The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1927, Page 2

Page Two STRIKE-BREAKER MADE PRESIDENT OF PRUDENTIAL F This with the n methods to combat the This series is the result of nume tails of the swindle and fraud common with the policyholder. es of ten articles, of the 7 evils exploite of Articl By CHARLES Y The existence of the Associa should justi tion of an in ice work Every year millions sociation in the form of f rent “mutual” expenses and pai OR LOYAL SERVICE of which this is the eighth, deals l insurance agent and / payment life insurance, prous requests to publicize the de- to which the agent is subject in industria we le VIIT. ALE HARRISON. ation of Life Insurance Presidents in the eyes of the Insurance Department, the crea-| ective organization, are paid to the presidents’ as- es. This money is taken from the cur-| d to this association which is the official lobbying machine for the insurance trust. The New York Department of In- @erance is the recipient of ‘thousand of letters of compla mm € SU ance agents in which specific charges of fraud and withholding of salaries | are made. In 1916, the companies involved spent millions of dollars in crushing the strike which occurred that year. In the annual report issued the fol- wing year no mention was made r garding the expenditure of this “co- operative” money. No Help From Insurance Dept. The agent has nothing to hope for from the official departments of In-| surance which are in existence in the} various states. It is a known fact that the departments operate in favor of the company at all times. It is also a well-known fact that after his termre in office the average super- {ntendent is taken care of by his late charges. Preparatory to the creation of an agents’ union it is well to bear in mind that the legal machinery of the insurance department will be used to crush any attempt at organization. In order to forestall this, an aroused public opinion must be cre- ated among the millions of policy- holders who are defrauded by the “Big Four.” The legislative machine is always at the beck and call of the insurance trust. The legislators who took part in the famous Armstrong Insurance Investigation were bought off in or- der to id the investigation of “in- custrial” insurance practices in 1906. Hughes, Cox, Tully and others were all taken care of following the 1905 | scandals. he time of the insurance up- n New Jersey the assistant 2 mney general was one Edward Dickinson Duffield, a cunning lawyer and shrevtd politician. At that time it was considered good form to take pot shots at the insurance business, providing such shots contained “con- structive” criticism. The Prudential Life Insurance Com- pany is a New Jersey corporation and Duffield came forward with a plan for federal control of insurance com- panies. This was distasteful to the Prodential hierarchy. Bought Off The following year, on the expira- tfon of his time in office, Duffield ‘was made general solicitor for the insurance company. This was in 1906. In the same year he was appointed 4th vice-president. In 1913 he was made vice-president. Five years lat- et, in 1918, he was appointed vice- @resident and associate general coun- sel for his faithful work in. crushing tthe 1916 strike. Tm 1922 Duffield was appointed gee and has acted in that capac- y ever since. Among the “Big Four” the Prudential methods are the most shameful. It still indulges in ‘the iniquitous deferred dividend sys- (tem which was declared illegal in \New York by the Armstrong Com- mittee. | SEES, SERSESE SARS oom cen aoe SOOM In the New MAY ISSUE: Toward Another Wave of Re-. volutionary Struggle —~ by Jdny Lovestone, The Brussels Cong » Against Imperialism Manuel tomer. The Civil War In the United States-—Dy Karl Marx. The World Struggle for Rub- ber--By Leon Platt. And Other Features. Subseribe! 25 Cents a Copy $2.00 a Year The COMMUNIST 1113 W. Washington Blvd. CHICAGO, ILL. Of such material is a life insurance president made. . “Friend of Workers” In one of its official pronounce- ments to its field staff the Metro- politan Life Insurance Company says, | “Today the Metropolitan with its mil- | lions of industrial policies in force’ is recognized as the friend of the work- ingman.” | Who recognizes this? The forty | million defrauded policyholders? The sixty thousand agents who are bull- | dozed and ordered not to organize? Haley Fiske, the Metropolitan pres- ident has something to say on the | question of the agent when he says, | “Criticism has frequently been di- jvected at the eomparatively high ex- | pense rate at which industrial (week- ly premium) insurance is conducted. A large share of this expense