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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
Muscle Shoals
Steal Is Up for
Senate Approval

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.--The ad-
ministration was faced today with it's
last great obstacle to adjournment of
congress March 4, when the senate
resumed final consideration OF Muscle
Shoals legislation.
Republican leaders were confident
of approval for the Underwood bill,
as II came from conference, without
unnecessary delay. They were in
formed by opponents of the bill, how
ever, that debate would last "at least
two days" sn ft
The administrations worries lay in
the possibility of a filibuster by the
bills opponents. The Underwood
bill as It came from conference, pro.
vldes for the leasing Of Muscle Shoals
10 private corporations for almost
nothing, compared to its s150,OOO, 900
value. nh7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
Armour Is Eliminated
AS Packer by Bankers

NEW YORK, Feb. ia syndicate
headed by Blair and company has Of
fered at s23 a share. 100000 shares OF
class A participating common stock
of the Armour e. company of Illinois.
Purchasers Of this stock will have
the privilege OF subscribing for the
class B stock Of the company at S14
a share.
This is the first offering OF any
common stock OF the Armour and
company. Both classes OF stock will
be listed on the Chicago stock ex-
change and the New York curb mark.
ct.
The offering represents part Of the
company's stock already issued and
outstanding, and is not new financing.
The Armour company made a pro.
ne OF s1s,3OO,00O in 1924.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
CAL MAKES PLEA
AGAINST TAX ON
LARGE FORTUNES
Silent One Yells About
Con6scation Threat

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 49,
President Coolidge denounced federal
and state inheritance and estate taxes,
defended the holders of large fortunes,
and made plea that the rich should
not be so taxed, in speech here be-
fore tax experts"
"a prime danger in the tax on
estates is the removal Of the inspira.
ton to work in order to build up bust
ness or create a property. Personally
I do not feel that large fortunes pro-
perly managed are necessarily a
menace to our institutions and there
fore ought to be destroyed. On the
other hand, they have been and can
be of great value to our development, y
Coolidge said. sGs
Commenting on the federal govern.
ment's imposition" in the revenue act
of 1924 of an estate tax the highest
bracket of which was raised from 25
to 40 per cent, Coolidge charged con.
gress with having sough social legis,
lation in the guise of taxation" de
claring the rich should not have been
taxed so heavily.
"The overlapping Of federal and
state Inheritance taxes" Coolidge
said, 'has resulted in a situation that
amounts to virtual confiscation. The
government should withdraw from this
field of taxation"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
Workers Party Urges
Aid to the Famine
Stricken in Ireland
Continued from page ~

Continued from page ~
eyes Of the rebel Irish workers and
peasants, while women and children
huddle around their cold hearts and
men search in vain for employment.
Pledges Aid
The Workers (Communist) Party of
America, section of the Communist In.
ternational, sends its sympathies to
the stricken workers and peasants of
Ireland. 1t greets a people that never
hauled down the flag in surrender to
British tyranny, but battled thru GEN.
turtles for freedom. II does not forget
that the Irish workers and peasants
under the leadership of the great re-
volutionist James Connolly raised the
flag of revolt in the darkest days of
he world war, when the working
class of the world were killing each
other In behalf Of their capitalist mast
ers. The Workers (Communist) Party
of America pledges its aid to the
workers and peasants Of Ireland in
tnelr distress.
Its thousands of members from all
countries and Of every race and color
will answer the call for assistance.
The Workers Party sends greetings to
the vanguard Of the Irish working
class who under the leadership of the
Communist International and the Red
international OF Labor Unions are
waging the battle to free Ireland from
he clutches Of British imperialism and
its creature the Fyee State and to
raise the banner OF q victorious Irish
workers republic.
Central Executive Committee
Workers (Communist) Party
of America
WILLIAM z. FOSTER, Chairman
c. {. RuTHEN5ERc, Elk. see'y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
GENERAL STRIKE
TIRE TENS SCAB
LAUNDRY BOSSES
Union Head Loses Eye
After Attack by Boss
Especial to The Daily wOrksr)

