 ~
LIABILITIES.
Reserve or amount mecca
eary TO reinsure outstald-
Losses due due and unpaid 1851 5
suspense ...........,,. 56g.y2s ,ss
Bills and accounts unpaid. 4.3O0.S7
pany ................. 1e7.ooO.Oo
Total Liabilities SO. 90s. Se1 .oo
Capital ................. 200. 600 90
surplus ........ 2.l20.T04 .b1
natal co oo1 sor 49,
Greatest amount In any one ''~'-'Y-O''
risk ................ 300. 100000
State OF Indiana. office Of Commissioner Of
Insurance
l. the undersigned, Commissioner OF In
surance OF Indiana. hereby certify that
the above Is a correct copy of the state
ment. of the condition OF the above men,
ton company on the 31st day OF Decem-
Der. 1924, as shown by the original state
ment. and that the said original statement
is now on file IN this office.
Ia testimony whereof. l hereunto sub
scribe my name and affix my official seal.
(sEALl this 9th day Of 0pril. 1926.
2. 5. McMURRAY. JR.. Coumissionsr.
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Statement of Condition Of the
American Exchange Under
writers

/. New York. N. Y.
1913 william St.
On the 3lst day of December 1924.
WEED & KENNEDY. Attorneys.
Reciprocal Company.
NET ASSETS OF COMPANY
Cash in banks Ton interest
and not on interesD ....$ 64.72292
Bonds and stocks owned
(market value) ........ i 1885. 27o .SS
Accrued securities Interest
and rents. etc. ....s... 15,570.S0
Premiums and accounts due
and in process of collec-
ton .................. s1.451 ga
Total net assets .$14 400, O25 "a
LIABILITIES.
Reserve or amount necessary
TO reinsure outstanding
risks ..........@ l1TBTO.6o
Losses unadjusted and In
suspense ........... s.4e7. 90
Bills and accounts unpaid. b.435.79
other liabilities of the COM
pany 9O.12O.5s
Total liabilities ........s 276, 9o9. 81
Surplus ................. 1.173,O26.73
Total observation-disclosures
Greatest amount In any one
rick 76O.OOO.OO
State of Indiana. Office of Commissioner
of Insurance.
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START OF new
WEEK FINDS
STOCKS ACTIVE
Prices, as a Rule, Are Steady
American Can
Off.
Average Stock Prices

Ayerags. .prico Of twenty Industrial
age price of twenty rails. e7.26. up .05.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-18
Statement; OF Condition OF the
Camden Fire Insurance
Association

Camden, N. ].
434 Federal st.
On the 31st day OF December. 1924.
]. l.. TRUSCQTT, President.
BARRY TRUSCO'rT, Secretary.
NET ASSETS OF COMPANY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-11

and most critical of their readers, 1t is quite easy
to forget that but small percentage of the masses
which the DAILY WORKER must reach is famil-
lar with MARKHAM words and phrases and interested
in involved articles dealing with certain phases
of MARKHAM theory and practice.
1t would be mistake to think however, that the
DAILY WORKER and the Communists must ac-
cept this condition as one that cannot be changed
and cease to struggle against it. The Communist
press not only must try to write it's and educa
tional material in such form that any worker who
can read can understand it, it must not only base
it's agitation and educational articles on the daily
problems and struggles of the workers what Lenin
called "the facts of life''-but it must also work
increasingly to raise the level of understanding and
make classic phrases of the class struggle part Of
the language of the American workers.
The class struggle RACES here in America in spite
of the fact that the labor union officials and the
middle class advisers of the workers deny it. 1t is
part of the same struggle that goes on all over the
world and its terms are well known to millions
of workers wherever the breakdown of capitalism
has created the conditions for widespread revolu-
tonary work and has brought great masses of
workers into the ranks of the labor and revolution
airy movement.
The best way we know of to keep the contents of
the DAILY WORKER in as simple language as
possible is to get constantly such criticism as that
mentioned. In addition to this but more difficult
and more important news stories and articles
written by the worker-readers of the Communist
press themselves This is the way that the DAILY
WORKER can become real mass organ and it is
a paper made up of such material that we want
and the working class needs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-11
Textile Workers Battle