is the result of the service extended to the |insured in sending agents to their | homes each week to collect the prem- jjums. The history of industrial in- surance has amply demonstrated that | this system of houge-to-house collect- jing is necessary. . . . No substitute s yet been found for the faithful | agent who goes from house to house.” Robbing the Faithful. | In the face of this statement Mr. * * jmillion dollars annually from the pay envelopes of his so-called faithful | agcnts. | We have Mr. Fiske’s words for it |that the company cannot exist with- out the field worker. He is the pillar upon which the whole insurance structure rests, | Only the unionization of the indus- | trial insurance worker will end the | unfair and harsh conditions under which he works. Upton Sinclair to — Fight Boston Ban on His Book “Oil” Upton Sinclair is expected to come | East and fight Boston’s ban on his | latest novel. “Oil.” A. & C. Boni, pub- lishers of the book, are waiting final word from the author of so many workers’ stories. The Bonis will back | Sinclair's legal test of the’ Massa- chusetts censorship provisions under which Boston police have acted. “Oil” is a well hewed chunk of con- |temporary life. It may in time be recognized as a first rank historical | |novel. It crowds the growth of the oil industry through the national seandal period under Harding into its pages. It gives flashes of the movie | world, of the prophets and profits of | new religion, and of the currents in |the labor movement. Boston booksellers say that some of Sinclair's women characters are too outspoken in their gold-digging phil- osophy of love and life—hence the lan. They deny that the author’s at- tack on private profit system of in- dustry and government brought the action against the book. After two police detectives confiscated copies of “Oil” in one shop, practically all Bos- ton book dealers withdrew the volume from their shelves. “Oil” follows the fate of Sinclair Lewis’ novel “Elmer Gantry,” which satirizes the protestant ministry, and other recent works which are alleged jto fall under ancient obscenity clauses of Massachusetts law. “Fascisti, Inc.” Of Britain Goes Out of Business LONDON, May 381.—Unable to do | much damage on account of the re- | lative strength of the British labor movement, the “British Fascisti, Inc.,” | has gone out of business, | ganized about two years ago and was openly contemptuous of the other | organizations whom it accused of be- ‘ing too moderate in not making | black-shirt physical attacks against | workers’ societies and cooperatives. They themselves, however, limited [theft activities to breaking up radi- }eal meetings and parading in black | shirts, The oath of allegiance pre- ‘scribed that members, regardless of “life, person or self-interest,” should ‘forward the cause of fascism. | | Chiang Broods Over His Treachery to China FASCISTI AND KKK. BARRED FROM PARADES Warren Investigates Queens Riot As a result of the clashes between Ku Klux Klan elements and their op- ponents and the death of two fas-, cists during Memorial Day celebra- tions on Monday, Police Commissioner Joseph A, Warren stated yesterday |that he believed that both the klan and the fascisti should be barred from parades, especially when wearing their white robes or uniforms. The police commissioner yesterday {started an investigation of the clash, |between police and catholics with} members of the K.K.K. along the line }of march during the Memorial Day parade at Richmond Hill, Queens on! This pensive looking chap is none | Monday. In spite of the fighting at- other than Chiang Kai-shek, formerly | titude of the Klan no clubbing took commander-in-chief of the Nationalist | place although that is a usual feature armies in China, but now just another | of police action when workingclass war lord. Yielding to pressure from | organizations are involved. the bankers and merchants, he split} The Klan is angry nevertheless, | with the Kuomintang and took to kill-| feeling that the police had no right ing labor leaders. However, he has) to interfere with their parade. It is had to fight the other militarists, Sun) believed that the entire matter will and Chang, just the same as before.| be white washed. Chang Retreats From Honan; Loses His Army | American Imperialist | Still in Nanking (Continued from Page One) has visited Peking and is reported to be making plans for the dispatch of American marines: from Shanghai to north China in preparation for the Nationalist offensive against Peking. Wu's Troops Join Hankow. BRANTING IS GIVEN BITTER TASTE OF DEMOCRACY HERE Denied Hall in Boston for Sacco Speech BOSTON, Mass., May 31.