The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1927, Page 2

’ Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1927 ; \ UNDERPAID INSURANCE WORKERS OFTEN FLEECED BY LOAN SHARKS of which this is the seventh, deals exploitation of the industrial insurance agent and to combat the evils of weekly payment life insurance. is series is the result of numerous requests to publicize the de- s of the swindle and fraud to which the agent is subject in common with the policyholder. Article VII. By CHARLES YALE HARRISON, When the “Big Four” aswindling go—they play no favorites. The defrauded dollar of an agent is just as sweet as the swindled dollar taken from a policyholder. The insurance trust me This series of ten artic the nethods r with on the boards of directors and aid jin the admini: tion of these strong es tens © millions through overec ing and | English companies, forfeitures on lapsed policies. It also | ‘The lot of the insurance field work- makes tens of millions on “Tapse | er in America will become endurable charg charged to underpaid field} when he wakes up and exhibits the workers, Everyone loses exeept the| same initiative exhibited by hig Eng- polished gentlemen who direct the} ish brother. M looting. | Hands across the sea means many Guady Reports. things, ; And now comes the 1926 annual re- port of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Company with its figures run- ning into billions of d to lend heart to the mulcted customer and | the oppressed and goaded agent. | Tt is a known fact that half of the agents of these billiory dollar cor- porations are in the hands of loan shark: Such philanthropic institu- States legation at Berne today ad- tions as the Morris Pian and other]|] ~. - RR biig ae | vised the League of Nations sec- industri bankers have thousands retariat here by letter that the of “industr - Seer oe their books | Three. Power Naval Canference will These “banking” organizations oper- |! be convoked at Geneva in June. ate ‘in such a manner that when one The Hoover network of trade becomes a customer one remains a delegations and the regular poi custom “Industrial” banking for staffs in Europe have beat industrial” agents! ctively threatening the debtor na- “Of the People.” tions with dire punishment unless Let the agent whose pay is mort-|f they send their representatives, gaged to these loan leeches take pride || and Italy and France, who almost in his company’s annual report. It|| contemptuously rejected what they is a thing to be proud of. consider a British-American plot The legend the head of the re-|| against them are now ready to send port reads, “The Company of the}! at least “observers.” . People, by the People, for the Peo-| ple.” That has a familiar ring. I} think I have heard vote-seeking poli- ticians use that same shibboleth be-| fore, fat, oily corporation-serving Big Business politicians who have the | dollar grind. “People” indeed. | From the Peepul.” Last year the “Big Four” made 50 million dollars on lapsed policies. This | enormous sum of money went direct- ly into the pockets of the companies » indulge in such maudlin blurbs as “the company of the people” and similar : Coolidge Decrees June As Time for Fake Naval Reduction Disputations GENEVA, May 30.—The United Trimmer Elected as Printers’ President Leon Rouse, 12-year czar of Big Six, the newspaper local of the Typo- graphical Union here, has been re- elected president. By playing to} both the Progressive and Wahneta| (reactionary administration) forces, | Rouse has fastened his hold on the| New York Printers Union, the lar-| gest in the country with 10,000 mem- bers. > “Big Four” stole 33 from the pockets of n “lapse charges.” The a wend, “Sranh tha: Paws D'Arcy Doc Milliken, the Progressive candidate and 1,377 for William | Powers, the “black flag” reactionary. Crusader Wheeler Yelps On Trail of Wet Hopes WASHINGTON, May 30.