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Evening star., 1927-02-28
Attack by Lion Proves Fatal.

UTICA, \. T.. February % R).
Capt. Louis Furtell Of Chicago. mem
Der of the EelsO Brothers Revue died
at a hospital here last night from
blood poisoning. the result Of an at.
tack by one of group Of lions with
which he performed in a vaudeville
act. Furtel was badly wounded on
the body several days ago while about
to feed the lions. He was rescued
with difficulty.
Evening star., 1927-02-28
GOVERNOR CANNOT ACT
IN CASE OF ATTACHE
Has No Jurisdiction Over Cities,
Florida Executive Says, When
Told of Mistreatment.

BY tho Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, February 26.
Because he has no jurisdiction over
the city authorities. Gov. John
w. Martin can do nothing in the com.
plant of the Italian embassy of the
alleged mistreatment at Tampa re.
Gently of Count Di Cellere, an attache,
except to refer the matter to the
mayor Of that city. the governor an.
nounced today.
The count, according to a complaint
filed with Secretary Of State kellogg
at Washington, was attacked by. police
officers. arrested and placed in Jail
without provocation." Secretary
Kellogg asked Gov. Martin to in.
vestigate the matter.
Evening star., 1927-02-28
Women Refuse Jury
Duty as Too Irksome
In Irish Free State
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Feb.
ruary 2S.-Sex equality has failed
in the Saorstat jury box and legis-
lators have drawn up q new bill
exempting women from court duty.
Under the constitution the COM
plete equality of men and women
in the Saorstat was established,
with identical political rights and
responsibilities. But women found
the political duty of serving on
juries frksome.
Not more than 80 women have
served on Saorstat juries within
the last two years, it having been
arranged for them to be exempted
upon application, and the ministry
of justice concludes that the exist
ing law does not justify admins.
trative expenses.
Evening star., 1927-02-28
Fernandez.
Balloon Breaks Away.

DETROIT. February % R.--The
Skylark, a balloon owned by the
Detroit Flying Club, in which K. M
Warren and w. c. Naylor. balloon.
lists. hoped to establish new distance
and endurance records. broke away
while being inflated Saturday night.
The balloon, without passengers, was
last reported headed eastward In tow
Of q 40-nile wind. Officials are at
tempting to locate the bag In Penn
sylyania and New York.
Evening star., 1927-02-28
SLAYERS SENT TO DEATH.
Negroes Executed for Killing De-
fender Of Two Young Women.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. February eS
@.-F'rancis Webb and Max Amos
Wilson, negroes. were electrocuted In
the Western Penitentiary at Rock.
view today for the Staying of Walter
Harden at Chester, Pa. last Septem-
ber.
The two were convicted for killing
Harden. wAo was trying to protect
two girl c3mpanions.
Evening star., 1927-02-28
WAR COSTS ON NEW BASE.
French Official Suggests Reap
portionment Among the Nations.

HAVRE, France, February % @.-
NJ. Marin. minister Of pensions, speak.
ing at the veterans banquet yester.
day, said the war costs should be-
reapportioned among the nations, so
that those which suffered most
through the loss Of manpower and
territorial devastation would not be
crushed financially.
M. Marin qualified this declaration.
however, as his personal opinion"
Evening star., 1927-02-28
R0I MEGRUE SUCCUMBS.
Playwright, 43, Was Author o.
Several Broadway Attractions.

NEW YORK, February % OP).-Roi
Cooper Megrue. playwright and
author of several Broadway. attrac-
tions in the last dozen years, died sud
denly yesterday in his hotel. He was
43 years old.
Among his better known plays were
1T Pays To Advertise" "Her Only
Way" Under Cover" "Among the
Girls" and "Honors Are Even"
He was born in New York City
and educated at Trinity College and
Columbia University.
Evening star., 1927-02-28
Death of 20 at Sea
Revealed by Sailor
Picked Up in Boat
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, February 2S.-A
Greek seaman, who was rescued
clinging to q boat and landed at
Penzance, Cornwall. reported the
floundering Of the Greek steamer
Stenies, with the loss of 20 men,
says a Lloyds' dispatch from that
place.
The seaman described himself
as the engineer of the steamer
and said the vessel was in COLI
sion off Lands End with an un.
known craft shortly after mid.
night Thursday. The ships boat
was launched with 81 of the crew,
but all were drowned except the
engineer.
The Stenies was a vessel Of
1913 tons.
Evening star., 1927-02-28
Retired Bishop Dies.

