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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

WASHINGTON, D. C-Eneineer-
ing estimates that 100000. one-haIf
"a million, will be required to repair
the white house roof, arouse a lot Of
curiosity among the folks whose roof
repairing generally ends with a new
coat Of shingles. One editor inquiries
II 1t was proposed to gOld-plate the
roof. The engineering office Of the
war department, however, says that
to repair the roof, retaining walls
and interior walls with struts and
braces viii have to be installed. and
that the figure on the whole is mod
est. The white house roof is moro
than merely a roof. Il Is conner
sheathed from end to end. Il con
tains part Of the machinery for the
fire-escapes, and it contains small
buildings used for various purposes.
In addition, the lightning protection.
arrangements are very elaborate. It.
IS probably better protected from the
possible ravages of lightning than
any other building in the country. in
asmueh as over the entire surface
there Is a network Of copper cables
all Of which lead to various discharge
points.
While the war department has ap-
parently convinced most of the off
GERS Of the government that the re-
newaI Of the roof is an immediate
necessity, It IS understood it is yet
having some trouble driving that
point in on the president. The posi-
bility Of the roof collapsing through
a snowfall, which is the latest thew
have handed out, is not apt to worry
a man who was born in Vermont.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05
STANFIELD REBUKED

News dispatches from the national capital re-
port that the Stanfield grazing bill is practically
dead.
With President Coolidge, the secretary of agri-
culture, the secretary of the interior and the dir
ectOr of the budget all against it, this m-advised
measure, introduced by Senator Stanfield of Ore
gOn, whose biography prOclaims him to be the
biggest wool grower in the United States, and
backed by other big stOckmen using the national
forests and the public domain for grazing their
herds and flOcks, meets a well-deserved fate.
It's deliberately designed attempt to grab public
property for private profit was the crudest under
taking that has come out of congress in a long
while. A selected subcommittee of the committee
on public lands Travelled over the west last sum-
mer and held public hearings in the inter
mountain and Pacific coast states that were de-
hberately packed" by interests seeking perpetual
and exclusive grazing rights in the national for
ests and on other public lands.
A majority Of the members Of this select COM
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

WASHINGTON, D. C. - H. L.
Mencken Of the Baltimore "Sun" and
associated papers, who is the IN,
crowned poet laureate of the liberals
in America, in his last syndicate ar
ticle, complains Of the passing of the
radical-liberal tribe Of thinkers and
takers, of which he has long been an
hOnored leader. He lists William Al
len White, Norman Hapgood, William
Hard, Miss Tarbell, and Mr.. Willard,
as among the brave spirits Of the
past, who have grown fOOtsore from
marching, and mOuthsore from blow
ing trumpets to arouse unresponsive
audiences.
The real trouble with these gentle
men is that they have been undone by
American common sense and pros
perity.
It is hard to gather an assembly of
the Disconnected when fat pay enve-
lopes await every Saturday night, and
when the ~dinner-pail is discarded only
because the workman prefers not tc
be bothered carrying it, and goes to
a restaurant instead. Even Mr.
Debs, as Mr.. Mencken says, in his ar
ticle, has simply become an interest
ing historical monument Of a discon-
tent that was, instead Of an element
Of danger. But we can stand it.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05
DON'T KILL BIRDS

Department of agriculture estimates give U.s.
OOO,OOO,OOO as the probable number of birds in
the world, or about 40 times the number of peo-
pie. There are 5000, 600, 900 birds in the United
States alone.
Birds are manknds best friends. Virtually
every bird is a c~Ostless, automatic, self-prepetuat-
ing bug-and-wOrm killer, without whose aid the
country would soon swarm with insect plaques
like those of Egypt in the time Of Pharoah.
It is, perhaps, good business for the nation that
gun and ammunition prices are so high that com
paratively few people can indulge in bird killing.
There was a time when the household shotgun
was necessary to fill the family larder. But now
the pantry is best supplied by the absence Of
means to kill birds that save crops. j.
Don't kill birds. If you do, you work against
your " interests. F.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

