The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAIL MANEUVERS TO TEST DEFENSE FROM BRITISH Elaborate War Game On New England Coast “War” has been declared and next week decisive “battle” will be fought off the coast of New England. Crack divisions of regular United States army troops are today con- centrating “somewhere in New Eng- land” preparing to resist an invasion from the sea. They will have the sistance’ of harbor ips, long range fort guns and aircraft. At dawn Monday, the powerful American fleet of 137 vessels and 80,000 sailors will steam out of New York harbor, where they are now stationed, for the “war area” and soon will strik th all its re- sources—at the southeast coast of New England. It will be the annual joint army- navy war maneuve to take place in the vic of Newport, R. I., and last from May 16 to May 21. British Fleet In Attack. The contending forces represent the attacking British fleet and the Amer- iean defenders of the whole new Eng- astline. r the purpose of the maneuvers, ar” is now actually in pro- —has been, in fact, for several It has now reached the de- stage. The American land s have theoretically denied ad- into Yankee territory. But the h fleet has recently gained con- trol of the north Atlantic and is in a strategic position to strike. British Try Landing. So, everything is ready for an at- tack—the big battle is imminent. Can the British fleet land marines on the New England coast? The fleet is practically within striking dis- tance to make the attempt. Landing of the marines would tend to draw the American forces from what might prove to be the main battle front. Such a thrust from the sea also offers a tempting objective because of the densely populated and well equipped industrial centers in New England. Then, too, the alternative objectives of reaching New York City by overland operations or by cutting off New England from other Ameri- can, territory make probable an at- tempted landing on the southeast coast of New England. Violin and Viola Lessons Given by expert teacher. For reasonable rates, write to JOHN WEINROTH \“Big Four” Grip Life Of Nation (Continued from Page One) one cent of his depo: If he mi |four weekly payments his policy | cancelled and his cash is forfeited. | This type of thievery is called “in-| |dustrial” inSurance and is so named |because it is sold primarily to the in- | dustrial classes, that is to say, to the | worker, oe | Little Inner Circle. While the “Big Four” are avowedly \“mutual” companies, actually the ter- | rifie power as represented in the com- |pany assets are left in the hands of a comparatively small group of Wall Street financiers. Somewhere on the policies issued by these companies we find this pretty legend, “The election of Directors of the Company is to be held in New York on the second Tuesday of April, 1927, and every second year there- |after. The holder of this policy while it remains in force, . .will have a | righ tto vote, either in person or by proxy or by mail.” Hard to Vote. This sounds very nice, but in fact, not % of 1 per cent of the policy- holders ever vote. The privilege of voting is so bound up with red tape, and the nomination of ‘directors is so fixed and faked that the franchise is a huge farce. | So much so, that on the boards of | directors, year after year, we find |such names as Charles M. Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel and the Chase | National Bank; Henry Ollesheimer of the Chase National Bank and the |Broadway Safe Deposit Company; Frank P. Noyes, president of the As- sociated Press which supplies news service to 1,200 newspapers in the United States and Canada; Albert H. Wiggin, president of the Chase Na- tional Bank and director of a string of million dollar companies. Leland Olds, statistician for the Federated Press, in a press bulletin recently said, “The big insurance | companies are really great reser- | voirs of social credit, but the ad- ministration of this.enormous power is left in the hands of private bank- ers like J. P. Morgan & Co., to be | used in furthering their plans to dominate the country. The direc- torates of the. . .leading compan- ies interlock with practically all the great banks and trust compan- | jes, the railroads, “public utility corporations and big industrial com- bines which control the country’s | economic activity.” | The menace which the “Big Four” offer to economic life of the nation! lies in the fact, that, due to the mur- derous overcharges and forfeitures | ssets pyramid more than twice | ‘as fast as do those of the “ordinary” companies. | Aggregations of Wealth. | In 1905 the combined companies | operating in the State of New York ‘Denounced by Feingold |Roberts, A. Weingarten, I. H. Gola-| |devoted to the election of officers. |a supper given to the delegates at LARITSKY BAGK IN PRESIDENCY OF CAP UNION As Quitter Max Zaritsky, former president and vice president of the Cloth Cap, Hat and Millinery Workers’ Interna- tional Union, and erstwhile insurance agent and employe of the Jewish Daily Forward, was yesterday elected president of the union once more by the delegates to the 16th convention, meeting in Beethoven Hall. Zaritsky had been serving as per- manent chairman of the convention, and in allowing himself to be nomin- ated for the presidency he declared the capmakers’ union was “the only place he felt at home.” This senti- mental return.of the prodigal did not rouse much sympathy in those dele- gates who remembered that Zaritsky had refused to return to the union when it was preparing for a general ke for the 40-hour week, and when his help was much needed. I. Feingold of St. Louis stated that “In my opinion, due to all of his statements and actions he has shown himself to be physically and morally unfit to lead the organization.” Zaritsky A Quitter. | M. Golden, a delegate from Local 42, declared that Zaritsky was “a quitter at the time when the union needed him most.” In spite of this opposition, Zaritsky received 51 votes; Feingold had 18 votes and 9 delegates refrained from voting. The secretary-treasurer, M, Zuck- erman, tendered his resignation, but the convention insisted that he ac- cept re-election until the General Executive Board appointed someone to take his place. Objections were raised by some delegates, and J. Mil- ler of Boston was nominated; but the original motion passed. | Members re-elected to the General Executive Board were S. Hershkow- itz, A. Mendolowitz, A. Rose, J.| berg. From out-of-town were S.| Lisitaky from Chicago, M. Lenoff from Philadelphia; H. Gordon from Twin Cities; H. Saltzberg from Can- ada. Two extra delegates, Lucy Op-| penheim and Max Goldman. Frater- nal delegate to the Hatters’ Conven- tion, J. Roberts. | The entire session yesterday was The convention closed last night with union headquarters in Beethoven Tried for Murder = /vioya E. Streitenberger, for- Ther city detective of Canton, O., is the latest person to face trial for the murder of Don R. Mel- lett, crusading publisher, for which Patrick E, McDermott and Ben Rudner already are serving life sentences. Trial for Murder of Ohio Detective Nears End; Editor Killed CANTON, Ohio, May 12. — The state is expected to end its testimony today in the case of Floyd Streiten- berger, Canton city detective, on trial for his life in connection with the slaying of Don Mellett, Canton pub- lisher, here last July. Streitenberger’s attorneys declared today they would attempt to “tear} down” the story of Louis Mazer, Can- ton, jointly indicted for the Mellett murder, whw! testified for the state Hall. | yesterday. 4 615¢ LARCHWOOD AVENUE, *houe Granite 7252, Philadelphia, Pa. had 10 billion ‘s worth of in- surance in force ‘vith total assets of Woche dele cde fe dee cde detec cde Put Some Power In That Kick! PZ, Don’t waste your energy in idle protest. When reaction attacks The DAILY WORKER and you want to fight — strike your blows where they will be most ef- fective. Kick in With a Sub. Every subscription is a striking answer to the enemies of Labor—every sub is more strength to the blows that are dealt every day by The DAILY WORKER. Don’t only kick... Kick in! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: erteite, oft In New York Per Yr. $8.00 are Woes. ix Me. 460 $ Mo, -. 2.00 3 Mo, .. 2.50 The DAILY WORKER 33 First Street New York Enclosed $ mos. sub to: PEERS EEE HH \ } J itl two and a half billion dollars. Twenty | years later these mpanies had 47| j billion dollars of insurance in force | with a littie over 10 biilion dollars i sets. Thus we see that the ratio set-increase with ordinary com- reries is proportiona‘e with their in- cw.ave of Insurance in force. With the “Big Four” it is different. In 1905 they had three billions of in- surance in force with total assets of $245,000,000, less than a quarter of a billion. Twenty years later we find | these ghoulish outfits with a total of | 20 billions of insurance in force with over three and a half billions of as- sets, Geometrical Progvession. While the “ordinary” companies in- creased their assets in ratio to in- surance in force, the “Big Four” pyramided their assets more than |twice us fast as their increase of in- surance in force. | We may well look with fear to the day when these four companies will dominate the economic life of the na- |tion completely. | Today these four companies hold | more assets than there is currency in circulation. These assets are in quick term and can be liquidated within 48 hours. This colossus rests on base built on petty life insurance policies which may be found it every American worker’s home. It Goes On, Fraudulent, cynical and ironically contrary to even the decencies of mod- ern business “ethics” the swindle con- tinues unabated. Humane Laws of the Soviet Union Pension Workers at Fifty-two MOSCOW.