Our news from Lawrence, Pawtucket and other
textile centers tells of sharpening of the struggle
against wage cuts and speeding-up schemes of the
bosses of mass meetings called by the united front
committees, organized by the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party and Trade Union Educational League.
At these meetings the greatest interest is dis
played in advice to unite all the protest movements
and small unions in the industry into solid front
against the mill owners and their shop organiza-
ton headed by Colonel Butler the campaign man
ager of Coolidge and backed by the House of Nor
gan-Coolidge-D Dawes government
The wage cuts and the speeding up system has
now affected almost the entire textile industry.
The economic basis for united front of all the
textile workers has been laid by the mill owners
themselves and for the first time in the bloody his
tory of the textile industry there is real united
front movement under way.
Always before, the resentment of the workers
has spent itself in strikes and demonstrations af-
fectng only small part of the industry at one
time. This year there is force in the textile
centers that brings to the textile workers not only
the idea of industrial solidarity but realistic or
ganizational program tried and proven effective
in thousand struggles of the workers in all the
capitalist countries. 1t is the program of the Com
munist International and the Red International
of Labor Unions-the united front from below
against the capitalist class and the agents of cap
italsm and the capitalist state wherever they are
found.
For the first time there is a real basis for the
belief that the textile industry will be organized
organized by amagamation of the existing unions,
by organization of the unorganized workers and
by united front actions into union born of the
struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-11
Communists and the Capitalist
Offensive

Harding replaces a Wilson, a Coolidge re-
places a Harding, a cultured barrister replaces a
third-rate shyster as head of the department of
Justice, but the persecution of the Communists CON
tinues.
Perhaps there is some change in method, but the
purpose remains the ame-imprisonment and
silencing of the most conscious and militant sec
ton of the American working class and their best
fighters.
Following the denial of the appeal of Ruthen-
berg by the Michigan supreme court and his inn
prisonment until appeal taken to the
United States supreme court, the scene shifted from
Bridgeman to Cleveland where an attempt was
made to deport Severino to fascist Italy. Once
more the scene changes and before Burger, a
Daugherty heldover of the department of Justice,
krumbein, district organizer of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party and Katterfed New York agent
of the DAILY WORKER, an attempt is made to
force them to testify in the Severino case. They
naturally refused and Burger threatens contempt
of court proceedings.
All these events indicate that the Coolidge gov
eminent of the House of Morgan is preparing an
other attack on the Workers (Co (mmunist) Party.
1t could hardly be otherwise
Only a blissfully ignorant optimist could be-
lieve that the only party informing the workers of
America of the murderous plans of American i'm
perlallsm Implicit In the Dawes plan and the Paris
pact and organizing the workers for resistance will
remain immune from wellplanned persecution.
The consolidation of the forces of the blacklist
enemies of the working class shown by the results
of the last election means that new era of AFRO
CANT brutality is a certainty.
The Communists will be the first to suffer- Then
the capitalist offensive will be broadened and the
whole labor movement will be brought into the
line of fire.
The Communists are fully alive to the danger,
but the labor movement as whole is not 1t is
our task to that every section of the organized
workers understands exactly what the attack on
the Communists means.
As always, the interests of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party and of the working class are in
separabe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-11
West Virginia''s Coal Miners

The territory around Fairmont and Parkersburg,
West Virginia, is the scene of one of those strug
giles between workers and capitalists which basic
industry in America furnishes in bloody colors.
The local unions Of the United Mine Workers of
America in this section are making a last ditch
fight to save their organization and prevent wage
cut. Their fight is desperate one and in the last
few days union miner has been killed by coal
company gunner. In the state as a whole the coal
mining industry is now only about ten per cent
organized. In whole districts the union has been
destroyed by methods exactly the same as those
used by mperialist powers in breaking the resist
ance of colonial peoples.
That is what the miners of West Virginia are
in their present unorganized condition-colonial
serfs of the steel trust which owns or controls the
mining industry.
The hope for the West Virginia miners lies not
in the present ofcialdom of the United Mine Work
ers with its program of meeting the boss half way"
but in the program of the left wing, centering
around the Workers Party and the Trade Union
Educational League, for which $4,000 votes were
counted in the recent union election.
There is just as much menace to the steel trust
domination of the West Virginia miners lives in
this proof of the mlitants' numerical strength as
there is to the rule Of Lewis and his army of high
salared henchmen.
The two must be fought together and the steel
trust will not be forced to deal with miners as
unit until the left wing program becomes the pro-
gram Of the union lso
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-11
Only One Mess

