The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DATLY WORKER, YORK, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1927 Industrial Insurance Agents| Huerta Indicted |News FROM NEW JERSEY! Mayor Gives Bail | Gyped by Insurance Trust gm This series of ten articles, of which this is the first, will deal with the the and} methods to combat the evils of weekly payment life insurance. | This series is the result of numerous requests to publicize the de- tails of the and fraud to which the agent is subject in common with the policyholder. exploitation of industrial insurance agent € swindle ARTICLE 1. By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. The machinery which the Four” employ in perpetuating the ex- ploitation of the forty million policy- holders which are members of the “mutual” companies, worker who is 1 exploited liquities as well equally 1 suffers | as does swindlec economic pol der. which contribute to} tation and which render the of the poli r more} following | actor's > the about one hundred en cha sila The “Fine: ee davies ae A ee 1. The system of lapse charges | . - which operates jn such a manner known as the “field fore i i. ‘ Sarda: | Ak ig epoca to compel the agent to, “d rig psy bgliggr business which under clr- lect and can s in t the field is producti > field E , | cumst goes without will be compelled to lapse 4s accumulated a cash or before it eaying and is further attested to by er aban the enormous amount of insurance in set ghey vetoes force as reported by these corpor-| 2 The ins ations. : selling stunts which redound to the It is commonly assumed by the po-| Companies’ benefit and leaves the Neyholder of a ly payment ,| ignorant public saddled with more insurance company that the premiums than it can pos- well-paid and lives, so to the fat of the land. Agent Spied On. Nothing is further from the The pena ng for lost busi- 288 Which compels the agent to work late as nine and ten o'clock uth. at Phe industrial insuran worked, has no de onderpaid by means of a cruel s tem of fines,and “cuts” in his salary and is spied upon by an army of spies in the guise of assistant managers. In common with workers in other industries and businesses, after years ce agent is o nite hour of hard work in building up this! enormous system of swindle to which he is an unsuspecting party, he is cut loose with nothing to show for his years of labor unless under such conditions he cares to point with pride to the colossal assets| which these companies have and say with Haley Fiske, “Not best because biggest, but biggest because best.” The “White Collar” Stuff. Tt is safe to say that the average wage received by the industrial agent is considerably lower than those re- ceived by semi-skilled workers in factories or mills. To compensate him for his low wages, the agent is bolstered with phrases such as “you| are in business for yourself” or “someday you, too, will be a man- ager” and tripe of a similar nature. In this series of articles we intend to show that that which makes the agent an unwilling accomplice in the fraud of industrial life insurance is a vicious system of operation which | places the agents’ remunerative in- terests in direct opposition to the interests of the policyholder. During the series of articles just coneluded exposing the fraudulent methods used by the “Big Four” the recurring question -was, “Why isn’t} the industrial agent shown up?” Equally Swindled. } There is nothing to show up. The} ee er ee 9 Put Some | | Power In | night without work, payment for such 4. The creation of a system of | payment of “special salaries” pay- able agers which..pit these workers one against the other and result in a/ | hostility which prevents the organi-| zation of agents for protective pur-} poses, 5. The uncertainty of-the amount | of wages which the industrial agent} receives coupled with the present }commission system makes his rela- tionship with the policyholder an an- | tagonistie one. 6. The “hounding” of 2 increased business production and the system of charges and fines! which ultimately drive the agent out jof his job. This results in large la- | bor turnover which operates in the | | itution of = | | | | } nts for shown. Will Be Exposed. Each of these points and others| will be treated in this series and will, we believe, be of vital interest to every agent of the “Big Four.” We urge our readers to see that each of these articles finds its way into the hands of an industrial life insurance agent. The purpose of publishing these articles is not merely to make known | the facts upon which they are writ- ten but to create a sentiment among industrial insurance workers which | will “ultimately result in a concrete, organized opposition to the system | under which they are enslaved. Berwind, Foe of Unions, To Testify on Transit (Continued from Pagé One) into their house. Nine forced the two men to come down stairs—on the pre- | text of searching for liquor. The! tenth did the job. Early next morning when the news to agents and assistant man-| - Milliken Slated to Head company’s favor, as will be later| Six” the New York local of the In- ‘ ternational |dential chair, Leon H. Rouse, a no- {outfit that for years dominated the| That Kick! | got out 40 gunmen might have been | | killed by enfuriated young miners, }had union officials not restrained | |them. The incident had the effect of | intensifying the strike, which