The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1934, Page 2

i / ; } ; 1 [ | Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1934 ROOSEVELT’S ‘TRUCE’ PLAN BARS WORKERS’ R g Insurance Firms! ‘NewDeal’Promises INCREASED TERROR AND WAGE CUTTING SEEN IN N.R.A. MOVE ...., vamed away Philadelphia Defense | Secret Meeting With Department of Justice Men A.F.L. Leaders Give Yeoman Service to N.R.A. Planners, Who Attempt to Rob Workers Through Arbitration Boards By Carl N. R. A. and proposed a “no weeks confirm the analysi ployers and the Roosevelt govern- he weeks following the Py peal to the workers to weapons of industrial wa: e A. F. of L, offi the no-strike propo: elt. William Green, the fol- a in his speech at the San Francisco A. F. of L. conven- tion, endorsed the proposals of Roosevelt, The entire Green bureau- cracy fell in line with the program of co-operation with the employers to end strikes. The employers have shown in no uncertain terms that the “truce” means surrender by the workers of their elementary right to strike and organize, means surrender to wage cuts, increased terror against strik- ers and increased fascist measures against the worke: The “Truce” in Steel First came the steel companies, headed by the United States Steel Corporation, with their announce- mients that they intended to cut wages in the near future. Mike Tighe, president of the Amalgam- ated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.)accepted the Roosevelt “truce,” which was a cover for the wage cutting drive. Tighe secured re-election as uni president by the expedient of. dis- franchising the new members and unemployed on the grounds of non- payment of dues. The steel companies watched this re-election closely. The Tighe ma- chine meant strengthening the no- strike “truce.” The Oct. of “St ” trade weekly, declared, “Emissaries for the Administration have informed steel producers that organized labor has overplayed its hand, and the industry need not be alarmed on this score. It was re- assuring [to the steel employers— Cc. R.] that Michael Tighe, con- servative, was re-elected head of the Amalgamated Association” (page 12, Tighe, made a similar re-assuring statement to the employers when his re-election was announced. “Labor should erase the fear em- ployers have that they will have to surrender their rights if labor is organized,” Tighe said. ‘Thus, in the steel industry, Roose- yelt’s no-strike ruce” means a Wage cutting drive; supported by Tighe. Scottsboro|Bi March Planned In Chicago Meeting Four of the Scottsboro mothers! will head a protest march of Brook- | |And U.S. Agents Scheme 'To Disclose Data on Vets Plans Bill to Open U. S. Files on Ex-Servicemen to Liability Corporations lyn workers this Saturday evening Reeve jin Crown Heights, Brooklyn, called |ing on Dec, 7 of two of the nine ization of the! >oys, Haywood Patterson and Clar. -__ | ence Norris, The last five| ‘he march will start at 7 o'clock strike truce.” . ra e | to protest the proposed legal lynch- | On Sept. 30 President Roosevelt made his “fireside” | radio speech in which he spoke of reorga | NEW YORK.—A secret two-day meeting of Depart- ment of Justice agents, Veterans’ Bureau aides and rep- resentatives of private insurance companies was held on |Friday and Saturday, according to information obtained = ploye of a voice in those affairs of anti-union drive of the em-| 2 imply the assumption by the em-| management which management, by its very nature, must ultimately decide by its own responsibility. This means, of course, that all ques- tions of hiring and firing, of work- ing conditions and wages, of speed- up, which are vital to the workers, are solely in the hands of the employers. The General Motors, however, goes much farther than that. The? dominating auto company, Morgan | controlled, instructs its 130,000 em- ployes that they must act as spies against the real trade unions and their members. “Since this provi- sion [the auto settlement of last Spring signed by Green and Col- lins—C. R.] bans coercion by unions as well as employes, all cases of at- tempted coercion by outside unions to force employes to join them | should be thoroughly investigated | ‘and if they can be substantiated, ; referred through the lines of or- ganization to the industrial rela- | tions department in Detroit for their records and such use as may be found desirable.” This vicious company union drive was launched and carried through | be held on Noy. 25. ysis of the Communist Party that this! trom Nostrand and Herkimer St.,| speech heralded an intensified and will end with a mass meeting et Ralph Ave. A. M. E. Zion Church. Nov. CHICAGO, 7.