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

Page Two THE DAILY WORKE ORK, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927 : ENGLISH INSURANCE WORKERS ABLE First Five Weeks of WOMAN'S ROTARY TO ORGANIZE AND STOP SWINDLERS Ruthenberg Drive in ON JOB TO KILL ARTICLE HY. HARRISON. the of- that ntaining industria! insur- igher than that of * insurance missstatement fact, and is made with the idea of mis- by n foree is a deliberate of original comm were cha: 4 ary except for maturéd claims. In effect this k to the agent’s sal the $100,404,748 paid endowments as and death ans that the “Big Four” pay th for only 10 per cent of tal business pro- duced. Charge More Millions. On lapse ne the industrial field |t s last y a very high price to pay for the privilege of work- ing for the v select group of gen- tlemen who le the industrial heap. In addition to this lapse f 2 additional charge of dollars was made beca jeyholders decided to h surrender their policies after ten years of prem- jum payment. The ordinary companies doing busi- ness in the state of New York last year lapsed ordinary policies to the tune of $1,45) 877. Not a cent of the original commisisons was charged back as fines to workers who procured this insurance. The same For Wage Slaves Featuring: CZARDOM OR DEMOCRACY IN THE UNIO} By Eugene Lyons IN THE MAY ISSUE of the NEW MASSES Other articles by JOSEPH FREEMAN SCOTT NEARING MAX EASTMAN ROBERT DUNN CHAS. W. WOOD JIM TULLY and others. Drawings by HUGO GELLERT ART YOL WM. GROPPER WANDA GAG JAN MATULKA WM. SIEGEL and others. 25 CENTS A COPY ON ALL NEWSSTANDS Special Trial Sub for five months $1.00 |holds true the | iy ilion | ¥ . curs is also a victim of a serious loss. * agents for lapses were forth is only an an-} Haley the arch-defender of all the evils h whic idustrial life » is beset has the following on of lapses: strial life insur- ress on the larg ns who take out in- ter payment of str worse t tter y much e As a ¥ policyhol majority of lapses a s of less than three years’ on * h a statement coming from so sat a personage as Haley Fiske, $150,000 a year president of the Me- en Life Insurance Company be true. Iti some Issue must be taken with when he says that the laps holders “ seldom the ” Not only are the policy- s of a serious loss, but it on whose books a lapse oc- respec Mr. F victims of Agents Forced to Overcharge. Assuming that the life of the av age lapsed volicy is only one year American policyholders, as has been pointed out in a previous article, sus- tained ear a loss of over 50 mil- lion do Now if a fitty million dollar ‘oss is not a serious loss then surely the “Big Four” would not be greatly incon- venienced if the method of fining ith dis- continued. After al nual item of 33 million Jotlars, to aid and abet the existing over-| York and Newark, N. J. are seeking | Party, says it is charging and harsh policy conditions. ic knows little or nothing rance in spite of its great social and economic significance. The agent who makes the weekly visit to the policyholder’s home is the source of all-insurance knowledge to which the insured has acces: Perpetrates Fraud. Because any lapse of industrial in- surance means a heavy fine being levied against his salary, the agent is compeled to urge the continuance and purchase of certain types of policies ich he knows are fraudulent and unfair. The policy may have been written years ago, still, unless he is prepared to suffer financial loss he t as an accessory to com- windle. powers that be are doing all in power to see that the present criminal system of fraud and misrep- resentation goes on. A new system based upon equitable rates and con- ditions for the policyholder, and the | abolition of the decidedly unfair “lapse and charge” method would give the institution a more social aspect than it enjoys today. Organized in England. In .England practically every in dustrial insurance worker is organ- ized. Two unions cover the country. | They are the National Federation of Insurance Workers with headquarters in London and the National Amalga- mated Life Insurance Workers with a total membership of 70,000. These two powerful labor unions see to it that a high standard of liv- ing is obtained in their industry and that better working conditions are continually introduced. In addition to safeguarding the ma- terial interests of their members these workers have a share in the eontrol | and administration of the companies for which they work. As the idea of industrial weekly premium life insurance was imported to America from England it would be quite in line with insurance prece- dent, if that is required, to import | the idea of an agent’s union. It seems that after all these Eng- lish are not so slow. Newark I. L. D. to The Ruthenberg drive for new mem of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party is meeting with great suc- s in the New York district. Al- ready, with only five weeks of the |drive ov: 300 members have been obtained for the party. The Bronx segtion, in proportion jto its size, has made the best show- ng by contributing at least 50 new nembers. Section 2, the largest in this city, h contributed about same num While this is a very good begin- ning, all the p: y funetionaries must put some more ginger into the drive and r “Ev While we have cases where comrades have taken in as many as