The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1927, Page 2

Page Two Globerman Rallies New Orleans Fights Workers Behind Him To Avoid Flood From For a Labor Party Rising Mississipp! LOS ANGELES NEW OR April 25.—Urged elected o delegt fi 1 army laborsd UNION POLITIC. f to be held here adopted a re upon this conferer for the organiz: tion of a Labor Party. nd capping the 1 stone ned guards patrolled the section while the workmen labored ready to t any stranger who 1 i cp dof Central Labor Counc Council, Building Trad Allied Printing Tra officially endorsed the c d Board of Education of The ‘break at Juni 10 man, whose eampaign commit miles south of New Orlean issued the cal Conference. repair and engir Many labor offic e @anded to- amited a bask levée to open a conference he flood water to Lake Pontchar- JUST ABOUT READY TO MOVE } | The folk in this house at Little Rock, Ark., where the Arkansas river joined the procession of rivers in flood, seem about ready to’ move. Grocery deliveties were made by skiff. gether to fight both Sane. and Globerman’s car and are | train and the gulf. doing eve ning they can to defeat The confidence of New Orleans was the prospects of both. shaken today by the prospect of a ligisak Apposss. mounting flood in the Quachita. and Red..Ri , which will surely swell It is Bnow that the secretary of t the M ippi on its cor News and Views of the Biggest World Port ||) {will be adduced from the published | iste | Central ~ Labi Cor 1, aia eae Mt i proached one by one Leeaap cs Mags al Rr at triet councils that have - endorsed | Gy achita = pry cheat 4 A Glaberman, with a view to having“ ~ Nay tenis H H Supreme Court Forbids! them withdraw their endorsement. So Flood Sweeps On. al of esc QS | far, he haS not succeeded, but it is believed ‘atiother attémpt to do-this| , MEMPHIS, Tenn., April will be made within the ne weeks, | Sweeping over the satire Mississipe! iff fost before the * ‘élaatinna delta, flood waters have inundated iON | 10n$ Il ey May 3ta. {Glan Allen and Lake Washington, The fact that thé Workers’ (Com- | mall hamlets néar Greenville, it was reported here. munist) Party immediately came out ‘a Hee ih support of his candidacy will be) ). i424 used by the’ labor officials in an at~| 02'S: tempt to create prejudice against a Communist candidate. Socialists’ Intrigue. The role of the Socialists in the election campaign is interesting; they haye several candidates for Board of Education, and one for City Council, | Ark and these have formed an election al-|} liakce with a group of re y | by water. candidates for the purpose o ing another clique of politicians en- dorsed by the “Citizens Committee.” The Socialist program ignores the un- employment situation; the open For Workers’ Defense injunctibns and anti-labor t of seaplanes and motor- hich last night moved 500 re- }fugees from Wayside, a nearby town, \were sé¢lirching Glen Allen and Lake I Washington ‘for hundreds of persons | “Ipswic reported to be marooned on levees. Fleets of boats were in operation | hole had throughout Mississippi today rescu-| enough t ing marooned. Hollindale and Arcola, | wonderi Which He Works just recently came h,” the Dollar Line, and the g whether or not I should 3 City was feported surrounded | other kind of work for a while. fling at. this trick, however, I had been able to pick up. United Women Council |‘*¢ ‘** igre ar Arranges Mass Meeting | iat ‘ | So I set out on Friday the 16th, to look for somie kind of an AB's job | to tide me over, the proverbial and 8.) 5 y hil . 5 nat i us | B sea- Tabony the’ Lapse ‘Party; thes ‘vont, ThE most debermined and consistent | ETM dering around for 3 r r a | defens r furriers and|_“* |< r ; : “cancellation of telephone fran- defense. work forthe furriers and) 7 the, and going into different cloakmakers’ comes from the United Couricil of Workingclass Housewives, Undaunted. by their amany : other butdens and duties, the Bronx. Gen- eral’Councits, jointlyowith the Bronx Cloakmakers and Furfiers_ Céuncils, | have: arranged a niass mecting to be heik-in:-“Hunts: Point -Patace; 163rd Street” aid” Se. Bivd., on Wednesday evening April 27th wt 8 P.M. The speakers will be Louis H Juliet Stewart Poyntz, Kate Git chises,” “bonds without interest,” but not a word about the most important issues before the labor movement of Los Angel old réliable Shipping Board’s office thru which more good seamen pass to disappointment than would be wise for publication. I hung around the les, all of which are clearly outlined in the program issued by t Workers’ (Conimunist) Party. Milwaukee