The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1927 Page Three Cook Predicts Revolt If Die-Hards War on Chinese Nationalists LONDON, April 18.—At a mass meeting in Holborn, A. J. Cook declared: “The government knows that it cannot declare war on China. It knows’ that if it de- clares war, the miners will declare war on it.” CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) tem. Without the support of the masses hé is about as useful as a deflated gas bag. HE Chinese revolutionary move- ment received a severe set-back in ng’s defection. His treason at a eritical moment in the campaign against the Northern warlords and their imperialist cashiers halted the victorious march of the Nationalist army, encouraged the imperialists and gave them a chance to organize their forces and develop their stra- tegy. But the millions of Chinese workers and peasants will succeed despite the treachery of individuals, The Chinese revolution will conquer, if not just now, later on, because over four hundred millions of human be- ings that have once tasted the sweet of their own power cannot be held in perpetual bondage. BNSrReS interesting item of news ‘comes from London. It has a bear- ing on the Chinese question. It deals with the revolt of the Independent 5 | the “BIG FOUR” INSURANCE BY FRAUD ON | (Continued from Page One) Mr. Fiske further says in his little | masterpiece: “Its (the Metropolitan's) assets of over $1,854,000,000 belongs to | its policyholders,” This is only an half truth, Mr. | Fiske knows, and every honest ac- tuary knows that not one of the pres- jent 24 million policyholders will ever ‘see one cent of these assets. Mr. Fiske knows perfectly well that all expenditures made by his company, whether it be in the form of death claims, matured endowments, divi- dends or in any form, are made from the current premium income. Mr. Fiske further knows that the ly premium income is more than sufficient to pay all payments to polictyholders. As a_ policyholder leaves the company either as a death claim, or a matured endowment, he is out, and his share of the tremendous assets remains in the crooked tody of Mr, Haley, Mr, Albert Wiggin, Mr. Charle M. Sehwab and the remainder of the Chase National Bank brigands, Plenty of Gravy. Mr. Haley Fiske, the author of this misleading and fraudulent pseudo-financial tract, knows as well as the writer does, that in the year (last available public . report) Metrépolitan’s income was 220 million dollars greater than all of its disbursements. This allows for every conceivable form of expenditure. And ye \the “boys” at number One Madison |than a crooked Labor Party against Ramsay Mac-| Donald’s leadership. While the for-| mer labor premier of the British em- | pire was receiving the American capitalism and from American socialists, the official socialist organization of Great Britain was having a little fun with his politi- cal rear, - After several well-directed kicks at Mr. MacDonald were registered, the annual conference of plaudits of | homage ; the party of which he is a leader de-) cided that he no longer found favor in their s. They refused to nom- inate him: as treasurer of the Labor Patty or appoint him as delegate to the Labor Party conference. This is certainly an emphatic rebuke to the imperialist mountebank who has been saboting the’ British workingcloss movement for several years. IKE Chiang-Kai-Shek in China, MacDonald claims to be above his own patty. This opponent of the die tatotship of sants of Russia scorns the decision of a delegate conference of the I.1.P.,fund which the company refers to! | Tweedledee and avenue can conceive of more expenses A. F. of L. labor leader can. And that’s going some. Mr. Fiske still further says: “This huge sum of money is their savings: ... .” This is a piece of ironical writing. Legally, morally, and ethically it be- longs to the Metropolitan policy- holders but these 24 million policy- holders will never benefit by it in any way until an insurance investi- gation releases this gigantic sum of money, In theory the “Big Four” are “mu- tual” companies, that is to say, policyholders are given the right to vote for the board of directors, The nominations are all fixed. and any eredulous policyholder who tries to exercise his insurance franchise soon discoverers that he is voting for Tweedledum. The \same gang of Wall Street hijackers the workers and pea-| manage to get in year after year. In facet, the “Big Four” are not “mutual.” They operate under .the cloak of mutualization. The poor policyholder is given a snip of a re- and declares that it means nothing. as a dividend, but that is the extent MacDonald, like the rest of the critics of its mutuality. The assets keep of the governmental