LONDON, February % R.-Right
Rev. Charles John Ridgeway, former
Bishop Of Chichester, died today in a
London nursing home. He retired
from the bishopric in 1919. He was
In his eighty.sixth year.
Evening star., 1927-02-28
INFLUENZA SWEEPS CUBA.
Epidemic Declared Milder Than in
191S-10, However.

HAVANA, February % R).-An in
fluenza epidemic in Cuba is officially
announced by Secretary Of Sanitation
Fernandez.
The disease is widespread. but,
although full reports have not been
received. there is assurance that the
number of persons affected does not
reach the record Of the influenza epi-
demic In 1918 and 1919
Evening star., 1927-02-28
RESCUED SHIP IN PORT.
British Schooner and Crew of Si1
Towed From Storm Peril.

PORTLAND. Maine. February %
@.-Rescued from being dashed to
pieces on the dangerous lodges near
Wood Island by the southeast storm
which swept the coast, the British
three.masted schooner Ronald c.
Longmire, and it's crew OF six Nova
Scotian seamen arrived yesterday in
tow of the coastguard cutter Ossipee.
The schooner, in command Of Capt.
fertilizer.
Evening star., 1927-02-28
EX-REPRESENTATIVE DIES.
James S. Havens Succumbs in
Rochester, N. Y, Aged 90.

ROCHESTER, N. Y. February 2s.-
James S. Havens. 6S former Repre-.
sentative In Congress. and in recent
years head of the legal department
Of the Eastman Kodak Co. died yes.
terday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16
ALL CHINA LABOR FEDERATION
ASKS WORLDS WORKERS TO AID
RESISTANCE TO INTERVENTION

HANKoW April representing
100000 workers baeshps
heed Marking without killing woundng hundreds Of
the civil population and portion of the
AT the of March than mercessy killed
by British gunfre n he Of
On April Japanese machine fired
Hankow killing seriously wundng 49, including chill
dren.
Only Latest Abuses
These latest the climax of long and bitter experience
the Chinese dealing with the imperialism governments
of against
guard the struggle for freedom and independence China
Away With Imperialism.
AS the uplifting conditions
Of workers and must the grip Of imperialism
Threats For this struggle the bitter
what the cost The time has forever when battp rifles
corruption be effectively used to enslave China
But imperialism mas still do harm
all the world
present intervention China which will be
sructve than the World
We ask understand that today impossible
people 400O0O00
ton of what civilization is left in the West.
Don't Attack China
of
China nothing friendship
And have who the majority
farmers stop this this
trophe.
We you'll Withdraw all warships
Establish between Chinese
Westl
Greet the Chinese revolution the world
COMMITTEE
OF THE ALL-CIINA LABOR FEDERATION.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16
"SaCCO, vanzetti
Innocent" Eye
Witness Declares

BOSTON, April 15.-Coming from
Florida at his own expense to aid in
the effort to save Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti from the electric
chair, Albert Frantello, who saw the
two gunner who shot down a pay
master and his guard in South Brain
tree in 1920, the crime for which
Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted
called at the office of Gov. Alvan T,
Fuller this afternoon.
SaccO, Vanzetti Innocent, He Says.
Frantello stated emphatically at the
trial, and he repeated his statement
today, that the bandits were not Sac
co and Vanzetti.
The man, who has been making his
home in Florida, was accompanied by
Representative Boland D. Sawyer, of
Ware, who failed in an attempt to get
the legislature to name commission
to investigate the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
Police Stop Students Test.
Harvard students, who planned to
re-enact the shooting in South Brain
tree this afternoon, on the seventh an
niversary of the crime, in an effort
to determine whether witnesses could
Continued on Page Taco)
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Tacoma Police Stop
Meeting for SaccO,
vanzGtti Liberation

TACOMA, Wash, April Is = A
mass meeting under l. w. w. auspices
was held at 18th and Pacific Ave-, Sat-
urday evening, April 9Th at 8 p. m.
to protest against the unjust imprison-
ment and coming execution Of Sacco
and Vanzetti.
Arthur Boose an ex-class-war pris-
oner was the speaker of the evening
and beginning at o'clock for forty
minutes spoke of the Massachusetts
frame-up and persecution.
The speaker showed how the court,
high and low, and all of the law maxi
ing and law enforcing power of both
the state and federal government, is
used as weapon in the hands of the
capitalist class to keep the working
class in subsection.
Suddenly as though to prove the
truth of the speakers statement a
uniformed Tacoma police officer step
ped up to the speaker and forced him
to step down from the box and or
dered the crowd to dispense.
Big business advertises Tacoma as
the lumber capitol of America, and
14th and Pacific AYES. has been used
for years for public meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16
Monster Protest at
Union Square Today
For SdCCo, vanzetti

