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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
10000 Workers ON strike.

Over $4,000 workers of the Ameri-
can stock-yards are out on strike.
For years the workers in the stock
yards have been suffering under the
most terrible conditions. They pre-
pared meat for the entire world, but
for themselves they had not even
bread. They had to live on stale
bread and poisoned meats that could
not be utilized any more by the meat
barons and was thrown out into the
cutters, where it was picked up by
the workers children.
The stock-yard magnates have to
their aid millions of dollars. They
buy gangsters and scabs. They
bring daily thousands and thousands
of tramps to take the places Of the
workers who are out on strike.
The workers, on the other hand.
are determined to fight to finish
for the betterment Of their con-
ditions.
This fight is one Of the most bitter
that has ever taken place between
workers and bosses in the United
States. The strike is already felt
outside of the stocl-yards.
Who viii win this fight? The
bosses with the gangsters and scabs
or the workers?
Come to see the Jungle by Upton
Sinclair that will soon be shown in
New York, where you will learn the
results.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Medical Quacks Mulct
Suckers for Millions

WASHINGTON, May 10. - The
American public is being "bunked" to
the tune Of millions Of dollars a year
by the so-called "Patent Medicine"
craze, it was declared today by DR..
A. J. Cramp, Of Chicago. head of the
Bureau of Investigation Of the Amer
lean Medical Association.
The ailing middle-aged, who buys
quack remedies, and women, who
purchase useless and sometimes
harmful cosmetics, are proving that
"You Can Fool Some Of the People
All the Time" Cramp said. The
Medical Association, viii u its 1000
physicians in convention here, he
added, has launched an educational
drive to warn the public against all
bunk" remedies.
The Cosmetic situation was being
considered by the House of Delegates,
the conventions legislative body,
where resolution pended calling on
Congress to enact law regulating
the manufacture and sale Of beauti-
fiers. The resolution was sponsored
by the New York State Medical
Association, after many cases of cos
metic poisonings were discovered.
Read Tho nniiv Worker Everv nav
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
The
Bishop
Responds

Bishop William Montgomery Brown is
the latest one to respond to the call for the
defense of The DAILY WORKER. DenOunc-
ing vigorously the efforts of the Professional
Patriots to suppress our militant daily, the
Bishop has consented to personally enlist in
the campaign to raise funds for the fight.
He has left his many duties to go on tour at
his own expense to raise the wherewithal for
our fight against the forces of militarism
and reaction.
Every worker who believes in The DAILY
WORKER should follow the Bishops exam
pie. Every cOmrade is in position to reach
a number of other workers to whom he can
point out the danger which our fighting
organ is facing. In every community prole-
tartan minute men should get on the job to
meet the emergency we are facing
On May 18th we go to trial in the Court of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20

each policyholder pays in, in advance,
several times enough to meet his pro
rata share Of all losses.
Run On Insurance
A run on an insurance company
would require the policyholders to be
mean enough to die all at once.
A depositor in a savings bank can
demand statement of his account at
any time. The New York Court of
Appeals has decided that court Of
equity cannot require a mutual life
insurance company to account to a
policyholder, or to his legal represen-
tatives after death, for his share of
the surplus, although it is admitted
that the surplus (reserve) belongs to
the policyholder-but the policyholder
never gets It.
Our democratic laws, oligarchical-
ly interpreted, has placed this sacred
reserve and surplus even beyond the
reach and control of the law itself.
Like Gold On the Moon.
Each policyholder owns share of
the reserve, but he never gets it, and
the law won't let him find out how
much it is. He can't get near enough
to throw a stone at it. The courts are
very kind to Legal Reserve.
The fraternal insure nee societies do
business at a cost of from 20 cents to
50 per policy per year and most of
them in common with the "Big Four"
collect premiums in dribs and drabs.
For every $1,000 paid in net death
claims their expenses average about
s124.
The 'Big Four" spend Sits for ex-
penses for every $1,000 paid as death
claims.
Can more criminal waste be con-
ceived? A saving bank with such
management would be put out of bust
ness before it got fairly started. The
officers Of a fraternal or cooperative
society with such management would
be mobbed.
The four weekly payment life in
surance companies with their monu-
mental expenses and soaring surplus
es, actually boast and point with pride
to the pile of swag and say, Firm as
the Rock of Gibraltar"
Imagine a business organization
Boosting of its surplus obtained, not
from the profits of a successful bust
ness but from assessments on its
members.
Everybody loses in industrial life
insurance except those who select the
superintendent Of insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
FAKE LABOR BILL
EXPOSED BY DAILY,
AGENT OF BOSSES
Crime Losses Told at
Industrial Meeting

