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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
Seven Killed and
Is Injured in Big
SCab Taxi Blast

Seven persons are known to have
been killed, Is injured, eight of them
women, and others may be added to
the death list in an explosion that
wrecked the garage and offices Of the
non-union Yellow Taxicab Co., at 23d
st. and East River yesterday after
noon.
The blast is believed to have come
from a subterranean gasoline tank,
but officials of the company were un-
able to explain it. The force Of it
burst a water main in the basement,
flooding it.
1t is feared that other employers
may have been trapped in the base
ment and drowned. Emergency crews
Of police and firemen and physicians
and nurses from Bellevue Hospital
were working frantically all night to
penetrate the mass Of debris and bring
out other dead and injured.
Death List.
The dead: Frank Zuhrmelim, Rob-
ert O'Rourke, William e. Kelcher,
Charles Mallet, Charles j. Quinlan,
Florence J. Cavanaugh, and Eliza
beth Lovinger.
1t was unknown whether the dead
were killed by force Of the explosion
or drowned by the inrushing water
but it is believed that at least two OF
them were drowned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
in. BHffeI Swear
Judge Thayer VI
Bitterly Hostile

One of the strongest affidavits
showing prejudice by Judge Thayer
against the defendants in the Sacco-
Vanzetti trial at Dedham in 1921 was
sworn to by John Nicholas Beffel,
who covered the trial for Federated
Press. Bethel is now employed on a
local newspaper.
His deposition, in part, reads:
On or about the fourth morning Of
the trial, Marquis A. Ferrante, Italian
consul at Boston, was present in court
as a spectator. At the close of that
session, I went over to where the
consul was seated and talked with
him. He asked me to take down
brief statement which he wished to
give out to the press, and requested
me to pass it on to all the reporters
at the trial. The statement was this:
Italy Deeply Interested.
"The Italian authorities are deeply
interested in the case of Sacco and
Vanzetti, and this trial will be closely
followed by them. They have COM
plete confidence that the trial will be
conducted solely as criminal pro-
ceeding, without reference to the
political or social beliefs of anyone
involved"
Immediately afterward l typed this
statement, making several carbon
copies. Then l walked down to the
Dedham Inn, and entered the private
dining-room in which Judge Webster
Thayer and the reporters usually ate
their lunches. sat down with sew
eral Of the other newspapermen and
gave them copies of the consul's ut
terence. Judge Thayer was sitting
in another corner Of the room, at his
own table.
When the Judge got up to leave the
room Jack English Of the Boston
American showed him Marquis Fer
rante's statement and asked him what
he thought of it. Judge Thayer made
a gesture of anger.
Testy About Consul.
why" he said, shat fellow came
clear out to my home in Worcester
and assured me that the Italian gov
eminent had no interest in this case"
This was uttered in the presence Of
several newspapermen including Jack
English, Frank P. Sibley Of the Bos-
Continued on Page Ti0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
Testy About Consul.
Worker Killed When
Wall Falls on Him

Bernotto Rios, 80, Of tai West
Beach St., Long Beach, died yester-
day as the result Of being suffocated
when a wall collapsed while he was
working on the excavation for a new
hoted here.
Rios was buried beneath a ton Of
cement and sand when the wall col
lapsed. When dug out by other work
ers he was dead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
LONG WAR SEEN
IN LOCKOUT OF
PLUMBERS HERE
Cleveland and Seattle in
Grip of Struggle


