The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1927 TAMMANY CONDONES INDUSTRIAL ‘NEWS FROM NEW JERSEY Labor Candidate Fined. (By Worker Correspondent). HACKENSACK, April 11.—When | | |FallFledged Mayor, | MINERS IN HARD U.S. AND OTHER POWERS BULLY CHINA WITH NOTES Big Bill Works Fast | (Continued from Page One) }and Chinese prisoners seized in hie |be the object of the British foreign | raids on the Russian embassy com- | ministry, pound or for the return of property | * INSURANCE SWINDLE ON WORKERS COAL REGION IN As Fortune Beckons CHICAGO, IL, April 11,—-Wil- liam Hale Thompson, republican, |Simon E. Bambach, labor candidate | |for commissioner in the forthcoming | Passaic election, appeared in the Ber- | gen county court for sentence on al | seized, as demanded by the Russian | note, Soviet Keeps Peaceful Attitude. MOSCOW, April 11. — Although (Continued from Page One) various branch offices of the “Big In another appeal for American aid, “Industrial” or weekly premium | Four” every Saturday morning (Sat- policies have no cash value until they |urday is’“‘pep” day) and pounded at, have been “in force” (paid on) for, begged, implored, cajoled and threat- ten years. The John Hancock In-/| ened, “to go out and put up an ‘in-} surance Company limits the period of | dustrial’ record.” And out they £0, | bondage to only e years. The other} with faces alertly on the make, and | three companies all insist upon a ten| economic necessity being what it is, year surrender clause. the industrial record is made. So No Cash for 10 Years. much so that in 1925 the “Big Four”| tivity in the recent strike, he was sen- tenced to pay a fine of $25. Don't Want Labor Officials. disorderly charge growing out of ac-/| The judge and the prosecution are | fully aware of the fact that the tex- tile union has no funds with which to pay fines and naturally Bambach would have to remain in jail. It is apparent to many here that Bergen} county officials seem to be working | | At the expiration of this ten year | wrote and put on their books ten mil-| period the policy must be surrendered | lion additional policies for nearly and lapsed in order to receive its | three billion dollars—nearly half of | paltry cash’ value. This cash ,value|this new business lapsed within | is in all instances less than one-third of what has been paid in. This is perfectly legal. The New York state department of insurance has said it So it must be. Hf, due to unemployment, sickness or ill fortune, the ill-fated policyhold- er cannot keep up his payments for ten years he “is out of luck”—as his agent will tell him. is. in harmony with the bosses to pre- vent any worker from being elected to office in Passaic. Court Granted Injunctions. Poor Woman Defrauded. The same court issued an injune- 1 once heard an industrial life in-|tion against the Teamsters, Engi- surance agent say to a bewildered |eers, Structural Iron Workers, and scrubwoman whom he was soliciting |the board of business agents of Ber- | for new business, “Do you know that/Sem county, There is an obvious Rodman Wanamaker carries seven | Conspiracy on the part of the courts f.| here to prevent unionization of the ‘twelve months—eloquent testimony of the methods employed in secur- ing “industrial” business. } PASSAIC HEARS ‘was sworn in as mayor of Chicago late this afternoon in the office of City Clerk L, F. Gorman, Immediately after he was given the oath, his colleagues, Patrick Sheridan Smith and Charles S, Peterson were sworn in as city clerk and city treasurer, respec- tively. | A special meeting of the city council for the purpose of approv- ing Mayor Thompson's bonds was set for tomorrow. | | | | WEISBORD SPEAK | oe | FAVOR OF STRIKE | | Alexis Téhernykh, Soviet charge at | Chang said, “I am puzzled by the at- (Continued from Page One) was formed and it was this commit- tee that organized the mass meeting. The miners of this city could not hold any mass meeting since they lost the strike in 1922. Surprise to Operators. The mass meeting came as a sur- prise to everyone except the com- mittee in charge. Early in the morn- ing before the men went to work the committee, headed by Powers Hap- good, well known progressive miner of Cresson Pa., and Tony Minerich ‘of North Bessemer Pa, distributed the announcements for the meeting in the trains carrying the miners to work and at the mines. The news of the meeting spread rapidly through the several mines of the company, | Peking, is returning to Russia today | titude of the American government. and