The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 11 1927 BIG FOUR SWINDLE FORTY MILLION C the to (Continued from Page One) lly call on them at their homes, their| worker. : sh tailors, barbers, caterers, ¢ But} The idea of industrial life insur- not their insurance agents. hat is ance is an ean one. The British a privi res ed for the worker-| industrial life insurance companies) Reig Bae therefore given the high honor of original nothing more than burial) poubed aes be Bep steht by va having the company, in the person of Societies. In 1875 the Prudential | bs rhoroug: br Pio je men an¢ its duly authorized agent, call on him | Life Insurance Company sent repre- | Paavo the strike from spreading. atti home. The “Big Four” ind tatives to England to study this | The ‘Transit Commission was likewise trial insurance companies whi novel and highly profitable method | playing a part, still a neutral one at assets run into billi ars con-|of working class pilferage and short- | this stage of the game. The strikers descend to call weekly at the homes it was inaugurated in| Were willing to arbitrate but as we a costly one ARTICLE XVI.—TH ! E 1926 STRIKE—VICTORY FROM DEFEAT |by a profound feeling of solidarity} back its army unbroken. Hedley had |toward all workers struggling with] previously, “fired” all the strikers. | their employers. We pledge | But such was the success of the con- | our moral and financial support to|duct of the strike that by Thursday, |your courageous strikers. . 2’ | July 22nd, the Company agreed to |The letter was signed, Ben Gold, | take back all the strikers. | Manager, |. Previously a mass parade was held | But the Tammany labor officials | downtown to give the strike a more | |remained quiet. Even the organizers | dramatic touch. The mayor was} |foreed to see the strikers and made | rganize the Traction Workers | | . WINDBER, Pa. April 10.—Strike | pany the union is watching is the Na- | Sentiment in the non-union fields of| tional Mining Co., a subsidiary of U. NON-UNION BERWIND-WHITE MINERS DEMAND CHECKWEIGHMAN, PAY RAISE Form United Front Committee; May Strike All Of Somerset County; Meetings Held S. Steel, which has not yet announced what it will do. Since April 1 thé union has been Somerset County is again active, A preliminary meeting in Windber that took.the Berwind-White Coal Co. un- of the poor. And why not? It pays! |this country. — 2 % And how! There are sixteen companies writ. | It is well to remember that the ing this sort of insurance in the! “Big Four” are so-called “mutual”| United States today but the “Big companies. They are supposed to| Four” cpntrol more than 95 per cent operate in the interest of their|0f all the business, — i policyholders. All profits are (in) Last year the “Big Four” put two theory) to be turned back to the mil- billion six hundred million of new in-| lions of policyholders who are the| dustrial life insurance on their books, stockholders in these colossal cor-|during the same year one _billior. | porations. We propose to prove! three hundred million of “Big Four” that these assets which now run into industrial life insurance lapsed, an have seen, Hedley refused the offer on the ground that the “Brotherhood” would not permit the dealing with an | “outlaw” group, When the Transit Commission asked to meet with the Brotherhood, Hedley was forced to concede the re- quest. The Commission had asked to meet the General Committee. In- stead Quackenbush sent Connolly, Mangan and Kelly with the instruc- tions to say that they represented the whole Brotherhood in an agreed of the Amalgamated Association of | Street and Electric Railway Employ: ees who were then in conference with Lavin and his committee made no | definite attempt to take over the sit- | uation, One of the outstanding events in the early conduct of the strike was |the walkout of the powerhouse men junder the leadership of James F, Walsh. . For a moment it seemed as if the blow would cripple the Inter- |some pretence of being on their side | | although later as may be expetted, | {he completely tepudiated his early) |“sympathy” and left the strikers | “cold.” } | A’ mass picketing demonstration | was organized, this too as a move to! |secure better terms from the Com-| pany. These forces had the desired | effect. ‘The Company agreed to take | back all the workers. On Friday awares, brought demand for an im-| mediate walkout from 500 miners who had hastily assembled. Speakers re- | strained them until a committee could be elected to present demands to the corporation. The meeting was called by the United Front Committee