BROOKLYN, NJ r.. Feb. 19.-The
two striking laundrie L the Clovelen
and the Erasmus are shut down tight,
despite the treachery of the Jewish
Daily Forward. The Forward has made
1t known that it will stop reporting
the progress Of the strike on account
of the fine publicity and aid given the
laundry workers by the Workers
Party, the DAILY WORKER, and the
Jewish Freiheit, which has been
gratefully accepted by the strikers.
The Forward made objection to fact
that the union was receiving the help
of the Workers (Communist Party.
Ball Of suseer Raised
The bail Of William Dorfman, who
was arrested after leading sluggers in
an attack on William Berman head
of the Laundry Drivers Union, has
been raised from $4,000 to $4,000
The doctors announced at the hospital
where Berman is in a serious condi-
ton, that there is no hope of saving
SSA AAeAA . SyOs Auo preliminary ASdi
ing Of Dorfman's case is to come up
Friday. Dorfman is laundry boss.
The Forwards treachery and Der
mans injury have not dampened the
enthusiasm of the strikers. On March
2 the contracts in all the laundries in
the city expire, and unless these con-
tracts are renewed and the union is
recognized, a general strike of all
Brooklyn laundry workers threatens.
The laundry workers are holding a
mass meeting on February q at the
Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 229 Sack
man St.,
The bosses have made no attempt
to use scabs, fearing a general strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21

Our organ, The DAILY WORKER,
continually advocates the amalgama-
ton of all the unions in the printing
industry into one departmentalized
industrial union. This step would
put an effective stop to your scab-
herding activities, which you are able
to indulge in today because of the
lack of united action among the many
craft unions in the printing industry.
We hope you will publish this let
ter in your scab Open Shop News,
as you do any statement made by
printing concerns against the print
ing trades unions. 1t is also our hope
that in the near future the printers
union will put an end to your scab-
herding association in company with
other sinister institutions and the
wage system itself The motto of
the DAILY WORKER, official organ
Of the Workers (Communist) Party
is "a united front of all workingclass
organizations against the capitalists
and their ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS gov
ernment!" You are part of the sys-
tenn we fight and this precIudes any
possibility of being interested in your
activities except to expose them to
workers whom you may have duped
into betraying themselves and their
class.
Mortz ). Loeb,
Business Manager,
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
STAGE RUSSIAN
REVOLUTIONARY PLAY
At SOVIET SCHOOL

A Russian revolutionary play will
be staged at the Soviet School, 1902
w. Division St., this Sunday, Feb.
%, at p. m, in honor Of the Sec
ond anniversary Of the Russian
Communist Daily NoVy Mir. The
affair will be celebrated under the
auspices Of the Technical Aid So
ciety and the Russian branch Work
ers Party.
All who understand the Russian
language are urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
School Children
Badly Injured AS
Concrete Wall Falls

oLIVET, Mich, Feb. 10. = Four
Winton township unit school girls
were suffering serious injuries today
and several other school children es-
capped injury when a concrete wall
weighing two tons fell on them as
they were preparing to leave the build
ing at the close of school yesterday
afternoon.
The injured girls are Grace Walker,
Marian Southworth, Agnes Halsey and
Ruth Sloan. The most seriously in
iured are Miss Southworth and Miss
Halsey.
The wall was constructed a short
while ago to separate the boys and
girls cloakrooms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
Turks Conclude Ten
Million Dollar Deal
with American Firm

CONSTANTINoPLE, Feb. 1s.-The
government has ordered the military
commander at Diarbkr to take ener-
getic measures to repress the Kurd
element, even to use airplane bomb
attacks, should he think them neces-
sary, a press dispatch states.
The Turkish government has enter
ed into a ten million dollar contract
with the Ulon contracting company
of New York for the irrigation of the
Martha valley, it was announced to-
day. The Martha is the principal
river of eastern Turkey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
NOTICE.
TWIN CITY MlLITANTS!