—George! Branting, noted Swedish attorney, is | today beginning his work of gather-| ing first-hand information about the | Sacco-Vanzetti case. It is for this purpose that he has been sent. to! State Department Likes Mussolini Saber Rattle; Sure He’s Morgan’s Man WASHINGTON, May (FP). —Mussolini’s formal declarstion that the aim of fascism is to be prepared after 1985 to throw 5,- 900,000 well-equipped troops, a vast air force and a strong navy into any confliet which may then arise over Italian national aims, was ‘calmly received in Washington, The unofficial view within the Coolidge administration, and es- y in the state department s that fascism is a safe- guard against disturbance of the rule of the propertied class | America by his countrymen who are throughout the world. Since the | vitany interested in the fate of these financial rule of the post-war |/two Ttalian radical workers. world has come to the _ United Members of the local Swedish States, Mussolini is looked upon with favor, That he would ever dare challenge the interests of American capital, or interfere with the British empire, is doubted. Washington sees in the latest speech of Mussolini a threat at France on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other. It of- fers no criticism, except for his bluntness. | mittee. In his brief speech on the Common, | Add Your Name to the $100,000 Roll | Branting stated that he had been sent | Call List from Sweden “to make a quite im- ‘ partial study of the Sacco-Vanzetti| The $100,000 Roll Call: Drive was ease and to give a fair report. This undertaken to raise the sum of §100,- step is dictated of an earnest interest, 000 in the shortest possible time, and | - : an interest common to all countries. to give every friend of the defense aly assume {t can be understood now| chance to be listed on this Honor There as an inconvenient curiosity. | Roll. More and more money is |America gives an example to the needed to successfully carry on the | world and therefore a widespread at- campaign to defend the imprisoned | tention on her actions is natural.” cloakmakers,and furriers. A. dollar is not too much from Romuilitee Hits, Fuller. colony, and friends of Sacco and Van- zetti yesterday outwitted the Boston authorities who refused to grant a permit for a parade, or for a meet- ing in Faneuil Hall or at the Park- man bandstand, to welcome Branting. They gathered, 1.500 strong, at the) ‘railroad station when he arrived and “walked with him” to Boston Com- mon where they held an open air meeting under a permit which had | been granted to another organization. | Any sort of permit had been denied |to the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com- | USSR to Collect Loss Due to Hurried Leave Of Trading Companies LONDON, May 31.—The British Government will be held respons- ible for all losses incurred by citi- zens both of the Soviet Union and of Britain due to lack of time of the Russian Trade Delegation in winding up its financial affairs. This was made especially clear in the note addressed by A. P. Rosen- golz, the Russian Charge d’Affaires to Sir Austen Chamberlain, Brit- ish Foreign Secretary, in which the Soviet representative asked that permission be given to citizens of the U. S. S. R. who are directors of the Arcos, Ltd., and other Brit- ish companies conducting Anglo- Soviet trade to remain until they are able to liquidate their affairs. Brotherhood Bank Officially Yields fo Union Smasher WASHINGTON, May 31. (#P) Herman E. Wills, assistant grand chief engineer and national legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, who has been a director of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers’ Title and Trust Co. in Philadelphia, confirms the re- port that the bank has been merged with Mitten Bank. When the deal be- comes effective on May 31, President Mitter of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. and of Mitten Bank, will have control of the combined bank, but he will retain five of the directors | Fiske authorizes the deduction of 15) John K. Davis, U. 8. Consul in Nan- |king. He is largely responsible for |the lying propaganda about National- ist atrocities there and has remained behind to tell Chiang Kai-shek what | American big business wants him |to do. Barbusse In June Labor ‘Defender Urges Sacco and Vanzetti be Freed “The execution of Sacco and Van- zetti can be considered hereafter only as a tremendous challenge to the en- tire public opinion. It’ will engender | everlasting hatred on the part of the | working masses and be condemned by | jall loyal, wise and enlightened spirits | The success of the Nationalists ap- pears assured in view of the persis- tent reports that Wu Pei-fu’s troops are rapidly joining the Hankow arm- lies. Wu Pei-fu’s army has been re- |garded as a buffer between the Na- tionalists and the northern war-lords and the defection of Wu’s troops |pleces nothing between the National- lists and Peking, but the demoralized army of Chang Tso-lin, j * * . Imperialists Abuse Soviet Prisoners. MOSCOW, May 31.