Council Sees Legal Murder sang. out for AB’s for the “S. S. George Washington” and they got about ¢ighty to a hundred men to go low: down. ow, | down. : = age tau , ehike 4 When we got down to the dock, the MILWAUKEE (FP) —If Massa- Fee en Tarraleky and! poatswain: says that he ia not re- chusetts executes Sacco and Vanzetti ba aye eee rata * | sponsi i 2 it will be “considered hy the people | The meeting is being held undig sponsible for the influx of men, and that he wasn’t going to take any one of #s on till “signing on time,” and to come around on the following Monday. We were pretty hungry lot of men, way you looked at it, shipping pretty punk, and most of that gang hadn’t seen any kind of steady work for a hell of a long time. Just the same he gave us the usual come back again stories, atid since the average sailor is still for this capitalist scheme of tying the seaman down to the particular interest of the Com- pany, the bunch hung around ail afternoon and I hung around with them; there being nothing else to do in the way of finding work, and I half hoped that this time there might be something doing anyway. Some Recruits. I came back day by day with the same bunch of men with the addition of a few recruits, and we hung around encouraged by the boatswain ;to come around again just the same, Monday morning we came around |and the ship got ready to pull out, {the commissioners were. thru signing ‘up on the articles, when the boat- | swain sang out that he had all of his men and that all dock jobs were full. That just about knocked out the bunch and thére was some pretty {high cursing flying around loose and heavy. Queer how the men can curse after the evil is done. If they would | think of organizing and stitking to- gether in a body when it comes to getting out any kind of a protest they would get a good deal further. International Merchant Marine. The rest of the morning I spent the auspices of the Six Brérx Coun- : of the United Coamcil of Work- ingclass Housewives. of the United States and other civil- ized countries as a prejudicial and fanatical legal murder of two inno- cent men,” declares the Milwaukee Federated Trades Council in a letter to Gov. Fuller. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTA Your Last Chance to Here’s How around the I,M.M,, Atlantic trans- To greet the workers of the world The DAILY WORKER port, and the Oceanic Service, looking will print the names of individual workers and all working for an AB's job, but there was noth- class organizations in its SPECIAL MAY DAY EDITION Here’s How Much ing doing at these outfits so that I was forced to go down to the Stan- dard Oil Compan N.od., I say Individual namies will be printed atthe rate of $1.00 per ae tise re si ie et ri ae Pod rari ies will be given @ sjecial fate of $1.00 Standard Oil of New Jersey have is & ; per inch, ; pretty ky reputation, when it Here’s When— leomes to speed-up work, ents; ete. ‘ « yma” 4 Is Quéstioned. All greetings must be mailed at once to. reach The DAILY : te WORKER before April 25, All greetings artiving later hgh ret in ie oe will be printed tn following editions. galing whether 1) had avee " y 1a AY worked £ standard Oil Company SEND. GREETINGS TODAY. brie ap mtrreen p ) was no likelihood of pop OE RE Ie ra worl on any of the DAILY WORKER, 35 First Street, N y York, No Yi Stan Tankers; he says all Iinclosed find . . dollars for May Day Greetings, by gh ‘ a tho pease. Pict _ | Tatiker bound for San Pedto; he gave I fell for the line, hook, sinker and all. Basin at Robins Dry Dock. for the better part of the} morning. Towards the afternoon they | vinced me that the sea was the only |°® | i | shipping agencies I got down to the! senate depended upon the court's éon- | | i 1 jitié @ line of bunk about it being a| piblished good warm easy trip and so on, Well| who tead realize the The ship is located down at the Erie they ate working and | ted tas men whom they could exploit Investigation of Huge) National Bread’ Trust) WASHINGTON, April 25. — The! supreme court today dealt what is be- lieved to he a death-blow to the-Fed- eral Trade Commission’s proposed “bread trust” investigation by refus- | ing to review an adverse decision of | off the | lower courts. The investigation was undertaken “eats” and experience on that hell | pon senatorial authority, after Sena- | just about given me a. bitter }tor La Follette of Wisconsin proposed | te in the mouth to set me the action in a resolution. After the commission called upon were flooded by breaks. Ar-| quit the sea forever and hunt some| Milling companies