At least $4,000 people are expected
to join in the monster protest demon
stration for Sacco and Vanzetti at 1
o'clock today in Union Square.
All signs tend to indicate that this
huge public gathering, arranged by
the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Com
mittee, representing more than $780,
900 New York organized workers will
be one of the greatest in the history
of labor in this country.
Platforms; 40 Speakers
On the four platforms which are
being erected for the occasion, 40
speakers will voice the deep resent
ment of the workers of this city
against the vicious verdict just up
held by the highest court in Massa-
chusetts.
6 Languages.
Speeches will be made in six Ian
guages,-English, Jewish, Italian,
Spanish, Hungarian and German.
Those who will address today's
mass meeting include Forrest Bailey,
director of the American Civil Liber-
ties Union; Arthur Garfield Hays,
prominent liberal attorney; Leonard
Abbot, Louis Budenz, editor Of Labor
Age;" McAllister Coleman, Paxton
Hibben, I. Lattimer.
Harry Kelly, Richard Brazier, Lud-
wig Lore, editor of the "Volkszei-
tung," Morris E. Taft, /. Wagner, A.
Peretz, Mateo Rico, A. Ramuglia,
Enea Sormenti, Carlo Tresca.
Scott Nearing, Moissaye J. Olgin,
Luis Quintiliano, Richard B. Moore,
S. Leibowitz, Bishop Paul Jones,
Charles Kiss, editor of "Elore;"
Charles Kline, James p. Cannon, Re-
becca Grecht.
Rose Wortis, James Walsh, William
+. Dunno, editor "The DAILY
WORKER" Jack Stachel, William w.
Weinstone, secretary of the New York
district of the Workers (Communist)
Continued on Page Three)
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often taken from the small store
needed for the necessities of life, dol
lars and cents which are wheedled
and scared out of an ignorant public
with threats Of perjury in old age and
unburied corpses in death. CDR.
Frankel is doctor of philosophy
calculated in terms of $4,000 year. }
acknowledgements.
In England few years ago, Lord
Parmoor, member of the late labor
cabinet, conducted an official investi-
cation into the malicious Industrial
insurance system as conducted in that
country. It was found that "indus-
trial" insurance is excessive in cost,
harsh in its conditions and misrep-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16
CHANG, BRIBED
BY BANKERS, IN
ATTACK 0NLEFT
Great Protest Strike is
Spreading Rapidly
Bulletin.

Bulletin.
HANKOW, April 15.-The Com
munists are lining up their forces
here. A mass meeting today de-
nounced Chang Kai Shek and his
followers again as counter-revolu-
tionists and invited Feng Yu
Hsiang, once known as the "chris-
tian general" to join forces with
them to fight Chang.
The Peasants Union is carrying
out division Of the land in Human
province, it was reported here to-
day.
SHANGHAI, April 15.-With the
adoption of resolutions at the right
wing conference at Marking this af-
ternoon calling for the impeachment
of the Hankow Government, Chang
Kai-shek has definitely turned coun-
ter-revolutionary. Reports received
here indicate that he may even at
tempt to split the Nationalist move
ment by setting up another govern
ment at Marking.
Denounce Militarists
The resolutions adopted at the con-
ference denounced the leaders of the
liberation movement as "disturbers Of
the public order in China" according
to dispatches received here.
Among those denounced in the res
olutions are Michael Borodin, adviser
to the. Nationalist Government;
George Hsu-chien, minister of Jus
tice; Chen Tu-hsiu, leader of the Chi
nese Communist Party; Tung Ping
shen, Minister Of Agriculture and
sixteen others.
Let's Ask For Unity
A small delegation from Hankow
attended the conference and put up
a strong plea for unity
More In Protest Strike
The strike here declared as pro-
test against the attempts of Chang
Kai--shek to smash the local unions
is spreading rapidly. The seamen's
and textile workers unions, the most
powerful in the city, have succeeded
in tying up cotton mills and ship
ping.
Bankers Bride Chang
II has been definitely established
that local bankers and merchants
have offered Chang 100000
Shanghai dollars for suppressing To-
cal labor organizations. Three mill
lion dollars have already been paid
to him, it is reported.
Workers organizations have been
raided and ruthless attempts at their
suppression have been made despite
the protests Of workers, students and
Communist organizations.
Protest British Raids
The Nationalist News Agency re
ports that Eugene Chen, Nationalii
Continued on Page 7,yo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16
By CHARLES YALE HARRISON.