—An at- Lapse Rate Still High. reads: “Paid for life ed, increased and re- ved 926, $3,011,775,150.” But the report fails to mention the im- portant fact that of this amount only $1,401,734,835 of it remained in force. » report For Another Term Rouse got 4,650 votes to 2,470 for| That more than half of the insurance “issued, increased and revived” lapsed before the year was out. That of the amount thus terminated only 1) per cent was paid as matured endow- | ment and less than 9 per cent was | paid as death claims. The balance of | terminations represented a loss in| ené form or another to the millions of policyholders who could not keep the pace with the inhuman conditions imposed upon them by the “Big| Four.” Same Directors. The report listed the companies’ | assets, but on the report no words ap- | pear to show that half of these as-| sets are accumulated through for-| feitures made on lapsed policies and through “lapse charges” taken from | the agent’s payroll. | Take the list of newly elected di- | tors. The same old gang, Schwab, iske, Ollsheimer, Houghton, Wiggin Noyes, et al. The Metropolitan is a “mutual” company—of, by and for the peepul. Sean the list of Wall Street directors and see if you see any of the “people” present, see if there is a name thereon who takes an interest tack upon the presidential ambitions of Governor Al Smith of New York was made today before the general assembly of the United Presbyterian Chureh by Wayne P. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League. “The issue at the next election will not be whether a Protestant or a Catholic is to be elected president but whether the Tammany corruptionists and nullificationists can place a liquor president in the White House,” Wheel- er said. “The church made prohibition possi- ble. It must now recall to the fight those members who demobilized them- selves too soon. It must revive its teachings on the eyils of alcohol.” CHICAGO, May 30.—Matt MeAn- any, drugstore proprietor and three of his clerks, were booked today on charges of murdey, conspiracy to murder and violation of the Prohibi- tion Act, in connection with the death of Asa John Dixon Harper, 21 year eld University of Chicago student, by poisoned gin. in the rights of the policyholders or} the agents. } “Unite.” | As long as the existing gang sit | in control of this billion dollar ma- chine the fraud which is being per- petuated on policyholder and agent alike will continue. The machinery exists for the tak- ing over of these corporations by those who really contribute to their greatness, The interests of Schwab & Co. are diametrically opposed to those of the customers and workers of the “Big Four.” The first duty of the agent is to ally himself with the defrauded pol- ieyholder. They are in the same boat. | The directors and officials of the in- surance trust fleece the agent with the same lack of .compunction as is used in robbing the policyholder. Propaganda Machine. Every week 60,000 “Big Four” agents walk into 10 millions homes of industrial policyholders, In those homes the agent is the insurance com- pany. He can show these defrauded . policyholders that it is in their inter- ests to elect and vote for representa- tives who will guard their insurance interests on the directorates of these companies. Good Example. In England the 70,000 industrial field workers are organized into two powerful trade unions which jealous- ly guard the rights not only of the worker, but the policyholder, Agents e Hoover Deaf to Negro Slavery Facts (Continued from Page One) back to their regular plantation slav- ery. Many of them had hoped to escape during the confusion of the flood, but the relief machinery was too much for them. Hoover refuses to be bothered by any complaints from the negroes or any of their friends. Levees System Attacked, Unwelcome news arrives at this capital, in which all interested parties are firmly convinced that any change from the system of levees which has this year proved so disastrous, will interfere with the huge graft of private contractors and water power companies, These tidings of danger come from both ends of the flooded valley, and is to the effect that the New Orleans business interests, who can not be entirely disregarded, are sick and tired of the levee fraud, and want their back country pro- tected by reservoirs and spillways, as rivers abroad are handled. Also, some time this week in Chicago, there will be a hastily called meeting of experts, presided over by Mayor | Thompson, which will discuss flood |prevention and in which it is known \there will be advocates of the reservoir system. The army’s engineer corps has ordered a survey Of the whole valley, in order to gather @vitlerice for the levee protiedndiate, _£ Henry Ford, left, and his son, Edsel, proudly pointing to the first Ford car and the fifteen millionth, It is said that if these fifteen million “lizzies” were laid end to end they would reach from Detroit all the way around the world and back to the Two Billion Dollar offer which Ford, Sr., refused just completed. | from New York bankers. | AND STILL THEY COME | zi { \Coolidge Gives. Subsidy 'To Shipbuilding