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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
ILLINOIS STATE
TORNEYS HEAR
DRY LAW ATTACK
Pardon Board Chairman
Exposes Grades"

The prohibition law has reduced the
hitherto awesome federal judiciary to
mere police courts and revived the
old states rights doctrine which
nearly wrecked the Union before the
civil war, States Attorney H. e. Full
lenwider of Sangamon county told the
States Attorneys Association of I'LL
nois in convention here.
Flags Laws.
Fullenwider scathingly arraigned
the prohibition law and the Illinois
search and seizure act. "In all the
pages of our history" said Fullen-
wider, "no other legislation Of con
gress and the individual states HAS
been so much in litigation, so much
discussed, and so much before our
courts for Interpretation and apph-
cation as has been that dealing with
prohibition.
Reversed Morals.
mo other law of a criminal nautre
has ever before been so universally
and f1agrantly violated. The law has
practically reversed the old and estah-
lished order of living and made Grim
inal that which has been proper, IN
der certain regulations, thru recorded
history"
Hits Prosecutors.
H. G. CIabeugh, chairman of the
state board, declared many Of the
prosecutors were irked by the open
hearings policy Of the board because
this practice hindered carrying out of
trades" with criminals.
Clabaugh and members Of the board
were invited to remain away from the
sessions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
CURRENT EVENTS

(Continued from page ID
The sweat and blood of Belgian work
ers and Congo rubber slaves Is con
gealed in this luxurious airplane.
MO sooner was the fascist govern
IN ment of Lithuania established In
power thru a coup d'etat than it be
IAN to slaughter the militant leaders
# the working class. Four workers
members Of the Communist Party
we're executed few hours after the
sentence OF death was passed on them
for no other crime than that Of swear
ing allegiance to their party. The
Lithuanian dictatorship is following
in the wake OF all the other murder
Gus blackshirt regimes that have been
set up in Poland, Bulgaria, Spain
italy, Roumania and Hungary. The
first to feel the iron fist of the CAPT
talist tools are the Communists. The
social democratic leaders have not
been seriously molested. They are
not dangerous to the capitalists.
CHoRTLY after the end of the war
~ when the capitalist system in Eu
rope was lettering the capitalists al
lowed the socialists in several coun
tries to form governments. This was
true OF Germany. England, Sweden
Holland, Belgium and smaller coun
tries to some extent. The socialists
acted as a brake on the revolution
airy movement and In Germany drown
ed 1t in blood. But now that capital
ism has become little steadier oil
it's feet--tho this steadiness' is no
liable TO be Of long duration--th,
capitalists no longer need their SO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
Twenty-Five Drown
When Ship Founders
In Black Sea Storm

PARIS, Dec. 29.-Twenty-one lives
were lost when the steamer Astoria
foundered in a storm in the Black Sea
of Roumania, according TO a Buchar-
est dispatch to the Berlin Lolalan-
zeiger, the Paris Midi reported today.
The Midi says: "a Bucharest dis
patch to the Lokalanzeiger states that
the steamer Astoria has foundered in
the Black Sea in a storm. Twenty-one
passengers we're drowned. The only
survivor was a Turk, who swan
ashore and committed suicide when
he learned that his wife and three
children had persisted"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
is WEAKENING
UNDER DEMAND TO ORDER
FORCES FROM NICARAGUA
(oOntlnued on paee q