With the striking plumbers of
Brooklyn, the locked out plumbers in
the other boroughs Of New York and
the Building Trades Employers As
ISOLATION maintaining myielding re-
sistance in the busfdihg trades war
here yesterday, there were no imme-
diate prospects of settlement.
Signifying the gravity of the local
lockout, International President John
NJ. Coefield of the Plumbers arrived
in the city yesterday. He Immediately
went into conference with G. G. Nor
man, head of the militant Building
Trades Employers Assn, but no an
nouncement was forthcoming to the
press.
Both sides are digging in for a
long and bitter struggle which may
determine the entire trend of build
10 trades wages and conditions in the
United States for the coming five
years. Born on the crest of the ap-
parently intending building trades
boom of the past four years, unions
in that industry have pressed con-
tinuously and successfully for ever
higher wages.
Bosses Take Stand.
The bosses have at last agreed to
make a stand against further Gag
gressions" and labor monopoly" as
they term it. This was indicated when
the master plumbers abdicated power
in the present fight and allowed the
Building Trades Employers outfit to
take over the leadership. With the
united bosses on one side, and the ar
rival of international President Coe-
field on the other side, a prolonged
deadlock seemed possible.
A sudden settlement, by which Coe-
field orders the Brooklyn plumbers
back to work at the old $12 scale
without hope of the 5-day week, thus
ending the lockout, is also seen as a
possibility. This would indicate that
the higher officials of the building
trades agree with some of the bosses
that the building crest has been
reached, and that the workers must
now prepare for "deflation."
National Struggle.
The New York situation is viewed
as part of a national crisis in the
building trades, with war brewing in
Cleveland and Seattle. In Cleveland
the bosses are separating the crafts
and beating them one by one while
in Seattle a knock down and drag
out fight seems imminent over the
full five-day week.
Officials of all plumbers locals in
the city met yesterday at p. m. at
the Aberdeen Hotel, headquarters of
the international officials.
Ask Labor Injunction.
The Bronx plumbers injected a
comic note into the serious struggle
by applying for an injunction to re-
strain the bosses from locking them
out. They contend that they have a
five-year agreement, which the En-
ployers' Association is violating, and
have asked the courts to make the
bosses be good.
A similar injunction granted re-
Gently was fatty defied by the master
plumbers and later vacated by the
Judge when he saw what farce it
was.
Plumbers Helpers Confer.
At conference between delega-
ton Of the striking plumbers help
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
HOLD BACK ARM
OF IMPERIALISM,
is LABOR'S CRY
SO Speakers to Address
Demonstration

All roads lead to Union Square to-
day. At noon, thousands of workers
will mass in the historic square on
14th St. in the greatest demonstra-
ton America has witnessed since
Yankee warships bombarded Marking
and brought western Imperialism
face to face with the revolution in
the Far East.
Thirty-eight speakers, using as
many platforms as needed, will ad
dress the seething throngs of work
ers. Representative of every pro-
gressive group and of half dozen
nationalities, including Chinese, they
will speak in English, Yiddish, Italian
and other languages. Every speech
will bear the one great demand,
Glands Off China"
Arrangements for the Union Square
demonstration have been made by
Glands Off China Committee"
Among the members of the General
Advisory Committee of this organiza-
ton are Prof. John Dewey, Bishop
Paul Jones, H. H. Breach, vice presi-
dent of the Electrical Workers
Union; Rev. John Haynes Holmes, DR..
James NJ. Yard, president of the West
China Union University; Louis
Budenz, editor of Labor Age; Rev.
Edmund B. Chaffee of the Labor
Temple; Rev. Charles c. Weber, of
the Church Of All Nations; Lewis S.
Gannett, editor of the Nation; Will
ian Pickens, Of the National Assoeia-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People; H. Linson, chairman of the
Chinese Students Club of Columbia
University, and several other Chinese
who are at the head of local Chinese
organizations.
The Hands Off China Committee,
just before time for the great demon
stration, released the following ap-
peal:
Issue Stirring Appeal.
Progressive workers will rally to
man at Union Square and demon
strate that they will not tolerate
American military forces and British
serving ambassadors and consuls in
terfering with the struggle of the
Chinese masses for national indepen-
dence and national unity.
"The Hands Off China Committee
knows that the workers of New
York City have only friendship and
solidarity with the great Nationalist
movement in China; the Hands Off
China Committee knows that it is
only the American bankers and trusts
and their British-serving government
in Washington that is opposing the
victorious march of the Chinese peo-
pie. It is therefore calling this meet
ing to oppose the guns and bullets
of Wall Street with the one power
that can prevent the imperialists
from starting another bloody war
the organized power of militant and
class-conscious workers"
Plane Scatters Cards.
"Stop War On China"
Demand Withdrawal Of U. S.
Troops and Battleships."
These were the demands dropping
from the sky itself, yesterday after
noon when an aeroplane, manned by
Ying Hsien Shin, a member Of the
Kuomintang, scared above New York
City and dropped hundred thousand
printed cards announcing a mass
demonstration this noon at Union
Square.
Thousands of spectators witnessed
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
WORKERS HERE TO DEMAND HANDS OFF CHINA
bic four" OFFICERS CRIMINALLY
LIABLE FOR FAKE REPORT TO STATE
Amazing Discrepancy in Statement Made to
Insurance Department Blamed on Poor Clerk
PREVIOUS events or INSURANCE EXPOSE