Trust ‘Thru Juggling of Bids WASHINGTON, 1 |How private shipbuilding yards on [the Atlantic coast are given a gov- lernment subsidy in fact, without le- }gal warrant for any subsidy, is dis- closed in connection with the award jof contracts for construction of four |new cruisers to private yards in this | territory. | Navy yards at Vallejo, Calif., and |Bremerton, Wash., each secured the jcontract to build one cruiser when they submitted bids which were near- ly $2,090,000 below the average price lat which contracts were let to pri- vate yards in the east. The navy yards on the Atlantic coast submitted estimates of cost which were low, but they petitive bids. When reasons were sought for the failure of the com- mandants of these eastern navy yards to submit bids, the hint was given that the Coolidge administra- tion and Seéretary Wilbur did not want to drive the private yards into bankruptcy through lack of orders. Business was slack and if the gov- ernment did not come to their aid their organizations might have to be scrapped. The result was the award of con- struetion of four cruisers at a subsi- Gized price to the private yards, and the leaving of the eastern navy yards to carry an excessive overhead charge |on what repair work they are per- i mitted to handle. Trade union pro- |teste were not heeded. Mussolini Hands Prison Terms to Ten Editors (Continued from Page One) of the “Unita”; Romano Cocchi, editor of the “Unita”; Felice Platone, editor of the “Unita” and of the “Stato Op- eraio”; Edmondo Peluso, correspon- dent of the “Pravda” and editor of the “Unita”; Vincenzo Baccala, manager of the “Unita” offices in Rome; Bruno Ricci, employee of the publishing house SEUM; Filippo D'Agostino, manager of the same publishing house and of the “Stato Operaio”; Giovanni | Fornari, technical student, and Salva- tore Celona, employee of a private firm, | The ten accused were arrested on |the 20th of September. The legal au- thorities in Rome, who were being} urged by the political authorities and| who had no material against the ac-¢ cused, passed them on to the Milan) courts by declaring that the case was in connection with a process taking place in Milan against Terracini, Bibo- lotti and others. The legal authori- ties in Milan did not know what to 80 (FP).—} failed. to submit formal com-j | Winthrop Mass., and Albany, N. Y. | Needle Trade Defense The $100,000 Roll Call Drive. During the Bazaar the $100,000 | Drive was nearly forgotten. This is |a reminder that many hundreds. of | work rs have not forgotten and are | Sending in their dollars daily. There jis ‘still time and place for every | sympathizer with the cause of the imprisoned cloakmakers and furriers to add his name to the list. Send your | dollar to the Joint Defense and Re- {lief Committee, 41 Union Square, Room 714, New York City. * * * | | The Out Of Town Campaign. | The campaign for funds throughout |the country is commencing to shov | good results. Letters from numer- ous cities and towns who are re- | sponding to the call of the Defense to help de- fend the imprisoned cloakmakers and furriers and support their families, are being received daily. Examples of the work being carried on through- out the entire country follow. ef * ‘ }and Relief Committee, | Los Angeles, Calif. | -Lenin. Branch 512 Workmen’s | Cirele sends in $10.00 and states that| | this is the beginning. They will send{ in much more they say. Sam Glass| of Los Angeles writes: “Friends Cloakmakers and Furriers:” Please do not %or a, moment get the im- pression that you were left alone and that your only support will come from other parts of the country. We,/| the workers all over the country are behind you and will support you in your fight. I am sending you $10 as} a proof of what I say. I am sure that} all the other workers in different | parts of the country will follow my example.” ? * * * Mrs. Eva Gibber, Secretary of the Mother League of Winthrop Mass., remits $5.00 which her organization donated for the defense of the im- prisoned cloakmakers and furriers. Mr. R. Halpert of Albany, New York forwarded another $5.00 collec- ted by him. a alow Thé Co-operators Do Not Slacken The members of the Co-Operative House, 2700 Bronx Park East, had a House Party on Saturday night, May 21st. An appeal made by J. Rappa- port for the imprisoned cloakmakers and furriers netted $2.05 which was turned in to the office of the Joint Defense Committee. | * * * | Collection At a House Party | A party was given at the home of a comrade in honor of