CONTINUED on page y
of neutrality" the United States will
have to recognize Sacasa.
Latimer Given Responsibility.
Secretary Kellogg issued state
ment to newspapermen Wednesday in
which he said that he would trust
Admiral Latimer's judgment" in the
matter of Withdrawing the troops,
"The marines won't be withdrawn I'M
til Admiral Latimer says So" he de-
clared, Kellogg is now obviously at
tempting to shift the responsibility to
Latimer, whom he says is acting with
out suggestions from the state de-
partment." He denied that Latimer
is interfering with the liberal revo-
lutionists or that he has established
a censorship which prevented the
liberals from communicating with the
outside.
Telegram Intercepted.
A few hours before, DR.. T. S. Vaca,
confidential representative Of Sacasa
in Washington, made public tele-
gram that he had attempted to send
to Sacasa, and which had been inter
cepted and returned to New Orleans,
the Postal Telegraph company report
ing that it was unable to deliver it.
Increase Number of Ships.
The number of warships sent to
Nicaragua has been increased, it is
learned here. There are now five
located along the harbors, and one
other is waiting at anchor at Hon
duras ready to proceed to Nicaragua.
The ships there now are the cruiser
Denver at Bluefields, flagship Roches-
ter at Puerto Cabezas, cruiser Cleve-
land at Rio Grande Bar, destroyer
Barry at Rio Grande Bar, and the
cruiser Galveston at Corinto.
An emphatic protest against the
United States Intervention was lodged
with President Coolidge by the liberal
government thru it's representative,
DR.. Vaca. Vaca branded the interven-
ton as unwarranted and demanded
immediate evacuation. The liberal gov
eminent is held in virtual imprison-
ment by the U. S. marines, he said.
Action Unparalleled.
"The practical arrest of the consti.
tutional ruler of a sovereign state with
which the United States is at peace is
almost without parallel in the history
of international relations" Vaca's note
said, "and is unwarranted by any prin.
ciple of international law.
Il also desire to protest against the
action of the United States naval Of
fcers in depriving the constitutional
government of Nicaragua of the use
Of the wireless station, the only means
of communication and tgas preventing
it from placing the trT situation in
I Nicaragua before the world"
U. S. Feared Liberal Victory.
A statement issued by representa-,
tivss of the Nicaragua liberal govern
ment in Mexico City declared that the
triumphs of the Sacasa forces over
Diaz is the reason that marines were
landed in Nicaragua. "The United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31

story of the refusal of the United
States to allow Argentine beef or al
ialfa seed to enter the country. Edi-
torial comment is that this is a pact
of the imperialistic scheme to refuse
to buy from Argentina against which
The government is allowing exporters
to form trusts which are vigorously
prosecuted if they try to operate at
home. The only suggested solution is
to find means to stop buying from
the United States.
La Nacion declared that this is the
proper time to develop the coal re-
sources Of Argentina and cease buy
ing American coal It suggests that
Chilean coal could be used in the
meantime. The smaller newspapers
are using the most violent language
toward the united States even pic
turing the pan-American fight as
part Of the imperialistic program
against South America.
At this crucial moment when the
United States needs a friendly voice
before the Argentina government and
people, Ambassador Peter A. Jay is
sadly departing for home with his
daughters body. His departure is re-
GREETED the more because he could
have presented the truth to the Ar
gentine government even though it
never reached the populace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31

States was unwilling to allow the Diaz
government to be defeated and 1t
realized that it would be unless it in
tervened to protect Diaz," the state
ment said.
IF the United States had not inter.
vened the revolution would have been
over as Sacasa forces were sweeping
thru the country" they declared.
Country United.
"The intervention" they said, twill
serve to unite the entire country
against Diaz and to support Sacasa.
American Intervention in favor of
Diaz has inflamed the country which is
now rushing to combatth invaders.
Proof Of the blind obedience Of
Chamorra and Diaz to the American
department of state is shown by their
attack on Mexico. These charges of
bolshevism were first made by the
state department, and now are repeat
ed by Chamorra and Diaz."
Hits Wall Street Rule in Nicaragua.
WASHINGTON (FP)- Salomen
de la selva, secretary Of the Nicara-
guam Federation of Labor, who two
years ago promoted the sending of a
commission to his country by the
Pan-American Federation of Labor,
has issued statement in Washing
ton, denouncing armed intervention
by the United States against the lib
eral and labor movement in Central
America.
Curb Niearagua's Rights.
The labor federation in Nicaragua,
he says, has made every effort to
avoid bloodshed and to keep out of
partisan strife in that country.
But armed Intervention by the
United States government is a chal.
lenge to their national sovereignty.
1t is denial Of the right of the peo-
pie of Nicaragua to overthrow the
military dictatorship set up by Cha
MORO when the people had defeated
him and his party in peaceful cleo.
ton.
CAS- against Diaz the organized
workers have not been willing to
support Sacasa," says De la Selva,
"but in defense Of Nicaraguan sover-
eighty and against the advances OF
Imperialism they naturally feel other
wise. That American lives and prop
erty are endangered, the Nicaraguan
Federation of Labor is in a position
to deny most emphatically. Sacasa
so far as his social IDEAS are con
oerned, is as conservative as Diaz.
But the revolt is justified; Sacasa
having the constitution on his side. =
Claim Labor's Support.
Sacasa's representative in Wash
ington replies that Sacasa and hi
party do have the sF' port of organ
lied labor in Nicaragua, thru a com
pact made during the presidential
campaign in which Salorzano was
chosen president and Sacasa vice
president, two years ago. Mexico's
labor movement has supported the
Sacasa element with it's influence al
Mexico City because of this fact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
The Masses Forge Ahead
in Spite of Opposition
of Backward Leadership
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

