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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
SaccO-V anzetti Defense
Asks Public Hearing
Continued from Pare Onel

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the governor. McAnarney declared
he had been called in by the governor
but refused to comment on the sub
ject matter Of the conference.
The defense committee is split on
the reception proposed for Georg
Branting, the Swedish lawyer who is
coming to America to be associated
in the defense Of the two Italian
anarchists. A Fanueil Hall meeting
has been suggested, but some mem
bers of the committee feel that the
governor will be antagonized by a
public demonstration while he is con-
sidering the case.
Force Enemies Into Open.
Friends of Sacco and Vanzetti fear
the responsibility of Governor Full
ler's secret inquiry into the case. They
want full open consideration Of the
world-famous case so that the sinister
elements demanding electrocution of
the workers on July 10 may be forced
to bring their eleventh hour perjuries
and falsehoods before a national jury
of workers.
Either the public, formal commits
sion or a new trial would satisfy
them better than the furtive examina-
ton of witnesses and evidence now
going on in Fuller's office and home.
Mrs. LaFollette In Appeal.
Mrs. Robert NJ. LaFollette, widow
Of the late senator, and Senator Rob-
e1t NJ. LaFollette, Jr., with as other
prominent Washingtonians have APP
pealed to Governor Fuller for the APP
pointment Of an advisory commission
to aid in the Investigation Of the
Sacco-V anzetti case.
Members Of the faculties Of the
various Brookings institutes with
publicists, lawyers and others signed
the document. They include:
Mrs. Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.
Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.
Walter J. Shepard, prominent so.
biologist. professor at Robert Brook
ings School Of Economics; Harry II
Moore, economist in public health
service; Arthur W. Macmahon, asso-
ciate professor Of political science
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
Article ii.
BY CHARLES YALE HARRISON.

by Oh ARLES YALE HAkhlSON.
1t is safe to say that without the
agent an insurance company cannot
live. Various companies here and
abroad have tried to dispense with his
services and have failed. For one
reason or another people will not in
sure unless the pressure Of personal
solicitation is applied.
The enormous structure Of the so
cial institution of life insurance was
built through the efforts of hundreds
of thousands of agents who made the
business what it is today.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, for example, is the largest
financial institution in the world to-
day. 1t has more assets than the
u. S. Steel. 1t is stronger than
Gary's corporation due to the fact
that its assets are in liquid form and
may be released as is deemed neces-
sary by its oligarchical board of di-
rectOrs.
The Metropolitan Life insures over
% million individual lives in the Unit
ed States and Canada. The big
-Four" combined insure 40 million lives
for over twenty billion dollars.
Due to the fact the premiums on
weekly payment life insurance are
payable at the home of the insured,
these agents thus become the uncon-
scious vehicles of the most pernicious
capitalistic propaganda.
During the 1924 presidential cam
paign the Metropolitan Life printed
tens of millions of circulars which
were sent, via the agent, into six mil
lion homes, calling attention to the
DOGGY of LaFollette's radicahsm. 1t
was pointed out that insurance funds
are invested in Big Business and that
a vote for LaFollette was a vote for
confiscation.
This distribution of circulars by the
agent is charged in the annual report
to welfare work" for which item the
Metropolitan Life last year spent over
eight million dollars. The Metropol-
itan is mutual company.
1.-The Big Four" weekly premium
life insurance companies employ,
roughly, about 10000 agents in the
field in the United States and Canada.
Each agent has about 200 families on
his collection book with an average of
four people in each family. As an
agency for industrial espionage, it can
readily be seen, he is invaluable.
Let us quote Haley Fiske on this
question: Says he, Not only are
agents great piece of machin-
cry which, in their activities, consti-
tute a public institution, but many ac-
Invites of the company, conducted
from the Home Office, have such an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
Smithsonian Says Venus Habitable.