AS result of series of articles exposing the stumble OF
sOeeky payment life Governor Smith ordered Super
ntendent of Insurance A. BehG to conduct inquiry
based ON the charges made IN The DAILY WORKER.
Mr. BehG aOrote to The DAILY WORKER calling for spe
cifc charges vbick submitted him April Both HIS
reply Is awaited daily
The charges IN todags articles not included
Mr. BehG and constitute additional evidence 10tc
the superintendent aOiU haze to cope With.
The gods kind to the big Four" They have made it
possible legislature to be bought they have blessed the land
with forty million unfortunate people who not too sharp at
gureand above all they given the insurance business
most obliging Department of Insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
Broker Messenger
Robbed of 100000

julius Berman, messenger for a
stock brokerage firm who disappear
ed with more than 100000 worth Of
negotiable securities yesterday walk
ed into the police station and an
nounced he had been kidnapped and
robbed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
Mother Of 3 Dies By Poison

After an argument with her hus-
band yesterday, Mrs. Sophie Rapal-
aska, 40, and mother Of five children,
drank a quantity Of poison in the
kitchen Of her home, 175 Frost St.,
Brooklyn, according to police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
Bellanca Filters Ready

CURTISS FIELD, N. Y, May g.
Weather conditions permitting. the
Bellanca monoplane Columbia" may
take the air on its scheduled attempt
for nonstop flight from New York
to Paris next Friday, G. M. Bellanca,
designer of the plane announced to-
dav. Installation Of equipment for
the flight is nearly completed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
NATIONALIST THROW 100000
TROOPS into DRIVE ON CHANG TSO-LIN
LitvinOff Brands Changes Documents" Frauds
Drawn Up by White Russians
Eugene Chen Nails British Lie; Announces
Payment For Chiankiang Damages"
HIGHLIGHTs OF TODAY's NEWS

1-HGnko1O Nationalist Ucory Chang Tsojn
IN southern Hona 100000 troops IN Nationalist drive north
uardS. Feng prepares for attack on Picking.
2-Lit0ipof brands Cbangs "documens alleged to haze
been captured raids Soviet Union embassy compound
fOrgereS
3.-Eugene Chen nails British lie; paytpen'
damages done at ChinkiGng.
4-Jopamese labor pledges support to Nationalist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07

HANKOW, May 6.-Hankow Ma
tionalist troops are making rapid
progress in their northern drive
against Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian
war lord.
The expedition into Honan scored
a complete victory over Changes
troops at Chu Mai-tien. The Hankow
Nationalist surrounded the northern
ers and disarmed them, capturing ten
thousand rifles.
100000 Troops
General Tang Shen-tse is directing
the drive above Yengchow and a
major engagement with Chang Tso-
Inns troops is expected there soon.
More than 10000 Nationalist troops
are engaged in the Honan expedition
it il stated.
Gtaeral Feng Yu-hiang is making
preparations for drive against Pek-
ing, while General Yeng Shi-san in
Shansi is expected to join the drive
against the northerners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07

recovery from a tubercul
The trial has been delaye
prisoners, despite reports
trary, have not yet been s
The Nationalist expediti,
nan scored a complete Vi
the troops of Chang Tso-lin
war lord, at Chu Mai-tien.
kow Nationalist surroun
northerners and disarmed tn
turing ten thousand rifles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
Chen Paid Indemnity