~-A report re-| ceived here today states that the for- ty-seven members of the Soviet Union steamship, Pamiat Lenina, who are being held prisoners at Peking in an j attempt on the part of the imperial- jist powers to goad the Soviet Union into a war, have appealed to the court at Tsinanfu’ protesting against the appallityg conditions of their timprison- ment, | Chang Tsung-chang, Shantung war |lord, who arrested them, has offered jno explanation and has failed to pro- duce any accusation against the pris- | oners. Declare Hunger Strike. The prisoners declare that they will go on a hunger strike today unless |they are informed of the reason for their arrest and immediately released. No word has been received of Mme. Borodin who was removed from the Pamiat Lenina and sent to Peking. * * . : Arrest Soviet Citizen. HONG KONG, May 31.—A citizen! any worker, ers who can give one dollar reaches into the hundreds of thousands. Many | of these however are delaying their contributions thinking that they still have time. The Joint Defense & Re- lief Committee wishes to impress up- on all the sympathizers that the money is needed immediately. Send in your dollar today. Do not wait any longer. dollar from every worker will help to keep our martyrs from prison. * * * Follow This Good Example The Women’s Workers Club of Cleveland at its headquarters 13514 Kinsman Rd., arranged a Package Party for the benefit of the Joint Defense & Relief Committee. This ‘affair netted $47.65 which was im- | mediately remitted to the Joint De-| ¢ low this example. fense office. Foll * * * Brownsville Workers Mass Meeting Friday at 8 p. m. there will be a mass meeting at 63 Liberty Ave., Brownsville. This meeting is being arranged by the Non-Partisan Brownsvilld Workers Culture Club. The number of work- | | Official opposition to permitting! and the presidént and most of the the welcome planned for Branting staff of the B. of L. E. Title & Trust comes immediately following the pro-/Co. The former. president of the jtests of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense’ Brotherhood concern will be operating | Committee to Governor Fuller be-) vi¢e-president of the B. of L. E.— cause of the way in which he is con-| Mitten Bank. ducting his investigation of the case) How Mitten, who controls the |of these two workers. In a second! street railways of Philadelphia and letter of the committee to the gov- maintains a company union which he |ernor, which was made public on Fri-| claims is not hostile to the regular day last, it is charged that Governor trade union—the Amalgamated Street Fuller is investigating the guilt or and Electric Railway Employes—has innocence of the two men instead of | been able to supplant the:Brotherhood confining himself to the question of} bank is a story which Mitten hints | whether or not they had a fair trial. /at in a circular which he has sent to The committee points out that there | Washington press correspondents and jare legal ways in which a new trial | labor officials. |can be provided if it is found that) “This bank,” says Mitten in a letter | they did not have a fair one, and it! to President Prenter of the B. of 1. jis the governor's job to decide wheth-| E., published in this! cireular, “was jer or not the trial was fair. originated through the discovery of “Besides the lives of our two 1,000,000 car-rider workers who, viends, in whose innocence we have| through payment to conductors on the |implicit faith, there is another issue! cars for P. R. T. preferred stoek, |at stake in this case. That is the| showed an ability to save an average | administration of justice in the courts| of $5 per week. P. R. T. stock being | of Massachusetts. The majority of limited in quantity, other means were | people who have written you, includ-| necessary to be found in order that jing the finest minds in this and other these workers’ savings be direc | countries, are deeply troubled by this into savings accounts, since ev: iatter issue.” ditional savings account of the work- Prominent speakers will address the | i 5 meeting. All workers of Brownsville | Would Counteract Venom. | are urged to come and hear about the, The committee states that it has| latest developments in the needle | requested the governor to have a com-| trade situation. | mission