Weaknesses Of the forty-eight hour
law for women, passed during the
last session Of the New York legis-
lature, were pointed out by Mark A.
DAILY, secretary of the Associated In
dustries, in an address before the
National Industrial Council in session
in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Unwittingly, Mr.. Daily agreed with
labor critics Of this measure, that this
is not forty-eight hour law but
fifty-one hour law. According to
DAILY:
Grave Abuse.
"No one knows whether the law
applies to the manufacturing plant
as a whole, to departments in plant
or to the individual workers. If it APP
plies to individual workers, it opens
the doors to grave abuse, for a scala
wag employer can beat it under any
system Of checking that may be de-
vised."
The convention was warned by Mr..
DAILY that New York State is falling
behind in industry Gin the face of the
more liberal laws in other states,
exemption from taxation and like in
ducements to manufacturers" There
has been a falling off of 30 per cent
in the last ten years, so DAILY declares.
Staggering Figures.
The industrialists were given a set
of staggering figures of the direct
loss thru crime each year. The total,
as estimated by William B. Joyce,
president of the National Surety
Company, is $4,000, 100000. Of this
amount, 81 100000 is stolen thru
the post office; S1,000O00,0O0 in
stock frauds; $4OO, 100000 in credit
frauds; 100000 in burglary, lar
ceny and petty theft; S100,0O0,000 is
embezzled; S1OO,00O,00O in forgery;
500, 100000 piracies and custom
frauds; freight thefts, $35,O00,0OO
and home building frauds, S25,000,-
600.
AS cure, Joyce advocated deep
err interest in private and public NOR
ais"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20

Despite the fact that comparisons
are odious, let US compare weekly pay
ment life insurance as practiced by
the ::Big Four with savings banks.
Savings banks conduct their bust
ness at an expense, on the average of
less than 81 per account per year. 1t
is much more laborious to keep books
for an account than for a policy.
Charge For Investing
As required by the State Banking
Department the deposits are invested
in mortgages or securities designated
by law, lust as life insurance reserves
are. with this difference, that while
savings banks do not charge their de-
positors with an investment ex-
pense," last year the "Big Four
charged their so-called cooperative
policyholders S11,510,064 for invest
ing the reserve in the best legally pre-
seribed gilt-edge securities.
The "Big Four" would have quite
a little difficulty in digging up bona
fide vouchers for this eleven million
dollars. There is a good time in store
for an enterprising investigating COM
mittee.
Company SwindIe Sheets
The present Superintendent Of In
surance is most lenient in allowing all
sorts Of fictitious expenses items to
pass unnoticed in the annual reports
Of these companies.
The Banking Department some time
ago threw out an expense item of So
for a box of cigars used at a bank
directors meeting. on the grounds that
savings banks were not organized to
furnish cigars for directors who were
well able to furnish their own cigars.
Savings banks recently applied to
the legislature for authority to retain
small percentage Of their surplus
TO protect them against runs. This
was denied, and in panics, it is the
savings banks that weather the storm.
Banks Distribute Interest
Savings banks distribute their net
profits every six months in interest.
Their investments, equivalent to the
legal reserve of an insurance COM
pany, are the amounts due their de-
positors; they have assets but no re-
serves.
Insurance companies have no runs
and have no bad debts, and can antici-
pate to within 10 Of their death
losses each year and yet the law re-
quires the "Big Four" to keep a stu
pendous surplus when they have no
actual liabilities, because each year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
MUTUAL" INSURANCE POLICYHOLDER.
NEVER GETS ANY OF THE PROFITS.
PREVIOUS EvENTs or INSURANCE EXPOSE.