of Windber Miners and addressed by! ‘Powers Hapgood and Tony Minerich. - Don’t Trust Company As with all revolting miners their fiyst demand was for checkweighmen THREE AND A HALF BILLIONS mount equal to half of the new busi- | OF DOLLARS are kept in a reserve, "88: It must be remembered that fund and expertly manipulated to the 4M industrial lapse means a total loss upon plan. Thus was the Transit Commission also hoodwinked, advantage of a very select board oft? the worker-insurer, Conser The strike began as per schedule directors. i tively estimated these lapsed policies |on Tuesday, 1 A. M., July 6th. The Tt will be shown during this’ ex-| Tepresent 50 million dollars in for-| walkout of the subway motormen was pose that these allegedly “altruistic” | felted working class money. , companies carry on their business Weekly payment life’ insurance | and deception resorted to on the part with a complete contempt of even/ Policies do not have a cash surrender | of the Company and the intimidation common commercial decency. It will] Value until they have been in foree| carried on by the Company Union and be further shown that the “mutual” |” the company’s books for ten years. |its delegates ,Prevented the other insuring of American workers’ lives|Ten long years before the insured | workers from joining theix brothers. is carried on with a more than good- °@" draw a cent on his policy. Think! Nevertheless, the strike practically ly sprinkling of commercial chican-|°f it! And the average life of a/ shut down service. ; ery, swindle and deception. Petcag payment policy is less than} visto) a feck ee bees the “Bie Four” have te ssets | five years. against the most overwhelming odds Sanne: ceckun pe Six The folowing table shows how the | Ed. Lavin early recognized that the HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. | ™illions of industrial life insurance | help of the Labor Movement was es- When it is recalled that the world| Policies terminate every year: sential _to victory. His appeals to famous allied Ford enterprises are| Death Claims ........... the officials of organized labor re- capitalized at a little over One Billion| Maturity (endowments) mained practically unheeded, A com- dollars, the tremendous reality and} Surrender (cash value) ... | mittee sent Da the Central | Trades power implied in these figures be-| Other Causes and Labor Council was advised not | practically 100%. But the efforts | Stepped into the breach, working the| But the Interborough’s long habit |men#18 and 20 hours a day and man-| of double-crossing reasserted itself. jaged to maintain some semblance of! When the men appeared before the | service, | himself to be the honest, fearless saw an opportunity, and sought to fighter which he has since proven | discriminate against some of them. himself. The New York Press began its ex- = | 7 +), | the mark. The men, in a rage, turned | pected igieiae ome a strike. _, Daily | aheut to renew the strike. There- its propaganda increased in vicious- } A 7 was ¢ ted with redoubled |ness and misrepresentation. But the rac eel ac a }lines of the motormen and switch- | “Perey: : loyed |men held firm. When the Interbor-|, The same tactics was employed as ough saw that it could not break the | before: the attempt to had such strike as easily as it had thought by | terms as would best enable the men Union, it resorted to “diplomacy.” | ting ttme when the whole body of the Into the limelight stepped one Her- | Strikers would come out together. |man A. Metz, former city comptroller | That night, while the strikers were | and now one of the Interborough Dir- | peaceably dispersing from their meet- jectors, with an offer of mediation. | ing, they were set upon by the arm- borough, but the Company Union|they marched back to work in a body. to prevent the company from cheat- |148th St. barns, Keegan, Vice Presi-| Walsh by this act, however, showed | gent of the Interborough thought he | | Keegan, however, had overstepped | means of finks and the Company |‘? Yenew the struggle at a more fit-' jing the men on coal. They also de- {mand union wages, retroactive to} February 15. Somerset County walked out in the great 1922 strike, along with non union Westmorland County and the ‘non union coking coal fields of Fay- ette and Greene counties, cdding a total of 70.000 workers temporarily | |to the United Mine Workers. The men of the four counties were not included | {in the national settlement of that year | but Somerset continued its strike into 1925. Men Blacklisted Since then wages have been con- siderably reduced, the guards’ system | remains oppressive and men are black- listed if they complain at robbery by | |the company weighbosses. The 1922 | Somerset strike, it is pointed out,! | started after a preliminary meeting | concentrating its fight against Pitts- burgh Coal Co., te biggest com- mercial coal comr.ny in Ameri¢a. It | went open shop a year and a half ago, breaking the Jacksonville contract but never was able to get half of its fifty- odd mines in operation. The union is now fighting to shut down the re- mainder, Sheriffs of Allegheny and Washing- ton counties continue attempt to stop picketing. Sheriff Braun of Alleghany says that only two pickets may be placed in front of any mine at one time. lie forbids the assembly of j more than three persons in the vicin- ity of scab operations. Guards and seabs are not included in the order. Bethlehem Steel Co. has high iron fences around its Washington County properties, with many guards. Search- lights play over the countryside. Akron Sky Pilots Crawl When Rubber Band Snaps at En Sdinih Rnparent, LAPSE (total loss) . |to speak on the floor. Hugh Frayne,|This offer had of course to be ac-|ed gangsters of the Police Industrial 4° .oyeral hundred Windber men, that} AKRON, 0. (FP).—Two liberal + «75% These assets legally belong to the! Lewis S. Gannett, associate editor now making himself infamous for his | cepted by the men but it was revealed | Squad and unmereilessly beaten up. |association with the vicious attacks very quickly in its true light as “an|It was openly charged that for this American workers, but the possession| of The Nation in a letter to me on | deed the members of the squad re-| {led to the walkout of 4,000 Berwind- | White men, the strike then sweeping preachers, a safety-first liberal at- torney and a liberal clubwoman of Akron. are no longer quite so openly and manipulation of them are so hog-| this series of articles said, “If you|°" the militant unions, openly spoke tied by the railroad, bank and steel'do plan to publish it. . . my per- (iene the strike, giving the opin- barons who sit on top of the heap! sonal advice to you would be to lead | (0? ‘ ys it was but a move to in- that in actuality this enormous sum! with the percentage of lapses among Oe agg 1 me + of money is being used for the fur-} industrial policies. That point, I d . Soa ep wel ame Consolt, ther exploitation of the worker here|think, is unassailable and is your | lated Railway Workers of Greater and abroad. | strongest point of attack.” | New York received was in the form And so the vicious circle is com-; The tens of millions of dottars| °!,2 telegram of sympathy from Pas- pleted, Underpaid in the factory, which is realized by the “Big Four” | sevond tele Rare eee fs mine ill, s is t] wet tt *, * letter mine and mill, and no sooner is t on these terrific forfeited monies are | from the Joint Board of the Furriers small store brought home than it is! piled into the “assets” and manipu-|>.°! : raided and looted by “mutual” life in-| lated to the benefit of the ait Union, enclosing a check for $200. surance companies—back it goes into! committees who are also directors in} The letter said in part: ‘The fur the “assets” to begin the merry circle|the various railroads, banks and | Workers have always been animated again, public utilities in which these legally | These insurance statistics make in-| prescribed “assets” are invested. All| . teresting reading. There are 77 bil-|of which shall be proven in due United Protes lions of life insurance in force in the| course of time. (To Be Continued). U iH States covering 60 million! Of this amount 11 billions of| LOS ANGELES, Calif. April 10.— H H is on the “industrial” or| Under the auspices /* The DAILY § China Polic payment plan, govering over) WORKER Builders’ Ub, an Inter-| ‘ ‘ ion workers’ lives, | national Workers and Peasants con- | . The average cost per thousand dol-| cert and entertainment will be held lars for “ordinary” (yearly payment) | at Foresters’ Hall, 951 South Olive St. 0S On e ing insurance is $17. The average cost/| (cor. 10th and Olive Sts.), Saturday, per thousand on “industrial” (weekly | April 16th, at 8:00 p.m | payment) plan is $40. There is no| Artists in their national costumes.| BOSTON, April 10.