ten new members, as for example the ease of ‘| Comrade Alfred Loseff of Coney Is- © ‘land, there are still the great bulk of ;|the comrades who have not yet se- cured their new member. The District Executive Committee will intensify the Ruthenberg cam- paign and urges all the comrades that *|jn their mass activities, in the unions, in the shops, to bear in mind that their task is not only to carry on pro- ’|paganda and in general broaden the influence of the party, but also to concentrate on the most promising sympathizers and win them over to the party. the} ake a reality of the slogan: | ember Get a New Member.” | | | Wants Girls to Work 54 Hours a Week By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press) The Zonta Club enters the field against 48-hour laws. It is an or- ganization of professional ladies, and very select. “One woman ffom each profession,” says Mrs. Nina Broder- ick Price, first vice president; “some- thing like the Rotary Club, but more carefully selected Its name comes from an old Indian word meaning “Light.” But till now its light has been hidden. First news of the Zontas came in a long front | page story in Women’s Wear, a daily newspaper in the ipterest of depart- ment store owners and women’s gar- ment employers, iénta was announc- ing that it was cboperating with the National Retail Dry Goods Associa- tion in fighting 48-hour laws. “Never heard of them,” said the | New York Consumers League, which is on the other side of the 48-hour Industrial Kings, ~ Political Leaders Bless B’lyn Paper With the official blessing of the republican national committee, Ralph Jonas, president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and the lead-| ing financial and industrial interests | of the borough, the Brooklyn Stand- | ard Union started anew yesterday under new management. The roster of those associated with the new publishers runs the gaunt of Brooklyn upper class life, with the president of a bond selling firm, the vice president of, a machinery cor- {poration, bankers, lawyers, judges jand public officials included, Tories Digging Their Grave Says Moscow (Continued from Page One) western proletariat and the friendship | shops with a few machines, but in *tandards may be upheld instead of of the eastern peoples and our own| reality act in the capacity of petty |Undermined, and that employment | firmness will insure our final vic- tory.” Pointing to the danger of a new im- perialist war, Izvestia declares, “Great | recognized as the cause of much of | ¢Vils of the industry were increasing Britain has departed upon a policy| the chaos in the garment industry by | Wder the jobber-contractor system, ‘The Lett The industrial background workers for an aggressive, demo installment of the New York Joi events in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers. A complicated industry with many types of employers and a erying need for readjustment was surveyed by the governor's re- cent commission. Miss Larkin outlines the commission's findings. * THE INDUSTRY. | There are three types of employers | in the women’s garment industry in New York, the “inside manufactur-|The highly seasonal character of the ers,” the jobbers, and the sub-manu- | facturers, or contractors. |, The “inside manufacturers” main- jtain regular inside shops which pro- |duce and market a finished product | just as any factory does, The. jobbers do fot maintain any shops at all, but purchase material and give out their work to a number | of sub-manufacturers, | The sub-manufacturers usually |have no contact whatever with the |vetail trade: They maintain small foremen for the jobbers, rather than as independent employers. The jobber-contractor system was fence. “Better try the National As-| which must bring the most térrible|the Governor’s Commission, which sociation of Manufacturers.” Woman's Party Knows It was a good hunch. The manu- facturers turned us over to the Na- tional Woman’s Party, and the party furnished the phone number of Mrs. Price, ‘ “Yes,” said Mrs. Price, “the New +1) | Tunnel Motormen Will | york 48-hour law is very unfair. It’s Fight for Wage Raise all right for the labor unions to make vestrictions for their own members, but they have no right to force such s NEWARK, N. J., May 25. (FP)— | laws on the rest of the workers. They As industrial life insurance is con-|Motormen on the Hudson & Man-|are only-a minority of the workers. stituted at present the agent is forced | hattan tube system, connecting New| higher wages. The men now receive only $5.60 for 8 hours as compared with $6.90 on the two New York sub- way lines. Formal wage demands are expected after the arrival of a national officer of the Brotherhood | of Locomotive Engineers, their union. Anti-Imperialist League | Scores Stimson Peace | \ (Continued from Page One) the fellowing day to leave his tem- porary capitol at Puerta Cabezas. From that time on, the U. S. military forces invaded one section of the country after another. The Nicaragu- ans continued to struggle bravely for months, but have at last had to yield to the superior force of Wall Street and Washington. “Yes, this is peace, and all Latin- America will remember it! “Now more than ever the ery for Latin-American unity against Wall Street becomes a rallying force from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn! One bitter experience