The DAILY WORKER herewith continues its expose of the
fraudulent methods employed by the big Four 9hO the
metropolitan PRUDENTIAL John Hancock and the Colonial Life
Insurance Companies
ose the aOeeky payment life Insurance business are guilty of
fraud misuse of "nuta nds manipulation of polcybOlders
money and satbornatioB, to perjury
On April 9th Governor Smith ordered Superintendent of
Insurance James A. BehG maize inquiries into the charges
tanned if5 the Harrison articles.
So far the official Gpoogist for the Insurance companies has
not submitted his report The expose has caused something
sebng panic IN Insurance circles. 1t affects apaUGrds of
100000 American poicgkoLders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20

Next Sunday, May 22nd at p. M,
big mass meeting for the arrested
Cloakmakers and Furriers will take
place at S64 Suffer Avenue, Brook
lyn, N. Y.
The mass meeting is arranged by
the East New York Workers Culture
Club. Well-known speakers of the
Cloakmakers and Furriers Unions
win address the meeting. All work
ers Of East New York are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Camp Nitgedaiget.

Comrade Yetta Schaeffer Of the
Furriers Women's Council was out to
Camp Nitgedaiget. On her vacation
she did not forget the arrested Cloak
makers and Furriers. She made
collection which netted S36.50. This
is the second collection that Comrade
Schaeffer made. The first time she
collected $3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Needle Trade Defense

On Sunday evening, May 10th a
ball will be given in honor Of the
volunteer workers of the bazaar, and
the recently released cloakmaker
prisoner, Charles Wolfish, who was in
Jail for over four months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
No Yonth nnes Its I'M

The Young Peoples Culture Club
Of Brooklyn collected at one of it's
meetings the sum Of S21.00, which
they sent in to the office of the Joint
Defense and Relief Committee. They
promise to raise some more money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Workers School Sends SIS.

At q party held in the house Of
Comrade Wahl, where members Of
the Non-Partisan School were pres
ent, collection for the arrested
cloakmakers and furriers was taken
up. Il netted SIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20

DAILY WORKER
33 First Street. "
New York, N. Y.
Inclosed is my contribution Of
.... dollars -. !, cents to the
Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund
for stronger and better
DAILY WORKER and for the
defense or our paper. will pay
the same amount regularly
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Attach check or money order.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Admits skill in Graft.

After admitting that he obtained
100000 in 100 robberies in the New
Gardens, Richmond Hill and Jamaica
sections Of Queens, during the past
year, Joseph Fry was awaiting sem
tence today He pleaded guilty
shortly after he went on trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
By CHARLES YALE HARRISON.

During the past the big Four have increased their
nearly 500 million dollars We have contended through
out this series of articles that industrial life
reunabe the mutual pocyhoder in spite of the
that Haley Fse president the Metropolitan says "Our
policyholders the COMPANY"
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Current EUentS

Continued from Page One)
Palestine to make a "non-partisan"
survey of that sacred spot. Those
Of you who have followed the articles
of insurance graft running in The
DAILY WORKER, and particularly
those of you who know something of
the insurance business from the in
side, will understand that the travell-
ing expenses of Mr.. Frankel repre-
sent good investment for the Metro
politan and will result in a few mil
lions worth of new insurance written
on the lives of Jewish people in the
United States. 1t pays to advertise.
HERE is another good advertising
II stunt; Milton Hershey, the big
sugar and chocolate man donated
10000 pounds of sugar to the VIC
Tins of the Mississippi flood. This
act of generosity cost the magnate
something like one thousand dollars.
But it is worth several thousand dol
lars in advertising. Of course this
angle Of the case never occurred to
the broad-beamed mind of Hershey.
Just like casting bread upon the
waters. =
YOUNG, ambitious men not afraid
of hard work and prepared to wait
a few years for the dough should
lend their eyes to the following news
item: Two brothers who defrauded
banks and business firms out of $780,
900 were given terms of from five to
ten years in Sing Sing. Should the
boys get out at the end of five years
it means a wage scale Of $4,000 a
year each. Should they stay in for
ten, the pay check would be only
$500 year. Even at that forgery
pays better than journalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20