silence Mnder thlS attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16

resented and Intellectual as life insur-
ance coverage. This is as true Of the
American brand as it is Of the Eng
lish.
Among the poor of all countries
death has always been a mysterious
visitant, whose coming is usually cell
ebrated with strange and fantastic
rites. The English poor, particularly,
have always invested their funeral
rites with the most snowy, tawdry
trappings meagre pure could af-
ford.
Ostentation Of the Poor.
One who has witnessed Cockney
coster's funeral will never forget the
Continued on Page TsOo)
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Chen Refuses ANY
Apologies Until
Guilt Is Proven

WASHINGTON, April 15.-De-
claring that the Hankow Government
is quite willing to make good dam
ages actually done by Nationalist
troops and scoring the United States
for the slaughter of peaceful Chinese
citizens at Marking, Eugene Chen,
Nationalist Foreign Minister replied
to the bellicose American note sent
to him several days ago.
Suggests Investigation
Suggesting that an International
investigation of the Marking affair
be made, the Nationalist note says:
"In reply to the American demands
for complete reparation for the per-
sonal injury and material damage
done, the Nationalist Government is
prepared to make good all damage
done to the American consulate at
Marking.
Denies Any Guilt.
GAS regards reparation for personal
injuries to American nationals and
other material damage done, the
Nationalist Government is prepared
to make all reasonable and necessary
Preparations, except in case where it
can be definitely proven that the
same has been caused by the British
American naval bombardment of
Marking on March "a, or by North
ern rebels and agents provocateurs.
"The demand for the adequate
punishment for commanders of the
troops responsible for the murder, the
personal injuries and indignities and
the material damage done as also of
all persons found to be implicated
necessarily assumes guilt Of the ma
tionalist forces who captured Nank-
ing.
Northerners Caught.
"While this guilt is denied in the
preliminary statement issued on
March 81, rigid government inquiry
is being conducted in order to ascer-
tain the exact facts including veri-
fication of the outstanding facts in
the report to the military council by
General Chen Chen, who took Nank-
ing, that his forces rounded up and
captured approximately 10000 North
ern soldiers with rifles, besides 1000
camp followers inside the city.
No Punishment Yet.
The Nationalist Government pro-
poses that the question of punisir-
ment should await the findings of
this Government inquiry now in pro-
gress, or Of an international Com
mittee of Inquiry, to be Immediately
instituted by the Nationalist Govern
ment and the United States Govern
ment. AS the laws of nations and
the recognized practice of civilized
States prohibit the bombardment of
city in friendly state, the Ma
tionalist Government propose that the
Commission of Inquiry shall also in
vestigate the circumstances of the
bombardment Of the unfortified city
Continued on Page Tloo)
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MinGO|a Audience
Disguised by Stool
Pigeons Testimony
BY MICHAEL GOLD.