a vigorous protest has been made Why should it confine itself to nega- to the North China government! tive action? Why does the Peking | against raids on the Soviat legation | zovernnient not fully support my ef- {in Peking. The Soviet government is | going to do its utmost to avoid open war with China. | out that althought the charge in Pek- The official newspapers here point | forts to shoulder the burden of pro-~ |tection by American interests.” Powers Helped Raids. Admitting that his raids on the Soviet embassy had been aided by the |ing has been recalled there has been | imperialist powers, Chang continued, |no full break in diplomatic relations | “I wish to reiterate that a clash be- and the Soviet government is adopt-| tween Chinese and foreign powers jing very cautious tactics to “avoid| would be disastrous, Therefore, it traps laid by the imperialists in| would be wiser for the powers to back | China.” me indirectly and financially, making See Thru British, lit possible for me to fight the Com- | “We must make it impossible for! munist elemertts.” proyocateurs to carry out their plans,” | Chang Tortured Women, | Says Pravda, the official newspaper.| petails of Chang's raids on the Rus- \“The outbreak of war would give them | sian embassy available for the first |® chance for open intervention. They time indicate that the twenty-two Rus- aie ri 2 ae f are burglars and robbers and we could | gi ken in th ids were severely million dollars of insurance on his life % | Demand Union Wages. cou'c’ | sians taken in the rai P To illustrate by an actual case:)_i¢ it’s good enough for him it’s| Unorganized workers and the estab-| The antiouncement of the meeting | }y° bieheg Petey: Py ee eee nt | beaten by northern troops. Waa An “industrial whole li 18! good enough for you!” P. §. She | lishment of union working conditions. | | pointed out that now is the time le will ties pink Sheausle history {204 children whom the te me bought by a man 30 Its bought the policy. But did she get the | The court took « heavy toll from the | | demand the wages'of $7.50 a day and| Pp! Y!during the search were robbed an weekly pi cents, | textile workers who went thru their | L asenmmenel | ype of insurance which Wanamaker 85 cents a received, the same protection per dol- 8.20 a year. He is protected for : He paye for! jar expended, the same cash values, ten years. Then, due to illness or un-| the same Iberal and equitable terms? employment, he necds cash, Let us | see what happens. Robbed of $122. During the ten years he has de- posited $182. Under the terms of his unfair policy all that he is entitled to |heroic strike. Twenty-one were sen- tenced to jail for terms ranging from 380 days to 6 months, and were fined “A She did not. | from $25 to 9160, And so throughout the entire coyn-| Strike In Building Trades, \try from the defrauded coast of Maine) aspuRY PARK, April 11. — As- to the swindled slopes of California! bury Park is one of the playgrounds |the game goes heartlessly on. The/|of the business men and bosses. They * * First Address Since Strike Ended (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PASSAIC, N, J., April 11—Albert Weisbord, leader of the recent textile strike in this city, will speak here for the first time since the end of the | $1.28 a ton pick coal and 86c a ton machine coal. company since Feb, 15 is $6.00 a day | to day men and $1.01 a ton pick coal, The announcements also called that the imen be paid for dead work and that a provision be made for the men to get an honest weight. Serve Notice on Company. The rate paid by the! as a document of peace with which | ingulted. | * we have answered a policy of war} *_ * © and provocation.” French Fear Revolt. Premier Rykoff made a speech be- | |fore the All Russian Congress of | in French Indo-China, the ministry Soviets last night, declaring that Rus- | o¢ war is preparing to send two bat~ sia will strive to maintain peace. | talions of the French Foreign Legion Soviet Tactful. {to Yi ese border, according to the “The fight in China will not be|paris Journal, won by the government with the | * PARIS, April 11.