form thru which | piling up year after year, the diree- the Soviet Union functions, is a be- liever in personal dictatorship. But' coming more torates of the. “Big Four” keep be- powerful and more he will bow meekly enough to the*powerful. “MUTUAL” OFFICIALS ELECTED STOCKHOLDERS They are in it for what they can get out of it, i “Dollar A Year,” i The last insurance report issued by the New York State Department of Insurance says that Charley Schwab, chairman of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Steel, director of | the Chase National Bank and various other multi-million dollar corpora- tions, finds time to ‘act as a director of the “mutual” Metropolitan Life for the ridiculous salary of $185 per ) Year, At this point Mr. Fiske takes the old glory into his talon-like hands {and patriotically wav it with the utter abandon with w he handles statistics. Says he: “The Metropolitan $75,000,000 of the owns over rities of When se light and power companie: one of these companies is unfairly treated, it is you . the poliey- holders of the Metropolitan and in other insurance companies who are the real governing body of this re- public who &uffer.” You see the inexorable logic? You theoretically own the Metropolitan, but the Metropolitan actually owns bonds of light and power companies. Therefore it is wrong to vote for {state ownership of public utilities, says Mr. Fiske. Expensive Glory. It will be a great relief for the millions upon millions of weekly life {insurance policyholders to learn that! although they cannot get a loan on their policies until they have been in force for ten years, nevertheless, they are the honored partners of Fiske, Schwab, Day, Wiggin and others. The policyholder may be about to be | evicted. Never mind. “The Metro- |politan owns over $75,000,000 of the securities of light and power com- panies,” At this juncture Mr. Fiske delivers himself of a chunk of “Big Four” propaganda that surely must have ‘been written with the presidential tongue in the presidential cheek. It is as follows: “It must be recognized that not corporate abstractions but the American people are the owners of the bond capital of compatiies (referring to the light and power companies). Every policyholder is ipso facto a capitalist and an at- tack upon capital ifvestments is an , attack upon the wage earners of the country.” One is inclined to pause for a mo- ment when reading tripe of this na- ture and Wonder how any adult in his senses could possibly imagine that the the American insuring public, pap-fed though it is, would take the above statement seriously: A Tall Story. I understand that Haley Fiske’s office is right up in the upper reaches [Whats What'* Washington Coolidge Faking Farm Relief Thru Proposed Travels (By a Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 18.—Presi- dent Coolidge has let it be known that he is casting about for “desir. able” farm relief legislation. He wants the boys out on the profitless farms to know that he is ‘ concerned about them. Having oed their equalization fee idea, the y Haugen bill which it took s to finally put through is now agitated about their tr nd really wi 3 help them. provided “some v he found that does not medd such fundamental matters as t subsidy, exchange gambling and othe items, Congrass No Promises Yet resident has not as yet dis- matter—-even through device of his official spokesman. But on his behalf others have. The department of commerce, headed by Secretary Jardine, to date has bitterly fought every scheme put forward by the farmers for their aid, has indicated that it is engaged in gathering much data and information preparatory to undertaking the work of formulating a farm relief bill in- nocuous enough to be able to obtain the President’s approval Dawes An Enemy Of course no administration men say anything about the pressure of polities having caused the President’s change of heart. The fact that omi- cussed the convenient {nous reports have come in from the west;: that Mr. Hilles, New York national chairman, told the President after his swing around the citeuit that he had better get busy to ap- pease western resentment; that Vice- President Dawes has related among friends his disgust and dissatisfac- tion with Coolidge and the suspicion among them that the irracible Vice- ptesident may be harboring the idea ef takitg a public fall out of Cool- idge; all these factors are most care- fully avoided. Administration quarters relate that | the president out of the goodness of |his great heart has decided that the farmer must have succor, so he is going to honor them with a $100,000 vacation for himself among them this summer, working all the time for a “solution” for the farmers’ issue. Wants to Run. The