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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20
ARTICLE TX.

the great insurance fraud were found
in the writer's mail box. In the
package was this letter:
''My dear Mr.. Harrison:--I was
much interested by the insurance
matter you placed before us, but
l am afraid that l do not find it
available for use in "The World"
l doubt If the conditions you COM
plain of are properly described as
'Scandalous.' incline to the view
and it is supported in authorita-
tive quarters-that the conditions
may be described as unfortunate
and, perhaps unfair, but these are
characteristic Of almost every bust
ness which, it is reasonable to as
sumo, those engaged therein are
seeking to correct.
eff you should not place the ma
terial elsewhere, The World might
be interested in one article from
you in which you might point out
where industrial insurance might
be strengthened and its costs re-
duced. Such an article might be
helpful, even though it lack sensa-
tionalism. With thanks for the
thoughtfulness that prompted you
to submit the subject to The World,
/ am, faithfully,
Herbert Bayard SwOpe.
Two weeks after the receipt of this
masterpiece The World printed a
series Of camouflaged anti-labor
propaganda directed against Ben
Gold of the left wing furriers, charg-
ing him and his associates with brib-
ing the spotless New York police
force. Since then these charges have
been exploded as arrant fabdcations
The World considered this as piece
of "scandalous" news.
Mr.. Swope admits in his letter to
the writer that weekly-payment in
surance is unfortunate and unfair,
and still this Tammany-controlled
publication did not feel it was unfair
enough to acquaint defrauded pub
lie as to the extent Of the fraud.
How unfair must a condition be
before The World begins to feel the
pangs of conscience? Obviously
FROM Mr.. Swope's letter, the "Big
Four" are public plunderers. Joseph
Pulitzer, the founder of the World
said that public plunderers must be
attacked.
But Not News.
The World is committed to the slo-
gan that campaign a day keeps the
sheriff away. Art magazines
"Reds," Republicans, light wines and
beer, Wayne B. Wheeler, any cam
paign is good enough that has
readers interest"-anything as long
as it does not attack the powers that
be, anything so long as it creates q
flare that keeps the circulation cir.
culating.
But when 40 million American
workers are being deceived by the
slickest gang of financial buccaneer;
that ever looted the public, why
that's not news. If the public de.
frauded Wall Street hooters that
would be news, according to the
World news standards.
Mr.. Swope has it from" authorize.
tive quarters" that industrial insur.
ance is unfortunate and unfair. We
are heartily in accord with Mr.. Swope
In the interests of the millions Of
workers-insurers who suffer from
the malicious industrial insurance
system, Mr.. Swope should reveal who
and where the authoritative quar-.
tiers" are.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20
Mock Passover Affair Yields sac

At a mock celebration of the Pass
over Feast, held by "Yugend," q Jew
ish workers monthly at 35 L. End
street, last Sunday, an appeal to aid
the defense, made by Sam Liptzin
netted the sum Of s30.e5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20

CHICAGO, April 19.-The Slovak
Dramatic Society will hold an enter
tainment for Fraction /, of the
Czechoslovak Section, Workers Com
munist) Party. 1t will be held Sun
day, April "a at Walsh Hall, corner
of Noble St., and Milwaukee Ave., be-
ginning at four o'clock sharp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20
Thousands Homeless in Blood.


MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 19.--Thou-
sands were added to the huge army
of homeless today following the
crash Of the st. Johns Bayou Levee
near New Madrid, Mo.
Twenty-one towns in Arkansas and
Missouri probably will be inundated
in another "a hours. and the course
Of the Mississippi River changed by
the greatest flood in history.
The flood waters are reported
sweeping through a mile-wide gap,
and rushing down the Saint Francis
Basin in a southwesterly direction,
emptying back into the Mississippi
at the mouth of the Saint Francis
River.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20
RykOff Raps Imperialist War.