lasted | more than a year till the sabotage of | | the international officials of the Unit- }ed Mine Workers finally broke the} walkout, | Old Open Shopper. Old Man Berwind had fought the U. M. W. of A. since 1894. At times, | jas in the strikes of 1906 and 1922 | armed forces were used, The rest of the time the friendly neutrality of | international presidents was useful. | John L, Lewis has always refused | |to encourage a strike against the | Berwind-White Co, In 1922 the strike was led by District President John Lewis refused aid, even in| y. Readers of the U. M. W. of A. Journal would not have known that | Somerset county was shut down, and Berwind’s company and Rockefeller’s | Consolidation Coal Co. were being ef- fectively attacked. Repeated His Tales. rf In early 1923 the Journal made a striking answer to the violent attack on the Somerset men. | enemies of Labor—every Lying charges were made that “reds” | sub is more strength to were dynamiting coal properties. In the blows that are dealt this Ellis Searles, Lewis’ editor, was every day by The DAILY merely parroting the accusations of | 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 Adolfo de la Huerta, former provisional president of Mexico, has denied federal charges filed against him at Tucson, Ariz., charging him and four other de- fendants with conspiracy to vio- late the neutrality laws of the United States by shipping arms and ammunition to Tueson in furtherance of an alleged revolu- tionary plot against the Calles government of Mexico. He ad- mitted, however, when surrender- ing for‘bail in Los Angeles, that revaletions?y forces in Mexico are fighting under his banner. | | | HOT CAMPAIGN AGAINST ROUSE OF “BIG SIX” Printers | Wednesday is election day in “Big Typographical Union, | and the largest local typographical | union in the world, The present incumbent of the presi- reactionary, who has used y known trick of labor fakirs to prevent the membership of the news- paper composing rooms obtaining shorter hours, is completing his} twelfth year as president of “Big Six.” He Ras two opponents, Wil- liam M. A. Powers, and D’Arcy (Doc) Milliken, Powers is the candidate of the od- ious “Administration” or Wahneta | International Typographical Union, | and through a conspiracy with fore- men of newspaper and job offices | tried to starve out of the industry, through depriving them of jobs, all} who refused to subseribe to its treacherous policies of playing the employers’ game. Milliken Deserves Support. Of the three candidates, only Milli- ken has a program that deals with realities and that is based upon a decent trade union policy. The Powers campaign committee is avowedly anti-labor and in favor} of the most reactionary policies. The Rouse outfit has nothing to offer ex- cept lies and misrepresentation about the progress the union has made un-| | der his rule. As a matter of fact all intelligent members of the union rec- ognize the fact that Rouse has been an impediment to progress and that the union would be much farther ad- vanced if he had been kicked out of office years ago. As long ago as 1924 the newspaper printers had within their hands the six-hour day, but Rouse, with the aid of President Charles P. Howard, blackjacked tne membership into accepting the pub- ; lishers’ demands. Rouse Discredited. This is the first time in the twelve years that he has been president that the Wahneta machine has not sup-|j ported Rouse. Although at Interna- tional conventions, where he usually goes as a visitor, Rouse attends the so-called progressive caucus, he is a low political trickster and has al- ways been acceptabte to the. Wah- netas. There is but slight difference in principle between the two. How- ever, his recent actions have been so violently anti-union that it is plain, even to the stupid Wahnetas that he is discredited among among the mem- bership, so they did not, nominate him this time. Instead they nomin- Weisbord Is Denied Hall by Order From: Petty Politicians Score Imperialism A. F,L. Executives In China In Front | Ask Locals Oppose Of British Embassy Indiana Injunction WASHINGTON, May 22.—Carry-| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 22.— PERTH AMBOY, May -It has just been learned ghat the acting police commissioner of this city was 92 | the one who warned the owner of the | | Columbia hall here not to permit its | | use for a meeting last Thursday night | at which Albert Weisbord, leader of the Passaic textile strike, was’ to have been the speaker. Against Workers. This experience presented to the | | workers a vivid example of small pol- | it ians, hall keepers and civil officers bosses. A permit for Weisbord’s meet- ing had been secured from the local police, and a deposit had been placed on the hall. No Explanation Given. When the committee appeared to | make arrangements for the meeting, | however, the owner refused to open the hall, curtly declining to give any | ing placards demanding the with-|In the case of Indianapolis Street drawal of British troops and war- | Railway Company vs. Robert B, Arm- | ships from China, more than one hun-| strong and John Parker, which es- cting together in the jgterests of the | jdred men and women staged a half- |hour demonstration in front of the | British embassy yesterday. | Huge crowds gathered in front of |the embassy to watch the demon- | | stration caused a traffic jam. , | Among those participating