—Fearing a revolt ~ * Despite the short notice, the mass meeting proved a huge suecess. Pow- | ers Hapgood and Tony Minerich were | the main speakers and explained to | the meeting the conditions existing | ‘ignorant foreigners, little accustomed, come here in the summer for vaca-| to high pressure sales methods, fall|tion and play. It naturally is a for the misleading solicitations of | stronghold of reactionary and anti- |the loyal henchmen-agents of the| union residents. and receives is $60. The conti is then lapsed and he has lost $122. If he still needs insurance for the pro- tection of his wife and children he strongest arms,” said Rykoff, “but | Nationalists Prepare Drive. it will be won by the one with the | : j strongest nerves, and there is none | SHANGHAI, April 11.—Nationalist with stronger nerves than our govern-} troops are concentrating at Nanking strike. He will @ddress a meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 p. m. at Ukrainian Hall, President St,, the only available hall here, must be re-insured at increased rates due to his increased age. If during this ten years he has contracted an incurable disease, he is a “poor risk” and will be rejected. Now this same man could have bought a $1,000 policy (instead of one for $553) on the “ordinary” (yearly) plan for precisely the same annual premium—payable in monthly install- ments instead of weekly. At the end of ten years his borrowing capacity “Big Four.” Ask Dollar Raise. Most Policies Lapse. _ Building has increased in the past Yes, the harrassed scrubwoman | five years. At the beginning of last | bought the policy, But one thing was| Week 200 hod carriers and cement a certainty, If she went the way of | mixers went on strike for an increase all “industrial” flesh, ‘her policy |in wages of one dollar a day. They would, due to its harsh conditions,|"r now receiving $7. This demand lapse at the first chill wind of un-| Was refused hy the bosses. As a re- {employment. Or else it would be|Sult all the building trades workers | surrendered at a terrific loss at the| have gone out on a sympathetic strike expiration of ten years of serimping | to force the contractors to concede the demends of the workers. Workers Eager to Hear Him. The local workers and especially the 16,000 textile workers are excited and eager to hear Weisbord and it is expected that Ukrainian Hall will be full long before the opening of the meeting. The arrangements commit- tee is preparing for overflow meet- ings. None of the larger halls were available due to political pressure | brot to bear by’ Abram Preiskel, com- |in the non-union fields. A lively and heated discussion followed from the floor ang a demand was made for an immediate strike, However, at the close of the meeting it was agreed unanimously that a committee shall communicate with the company first, before the question of strike is de- |cided upon. The committee was also authorized to confer with the United Mine Workers of America. ment. We have hardened them by | nd all available artillery is being many battles against illegalities. Any | drawn up in prepartion for a big drive other country would have sent troops | #gainst Tientsin. long ago to China to avenge the in-| 3 famous raids upon our embassy.” British Rush Troops. ge RT SOUTHAMPTON, ‘England, April Chang Holds Russians. |11,—The second battalion of Sect | PEKING, April 11.—-Chang Tso-lin, | Guards sailed for China today aboard | Manchurian wer lord, has taken no|the steamers City of Marseilles and steps for the release of the Russian | Derbyshire. * * {and saving. missioner of public safety and the! Will Continue Organization Work. (loan value) would be $161, instead of $60, and his contract (poligy) would still remain in force. No Loan Values. One notes with bitterness that whereas an “industrial” policy has no surrender value until it has been in force for ten years, an “ordinary” policy has a loan value after two years. Why this should be will take a lot of explaining by the publicity departments of the “Big Four.” The weekly payment policy is the worker’s policy. The “ordinary” pol- icy is the “stiff collar” policy. The penalty of poverty in insurance is that one must submit humbly to the outrageous swindle on a gigantic} seale. However simply explained insur- Sight must not be lost of the fact | that 75% of all policies which termin- | ate each year lapse before they ac- | cumulate a cash value. As far as | these temporary measures are con- cerned three years of premium pay-| ments are lost—irretrievably lost. | _I am informed that the Republican National Committee is looking for something to pin on to Tammany,! | Well, Tammany has . permitted the | “Big Four” to fleece millions of work- | | ers years after year during its tenure |of office. The superintendent of in- | surance, a Tammany creature, has | been sitting by complacently watch- ing the muleting of millions of