fact iv, of course, Coolidge is a candidate to succeed himself. Whether he runs or not may still be an unde- cided question, but Coolidge is leav- ‘of the Metropolitan building’s tower. decisions of the British government,! If the weekly payment insurance|Can it be that the rarified air up because like Al Smith, the catholic,: companies are purely mutual, as they|there has gone ‘to his head? Or is Ramsay MacDonald, the fake social-|are supposed to be, then how does/it that he has found the worker-in- ist, is loyal to imperialism. Mr. Fiske explain the presence of) ing nothing undone, or anything in the way, for him to be able to reach for the nomination if the situation re- j | i } 3 Women In Murder Trials Here. Women play important roles Charles M. Schwab and his gang of associated high financiers in the trough. Surely Schwab’s interests in are not identical with those of the 40 eriminal litigation in and around New| million workers who put their hard York this week. Two are wives ac-|earned money into this patent swin- cused of killing their husbands, and dle, Schwab, et al., are not acting one is charged with the murder of | as directors of any billion dollar cor- her daughter. } porations for the fun of the thing. surer public so gullible that he is trying to see to what extent he can go without being openly laughed at? “Every policyholder is ipso facto ;@ capitalist.” The reader may not} |have been aware of his good fortune heretofore, but now he has it on the |most reliable authority that he is a | member of the owning class. He may | be living in the most degrading slums, he may be scrimping and sav- ing to make both ends meet. That | means nothing to Haley Fiske, $150,- |000 a year president of the Metro- politan, if only one has a swindling | weekly payment life insurance policy, | then one is, ipso facto, a capitalist. Every policyholder is not a capital- (ist, he is merely a customer buying much needed protection from an in- |Surance trust at exorbitant prices on criminally harsh conditions. | To The Point. Dizzy with his success at back alley , economies, Mr. Fiske gets downto {What is known in the best Rotarian circles as hard tacks: “Plans for municipal, state or federal ownership of public utilities often sound well as presented by | their advocates. But before assent- | ing to them, every policyholder should examine them carefully, asking himself how political owner- ship can possibly give him results to compare with those attained through private ownership.” Mr. Fiske may not know it, but | mains such as to permit him doing so. The farm issue is a possible obstacle, and so, in his secretive, under-the- table way, he is getting the cogs astir to frame a way out. Flatter “Farm Leaders” The plan he is said to have in mind is simple. By the time he leaves Washington for his “western” vaca- tion, around the middle of June, he will either have a so-called farm re- lief bill, or some scheme for such leg- islation. Located in his simmer White House somewhere in the Middlewest. or Northwest, he will invite “farm lead- . Pictures and verbal goo. They will return and talk in grandiose terms about the greai presitlent. The word will go out'that Mr. Coclidge is struggling with the issue, making a | heroic battle, and slowly but certainly gfaining ground. Then Farmers Will Vote Next December when congress re- convenes, there will be offered with | much clanging of the drums, the ad- ministration’s farm relief bill. The farmers will be told that now all will | soon be well among them. They will ‘then subside, | their suspicions about the president relieve themselves of and vote the good o!d straight re- publican ticket. No plan ean possibly work out be- Il flatter them with ottention, | Pennsylvania G. 0. P, Machine Splits Apart By LAURENCE TODD (Fed. Press). WASHINGTON, April 18.—War is on once more between the rival re- publican machines in Pennsylvania, with Boss Vare of Philadelphia lined up for revenge against Boss Bill Mellon of Pittsburgh and _ Boss Grundy of the Pennsylvania Manu- facturers’ n, President Coolidge and his adv 's were not warned of the impending break between the two forces until too late. Mellon and Grundy struck fi when in the closing hours of the - sion of the legislature they defeated, n the lower house, Vare’s resolution for old age pe ons. Vare’s sister-in- law, a state senator, sponsored this humane measure, which would change the constitution so that aged work- throughout, Pennsylvania could be paid state pensions, His Political Stuff. On this: iss ers e of old age pensions Vare had staked his political future. He knew that he would be rejected by the U. S. Senate in the coming 8 2 on the credentials he secured through the lavish use of money