the birth of a baby girl. Among those present were S. Olanofsky, A. Litich and D. Cyp- ress. A collection for the arrested do with the ten accused, so they washed their hands of the whole mat-| ter and sent the accused back to the prison in Rome, declaring themselves | not competent in the affair. Finally | the Court of Appeal in Rome was! ‘compelled to give a verdict in the mat-| ter, which it did, acquitting the ac- cused on the charge of conspiracy, but handing them over to the court for! delinquencies in connection with the| press laws. After eight months of arrest for enquiries, the accused were released. | | Long Sentences. | But after the attempt of November 1926; the process was handed over. to! the exceptional court which declared the previous verdict of the Court of Appeal to be null and void and found the prisoners guilty of conspiracy and sentenced them as follows: D'Agostino received 4 years hard labor and 3 years under special surveillance; Ricci received 5 years hard labor and 3 years special surveillance; Fornari r ceived 7 years and 9 months hard | bor and a fine of 1,500 Lire; Pastote, | Di Vittorio, Platone, Coeci, Peluso and Baccala each received 12 years hard Jabor, | Once again Communists have been sentenced to over a hundred years hard labor. In the process against the Communists of Toscana the court passed sentences amounting to over 200 years hard labor. jcertain unions, | vnions, he will work as a non-union cloakmakers and furriers was made and same netted $13.50. Pennsylvania Labor Endorses Negro As Faithful to Union PHILADELPHIA, May 30. — The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor in convention recently adopted a resolu- tion against barring the Negro from | The resolution laud- | ed the colored worker as a loyal union man when he is given the op- portunity. Continuing, the resolution read in part, “If we bar the Negro from our man, for he must make a living, and the employers are hiring him.” Mexican Miners Strike| When 36 Discharged was suspended today ia the Real Del Monte mines near Pachuca, when all the miners went on stfike,’ The men said they struck because of the dis- SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIB! charge of 86 laborers; but the mine management said the walkout was the result of a refusal to meet the (Sinclair Writes Letter Of Sarcasm to Governor About WhitneySentence LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 30.—| Upton Sinclair has written the gov- ernor of California a letter full of sharp irony over his purported dilem- ma about the Whitney case. Many wo- men’s clubs and liberal organizations have protested against the actual in-| fliction upon one of the most popular{ women in the state, of the sentence of “from one to fourteen years in the penitentiary” which the Supreme} Court of the United States has de-, creed she must suffer because of con-| vietion under the iniquitous criminal syndicalism law of California, Anita Whitney was convicted like all the other victims of that law, on frame- up evidence of professional labor spies and detectives. Sinclair's letter is as follow * * * fc WAR HYSTERIA Governor C. C. Young, Sacramento, | Capitalist Press Now California. y My Dear Governor Young:—As one} Suppr esses Facts (By a Staff Correspondent). of your opponents in the recent elec-/| tion, I am sure you will welcome my | ses 2 advice upon the conduct of your of- WASHINGTON, May 30. — The fice, and so I write to add my name; World is acclaiming Charles Lind- to the list of law-abiding and patriotic bereh for his daring feat in flying citizens who are asking you to atlow| from New York to Paris, but only a Anita Whitney to go to jail. Tt seems | few years ago his father’s name was to me a most dahgerous thing to en-|“Mathema and, the youth and his rete ez) 3 Cap. Cartes A. LINDBERGH LINDBERGH'S DAD | force a law against the poor and fail) Mother were very lonely and un to enforce it against the rich, and if| happy. ‘ you pardon Anita Whitney, how can| The father now dead had commit- you fail to respond to her challenge, | ted the great crime of being oppcsed and let out the workingmen who are t? American entrance in the World now in jail for the same offense? It) War. He was a representative. rep- seems to me this is a time, if ever, to| Tesenting a, progressive district in prove that justice is blind, and shut| Minnesota. Although elected as a re- publican he was a follower of the in- | Thompson | recent developments and OPPOSED MORGAN our eyes and go straight sey