—Saturday, | 17, has been set aside as Scottsboro | Day in Chicago. On that day, Chi-/| |cago workers and intelectuals, Ne- |gro and white, will hold a giant} mass march through the streets of Chicago to protest the proposed le- gal murder of Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson on Dec. 7, and |to demand the freedom and safety; of the nine innocent boys. The march will start at 2 p.m. from 47th and Prairie, proceeding to 38rd and Indiana to the Pilgrim Baptist Church, The I. L, D. and the L. S. N, R. have also issue a joint call for an Emergency Scottsboro Conference to Labor unions, Negro churches, fraternal organiza- tions and other bodies are being visited for endorsement oe Big Meeting in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7—The tremendous response of Philadelphia | workers, Negro and white, to the fight for the freedom of the Scotts- | boro boys and Angelo Herndon was} |dramaticaly demonstrated Monday |night when hundreds of workers jhad to be turned away from a} by veterans either against private government. | The meeting was held in the | Library of the Bar Association, 42 W. 44th Street, Room 10, and was to have resulted in the adoption of a resolution on’ the basis of which a legislative change is to be sought in Section 456 of the War Veterans’ Act which prohibits the disclosure of confidential information con- cerning veterans by any government agency. | The committee of six to draft the | desired proposed legislation’ included | Harry Cole Bates, counsel for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- |pany; F, F, Beardsley, special agent for the Department of Justice, and |Mr. Richardson, solicitor for the Veterans Administration Bureau. A |Mr. Sans, a special agent for the Department of Justice, was also present. The Veterans’ Bureau until re- cently received information from many insurance companies concern- ing the physical codition and other pertinent affairs of veterans who were making compensation claims against the government. This fre- insurance companies or against the | by the Daily Worker, to map legislation designed to wipe ! out the vast majority of claims made® - - quently resulted in government lawyers being able to defeat vet- erans’ claims without regard for the actual justice involved in the case, Recently private insurance com- panies demanded that the Veter- ans’ Bureau reciprocate by supply- ing information concerning vet- erans who had claims against them. The Veterans’ Bureau was unable to do so because Section 456 of the Veterans’ Act prohibits the revela- tion of such information except in three specific circumstances: if the consent of the individual in ques- tion is obtained in writing; if the| information relates to a suit being tried in a federal court and “in all other judicial proceedings when in the judgement of the director such disclosure is deemed necessary and proper.” The attendance roster of the meeting included the New York Life Insurance Company, the Con- necticut Mutual Life, the Atlantic Life, the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Company, the Aetna Company, the Home, Pacific Mutual, the ‘Travellers, Hartford Indemnity, and the John Hancock Companies. tional strengthening of the collec- Scottsboro - Herndon meeting ar- under the patronage of the Auto| ranged by the International Labor Labor Board, set up by Roosevelt | Defense in Eastwick. with Green’s consent. The Roose-| Ruby Bates, start defense witness velt government, also with the con-| who braved death to expose the |sent of the Green bureaucracy, in- | rape frame-up against the boys in serted the company union, “merit” | her testimony in the Decatur, Ala, World Toilers -- Look to Soviets tive farms, and a new influx of in- dividual farmers into the collectives. Despite the difficultuies caused by drought, the number of districts harvested in the present year is not less than last year’s, while the plan 29 issue | The company unions in the | clause in the auto code giving the | employers sole right to hire and | fire and clearing the road for the company union. Now William | Grean, to still the militant protest | of the auto workers, calls for) amendment to the code. But the code, it is already made known at the White House (N. Y. Tribune, Noy. 2) is to be extended with all its anti-labor features, for ninety days. The Roosevelt “truce” in the auto | , industry, as in other industries, has ‘meant the extension of the com- ;pany union under protection of | Roosevelt’s Labor Board, and with | ; the consent of the A. F, of L. lead- | ‘ers. It has meant denial of all the | ‘demands of the auto workers for | higher wages, against the speedup, | ;for union recognition, against the | {company union and for the right | to organize. | The A. and P. Settlement | ternational lynch court, was the.main speaker. Resolutions denouncing the at- tempt of Alabama authorities to legally murder Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris on Dec. 7 and demanding the