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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-17
Plucked From the Plains
THE COLLAR CRISIS.

I've lately been forced to suspect
That economists, statesmen and
scholars
Have treated with shocking neglect
The paramount issue of collars.
'De minimis non curat lex"
Still holds, as 1 scarcely need mem
ton,
But the peace and well-being OF necks
Deserve sympathetic attention.
The collar that used to prevail,
AS high and as stiff as a barrel,
No longer is offered for sale,
Having ceased to be proper apparel,
But the soft ones that came in its
train
Sag, droop and are too pessimistic,
And give a well-localized pain
To the man who's the least bit ar
tistic.
If no one wore collars at all,
1t would be, in a way, a solution,
But the necks we might see would ap-
pal,
And the drapers would cry persecu-
ton,
So the quest for the ultimate shirt
Remains, so to speak, on the level:
We must choose between collars that
hurt
And collars that look like the devill
IS. K, in Spokane Spokesman-Review.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-17

The bigger YOU are the harder they
fall. Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-17

The synthetic age has progressed
far-but hasn't gone to mans head
yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
NO DISARMAMENT FOR LONG TIME,
NOW THE SONG OF THE PLOMATS

rectly as "striking a serious blow at
the whole cause of disarmament"
Future moves on the part of this gov
eminent, if any, will, however, await
the receipt Of replies from Great
Britain, Italy and Japan, the other
powers addressed last week.
No Hope In League.
In no official quarter in Washing
ton is there any hope Of the Geneva
conference accomplishing anything
real in the way of disarmament, de-
spite the expression of lofty hopes in
the French note that the Geneva
gathering is working toward the same
goal as President Coolidge proposed.
The British government at Wash
ington in 1922 refused to join with
the United States and Japan in APP
plying the 5-5-3 ratio to auxiliary
CONTINUED on Page T1oo)
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SENATOR GEORGE GIVES BANKER
DAWES FARM RELIEF BILL CREDIT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. - Vice
president Dawes was publicly credited
today with having fathered the Nc
Nary-Haugen farm relief bill to
which President Coolidge is opposed,
on its successful journey through the
senate.
Describing Dawes as the directing
genius" behind the bill, Senator
George (D) of Georgia, protested
against credit being given to Ger
tain ex-governor of illinois,"
1.-THE president of this distinguished
body should be accorded full credit for
enactment Of the McNary- Haugen
bill by this chamber"
Caraway said the president should
have consulted Jardine instead of Mel
Ion to get an advisory opinion on how
Continued on Page Tsoo)
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The imperialists realize this, and
under the direction Of Great Britain
they are using armed forces for the
third time against China while order
ing the Northern militarists to at
tack the National Army.
LONDON, Feb. 16.-Oswald Nose
ly, newly elected laborite member of
the house of commons, caused an up
roar in commons today when he
heckled Sir Austen Chamberlain, for
eign minister, on the British Govern
ment's action in sending troops to
China.
Under what treaty rights are
British troops being landed on Chi
nese soil?" queried Mosely.
"The right of state to protect the
lives of its nationals abroad" an
swered Sir Austen. This right does
not depend on any treaty"
Eugene Chen, Chinese nationalist
foreign minister, has raised new
questions concerning British troop
movements and the financing of the
Hankow concession. according to re-
ports received here today, and Owen
Continued on Page Five)
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ROME, Feb. 16-Italv's formal
reply to President Coolidge's dis
armament proposals. which viii be a
refusal win be handed to the Ameri-
can ambassador shortly, according to
the Stefani semi-offieial agency.
Italy refuses to bind herself to any
reduction of lesser naval craft, and
intimates that the submarine win be
the great weapon with which Italy
will oppose superior armament"
Of what country not stated but plainly
either England or France
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-France's
note of rejection was being studied
today. 1t seemed to afford but little
hope Of any concrete success in the
near future toward further naval
disarmament. Indeed, Secretary Of
State Kellogg characterized it indi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
Boost in Milk
Prices Due in
New York
Coolidge Signs Law Barring
Canadian Product