—At the age of 52 a per- son’s useful life is officially finished | in the Soviet Union. So says the State insurance and social pension} statute, which makes workers eligible! \for a State pension when they have | |passed their fifty-second birthday, if \they have already completed at least seven years of work. The pension applies to workers of every kind. Every émployer, whether a housewife hiring a servant, or the State employing thousands of office workers and factory hands, must pay a monthly social insurance, premium ranging upward from 16 per cent of the salary each month, The so-called old age pension becoming effective at the age of 52 applies to everybody | who earns a wage. The pension is | calculated on the salary earned in the last year. come will be over. | } . . {whom you have written will do the Go to the Bazaar. | The first night of the Bazaar has proved itself a tremendous demon- stration in favor of the prisoners and against the enemies of the union. Artists are donating their services, workers have made, donated, begged and brought piles of wonderful mer- chandise and the result is astounding. Another great concert tonight. A Grand Ball tomorrow and a Final Concert Sunday Night, and an affair that will be talked of for years to . 1 A New Way to Collect. At a house party given in honor of a Local 22 girl who left for the Coast, at which only about 15 people were present, a collection of $14.40 was raised for defense. This success was the result of an original idea that occurred to Sister Rose Kuntz, who playing the part of waitress, served the guests and demanded tips for the defense. . . From Los Angeles. Joint Defense Committee, Friends: I send you herewith a check for $10.00. I hope that all those to same. Every thinking person should} help as much as he can to drive the black pest from the worker’s move- ment, With greetings and hopes for a complete victory, I am, Max Siegel. . . « A Letter From Mercedes. «| Joint Defense Committee, Friends: After a challenge from the Mer- cedes Furnifare Company that it will double the amount that their em- ployees will give, enclosed please | find the result, three dollars, Mercedes Furniture Company.’ | Want Adultery Only | For Divorse Cause PITTSBURGH, May 12.—An ef- fort will be made to restrict causes for divorce recognized by the Presby- terian Church at its general assembly to be held in San Francisco May 26 to June 1, it was announced here to- day. ‘ An amendment has been prepared} to the church law that would recog- nize adultery as the only justifiable reason for legal separation, Under the present church regula- tions, adultery and wilful and long desertion are recognized as reasons } for divorces, ling gathered by the foes of the two Mazer implied that Streitenberger | was the instigator of the plot to “beat Needle Trade Defense lup Mellett,” which resulted in the as- | sassination of the newspaperman. Foes of Saccco, Vanzetti Heap Lies On Fuller (Continued from Page One) the efforts of these assiduous forces have been accompanied with utmost secrecy. Without fanfares or public attention, they have been ferreting out new sources of perjury, prejudice and hate against the radicals. Their evidence, such as it is, is accumulating in a great sheaf of affidavits and statements upon which no publicity has been sought, Today a portion of their “evidence” lies upon the desk of Governor Ful- ler. He is reading it, probably being slowly poisoned by the insidious hints and rumors, dignified by supporting affidavits purchased at so much an oath, Attorney William G. Thompson was closeted with the governor yes- terday for nearly an hour. He is understood to have requested the privilege of looking at this new evi- dence. Neither he nor the governor would discuss the outcome of the ses- sion. The particular danger of this new mass of accusations, falsehoods and YORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927 