Map parishes composing the sugar bowl region Louisiana
which has been battling not only the Misspp the
swollen Atchafaaya river to its sugar cane
hinged region has been affected by vee breaks point
wall of water sweeping plantations communities The
vast torrent of water in the Mississippi using other streams as
relief outlets to the Gulf Of Mexico Predictions for nearly
20 feet OF water over the bottoms of ST. Martin parish the
mouth of the Achafalaya river.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20

Back to Sing Sing.
Icy Presser lost his latest fight
yesterday, to >shorten his twelve
year sentence for manslaughter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20

DOLCE COMMISSIONER WAR
= Rem, the new Tammany chief, is
making things hot for the gambling
fraternity, as we can see by the
papers. What we don't see in the
papers, would be more interesting no
doubt. The leopard does not change
his spots and the tiger does not shed
his claws. Tammany's conversion to
public purity is a good advertisement
for the presidential aspirations of
Alfred Z. Smith, out where the wild
alfalfa grows. 1t is strange but true
that millions Of American voters fear
that a catholic president would not
enforce laws enacted by protestants.
Tammany is now showing the world
that it is ready to enforce all the
laws that are fit to print.
RY the time these lines appear in
= print we will know whether Jim
Maloney of Boston defeated Jack
Sharkey of Lithuania in the fistic
encounter that took place last night
under the direction Of Tex Richard.
Each of the warriors expects to be
100000 to the good after the melee.
Thousands Of foolish Lithuanians
and equally foolish descendants of
Fionn Ma Cool will quarrel over the
respective merits Of the combatants
while they toll for 80 cents an hour.
"Suffer the little children 20 come
unto me" said the meek and lowly
Nazarene "for Of such is the kingdom
of heaven" Innocence is Just as
useful among the customers in the
boxing arena as in heaven. Richard
and Jehovah are in the same boat.
YOU'D be surprised to know how
many people have a piece of this
fellow" said well informed sport
ing insider To me a few weeks ago.
He was referring to an anaemic prac.
toner Of the inanly art who is being
groomed by Tex Richard to entice
Jack Dempsey back into the squared
circle. The "comeon" is barely able
to crawl under the ropes but by the
time Tex gets his one-per-cent sport
ing writers tuned up for and against
the contestants the sporting frater
nifty Of the United States will be
ready to bet their B. V. DIS on the
outcome. And by the time this par
ticular boxer gets thru his perform
ance he will be disfigured ear to
the good.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20

sacco and yanzeth Shall Not Diel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
BY ROBERT MITCHELL

The delegates of the motormens
and switchmens' local refused to vote
"as is" for another year. LAWN, the
leader of the fighting train drivers,
could not be bought or bulldozed into
any betrayal Of his men. In addi-
ton to the delegates of the motor
men on the subway, two delegates of
the 81" likewise refused to vote "as
is" on the ground that their men had
instructed them to demand an in
crease and that the new agreement
had first to be submitted back to
the workers.
At this point the Connolly steam
roller began its attack. The ever
ready henchmen, Mangan-LaSalla-
Fox combination got into motion.
There was launched the most vile
TRADE against the motormen.
Here, realizing for the first time
what was happening, Walsh the dele
gate of the motive power, electrical
operating division, arose to defend
the attacked delegates. lie first called
attention to the fact that the meet
ing in Hedley's office was illegal.
This point was conceded by Con-
molly himself. But the meeting con-
tinued none the less.
The vote was finally taken and
as might be expected the fake COM
pany union again sold out its men.
LAWN Immediately called a meet
ing of his men to whom the situation
was reported. That night at Moose
Hall, Lenox Ave. and 127th st. the
motormen voted unanimously to
break with the reptile company union
and form real union of their own.
The name they chose was the con-
solidated Railway Workers Of Great
er New York. Demands of increases
in pay were drawn up. A vote was
taken to strike July 5th, unless the
company conceded to their demands.
Denounce Brotherhood.
A group of men from company
union meeting of the az" motormen
joined the subway motormens' meet
ing. Each group denounced the fake
brotherhood for what it was. A COM
mittee was appointed to call on Frank
Hedley to present the demands of the
workers.
In the meantime the Interborough
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08