were | | members of the Kuomintang, mem- | bers of the Workers (Communist) |Party and the Young Workers | League. The demonstration was or- | | ganized under the direction of the| Hands Off China Conference of Bal- | timore, Philadelphia and Washing- | é i a, | ton. | | | ees is No Catspaw for Bri-| | Mayor John L. Duvall, above, | ts! nnperisiism,” china for: the | of Indianapolis, Indians, and his Chinese,” “Down With British Im- | ri ie perialism” and “British Imperialism | brother-in-law, William Cc. Buser, | Must Not Plunge the United States | city controller, have given bail B . | Into a War With China or the Sov- after the filing of affidavits against | jet Union,” read some of the placards them in the Marion County crim- tablishes a precedent for the exten- sion of the injunction power of judges jand its use against the formation of labor unions, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor has adopted a resolution of protest. The resolution is, in part, as fol- lows: “WHEREAS, In the case of the In- dianapolis Street Railway Company vs. Robert Armstrong and John M. Parker (vice-presidents of the Amal- gamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of Amer- jica) and others, it has been held that a court order restraining them from advising employes of the Indianap- olis Street Railway Company to strike could be extended to apply_to ‘all persons having knowledge of this order,’ which included certain em- | Ployes of the company, and explanation or reason for his action. | He said, “I refuse to say anything and | inal court, charging conspiracy to | displayed, « ‘ ‘ Workers Party: Statements, | WHREAS, This coustruction of In a statement issued am thru with the meeting.” An unusually large crowd had ap- peared to hear Weisbord and a suc-| cessful open air meeting was held op- posite the hall. “Bishop Brown to Speak. Bishop William Montgomery Brown meeting arranged by the local branch of the International Labor Defense at Washington Hall, Fayette St., near Madison Ave, Open Air Meetings. Every Saturday evening thete will be an educational meeting at the cor- ner of Smith and Elm Sts., as a part of a drive to organize the organized workers of Perth Amboy, and to ac- quaint them with the great danger of another imperialist war. . ppt NEWARK, N. J., May 22,—Railroad workers all oyer the country are in revolt for higher wages, the B & O | Plan and company union experiments | notwithstanding. Yesterday we read about the threat of the workers on the Pere Marquette threatening to strike unless they re- ceive increased wages and better working conditions. The recent in- crease granted by the railroad arbi- tration boards to thousands of work- ers on many roads proves that the workers employed on the railroads re- sent the slave-like conditions they work under, The empléyeés of the Hudson and Manhattan Tubes are also in revolt or better wages. The men receive | $5.60 for an eight hour day. This wage is lower than received on the I. R. T. or B. M. T. whieh is $6.90 per day. At the last meeting of the local affiliated with Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers, many of the men were in favor of declaring a strike. This action was temporarily delayed until gn official of the International arrives from Cleveland. * * | es Helps the Bosses. NEWARK, N. J., May 22.—At the will be the principal speaker at a/ (Special to The DAILY WORKER). | commit a felony. The affidavits, | | filed by William H. Remy, prose- enting attorney, allege that | Duvall and Buser had falsified | sworn statements as to contribn- tions to the Duvall campaign in | 1925. The mayor is charged, also, with violating the corrupt prac- tices act in promising offices in ob- taining election support. ‘Pan-Pacifie Conference | Of Labor at Hankow | (Continued from Page One) tion by a representative of the Na- tionalist News Agency discloses that the defences along the Yueh-Han line }are more than ample to cope with any »ossible danger that may arrive, | Rumors here have had a large én- jemy force anywhere in Hupeh or Hunan, and everywhere the situation is completely in control, Nationalist forces are advancing steadily north- ward and the planned attack against Chengchow is expected momentarily. General Yang Sen, the constitution- ally unreliable warlord of Szechuan, is held completely in check upriver. A*subsidiary force of General Feng Yu-hsjang is cleaning up remnants of Wu Pei-fu’s forces northwest of Hu- peh while his main force is joining with Tang Shen-chi in the northward drive. A big mass meeting was held here to weleome the delegates to the Pan- Pacific Labor Conference which opened sessions yesterday. The con- ference had delegates present from France, America, England, Java, Kor- ea, the Soviet Union and Japan. Delegates from Australia were un- able to attend because they had been refused visas by their Government, while a number of Japanese delegates were placed under arrest and were prevented from leaving for the Con- ference, | The Conference was scheduled to have been held at Canton on May Ist, but was changed to Hankow because after the | demonstration, the Workers Party de-| clared that British imperialism was attempting to goad the Soviet Union into a war. “With startling rapidity there have | aken place the shooting down of | the said provision of the said Clayton | Act opens the way for any employer to obtain an injunction against . his