Greece talks of war on Turkey.
Great Britain is the overload of Greece but fears
to encourage her vassal in this new adventure be-
cause it would strengthen the alliance between
Russia and Turkey.
France and Italy prepare to back Turkey-their
bulwark against the further advance of British i'm
perialism in Asia Minor
Bulgaria crOuches to spring upon Dedegeatch,
the Greek port in the Aegean Sea that Bulgaria
covets.
Jugo-Slavia, in the event of GrecolTurkish war,
is ready to grab the Greek port of Salonca which
she needs because Italy has cut her off from the
sea.
Over all stands the Communist international ap-
pealing to the working class of all these nations to
throw off the chains of capitalism-to turn i'm
perialist war into war on capitalism.
Greek Communists call on the workers to fight
the war plans of their government and twenty are
imprisoned Thousands of workers demand their
release and demonstrate against the government
This is a brief sketch of just one of messes in
which world capitalism finds itself
1t is inextricably enmeshed in the web of its
own contradictions and national rivalres when the
acutely critical condition demands unity.
is it any wonder that the whole world constantly
trembles on the verge of war?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-11
SHIRT COMPANY
BUYS LABOR OF
W. VA. CONvICTS
Pays Only Seventy Cents
Per Day for Each

FAIRMONT, w. Va, Feb. 9.-The
Gordon Shirt company, thru con-
tract with the state board of control,
was given the right to exploit the
labor of four hundred convicts in the
West Virginia state penitentiary at a
compensation of only 70 cents per day.
This fact was revealed here when
Judge P. d. Morris declared the con-
tract null and void in Marshall circuit
court at Moundsville, last week. Mar
cellus A. Jolliff asked that the Gordon
Shirt company be restrained from
carrying out the provisions of the
contract on the ground that under it's
operation the tax payers of the state
would lose 100000 year.
The judges decision was based on
the technically that the state board
Of control failed to advertise the con-
tract for four weeks as required by
law and was therefore null and void.
Evidently leasing convict labor to a
private exploiter is perfectly in &C
cord with the christian sentiments of
the ruling class of West Virginia but
this low form of robbery must be done
in accordance with the law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-11

IAIITH the exception of more or
wv less obscure rank and file agitar
tors in the various strikes that de-
veloped out of the early organization
of trade unions, no outstanding ex-
ponents of the class struggle present
themselves prior to the Civil War.
The history of the early labor move
ment is bound up with the record OF
the early reformers. With few ex-
ceptions they were intellectuals. Their
connection with the real labor move
ment was in the nature of a ''liaison."
They saw in the growth of working
class organization nothing more than
a hook whereupon to hang their
utopian hats. Each reformer endeav-
ored to get support from the working
class for his particular social formula.
But they were rebels insofar as they
protested against things as they were,
and as such inspired a large section
Of the more VIGOROUS minded work
ers of the time to follow their lead.
Despite their ignorance Of the class
struggle, they represented in their day
the advance guard Of radicalism in
America. A history of the labor move
ment is not complete without them.
Reformism first appears in 1926
when Robert Owen, the great English
philanthropist and utopian, came to
America and established a colony
called New Harmony" in Indiana.
The effect of this innovation on the
labor movement was slight. II did,
however, supply personalities whose
influence on the currents of working
class life were of considerable import
awe. Robert Owens son, Robert
Dale Owen, was one of these.
He originated a system of educa-
ton he called estate Guardianship,
which provided for free boarding-hous-
es for children's education. He was
led to this by the failure OF HIS faith
er's colony which he thought due to
the educational handicaps with which
the colonists began. He thought uni
versal education the best and quickest
way to social reform. Universal educa-
ton found favor with the working
class. At the time. education was the
restricted privilege Of the rich. The
workers looked upon young owen as
a leader because he represented for
them an immediate demand they
thought within their reach.
He took. an active and leading part
in the political movement az 1899
that expressed itself 40 the Working