The Irish standard., 1914-09-26


Social Service Commission, American
Federation of Catholic Societies,
Peter E. Dietz, Editor.)
Savings bank Insurance.
Seven years have passed since Saw
ings Bank Life Insurance was estab-
lished in Massachusetts. The move
ment aims to furnish the very best
insurance at the lowest possible cost
to the working people of the Com
monwealth. There are four savings
banks which have opened insurance
departments; Whitman Savings bank,
Whitman; Peoples Savings Bank,
Brockton; Berkshire County Saw
ings Bank, Pittsfield; City Savings
Bank, Pittsfield. Many savings
banks, and trust companies have be-
come public agencies, and more than
200 manufacturers have established
agencies for the benefit of their en-
ployees. There are now 9,O26 poll
cies in force for insurance, amount
ing to s3,51S.132.
Massachusetts Savings Bank Life
Insurance affords an opportunity for
business-like cooperation between
employer and employee, making for
an increase of friendliness and good
will. This has had a constant slim
ulating effect upon the great indus
trial insurance companies, because of
the high standards it has set, and it
provides a means by which any per-
son in Massachusetts, who has little
initiative can obtain for himself in
surance protection at very low cost.
Socialism is Losing-President Com
pers of the American Federation
Thinks War Has Broken Move
zone of the burdens of our or
ganization has been the constant OPP
position and abuse of Socialist revo-
lutionists," said Samuel Gompers,
president Of the American Fedora
ton, in a recent interview. "To-
day not only are the daily papers
weakened and their rabid leaders
abandoned, but the European move
ment, serving so long as their exemp-
lar, is rapidly in every country CIV
ing up the crude doctrines of cattac-
lysm and magic insuscitation and
consequently of disdain for possible
immediate betterment, that were the
cornerstone of their faith.
Orthodox revolutionary Social
ism, though not burdened with its
remaining impossibilities, is every
where dissolving. The hugest rock
it ever struck, the one that it could
not bulge, was the American Fer
Grafton of Labor"
Corporation "Justice.'
A man who says he works for the
Homestake Mining company, of Lead,
S. D., says the Denver Catholic Reg
lister, has written to a Dubuque. a.,
paper, making serious charges
against that corporation which, if
they are true, are serious enough to
put it in the same class with some
American trusts.
The free hospital" one of the
company's boasts, he says, is run by
a fraud collection every month thru
the appropriation of a dollar from
each mans wages. He hints that the
hospital is in existence mainly to care
for the men injured in the Home
stake works. Charity!
He also charges that the company
marks sample ballots and distributes
them among the men before election
in order to let it be known how the
corporation wants it's employees to
vote. 1t has clerks at the polls to
keep record and see that every man
votes.
The Lead knights of Columbus, he
charges, planned picnic for Labor
Day, 1913, and called it off, by order
of Superintendent Grier, because
Bishop Busch, the only man in Lead
who dared to defy the Homestake's
tyranny was going to speak.
The writer of the letter claims
that he left Lead because the comp
any wanted him to sign a paper de-
nouncing Bishop Busch. He charges
that any man who goes against the
company has to leave Lead.
The servile daily paper in Lead
asserts that it's fight is against Bish-
op Busch, the man, not the Catholic
Church. Inasmuch as the apostolic
delegate, the head of the Catholic
church in America, Investigated con-
ditions at Lead and upheld Bishop
Busch, the Lead Call will have to
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