DIOUS wishes have been uttered,
L in the past, by the officialdom
of the American Federation of La
Dor on the question of Labor and
the Farmers" That was the title
for instance of section of the re-
port submitted by the executive
council to the 44th annual conven-
ton held at Ell Paso, Texas, in 1924,
the last gathering presided over by
the late Samuel Gompers. The re-
Communications for closer afiliation
with the farmers were unanimously
adopted, without a word of discus
sion, but nothing has ever been done
to carry them into effect. The dec
Iaration set forth that:
Common problems and mutual
needs have many times in the past
brought labor and the farmer to-
gether in support of constructive
measures. Farmers and industrial
workers are the worlds basic pro-
ducers and consequently both
groups are vitaly interested in find
ing and utilizing the principles that
make for continuous progress and
well-being of themselves and those
they serve.
Realizing the identity of inter-
ests of these two great producing
groups, certain exploiting organiza-
lions have attempted to create dis
sentions and to spread propaganda
disappearing opinions within
these groups, thereby sowing the
seed of lack of confidence.
ITO defeat such mischievous ac-
tiv1ty we recommend that from time
to time there be conferences be-
tween the representatives Of the
farmers and the representatives of
labor, that there be greater publicity
for facts, and agreement for CO.
operation upon mutually satisfac-
tory undertakings, political and
economic"
The purpose OF this recommends
ton died with Gompers. 1t has
never been carried out. The last
two conventions of the A. F. Of L.,
at Atlantic City and Detroit, made
no effort to develop the unity of
city and land labor. The administra-
ton of President William Green
hasn't single score in it's favor
on this issue.
This accounts in great part for
the fact that the whole official press
Of the organized labor movement is
silent on city labor's approach to
the farmers. 1t wages no struggle
to win the farmers for independent
action against the capitalists. 1t
does not point out the common
problems and mutual needs of the
city and land labor. Nothing is
done to combat the enmity that the
great exploiters seek to stir up be-
tween the workers and farmers thru
their malicious and false propa-
ganda. No one ever hears of any
conferences being held between the
representatives. of these two vast
sections of the nations population.
It is Labor, official organ of a
host of railroad workers organiza-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
SWIFT JUSTICE DEALT
BY SOVIET FOR ATTACK
ON YOUNG FACTORY GIRL
Especial to The Daily Worker)

Especial to The Daily Worker)
LENINGRAD, U. S. S. r., Dec.
29.-That under the rule of the So
Viets protection to the worker has
succeeded the czarist persecution of
our class Is shown wildly by the
sentencing to death of seven Rus
sian youths here for an attack on
young factory girl. Ten others who
we're implicated in the crime re-
ceived sentences ranging from one
to ten years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
Kip Awaits Verdict
on Annulrnent of His
Marriage to Negress
fspeeiaI to INC Daily workerl

(SpeoiaI to The Daily Worker)
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Leonard Kip
Rhinelander expects to hear Thurs.
day whether or not the appellate court
is coming to annul his marriage 10
his negress bride, Alice Kip Rhine
lander.
The appellate courts decision on
Kip's appeal from the jury verdict
that went against him in his suit for
annulment of his marriage is expected
tomorrow, according to Kip's attorney,
Leon R. Jacobs.
Whichever side wins, 1t was said, q
second appeal will be made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
Aepf Press Learns South Antrica
Flares Up Against Wal 81. Rule;
Boycott Is Urged D the Argentine