All militant BUILDING TRADES
workers will meet In Room No. 2,
and all METAL TRADES workers
In Room No. 4 at 6f7 4th Ave-, SO.
Minneapolis on Saturday evening,
8 p. M, Feb. 21st. Every militant
working in the metal and building
industries should be present with
out fall. ST. Paul workers especial
Iy should be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
Panic in the Subway.

NEW YORK, Feb. IA short
circuit in a heater in a crowded
Observation-Disclosures Transit company
subway train caused panic during
the morning rush hour today that
brought injury to more than a score
Of passengers and sent four to a hos
pital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
Transfers Case to
Escape Prejudice
of the Ku Klux Khan

FREEPoRT, L. L, Feb. 1s.-Ku
klux khan republicans win not let
Mrs. Jeanne Marine Doane get a fair
trial in Freeport on the charge of
holding a street meeting without a
permit several days before election,
she declares.
Mrs. Doane told Of a khan fiery
cross burning beside her home-only
one of the many threats she has re-
ceived, she said. Justice Dixie, after
hearing her story, transferred her
case to the grand jury in Nassau
county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
WILLIAM z. FOSTER, Chairman
c. {. NUREMBERG, Elk. see'y.
Report U. s. Vessel SEIZED.

SHANGHAI, Feb. 19.--An Ameri-
can upper Yangtze steamer has been
seized by the Chinese military au-
thorities Kweichowfu, Szechuen prov
ince, according to a message received
here today from 1chang, an upper
Yangtze port, the captain Of the YES
sol was arrested and the American
passengers on board are being de.
tanned. the messageysaid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
cIementeI rxpeet, s1oo. ooo. ooo

PARIS, Feb. 19.--The United States
has unoficially promised to lend
France s1OO,OOO,OOO as soon as the
French budget Is voted, Finance Min.
lister ClementeI told the chamber Of
deputies todaycs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
PITTSBURGH NOTICED

An Important DAILY WORKER
agents conference will be held Feb.
%, at p. m. at the international Ly.
eeum, so5 James ST.
Matters Of Importance will be taken
up. This 10 urgent--be there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
MoritZ J. Loeb,
Business Manager,
DAILY WORKER,
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTX.

Continued from page IL
OF new social order coursing thru
her veins.
n USTRIA is broke. In fact Aus
n tria is so down and out that even
the salvation army will not take her
in. Austria was one of the proud
boasts Of the socialists. The social
lists proved they were real democrats
by allowing the capitalists to hold on
to the country tho the socialists had
the power to take it over If they had
the will. Now the capitalists have
stripped Austrial naked and hundreds
of thousands Of Austrian workers are
walking the streets with job. Aus
trian papers tell of aged bank clerks,
with bald heads, in the role of walk
ing advertisements. On the balt
portions of the head you may read
such inscriptions as "Buy two in one
shoe polish" or Bring your gums to
DR.. Shippers; he'll put teeth in them
Our American white collar slaves who
now glory in an occasional smile from
their masters should think of the
present plight of their brothers in
once proud Vienna.
FRANK HARRINGTON, president
of District IL Of the United Mine
Workers of America, supported Len
Small, in the recent elections. The
DAILY WORKER suggested that
Frank did not throw his support to
Len without consideration. Now we
learn that Hugh Willis, former mem.
Der of the district executive board
has resigned from the executive
board to. accept a position from
Small as supervisor of securities with
the Illinois industrial commission.
N MOTHER labor faker and also a
n member of the United Mine
Workers, Martin ]. Flyzik, president
Of District 10, in the state of Wash
ington has accepted job as super
visor of safety with the department
Of labor and industries of that state.
He was appointed by the recently
elected governor. Flyzik was PRO
gressive" one of the tribe expected
to organize the third party" which
is now very much up in the afr. The
labor faker looks upon a union Of
flee as a stepping stone to a job in
the capitalist government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
Scarlet Fever CLOSES Schools