WASHINGTON, May 23.-Venus,
the glorious blue planet, defied by
the ancients as the goddess of love,
probably is better adapted to life
than her celestial and militant neigh
Dor Mars.
This opinion was expressed by DR..
G. 6. Abbot, director Of The Astro-
physical Observatory of Smithsonian
Institution, and internationally known
astronomer.
A picture of landscape on Venus,
drawn by imagination from DR.. Alb
bots scientific observations, might
not be unlike that in the primordiaI
ages Of the earth, uncounted cons in
the past, before the birth of man.
Venus, it would seem, is a luxurious,
stoaming and tropical Jungle, world
n the making.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
WOnlGn'S Conference,
New England, Talks
Of Many Questions

BOSTON, Mass, May 23,-The
New England Conference of Working
Glass Women held here elected an ex-
ecutive committee of II members to
be responsible for the future work Of
the organization.
Seventy-five delegates were at the
conference representing as organiza-
tons including trade unions, with
total membership Of 1900
The questions discussed were wo-
men and the trade unions; women and
war. maternity insurance and birth
regulations; child labor and the school
system; women and cooperative move
ment and the persecution Of foreign
born workers.
A resolution was passed greeting
the Chinese women and asking for the
release Of Sacco and Vanzetti.
The executive committee elected
consists of Mrs. Eva Hoffman, Sonia
Kaross, Miss D. Clifford, Charlotte
Clayman, Olga Oikemus, Mrs. Flor
once Gage, Mrs. Goldman, Aston Ber-
kowitz, Eva Blender, Anna Speaker,
Mrs. Kagan, Mrs. Kouskia, Mrs. Lem
pi Parta, Mrs. SELF, Mrs. A. Pulitzer,
DR.. Antoinette F. Konikow and Morris
Goldberg.
Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEW SSTAND
Greek Workers Strike
Against Standard Oil

PIRAEUS, Greece, April so (By
Mail) Accompanied by brutality on
the part of the police and gendarmes,
four workers were arrested on the
second day Of the strike against the
Standard Oil Co, One of those ar
rested was the president of the Ben
zine and Oil Workers Union, Theo-
horides. The imprisoned workers are
being defended by the Red Aid Com
mittee.
The viciousness Of the police
aroused great resentment among all
the workers Of the city, and the sec
rotary Of the local Central Labor
Council sent a telegram of protest
to the secretary Of the interior.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24

DAILY WORKER
30 First Street, {
New York, N. Y. J
Inclosed is my contribution OF /,
..... dollars -. cents to the
Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund
for a stronger and better
DAILY WORKER and for the
defense Of our paper. will pay
the same amount regularly
every ...............
Name ......................
Add ess ............,........
-ity Observation-Disclosures.
State observation-disclosures.
Attach check or money order.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24

Columbia University; Helen r.
Wright, professor. Robert Brookings
School, author; Walton II. Hamilton,
professor. Robert Broobings School;
Thomas w. Page, former chairman
Tariff Commission, now with Insti-
tute Of Economics; w. F. Willoughby,
director Institute Economic Research;
Lewis Mumford, publicist, contributor
to the New Republic; Burnita Shelton
Matthews, president American Bar
Association Of the district; Rev. j.
Paul Dresser, Church of the Holy
City (Swedenborgen).
r. w. Baker, M. D., prominent ply
stefan Of Washington; DR.. Louis Co
hen, consulting engineer, professor,
George Washington University; Mrs.
Benton Halstead; Mrs. Abby Scott
Baker; Mabel Costigan, president
Women's Voters League; Nina e.
Allender, cartoonist; Maud Younger,
executive board, National Women's
Party; Mabel Vernon, executive
board, National Women's Party; Mrs.
Frank Hiram Smell; Emma Void;
Mabel VanDykc; Harriet Conner
Brown; Florence 7. Clark; Vera
Fowler Lewis.
Among the lawyers who signed the
petition are:
s. d. Hanson, c. II. Weigle, Louis
Yurow, Selig c. Bres, Norman f.
Baessell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
Needle Trade Defense
New York Workers VIII Greet the
Furriers.