per- | fectly good voters, | To the Republican National Com- ance is more or less a bewildering|™itteemen I offer the above informa- aubject to the average man. Insur-| tion ance subjects have been overlaid with | tons of technical buncomb and the publie as usual falls for the academic austerity implied in a column of figures. Directors Make Graft. Ever since the introduction of in-| dustrial life insurance into this coun-| try the laws governing this type of insurance have become more and more complex and unintelligible. Assets, more than are needed, have piled up,| and finance committees—those who| “take care of these funds for “mau- | tual” policyholders—have gathered a juicy harvest. , Investigators Bribed. In 1905 the famous Armstrong In-| surance Investigating Committee | purged “ordinary” insurance of its} erstwhile corruption. But the com-| mittee was under the screw of the| “Big Four” and the day before the| “industrial companies were to be| probed, as the tabloids would have it, | the investigation was called off. Bribed With $20,000 As a result, several of the alleged “investigators” were, it is logical to assume, handsomely take care of. For! instance, Senator “Bill” Tully was | appointed solicitor for the Metropoll-| tan Life (the daddy of the “Big Four”) at a yearly salary of $20,000, Since then he received a $10,000 raise. Some graft. | Charles Evans Hughes (he of the whiskers) was appointed counsel for the Equitable Life, and Assembly- man Robert Lynn Cox was appointed general manager of the association of life insurance presidents, a semi- official lobbying device. Myr. Cox (who is a liberal in religion but a hard-headed conservative in business) is now a second vice president of the Metropolitan at 2 modest salary of $88,000 a year. Calls “Big Four” Swindlers. After these appointments were made, the department of insurance was aware of them because the com- panies must report all home office ex- penditures over $1,500. As long as the insuring of workers’ lives will be done under the merciless system which now exists, fraud, swin- dle and corruption will be dominant. Nothing short of state ownership will ever serve as an adequate sub- stitute. P. B. Armstrong, the late president of the late American Union Life In- surance Company, said, “Industrial insurance is a swindle of such gigan- tic magnitude that its literature should be excluded from the mails; its business suppressed and taken over by the state, and the very poor given insurance at cost.” Yet in this state alone, 15,000 “in- dustrial” agents are assembled in the fm quite gratuitously—knowing they will not use it. It’s too potent. Read The Daily Worker Every Day “Eloquent,” Says Frankfurter of Vanzetti Speech BOSTON, April 11—“B® the side of the eloquence of Bart- olomeo Vanzetti in his speech in the Dedham court on Saturday,” declared Prof. Felix Frankfurter, of the Harvard Law school, “the oratory of Senator Borah and Nicholas Murray Butler were like schoolboy copybooks.” Frankfurter’s comment was in reference to the debate on prohibi- tion between Borah and Butler last Friday night, Demand Investigation Of Dedham Court) (Continued from Page One) ters of the country and for a huge representative National Conference, Verdict Shows Class Bias “Group. loyalty on the part of the Massechusetts Supreme court was brought into play to save the face of a judge subject to public criticism”! This was the charge made last night by Prof, William E. Hocking, of the philosophy department of Har- | vard University before a huge audi-| ence consisting of members of the/| Community Church, held in Symphony Hall last night. Disgrace Speaker Charges Attacking the supreme court for its denial of a new trial to the framed- up Italian workers, Prof. Hocking de- clared: “We have the incredible, essentially disgraceful situation that men may be sentenced to their death in Massa- chusetts because the courts refuse to hear revelent and important evidence. “The excluded evidence in this case is such,” he continued, “as would con- vince four out of five, if they could hear it with unbiased minds, that Sacco and Vanzetti had nothing to do with the murder with which they are charged.” “Judieal Murder” Dr. Hocking described the sentence of death on Sacco and Vanzetti as “judicnl murder,” and said that “the caste feeling of solidarity” played an important role in the verdict. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS SA CORNEA, 8h y- | continues. Wil) Organize Workers, Meanwhile some of the building contractors are getting a little work accomplished by non-union workers and scabs. The Building Trades Couneil is determined to organize Monmouth county, which is a strong- hold of the Republic manufacturers. Here lives Stevens, the senate ma- jority leader, who has been respon- sible for killing so much labor legis- lation. z et! Police Act As Strikebreakers. WEEHAUKEN, April 11—Charges have been made by Edward Levy, the businé’s agent of|the Taxi Driv- ers’ Union now on strike against “Macs” Taxicab Company of this city, that the local, police are acting as strikebreakers. Levy declared that everyone of the company’s cabs that reached the top of Pershing Road, it is accompanied |by a touring ear containing three Weehauken policemen. Thugs From New York. The union representative also stat- ed that the only union cab company now operating in North Hudson was the Capitol Taxi Co., which he said had the lowest fare rate. The strike Levy also charges that thugs and professional strike break- ers from New York are helping the “Macs” company to run his cabs. Will Organize Men, Meanwhile the union is pushing the drive to organize the taxi drivers in North Hudson and meeting with con- siderable success. All chauffeurs and cab drivers are urged to stay away from Weehauken until the strike is over and present strike is won. * * New Construction. NEWARK, April 11.—Building and construction work is going on at the Kenna Terminal-Port Newark. Non- union carpenters are working at the rate of 83 cents per hour. This fact is causing the carpenters’ unions of Newark considerable trouble. A drive is on to unionize all the men work- ing on the job or to get the contrac- tor to replace the non-union men with union carpenters. The building trade contractors all over the state of New Jersey seem to huve organized a sys- tematic campaign to kill the building trades unions by hiring non-union workers on jobs and by attempting to introduce the American plan of company unionism made famous in San Francisco where all the building trades unions have been crippled, The employers and bosses spent $1,500,- 000 to break the power of the build- ing trades unions. 200 Drown on Japanese Ship. TOKYO, April 11—Two hundred passengers were reported drowned when the Japanese steamer Diahachi Chinkaimaru sank at its pier. Marie’s Old Man Lives. BUCHAREST, April 11—King Ferdinand, who has been suffering from influenza, has made such im- provement that the court is now sa‘ isfied that the danger of his death has been temporarily avoided, Killed By Auto, Mrs. Mary Johnston, eighty years old was accidentally asphyziated in the little two-room apartment she oc- cupied alone at 109 Lequeer Street, Brooklyn early yesterday when a tube connection of her gas heater became disconnected, ‘ |saic to endorse principles, platform, | tile Strike Bulletin during the strike, Io }in 1924, | other local political leaders. Campaign to Elect Labor Candidates. | At the opening rally of the Work- ers (Communist) Party held hére yesterday in connection with the fortheoming local election at the Russian National Home, a telegram was read from Weisbord, announcing his eagerness to speak here. It was received with hearty applause by the assembled workers, It reads as follows: “Heartily en- dorse candidacy of Bambach and Smelkinson. Workers of Passaic must establish Labor Party and support Labor candidates. | “Will be glad to uddress meeting arranged for me Wednesday in Pas- and candidacy of Bambach and Smel- kinson, in election.” Many Unemployed. Yesterday's meeting was presided over by Emil Gardos, who discussed the issues of the campaign. He told of the unemployment situation, al- most 6,000 workers being out of work, One out of every five work- ers here are unemployed, He also told how the capitalist candidates for city commissioners, including the lib- erals make no mention of the textile strike, ignoring the brutal beatings and arrests of the textile workers. Cheer Strike Leader, Lena Chernenko, picket leader dur- ing the strike, was greeted with tre- mendous applause, She opened her remarks by saying, “I am a Com- munist.” She recited the lessons of the strike, pointing out the anti- working class character of the local authorities and the necessity of the workers participating in independent working class action, Bentall Speaks. J. O. Bentall, who edited the Tex-| spoke on the program that Bambach and Smelkinson are running on and the need of all workers giving their utmost support, Simon -Smelkinson also addressed the meeting. Bambach was unable to speak being in the Essex County jail for his activities during the strike. Dry Can't Get Along. WASHINGTON, April 11.