unconditional and safe release of all nine of the boys were unanimously adopted and sent to President Roosevelt, and to Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama. Relief Drive For Prisoners Is Started The Christmas Drive for }...ti- cal prisoners and their families is now being conducted by the Pris- oners Relief Department of the In- Labor Defense. The steel industry are flourishing and| In the A. and P. employes’ fight all the demands which the steclifor union recognition, the union workers put up last year, for wage smashing drive of the employers iricreases, recognition, against the| was repeated. The National Asso- speedup, are being brushed aside. | ciation of Manufacturers, from New | York City, on Nov. 2, issued a state- |ment declaring that the basis of | | settlement of the A. and P. case by | the National Labor Relations Board h Green also appreved) pro- hibi “coercion” by the unions. ‘Therefore, the National Association of Manufacturers declares, state legislatures are urged to pass six laws, based on the Labor Boards’ decisions, which include, “To make picketing illegal when it is carried on in such a manner as to in- timidate or coerce employes or cus- tomers”; strikes and lockouts illegal”; “to make illegal employment contracts requiring a person either to join or not to join any labor organization.” This is the program of the em- ployers, which they term a “plan The Textile Employers Program ‘The “industrial peace” program of the textile employers was stated at the Octo! meeting of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association in Greenville, 8. C. This meeting endorsed George Sloan’s murderous methods in breaking the Beneral textile strike. Its resolu- tions gave assurances to Southern | manufacturers of a united front; against the trade unions; declared that the textile manufacturers will | stand firm against any change “in | the present provisions of the eed covering the maximum hours and the machine hours limitations”; and | attacked flying squadrons and mass | Picketing. | The “truce” program of the tex-| tile manufacturers was made even elearer in the joint statement of the | National Association of Cotton: “Manufacturers Association, two aveeks ago. This ten point program demanded that “strikes or lockouts Bhould be illegal when they are de Signed to coerce the government, ‘either directly or indirectly, by Anflicting hardship on the com- {for industrial peace.” This is the program which Roosevelt has launched in his speech for a no- strike “truce.” Increased Fascist Measures | This program marks a definite | increase in the fascist measures of the government. It includes in-) creased violence against Negro) |workers, increased terror against | “to make sympathetic | campaign has as its chief aim the |raising of a sufficiently large fund to enable the sending of a substan- tial gift to each of the 62 long-term Political prisoners and hundreds on shorter t , and to their wives and children. In an appeal for sup- |port for the Christmas Drive, the |I. L. D, states, in part: | “The I, L, D. considers: the work | o! raising relief for the victims of |the class war and their families as ore of its most important duties. These men are behind prison walls for their loyalty to the working class, “This is not charity. It is not merely a gift in the form of money, clothes, books, letters. It is a defi- nite pledge of those on ue outside |to those on the inside of the pris- ons of American capitalism. It is a token to show them that they and | the sacrifices they have made are not forgotten. * All contributions should be sent to th. Prisoners Relief Department of ine I. L. D., Room 610, at 80 Hast \1lth St, N. ¥. C (Continua from Page 1) maturity of the October Revolu- tion, the gigantic attractive force of the ideology of the victorious working class, of its steeled Party. “In finishing one more brilliant |chapter in the most talented work |of mankind—the October socialist revolution—we say to all working- {men and workingwomen, to all the | peasants, employes, intellectuals and soldiers of the entire capitalist world; Look at our country, at its People. A new life is beginning to grow. A neW joy is ripening, The Soviets! “There is no other path to happi- ness, to socialism. And there is only | one Party which can and will lead | toiling mankind along this path— | the Communist Party. In grief and joy the Bolshevik Party and Soviet ing class, with the toilers, and fought for their vital interests. In the years of illegality, at the October barricades; at the fronts in the Civil War, on the construction work in the factories, on the collec- tive farms, the state farms, in the army, in the workers’ houses, every- where the Party of Lenin and Stalin taught, organized, fought and conquered. This is why the Party of the Bolsheviks so insepar- ably possesses the minds of the peoples of the great Soviet country, this is why the toilers surround with such warm love the leader of the Party, the inspirer and organ- izer of great victories, the architect of Socialism—Comrade Stalin. 