WASHINGTON. D. C.-The 90
called Elicit bill which provides a
fixed amount for public buildings
throughout the United States to cover
a period Of five years is a measure
which seeing TO deserve the support.
OF congress at large. There is no
denying that public buildings for the
United States government are ner
ally distributed like kissing-as a
favor. Non-essential towns obtain
Greek palaces as pOstoffices. while
county seats have to content them
selves with a pOstOffice in the corner
OF the general grocery store. In the
pre-VOlstead days, it was known that
IN certain cases, at least, public
buildings were secured because Of the
ability Of the local congressman 70
mix a cocktail or buy a good dinner.
They were traded back and forth and
votes were snapped for and against
them on trivial grounds. Under the
bill, lOg-rolling is eliminated. The
postmaster general and the secretary
Of the treasury, sitting as a board,
decide where public necessity requires
a building, and once that decision Is
reached, construction proceeds imrne-
diately from a fund already provided.
The new bill, Of course, makes unnec-
esBary the annual tour Of the best
citizens to Washington, but with the
public building of their minds they.
may be able to turn their enerpEv into.
other channels
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

WASHINGTON, D. C.-There is no
ignoring that the Democratic national
leaders in congress are engaged in
a bitter and determined contest to
unhOrse the president. From the OBJ
ening Of this congress they have at
tackled each and every appointment
he has made. Even minor officials
whose combinations in the past have
been purely routine performances in
the senate, have been summoned be-
fore committees for, examination and
Investigation, solely with the idea of
casting reflections on the Judgment
Of Nh. Coolidge. Democrats are seek
ing to invade not only the executive
field which the constitution has set
apart for the president, but the iu-
dicial field as well. Witness their
plans for Investigations in which they-
shall be allowed to pick not cnly the
prosecutors and judges, but provide
verdicts, a privilege which up to now
has rested entirely with the courts.
At a time when the Republican mo-
gram is to reduce federal interference
IN state affairs, these upholders Ct
Thomas Jefferson are seeking TO
force the federal government into an
even more absolute position of con
troll
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05
WASHINGTON. n &c vo,IJ ,

WASHINGTON, D. CT would be.
a really charitable as we'll as a hu-
manitariaD undertaking to broadcast
to the people of the country at large,
particularly the young people. that
opportunities for government employ
ment in Washington ar not only very
few, but + steadily decreasing. By
reason of changes in the law, for
example, the tax department which
has maintained thousands on its pay
rolls in the past, on July LIST will
make a substantial reduction in it's
totals. In nearly all the other de-
partments of the government by e a
son of changes in the law, and by the
reason of greater efficiency Of the
remaining clerks, reductions are cor
stantly being made. It is we'll for
the young adventurers to appreciate
that practically all the places for
which they would be applicants are
under civil service. A journey tc
Washington without a civil service
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

WASHINGTON, D.. CT is un-
fortunate the distrust Of Mussolini is
affecting the congressional attitude
towards the ratification Of the Italian
debt pact, negotiated in Washington
Il win be most unfortunate if the
senate fails to ratify that aIl-impor-
tant document. The opposition, curl
Ousiy enough, has been recruited from
two entirely opposite branches. The
radicals here are fighting the italian
debt because they object to the die
tatOrship methods Of Mussolini: Ger
tain conservative groups are fighting
because of Mussolini's recent man.
date against Free Masonry in Italy.
The merits OF dement's Of the dehA
settlement have apparently passed
completely cut 81 the discussion. II
IS felt the vote when taken viii dem
o~nstrate that OuT people all appreci-
ate It Is unsp0rtsmanlike to punish Q
nation and the people OF that nation
because Of disagIeements with the
acts Ct the government Of the cOun-
try.
The italian debt pact represents an
earnest effOrt On the partaOf the
American government for q fair set
Element with q people who through
their economic activities have lifted
their country 70 q position Of STABLE
.ftv. The agreement as made By the
American Debt commission IS the best
chat eould be made. Il is hardly fair
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

qualification 10 practically hopeless
Even with a. civil service rating, un-
less q direct order has been received
from q department offering employ
ment, it is a wearisome matter. Liv-
ing costs in Washington are higher
thgn they should be; and already Ger
tain charitable organizations have
been obliged to assume the burden Of
returning some Of these people, young
ard old, to their own homes after
their little capital had been ex-
BauEtsd.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