MOSCOW, April 19.-"Foreign in
tervention in China, if persisted in,
will evolve into an imperialistic war
which, as it will be fought on the
coast of the Pacific Ocean, will in
all probability be world war;" said
NJ. Rykoff at the opening Of the Ali
Union Soviet Congress last night.
Declaring that Britain is attempt
ing to surround Soviet Russia and is
attempting to use the Chinese situa-
ton as the means of provoking the
Soviet Union to war, Rykoff denied
that the Soviet Union has in any way
interfered with the Chinese situation.
Shows British Guilt.
eve are accused of fomenting anti
British feeling in China" he said,
"but let them give us the facts"
Accusing the British of attempting
to stir up anti-Soviet feeling in
China, he declared, "If our embassy
was raided it was only by the police
with the consent of the Diplomatic
Corps. 1t never has and never will
be raided by the Chinese people,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20
Nationalist Make Feng
Commander in Chief

Continued from Page One)
capitated by Chang in a small town
near Hardin. Six students, three
labor leaders, two Communists, and
the leader of the local trading organ
ization were those executed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20
Spread In Illinois.

ST. LOUIS, April 19.--New breaks
below this city late yesterday mum
dated additional territories in South
ern Illinois and Arkansas.
The latest reported was in Illinois
across the river from Cape Gipardeau,
Mo-, driving rs families from their
homes. These refugees and others
between Reynoldsville and Gale, ILL.,,
are being taken across the river to
Missouri for safety while hundreds
are being housed in tents erected on
high ground near Cairo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20

SPRINGFIELD, H., April ia
series of small tornadoes struck CEN
trail Illinois today, causing a number
of deaths, many injuries and heavy
properly damage.
One twister struck near Lincoln,
ILL.,, killing two school children,
Hobart Baker and Murray Goodwin
as they fled from the village school
of Chestnut, near Lincoln.
Another tornado was reported to
have struck De Kalb, injuring sew
eral and causing heavy property dam
age. All wires were reported down.
Elkhart, ILL.,, Mt. Pulaski, Gales
burg, Quincy and other points
throughout the state were affected
by the torrential rains which at times
took on cloudburst proportions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20
Herbert Bayard Swope Says Insurance Condi-
tons Are unfortunate" and "Unfair"
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a. Ions yop e nreperly dssrribed
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NaL Be aescr1hed unfortunate ana
t sae ensrse tsFIstfcs OF every b15Ts1s WI en-
e esonaoIe TO aEstne, thoae engaged hersfn
sSns % correct From your statement to me ~
pPesrs mat certain Of the compan1 as fnotahiv
trepoltsn you saw seeking to reform the
OF payments on industrial polietes "S ~a''e4
,...o. ,n II you sheu1d not place the material
ts"nsrs, rue world Right interested Ia ons srt1o
ron yoo N which you might point where dpstris
insurance ntgnt be strengthened its costs rs6coS
sa srtie1s nsht be helrtl though it LACED
.-.. 80 With thanks for the thoushtfu1ne., TIA.
ProsPtea you TO submit the subject to The Soria %
,f'~"a FsitArully, a q n
CHARLES Y. Garrison, Esq -
l7e2 7Sd St.,
Brooklyn, ny.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20
Thousands Lose Homes
In Great Floods

(Contistsed from Page One)
property loss will be many millions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20
Send More Robber Notes.

WASHINGTON, April LIT was
learned today that the administrs-
ton will join the four other imperial
list powers in a second set of identic
notes to the Nationalist government.
Minister MacMurray will be in
formed by cable today, probably after
the cabinet meeting, of the views of
this government. Following receipt
Of these instructions he will confer
with the ministers of Great Britain,
Japan, France, and Italy in Picking,
and together, these five ENJOYS are
expected to draw up the new identic
notes. This task is not expected to
take more than 4S hours because
most Of the ministers work has been
completed by the daily conferences
they have been holding since receipt
Of Eugene Chen's reply last Thurs
day.
Firm" Note.
The American minister will be in
structed to make his note as firm as
possible. What response he will
make toward Chen's proposal that an
international commission inquire into
the facts of the Marking affair could
not be learned today.
The American note may touch upon
Chen's suggestion that the old un-
equal treaties be revised, but if men
ton of this matter is made it is ex-
pected to be a refusal to entertain a
proposal at this time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-20