ILLIoPoLIS, ILL.,, Feb. 19.-Forty
cases OF scarlet fever were reported
here today by physicians. The total
population is only eight hundred. ALI
schools have closed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
LOEB, BUSINESS MANAGER DAILY
WORKER, MAKES TORRID REPLY
TO SCABBY PRINTERS AGENCY
Association,

1909 Blk
Chicago, Ill.,
invitation
graduating
state that the Daily Publishing
support whatever association
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

time to coil for another blow. At the
fence she had the good fortune to quickly
find a stick that was long enough and
not too heavy for her purpose.
The two she had warded off with the
rifle were now coming for her at top
speed, but she did not dare wait for
them, because others were right at their
tails, and this was no place to fight the
battle in. With the fence and some
brush behind her they could coil and
strike unseen. So she ran to meet the
two and pounded out their brains against
the ground as they were in the act of
coiling. This was taking an extra risk,
because striking against the ground that
way she was likely to break her stick
But it held, and she was able to reach a
flat, dusty spot. This was good enough
battlefield, but it was already occupied
by the enemy.
She hit at the nearest one and at the
same instant another launched itself,
missing her hand by half an inch. That
fellow would coil and be back at her in
a few seconds, but she had no time to
watch because she knew that there was
another right behind her. and with 4
backstroke she caught his fangs on the
way to the calf of her leg. For what
she guesses to have been an hour, Mrs
Slaughterback hardly got chance to look
beyond circle about twelve feet in
diameter, in the center of which she
whirled and jumped, striking out in all
directions without an instant's rest
When the woman. was lucky enough
to hit a snake on the head she usually
killed or disabled it, but most of the
strokes merely knocked them away, and
they came back angrier than ever. Her
head became dizzy from the continual
spinning around and from the sight of
all these squirming wriggling, coiling
creatures.
Now a new peril arose.
Even though she managed to keep on
repelling the attacks of the new ones, of
which there seemed to be no end, the
~, toa5 ty .,,.-io,r WALTZ 1
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at all. Little Ernest knows all about
rattlers and always keeps an eye and ear
out for them. That is not what worries
her, but the dread that some day he will
get out to the road and be run over by
a Ford. So nobody is perfectly happy,
even on rattlesnake ranch.
ooh, we don't mind living among rat
tlesnakes," said Mrs. Slaughterback
cheerily. "But of course you got to under
stand something about them; and then
when you do know about them there is.
a little profit to be made from them, if
you have the time. Contrary to most peo-
pies ideas, a rattlesnake does not always
send out warning of danger. Sometimes
Il snake rattleS before it strikes and some
times it doesn't. As a matter of fact, the
rattlesnake uses its rattle for the same
reason that dog snarleS.
eff you come on a RATHER, except dur
ing the season when it is shedding its skin,
and it sees you first it will make its pres
ence known by lifting the tip of its tail
and shaking it so fast that you hardly can
see it. The noise of the rattle depends
on the size of the snake. A little Sand
winder, which is as deadly rattlesnake
rs any, gives warning no louder than the
buZZing of grasshOpper. But there is
an odd metallic twang about the warning
of all rattlesnakes that once heard can
never be mistaken.
Long acquaintance with rattlesnakes
has taught me how to fight them. No rat
tleSnake, for instance, can drive home its
deadly poison fangs at a distance further
away than two-thirds of its own length. So.
whenever | find myself in conflict with
rattlesnake my first concern is to keep
more than that distance away from him
81 would not care to kill snakes for
livelihood but never let the opportunity
of turning dead rattleSnakes into little
profit go by The fat of well-fed snakes
yields an oil which physicians sometimes
make use of in treating rheumatism and
the skins, if sufficiently large, always com
mand ready price from manufacturers
of leather novelties"
On leaving, Mrs. Slaughterback gen
erously offered to give to the reporter