A CARAVAN Of death and suffering $50 miles long is what the annual auto
4 a mobile casualties 81 the United States would form If placed in one
continuous Hne From New York to Detroit, painful mile on painful mile
this CHASTITY and pathetic human chain would reach. This graphic picture
prepared o. IN StewartWarner Safety Council for the prevention Of autOmO-
bill accidents ellis it's own story. Twenty-Five thousand killed annually by
automoOnes M $4,000 Injured is the present toll caused by thouEhteGr
drivers and careless pedestrians Only a small per cent Of the oecideN0
art due to defects in the carr Of cn rightly be called unavoidable
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

to the American Taxpayers to de-
prTVe them Of the tax reduction which
the senate ratification would give
them because Of the desire Of certain
OF q citizens to register their dis
like Of Mussolini methods.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

Fourteen million American homes are wired
and receive electrical current from central sta
tons. The comforts and convenience Of eIectri-
city now are enjoyed by 100000 Americans
No other country ia The world can even approx.
mate such a showing. !,
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

The nation is reaching into an era Of great
prosperity and needs only extension Of present
policies, not experiments with untried theories .
Coolidge.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

Lbby-State viii build big fish
hatchery here, dismantling one at
Roman.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

Shelby HOmestak State No. )
well Is gusher, 1000 barrels daily.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-05

VINO bears the tax burden in Montana?
I "a &c nnn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
BY c. {. RUTHENBERO,
eraI Secretary, Workers (communist) Party.

THE DAILY WORKER certificates
ending $S54oa
Of
weekly
contributions.
MUST CONTINUE AND INCREASE THE AMOUNT or WORK
SUPPORT OF THE KEEP THE DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN
IN EVEN GREATER RATIO THAN SHOWN BY THESE FIGURES
approaching The DAILY
obligations will
DAILY WORKER
WORKER
chssions
months only
the campaign That Is
in the fact that the only out members
$500 tho The DAILY WORKER Fund
which they asked to
CAN We DEPEND UPON THE OTHER
mEM6ERs-THoSE WHO HAVE DONE LITTLE
KEEP THE DAILY WoRKER-To NOW TAKE
OF CARRYING FORWARD THE KEEP THE DAILY WORKER
PAIGN A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION?
$1,000 the balance
mu rais or
published showing
$500
average to heard from
KEEP DAILY WORKER THE END OF THE
DECEMBER.
WE MUST RAISE THE $4,000 WHICH CONTRIBUTED
BY THESE 500 MEMBERS WoRKERl
START
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
.FARMER-LADOR
CONFERENCE AT
ST. Paul, Jan. II
To Plan Organization
and Legislative Moves

ST. PAUL, Mimi, - A farmer-Iabor
political conference is called to meet
at the Labor Temple here, Jan. IL
and IS.
The call is signed by men represent
ing various interested groups, includ-
ing the farmer-labor party, the labor
organizations and elements in the
non-partisan league.
A part of the call reads: "The state
campaign of 1926 was the most critical
in the history Of the movement and
put it to the real test. 1t has come
through purged of disrupting and an
tagonistic elements and is now un-
hampered by political traders and self
seekers"
The conference will develop pro-
gram of education and organizing &C
tivity and will form plan lof action
in connection with measures to be
presented to the next legislature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
DROWNING OF 80
JODLESS DUE To
OvER-CROWDING
Unemployed Workers
Victims of Negligence
Especial to The Daily worker)


NEW YORK, Dec. 21. - The thirty
unemployed men who met their death
by drowning In New York harbor
when the launch Linseed King cap
sized as they were on their way to
the speneerkellogg Linseed OIL Co.
at Edgewater, N. j., were the victims
Of an over-crowded craft built to ship
only half as many persons as were
on board.
Sixty-two workers stamped their
feet and swung their arms on the
bleak wharf in the North River dis
trict yesterday waiting to be trans
ported across the bay to the oil re-
flnery at Edgewater. The Linseed
King hove up TO the wharf and the
men jumped aboard, filling the small
single entranced cabin to capacity
while others were forced to crowd the
limited deck-space. As the launch
pulled away from the wharf, three or
four men made leaps that barely brot
them over the low gunwhale to swell
the oyer-crowded deck.
There is talk OF the little boat being
crunched in the river ice-hoes. OBJ.
Continued on page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
NEGRO CONGRESS- HERE
MAKES STRONG PROTEST
| AGAINST POLICE RAIDS