Eventually a series Of conferences
started with this net result. The
World decided that it would under
take to expose the big Four" A
story day for thirty days. Yes, the
price was quite satisfactory.
They Talk IL Over.
Several editorial councils were held.
Ways and means were no doubt dis
cussed and the writer was informed
that he would be notified as to tho
first day Of publication.
Several weeks went by and no
news. Attempts TO get Mr.. Herbert
Swope, the managing editor, were
abortive. A. polite secretary smoke
screened the executive editor.
unfortunate"
them one day the articles exposing
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
STATE FIREMEN GRANTED
 SS,000 BY UPPER HOUSE
Request for Appropriation Goes Through Senate With E. r.
 Hall as Pilot.
(Srecial to The Hereld)

Hartford, Feb. Senator E. r. Hall of New Britain was sustained in his request for SS,000 for the State Fircmen's association in the senate at Hartford today. This bill, one of the first sanctioned by the appropriations committee, was fos- tered by the Firemen's association convention last year. Captain Will liam Sowney of the New Britain fire department, as chairman of the legislative committee, appeared be- fore the appropriations committee last week and 1t was upon his ex- planation of the aim. of the pension fund that the committee reported favorably, The bill has passed the rough legislative spots and it is pre- dicted that it will hold the record for quick passing.
 Constable John P. Lewis of East Berlin was a guest of Senator E. Lewis and Senator Hall were boy hood friends in East Berlin many years ago.
 Architect D. K. Perry of New Britain was visitor at the capitol today.
 Representative Claude W. Stevens of Berlin will appear before the ju- dietary committee on Tuesday. Feb ruary s, in the interes of George G. Griswold and Ernest Mildrum. nominated for judge and deputy judge of the town court of Berlin.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
ANOTHER BATH TUB PARTY
 SCANDAL IS BEING AIRED
Atlanta Co-Operative Club Members Also Accused of Serving
 Liquor.

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. ? Rl-Investi- gation of charges that whiskey was served at party given by the Co., Operative club, Atlanta, featured by a bath tub" scene was begun today by the Fulton county grand jury.
 The grand jury was called into special session after published charges had been made that the bath tub" feature was put on by the Co-Operative club at a dinner given in honor of Carl H. Langnecht of Kansas City, international presi- dent, at the Ansley hotel here Janu- ary 1. It also was charged that whis- key was served at the party.
 The charges allege that the bath tub" scene in which a Negro girl was the principal character, climax ed the party. It was said that about 200 guests were present.
 James. attorney and president of the Atlanta Co-Operative club, was the first witness. After his exam nation John A. Boykin, solicitor general. issued subpoenaes for Frank P. Reynolds, resident man. ager of the Ansley hotel, and John Russell. publicity director of the Dinkley string of hotels of which the Ansley is a member.
 Walter Candler. was the second witness before the jury.
 The Cooperative club Is . civic organization.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
BILLION OFFERED FOR
 STOCK HELD BY FORDS
Father and Son Both Turn Deaf Ear to Financial
 Proposition

Washington, Feb. 2 R-An offer of one billion dollars for their stock in the Ford Motor company was re- fused within the last 30 days by Henry and Edsel Ford, the board of tax appeals was told today by John W. Prentice of New York.
 He testified that on two previous occasions, likewise, in 1924 and 1925, the Ford family rejected a spot cash offer of one billion dollars for the company.
 Prentice, a member of the broker age firm of Hornblower & Weeks. was the second witness put on the stand by former minority stockhold- CTS of the company in the renewed hearings here on their appeal from treasury assessment of $30,000.- 900 in additional taxes on sale of their stock.
 The progress made by the Ford company since 1916, Prentice said. was so rapid that 1t was impossible to strike an average for stock val nations. He pointed out that during the panic years" of 1907 and 1908. when industrial stocks declined gen. erally, the shares of the Ford Motor company forged ahead.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
S250,00O LOSS OCCURS
 IN WOBURN, MASS, FIRE
Two Large Leather Plants Razed and Two Other Factories
 Badly Damaged.