began its old game of double dealing,
"scab" importing, lying and falsifi-
cation in order to beat the impending
strike. The same old gang is in
control Of the policies of the Inter
borough at the present which has mis-
ruled this public utility from the be-
ginning. That its methods have not
improved with age will become clear
as we go on.
Scabs Imported.
Immediately Hedley and his adj
visors began the usual importation Of
scabs and strike breakers. Long be-
fore the strike was certainty the
Interborough had again resolved to
teach the men another lesson.
Several hundred strike breakers
came in from Chicago. Other hun
dreds were imported from Pittsburg,
Philadelphia, etc. These finks began
to ride the trains as passengers in
order to acquaint themselves with the
conditions on the road.
Scab Pen Built
At the Lenox and 14Sth St. yard,
provisions as for famine were be-
ing stocked up. A field kitchen was
installed. Hundreds of cots were set
up for the coming siege.
"The management has done all that
it did in previous strikes and more"
testified Quackenbush. That is go
ing some, as we may well believe
from our knowledge of past strikes.
Diplomacy"
But the Interborough officials did
not neglect the field of diplomacy"
AS always, the Interborough attempt
was to divide the men. First of all
a conference was held with the gen
eral committee delegates at which the
plan was worked out to break the
strike. Quackenbush was among
those present" 81 do not wish to
dictate to your free body, said this
arch hypocrite, "but l would suggest
:" Thereupon the plan of
breaking the strike was unfolded.
A letter was sent out to every menu
Der of the Brotherhood advising the
men that the general committee had
agreed to support the company.
The letter, signed by Hedley, stated
in part: "Our agreement with the
therhood-made at the insistence
of the Observation-Disclosures us to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-08
Four Communists Have
Their Lives Saved by
The Workers Protests

KOVNO, Lithuania, April t.
The international working class
records another success of its in
ternational active solidarity. The
Lithuanian government has abol-
ished the death sentences against
the four Communists, Glowacki,
Wizas, Schwarzberg, and Adam
owski. The first three were sem
fenced to Imprisonment fer life,
the latter to Is years hard labor.
The abolition of the death sem
fences is only the first step which
was brought about by the interna-
tional protest of the working class.
These protests must be continued
to free the many political prisoners
in Lithuania.
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Read The Daily Worker Every Day
Workers Party Puts
Up Ticket In Passaic

Continued from Page One)
other infamies practiced on the citi-
zens of Passaic.
"These facts attracted the atten-
ton of the whole country to the bar
barity of the mill-owners and their
tools, the city officials. It is time we
rid Passaic of its administration of
the mill-owners. by the mill-owners
and for the mill-owners. What we
need in Passaic is a government of
the workers who make up the over
whelming majority Of its inhabitants.
Need Labor Party.
Owe have had too much of bust
ness mems administrations in Pas
sale, yet most of the rival candidates
are also business men. Cabbell is a
manufacturer whose workers are un-
organized. Turner is the captain of
the Detective Bureau and we know
the work Of that bureau in the last
strike. vanacek is lawyer and Ru-
backy is doctor. It is time that the
workers Of Passaic were represented
by workers who understand and will
fight for the workers interests. What
we need in Passaic as we do all thru
the country is the unity of all labors'
forces into one powerful party Of all
tho producers, Labor Party cap
able Of fighting for the interests Of
the producers and giving us not a
bosses government or business
mans government but q workers gov
eminent"