Milk is due to follow rents to a
new sky high record. With President
Coolidge's okeh on the Lenroot-T aber
act today, milk dealers were prepar-
ing to add another cent to the quart
bottle, priced now at 1916 cents.
The Taber-Lenroot bill, backed by
Martin j. Taber, master of the reac-
tionary national grange, an organiza-
ton of wealthy farmers, bars Canad-
ian milk from the United States and
thus limits sharply the quantity Of
milk arriving on the New York rlaar-
ket. Canada furnishes 100000 quarts
a day for metropolitan breakfast
tables.
"Pure bunk, was the reply of
Health Commissioner Louis l. Harris
to the charge that Canadian milk is
impure. The impurity charge is
merely blind to cover the unfair
restrictions placed upon Canadian
farmers, he said. "The impure milk
is not legislated against, as is seen
by the fact that twice the bacteria
content is approved in the bill as is
permitted by the city health depart
ment", DR.. Harris declared.
Determined to fight the price
boosting measure, DIR. Harris threat
ened to permit the sale of Maryland
and West Virginia milk in New York
City. "The New York farmers who
lobbied for the bill in the expectation
that the price Of milk will be forced
higher are doomed to disappointment,
for as soon as stringency results in
the supply shall allow Maryland
and West Virginia milk to be sold in
the city," he said. Milk dealers are
confident, however, that prices will
go up.
Large-scale Adulteration.
ALBANY, Feb. 16.-The methods
employed by the diary barons in the
Continued on Page 7hree)
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and unions to tell the truth about the
sentences, and the holding Of mass
protest meetings are listed as the
committees first big jobs.
"We believe that these cruel sem
fences struck a blow at all American
labor, and that it is the duty of all
workers to help free the brother
cloakmakers, lest similar sentences be
meted out to other workers in other
strikes. The cloakmakers intend to
do all in their power to free these
men, and we call upon all other work
ers to aid in their liberation" said
Henry Robin, chairman of the De-
Tense Committee. He explained that
the found for the needy families Of
the prisoners will be administered by
the Defense Committee.
Funds For Families.
"Thesa women and children need
help badly" he said. "The bread
winner of the family has been taken
away, and in many cases there are
Young children 50 the mother cannot
go out to work. They are our re-
sponsibility while these cloakmakers
are confined in Jail"
The Cloakmakers' Defer Sc Commit
tee is composed of 55 members,
elected at the mass meeting, from all
trades. David Biro, of the Furriers'
Shop Chcirmens' Council, is secretary,
and the press committee, which is
sued the statement, includes BRO,
Robin, Isadore Baruner and Joseph
Kleinman, chairman and secretary Of
the Cloakmakers' Shop Chairmens'
Council, and Bernard Resented, Of
Dressmakers' Local %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
N. 7. Rents To Soar June 1st
California Edison Co.
Construction Workers
Buried in Avalanche

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.-One
man is known to have been killed
and many others are believed to
have met the same fate when tre-
mendous snow-slide wiped out an
outlying construction camp on the
Deep Creek tunnel project of the
Southern California Edison Com
pany, last night according to be-
lated advices received at company
headquarters here late today.
William Lukes met death in the
slide. There were $50 other work
ers in the camp, which is approx
mately IS miles northeast of
Fresno and 1900 feet up in the
Sierra Nevada mountains. Relief
parties have been sent to the scene
from the main camp at Deep Creek.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
Germ an Gold
Found Way to
Jesse Smith
Daugherty Pal Handled
Corruption Money

The Harry-Mal Daugherty mess was
due to simmer some more in federal
court today as District Attorney
Buckner stirred deeper into the fl
nancial relations between the former
department of justice head and the
German industrial magnate, Richard
Merton.
Buckner yesterday traced $4,000
Of Merton's bonds to the account of
Jesse Smith, Daugherty's right hand
corruption man, who met his death
mysteriously in Daugherty's apart
ment in Washington several years
ago. Smith was the go-between for
Daugherty and the corruptionists.
The $4,000 was given to the late
John King, republican national COM
mitteeman from Connecticut, as part
of the $441,00O paid to Daugherty,
Miller, Daugherty's co-defendant,
King and Smith for the approval Of
a 100000 claim of Merton's, ac-
cording to Buckner.
Nal Daugherty, Harry's brother,
was on the stand yesterday. He adj
mitted he had transferred to Harry
the Jess Smith "extra account"
Repeating his admission that Harry
had destroyed certain records belong
ing to the Midland Bank, Nal unwill-
ingly presented further evidence of
his brothers guilt. The records were
destroyed after the Wheeler commit
tee had begun its investigation of the
activities Of the Ohio gang, according
to Mails testimony.
II couldn't make head or tail Of
them," was the lame excuse offered
by Daugherty for the destruction of
the bank records, according to NAL
The accounts for the two Daugherty
brothers as well as the ledger sheets
Of Smiths mysterious account are
missing.
The trial will be resumed today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
Senator Defies Coolidge
And Moves for Union
OF Latin Americans