(By Nationalist news Agency
HANKOW, May 6.-The attention
of Eugene Chen, Nationalist Foreign
Minister has been called to a state
ment by Rodney Gilbert in the North
China News of April 9th, stating,
"The check for $4,000 paid by the
Nationalist for damages done at
Chinkiang has been dishonored.
Eugene Chen said the statement
was a lie.
Support of japanese Labor
Japanese labor is solidly behind the
Hankow Nationalist Government and
is demanding of the Japanese Govern
ment the recognition of Nationalist
China, according to E. N. Ishida, Jap
snese delegate to the Pan-Pacific
Labor Conference.
He stated that ill-feeling which had
been separating the Chinese and the
Japanese had been due to aggressive
Japanese and other imperialists.
Japanese workers, he said, realize
that they are the victims of capital
ism as much as the Chinese.
Shore leave has been granted by the
British naval authorities TO British
sailors and marines and they have
gone ashore in the foreign concession.
They have not been allowed TO enter
the Chinese city.
Generals Liu Yu-chen and Chen
Thiao-mao, northern generals who
were captured at Wuchang and
charged with mistreating the popu-
lace, who were reported executed, are
held there imprisoned awaiting Liu's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
Changes Documents Forged

MOSCOW, May 6.-Documents al
legged by Chang Tso-lin to have been
captured in his raids on the Soviet
Union embassy compound at Picking
were branded as forgeries by M. M.
Litvinoff of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
eve are here facing widespread
plot to compromise the Soviet's ac-
credited representatives in China and
to spoil the Soviet's relations with
other countries, for instance, Japan"
said the assistant commissioner of
foreign Affairs.
Work of White Russians
The only document" of which a
photograph has been published so far
is drafted by an old process which
has not been used in the Soviet Union
since the 1917 revolution, and was
probably executed by clumsy White
Russians, M. Litvinoff says.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
items appear:

Simple Mathematics.
Now, anyone who ever got beyond
the fourth grade in public school (let
alone an expert accountant) is &C
quainted with simple addition by ex-
ercising such elementary knowledge
one would find that the correct and
true total to the above tabulation is
S1,074,632.66. In the Prudential Life
Insurance Company's annual report
as submitted to the Department of
Insurance the total is S1,028,026.66.
How does the State Department of
Insurance account for the discrepancy
of $46,606.00?
l visited the offices of the Insur-
ance Department yesterday and veri-
fled this error by examining the or
iginal statement as submitted by the
Prudential.
Blames Clerk.
When questioned about the error,
Mr. Hadley one of the state examiners
said, ooh clerk must have made the
mistake. You can't hold the Pruden-
tial officials for perjury" No mem
ton was made of perjury previous to
Hadley's remark.
Daniel f. Gordon, deputy superin-
tendent when informed of the error
said, 81 can't see how the officials
of the Prudential could have made
such simple mistake"
FaIse-Fraudulent.
It is hereby contended that the re-
port referred to is false and fraudu-
lent and is in violation Of Section 665
of the Penal Law Of the State of New
York in that it is statement show
ing the pecuniary condition Of cor
poration which contains a material
statement that is false.
The report was signed by Edward
D. Duffield, president, Willard l.
Hamilton, secretary, John X. Gore,
actuary and F'redric A. Boyle, treas
urer; all officers of the Prudential
Life Insurance Company.
This is clearly case for the dis
trict attorney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07

This department exists as a go
between for the insurance companies
and the public" Its duties are to
see that these gigantic corporations
do not conduct their business other
than on an honest and equitable
basis.
All reports as to business done and
the financial condition of the COM
panies involved are to be carefully
scrutinized by the examiners OF the
department.
On February 9Th of this year The
Prudential Life Insurance of Ameri-
ca submitted a report to Mr.. James
A. Beha, superintendent of insurance,
which among many other things con-
tanned the following deliberate and
false statement:
Under the main heading of "dis-
bursements" and particularly under
the sub-heading of Ordinary miscel-
laneous expenditures the following
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
FIRST SECTION

This issue consists of two sections
Be sure to get them all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
Plane scatters Cards.