jemployes to prevent a strike, and | “WHEREAS, Under the precedent established by this decision any em- | ployer can apply for an injunction peaceful strikers, the concentration j}of thousands of troops in Shanghai, the horrible massacre of Nanking, the | provocative raid on the Soviet em- — |bassy: in Peking, the mass of war- | ships around Hankow and finally the | | raid on the Russian trade delegation |in London,” says the statement. | Wuhan (Hankow). eae | “In disclaiming his Government’s | responsibility for the course of events jindieated in the communication un- j}der reply, the Minister of Foreign | Affairs has te emphasize the fact | that however sincere may be the Brit- | ish Government's appreciation of the | \ideals of the Chinese people, it is only |by statesmanship born of knowledge and vision that the British Govern- | ment will be able to meet the aspira- | tions which the minister has voiced and éontinues to voice on behalf of | revolutionary and Nationalist China. Scores British Militarist Stand. “Had their policy and action been informed by such statesmanship, the | failed to perceive the palpable contra- diction between the pola of peace }and conciliation as expressed in the liey of military intervention and po- litical sabotage necessarily implied in the despatch to Shanghai of the greatest naval and land force which Britain has ever concentrated in the Far East since the Opium Wars. The menacing and warlike character of the entire British expeditionary force tle-cruisers, destroyers, and gunboats, its aeroplanes, its armored cars and tanks, its trenches, barbed wire and sandbags, is so glaring that the Brit- ish explanation of the defensive and Savoqrs of gross cynicism. “It is any wonder then that the British Government could not have! Hankow agreement and the other pol-| with its seamen and soldiers, its bat-| peaceful mission of the expedition! jagainst outsiders, possibly _ even agents of his own, and then have the | said injunction extended to cover his }employes, who can then he enjoined | without even the right of hearing, be it therefore “RESOLVED, That the Executive council of the American Federation | of Labor calls upon all city central | bodies, state federations of labor and |local unions in the United States to take action, encouraging and approv- |ing this contest by the Amalgamated | Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, and that the secre- tary be and he is hereby instructed to forward ‘this resolution to these various affiliated bodies.” Let’s Fight On! Join | The Workers Party! | In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- | berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only |be overcome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and | mail it. Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade | Ruthenberg. | I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. | Name Address Occupation Union Affiliation...... se sdivsale | Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to | Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Bly., Chicago, Ill. ie of the Essex Trades Council it was reported by representatives of |of right wing control of Canton. the Window Cleaners Local 22 that ig AK steritee | the losses were violating the agree-| Defeats Chang. ment with the union and hiring scabs. i HANKOW, May 22.—The troops of | promise and possibilities of the Han-| Distribute the Ruthenberg Pam- |kow agreement have been frustrated | phlet, “The Workers ( Communist ) and the British proposals of January | Party, What it Stands For and Why 27 have seemed a gesture of derision) Workers Should Join.” ‘This Ruthen- and mockery and conditions along the | berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- The question was placed in the handj of the arbitration committee for investigation. Henry Hilfers, head of the atbitration committee, has visited some|of the bosses but in vain. This gentifman instead of defending the union criticises the local and informs themmothing can be done. The mem- bers of the local are indignant and vaiting impatiently for the agree- to run out, so they can deal he bosses. This local has a fair ment with its employers includ- cjrtain holidays which meets with the dspleasure of Hilfers. Instead of g prptvceltees ie defend the pts of ¢ ion Hilfers is - the hand? of the pect ye accus}s the union members of Bolshiviks because most of the mem- bers jre Ukrainians, Hilprs was dumped as state secre- tary ¢ the N. J. Federation, and it is safe } say that in due time he will be cdhpelled to retire from active partichation in Union Labor work. ated Powers, an utter ignoramus who is discredited among the mem- bership, never having contributed the Berwind-Rockefeller-Hillman gang WORKER. themselves. | - Don't only kick. .... Berwind has again had another Kick in! brush with the workers. Early last “ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: month a strike ,hit two of his Somer- boas << In New York Per Yr. $6.00 rhs Fool rire to reinstate some of the strike lead-| eal aie pr aga ts ers and the battle ended. ne The DAILY WORKER set county mines for several days.