New York Workers VIII Greet the
Furriers.
Next Friday May 9th, all the New
York Workers will gather at New
Star Casino, 107th Street and Park
Avenue, to greet the recently re-
leased victims of "Mineola Justice"
This welcome of the released pris-
oners will be given at the Grand Re-
ception Ball which was arranged in
their honor.
Do Not Keep Defense Money.
The Defense Committee is greatly in
need of money. 1t is a crime against
the cloakmakers and furTiers to keep
any money that was collected for
them, day longer than necessary.
There are many people that have
tickets, collection lists and roll call
certificate booklets for which they
have not as yet settled. This hinders
the successful work of the Joint De-
Tense Committee. All those who have
money, tickets, roll call certificate
booklets, honor roll lists are requested
to Immediately send in an account to
the defense committee, Al Union
Square.
Bishop Brown VIII Speak.
The famous hereto Bishop William
Montgomery Brown will speak at the
big mass meeting arranged by the
Committee Of One Hundred, on We'd
nesday night, May 25th at Webster
Hall, 18th Street and 3rd Avenue.
This mass meeting is arranged for
the purpose Of helping the families
of the imprisoned cloakmakers and
Furriers. Besides Bishop Brown
there will be the following speakers:
Paxton Hibben, Pascal Cosgrove.
Robert w. Dunn is Chairman. All
New Workers are urged to come to
this meeting. Admission 25 cents.
Copies of "My Heresy," Communism
and Christianity" viii be sold at this
meeting at reduced prices.
Who is Next?
We received the following letter:
Dear friends:-At a meeting of the
Ozoritzer Young Progressive Society,
which was held on May 18th at Labor
Lyceum, 219 Sackman Street, B'klyn,
the defense of the cloakmakers and
fmriers was discussed and the fol-
lowing resolution adopted:
Whereas the Defense COMMITTEES is
carrying on campaign to help the
/ imprisoned cloakmakers and furTiers
victims of the revolutionary class
struggle, we altho a non-partisan or
ganization, pledge ourselves to sup
port the Defense Committee in its
work, until all the cloakmakers and
furriers will be released from prison
We will carry through all the cam
paigns Of the defense Committee
among the members of our organiza-
ton. As beginning we are sending
/ $4,000 and we will send some more G
little later. With greetings,-S
Fuchs, Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24

intimate relation to the public that
added force is given to this designa-
ton (by officials of the compa-
N.Y. Specific reference is made to
the conduct of an industrial service
bureau where the relations between
employers and employees are studied,
based upon the cOmpany's experience
with holders of its group insur-
ance and the like"
The agents duties with an indus
trial insurance company are manifold.
He must make his weekly collections
from the 200 or so families which con-
stitute his debit" He must seek out
new risks for new insurance. He
must do several hours of bookkeeping
in order to present a neat account of
his petty financial transactions. He
must locate families who have moved
away from his route without leaving
an address. He must try to conserve
old business which is in danger of
lapsing. He must listen to hours and
hours Of haranguing on the part of
his manager.
And for all this he is, in my es-
tination, one of the poorest paid Of
all white collar workers in America.
So much so that the hard conditions
under which he works compels large
turnover of labor in the thousands Of
branch offices throughout the coun-
try
Some years ago a sporadic effort
was made to organize these workers
into labor union. 1t failed because
the attempt was haphazard and con-
Quoted without regard for scientific
methods. A strike was prematurely
called and the movement went up in
/ smoke.
have spoken to hundreds of agents
throughout the country and not one
has failed to say that the harsh and
inhuman working conditions warrant
the creation of a protective union.
At present due to the system of
commission payments, the interests OF
the policyholders and those of the
agent are Numerically opposed to
each other. In reality this should not
I be so.
The exploitation of the agent by
the company which results in tens of
millions of dollars being pocketed by
the company in fines and charges to
salary" is due to the fact that the
agent permits the public to be over
charged and swindled by the company
while he stands helplessly by.
He is. helpless because he is unor-
ganizeds without his unconscious aid
the fraud could not go on for another
day.
AS a class the industrial insurance
agent is perhaps more intelligent and
posted on public matters than any
other skilled or semi-skilled worker
His contacts are with millions Of
unionized men who constitute his
route.
That he is unorganized today in the
face Of most shameless exploitation
and swindle which is perpetuated or
him is simply due to the fact that nc
serious efforts have been made in that
direction.
That he has ample grounds'for JUS
tifiable resentment will be shown in
the forthcoming articles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
Bricklayer Helpers
Back LabOrers in
Worcester Strike

WORCESTER, Mass, May %. IL
With cops on guard at every job, the
city's building laborers continued
their folded arms policy today with
the bricklayers' helpers now out. More
than 100 bricklayers automatically
joined the walkout when their helpers
struck.
Nine strikers were fined $40 each
as the aftermath of police attack
on the picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
Who's Running
This Country
Anyway?