after another has demonstrated that the smaller coun- tries of the Western Hemisphere are destined to fall under the yoke of Zonta, like the National Woman’s championing work- ing women in fighting shorter hour laws, If the bosses cannot hire wo- men at shorter hours, they will get men, argues Mrs, Price. Welfare to the Rescue “And why,” wonders Mrs. Price, “don’t the folks who want these changes go direct to the department store managers, instead of to the leg- inlatures. The stores have welfare departments and they help their em- ployes all they can.” Zonta is two or three years old and a national movement. There are 60 clubs, with 3,000 members about the country, and 50 members in New York City. All very carefully sel- ected, Mrs. Price points out, Chicago Cops Herd Metal Rubbing Scab Even at Meal Time CHICAGO, May 25 (FP).—In the U. S. imperialism, unless they unite |¢Pidemic of union shops that went to defend their common interests, |bad after the election of Mayor Wil- That they are actually uniting is the liam Hale Thompson, the case of the great augury for freedom in the west-| Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., is as raw ern world. It is no small matter for|@$ that of the White (Regan) Print- Mexico to have recognized the Sacasa|ing House. Thompson's police force government officially, in the face of the U. S. attitude, It is an unmis- takable signal of the gathering strug: gle, that virtually every important newspaper in Latin-America de- | nounced the U. S. aggression and pro- | claimed its sympathy for Nicaragua. | “Peace? Yes, but a peace that can mean only war. “The All-America Anti-Imperialist | League calls upon all the peoples of Latin-America to unite their forces. |The creation of the Federation of | Latin-American States becomes a |; matter of life and death for every one of them. | “Down with ‘mericen Imperialism! “Let ns make of +» drow Wilson’s phrase, “self-dete:.cination for all \ nations,” a fighting slogan to throw |into the teeth of those who (like rsd | Woodrow Wilson himself) have used Meet on Thu ay it as any empty phrase to conceal NEWARK, May -The Interna- | imperialist aggression. tional Labor Defense will hold a mass| “The United States government is meeting Thursday evening in the|trampling on the rights of weaker Hungarian Workers’ Home, 37 Six-| peoples, not only in .Latin-America teenth Ave. George Powers of ,the| but in the Philippine Islands, in China, Bronze and Iron Workers’ Union will| and wherever the Wall Street profit- THE NEW MAS 39 Union Square New York Enclosed $ mos. sub. | speak. Granite Cutters Are _ , Voting for President BOSTON, Mass., May 25.—Mem- bers of the Granite Cutters Interna- ‘tional are voting for officers, Sam Squibb, incumbent, is running against Alfred Henry of Barre, Vt. The vote twill be canvassed June 6. —=71=0——0=0——— 5 Professional Patriots This New Exposure of the Personalities and Methods in Exploiting Patriotism ST 50. cloth bound DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First St., New York empire: blazes its path. | “We feel a common bond with all of these peoples, as well as with the | working masses of the United States | itself, whose class interests are di- | rectly opposed to those of Wall Street. | “We call upon the workers and farmers of the United States to stand |by us! We call upon every one jin America who sympathizes with the cause of human liberty, to support us. “Under imperialism there is no peace! “Let us join hands for the peace of j independent republics living side by | side, the peace of mutual respect, the |peace of liberty! | “The United States Seetion of the | All-America Anti-Imperialist League for the termination of U. S. inter- vention in Nicaragua. Funds for this campaign should be sent to the office of the League, Room 48, 106 N. La Salle St., Chicago, Tl. Meantime res- olutions of protest against the | ‘Peace’ of Nicaragua should be passed ‘by trade unions, and other labor and | progressive organizations, and copies | | forwarded to Washington. ‘Read ‘The Daily Worker Every: 4 begin an immediate campaign! jhas acted just as badly, appearing in large numbers at the plant, vveraw- ng pickets bent on legitimate activ- ‘y and, apparently, accepting favors from the company. Broke Agreement. The Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. has been union in the polishing and grind- ing departments for the past 11 years. Tt manufactures the Cooper and Stew- art sheep shears and clippers, the Sunbean electric iron and the Sun- beam electric toaster. Alone of the 61 Chicago shops under agreement with Local 6, Metal Polishers’ Inter- national Union, the Flexible Shaft concern refused to sign the standard contract embodying a 10¢ hourly raise May 1. Ali the other ‘shops are now paying $1.10 an hour. The union called a strike on the lone objector. The struck plant employs 32 highly skilled polishers and grinders, some of whom have been employed there the past 18 years. All the men walked out. Inexperienced strikebreakers have been taken on in their place to keep up a bluff of production, The union is paying $25 a week strike benefit. Scabs and Herders Eat Together. The scabs ave herded in the plant, sharing meals there with Mayor Thompson’s policemen and the priv- ate gunmen of the notorious National Metal Trades Association, which is in charge of