Note.-Even the +bo s.o, -
aAe notice Of the rising aniimperiaIigt ~ ~ 60 a 49,,
aeeu by Wall Streets latest attack against I, rt - go
struggle lo" the Rio Gra1de vaiany the
s 1he aggression directed from Washington
Nicararua ~ IL IN surprised at thh spontaneous
ypned IN the special John w vJ - 49, ~Lt NIL, ~
puonsned under heading "Areentino{ nst =, 80 - ~
Press Assais oiter IN @AOcA On y o.
The cablo h,g America
folo be interest and is repubshed in full
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
WILL ROGERS DIRECTS
HIS SHAFTS OF HUMOR
AGAINST WALL STREET

viii Rogers, U. S. humorist par
excellence, has Joined in the at
tack on what he calls "our Latest
War" in Nicaragua. Since becon-
ing mayor Of Beverly Hills, Cali
fornia, he is taking his political du-
ties seriously by pokina fun at
Wall Streets latest aggression in
Central America. Since every i'm
perialist war must have its "pay-
triotic" slogans, viii Rogers has
wired to a large number Of capt.
talist newspapers, the following:
WILL ROGERS, REcRUlTER,
OFFERS NEW "WAR SLOGANS"
Beverly Hills, CAL, Dec. ga
few slogans for our latest war:
"Join the army and take the old
nick out Of Nicaragua"
"Join the navy and try and help
America find Nicaragua"
"Join the aviation; we are send
ing our plane to Nicaragua"
Lets make Nicaragua free for
100 per cent Americans to live In"
RecruitinsIy yours
MAYOR ROGERS WILLY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
Aimee's Attorney Was
In "Mrs. x" Hoax Plot
Is Latest information

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.-Mrs. Lor-
raine Wiseman Seilaff told District
Attorney Asa Keyes here this after
noon that the mysterious "Mr. Mar
tin" who arranged with her to per-
petrate the famous Miss x" hoax,
was Jack Woolley, brother OF Ro-
land Rich Woolley, attorney for Mrs.
Eimee Semple Mcpherson.
Announcement to this effect was
made by Keyes himself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
Olson Retires, Hurting Graft Charges
in Bootleg Laxity at Local OGicialdOm;
; It's Political Smoke-Screen," Says CrOwe

fhe booze business could not exist
without the protection of crooked Of
dlcials, Edwin A. Olson, retiring fed
eraI district attorney, declared in a
report of his four years activities,
transmitted to Attorney General Sar-
gent
report fairly bristled with
Al charges against local en-
it agencies whom he Inherent
accepting S90,O0O,O00
It" from booze, vice
ss.
sted hrs, annual budget
this asserted $3sJ00,-
declared with Eproper
cal authorities HI could
10000 establishments for
violations instead OF the
the four-year period.
,ooze business could not exist
ii4,-.Ay community without the protee-
tiok of crooked officials. said Olson.
Il haEe had occasion to study the boot
logger at. close range. l know the net
work of his protection, from the gun
men in theN valley clear up to the
hypocrites who sit in high places"
Olson said the most effective weapon
in prohibition law enforcement was
local cooperation which would assure
the arrest Of violators and the hailing
OF them before local courts.
States Attorney Robert e. Grove
caustically criticized Olson's report.
"Olson's knowledge of any graft"
he said, whether it be hundreds Of
dollars or millions. should be present
ed to the federal grand jury. 1t looks
ito me like . political smoke-screen for
mn retiring from Office"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
Urges Government to
Build Roads to Help
Unemployment Relief

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator
Pepper of Pennsylvania is urging the
senate appropriations committee to
approve bill which would authorize
s71,000,000 to be used for good roads
during times Of unemployment and in
dustrial depression.
He would have it attached as a rider
to the agriculture supply bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
Sons of Businessmen
Predominant at State
University, Roll Shows
Especial to The Daily WOrkerI

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Dec. 29.--Ap
proximately so per cent Of the faith
ers or guardians of the 10000 stu
dents attending the University Of nli-
nois are business men, according TO
a survey made by the registrars Of
fee.
The parents Of about one-ninth Of
the students are farmers, another
ninth skilled laborers and one-tenth
professional men. Only 162 are re.
tired, while 1O4 parents are of the
artistic class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
A. N. /. c. open Forum.