—Fifteen hun- sound reason for this wide discrepan-| Music of different nations. Workers’) dred people jammed the Tremont ey. The difference between the two|and peasants’ songs under the diree-|Temple Friday night to protest rates costs the American worker 253| tions of Rudolph Liebich and Douglas|azainst American intervention in million dollars every year. The week-| Robson. | China, Airplanes flying ove the city = : -—— es | distributed a hundred thousand leaf- Hets demanding that America with- | draw her troops and marines from \ China, Protesting against the bombard- ment of Nanking and the recognition of the Nationalist government as well 2s the withdrawal of troops from A Telegram to You as a reader of The DAILY WORKER, | China, the meeting unanimously a follower of Comrade Ruthenberg | “4rte » resolution voicing its de- | All shades of political opinion were repr¢sented at the meeting. Alice | Stone Blackwell, Henry W. L. Dana, Porm taal | Bel amet | ' (OP AAL YOM: PeEMONS © CLORWE WE RTRINE, omer viteradreere ST EEL HOA pane eETE os a N UNION tang, Bertram D. Wolfe of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, Alfred Bak- jer Lewis, secretary of the Socialist wwiog massage eshjest se ahe terens om bach hereol, welch ore bereby epfeed 48 |Party, Y. C. Ho, student at Harvard apy, + 192? }and John A. Van Vaerenwyck, presi- * | dent of the States Branch of the Fed- Tos — — eration of tate Harold F. Gray, a - fete) srrerenece missionary in China, A. Regan, catho- Street adang. {Ree le priest and A. W. Manning of the -- -— | Society for the Prevention of Capital nce CL LO ANN, _ AE OHA 80 Punishment were among the speaks % tenes cory arin: vt ers. Fred T. Douglas, member of the Kuomintang and the Fellowship of Youth for Peace, was chairman. Fascists Stage Bloody. Riot at Paterson (Continued from Page One) cratic Alexander Hamilton Hotel came to the rescue of their comrade and forced the fascists to flee into the ho- tel. Meanwhile Chief Tracey’s police force, noted for their labor hating activities in Paterson strikes, arrived on the scene to the number of a hun- “MONET Am GOVERNMENT: AID AGA;IOR DS SBAREMILIGR, Dustnece yarnger, "ES Vist Pinel, tow Fore, “Bete cae | PRP ger ae |DAILY WORKER 133 First Street, URGENT No time for letters. New York, N. Y. dred or more and began mauling the H ’ citizens of Paterson who resented the Our answer to the }_ Inclosed is my contribution of} | invasion by the fascists. 3 ' . Li ON ea Me mal SUPT 7 doll; fie ts to th As other buses arrived the police attack Is: \ Rothenberg’ Buntaintag Fund formed a cordon around the invader: ‘for a stronger and better) | and escorted them safely through the lines of the people who gathered to | voice their objections to the tactics of {DAILY WORKER and for the ' lefense of our paper. I will pay “Let's Fight On!” | Charles Fong of the Boston Koumin- | {increased fare dodge.” | | There was one outstanding differ-| ceived one thousand dollars. Quack- jence between the conduct of the 1926|enbush bears the responsibility for strike and the conduct of those which | the crime quite as much as if he him- | |preceded it. The workers will be/| Self had done it. The city did nothing | |very careful to observe this differ-|to correct the injustice. The gore} lence because upon *it depends the|ernor of the state was appealed nd whole strategy and victory of the! but likewise remained silent. / 6uteome. | From these facts the workers were | | | { scheme of Great Britain to entangle America and whatever other nations it can in its policy. | | The leadership of the 1926 strike, |quick to draw the lesson that in the |recognizing that the walkout had | existing capitalist society no justice been premature, sought at all times jor law is a guarantee of the workers’ so to maneuver forces so as to ob- |rights. tain an advantage in the fight to send | (To Be Continued). Ap ies '| Milwaukee Workers to SHOWS HE JOINED | shai ve | For Nanking Victims 1 RAID ON EMBASSY Milwaukee, April 10.=A protest meeting against the wanton mur- Pas BE der of unarmed Chinese wom- * " || en and children by English and Ambassadors in China Suecinn, comatis ie Nevkins : * || wil eld on Sunday, April Violate Own Theories | 2p. M. Labor Temple, 808 Wal. boipeacad nut St. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Tun yuan Hu, a student of pol- WASHINGTON, April 10. — The|| itical seience in the University of raid on the Soviet Russian embassy|| Madison, will speak in English in Peking the other day and the am-|| for the Kuomintang. biguous report by American Minister Other prominent speakers will McMurray on the affair discloses an|] be secured for this occasion. The astounding bit of treachery. meeting is held under the auspiees Despite the refusal of State De-|| Of the Anti-Imperialist League. partment officials to discuss the mat- ter it is now unquestionable that the iot} 7 representatives of the powers in Pe- Christianity and king authorized