Strong protest against the lndls-
er1minate arrests OF Negroes and
wholesale raids on homes and places
Of business 10 Negro districts by
Chicago police was registered by the
Chicago branch Of the American Me-
gro Congress at it's meeting Sunday.
The police raid staged last Wednes-
day on the south side In which
some 500 were arrested as "sus-
poets" In the staying Of a policeman,
and In which homes were broken
into and other outrages committed,
prompted the action Of tho congress.
A resolution was drawn condemn
ing the action Of the police depart
ment In this raid and similar ones
and demanding that such conduct
cease. Copies Of the resolution, to
aether with q strong letter from the
organization, are to be sent to the
mayor, police chief and oouneilnncn.
Wednesdays raid on the south
side was ono Of the most vicious
committed by the police here and
elty-wide protest has been made
against such taoties,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
LEAD
over LEWIS IS
GROWING BIGGER
~ More Locals Report
Machine Swamped

Eleven more locals IN District 5,
Pennsylvania, Of the United Mine
Workers Union show John srophy
more than maintained his lead in
this important district In the race for
the presidency of the union against
John /. Lewis. Other progressive
candidates are likewise running we'll
ahead Of the machine slate.
The locals and their votes for
president last reported from this dis
trict are as follows:
Local Union 221O, Lewis 81, Brophy
90; L. U. 1876, Lewis 4. Brophy 5S
L. U. 227S. Lewis O., Brophy "a; Coke
burg Junction. Lewis 1. Brophy 1872;
l.. U. 1894, Lewis 6. Brophy Sc; L.
u. 1855, Lewis 16 Brophy IT'S; L. Z
S11, Lewis 6, Brophy 1879; L. U. 1881,
Lewis 8. Brophy 1853; L. U. 1899, Lew
is l, Brophy 81; L. u. 21O7, Lewis 4,
Brophy A; L. U. $500, Lewis 8,
Brophy AZ.
Four locals in W. Virginia gave the
following vote: L. U. 2122, Lewis 5,
Brophy Is; L. u. 4O39, Lewis ).
Brophy 8; L. U. 4016, Lewis so,
Brophy 40; L. U. ATS. Lewis 81,
Brophy IS.
This West Virginia district. No 81,
has about 5000 exonerated members.
Word received in Pittsburgh states
that the Lewis machine is preparing
to send $50 delegates to the miners
convention, all Lewis men.
A report Of the vote in the Waller.
Ill. local gives 1853 for Lewis and 355
for Brophy. The correspondent
writes that the ballot boxes were
stuffed and the entire district and
sub-district vote stolen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
INDUSTRY CUTS WAGE
TO EMPLOYEES AND
MELON FOR INVESTOR
Especial to The Daily Worker,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2t.-Ae-
cordine to labor statistics, employ
ment in manufacturing Industries
was cut ~ per cent in November, as
compared with October, while total
payroiIs were cut 80 per cent.
In contrast, U. S. Steel has cut a
melon in the form Of a stock divl-
dend of 40 per cent. This has led
financial dopesters to look over the
list of big SURPRISES to see where
further melon cuts may be expected.
In figures of millions, the following
large accumuIations are cited:
Southern Pacific, 359; Standard OIL
Of N. j., 349; Atehlson, Topeka &
Santa Fe, 21o; Union Pacific, 1e9;
New York Central, 1853; General Mo-
tors, s5; Anaconda Copper, 90.
One stock and bond house says:
Railroad arrangements have had
forced on them the fact that more
liberal treatment of stockholders is
demanded and is justified by high
returns"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
Eighteen Injured in
Explosion of Powder
Car in Train Wreck

DANBURY, Conn, Dec. q. Eight
cen persons were injured. including
several trainmen. when trainload OF
800 kegs OF powder exploded near here
following derailment OF a Central New
England freight train Fire followed
the Serailment ana could not be extia-
guished before 1t reached the train
carrying the explosives.
Three houses and church near The
scene were shattered by the concus
sion, and occupants in all OF the
houses were injured.
Derailment OF the train was caused
by the uncoupling of one OF the cers
near the front. of the string Of 80.
causing % cars TO plunge into an EN-
bankment IS feet deep.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
PROGRESSIvES
IN A. c. v. kept
OFF THE BALLOT
Machine Tramples on
Election Rights