Since Judas hung himself on a
sour-apple tree, the feeling has been
widespread that stool pigeon is the
meanest form of human life.
This may be superstition, but the
stool pigeon who testified yesterday
at the trial of Ben Gold and 10 other
furriers at Mineola shifted his eyes
from side to side and found not a
friendly face in the courtroom.
Sickening Court Atmosphere.
Everyone seemed little nauseated,
even the hard-boiled dicks and court
attendants, as the Shiny, smelly and
jigsawed story dropped from the
twitchings lips of the young Judas
on the witness stand.
His name was Barnet Basoff, and
he held the stand for about four hours
before fascinated audience. In that
time he admitted at least twenty
times that he had lied in previous tes-
timony, and had double-crossed the
union, the lawyer who had previously
defender him, and most of his friends.
His testimony was a bewildering
mass of admitted lies and counter
lies. In previous trial he had been
asked whether he was telling the
truth about certain matter.
II can say it to God alone that this
is the TRUTH" he testified dramatical-
ly.
Admits Chronic Lying.
NLa,, al 4
the truth Basoff said it was not but
that he had used the name of God
to make his previous lie more impress
sive. This admission did not help
sweeten the odor of rat in the court
room. 1t was sample of all his
testimony.
Basoff was not an important men,
Der of the furriers' union during the
strike last year, but he has become
important in this trial because it is
on his story that the prosecution is
chiefly basing its case against Ben
Gold and the others.
His testimony yesterday went back
and forth through the questions
levelled at him by the district attor-
ney and the attorneys for the defense,
but synthezied, the following queer
tale, worthy of Joseph Conrad was
unfolded:
Testimony Confused.
1.-Basoff said he had been fur
rier only year, and then when the
, strike came, he was put on the G. P.
g., three letters which he repeated
again and again very mysteriously,
until the defense attorney got him to
admit they meant only the General
\ Picketing Committee.
\ 2.-He didn't belong to the union
while serving on this committee, but
was employed only for Strong arm"
work, in return for which he was paid
his room rent, he said.
3.--Last April, while seated in the
cafeteria at Astoria Hall, SCHNEIDER
and Shapiro, two furriers' union Of
ficials, told him he must come up
stairs, to go out with IL other fur
riers to Long Island, to wreck a shop
there.
4.-Then according to his story, he
came out in car with about IL fur
riers, and they entered a little shop
over a chop suey house in Rockville
Centre, L. /. To his horror, the stool
pigeon said, he discovered the shop
was owned by Mike Barnett, friend
Of his here and in England for the
pasts1 6 years.
5.-Terrible things happened in the
shop, cutting of furs, and terrorizing
Of women, and the beating up of Bar
Continued on Page Three
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Some few years ago, DR.. Lee X,
Frankel, Phi. D., a prominent "indus-
trial' life insurance man, and at pres
ent second vice-president of the, Met
ropolitan Life, speaking at the Ma
tional Conference of Charities and
Correction, said: "Today the sole
criterion which can be brought
against industrial life insurance is
that. of cost--after all, Service is not
calculable in dollars and cents"
In spite of the learned DOCTORS
statement, industrial" life insurance
is calculated in dollars and cents
dollars and cents which are most
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16
Envoy to Britain in big Four" Scandal
PREVIOUS EVENTS OF INSURANCE EXPOSE


to
Dread Of nationwide
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16
BOSSES PAPER
AFFORDS SPACE
TO ASSIST VOL
Furriers See Proof of
Right Wing Conspiracy

Ono deal with Associated Woll
declares"
In this denial Of treachery, printed
in yesterdays ''Women's Wear" the
fur workers of New York see the
clearest proof that Matthew Vol,
Edward F. McGrady and Hugh
Frayne, the reactionary, union
smashing trio of the A. F. of L., have
made a secret agreement with the
heads of the Associated Fur Manu-
facturers in return for their assis-
lance in forcing registration with the
scab International union.
Sold On s-POint Basis.
The Joint Board officers told the
workers several weeks ago that they
knew the right wing takers had
agreed to deal with the employers on
the basis of the infamous "S-point
agreement" which William Green and
his notorious friend, Frayne, had
tried to sign, behind the backs of the
workers, in the midst of last years
strike.
If any of the fur workers had
doubts at first about the accuracy of
this report, they have none left now.
They know from what is happening
in the shops that Vol, McGrady and
Frayne made a DEAL" and that the
manufacturers association leaders
are now doing their best to carry out
their promise to make the fur work
ers register.
Bosses Failing Too.
Evidently the job is not proving so
easy, for a letter was received yes
terday by all members of the asso-
citation, from President Samuel N.
Samuels, calling upon the bosses to
discharge all fur workers who had
not registered by yesterday after
noon.
This letter was obviously sent at
the request of Matthew Vol, for
Mr.. Samuels states that complaints
have been received from the A. F. of
L. because certain manufacturers are
employing workers who have not
registered. According to A. F. of
L. reckoning, this means they are not
members in good standing in the fur
workers union.
Defy Intimidators.
But the workers think otherwise,
and they are continuing to defy the
methods of intimidation being tried
Continued on Page Three
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A leader beloved by the workers
both for his personal qualities and his
fearless, militant leadership of the
New York Furriers' Joint Board. Ben
Gold with 10 of his fellow-workers
have been brought to trial in capital
list court thru the conspiracy of reac-
tionary A. F, of L. officials who fear
and hate his devotion to the union and
the interests of the workers.