the raid without ad- Negro Progress to vising the U. S. S, R. embassy that} Ps such action would be taken. It is an Be Discussed Soon almost unbelievable affair. ae Adjoins U. S, Legation. | “Does Orthdox Christianity Handi- The embassy, a duly accredited| cap Negro Progress?” will be topic representation to the Peking govern-|of a debate between V. F. Calverton, | ment, is located in the same area as editor of the Modern Quarterly, in are the other embassies. In fact its|the affirmative, and Kelly Miller of grounds adjoin the British and Amer-) Howard University in the negative. ican legations. The Ambassador of| Charles S. Johnson, editor of Oppor- the Soviet Union is one of the rank-| tunity, will preside. It will be held ing diplomats in the foreign group, | Sunday, April 24, 2:30 p. m., at the Yet despite all these facts, these Community Church Auditorium, 34th representatives, without calling him) St. and Park Ave. into conference, without even notify- 7 ling him of their action, violated the| ed the ferocious bitterness of the | Boxer international agreement on the | powers. E |sanctity of foreign legations and told England particularly has seen its Marshal Chang Tso-lin, northern ban- | prestige lost to the U. S. S, R, and dit war lord, that he could attack, | the Tory government {is becoming Use All Means. hysterical, Besides desiring to in- The alibi was alleged “subversive Soviet agitation.” Phd whole affair is a vivid exam- le of wi 3 tl Ge : acl toe wai thar gore TF the Datted States won't openly so Russia, The whole issue in China| hand in hand, the British are deter from the point of view of the powers | ined to make it clear to the Chinese is that the Chinese are jeapodizing | People that there is no difference be- foreign life and property, yet they | tween the attitude of the two nations. are perfectly willing to order just| Another factor emphasized by the |that against foreigners they hate. | *ffair is the danger of having such Of course the whole affair is an|# man as McMurray representing the English plot. To mask Great Brit-|Umited States in China, McMurray |ain’s hand, the English and McMur- |! one of the so-called “career men jray, the American interventionist|f the State Department. He is |minister, prevailed upon the petty | S4PPosed to be a professional diplo- | Dutch minister to issue the order per. | ™4t : |mitting the raid, No oue can read| He is a thoroughgoing reactionary, |the official report published by the|®" per of British thought and meth- [state department as coming from|°4$ and a strong advocate of inter- McMurray without seeing through|Vention. He participated in the Pek- the whole affair, ing raid on his own authority. Perfect H. Thus whatever may be the inten- erfect Hypocrisy. tion of Coolidge or even Kellogg, bit This report is a beautiful specimen by bit he is forcing their hand to the over all Somerset County, embracing the (Rockefeller) Consolidation coal companies and the rest. and publicly liberal since they felt the rude pressure of the all powerful rubber trust. _ bd $ ra ; “We, the undersigned citizens of Scotts Run Strikes | Akvon,” reads the recantation dicta- MORGANTOWN, W. Va.—The (ted by the rubber influences, “whose Seotts Run section of the Fairmont {names have appeared on stationery jure Russia the affair is part of the) jthe same amount regularly | the disciples of the criminal monster, i Mussolini. POVelY seeeervenens once The crowd was incensed at the po- passers perenne <a WAMG3 oe fiias Cosuene seyee,e} | lice aiding such creatures and showed i mt its displeasure by a chorus of shouts R Te ML er i letiees and cat-calls as the “visitors” entered ' the hotel. es oe FUNDS TODAY A heavy police guard was thrown about the hotel while the fascists con- ducted their business on the inside, Preparations are being made for a public meeting to protest against the ‘invasion of Paterson by the !fascists and their protection by the police. of official documents covering treach- ery and criminality, (It has been published in full in previous issues, —Kd.) Anglo-American Scheme. The raid was executed by the ban- ditti of Chang Tso-lin, but it was ac- tually an Anglo-American attack up- on the Soviet Union. The Jatter’s powerful position in China has arous- British policy, In this he is following Page’s practice as ambassador to London before and during the world war when he cooperated so closely with the British in their efforts to force the United States into the war on their side as to advise them when they wrote notes to Wilson and the ican peutrality. i ways and means of violating Amer-| nay stage demonstrations against \der the union scale until the opera-| protection of foreign born workers Will Fight Vesta |movement as at present constituted | foseph Edwards of the Vesta Coal Co jffom now on _ unauthorized.