The Military Order Of the World War;
through Captain George l.. Darte, its Adju-
tant General, has protested to DIR. William j.
O'Shea, Superintendent of the New York City
Schools, protesting against the action in
granting the use of the Stuyvesant High
School auditorium to the Civil Liberties Union
for a meeting on the topic, "The Growth of
New York City Since 1900"
Mrs. Rachel Davis, teacher of civics in
the Woodbury. High School of New Jersey,
has had her contract for next year withheld,
partly as result of allegations made by the
same Military Order of the World War.
And now The DAILY WORKER comes
to trial on May 9th, as result of charges
preferred by these self-cOnstituted arbiters
of what the American people shall say and
what information they shall receive.
It is high time that the workers speak
quite plainly to these advance agents of
MussOlini, who are seeking to institute the
same black regime of reaction and suppress
sion in this country as there is in tyrant-rid-
den Italy.
There is one way to speak clearly and un-
mistakably to these gentry. That way is to
give such unanimous and whOle-hearted sup
port to the defense of The DAILY WORKER
that these agents of American capitalism will
understand fully that the masses of the
workers will not tolerate any interference
with their constitutional right to freedom of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
UNDERP AID INSURANCE AGENTS AID
BIC -FOUR" WALL STREET DIRECTORS

This series Of articles of Which this is the second deals
cb the exploitation of industrial agent and
methods combat the eUds of oeeky payment life insurance
series result of requests to pablcize the de-
OF slvjndle and fraud to Cch the agent is subject IN
common with the poicybOlder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
Hero of Chauyinists.

PARIS, May 23.-Lindbergh is be-
ing made the pet of the big militarist
interests Of France. Yesterday the
French Aero Club, hangout of chau-
vinists, gave him a noisy welcome and
presented him with the clubs gold
medal. The President of France has
pinned the Legion of Honor medal on
his breast while he is to receive the
Swedish Aero Club gold plaque and
cup from the French aero club.
American Legion officials here tried
to appropriate the young American
flyer for use in their own propaganda.
They regard the marvellous welcome
given the Little Falls, MINI. young
ster as insuring that the Legion gang,
when it hits Paris this summer, will
be met with something less than hos
tility.
Banker Envoy Elated.
Animosities between the French
and American upper classes over war
debts and the credit for bringing the
late human slaughter house to an end
have temporarily been laid aside. Am
bassador Herrick, former president of
the American Bankers Association,
is elated over the unexpected results
Of the achievement of the American
"air ambassador"
Lindbergh is being financed by
st. Louis commercial firm and is hav-
ing the most flattering offers pressed
on him. So far he has not lost his
boyish, unaffected manner. The use
to which he is being put by the
French military gang and the advo-
Gates of French-American alliance
and remission of war debts is appar-
emily unknown to him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
Filler LindbGrgh'S
Father Fought for
NOnpartiSanLGague