for the production One | of records, the Millers’ National Fed- con- | ¢ration went into District of Columbia urts and obtained an injunction. The high court’s denial of the writ upheld the lower court rulings that subpoenas can only be issued and en- forced by the commission when it is investigating complaints of unfair methods of competition. In seeking the review, commi8sion attorneys said that the investigation of the “power trust” ordéred by the | struction of the commission’s author- | y in this case. It got there and found somé pretty strange things about the boat that was supposed to go out to San Pedro! on a@ easy trip. To begin with, its "foredstle was| completely ripped apart. The mate told me to put my dunnage and cloth- ing in the carpenter’s shed which was in a ptetty lousy condition, sé I flatly refused. I did some investigating on| my own hook, and I found out that) the focale had been ripped out be-| causé it was positively lousy and too, filthy and rusty for even the average seaman. Also the Pratt had been in dry| dock for some time and that from all) signs she was going to stay here for! quite some time to come yet. The | boatswain wanted me to start right} in working with an air hammer, which | is Something like a riveting hammer, and works on the same principle, | but the difference being that it is used for chipping rust. In this case the men on the job; mostly green hands and kids from the fart who} were making their first voyage to| sea, were working away at the tops of -the oil tanks—working between decks and amidships. | This is pretty hard work, so I asked the boatswain what they were being paid, and he told me that they were getting two dollars 'a day and eats. Bum Food. | I stayed long enough to try the eats and they were pretty bad. After speaking to some Of the hands I found out that an average of fifty to a hundred men were sent down daily and most of them quit after they worked for some time. en I got wise to thyself and. knew quite definitely that all. that this was, was a standby or port job. The S. S. Pratt wasn’t going to leave for Pedro so soon after all from all signs, All that the Standard Oil Co., wan- for two dollars a day, and buin eats, and in this way replace more skilled and higher payed workers with kids and green hands, or seaman who were pretty nearly down and out. Left It Flat. Well then after this sank in, I just packed up and left the damned hulk, Some of the fellows who were more inilitant and self respecting, also came along. I got back to Pearl street and I couldn't keep my temper back, so I gave a eg master og ell D im what ind of a dirty déal he was pulling over the men. He got p scared when I said this. right he begged me to. “Sh, Sh, the others around might | | hear you” and Be a seindal,” ete, Well, I told him that that was just What I wanted to do, to tell the other men that théy were being tricked into ditty exploitation, ‘This is why I want this letter to be so that the men on the job this letter fn The DAILY ‘will start to wake up and conditions under which begin or- ganize. “Big F | time to time. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1927 The following is the fourteenth of a series of thirty articles exposing the fraud of weekly payment (industrial) life insurance. | Previous articles have pointed out that there are 40 million weekly payment insurers in the United States ahd Canada. rison has made specific charges of fraud, misrepresentation, | subornation and misuse of public money. publi¢ utility companies are involved in the swindle. | prominent in financial and governnient circles have appeared from | Among those mentioned have ‘been Charles M. | Schwab, Haley Fiske, Albert H. Wiggin, Supt: of Insurance | James A, Beha and many others. * 4 (Copyrighted by The DAILY WORKER; 1927.) | (By CHARLES YALE HARRISON) | “boys” mult have had a union. Since Article XIV. Thus far, the figures we have been using in this exposure of the “Big | Four” have been taken from reports | issued by the companies involved, or from the 1926 issue of the New York state department of insurance report. New York’s Water Front | The refider has been sparéd the agony | juin of goiig through mileS of tabulated| statistics: In thf@ article, however, quotations works of Haley Fiske, insurance liter- ateur and propagandist. The book under discussion is called, “An epoch in Life Insuratice.” Likes The Company. The “book in itself is absolutely unimportant -as a contribution to the science of insurance. It is merély a hodge-podge latidatory goo served up as information on