1934 Year of Records “The year 1934 is a year of world records for the Soviet country, and also a year of enormous growth of the new Soviet culture. It was marked by a new quality of leader- ship in the direction of industry, the mobilization of reserves for a new rise in the output of production, and the reduction of the cost of produc- tion. In agriculture it was marked by further economic and organiza- power were always with the work-~ of grain deliveries has been fulfilled with much greater success. shows the enormous strength of the collective farms. A collective group possessing modern technique and conducting a planned economy can much easier overcome all difficulties | than any individual farmer. In the sphere of commodity turnover this year is marked by the growth and improvement of the organization of Soviet trade. “The central feature of our ace tivity is the satisfaction of the needs of the workers and peasants and the systematic raising of the ma- terial and cultural level of their life. The year 1934 shows great achievements in this respect, but this is only an insignificant part of that which must and will be done. In all the branches of life it is the Soviets who are the organizers. The Soviets change the face of the country, its towns, settlements, and village. The Soviets are the organ- izers of the revolutionary order in industry and trade. The Soviets earnestly: care for the life of the worker, the peasant and the Soviet intellectual. “The October Revolution is young; it is only seventeen years old. Enormous work has already been done, but much still is not yet performed. The country looks forward boldly and confidently. Ma- terial resources have increased, and the people who have grown up are ever more tirelessly and efficiemy, with great initiative, organizing the socialist life of our population, one hundred and seventy millions strong. The Communist Party and Soviet power have trained a gen- eration of revolutionaries and heroes firm as steel, a people loyal to the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. A country hav- ing such a people, such a Party and such leaders can be tranquil about its fate. Its resources and pos- sibilities are inexhaustible. Its frontiers are invincible, its land sacred and inviolable.” Get Heavy Vote (Continued from Page 1) 556,000, however. On the news of his defeat, largely attributed to Roosevelt's withdrawal of support during the closing days of the campaign, Upton Sinclair declared his intention of continu- ing his support of the New Deal and said he would “fight for Roose- velt in 1936.” Hiram Johnson, Republican, was elected Senator with the active backing of Roosevelt. New Deal Promises It is significant that many of the New Deal candidates ran on “radical” and anti-Wall Street plat- forms and in Minnesota, Floyd B. Olson, the Farmer-Labor governor, was re-elected on a platform which denounced the capitalist system. La Follette Elected In Wisconsin, running on a plat- form of “reform” the La Follette | brothers were elected Governor and Senator respectively and won 7 of the 10. Congressional seats in the State for the Progressive Party. In Bridgeport, Connecticut, Jas- per McLevy, Socialist Party Mayor who was running for Governor, out- ran Wilbur Cross the Démocratic candidate by 4,000 votes in his own city. The state results were 38,516 votes for McLevy and 258,000 for Cross. McLevy’s vote in Bridgeport was 5,000 less than he received last year for Mayor. Among the victims of the Demo- Republicans as Arthur R. Robinson who was defeated in Indiana for the Senate by his Democrati¢ oppo- nent Sherman Minton. In Ohio, Simon D. Fess, another Republican of the Old Guard was defeated by A. V. Donahey, his Democratic op- ponent, by a tremendous majority. Defeat “Big Navy” Man In Illinois, Fred Britten, Repub- lican chairman of the Military Af- fairs Committee in the House, and “big Navy” propagandist, was de- feated by his Democratic opponent. In Chicago, Oscar De Priest, Re- publican Negro Congressman, was defeated by a Negro Democratic candidate, Mitchell, who will now sit in the House side by side with the Southern Democrats from the This lynch states. ‘Bulgarian Envoy Receives Protests (Continued from Page 1) for participating in the demonstra- tion against war and fascism in Plovdiv were murdered without a trial, why seven of them got sen- tences of from two to twenty years in prison, why about seventy sol- diers have been sentenced to death in the last few months, why 12,000 citizens have been arrested since last May 19, and why Comrade Panoff