—Rev. |keep their mills going a long time he| They withdrew from the movement For 25 years it hes had an agreement | River, south of Pittsburgh, before the | in non union Green county. The new agreement or not. Early this spring | mines, | men, This concern broke with the| Protest, National Scale fies—the exploitation and the op- a few minutes can doom me, it is bod “I never knew,” he told Judge Thay- consider us guilty.” | field is again on strike with the Uni- | or programs or been used in public a3 | ted Mine Workers. Several thousand | supporting. the mass protest meeting tors in 1925 and 1926 repudiated the | and indorsed by the Akron Council-of oe agreement. Labor, wish publicly to announce our | PITTSBURGH, April 10.—Declara- jin the city of Akron. Any use of our | tion of war against the miners’ unjon|M@mes to indorse the meeting or to which operates the steel company’s | Stephen E. Keeler, Rev. William H. | mines. Boasting that they had enough | Huber, Atty. Wendell Wilkie, Mrs. |said that he would not deal with the | Which they had sponsored because 1t ‘union when the mines re-opened. |had received the indorsement of or- with the corporation. Thirty-five | hundred union men were employed in! | suspension of April 1st. But the union | ysmelled trouble last summer when the imine was bigger than any of its others jand the company refused to say it opened nonunion and the superin- tendent soon followed with its Open | Vesta Coal is following in the foot- | | steps of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal | union April 1, but has not yet been | able to get scabs. A third coal com-| (Continued from Page One) jerime that the official law and the) pression of man—and if there is a reason why I am here as a guilty. reason and none else.” / Sacco, less familiar with the Eng- er, “never heard, even read in history | anything so cruel as this court. After | “I know the sentence will be be- tween cl: s”’ Sacco said, “the op- |Seotts Run miners were working un-|called by the Akron council for the * * * | withdrawal from any support of this |was made by General Superintendent | Solicit funds for the movement 1s |fuel in storage or under contract to, George D, Crouse.” The union will stage a bitter fight. lits mines, along the Monongahela | (corporation began to dig a new mine whether it would come under the Shop announcement for the other | Corporation, normally employing 4,060 | ROSA eee | Arrange Sacco-Vanzetti_ | official moral sanctions and ‘sancti-| an, if there is a reason why you in jlish language, spoke more WMiefly.| seven years prosecuting they still | pressed cl s and the rich class,” Try Another Appeal. Lae E BOSTON, April 10.—All possible grounds for appeal are being con-| \sidered by lawyers for Sacco and Vanzetti. This may take the form! of habeas corpus proceedings in the federal courts; a petition for a writ! of certiorari, within the discretion of the court. These motions may be made any time between now and the next three months. | * * Coolidge Worries. | WASHINGTON, Aprit 10.—The_ fact that the United States govern- ment is keenly aware of the world in- terest in the case of Sacco and Van- wetti is indicated by the cables just sent by the state department to American diplomats and consuls abroad, warning them that European labor. which is strongly in favor of freeing the two workers them, ganized labor. In the. open shop, stool-pigeoned, company gunman town of Akron, organized labor is not a respectable associate for careful people who must sacrifice their lib- eral intentions when it indorses the same things they do. ‘ CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) is how it happened. De Pinedo, the fascist aviator who is adding to Mvs- solini’s glory by flying around the world saw his hydroplane burned down on a lake when a lighted match cast on the waters ignited the oil coating on the surface, reducing the number of fascist planes by one. ‘Now in the Mail Two New Issues of HE OC. AMUNIST ie nee oe Cem Cee fhe Com amma FEB. 28 (Vol. 4—No, 8) THE COMMON ENEMY Why the enemi the Soviet Union of the Chinese Revo- lution are also enemies TRADE UNIONS IN THE U. by Robert Minor, and other articlee, MAR. 15 (Vol. 4—No. 4) LENIN'S PREFACE to Bukharia’s “World tig {land ‘3 and Imper rials: CLASSES IN CHINA by A. Martinoy LABOUR IN PALESTINE und other articles, CENTS EACH SUBSCRIBE 10