insurance matters -—particularly Metropolitan insurance matters. I quote and reply: “Industrial (weekly-payihent) in- surance is costly owing to the high death rate among the classes and the necessary system of weekly collection of premiums; and no ordinary company had of- féred its policies to them because of this high mortality. . .” Let us first deal with the lie that the death rate is higher among week- ly-payment policyholders. On page 100 of the Metropolitan annual report as submitted to the | Supt. of Insurance we find that in 1925 death claims in the “ordinary” department totalled $89,323,978.81. | The “ordinary” insurance in force | of working women in Chicago. | Was $5,737,507,751 exclusive of group insurance. “Industrial” (weekly payment) death claims were $39,542,600.27 with an aggregate of $5,018,452,116 of | weekly-payment insurance in force. | | From these figures it will be seen| that the ratio of claim payments are practically the same in both depart- ments. Middle Classes Caught. The reason for this is that the sale |of weekly-payment life insurance is sador, who served as interpreter, | |not confined exelusively to what Mr.| whether Machado would discuss the! Fiske is pleased to call “the laboring classes.” The sales pressure upon agents has been so severe that they haye’ penetrated into ail classes. Small shopkeepers, white-collar slaves, small exécutives and small business men carry this form of petty larceny in- surance either on their own lives or upon the lives of their children and families. “The necessary system of weekly collections” of which Mr. Fiske speaks costs 12% of the annual premium. An ordinary whole life insurance policy jn the Metropolitan at age 40 costs $25 per thousand. A weekly-payment policy for the same amount of protection costs $46.- | 80; nearly 100% more costly than ordinary insurance. We. still have 88% to account for. Nothing short of a legislative investigation will satisfactorily show what Haley Fiske and his associated high financiers do with the surplus overcharge. Popular Impression. On page XV of this same work of art, Mr. Fiske delivers himself of this, “There may be an impression abroad that the Armstrong laws im- proved and liberalized industrial in- surance.” This is perfectly true. The Armstrong insuranee investi- gating committee in 1906 investigated the evils of the insurance business enerally. An internal row in the iquitable Life Insurance company between two contending factions pre- cipitated the investigation. When thieves fall out honest men come into their own, The story of the Armstrong’ inves- tigation is stale news. But certain- ly, this much is not generally wn: The day before the “Big Four” were to come up for investigation, it was moved that the conimittee adjourn to draft its report. And as Mr. Fiske says: “The laws scarcely touched industrial insuranco? ‘ But industrial insurance touched thé lawyers—the lawyers who parti- cipated in the investigation and setv- id oh the committee. For example: After the investiga- tion Charles Evans Hughes who acted as counsel for the committee was made general counsel for the Equi- table Life, his erstwhile enemy. Senator William J. Tully, also of the committee, was made solicitor of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany at a salary of $20,000 per year, ;|Since then he has had his pay raised to $30,000, The Metropolitan is a “mutual” company. Its policyhold- ers, eat and 74" & all supposed to share ac- pn ee inted general and coun- our” Gives Cushy Jobs to! Ex-Investigators laboring | ge manager sel to the vssociation of life insur-|murdered mes. 8,000 Attend “Trial” Of “Forward”; Early Figures Too Small An official count made by the Ticket Committee in charge of the “trial” of the Jewish Daily For- ward-held in three large halls on Sunday shows that The DAILY WORKER estimate of 5,000 as stated in yésterday’s issue was too conservative. The Committee reports that over 8,000 attended the meetings. held in Central Opera House, New Star Casino, uid Manhattan Lyceum. te Of this. number 7,300 paid ad- mission fees. More than 700 strik- ers were admitted free. Mr. Har- Banks, railroads and) Names| Be ae a ‘ance presidents also at a salary of | $20,000. Twenty thousand dollars | Seemed to, be the’ fixed rate. The/| | that time Mr. Cox has been promoted | {to second vice-presidency in | the) | Metropolitan Life at a salary of $38,- | 000 annuaily. Mr. Cox ¢onies of ‘a long line of merican liberals in religion—but | take your correspondent’s word for it,| |he’s a hard-boiled conservative in| ess, Render unto