is still in jail under threat of a new trial on a framed charge although cratic sweep were such Old Guard | te: VOROSHILOV CALLS RED ARMY SENTINEL OF SOVIET POWER. ‘Red Army Was and Remains the Bulwark of the, Unchanging Peace Policy of Soviet Power,’ Says Commander on Soviet Anniversary i (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (By Wireless) —Warmly greeting the Red Army on the occasion of the seventeenth anniversary of the October Revolution, People’s Commissar for Defense Voroshilov did more than point out that the Red Army and the U. 8. S. R. are tied by the closest bonds to the inter- —€national working class: Unlike some Red Vote Reaches. {ste tunsuon i ste tn panes New Mark in N. Y. whose function is alike the protec- tion of profits and the separation of the soldiers from all ties with the workers, Voroshilovy spoke of the identity of all the interests of the aie Soviet toilers with those of the Red (Continued from Page 1) soy, of how the development of” etree eee art, music, literature and science to Washington. within the Red Army must be con- M. J. Olgin, running for Con- tinued and advanced, of the neces- gress in the Bronx received 7.423 | sity for Marxist soldiers in the war votes, a gain of more than 3,000 | for the liberation of humanity from over the last Congressional elec- tion in this District. Cleveland Figures With returns in from 800 pre- cincts out of 1,142, I. O. Ford, Com- munist candidate for governor, re- ceived 5,568 in Cuyahoga County, capitalism. of which Cleveland is the chief cen- r. “The results of seventeen years of proletarian dictatorship are gigan- tic. In the factories and mills the working class of the Soviets has- been working more than for itself; it has been laboring for the welfare , for the Socialist Fatherland. The, many millions of toilers on the ocol- lective farms and villages have been supplied with hundreds of thou- sands of combines and automobiles and other modern agricultural ma- chines and thus have shaken from. their shoulders forever the yoke of servitude to aristocracy, to the cap- italists and the kulaks, irrevocably entering the path of Socialism. “The victorious fuilfillment of the program of the Second Socialist Five Year Plan guarantees a pros- perous cultural life to 170,000,000 toilers of our country. Science, technique, painting, music, litera- ture and. art in all its variety are at the service of the broad masses of the workers and collective farmers ag never before and in no country in the world. The iron will of the Bolshevik Party, led by the great and wise Stalin, the wonderful cre- ative energy of the victorious work- ing class—the master of our coun try—and the collective farm peas- antry have converted backward, poverty-stricken, czarist, landlord- capitalist Russia into a mighty prosperous union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Inspiration to All Workers “The victory of the Socialist U. 5, S. R. inspires workers in all coun- tries in their struggle for libera- tion, in their right to construct a new glowing life for all toiling mankind, “The frontiers of our Socialist Fatherland are strongly guarded by the mighty workers’ and peasants’ Red Army. The Red Army was and remains the bulwark of the un- changing ~--ace policy of Soviet power, the faithful guardian of the Ford’s vote was more than five times the vote received by the So- cialist Party, whose candidate, Axel-| rod, running for county commis- sioner, polled 1,102 votes. Axelrod Jed all other S. P. candidates. ‘ Janie Langston, running for! Lieutenant-Governor on the Com- munist ticket, polled 4,800 votes, while Yetta Land, candidate for At- torney-General received 4,961 votes. The same number of precincts also) gave Oda, for county corhmissioner, 4,044 votes, and Davis, for pros- ecuting attorney, 4,090 votes. Ward 31, Cleveland, with 21 precincts out of 28 reporting, shows a total of 654 Communist votes, compared with a total ward vote of 441 in 1933, Ohio Tax Levies Defeated All other wards, with tabulation uncompleted, show steady increase for Communist candidates, com- pared with previous years. Thel total vote for Ford when he ran for Mayor of Cleveland last year was 3,476, With one-third of the precincts yet to be heard from, Communist candidates already show a 40 per cent gain over last years ballotire;. All tax levies which meant the placing of new burdens upon the workers and small bourgeoisie were decisively defeated. Complete returns in other Ohio cities show the following returns: Cincinnati, 1,258 as compared with 433 in 1932; Toledo, 799 for Ford and 994 for Patterson, as compared with 266 votes last year; Columbus, 397; Canton, 411; Dayton, 744, The Communist Party wound up its intensive campaign with unpre- his eight-year sentence for leading the working class has expired. The minister