|anything to the union in the way of The workers forced the management’ constructive thought or suggestion. Only Milliken of the candidates has a clean record as a staunch fighter for unionism. He has been | promjnent in the labor movement for | a quarter of a century and nas never Celebrate Finish of Huge Electro Station The Largest Electro Station in Georgia, Completed. TIFLIS, U. S. 8. R—The first | Transcaucasian hydro-electric station on the River Kura was completed. |The station will have enormous im- |portance for the economic development jof Georgia. This station is one of the | | largest in the U. S. S. R. Ou the 1st of May the streets of Tiflis were lit up with electricity provided by this Ret i Fe ih Fe Fe he oe | station. . { ' 33 First Street New York Enclosed $ mos, sub to: been known to be connected with shady transactions or to be on the employers side of a controversy, His campaign committee, composed of all the outstanding progressives in the union, are confident that he will be elected this Wednesday. Gary Still Optimistic, Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation is- business conditions in an address be- fore the Iron and Steel Inatitute. sued his usual happy little blurb | aS r On Anniversary MOOW.—As a mark of solidar- ity, tht unemployed copper workers of Viehha sent a copper vase to the Metal Workers’ Union of the USSR as a My ist gift. In the letter ac- com! ing the gift, the Vienna cop- per ¥ rs (a section of the Austrian Metal forkers’ Union) write: “We fould like this small present to be apken of the fact that the free hands to LONIQN, May 22,—Many | Ajpard e led and a railroad collision near Adana, feording to a central news Constantinople. General Feng Yuhsiang (“Christian General,” who has allied himself with the Hankow Nationalists) decisively defeated the seventeenth corps of Chang Tso-lin’s army. Chang’s troops are retreating in disorder to Cheng- chow. The Nationalist troops captured large quantities of military supplies and took a large number of prison- ers. The battle was perhaps the most stubborn one f it in Feng’s south- ern drive along the Peking-Hankow railway. The Northern troops were better equipped, possessing armored cars, airplanes and heavy artillery. Heavy losses were sustained by both sides. Correct Policy. HANKOW, May 22—In presenting its greetings to the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Interna- tional, the Fifth Congress of the Chi- nese Communist Party declared that analysis of the revolution made at the Seventh Plenum of the International is correct and will serve as a guide for the Communist Party of China, The establishment of a Government great line of the Yangtze. have arisen which make it difficult to sustain economic stability which would mean employment for workers in England and in Nationalist China? Instead of fastening om the British engine of war at Shanghai as the signal cause of most of the extra-revolutionary ac- tivity in Nationalist territory the British Government dig into sand and pretend it is ‘Communist influence’ and not their own blunder that has agitated and inflamed Nationalist China since the conclusion of the Han- kow Agreement. Trust of Masses. “While the Foreign Minister has in- dignantly to repel the allegation that those for whom he speaks ‘have failed to make good their claim to govern- ment in accordance with the stand- ards of responsible government’ as well as to protest against the repre- sentation of the Nationalist Govern- ment as a ‘regime totally incapable of discharging the responsibilities of a civilized government,’ he has to as- sign to British policy and action the responsibility for the present state of relations between Nationalist China dictated by the working class, thejand England. And these relations will peasantry and the small business|never improve as long as British men, traders and artisans corresponds | statesmanship fail to realize that the to the present stage of the Chinese| Nationalist Government at Wuhan revolution, the statement said. * + Chen Answers British, (By Nationalist News HANKOW, tive in Hankow, stating that in view of the failure of the Nationalist Gov- t, Eugene Chen, the Na-} VERONA, Pa, May 22.—Party ni lonalist Minister of Affairs, sent the following parte tion Basil Newton on May 17: “The Minister of Foreign Affairs | the Tmowtodges. the $e the receipt of the com- munication dated May 17 which has been made to him by the British Min- ister through his representative at ¢ > May 19 (delayed),—In|#lone competent and able to reach an reply to the communication Psa enduring settlement with the British Basil Newton, the British representa-|@0vernment and people.” to| ing elaborate plans for the Decoration Government ac-|Zidnich, editor of “Radnick” will be are the sole depositary of the state power in iNationalist China and, be- cause they have the confidence and trust of the revol masses, are Editor Speaks at W. P. and sympathizers are mak- day to be held next Monday at xm of F. Gajda at Cheswick, 8. the principal speaker, |phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every Party Nucleus must collect 50 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York District | will get their pamphlets from the Dis- triet office—108 East 14th St. Nuclei outside of the;New York District write to The DAILY WORK- ER publishing Co,, 33 East First Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Violin and Viola Lessons Given by expert teavher. For JOHN W: INK write to ¢156 LARCHWOOD AVENUE, "hone Granite 7252, Philadelphia, Pa, Furnished Room for Re All latest conveniences. Party mem- ber preferred. 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