re- gardless of any turns in the road. } Law Nearly Dead. Moreover, what is the good of hav- ing a law, unless we get some use} out of it? At present this criminal | syndicalism law is practically a dead | letter, and forgotten. It isn’t fright-| ening the “reds,” they are going right on doing what they were doing before the law was passed. But if Anita Whitney goes to San Quentin, then everybody will be set to talking about | the law, and we will all be reminded | that we have it, and some one may! obey it. i | Then too, California needs adver- tising, and this is a way to make people talk about us. There are ten or twenty million organized workers all over the world who will begin to repeat the formula, “California, of Orange-Groves and Jails.” It is a principle, explained in all schools of advertising, that “every knock is a boost.” Everybody who hears the slogan will remember the orange groves and forget the jails—just as our own people do. She Might Write. As a literary man, I am naturally led to reflect, what an interesting book Anita Whitney will be able to write after she has served her term. One of the great books of all time | might come out of that experience, | and it seems to me it will be a tra- gedy not to let it be written. great books have had such an origin— Oscar Wilde’s “Ballad of Reading Gaol,” and Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Pro- gress,” and Toller’s “Massemensch,” and Ralph Chaplin’s “Bars and Shadows.” Also, if you should ever decide to clean up those nests of cruelty and graft, ovr state prisons, think what a help it will be to you to have Anita Whitney selling all the world about them from inside knowledge! As you no doubt remember, suffrage was brought to the women of the United States by those who went to jail in our national capital. Who can tell what moral and political earthquake might come from the fact that one | of the gentlest and finest ladies of | surgent La Follette and in is years of service in Washington refuscd “to play the game as it is done here. This was bad enough, but in 1917 when the holy Mr. Wilson began to force the United States into the Euro- pean conflict,-and the aviator’s father attacked the government’s policy he munition magnates. Denounced by Patriots. It is a-matter of record, to be found on the pages of the Congressional Record, that the father of this 25- FULLER'S MIND BEING POISONED ON SAGCO CASE Gloom Among Friends of Workers Grows BOSTON, May 30.—A deep gloom is pervading Sacco-Vanzetti here this week, following the hope- fulness of recent weeks. With Fuller fully launched on his seeret investigation, with Defense William G, perturbed over with the growing convietion that enemies of Saeco and Vanzetti have succeeded in poisoning the governor’s mind, de- jection controlled not only the de- cireles Governor Counsel seriously | fense committee’s headquarters, but also friends of the condemned men in the Workers Party, International La- bor Defense and advanced liberal cireles, Among visitors at the State House executive chambers have been sworn foes of Sacco and Vanzetti. They have been closeted with him for hours. The long tale of perjury, cir- | cumstantial evidence and downright | falsehood which the state used to | railroad two radicals to the electric \chair is being reinforced by these | determined enemies, The heavy weight of conservative Boston business is also p: 4 against the governor, telling him that the sanctity of the courts must not |be exposed as a sham by reversing the verdict in this case. Standing in- |stinetively on class-determined | grounds, the heavy-paunched loiterers {at the. Union Club are letting it be | known in social contacts and veiled utterances that the “two damned reds ought to hang anyway.” Irresponsible Probe. And all the while figures slink in and out of the governor’s office, yn- heralded and unnamed. What their | business is, what they have told the — | governor, what new tales of fanciful | fabrication they have related, the at- jtorneys for Sacco and Vanzetti can | never know and can therefore never refute. But they are dripping poison slowly into the governor’s mind. | Whether he already feels that the chain' of lies they have thrown | around the two workers is heavy | enough to drag them to the electric {chair on July 10 is not known | definitely, but there is a growing jfeeling that he is succumbing te these sinister forces. George Brani- | ing, the Swedish attorney who will |investigate the case for the labor movement of his home country, can’t