had no answer. He de- clared there is no fascism in Bul- garia. We pointed out that the Prime Minister, Kimon Georgieff, is the same one who participated in the coup d’etat government in 1923 and helped to murder 25,000 work- ers, peasants and intellectuals. He answered only that he would for- ward our resolution of protest.” Came From Three Points The delegation converged in three columns, from Chicago, Detroit and Lackawanna, New York. They held mass meetings enroute. Their reso- lution was endorsed by large groups in Gary, Cincinnati, Dayton, Flint, Pontiac, Toledo, Cleveland, Akron, Massillon, Canton, Homestead, on Rochester and New York Readers, subscribers, sympa- thizers: help raise $60,000 by Dec. 1, Solicit funds from your friends, shopmates. Contribute today. Private Insurance Racket Preys on Workers munity.” 2 A hols series of proposals is strikers and the unemployed. ‘then made against the unions and The Roosevelt “truce” Means an 4n favor of company unions, against | intensified war against the workers picketing, or any form of “co-|—it means an attempt to increase ‘ercion”; “the right to work without the profits of the employers by low- interference”; the right of minority H ering the whole standard of living ‘groups to negotiate with employers, of the workers. Roosevelt's truce _ statement, bases its union smashin: mand demanding financial state- | ‘ments of unicn leaders to the @overnment. \ How did the Gorman leadership ‘of the United Textile Workers re- id to these anti-union “truce” Is. Gorman, who had im- ‘mediately pledged to Roosevelt that the textile workers would not strike for six months, issued a statement | saying not a word regarding the smashing proposals of the a ' textile manufacturers. Instead he d joint union and employer feouncils to increase the sales of the | “emplo: He accepted the wage | centr’ mpaign of the textile | their grievances to the Roosevelt *Textile Relations Board, which has | conditions, and strikes are spreading but they are scaled with a wide ‘carried out the wage cutting drive | ‘of the textile employers. | ©The Roosevelt “truce” has been | strike struggles. The auto workers | cover a deliberately overweighted ‘carried out similarly in the auto /are boiling with protest against the | table of risks. ‘industry. The General Motors) ‘Company, on October 15, issued a/ ‘statement to its 150,000 employes | ‘regarding the company union plan Mwhich is already in effect. ‘The General Motors, in this “tru drive on section 7-a of the N.R.A.| and on the automo%ile settlement of i eral Mc’. 3 ¢: "res, ; gaining does notl means company unions for the workers, abolition of their elemen- tary right to strike, to picket and to organize. It means cuts in un- employment relief, denial of unem- ployment insurance, and more fas- cist terror against the workers. The A. F. of L, leaders are carry- ing out this strikebreaking program. On the one hand they agree to all of the government's no strike, arbit- ration proposals which rob the workers of their demands. On the other hand, they try to split the ranks of the workers by raising the red scare in the trade unions. The rank and file, the masses He suppressed the right | of workers in the trades unions, | certain states to widows with young of locals to strike by Te- | however, are rejecting the Roose-j| children), the working class has fusing or postponing their demand | velt no strike truce. In the textile | fallen victim to this promise of for sirike sanction and referring all | industry the dye workers are on protection. Weekly payments seem- for union recognition and stril in other branches of the industry. The steel workers are preparing yoke of the company union. The employed and unemployed workers are resisting in ever larggr num- | bers the waze cutting, union smash- | four weeks in succession, his policy ing drive of the ti In or 2 strugy in 1 ie employer atte take the fight into their o” ds. Rent: Spring. which was signed by j and file control of all local unions |s¢t back from the company any of lam Green and Collins, A. F. of }of the A. F. of L. is an essential \the monsy he has paid to its agent. to a successful fight for the ele- mentary rith's and demands of the working class. Than Half of What Workers Paid in By ANNA ROCHESTER Many agencies refuse relief to any family which is carrying insurance, This policy makes it timely to sum- |marize the chief facts about the | great private insurance racket which preys upon the working class. Every worker has been pestered |by the insistence of the so-calied “industrial” insurance agents who promise him “security” for himself |and his family at the price of small weekly payments. And in the total absence, of social insurance (except |workman’s compensation and the meager mothers’ aid payments in _ed small when the worker had