the attempted open-shop experiment, It contemptuously spurn- ed the efforts of President John Fitz- patrick of the Chicago Federation of Labor to bring about ‘a settlement. It sees to it that uniformed city po- lice are on duty in 8 shifts of 8 hours each inside and outside the plant. Po- liee flivver squads roar around the neighborhood. Australian customers of the firm are being informed of its change of labor policy, As Australia is strongly unionized it is quite likely that it will look elsewhere for the bulk of its sheep shearing equipment. Canadian and Pacific northwest regions are also learning the facts. Apart from union sidefations there is the matter of quality of work turned out by the 3 of workmen willing to stand inder police guns and clubs while he grinds and polishes the Flexible Shaft Co."s output. } consequences to European peace.” ! “We will await with complete calm | further developments and Union has become a world power and if it has many enemfes it also has imany friends. Digging Its Own Grave “Dispatches from Paris reveal an | English attempt to isolate us, but this attempt has been defeated since ef- forts to build an anti-Soviet Anglo- French entente did not meet with French sympathy.” The editorial stressed the Soviet ins tention of fulfilling. all outstanding obligations in England. ; “By destroying business relation and insulting Russian public opinion, the conservative government has be- come its own grave digger,” concluded Tzvestia. * * * British Workers Fight Move LONDON, May 26.—An official breach between Great Britain and the Soviet Union will only cement the re- lations of the workers of both coun- tries closer than ever, declared A. J. Cook, Secretary of the Miners Fed- eration commenting on breach of Anglo-Soviet relations advocated by the tory cabinet. British miners, he said, would never forget that the workers of the Soviet | Union sent them millions of pounds to keep them from starving during | their strike. British labor is solidly opposed to the action of the die-hard Cabinet. Large sections of the financial and industrial worlds are also indignant at the Cabinet's decision. * * ° Canada Discusses Policy OTTAWA, Ont., May 25.—The gov- ernment will discuss at its cabinet meeting today the potential relation between the Dominion and the Soviet Union with whom Great Britain has severed diplomatic connections, Trade between Canada and the Sov- iet Union has been increasing rapidly and the Soviet government maintains a large trade conimission office in Montreal. * * * Fascists Follow British Tories PARIS, May 25., (INS).—The Sov- iet Union is renewing efforts to set- tle the debt question with France fol-| lowing the break with England, it! was learned today. Italy may follow the lead of Great | Britain in breaking off relations ow- ing to the conflict between fascism and Communism. The Foreign Office today declined to comment on the British decision to break with Russia, stating that it would have no influence on Franco- Russian relations. * * * See Locarno Collapse BERLIN, May 25.—The collapse of the Locarno policy and the growing isolation of Germany is seen in the Anglo-Russian break by the Nation- alist press of Germany, headed by Der Tag which stresses the fact that Anglo-French solidarity has been cemented by the visit of the French president to London. Rote Fahne, the Communist organ, charged England with the first step in an anti-Soviet war and urges the world proletarjans to rally to the red flag. This newspaper predicts strong resistance by British labor to the Brit- ish government's action. * # * U. S. To Gain Trade WASHINGTON, May 25,—Great Britain's break with the Soviet Union is regarded by Washington officialdom as one of the’ most important inter- national developments since the war. The United States probably will benefit indirectly from the Anglo- Soviet break, for if Moscow carries out its threat to boycott British goods it means that Russia must turn to Amer- ica and Germany for the manufac- tured goods she needs so badly. No other markets are available, merally speaking. Borah Silent Senator Wm. K. Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee, and a champion of American recognition of Russia, refused to com- ment. : made a two year study of the indus- try. In its final report, issued on events, | May 20, 1926, the Commission points | tation of contractors” would allow a Since the Curzon ultimatum of four|out the irresponsibility of the sub-| Jobber to employ only as many sub- years ago there has been tmceasing manufacturers, who force workers to | manufacturers as he actually needed growth for the Soviets. The Soviet|make concessions in wages, hours, | t0 finish his work, thus eliminating CURRENT EVENTS | (Continued from Page One) ‘only to those who take pride in the | fact that they live in an atmosphere |of faith. Governments are glorified | chambers of commerce. ‘a * * . {AS Communists we must recognize facts, draw certain conclusions from them and then shape our poli- cies to draw the maximum political advantages from them. The conflict- | ing interests of the imperialist pow- |ers is one fact. Another fact is the | existence of the Soviet Union, the ‘nucleus of the coming world federa- tion of Soviet governments and event- | ually of the World Republic of Labor. | Between the capitalist powers and | this power