present at this investigation * in advisory capacity, because the | * * jer is a certain and substantial bar- icade against Bolshevism, and. is therefore the greatest possible sup- port to the present property-owning system.” Having used his street car con- | Here’s One From West New York Receipt of a $5 donation from the Freiheit Club of West New York, N. J. is hereby acknowledged. * * * ‘issue is'so important. It now adds} 4, the request “at least to allow coun-| sel for the defendants to be present) | whenever anything is said against) whom it will transform into enemies | of the Soviet Union, who has been | of a system of domination which em-| engaged in organizing peasants’ | ploys such methods. ... There are all junions in southern China, is reported | the moral and humanitarian as well/to have been captured at Pashing. | 48 tactical reasons why the supreme What action the right wing in con-| American power should spare these |trol of the town will take is unknown. | |two victims.” Concentrate Japanese Troops. _ These are the words contained in} TOKYO, May 31.—Increased con-| an appeal for Sacco and Vanzetti by | centration of Japanese soldiers in| Henri Barbusse, the internationally |China was believed near today. | known writer and agitator of France,' The tide of battle is turning against | written especially for the June issue | the Mukden troops, upon whom Japan | of the Labor Defender, which is just |is relying for protectin of her citizens | off the press, upon the cabled request |in Shantung, Consul 1 Yata at of the editor. Tsingtao reported today. \ Special For Sacco-Vanzetti Two thousand Japgnese soldiers | . " ipl ., |have already been to Tsing- | The June issue which is a special tao. ‘Two additional i@ttalions of 2~. Sacco-Vanzetti number contains a 000 en wil be sent t@ Sentsin soon, | series of features dedicated to the} ” famous case that has aroused the in- | “** basen elke dignation and protest of millions of Mme. Sun Heads Relief. workers. The cover design by the| noted labor artist Fred Ellis, is a| (BY Nationalist Newa Agency). |them.” The governor so far has not! Coney Island Stadium Concert \replied to this communication, but he The Joint Defense & Relief Com- is proceeding with his private investi- mittee which has arranged a Mon-/gation and examination of various! ste# Spectacle and Concert at the | witnesses. | Coney Island Stadium on July 16th,| Letters continue to come from all wishes to announce that they have parts of the world in behalf of Sacco) engaged the entire New York Sym-/|and Vanzetti. The Confederation of! phony Orchestra for this Concert. | Revolt in Youth of Geoningen, Hol land, has demanded immediate re-| Ben Gitlow’s Father lease of the two men, “in the name. Dies of Pneumonia; Radical Many Years of human justice.” The Paris section | of d’Action Universitaire Republi-| leaine et Socialiste, consisting of | | students, asked for release, | An impartial review of the case is| asked in a resolution adopted at a, | meeting of the Methodist preachers, of Chicago; and a demand for free- dom was made in a resolution passed Saturday by 4,000 workers of Roches- ter, N. Y., a large number of them members of the Amalgamated Cloth- Louis Gitlow, 59, father of Ben Git- low, memberwof the Central Commit- tes, Workers (Communist) Party died here last Saturday afternoon after a short illness, He was buried in the Workmen’s Cirele cemetery on Sun- day. luctors as stock salesmen, Mitten put them to work as ‘receiving tellers for his bank. They gathered in the sav- ings accounts on every street car on paydays, and soon had cut off many of the chief sources of deposits upon which the Brotherhood bank had counted, When this process had gone far enough, he made a proposal to admit the Brotherhood bank to a con- sclidation, as he had earlier taken over a labor bank known as the Pro- ducers’ and Consumers’, which had failed, The Brotherhood bank was sound, but was not growing so fast as had been anticipated. After much discussion, the Brotherhood bank's directors recommended that the merger be approved. The Amalgamated Street & Electric Railway Employes does not share Mitten’s good opinion of the Phila- delphia situation. President Mahon has expressed himself as looking upon Mitten as a union-buster—a term which Mitten quotes in his circular without naming Mahon. The chief of It was ov- | striking expresison of the powerful hand of labor stretched ou tto save the two Italian radicals. The issue contains a lengthy record of the or- ganizations and individuals of promi- nence throughout the world that have ‘protested the planned execution; the speech of James P. Cannon, secretary of the