The American Negro Labor Con-
gross Open Forum meeting will be
held this Sunday, Jan. 2, at 351s South
State st. at the regular time, .. m.
w. M. Moore will speak on the Origin
al Causes of Social Unrest"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31

tions, that gives most of its atten-
ton to legislation before congress
and the various state legislatures.
But its current issue has nothing
on the desperate farm situation,
altho the trade unions supporting
Labor will be asking for the farm
ers' support in the next electoral
struggle.
While the whole capitalist press,
during the meeting of congress
in December every day featured
material ON the farm relief meas
ures, the issue of the Seattle
(Wash) Union Record, Dec. "a,
Is barren of any mention of the
farm problem. This daily still claims
to be "The only Seattle newspaper
thoroly covering activities of organ
lied labor" and E. B. Ault, who was
editor when this paper was owned
by the trade unions, still writes its
editorials. But it is now safe in
the lap of the exploiters.
AS If in reward for their failure
to develop the unity of the whole
working class, city and land, prac-
tically all the labor papers appeared
in holiday dress this December, well
filled with advertising
The East Bay Labor Journal
Oakland, Calif.) thus appears with
a first page Illustrated and printed
in Christmas green. This was the
rule thruout the land, rather than
the exception. The inside pages
were mostly covered with plate mat
ter to the same effect.
That the readers Of these publica-
tions are thinking of the farm prob
lem is shown by communications
published by the Denver, Colo, La
Dor Bulletin. The ideas set forth
in this correspondence may be con-
fused. But that is the fault of the
editorship that fails to present this
matter properly and intelligently be-
fore the readers. In the issue Of
Saturday, Dec. 18th, of the Denver
Labor Bulletin there appears an edi-
torial on Cotton Over-Production, I"
in which it is declared that the over
production results from under-con-
sumption. But it fails to point the
way out, leaving its readers more
confused than ever.
1t declares:
farmers are like others who
toll. They learn their lesson slowly
and painfully, but it will sink deep
once they learn it."
Not only the farmers, however,
but the city workers as we'll must
learn slowly and painfully" in spite
of their present leadership, that is
so busy attacking the Communists
and the left wing, thus actually join
ing the enemy class capitalist class
in its war upon labor's progress.
But in spite of the reactionary
leadership, with It's lip service to
progress, the masses move to the
left, forging ahead. Unity of the city
and the land will be achieved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
I hin W. WHITE.

sr All hin w. WHITE.
res, Argentine, Dec. 29-
.,-.~ from Mars getting his first
earthly impressions from the Buenos
Aires newspapers would be convinced
that the one great evil in the world
today is the United States Of America.
Two Of the leading morning news
papers devote nearly ten columns to
cable dispatches which picture the
United States as plunging ruthlessly
along its imperiahstic path and tramp
ing down the weaker republics
The South American press associa-
lions are showing activity in cabling
from all parts of the world every quo
tation or newspaper expression I'M
favorable to the policy Of the United
States.
Nicaragua Affair Stirs Press.
The intervention in Nicaragua is
accepted as an event that was to be
expected in the fixed program of
the United States eventually to annex
al Of South America. The Brooklyn
eagles criticism of the action of the
United States gets two columns on
page one. while other articles picture
Secretary OF State Kellogg as deliber-
ately messing up the Tacna-Arica set
Element
A fye-column headline carries the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
K. c. Police Believe
Slayer of IL Women
Killed 2 More There
(speeIaI to rhe Daily WORKED

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 29.-Po-
lice here are convinced that phan-
tom who left a trail Of eleven muir
dered women on the Pacific coast and
one in Council Bluffs, Iowa. may have
put to death two persons and an in
FAINT in Kansas City during the past
two days.
The death here of Mrs. Germaine
Troquet Harpln and her infant son is
attributed to the stranger.