speakjin Faneuil Hall, the “cradle of liberty.” On the flimsy excuse that | the hall is being repaired, the de- fense committee has been denied ity use. i Instead a parade in which New England. Scandinavians will take a leading role, is being planned through | the city in honor of Branting next Sunday. Life Sentence. Two more jurors have been ex- jamined by the governor. One de- jimmediately brought down upon him- | clared that he is in favor of commu- |self the fury of the war lords and | tation of sentence to life imprison- ‘ment. Many keen obstrvers believe | that this will be the “solution” of the | governor. | Both Sdeco and Vanzetti prefer death to life imprisonment, and Sacco |year-old youth, while a member of | has appealed repeatedly for the exe- | congress, was assailed on the floor of | cution of the death penalty, as he ¢s Many | | the house as a “sinister and danger- ‘ous influence.” The papers now fren- | ziedly heralding the son, only a few) ‘years back bitterly berated the father Land Yenouneing him as a traitor and a} | spy. Just before Wilson ¢onsummated | the war deal the elder Lindbergh pub- lished a book detailing the deception, \the criminal fraud, and corruption that | had been perpetrated in forcing the country into the maelstrom. The vol- |ume was proscribed by the govern- ment and it was Lindbergh’s position as a member of congress that alone | saved him from prosecution. , Ran for Governor, Embittered by the persecution and ferocious attacks upon him he re- ‘turned to Minnesota and ran for gov- ernor on the, then rapidly growing Non-Partisan League ticket. He was (defeated and two years later opposed |Seeretary of State Kellogg who was |then up for re-election as a United {States senator. Kellogg on the strength of the war phobia won out, |but:the next .time he went down be- |fore the candidate of the Farmer-La- ‘bor party. The elder Lindbergh was a close }friend of A, C.. Townley, of North | Dakota, who started the famous far- ;mer revolt, the Non-Partisan League. He took an active part in organizing the league in Minnesota and was pre- paring to re-enter politics when he died early in 1925. Facts Now Suppressed. These facts about the father’s trag- our state is. shut up with common ie experience have so far been very criminals and political prisoners whom | carefully withheld by the press of the ' MEXICO CITY, May 30.—Work miners’ demand for higher wages. 7 nobody cares anything about? Pump Out Malolo. » The new liner Malolo, of the Mat- son Navigation Company, damaged in collison with a freighter off Nantuck- et last Wednesday, was being pumped out by a crew at Pier 4, Hoboken, yesterday, and it was believed all water would be out of the ip. and that it would be ready to be d to a dry dock today. jeountry. The DAILY WORKER'S -correspondent knows for a fact that ‘the correspondents of several large New York papers, among them The New York Times, prepared stories de- tailing these facts but their editors ordered the articles suppressed on the gyound that “they were not desirable at thie time.” | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE Fe PB 6 5 y | convinced thet there is no justice in | Massachusetts. Former Governor William Sweet of Colorado visited Fuller yesterday and commended him for not appointing a public commission. Worcester busi- ness men, supporters of Judge Thayer, persecutor of the two men, likewise commended the governor. The New York Nation sent in 417 more names on its petition for a cém- mission: ‘Read The Daily Worker Every Day ‘Technical Aid Calls For Special Workers _ / The Society for Technical Aid 46 the Soviet Union states that theCo- operative In-co, organized last year in the United States, at present is in need of three specialists gn bene! hand work; three. lathe hands three machinists. The co-operative is engaged manufacturing electrie motors, a mobile and tractor parts and rebu ing industria] machinery. Those who want to join the co- erative should apply to A. Bark sky, secretary, Room 402, 799 Bro: way, ; Arnold, Pa,. Workers ‘Back Sacco. Vanzetti ARNOLD, Pa.--May 30.—A mass meeting for Sacco and Vanzetti has been-held here at the Ukrainian Hall, addressed by Comrade Biedenkapp of Chicago, A. Jakira of Pittsburgh and un Italian speaker, Several hundred ‘attended despite the heavy rain. A resolution requesting Governor Fuller to unconditionally release Sac- co and Vanzetti was adopted un- animously and forwarded to Massa- chusetts. A collection for the de- tanh a political prisoners of $43 was