The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, AY, MAY 24, 1927 A UNDERPAID INSURANCE AGENTS AlD “BIG FOUR” WALL STREET DIRECTORS This series of ten articles, of which this is the second, deals with the exploitation of the industrial insurance agent 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 swindle and fraud to which the agent is subject in common with the policyholder. | {Workers Party Warns| 'Of World War Danger | German Workers to (Continued from Page One) mary factor making for the end of the war, The proletarian revolution of Russia | gave the exploited masses of the) . 9 . . Fight Injunctions int | Of U.S.A, Variety | world, who heretofore had been everywhere oppressed by the rule of BERLIN, May 23.—Fear is being | ¢apitalism, a political stronghold as expressed by German workers over| the ruling class of a powerful and the precedent set by a Saxon court| Very important country. | In its very recently in granting an injunction | existence, the Soviet Union gives the Flier Lindbergh's Father Fought for Nonpartisan League WASHINGTON — (FP). Chatles Lindbergh, hero of the first cirect air flight from New York to — Capt. * Article II. By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. It is safe to say that without the agent an insurance company cannot live. Various companies here and abroad have tried to dispense with his services and have failed. For one yeason or another people will not in- sure unless the pressure of personal). . . solicitation is applied. The enormous structure of the so- cial institution of life insurance was built through the efforts of hundreds of thousands of agents who made the business what it is tod The Metropolitan L Insurance Company, for example, is the largest financial institution in the world to It has more assets than the Steel. It is stronger than corporation due to the fact that its assets are in liquid form and may be rele das is deemed neces- 2 rarchical board of di- rectors. against the German Textile Workers’ intimate relation to the public that| Union, The order prohibits the union | ; 5 added force is given to this designa-| from “supporting in any way” a still makes the existence of the tion... (by of of* the compa-| strike against the Saxon Woolen| Soviet Union a menace in the eyes of |ny) . . . Specific reference is made to| Yarn factory. |the imperialists, Therefore, the the conduct of an industrial service! Labor leaders are reporting in the| Whole period since the end of the war bureau where the relations between| German press as protesting against ‘employers and employees are studied, | the action of the court and declare| based upon the company’s experience | that they will not tolerate their free- with holders of its group insur-|dom of action to be restrained “in| | ance and the like.” the American style.” The agent’s duties with an indus- Seek Freedom for Holtz. trial insurance company are manifold.| Prof. Albert Einstein, Thomas |He must make his weekly collections | Mann, and a large number of other from the 200 or so families which con-|German intellectuals have joinéd in a stitute his new risk must do se for new insurance. Hejasking for a court eral hours of bookkeeping | sentence of life impri: his petty financial transactions. He must locate families who have moved away from his route without leaving an addre: He must try to conserve old business which is in danger of lapsing. He must listen to hours and hours of haranguing on the part of Saxon “Robin Hood.” The signers maintain that Hoelz because of his activity in the Com-| munist uprising in Middle Germany in 1920 was framed on charges of | having murdered a landowner named | exploited everywhere a consciousness of their power. This. has made and has been filled with military inter- vention, diplomatic conspiracies, and all other possible forms of struggle against the Soviet Union. The example set by the revolution- jary workers of Russia and the in-} spiration supplied by the very exist-! have strengthened and invigorated the re- “debit.” He must seck out| petition to the German government | sistance of colonial and semi-colonial vision of the| masses against foreign imperialist nment being | oppression. in order to present a neat account of| served by Max Hoelz, the so-called | dence of the oppressed masses in the {extensive British new impetus. ence of a workers’ rule from oppression. Great mediate interests were at stake, has Britain,.whose most The fight for indepen- colonies received The Chinese masses awoke to a realization of their power and began a struggle for freedom im- The Metropolitan Life insures over|his manager. 