Ceasar the | | things that are Ceasar’s. .. . | } Some of Us Know. | And so on down the line. jWwere all taken care of, |knows this. Every editor in New| | York City knows it. Mr. Swope of | the New York World knows it. It} is time that the general public knows | jit. See they do! | } All this happened over twenty | years ago. Since that time the in-| | dustrial insurance business has been | CHINA IN REVOLT \A | The boys | Mr. Fiske | s a new pamphlet Including the discussion by | outstanding figures in the | Communist International on | the great revolt in China by | having an eAsy time of it. Wall Street | 3 | manipulates of the stripe of Charles STALIN “ |M. Schwab have saddled the 40 mil-| BUCHARIN jlion weekly payment policyholders | MANUILSKY |who are fleeced of hundreds of mu-| | lions of ddllars every year. | “Public appreciation of the com- | pany and its magnificent work is/ | growing,” says Mr. Fiske. j | We ineline to the view that Mr.! |Tiske has the wrong ear to the round. Public indignation is grow- | ng. TAN PING SHAN 15¢ On China Read Also THE AWAKENING OF CHINA. by Jas. H. Dolsen. A complete history of thé awakening of over four hun- dred million people. With photographs, maps and orig- inal documents, _ NOW 50 CENTS The aa } Working Women Form Club. | CHICAGO, (FP) April 25—Unem- | ployment, high prices, high rents and | | other economic, ills will be studied by | the newly formed South Side Progres- | sive Women’s club, an organization It |meets Sunday afternoons at 3201 S. jp cevee Avenue. ‘Macha®, Sugar Trust Man, Keeps Mouth Shut (Continued from Page One) ment, and hinted that that was about | all. i i | Then, following an awkward pause, | PUBLISHING | your correspondent asked the ambas- | COMPANY a ; 33 First Street NEW YORK \ situation of trade unions in Cuba—)| |“sinee a great deal has been pub- | lished in this country recently as to |their condition.” i | Sugar Trust Puppet Cautious. | This was not what they had bar-|]) | gained for. Ambassador Ferrara hesi- | | j tated, spoke quickly in Spanish to} Machado, who frowned and replied in | }an annoyed tone. Ferrara interpre: |}! \ted: “The president says that he is) }a Liberal, and his administration has | | been very friendly to labor. and he \himself has lent his sympathy to the | trade unions in many strikes includ- | ing many railroad strikes that lasted | as long as 40 days. In all cases the | strikers have won what they sought: | | But the trouble has been that Com- | | munist disturbers, sent from abroad, have come to Cuba to create diffi- UNIONS AAT oudN WITR CONCLUSIONS BY 4 Z. Foster The first booklet of its | kind issued. A most valu- able sttidy of the growth of a new menace to American organized Labor by a keen student of the problem. _ —25 CENTS | Of | Class Collaboration READ | culties, and the government has heen | | obliged to remove them, to send them | ont again.” | Another correspondent asked: | \“Then the president thinks there is) rto Communist danger in Cuba and} the Caribbean?” . | “No,” came the translated revly. | “He repeats that some Communists | have been sent there from abroad, but he would hot permit them-—” Ferrara | CLASS was suddenly stopped by Machado, who firmly corrected him. ||| COLLABORATION— “The presidef%t desires me to say!” How It Works By Bertram D. Wolfe A new booklet re- | cently issued covering | all phases of this im- portant problem to hastily went on the ambassador, “that the workers, the trade union | members in Cuba, will not permit these Communists to enter their or-| ganizations or to create trouble.” | | Then, turning to your correspondent, | workers. Ferrara said gory “You say} —10 CENTS much has been published here about |}| _ trade union troubles in Cuba, but you CLASS STRUGGLE know that it was all written by one ||| VS. CLASS - man. It is just a one-man agitation.” : Murdered Workers. So that was all that Machado had || to say concerning his police agents’ murder and kidnapping of hundreds of trade union leaders in the past two years. Trays of dtinks were Lae in, for all who wanted to drink with him, As glasses were raised, someone | whispered, ironicatly, “Cuba Libre!” Machado was 4 rebel soldier with Maximb Gomez and Calixto Garcia, 80 years ago, and he has come to the | presidency on that reputation and on his claim of being & Liberhl, Just now he is’ crushing the last reninants of the trade unions with éne ‘hand while driving th kis complaisantly COLLABORATION | By Earl R. Browder | A brief but invalu- | able study of the B. & | O. 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