WASHINGTON - (FP). - Capt.
Charles Lindbergh. hero of the first
cirect air flight from New York to
France, is acclaimed for his courage,
his determination and his perform
ance.
Young Lindbergh was 16 years Of
age when his father, the late Rep.
Lindbergh, accepted the nomination
Of the Nonpartisan League conference
in Minnesota, in the early spring of
the war year, 1918, to run for the
Republican nomination for governor
as spokesman Of the farmers. The
courage required to throw down the
challenge to organized war profiteers
IN the Northwest at that time, when
Gov. Burnquist and Sen. Frank Kel-
logg were backing the fanatical re-
dictionary, Judge McGee, chairman Of
the state Council of National Defense,
was no small thing. The heroic flyer
of 1927 was old enough in those days
to measure the heroism of his father,
as he went from town to town, facing
the threats Of mob violence and the
danger of assassination that were in
stigated by foes of the farmers move
ment.
Tarred ard Feathered
Delegates and visitors at the con-
vention of the American Federation
of Labor, held in st. Paul in June of
that year, will not soon forget the two
young farmers, organizers for the
Nonpartisan League, who came to see
the convention and to receive medical
treatment for the tarring and feather
ing given them by the Burnquist-Kel-
logg enthusiasts. Many delegates
went to the town of st. Cloud to hear
Lindbergh speak, and witnessed the
modifying of armed forces to prevent
| the farmers from making any demon
stration. They talked with Henrik
Shipstead, then mayor of Minnesota
/ town and candidate for the nomination
1 for Congress against Vnlstead a
standpatter. Shipstead's house had
been smeared with yellow paint. in
the night, when the local chamber-of-
commerce element learned that he had
joined the farmers political crusade.
On billboards opposite the conven-
ton hotels were big posters, with pic-
lures Of shells bursting in American
trenches in France. and in big type
an alleged message from Pershing
"You take care of the Huns at home
and we will hold them over here"
Lindbergh Beaten.
Lindbergh opposed war profiteers
and war hysteria. He made no COM
promise with MCGEE, Kellogg, Knute
Nelson or Burnquist, who had set up
their monopoly in patriotism and who
had implied that the Minnesota farm
ers who dared organize to secure q
fair price for their wheat were enem-
les of their country. Lindbergh was
beaten, but the courage and dignity
of the contest he conducted in the
midst of wars cowardice was an es-
tate of which his family is proud
After his death, the son flew over
their farm at Little Farms, scatter
ing the ashes of the father upon the
land to which he was devoted. 1t wa.
symbol they understood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24

speech and press. Don't
forget these are but the
first few attempts on
the part of extra-legal
reactionary Organiza-
tiOns to run our affairs.
If they succeed now,
they will make further
excursions. Now is the
time to call them to a
halt. Your dollars are
your command. Let us
hear it quick and
strong.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-08

and heroin. They were selling these
drugs all over the country, making
deliveries by mail. by trunks sent by
express, and by runners. II Is esti.
mated that the gang made a. profit of
at least 100 per cent on all drugs
handled.
1t is impossible to estimate the harm
that has been done through the opera
lions of this gang 1t is not to be as
sumed that they sold merely to per
sons already addicted to the drug
habit. They probably sold to middle
men. agents who retail the pernicious
stuff and whose business 1t is to make
new customers by the introduction of
these vile compounds to persons not
already afflicted. For this vicious traf.
fc drug addicts are employed. persons
who have no conscience whatever
about making converts"
Theft, forgery, embezzlement, defai-
cation and even more serious crimes
are melted by the use of drugs. The
traffic in these compounds is one of
the worst curses that could be inflicted
upon this country. The Government
is relentlessly pursuing those engaged
in 1t and. rs this latest raid indicates,
successfully. Yet when one gang has
been rounded up and on conviction
sent to prison another forms. The
drugs are easily struggled into the
country and the inducement to con-
tinue in the practice is such as to lure
many into the business despite the
danger Increase of the penalties for
any degree of drug traffic, by whole
sale or by retail, may be necessary
to stamp out this evil. No mercy
should be shown, even on the ground
of lack Of understanding of the mag.
nitude Of the offense, to any person
who is caught in the act of distribut-
ing this poison, so destructive Of the
moral sense of it's users.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-08
Amateur Tennis.

BY vote of members of the
United States Lawn Tennis Associa-
ton, Vincent Richards, who turned
professional after completing the
1925 amateur season, was dropped
from the ranking of that body, al
though for the first time in his career
he had been recommended for the
leading position in the amateur ten
mis- roster. And therein lies q nice
question of ethics in the treatment
of the young star who indisputably
was the amateur number one man
of last year.
Supporters of Richards maintain
that inasmuch as he played through
out the tournament season of 1926
as an amateur he deserves the rating
The tennis association holds, how
ever, that professional cannot be
given a place at the top of the
amateur contingent, even though he
turned professional after reaching
that rank.
From an unbiased viewpoint there
is merit in both contentious, but
because Richards fairly earned his
standing as the leading amateur he
might have been given the honor by
the association on the basis of good
craftsmanship. Whatever he is now,
he was an amateur then, and regard
less of the displeasure of the tennis
body because he decided to forsake
amateur ranks he justly deserves
number one honors. 1t appears
however, that he will have to be
content with the somewhat empty
knowledge that he was the undisputed
champion of 1926 and that even in
the absence of a title the tennis
world regards him in this light.