26 million individual lives in the Unit- And for all this he is, in my es- ed States and Canada. The “Big}timation, one of the poorest paid of Four” combined insure 40 million lives |all white collar workers in America. for over twenty billion dollars, So much so that the hard conditions Due to the fact the premiums on|under which he works compels a large weekly payment life insurance are|turnover of labor in the thousands of payable at the home of the insured, e agents thus become the uncon- scious vehicles of the most pernicious | capitalistic propaganda. During the 1924 presidential cam- paign the Metropolitan Life printed branch offices throughout the coun- try. was made to organize these workers into a labor union, It failed because the attempt was haphazard and con- tens of millions of circulars which|ducted without regard for scientific were sent, via the agent, into six mil-| methods. A strike was prematurely lion ‘homes, calling attention to the|called and the movement went up in bogey of LaFollette’s radicalism, It) smoke. was pointed out that insurance funds| I have spoken to hundreds of agents are invested in Big Business and that|throughout the country and not one a vote for LaFollette was a vote for; has failed to say that the harsh and confiscation. {inhuman working conditions warrant This ribution of circulars by the | the creation of a protective union. agent is charged in the annual report At present due to the system of to “welfare work” for which item the commission payments, the interests of Metropolitan Life last year spent over the policyholders and those of the eight million dollars. The Metropol-|agent are diametrically opposed to itan is a “mutual” company. jeach other. In reality this should not “The Big Four” weekly premium |be so. i insurance companies employ,} The exploitation of the agent by y, about 60,000 agents in the the company which results in tens of field in the United States and Canada. | millions of dollars being pocketed by Each agent has about 200 families on| the company in fines and “charges to his collection book with an average of | salary is due to the fact that the people in each family. As an/agent permits the public to be over- y for industrial espionage, it can | charged and swindled by the company y be seen, he is invaluable, ‘while he stands hélplessly by. us quote Haley Fiske on this| He is helpless because he is unor- Says he,*“Not only are| ganized, without his uneonscious aid . @ great piece of machin-|the fraud could not go on for another ery which, in their activities, consti-| day. tute a public institution, but many ac-| As a class the industrial insurance tivities of the company, conducted | agent is perhaps more intelligent and from the Home Office, have such an| posted on public matters than any ~j|other skilled or semi-skilled worker. | SESE OSLE HE SS |e contacts are with millions of Put Some Power In That Kick! unionized men who constitute his route. /face of a most shameless exploitation | serious efforts have been made in that direction. | « | the forthcoming articles. Asks Public Hearing | (Continued from Page One) the governor. he had been called in by the governor) ject matter of the conference. {made by the man who actually shot |New York Workers Will Greet the Some years ago a sporadic effort} | Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Hess. A confession has just been}| Hess. imperi Needle Trade Defense against China and the Soviet Union. danger. Furriers. Next Friday May 27th, all the New York Workers will gather at’ New|colonial and semi-colonial masses. Avenue, to greet the recently re- leased victims of “Mineola Justice.” | This welcome of the released pris-| oners will be given at the Grand Re-| ception Ball which was arranged in| their honor. | masses of the far east. Do Not Keep Defense Money. | —‘ Threaten British Iniperlalism. The Defense Committee is greatly in | need of money. It is a crime against | the cloakmakers and furriers to keep | any money that was collected for them, a day longer than necessary. There are many people that have tickets, collection lists and roll ad certificate booklets for which they: have not as yet settled. This hinders | the successful work of the Joint De-| fense Committee. # All those who have money, tickets, roll call certificate | booklets, honor roll lists are requested succeed in uniting the }such an British imperialists will China. British Imperialism to gain its end. Bishop Brown Will Speak. The famous heretic Bishop William Montgomery Brown will speak at the big mass meeting arranged by the Committee of One Hundred, on Wed- nesday night, May 25th at Webster Hall, 11th Street and 8rd Avenue. This mass meeting is arranged for the purpose of helping the families | of the imprisoned cloakmakers and | Furriers. Besides Bishop Brown) British Imperialism a very real one. lar. since exerted all efforts to make the list powers of the word tem- an- tagonisms and unite on the basis of their mutual interests in a struggle . | Nonpartisan League, who came to see This has created an immediate war | The imperialist powers fully realize the threat to their interests by the Soviet Union and the ever growing struggle for liberation of the The danger therefore exists that the imperialists of Great Britain, will imperialist powers for a broader struggle against | the Workers’ Republics of Russia and against the awakening nationalist The danger which nationalist lib- eration in China creates for British imperialism in India and China is immediate one that the/ leave no stone unturned to win the imperialist powers of the world for a united on- ‘slaught against the Soviet Union and The raid on the Soviet Em- bassy in Peking, the bombardment of Nanking and the subsequent Five- Power note were all steps designed by influence,” Central ani South Ameri- ca, still has sufficient common im- perialist interests with Great Britain } in China and against the Soviet Union to make the danger of a united front between American Imperialism and .| midst of war's cowardice was an es- | The American flag not only follows the dollar but, in the interests of its ultimate aims, even precedes the dol- Defense by American warships France, is acclaimed for his courage, | his determination and his perform- ance. Young Lindbergh was 16 years of age when his father, the late Rep. Lindbergh, accepted the nomination of the Nonpartisan League conference | in Minnesota, in the early spring of the war year, 1918, to run for the Republican nomination for governor as spokesman of the farmers. The | courage required to throw down the | challenge to organized war profiteers | in the Northwest at that time, when | Gov. Burnquist and Sen. Frank Kel- logg weve backing the fanatical re- actionary, Judge McGee, chairman of the state Council of National Defense, was no small thing. The heroic flyer of 1927 was old enough in those days to measure the heroism of his father, as he -went from town to town, facing the threats of mob violence and the} danger of assassination that were in- | stigated by foes of the farmers’ move- | ment, Tarred ard Feathered Delegates and visitors at the con- vention of the American Federation of Labor, held in St. Paul in June of that year, will not soon forget the two young farmers, organizers for the | the convention and to receive medical | treatment for the tarring and feather- | ing given them by the Burnquist-Kel- | logg enthusiasts. Many delegates | went to the town of St. Cloud to hear | .| Lindbergh speak, and witnessed the mobilizing of armed forces to prevent the farmers from making any demon- stration. They talked with Henrik | Shipstead, then mayor of a Minnesota | |town and candidate for the nomination for Congress against Volstead, a) standpatter. Shipstead’s house had been smeared with yellow paint, in the night, when the local chamber-of- commerce element learned that he had joined the farmers’ political crusade. On billboards opposite the conven- | | tion hotels were big posters, with nic- | tures of shells bursting in American trenches in France, and in big type | an alleged message from Pershing: “You take care of the Huns at home and we will hold them over here.” Lindbergh Beaten. Lindbergh opposed war profiteers and war hysteria. He made no com-| jto immediately send in an account to} American imperialism, altho oc-! promise with McGee, Kellogg, Knute | the defense committee, 41 Union| cupied with unprecedented aggres-| Nelson or Burnquist, who had set up Square. * sion in its own particular “sphere of | their monopoly in patriotism and who had implied that the Minnesota farm- | ers who dared organize to secure a| fair price for their wheat were enem- ies of their country. Lindbergh wa: beaten, but the courage and dignity | of the contest he conducted in the { tate of which his family is proud. | After his death, the son flew over | their farm at Little Farms, scatter- | ing the ashes of the father upon the Bricklayer Helpers Back Laborers in Worcester Strike WORCESTER, ‘Mass., May 2 With cops.on guard at every job, the city’s buliding laborers continued their folded arms policy today with the bricklayers’ helpers now out. More than 100 bricklayers automatically joined the walkout when their helpers struck. Nine strikers were fined $10 each as the aftermath of a polite attack on the picket line. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Greek Workers Strike Against Standard Oil PIRAEUS, Greece, April 530 (By Mail).—Accompanied by brutality on the part of the police and gendarmes, four workers were arrested on the second day of the strike against the Standard Oil Co. One of those ar- rested was the president of the Ben- zine and Oil Workers’ Union, Theo- horides. The imprisohed workers are being defended by the Red Aid Com-} mittee. The viciousness of the _ police aroused great resentment among all the workers of the city, and the sec- Women’s Conference, New England, Talks Of Many Questions | BOSTON, Mass., May 23,—The New England Conference of Working Class Women held here elected an ex- ecutive committee of 17 members to be responsible for the future work of the organization. Seventy-five delegates were at the conference representing 48 organifza- tions including trade unions, with a total membership of 7,500. The questions discussed were wo- men and the trade unions; women and war; maternity insurance and birth i regulations; child labor and the school system; women and cooperative move- ment and the persecution of foreign born workers. A resolution was passed greeting the Chinese women and asking for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti. The exetntive committee elected consists of Mrs. Eva Hoffman, Sonia Kaross, Miss D. Clifford, Charlotte Clayman, Olga Oikemus, Mrs. Flor- once Gage, Mrs. Goldman, Astor Ber- kowitz, Eva Blender, Anna Speaker, Mrs. Kagan, Mrs. Kouskia, Mrs. Lem- pi Parta, Mrs. Selz, Mrs. A. Pulter, Dr. Antoinette F, Konikow and Morris retary of the local Central Labor Council sent a telegram of protest thnaesttiesteshnbetiinie to the secretary of the interior, _\Read The Daily Worker Every Day Goldberg. Who's Running This Country Anyway? The Military Order of the World War, through Captain George L. Darte, its Adju- tant General, has protested to Dr. William J. O’Shea, Superintendent of the New York City Schools, protesting against the action in granting the use of the Stuyvesant High School auditorium to the Civil Liberties Union for a meeting on the topic, “The Growth of New. York City Since 1900.” Mrs. Rachel Davis, teacher of civics in the Woodbury High School of New Jersey, ~ has had her contract for next year withheld, Paxton Hibben, e c reed c and South American countries, is Hero of Chauvinists. this. meeting. Admission 25 cents.| complemented by the sending of} PARIS, May 23.—Lindbergh is be- Copies of “My Heresy,” “Communism; American warships, American ing made the pet of the big militarist Pase: Who is Next? We received the following letter: That he is unorganized today in the| there will be the following speakers: | J sham Cosgrove. | |and swindle which is perpetuated on! Robert W. Dunn is Chairman. {Fim is simply due to the fact that no!New Yorkers are urged to come to| _ That he has ample grounds*for jus-| and Christianity,” will be sold at this tifiable resentment will be shown in| meeting at reduced prices. | Ozoritzer Young Progressive Society, All} by American marines and American| land to which he was devoted. It was soldiers of the American dollars in-| @ symbol they understood. vested in Mexico and other Central * * * soldiers, and marines to China to win | new possibilities for investing Ameri- can dollars. The war danger created in China has been supplemented and made more serious by the incessant studied interests of France. Yesterday the French Aero Club, hangout of chau- vinists, gave him a noisy welcome and presented him with the club’s gold medal. The President of France has pinned the Legion of Honor medal on |\Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Year friends:—At a meeting of the | which was held on May 13th at Labor Z *, ores Lyceum, 219 Sackman Street, B’klyn, provocations perpetrated by British the defense of the cloakmakers and| the eal or ES ie ag me furriers