Woburn, Mass, Feb. R-Fire today destroyed two large leather plants in this city and badly damag- ed another leather factory and a lumber plant. The loss was placed at s250,000. Help was sent from several adjoining cities and towns before the flames could be control led.
 The plant of the Peterson Patent Leather Company on Jefferson ave- rue, where the fire started probably from spontaneous combustion, was destroyed together with the adjoin- ing plant of the c. Waiter Marion Company, manufacturers of leather heels.
 The flames leaped across the street to the plant of the E. C.. Barker Lumber Company, where three buildings were destroyed. A burning brand carried quarter of a mile by the wind set fire to a storehouse of James Robertson and Sons. Inc, operating tannery and patent leather factory, and this building also was ruined.
 At one time more than 20 roof fires were burning on dwellings in the vicinity, but no serious damage was caused to any of these. One Woburn fireman, Joseph Mckay, was hurt when hit on the head by a hose nozzle. Apparatus came from Medford, Melrose. Winchester, Stoneham. Reading, Arlington Wakefield and Lexington.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
CLEVELAND WOMAN AND
 DAUGHTER ARE SLAYERS
Mother, Aided by Girl of 12, Chop and Hack Her Husband
 to Death.

Cleveland, Feb. [p - Anton Liszka, 3S, was hacked to death with axes wielded by his daughter, Elizabeth, 12, and his wife, Anna 36, today because they were afraid he would kill us"
 The wife told the police that she struck the first blow with a long handled woodsman's axe and her daughter aided her with a hatchet.
 Mrs. Liszka said her husband has been whipping her and their three children. Elizabeth, Antoin- cite, 10, and Victoria, 14, and that the latter was forced to leave home. She asserted that during the night she awakened her husband and asked him to get her drink He refused and quarreled with her for waking him. Later she said she got up and while returning to bed stumbled over an axe. Fearing her husband meant to kill her she awoke Elizabeth, who secured a hatchet.
 T hit him several times on the head with the axe," Mrs Liszka told police, land then Elizabeth hit him.
 The mother then awakened the other two children and all four went to a. nearby police station.
 I'm sorry in a way I did it, she told police. but I feel my children are safer. My heart is lighter for my children live. My husband had been drinking and abusing us so that we all feared for our lives"
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
Pao34aHH IXTnAEAN A<,.,., 1dsG 3Apy )ACu WUMAN N@A'ass1 s's's 'salloouuo) kAOH BETWEEN lKXiNf .Xsv AUTO AT PLAINVILLE CROSSING
FOSTER IS ELECTED
 AS HEAD OF MAS0NS
139th Annual Meeting Held Today at Hartford; 943
 Membership Gain