ers, who were represented by c. E.
Miller president of the helpers or
ganization, M. Patrick, vice-presi-
dent and M. Singer a member Of the
executive board, with the officials of
the different locals Of plumbers in
greater New York presided at by
Thos. ]. Burke, the problem Of the
striking helpers was taken up.
"The attitude Of the plumbers and
especially Mr.. Burke was a very fav-
orable one for the helpers" said c. f.
Miller, "the fact that the plumbers
are taking such an attitude encour-
ages us in our struggle. We are pre-
pairing for the fight, which we hope
will not be a long one, although we
are making all preparations for long
battle.
"0n Monday we are opening a kit
chen that will feed all the striking
helpers. The kitchen will be open
every day at the Church Of All Ma
tions. This is necessary because the
low wages of the helpers-four dollars
a day does not permit them to saw
any money"
New Britain herald., 1927-06-25

seaelokAeO ar taapeetant h. sur.
gests advice BY . specialist who y
capable OF inspiring the psrson
with confidence, and the teainine
OF the personnel Of the boat 20
that they will influence the passen.
gers favorably BY their behavior
and conversation. At present the
tactless comments Of persons who
make remarks suggesting seasick.
ness sometimes bring on the at.
tack.
The hiccups may be prevented
by the swallowing OF much saliva
o. by the use in the stomach Of
shell doses OF Oh per cent Of by.
drochloric acid. A physician can
admintsts, this easily
Foods which are taken should
be In small portions. thoroughly
chowcd and moistened with saliva;
indigestible ports OF the food such
as skins and seeds should b avoid.
I'd. and also any considerable
amount Of fat.
Atropine, ~ has been said. may
be administered. but It does not
always serve to check IN attack
Of seaslckness. particularly In the
presence Of the causative factors
that have been mentioned. It
som etimes serves also to destroy
the appetite Of persons who have
not particularly good appetites.
especially older persons.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-25

her, and while she ate them he went
to look at what she had been doing.
That is nice dry sand" he re-
marked.
Yes" replied Mrs. Coyote, sit is
nice dry sand. That means that We
will have nice dry bedroom, and
that means everything. You may
never have noticed it, but that old
home Of yours was rather Damp"
Old Man Coyote looked 1t the en-
trance critically. He wanted to find
fault, but he couldn't. There had
been just room enough between
those roots and rock for that en-
trance and it never could be made
any larger. No one would ever dig
it open to. make it larger. Once in
side they would be safe from all
enemies.
II hope, my dear, that you are
planning back door," rentured Old
Man Coyote.
Leave it to me-" replied Mrs.
Coyote. 'Jf you don't like this louise
when it Is finished you can go back
to your old one. So there. my dear"
copyright. 1927. by T.W. Burgess)
New Britain herald., 1927-06-25
Loves Ernbers
Adsls Cirrisoa's Absorbing Sequel 10
Revelations of Wife"
HeRinninR 4 New SeriaH

with q modiah motor cloak thrown
around her. Lillian has the rare art
Of wearing clothes. and she also
possesses the common sense t. let
someone else whose honesty and
taste she can trust, do her buying
for her. Years ago she lived in the
same house with a woman who
afterward became an assistant to a
yorld-renowned creator of styles.
When the employer, whose business
ability was In inverse ratio to her
artistic flair. became bankrupt, the
woman, with very little capital.
started a dress shop upon an un-
fashionable but busy street. keeping
her affiliations with the sources of
supply which had fed her employ
er's exclusive establishment. Here
Lillian found her again. and i'm
mediately put herself in the others
capable sartorial hands. AS re-
suit she, and Marion also. were al
ways smartly clothed, at reasonable
prices and with the least possible
waste of Ljllian's time, every hour
of which spelled dollars.
gave her strong, handsome face.
her steady yet mirthful gray eyes.
her silyery hair, and her erect
youthful figure the need of admira-
ton which she always calls forth
from me. l saw the same tribute In
Philip Veritzen's face as she made
a grfmace at his command.
ut wouldn't be possible to kiss
you properly. Phil" she said auda-
ciously. You're not that kind OF
person. Besides. the bell-boy is at
the door. I am sure. phoned fer
him before put on my things and
I must consider my Repatriation.
OF course you have none to consider,
but your fr'erds aren't all in that
highly fortunate and desirable con-
dition."
She was at the outer door before
she had finished, and throwing II
open she stepped into the hall out
side. Mr.. Veritzen. who had taken
a swift step toward her, stopped
short. and with a grin of acknowl
edging surrender. thrust his hands
outward toward her. as she looked
back. laughing over her shoulder.
"Kamerad" he exclaimed. and
Lillian's little triumphant laugh had
not yet died upon her lips when the
bell-boy appeared to carry down the
drawing board which she had stipu-
lated she must bring with her upon
our outing.
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