was discussed and the fol-| ond most outrageous one. The diplo- his breast while he is to receive the Swedish Aero Club gold plaque and a cup from the French aero club. | American Legion officials here tried McAnarney declared | jowing resolution adopted: Whereas the Defense Committee is | but refused to comment on the sub-/| carrying on a campaign to help the| j imprisoned cloakmakers and furriers, | | The defense committee is split on) victims of the revolutionary class 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 Branting; the Swedish lawyer who is | has been suggested, but some ner | ' sidering the case. Force Enemies Into Open. Friends of co and Vanzetti fear) the irresponsibility of Governor Ful-| | ler’s secret inquiry into the case, They | | want a full open consideration of the | world-famous case so that. the sinister} elements demanding electrocution of {the workers on July 10 may be forced |to bring their eleventh hour perjuries| and falsehoods before a national jury | “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. |of workers. a Either the public, formal commis- Don't only kick. .... |sion or a new trial would satisfy} Kick int! them better than the furtive examina- tion of witnesses and evidence now} BU! ION RATES: going on in Fuller’s office and home. | Gutaide of «= in New York Mrs. LaFollette In Appeal New York > hielssgh os Per Tr. 4 00 ao Ly re Mrs. Robert M. LaFollette, widow | sig, Mo. 4 rain; S5 of the late senator, and Senator Rob-| | prominent Washingtonians have ap- pealed to Governor Fuller for the ap- | pointment of an advisory commission | to aid in the investigation of the | The DAILY WORKER 33 First, Street Sacco-Vanzetti case. siacgaabend Members of the faculties of the} Enclosed $...... for .. various Brookings institutes with mom. sud to: publicists, lawyers and others signed | Name .. the document. They include: | Greet Mrs. Robert M. LafFollette, Sr.,) Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.,| TEN cee rewewererwrrermerce Walter J. Shepard, prominent so-| ciologist, professor at Robert Brook- ings School of Economfcs; Harry H. Moore, economist in public health! service; Arthur W. Macmahon, asso- Ce ee eee ciate professor of political science, BRALO macs enseccreromercces the reception proposed for Georg struggle, we altho a non-partisan or- ‘i : |ganization, pledge ourselves to sup- coming to America to be associated | port the Defense Committee in its in the defense of the two Italian | work, until all the cloakmakers and ; anarchists. A Fanueil Hall meeting | furriers will be released from prison. We will carry through all the cam- little later. Fuchs, Secretary. | bers of the committee feel that the|paigns of the defense Committee | governor will be antagonized by @| among the members of our organiza- public demonstration while he is con-| tion, As a beginning we are sending $60.00 and we will send some more a} With greetings,—S. Columbia Uni iversity; ‘Helen R.} matic forms, which/this most haughty of the powers is always willing to grant to the representatives of the most insignificant princedoms of the world, are being outraged by the treatment accorded by the British imperialist government to the repre- sentatives of the Workers’ Republics of Russia. These studied insults against the Soviet Union are designed to pro- voke the Workers’ Republic and are a | bid for declarations vf solidarity with the British imperialists on the pait of the imperialists of the other |countries. Like the raid on the | Peking Soviet Embassy, the raid on | the Arcos was a wilful attempt to to appropriate the young American flyer for use in their own propaganda, They regard the marvelous welcome given the Little Falls, Minn. young- ster as insuring that the Legion gang, when it hits Paris this summer, will ve met with something less than hos- tility. Banker-Envoy Elated. Animosities between the French and American upper classes over war debts and the credit for bringing the late human slaughter house to an end have temporarily been laid aside. Am- | bassador Herrick, former president of | the Américan Bankers’ Association, | is elated over the unexpected results | of the achievement of the American | partly as a. result of allegations made by the same Military Order of the World War. And now The DAILY WORKER comes to trial on May 27th, as a result of charges preferred by these self-constituted arbiters of what the American people shall say and what information they