a job, jmargin to cover the expenses of | soliciting and collection, and also. ‘ Terms are hard. If the worker is.) | unable to keep up his premiums for | lapses and can be revived only by paying all the overdue premiums. Until three years of premiums nave |beon paid, the “lapsed” policy is a total loss to the worker. He cannot | 000,000 of actual cash forfeitel by the vovkers ito the industrials insurance com- | Companies Return Leis! servative estimate, (M. Taylor, The Social Cost of Industrial Insurance, 1933.). Workers Lose in Lapsed Polici The number of lapsed policies has increased tremendously during the crisis. In 1932 and again in 1933, practically. one in five of the indus- trial policies in effect on January 1 had been completely forfeited be- fore the end of the year. (Exact percentages were 18.5 in 1933 and 19.8 in 1932,). Another six or seven per cent had been cashed in, so that in all one-fourth of the outstanding industrial policies had been given up each year, Of course, the agents have been busily gathering in new victims, but the total of industrial Policies outstanding had fallen from 89,183,000 in 1929 to 81,517,000 by the end of 1933. Even in the long run, including years of “prosperity” and relatively steady work, the working class got back less than half the amount they paid to the insurance companies. | “For every dollar paid to the insur- ance companies only 45 cents has been paid back as death claims, matured endowments, dividends, disability benefits, and cash surren- der values. Ordinary policy holders received, on the same basis, an average of 68 cents on the dollar.” (From Taylor’s analysis of figures for 1911-31 for industrial insurance - companies operating in the state of New York.). The “ordinary” capitalist policy helde: who pays monthly cr quar- terly premiums for sbs‘-ntial benefits from comper’ss + “industrial” insurance gains witin: from a panies during the five years 1928 to|the “industrial” policy holder all 1932, inclusive, according to a con-|along the line. His premium rates are lower; his terms for cashing in his policy are more favorable; aad if he wishes he receives his divi- dends from the mutual company in the useful form of rebates on ‘his premiums. The industrial policy holder is supposed to have the privi- lege of rebates also, but the blib agent usually steers him to use his small dividend toward increasing his policy. Insurance Magnates Profit In buying industrial insurance, the workers are placing their nickels, dimes and quarters in a fund which mounts yearly by the tens of mii- lions and is placed at the disposal of the biggest capitalists in the country. The three mammoth com- panies which sell about 75 per cent of the industrial insurance( Metro- politan, Prudential and John Han- cock Mutual), are managed by boards representing such groups as Morgan, Rockefeller, First National Bank of Beston, the telephone trust, the utilities and the railroads. Hun- dzeds of millions of dollars gathered in from the working class as pre- miums for their utterly inadequate “protection” have been manipulated by capitalists to provide a market for bonds issued by the corporations in which they are interested. Insurance Company Profits During the crisis, while increas- ing numbe:s of insurance poilcies have been forfeited or cached in by small hangers-on of capitalism, tie big insurance co.1- panies have actually been increas- ing their assets and paying larger How well the capitalists can mans > wees Capitalists Reap Larger Dividends Year After Year age to protect themselves, while farmers and workers are pushed down to destitution, is illustrated by the fact that the aggregate in- come from dividends, interest, rent, etc., reported by life insurance com- panies in the United States (includ- ing both ordinary and industrial) actually rose from $823,131,000 in 1929 to $930,954,000 in 1932. Even in 1933 it remained far above the 1929 figure and amounted to $889,338,500. They paid to policy holders divi- dends totalling $499,443,233 in 1933, and $562,694,000 in 1932 as compared with $513,205,000 in 1929, Their of- ficials continue to receive large sal- azies. F, H. Ecker, president of the | Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany, was even pushed up from $175,000 a year to $200,000 a year in 1930. (See also Social Insurance by pores M. Burnham, International Pamphlets No. 11, 10c.). These facts on the private insur- ance racket are of special interest ito workers in connection with pre} arations for the National Congress ifor Unemployment and Social In- 'surance to be held in Washington, ‘January 5, 6 and 7, 1935, and with the present campaign for the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill, The Washington Con- program of adequate social insur. jance for unemployment, industrial i maternity. / gress is called to help advance a} bates, discussions, cedented activity on Election Day, covering 30 out of 33 wards. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Noy. 7—The Communist vote in Franklin County here was 307 compared with 225 in the last Siate election, early re- ports indicated. McLevy Re-elected | October victories, the vigilant sen- tinel of our gréat and glorious Fatherland.” ‘The order of greetings ends with the appeal for “Red Army men and commanders to continue to strengthen the power of the prole- tarian dictatorship. With unwearied hands continue to work more tense- ly, more courageously for the edu- cation of every member of the Red Army as a cultured conscious build- er of a classless society, as a de- yoted fighter in the cause of prole- tarian revolution.” Another Silk Shop Closed in Paterson BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Noy. 7.— Almost the entire city ticket of the Socialist Party was elected to of- fice as the vote for McLevy was recorded at 16,670, 4,000 more than Governor Cross received in this city. Three Socialist State Senators and two Socialist Representatives were elected for the first time to the State Legislature. McLevy’s vote this year however, is 5,000 less than the 22,000 vote “ee See ie Commi y ve - Y ficially recorded for the city as he- (Contipnte: teats. Fane » ing 175, twenty-five less than last| scab is known to be working in year. However, the Socialist Labor | Paterson. Party, Which this year occupied) A picket line, estimated at about the same place onthe ballot where} 1,000, converged on the Standard the Communists were last year,|Bleachery at Rutherford today when suddenly found themselves with | news reached strike headquarters of 1,000 votes without having waged|work being done. Trucks with pick- any campaign at all, It is con-|ets came ftom Paterson, Passzic sidered that many of these votes nent Core es Rigel paket 2 Communist col Ln) tad go into the shop and investigate if silk was being worked. A large sign at the front stated that only cotton was being bleached. Workers of three shops report that Anthony Ammirato, president of the Paterson dyers local, while speaking before their shop meetings, expressed himself in favor of settle- ment with individual shops. Such action, now it is pointed out, would weaken the strike ranks and the militant elements are opposing it. Lodi Bleachery Closed LODI, N. J., Nov. 7—A mass picket line of 400 dye strikers closed down the Millbank Bleachery here today. The workers then marched to the Standard Bleachery in East Rutherford and 1,000 workers picket- ed the Standard plant. This plant is not yet closed down, and mass votes, Gains in Dayton DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 7.—Despite wholesale stealing of votes and open obstruction tactics in the polls, the latest reports reveal a very large increase in Communist votes for Montgomery County. . Ford, the Communist candidate for Governor got 634 votes, com- pared with the 1932 Commu- nist vote of 109 in this county. Patterson, another Communist can- didate received 734 votes, and other Communist candidates ranged above 500 in the same county. This was the first time the Com- munist Party appeared officially on the ballot in this county. The Socialist vote in the county was a little over 2,000, practically the same as last year. Youngstown R2d Vote Doubled YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 7.— In this important steel and iron center, the Communist Party can- didates more than doubled their 1982 votes, with John Marshall, leading the state ticket with 820 votes in this city, and Welcher the Negro candidate for County Com- missioner leading the local ticket with 700 votes. Official figures on the local slate show that Joe Dallet, candidate for Congress, got 516 votes while the Soclelist Party candidate received 338, and Gray got 524 as compared with 333 for the Sccialist Party. At the Millbank Bleachery the strikers sent a committee to the boss, and won an agreement that the factory would completely close its doors at five o’clock as scon as the wet goods weve finished. ‘The boss agreed to pay a union repre- sentative $1 an hour for his time in remaining until unfinished wet goods were finished, and see that no other work was done. A large and enthubsasiic strike mecting was held in Lodi this morn- ing. One of the speakers was S. Saller, Communist congressional candidate in Bergen County. Saller analyzed the latest strikebreaking move of F. Gorman, U.T.W, leader, who has just promised to cooperate with the manufacturers to help in- crease their sales (and profits). At symposiums, lectures, de- tie up topic with role of the “Daily” as orgen- izer for a better dividends to their policy holders accident and sickness, old age and| support, take IGHT TO STRIKE a>