in the primary and election of 1926. But he was preparing to run again and win actual count of real votes, by giving old age pension as- s to the millions of ge and their voting relatives in the Keystone commonwealth. “Mother” Grundy Fears. Grundy, who has dictated tariff schedules Washington and has col- lected millions from manufacturers for politic upon Vare purposes at home, looked 's plan as nothing short of bolshevism. Old age pensions would undermine company unions, destroy the’fear of the boss in mine and fac- tory and railroad employ, and give trade unionism and political radical-| ism a new start. He protested. Andrew Mellon, head pf the family and head of the Cool- idge cabinet, was not officially in-| _formed of the Grundy-Mellon revolt until it had begun, If he was pri-! vately consulted he gave no sign. Ih }any event the G. 0, P. in Pennsylva- nia is now split wide open, as in the! Pepper-Vare primary battle of last spring. * Mellon Pulled in. Backing Vare is Rep. Morin of | Pittsburgh. In 1922 the U. S. Steel Corporation tried to beat him for re- nomination. He was with Vare in the primary fight last year. Now he wants to run against Sen. David Reed, Mellon family lawyer, who will be a candidate for renomination next |spring, Morin is said to control the actual precinct organization in Alle- ghany County, as Vare does in Phila delphia. Thus Mellon will have to fight for Reed and against Morin and Vare in Pittsburgh under a handicap; he must build up a separate organiza- tion with the millions of cold cash which the manufacturers will now |proceed to pay into the hands of Grundy. Since old age pensions have a strong appeal to slaves of the steel companies, it may prove that Vare and Morin have discovered a {way to break Mellon’s political power in his own stronghold, Andrew Mellon failed to get Cool- idge to go into the Pepper primary |fight last year. It, is improbable, politicians say, that he will induce Coolidge to say anything for David Reed and against Morin next spring. Literature Leads in Soviet Book Exports MOSCOW April 18.—The export of soviet books into foreign countries \started on a big scale in 1925-26, | ‘when 20,000 roubles’ worth of books | 13,000 | was exported to Germany, ‘roubles to France, 12,000 roubles to America, 22,000 roubles to China, | 17,000 roubles to Latvia, ete. The total value of exports of books from |OFFICE BOYS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Upon these lads have devolved the holy task of commanding the battle+ ships of the American representatives of world imperialism in China, This | photo, taken at Shanghai r ntly, shows left to right: Capt. G. W. Steele, commanding the S, S. “Pittsburgh,” flagship of the Asiatic fleet; Ad- miral C. S. Williams, commander of the fleet; and Capt. W. N. Vernou, chief-of-staff. titles in Mexico Doheny’s a oil 1 were largel. udulent. April 18 Louis April 19, Kansas H City April 21, Tope April 22, Den- Gunboat Di IOMACY ve: Avr. 24 Sate Laie Ciey Ape 2m Cheyenne April 28, Los Angeles April 30 and San Francisco May 3. | Lect ie To [ Marsh and Liggett will theet cer- il ll ll tain other Northwestern senators af Portland, and will hold meetings MES % there and in Seattle, Bismarek, WASHINGTO} 18.—(FP) | Minneapolis, Sioux Falls, Sioux City —Sen. Lynn J. Frazier of North Da-| 544 Milwau kota, Nonpartisan League Repub- American relations with Mexican oil and Mexican counter-revolutionary plotters will be Senator Frazier’s topic at some of these meetings. At others he will tell the story of Ameri- can intervention in Nicaragua and American naval threats against the Chinese Nationalist liean, has started on a cre rontinent speaking trip devoted to exposing the imperialist poliey of the Coolidge- Mellon administration and its control by Morgan & Co. ‘He will be ac- companied by Benj. C. Marsh, exec- utive secretary of the People’s Re- construction League, and Walter Lig- i ett, the newspaper man who,first 0 Mais ‘ charged before the Senate committee | WORKERS! PROTEST AGAINST on foreign relations, last winter, that | DE ATH © ACCO and VANZETTI! Our Case is Serious Consultation with our lawyers discloses the very serious nature of the charges which are being made by reactionary societies against The DAILY WORKER. It appears that efforts will be made not only to send to jail those responsible for the editorial policy -- and the administration of the paper, ‘but also to suspend its mailing privileges, This is the - aim and purpose of the wealthy organiza- ° tions which are pressing the case. Comrades! The case is serious. Do not wait until too late. Do not wait until the blow falls upon your paper. We must put up a powerful defense of our paper. We must pre- - | vent the withdrawal