ABRAM PREISKEL, PASSAIC CLUBBER IS BOOMERANGED Knocked Out of Office By Own Tactics By ART SHIELDS Federated Press PASSAIC, N. J. (FP)—Rap, rap, the policemen’s clubs were tapping on the skulls of textile strikers dur- ing the long historic struggle of Pas- saic in 1926. And with every rap the police were knocking out the chances | of their boss, Abram Preiskel, for re- election as Commissioner of Public Safety. . At the city election May 10, Preis- kel was the only conimissioner to lose his job. He fell below the lowest of the five winners by 222 votes, getting 6,726, to his rivals 6,948, It was the defeat of an old tyrant of the town. Preiskel broke a spon- | taneous strike of the textile workers in 1919 with arrest and clubbings. | And in the two years that followed, | when the Amalgamated Textile W: ers’ Union was in the field his cop’ locked up hall doors. 1920 Lewis Gannett, and Harry Ward read the Constitu- | tion to each other by candle light at | a test free“speech meeting staged| by the American Civil Liberties | from the west side of the city are | Union. Preiskel had driven away the | audience and switched off the lights. | Cordon Around “Arcos” | Offices in London | j (Continued from Page One) | those past masters in every form of deceit, will be able to produce forged | documents with which they will seek | to convince the British petty bour- geoisie that the government in bring- ing forward this iniquitous scab bill is not fighting the workers but fight-| ing the Soviet Union. This is in principle the same kind of a stunt that the tories pulled off during the last general election when they pro- duced a forged document alleged to be a letter of instructions from Gregory Zinoviev, then president of the Communist International instrue- ting the Communist Party of Great Britain to organize a revolt in Eng- land. Owing to the blundering of Ramsay MacDonald, labor premier } who at first accepted the faked letter as genuine, the tories succeeded in} arousing enough red hysteria to} enable them to carry the election. An| official trade union committee after-| wards branded it a palpable forgery. It is also quite evident that the tories are doing their best to goad the Soviet Union into breaking off relations. They had the Soviet em- bassy in Peking raided hoping that} the Soviet government would take | punitive measures against the bandit Chang Tso-Lin. But Moscow refused | to be tricked or goaded into Britain’s | trap. Demanded Ousting. Ever since the general strike The Daily Mail, tory organ, and the mouthpiece of Winston Churchill, has persistently called for the ousting of the Soviet trade delegation. No doubt Joynson Hicks, British home secre- tary and chief of the stool-pigeon agency known as-Scotland Yard will be as ingenous in discovering “docu- ments” as was Sir Basil Thompson during the war. Sir Basil by the way was convicted recently of moral per-| version having been caught by a po- liceman in Hyde Park in an act of gross indecency with a prostitute, Sir Basil was one of the most vocifer- ous defenders of British womenhood against the wicked Bolsheviki. It is significant that the head ‘of the Soviet trade delegation M. Kain- chuk, is now attending the Interna- tional Economie Conference at Gen- eva, where the Soviet delegates have frequently clashed with the British, Violation of Agreement. While trade delegations do not en- joy absolute immunity as is sabaokd to be accorded embassies of foreign governments the raid is undoubtedly insinuations against Sacco and Van- zetti lies in the extra-judicial nature of the entire investigation being pur- sued by Governor Fuller. There will be no challenging of these affidavits, no cross-examination of the men and women who swore to them, no oppor- tunity to show their falsity. Unlike the great pile of new evi- dence collected by the defense, which has been given to the world as soon as it was prepared, the material be- Italian anarchists is being guarded from publicity with utmost care. The defense is utterly in the dark as to the nature of the new attack upon the principals of the world-fa- mous case, “ Workers the world over must con- tinue their insistent demands for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti. The | emergency of the present situation calls for the most aggressive, mili- tant activity on the part of. labor. Sacco-Vanzetti conferences in every state and city to mobolize labor and progressive strength are urgently needed, { Want “March of The Workers” A copy of the March of the Work- ers, published