I. L, D. at the Chicago protest meeting, and a review of Felix Frank- furter’s analysis of the Sacco-Van- zetti case by Thurber P. Lewis. Articles On Arrests Tn addition, the June issue contains articles on the campaign against lab- ‘or leaders in Hungary, written by | Martin Abern, an article on the ar- |rests and imprisonment of the fur | workers and ladies garment workers in New York, on the case of Jack Rubenstein, Passaic strike leader, by |Hollace Randsell, the continuation of the life of Eugene Barnett, the Cen- ers, and a full page of photographs of the labor defense movement thru- out the world, in addition to the usual host of illustrations which have added to the popularity of the Labor De- fender. Copies of this issue can be obtained at labor bookstores, local offices 0’ the I. L. D., or from the national of- fice of International Labor Defense, 28 S. Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill, A | copy is easily worth the dime it costs. \ tralia I. W. W., letters from prison-| qq t trolled by Chiang HANKOW, May 28 (Delayed). — Madam Sun Yat-sen is heading a movement to create an organization for the relief of wounded soldiers re- turning to Wuhan from the Honan front. She plans to establish a base hospital here, The Chinese fear Nis -ivenoed here are cooperating formation of a Northern Expedition Red Cross Ser- vice, with Madam Sun as chairman, Two hundred persons, including American, British, Chinese, and Ger- man doctors, attended a meeting here yesterday to devise means of aiding the Red Cross. ° Unofficial U. S, War on Hankow. Aly ef Se ing 31.—The re- Peking in view of the imminent cap- ture of that city by the Hankow Na- tionalists is under contemplation by the government, it was announced to- y. The cabinet which is bitterly hostile to the Hankow Nationalists contem- plates the removal of the legation either to Tientsin, which is controlled by Chang Chung: Shantungese war-lord, or Sha i, ict is con- shek. SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! Gitlow, who has been troubled with heart trouble for a long time, de- veloped pneumonia recently. He died at his home, 1176 Girard Ave., Bronx, where the funeral was held. At the cemetary, Jack Stachel, act- ing general secretary, New York or- tion, Workers (Communist) Latwig Laniy and Henry Frucites, an lenry iter, Gitlow’s son-in-law. Louis Gitlow had been active in the labor movement of this country for many years. He was among the founders of the Voice of Labor, one of the first papers issued by the so- cialist labor party. When the socialist party was formed he joined that ors ganization, later affiliating with the Communist Party, being a member until the day of his death. Comrade Gitlow’s widow, Kate Git- low, is secretary of the United Coun- cil of Workingelass Housewives. Branting Sees Sacco and Vanzetti in- Jail BOSTON, May 31.—<Georg Brant- ing, the Swedish lawyer, visited Sacco and Vanzetti in Dedhafh jail yesterday in company with William G. Thompson, chief of defense coun- sel, Prison rules were relaxed to per- mit the visit. ing Workers of America. Charge Sedition Upon Woodlawn Workers (Continued from Page One) bail. One of the policemen reported that he “found” a gallon of liquor in Muselin’s Ford, which was standing on one of the Woodlawn streets while Muselin attended a meeting of Croa- tian Beneficial lodge. The car was standing on the street for several hours. No witnesses happened to be around when he liquor was “found,” despite the fact that the Ford was standing on quite a busy street. Postpone Tapolchanji Case The well known Tapolehanji case was scheduled for a hearing in the Federal Courts in Pittsburgh on June 1st, but was postponed to the middle of June. | The ease of Sadolkas, who was ‘rested some time ago in Wilmerding and charged with sedition, was sched- uled to come up for hearing early in the trade union has asserted that Mit- ten tried to smash the union in Buf. falo some years ago. Mitten replies that organized labor needs “more en. lightened management” to guide it economic efficiency. f afternoon by Attorney R. of News York, against Craighead. Maxey seeks) damages which he alleges is for injury to his reputation letters written by Crai; ‘3 The COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL 10 cents a copy—$2.00 a year ? cents in bundle lots, May, but was postponed and will come | OF 1927 up in the early part of June. $1 Postpaid rn anne & cases on, being de- | pa ‘fended by the erican Civil Liber- Sat Carte ties Union and the International Lab: Red Cartoons or Defense, an dthe two other cases Of 1926 Now are being taken care of by the Inter- ty 50 CENTS national Labor Defence.