of mailing privileges. | We must fight for the right to continue our fight against the Wolls, the Sigmans, and the ° Greens. We must retain our paper for the | fight against imperialism. We urge all friends of The DAILY. | across the international boundary the | fore the election is over, so that it | Ontario Power Commission, which| will be impossible to determine so | belongs to the people of Ontario,| that it can be proven to the farmer, |serves the Canadian power and light! whether the legislation is faked or the USSR in 1925-26 was 112,000 | roubles, As for the first half of the! current working year 1926-27, the WORKER to immediately turn their efforts to the raising of the necessary funds to fight a Greater Usefulness in the Revolutionary total value is 70,000 roubles. b.| consumer with these necessities at|not. In the meantime Mr. Coolidge) by 2 tafe sot re vnfashy sa among for the right to maintain our paper Delay Movement infinitely cheaper rates than his) will have heen re-elected and the re- | tho soviet books exported, making if . ° American cousin can buy it from prt- | actionary administration will be in the up 40 per cent of the total, Of the, OF lack of effort may be disastrous. ALL BOOKS CLOTH BOUND. vately owned companies. | saddle for another four years. books exported to America, the art a Ny RD <9, To behold the président of a “mu-| May Not Work. i rm parca} ate | é — esehea ' oS 2.50 om miciceaee aameane » $1.50) tual” life insurance company ranting | That is the plan. It may not be abag ti FA cali aatenterecat ti in If comrades who DAILY WORK By D. Riazanov ............. $2.5 - NO} ORY OF | against mutuglization in its highest | consumated however, although so far MWA sai ae Mastin Sry Sik a? t t see The 33 First Street | {SELECTED ESSAYS THE LEISURE CLASS form—state ownership—is laughable | Mr. Coolidge has always puj thru sue- | T ; wan a. 8 New York, N. Y. i) ie Met Mate We es, $1.75 | Bueharin . ... $2.50 | indeed, \eéssfully his neat little sehemes, But) wo Alarm Fire. DAILY WOR KER a \ PRASANT WAR IN GERMANY — | EDUCATION IN SOVIET RUSSIA | There are millions of Mr. Fiske’s|in thls farm controversy are several) | Two alarms were sounded yester.| © S004" P | Tneleedh is 'y one By F. 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Pie ORRe MP TS) CANON 6 ik) $1.60 | they feel that industrial life ingur-| publieans who hate and despise Cool- | plant of the’ Flushing Journal, a daily | x | ruiz : wont and Pag \ ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL WOMAN WORKER AND THE {ance companies might be operated by | idge and who are not at all concerned | newspaper. | per and our staff with ) DAIL ER and for the oat TION “TRADE UNIONS | the state to quite ida adbantaes ty | about seeing him embarrassed, Some | “ m pat cs | defense of our paper. { will pay y BUUCA Sy tlov (Paper $1).. $1.50, By Theresa W iiss 1.75 | the 40 million policyholders who how|of the farmers being bankrunt are| presided over by Vice President | half the energy that (the same amount regularly ye Berdnikov-Svetlo +. $1.50) By fu nsiecanetek pebgdatond $1.75 | ind themselves in the economic grip | downright angry. Among republicans | Dawes who is second to none in his ry i Wer Ser eee o.Sveeen , J of the “Big Four,” in congress are men who are deeply | lack of fervor about Coolidge, and a our enemies are us ng j 1 :} ¥ i) \ " | Pon eeene enn fed up with Coolidge and determined | house controlled by the farm bloc sec- } ‘ ‘ i; Name ..... seeegcees ood eeu SEND FOR. A PHBE CATALOGUE Plan Celebration In Warren to derail him if possible. onded by the democrats, may rewrite | to silence us, we will ‘diel OF ALL PUBLICATIONS. WARREN, Ohio, April 18.—There Many Will Rejoice. |his sap and send him a bill that will} pe able to win this grater enk Piatt x | will be a united front May Day dem-| It is therefore entirely possible that | put the issue very bitterly before him. | - sty hen eae F | onstration in this éity on May 1, at|Mr. Coolidge’s plans may go awry. | Instead of approving a sham meas-| battle and continue eh THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ree) |2 p. m. at the Hippodrome Hall. The farmers may stand pat and in-|ure, he may have to consider an act | BRE RT epee ee ry . 33 FIRST STREET, NEW YORK. {Among the speakers will be N. | Shaffer of Cleveland, and Jean Blair, { | Saces and Vanzetti Must Not TMiet sist on the equalization fee principle, | with teeth. It will be tough on him, | as the only possible solution. Con-|but there are many good republican vess, with a senate controlled by!leaders who will rejoice mightily jlemoerats and insurgent republicans thereon. ' the fight. | Attach check or money order, AEA a ARES NE TRENT a NO ee ————— )