The largest local in the Chicago
Ansaloaunated ztethine Workers. or.
ganization, Local SO, held elections
for local officers and Joint board dele
gates, Tuesday, Dec. ~. Not much
anxiety Is felt by candidates running,
az far as the returns are concerned
because there was virtually no oppo-
sltIon to the machine endorsed slate.
The executive board Of the local,
which also acts as the examining
board for the candidates, took il upon
itself to reject all those they wished
to, without the consent Of the local;
also, ordering elections before giving
the membership an opportunity to
oct acquainted with the candidates.
The largest and most important To-
cal in the Chicago Amalgamated thus
went to the polls to elect their ofTic-
ers on a moments notice, without
knowledge of who the candidates
were.
Mere Formally.
It was more as a matter of form
than an election. At the nomination
session of the executive board, held
last Tuesday, Dec. IA, NJ. Berson.
Helen Kaplan. /. Soukin, Bessie Gren
ader appeared before the board to
have their names placed on the bal
lot as candidates for the Joint board
They were rejected
Violate Constitution.
The constitutional requirement for
any member to run for Office is that
they be in the organization for one
year In good standing. This they pos
sessed. The board could not reject
them on constitutional grounds, 50
they went into questioning them re-
garding their Affiliations, political anG
paternal. Alsosas to their knowledge
of the joint board rules governing tho
issuing and distribution OF literature
This failed to cbring out sufficient
cause to prove that they should not
be on the ballot. Finally they de-
manded that they sign a statement
that virtually calls for blanket en-.
dorsement OF the present administra.
ton, its policies and tactics, and calls
for a Reputation OF the progressive
group and it's program. This tho
refused to do. First, because on con.
stitutional grounds The constitution
does not provide for member
who is a candidate for any office to
sign statments; secondly because
these members are opposed to pres
emit administration and its policies
Particularly did they refuse to en-
dorse the administration conduct OF
the last few days-in breaking up
meetings that we're called TO discuss
amalgamntion and the assistance Of
the New York striking cloakmakers.
The executive board. disregarding
the constitutional provision, refused
TO place these members on the bal.
lot on the excuse that they refused
TO sign these statements. The re.
moval OF these candidates assured
the administration 100 per cent vic.
tory in this election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
ksss..s,x SEEK
BY T. ). o'FLAHERTY.

COUNT BETHLEN of Hungary and
~ John L. Lewis of the United Mine
Workers have gone thru their cleo
tons simultaneously and VIGOROUSLY
and for similar reasons. Lewis count
ed himself In, or intends 10. Bethlen
arrested everybody who was against
him and assumed that everybody who
east ballot made mistake if he did
not put his cross before the right
name. Democracy in Hungary and in
the United States are as alike as two
peas. Necessity is the mother Of pre-
yention
Tn all probability the Washington
4 administration will break off reia-
tons with Mexico on. January 1.
Under the new Mexican law foreign
petroleum interests must apply for
recognition and confirmation of their
rights and holdings in the republic,
else they stay on the outside sucking
their thumbs. All oil interests except
those Of the United States have recog.
nised the right of the Mexican govern
meRt to make laws to suit its inter-
ests. The big American oil companies
do not recognize the Mexican govern
ment and Kellogg hastens TO do their
bidding
THIS development has been pre-
4 dicted in The DAILY WORKER
ever since the crisis during which
the Knights of Columbus demanded
Intervention. The anti-cGtholic voters
will now have less proof that the ad-
ministration is taking orders from
Rome. As a matter of fact, it is not.
II is taking its orders from Standard
OIL. But Romes hostility to Mexico
makes united front between the oil
interests and the catholic church in
Mexico possible, and the government
is the tool of American capitalism and
particularly OF the dominant wing.
ry,HT Mexican consul-general in New
i York sent out an effective reply to
The TRADE OF the American catholic
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
AnthFasei.tl Storm n.ii

PATERSON. N. ]. = 1t took an
armoured car, riot guns, tear gas
bombs, and 25 policemen to hold an
audience for Gen. Umberto Mobile, the
designer Of the Polar airship, Norge,
when he attempted to speak here.
Moro than 500 anti-fascisti stormed
the hall where the general spoke and
the police force Of the city came TO his
rescue.