shall receive. It is high time that the workers speak quite plainly to these advance agents of Mussolini, who are seeking to institute the same black regime of reaction and suppres- sion in this country as there is in tyrant-rid- den Italy. There is one way to speak clearly and un- mistakably to these gentry. That way is to give such unanimous and whole-hearted sup- port to the defense of The DAILY WORKER that these agents of American capitalism will . | director Institute Economic Research; | create a cause for war. imperialists sueceed with their pro- vocations, the nations of the world will be embroiled in a new world war. Wright, professor, Robert Brookings School, author; Walton H. Hamilton professor, Robert Brookings School; | Thomas“ W. Page, former chairman Tariff Commission, now with Insti- tute of Economics; W. F. Willoughby, | ered in the hundreds of thousands. Lewis Mumford, publicist, contributor to the New Republic; Burnita Shelton Matthews, president American Bar) Association of the district; Rev. J.) Paul Dresser, Church of the Holy | City (Swedenborgen). R, W. Baker, M. D., prominent phy- | and marines in China! sician of Washington; Dr. Louis Co- | millions. Workers! this! George Washington University; Mrs. | Imperialists! Bonton Halstead; Mrs. Abby Scott | Baker; Mabel Women’s Voter’s League; Nina E.| mighty demand: executive board, National Women’s) UNION! Party; Mabel Vernon, executive! Frank Hiram Snell; Emma Wold; | dangers the recognition of the Soviet Mabel VanDyke; Harriet Conner|Government in Moscow and _ the Brown; Florence P. Clark; Vera! Revolutionary Government in Han- Fowler Lewis, kow! Among the lawyers who signed the! petition are: ‘the solidarity of the oppressed of th S. D. Hanson, C. H. Weigle, Louis, world!—Central Executive Commit# Yurow, Selig C. Bres, Norman File. Workers’ (Communist) Party of) atoaming and tropical jungle, a world Baessell, America, If the British “air ambassador.” Lindbergh is being financed by a St. Lonis commercial firm and is hav- understand fully that the masses of the The fathers, brothers and sons of the working class will again be slaught- The women and children of the work- ing class will again be starved by the You must not permit Protest against American warships Protest against the aid given hy ‘ert M. LaFollette, Jr., with 48 other| hen, consulting engineer, professor, the American Imperialists to British Unite your protest against the pos- Costigan, president sibilities of a new world war into oa HANDS _OFF Allender, cartoonist; Maud Younger,| CHINA!! HANDS OFF THE SOVIET Demand as a guarantee against in- board, National Women’s Party; Mrs,| tensification of the present war Down with imperialism! Long live ing the most flattering offers pressed’ on him. So far he has not lost his boyish, unaffected manner. The use .| to which he is being put by the French military gang and the advo- cates of French-American alliance and remission of war debts is appar- ently unknown to him, Smithsonian Says Venus Habitable. WASHINGTON, May 23.—-Venus, the glorious blue planet, defied by. the ancients as the goddess of love, | probably is better adapted to life} than her celestial and militant neigh- | bor Mars. | This opinion was expressed by Dr. ©, G. Abbot, director of The Astro- physical Observatory of Smithsonian | Institution, and internationally known | astronomer, | A picture of a landscape on Venus, drawn by imagination from Dr. Ab- bot’s scientific observations, might not be unlike.that in the primordial | ages of the earth, uncounted eons! in. the past, before the birth of man.) Vonus, it would seem, is a luxurious, n the making. i] workers will not tolerate any interference with their constitutional right to freedom of speech and press. Don’t forget these are but the first few attempts on the part: of extra-legal reactionary’ organiza- tions to run our affairs, If they succeed now, they will make further ([ftrrrvesemenonane sonseoesnnnsacnnsttanatnnenattosaenessenesse | DAILY WORKER | 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. sseee dollars .... cents to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund for a stronger and better DAILY WORKER and for the defense of our paper. I will pay the same amount regularly excursions. Now is the | ‘ery .- Saveeens time to call them to a Same ‘ halt. Your dollars are | ‘"?"* your command. Let us | (” hear it—quick and strong. Attach check or money order. Inclosed is my contribution of, i t 1 ] |