the live snake she was cherishing in the
syrup jar for a friend, She explain 4
that she could get another any time. Sns
didn't have to.
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of tea, few pieces of candy and then
nothing would do but She must go back
there again. This time she wore heavy
boots and leggings, carried stick and
some wire. She was looking for trouble,
but did not find it. Not one rattle
sounded. The few survivors had wisely
fled from a stricken field.
She strung on her wire and forced
the much outraged pony to carry back
14O rattlesnakes, which represented the
dead and those so badly crippled that
they could not move. The ones that
could navigate at all had crawled away,
according to their custom, to die in prairie
dog holes. Mrs. Straightforward thinks
that in all she must have put an end to
at least $50 to 200 rattlers, and she
doubts if there were more chan score
of uninjured left when she made her re-
treat. She had to wipe out almost the
entire snake army before she could get
away.
The following day also being warm.
a neighbor in search of amusement found
another den of the reptiles nearby and
killed thirty-eight more. However, the
rattlesnake crop never fails. Next year
there will be just as many as ever.
w lISH MIS-. NeiiIC ~
measure her deadly harvest she found
that seventy of them were under two and
a half feet and that siXty-eight ranged
from two and half feet to slightly more
than four. The skin of one beauty" is
drying on one of her broom handles.
In obtaining the precious rattlesnake
oil from the fat only such snakes can be
used as have neither been bitten nor
have bitten themselves in their death
struggles, because the poison would other
wise be in the fat and ruin the oil, which
is used for medicinal purposes and is eX-
tremely rich in iodine.
This narrowing experience has not
lessened Che love of either Mr.. or Mrs.
Slaughterback for their ranch. She knows
that she barely escaped with her life,
but what of it? She considers it her own
fault, just like a sailor who has care
lessly fallen overheard. Next time she
trOts around the ranch in Autumn and
in house slippers she will be little more
careful-that's all.
As for being afraid to bring up a baby
surrounded by these deadly things; not
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and able to reach to her unprotected
ankles.
Just as it seemed impossible to watch
these and the new ones, both, there came
a mOmentary lull. This gave Mrs. Slaugh-
terback time to take the butt of the rifle
which she still clutched in her left hand,
and crush lthe heads of the wounded
This done she Strengthened up to see if
the road was clear to retreat. She saw
the pony and the boy both staring at her
as if they knew the trouble she was in.
Also she saw whole new detachment
of reserves wriggling to the attack from
that general direction, and the battle was
on again.
For time which the tormented
woman estimates as at least another hour,
the struggle went on. She became out
of BREATH, weak, her clothes drenched
with perspiratiOn which sometimes ran
down into her eyes, and once more the
ground at her feet filled up with the
thrashing wounded, and sickening smell
arose which can only be described as a
venomous snake smell. She knew that
she could not last much longer and was
also tortured with the fear that the pony
would walk away to drink at a creek
nearby.
Then, just as she had almost come 70
the fatal decision to run for it, came
another lull. She wiped her eyes and
looked around. There did not seem to
be nearly so many now. Without wait
ing for more to gather she went to meet
those that were between her and the gate.
Once, or twice they surrounded and
stopped her, but they were getting fewer
all the time and she fought her way
through the last of them to the pony and
her boy with hardly strength to mount
and ride home.
Now comes what in some ways is the
most remarkable part of all. Most
women would have considered that expe-
rience enough for one day, but not this
hardy woman of the ranch. She had
a bath, change of clothes, a rest, cup
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ground at her feet was be-
coming covered with those she
had struck 'down. Some We're
dead, or as much so as any
snake is until shutdown, but
many had broken backs, and,
though unable to coil, were
thrashing around, quite ready