—Either en. Lincoln C, Andrews or Roy A. Haynes must be separated from pro- hibition enforcement, congressional dry leaders demanded today. Prsent conflict and overlapping of authority between these treasury of- ficials in prohibition matters is “in- tolerable”, it was claimed. Marconi Gets Divorce. ROHE, April 11.—The tribunal of the rota today nullified the marriage of Senator Guglielmo Marconi, wire- less inventor, to the former Beatrice O'Brien, The marriage was performed in 1904, and was dissolved by civil action CURRENT | EVENTS (Continued from Page One) homes of catholics are filled with pieces of junk, showing saints, vir- gins and martyrs in postures of hu- mility. This is the kind of poison that penetrates subtly into the minds The mass meeting elected a provi, sional committee to function until the miners of each mine of the Ber- wind-White Coal Co., will have an opportunity to elect a mine commit. | tee. The committee elected at the last meeting was instructed to call | another mass meeting on Sunday to which the men of séveral mines that | |eould not he reached for the first| | meeting were invited to come. The committee will serve notice on the company and in case no satisfactory reply is secured from the company | |a strike will be declared, The miners | jof the Birwind-White Coal Co.,-are| very much dissatisfied with the cut in wages which was declared on Feb, | 165 and are also encouraged by the strike of the bituminous miners in| the competitive fields, and are deter- mined to fight to the very end for their demands and for the recognition of some kind of an organization. Die-Hards Saddle Britain With Huge Militarist Budget LONDON, April 11—-Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the exche- quer, rose before a packed house of commons this afternoon and deNvered what was perhaps the most discourag- ing budget message Great Britain has had since the days of the World War. Stressing the statement that great injury was done to crade ard the ex- chequer by the general strike of last summer, Churchill declared that though “we meet under the shadow of last year it is not the time to bewail the past, but it is time to pay the bill.” Churchill reported that revenue for 1926 decreased more than £17,500,- 000 «(approximately $87,000,000), while expenditures increased more than £14,500,000, (approximately $72,000,000). Expenditures for the year 1927-28 are estimated by Churchill to be £818,390,000 (approximately $4,091,- 950,000). Pointing out that the balance of trade is still against Great Britain, Churchill declared that “we are clearly not advancing among the na- tions of the world at the pre-war rate and we are not advancing as rapidly as some other peoples of the world.” Churchill announced that the gov- ernment does not intend to renew the American gold credits which it has maintained, Liveright, Publisher of Forbidden to Put Play Further production of “The Cap- tive”, one of the thre plays raided by police in their stage clean-up campaign, was officially prohibited today when the appellate division of the supreme court unanimously re- fused to enjoin the police from inter- fering with the performance, holding that the play might have a “lecherous of the poor workers and renders them so comparatively helpless to defend themselves or fight for their rights. But this is only a temporary i- tion, Necessity is the mother of more things than invention. influence” over certain types of peo- ple if permitted to resume. The injunction was sought by Hor- ace B. Liverwright, publisher, who Sag Guard Our Front Line Trenches. | The enemies of the labor movement are on the march. They have begun the assault on the entire labor front—against the Fur- riers, against the Joint Board, against the Miners’ Union, against the textile workers— and against The DAILY WORKER. The at- tack of the New York patriotic societies upon The DAILY. WORKER is no isolated in- cident. It is part and parcel of the entire assault—an assault which is inspired not only by the sharpness of the struggle against the trade unions but also by the crisis in which American imperialism finds itself. in China, Nicaragua, Mexico and other coun- tries. It is an attack upon our front line trenches, You must beware that The DAILY WORKER is maintained as a vital weapon for this struggle. 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