by the Young Workers League, now out of print, is needed, Any one having a copy please send to DAILY WORKER. a violation of the Anglo-Russian trade agreement. A similar raid made several years ago on the Soviet trade delegation in Berlin on the or- ders of the social-democratic minis- ter of the interior drew abject apol- ogies from the Reich and has never been repeated. It was afterwards learned that the British ambassador had a hand in the raid. The wave of opposition that is rising against the tory government in England owing to the war against China and the offénsive against the trade unions is driving them to des- perate straits. There is reason to believe that the Churchill, Hicks, Locker, Lampson, Hogg, Birkenhead wing of the cabinet is in favor of es- tablishing a fascist dictatorship. | Benito At Marconi Marriage. ROME, May 12.-Premier Mus- solini will act as best man at the wed- ding of Senator Marconi, thé wireless inventor, and the Countess Bezziscali, The date of the wedding will not be set until it is determined when the premier will be free to attend, Marconi was not able to marry un- til the “Sacred” Tribunal of the Rota, a high Catholic’ Church court, di- vorced his other wife, quite recently, BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS wl x ail Great Exodus of Chicago Youth to Come Off Sunday CRICAGO, Ill, May 12.—Final ar- made by section four of the Young Workers League. Due to the number of attractions » | offeged—the least of these not being| as chairman of the meeting. ork- | the old and young celebrities who are | made by the members against this un- coppers | expected to attend—and to the splen- | heard union procedure were ruled out . One night in did publicity work, the committee of |of order and Fitzpatrick proceeded to Norman Thomas | arrangements expect the most suc-|read a telegram from Shachtman, in- affair of its kind pulled off ago. At 9 a m. sharp young workers cessful in Chie: vrged to meet at 1239 South Sawyer javenue and the Northsiders will re- port at 2444 West Division street. Johnny Edwards, one of the found- ers of the Young Workers League and noted wit has promised to take part jin the hike. Martin Abern, the famous full-back, and former secretary of the Young | Workers League, is epected to um- pire the baseball game. Black Bottom Contestant o pene Re Wigmore, Sacco Foe, Was Red Baiter in Post - War Frenzy BOSTON, May 12.—Dean John H. Wigmore, of Northwestern Univer- | sity Law School at Chicago, is a very bitter opponent of Sacco and Van- zetti. And now a reason appears. Following his second attack on Pro- fessor Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, for the latter’s support of the two Italian radicals, the Federated Press looked up Wigmore’s record. f It found that the dean had himself been somewhat involved in the red- baiting campaign of 1920 that pre- ceded the arrest of Sacco and Van- zetti. And A. Mitchell Palmer, the author of the Palmer “Red Raids” spoke in high terms of Wigmore at ® congressional hearing in May, 1920. The attorney-general was testify- ing at a congressional hearing into charges that had been made against Louis F. Post, the liberal assistant secretary of the department of labor under William B. Wilson. A few days before the anarchist Salsedo had been murdered and Sacco and Vanzetti ar- rested. Palmer praised Wigmore’s views on free speech. , “Freedom of Speech or Freedom of Thuggery,” was the title of one of Wigmore’s articles which the attorney general admired. It appeared in the Illinois Law Journal, March, 1920, and was a violent attack on the advocates of freedom of speech as revolutionists y St. Roman Rumor False. RIO JANEIRO, May 12.—There is no confirmation here of reports to the effect that Captin St. Roman, French flier who has been missing a week since he left St. Louis, Senegal, on a flight across the Atlantic, hus been discovered at Bona Vista in the Cape Verde Islands, New Paresis Cure. CHICAGO, May 12,—Official de- seription of Dr. Margaret M. Kun- de’s new treatment for paresis will be given before the American medical association convention at Washing- jton, D. C., it was announced today. The treatment was regarded in medical circles today as a great ad- vance in the cure of the deadly type of insanity. Presser Would Be Free. Izzy Presser, the convict whose dis- appearance from a road camp near Great Meadows Prison two years ago resulted in a rehing investigation of prison -conditions in New York state, and his own trial on a-jail- breaking charge yesterday reopened his fight to secure release from Sing Sing Prison | "GUNMEN ASSIST --AITZPATRICK 10 SPLIT FURRIERS |Federation Head- Runs Local Union Meeting CHICAGO, May 12.