there cannot be any peace. Boot fact should be engrayed in the mind of every worker. * * | | | A French king onée-miide history by| | the declaration: “After me the de- {luge.” In other words he did not |give a damn what happened to the | world after he had his last bath of | asses milk. He was an honest king |as kings go. But he was not a dip- |lomatic king. And had he.to run for | re-election he never would expressed | himself in this fashion. Now, our |Wall Street capitalists do not like the | Soviet Government. But they know that there’ is some business to be ‘done there and a ruble is a rublé So, while the ruling classes of Great | Britain are more worried about the }loss of trade, our business interests in China than about a temporary |loss of trade our business interests | their goods. Perhaps their daughters | want to get presented to the king of England, That costs money, And if they get the dough thru trading | with the hated Bolshevik Government |of Russia, what of it? Money is money and the flunkeys at Bucking- |ham Palace ask no questions of a pound note. ‘More Politics From Now On in Booze Sleuthing; ‘Doran Commissioner WASHINGTON, May 25.—Practi- |cally the entire responsibilty for fed- eral prohibition enforcement will be shifted from an assistant secretary of the treasury to Dr. James M. Doran, the new commissioner, it was learned | today. | Under Seymour Lowman, of New | York, newly appointed assistant sec- | retary, it is understogd that Secre- tary Mellon virtually “will revert to \the method of enforcement test el before Andrews took chargé. Under that policy the assistant secretary had little to do with actual enforcement and when problems of major policy, too big for the commissioner arose, they went directly to the secretary. It is also understood that the po- litical influence of senators and repre- sentatives again will become the prin- cipal factor in the selection of im- portant dry personnel. Alone, Tries Flight Record | DETROIT, May 25.—An attempt to ‘break the record of 51 hours continu- ous flying set recently by Bert Acosta and Clarence Chamberlin will be made here early next month by Duke Lock- wood, it was announced today. — Lockwood, one of the country’s best known stunt fliers, will carry no sub- stitute pilot or navigator. The only break in the monotony of his long ‘sleepless grind will be refueling from another plane in mid-air. Ford Tax Prosecutor Retires WASHINGTON, May 25.—A. W. Gregg, cer= wt hd the Treasury, a is prosecut government's 000,000 tax case against the minority Ford stockholders, is resigning from the government service and will en- ter private business as soon as the Wing in the Garment « By MARGARET LARKIN | have no such fears. They want to sell | of the struggle of the garment cratic union is sketched in today’s nt Board’s official story of recent * * jand working conditions in order to meet the fierce competition into which they are thrown by the jobber. industry with resultant unemploy- ment, has been increased by the sys- tem. The Commission found that workers were employed only 26.8 | weeks in the year in the shops of the |sub-manufacturers, with avera ge weekly earnings for the year of $26.40. |The Commission declared that the | jobber “controls working conditions, jand controls employment, and that |clement of control imposes upon him | the responsibility that he shall so con- | duet his business that proper working jay be stabilized instead of demoral- | ized.” | The Commission reported that the |and tecommended'as a remedy, “limi- tution of contractors,” a measure greatly desired by the Union. “Limi- | many of the evils of the system. It weuld force upon the jobber some re- sponsibility for the conditions of the ‘shops in which his work was done, since he would not be able to stimu- late competitive low bidding among | the contractors. It would discourage | the setting up of the many little shops of slender resources, which now com- pete feverishly for the jobber’s busi- | ness for a few weeks in the year, fail- jing and starting up again, squeezing everything possible out of the work-” | ers, and adding greatly to the demor- | alization of the industry. | Although the Commission declared that the industry could not be put on |a firm footing until some such means | of regulating the jobbers was put into \effect, it acknowledged that it was | powerless to enforee its recommenda- | tions, and the jobbers did refuse to |xecept the Commission’s findings | when its report was presented. Employers’ Associations The employers in the Cloakmakers’ industry are organized in Associa- tions; the “inside manufacturers” in the Industrial Council; the jobbers in the Merchants’ Ladies Garment As- sociation; and the sub-manufacturers in the America Cloak and Suit Man- ufacturers’ Association. Thé employers in the dress indus- try are organized in the same way; the jobbers in the Wholesale Dress Manufacturers’ Association, and the sub-manufacturers in the Association of Dress Manufacturers, Inc. The “in- side manufacturers” have no employ- ers’ Association. (To be continued) Dollar Diplomacy A Study in American Imperialism By Scott Nearing and Joseph Freeman We have been fortunate in securing a limited number of the paper edition of this splendid work (selling for $2.50 in cloth). 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