Hartford, Feb. 2 R>-A 12 months of varied activity for the advance ment of Free Masonry in Connecti- cut was summarized by Grand Mas ter Arthur N. Nash of Pawcatuck, in his address this morning at the one hundred and thirty-ninth annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut, A. F. and A. M., at the Masonic Temple.
 The Grand Lodge was opened in ample form at II o'clock. Prayer was offered by Grand Chaplain, the Rev. Byron U. Hatfield, Of Westerly. Grand Secretary George A. Kies, of Hartford, and Deputy Grand Secre- tary, Harold B. Waldo, of Glaston- bury. were appointed the committee on credentials.
 The grand master recommended that the grand lodge of Connecticut assess one dollar on each candidate after March 1, the money so received to be paid to the George Washington Masonic National Memorial associa- tion, and that the Grand Lodge ap- propriate $500 from the general funds towards the Connecticut quota for the Washington memorial.
 The grand secretary reported the membership January l, 1927, at 45,- 1O9, a net gain of 943 for the year. The number of lodges-120-remains the same.
 The special order of business this afternoon was the election of off, cers. The following were elected:
 Grand Master, Theodore Foster, Chester; deputy grand master, Rob- ert s. Walker, Waterbury; grand senior warden, George R. sturges, Woodbury; grand junior warden, Ebert L. Darbie, Danielson; grand treasurer, Joseph Buths, Hartford; grand secretary. George A. kies, Hartford; grand senior deacon, How ard A. Middleton, Broad Brook; grand junior deacon, Sherwood H. Raymond, New Britain; grand trus- tees, Albert s. Comstock, Norwich; D. Fairchild Wheeler. Bridgeport, and Norman c. Stevens, Hartford.
 At the closing session of the grand lodge tomorrow morning &C., ton will be taken on the eports and recommendations of standing com mittees and special committees.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
SEES NO END YET TO
 MEXICAN WAR DANCER
Prof. Gabriel of Yale Be- lieves Menace Still
 Exists

The danger of war with Mexico has not entirely passed, according to Professor Ralph Gabriel of Yale university. who spoke on the Mexl- can situation to the members of the Kiwanis club at noon today at the Burritt hotel.
 Professor Gabriel began his lec- ture by stating that Mexico is a land of backwardness and filth, but with interesting conditions and at- mosphere and tremendously wealthy in natural resources.
 During the reign of Diaz between 1876 and 1911 American. English, French and Germans went into Mexico and established factories, dug oil wells and mines. They se- cured large tracts of land with what they thought were clear titles.
 In 1911 he said an idealist Fran cesco Madero rose against Diaz and overthrow his administration. bring ing on 10 years of revolution.
 Then came Carranza, Villa and others. finally Obregon and now Gales. who Is trying to void the titles, of which Doheny. Fall and William R. Hearst are large holders.
 Going back into the history of Mexico. Professor Gabriel told of the birth of the Aztec civilization, at about the time when Rome was crumbling. The Aztec culture of the 18th century flourished until the time of Cortez in 1521. Cortez. he said, with weapons and superstition, in two years brought down the Az tee empire and turned the Indian Into a slave and exploited him. His civilization and his religion were taken away from him.
 From 1521 to 1921 the Spanlard exploited the Indian, keeping him in subjection. The intermixing of races gave birth to the mestizo class. Now. he said, there are in Mexico s,o0o,oOO pure blooded 1n- dians, S,OO0,000 mestizoes and one million Creoles or pure white.
 The Spaniards introduced a land cd aristocracy or landed feudal syS- tenn. similar to that in existence in Spain in the middle ages. The Span- iards became land owners having vast estates. some of them as large as the state of Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined.
 The speaker told of the revolution of 1910 headed by priest named Miguel Hidalgo, and of Mexico be- coming independent in 1921 because of a change of administration in Spain.
 From then until 1876 Mexico, he said, was in a state of chaos. From 1876 to 1911 came the administra- tion of Diaz. who drove the peon farther down and made the feudal system more intensive than ever. He brought in modern industrialism
 (Continued on Page 15.)
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
Fines Paid Rather Than Submit to Flogging in Michigan Court;
 Others to Be Punished Tomorrow
Whipping Justice" in Country Court Gives Prisoners Option of Fine, Jail or Thrashing But Insists
 That Playing Be On the Bare Back

The parents agreed to the whip ping, Mrs. Thomas, a widow, dele gating Monroe to administer her share.
 As Monroe stepped forward with a borrowed belt, Chief Bourassa ordered young Thomas to bare his back. While he hesitated, friend stepped forward and paid his fine. Monroe then paid his sons fine also.
 Tomorrow morning two other youths, Stanley Squaric and Vincent Johnson, are to receive a whipping in lieu of a $60 fine or SO day Jail sentence, imposed by Justice Rio- belle. for automobile radiator cap stealing.