—Aided by the | Police, scores of gunmen and gang- |sters and under the chairmanship of |John Fitzpatrick, President of the |Chicago Federation, of Labor, the |right wing of Local 45 of the Fur- | riers’ union captured themselves | (minus the membership) and pro- ceeded to expel the leaders of the progressive forces without trial throwing aside all pretence of even constitutional forms. | The last meeting of the local, which was held Friday night, at the Musi- | cians’ hall was opened by Ida Wein- jrangements for next Sunday’s hike | stein, vice president of the Inter- |from here to Desplaines are being |national by the grace ofthe old cor- |rupt Kaufman machine. She immedi- ately informed the membersaip pres- lent that Fitzpatrick was goimg to act | Apreals | ternational president, authorizing him |to take over the chairmanship of |the local. Fitzpatrick further stat- ing that he had an order from Wm. Green, president of the A. F. of L., to take the Chicago Furriers’ situa- tion in hand, Nichols on Fair Play After giving the floor to Ed. Nich- ols, Secretary of the Federation who ranted on the floor for several min- utes on “fair play” ete., Green of the |painters’ union, notorious gunman, representing the United (2) Hebrew ‘Trades was given the floor and in- |dulged in the regular red baiting \speeches coneluding by making the | statement, “dat dis meeting his called to say vich is de stronegest de com- \oonists who ay breaking up the unions of de Hamerican trade unionists.” | Mr. Hannock, secretary of the |Hebrew trades (Forward agency) was given the floor to defend the “gangsters.” He was very angry be- cause the Communist Daily Freiheit had put these “socialists” in their right place. Fitzpatrick next ordered the min- jutes of the executive board read, | which stated that Goldberg, president lof the board, Finkelstein, president lof the local, Brothers Shenberg, |Greenberg, and Goldstein, were sus- | pended for one year under the charge ‘of being Communists, unable to run ‘a union, using slander, ete. Israelson Betrays Motion was immediately made to adopt the minutes, and Israelson who was elected as business agent by the jaid of the progressives as against |the reactionary Milstein, made a vici |ous attack against the New York joint board, repeating the already blown up charges of “police graft” and accus- ing the progressives of wanting to break up the union, this notwith- standing the fact that it was exactly the same Israelson who was forced to expose the Milstein gang’s shortage of funds a year ago in the statement later published by the progressive group. The only explanation is that he has proven that he was too much of a yellow coward to fight when pressure was brought from the Federation. The only progressive recognized was Brother Sunninshein who . protested against the violation of the constitu- tion and pointing out that no trial had been held and also called the at- tention of ail to the interference of the United Hebrew Trades with the internal affairs of the union, ~ Gangsfers Watch Vote Goldstein, one of the suspended members, demanded a secret ballot according to the constitution but Fits stated in true Skinny madden style, “That we are going to have a Billy Goat vote, and that if you want ¥ appeal to the International you can do so.” In an “Aye and No” vote with sluggers and United Hebrew trades gangsters, painters and butchers, etc, even then the “Noes” were in a maj- ority, but Fitz declared the vote cas- vied’ in spite of an appeal and de- mand for division, and after this ex- hibition in “democratic control,” he adjourned the meeting. One of the progressive members of the local was badly slashed on the forehead by gangsters led by Morris Lieberman, who is now a boss and for that reason has been taken off the executive board. He was. taken to the emerge: hospital where he was treated; if eval stitches taken after which \he was taken to his home. Fitzpatrick Splits Union Fitzpatrick thus has carried out the wishes of the Fur bosses in the city of Chicago to split the union, and in thé methods of procedure made Skinny Madden, former chief of the Federation and notorious crook, look like a piker. The progressive forces in’ the Chi- cago labor unions will protest against this unheard-of violation of all con- stitutional rights of the members and complete disappearance of democracy within the union, T's SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! i}