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. - In
the face of express presidential dis
approval, Senator Shipstead, (F.L.),
Of Minnesota, today further pressed
his proposal for a Federation of
Central American Republics by Of
fering in the senate a resolution
calling upon President Coolidge to
invite the five southern countries
TO send plenipotentiaries to WASH
ington to arrange such a union.
President Coolidge. through his
official spokesman, recently let it
be known that he felt such pro-
posal should go through the proper
diplomatic channels without pub
licity rather than be aired and ex-
plotted through the press and from
the senate floor.
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mendations and watching them being
kicked about the lawn by the jolly
old senators.
The French government does not
hesitate to inform the president that
it does not intend to be caught with
out a girdle when the next war breaks
out. England grins and intends to
advise Washington that its heart
throbs with peaceful desires but what
can be done when France bars the
way? Britain then sets about lay
ing the keelS of a few more cruisers
and dispatches another ship-load of
soldiers to China. Peace under CAPT
talism is an illusion.
All governments are working their
chemical departments overtime. Poi
sonous gases of rare deadliness are
being invented Tho several govern
ments have officially frowned on the
use of poison gas and vowed not to
use it in the next war, they are pro-
ducing it in large quantities. Yet,
they raise their eyebrows in feigned
horror when they read that the war
department of the Soviet Union is
preparing for the inevitable attack
of its enemies. This may be dis
pleasing to the pacifists who profess
a great love for the Soviet Union but
don't like to see good boys using
their knuckles on bad boys.
d ICARDO Trevino, general secre-
IN tary of the Mexican Confedera-
ton of Labor, is reported to have
urged the Mexican workers to pro-
duce more native products and to
boycott foreign products, especially
those of the United States" This is
a good way of striking blow at inn
perialism. The Chinese used the boy
colt weapon with considerable effect
on the Japanese and British imperial
lists. But the Mexican workers
should realize that whatever sacri-
fices they make will be unavailine
to them in the long run if they leave
government power in the hands OF
the rising Mexican bourgeoisie that
Gales represents. The workers anc
peasants of Mexico are facing the
bullets of American Imperialism. II
is we'll they should have no illusions
about the aims of the native CAPT.
talists.
Continued on Page Five)
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HIM by public nurses.
They visited 1884 apartments in
the section comprising Elizabeth
street, Cleveland Park, Center Court,
Canal street, Grand street, Mulberry
and Hester streets. Of these apart
ments 1913 were occupied. In 144
apartments the families both lived
and carried on business on the prem
Uses. Thirty-four of these families
lived in Easements, mot at all in ac-
cordance with what sFe consider our
health ideals" said DIR. Harris.
owe made a study of occupancy Of
bedrooms, which is very important,
because if bedrooms are overcrowded,
communicable diseases are bound to
spread in normal times, and should an
epidemic occur, we would have a sit
uation that might mean disaster.
eve found there were 1859 bed
rooms in which two children slept, ex-
elusive of the adults that used the
same BEDROOM am thinking only in
terms of children, who are the in
flammable material, susceptible to
disease,
"Th9s were sixty-seven bedrooms
in which, aside from adult occupancy,
single child was housed for Sleep
ing purposes.
"There were 45S bedrooms where
three children slept in addition to
Continued on Page Five)
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MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 16.-Both the
miners committee for negotiation of
wage scale in the central competi-
tive coal mining field, and the oper-
ators submitted plans today. The es-
sential difference is that the oper-
ators' program provides for an open
ly recognized arbitration board, to
prune wages to the point where coal
mining requires no more of a payroll
in the union fields than in the un-
organized cheap labor districts of the
south.
This board would have vast powers,
and would be controlled by its neutral
members, appointed by the chief JUS
tice Of the supreme court of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
Coal Barons Offer Taft as Their Agent

United States, if not agreed upon by
the two parties.
The union program, as presented by
International President John l.
Lewis, allows for the creation of q
board of technical advisers, counsel
rate experts, and so on, to be selected
by the present conference, and to
meet on all questions Of dispute over
the application Of the contract.
Lewis attacked the Interstate Com
merce Commission, unfair freight
rates, he said, are largely responsible
for the demoralized conditions in
union fields.
He declared that the republican ma
tional committeeman from West Vir-
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tan public. On one side were:
Working class population Of 4,OOO,-
900.
Social workers.
Workers Health Bureau.
Public health authorities headed ~
Commissioner Harris.
Fair Play Rent Association and
scores of tenants associations.
Consumers League.
Trade unions and workers clubs.
On the other side were:
Real estate agents.
Property owners.
Professional patriots.
Reactionaries generally who regard
the rent law as socialism"
In hearings just concluded before
the state board of housing, meeting
at the city hall this week, scores Of
workers and renters representative:
told just how one half of New Yorl
lives.
Dozens of families in north Har
lem are living in coal bins and eel
AeAS anu paying PI0 anu pou nOuIf
for such quarters" declared James
Middleton of the North Harlem Com
munity Council.
Walter Ife, Of the Fair Play Rem
Assn, declared the rent situation to
day is just as critical for 80 per cen
of the workers as it was six years
ago when the rent laws were enacted
DR.. Harris told of reports made t,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
Cantonese Smash
Thru Suns Lines
Communist Party of China in New Appeal Says
Revolutionary Spirit Unbreakable

SHANGHAI, Feb. 16.-The Cantonese armies by a clever
outanng movement have inflicted disastrous defeat the
mercenary of Sun Chung Fang
of HangchOw.
AS previously cabed to The DAILY WORKER recent
Cantonese retreat tactical movement designed draw the
enemy trap. Sun walked now trying to walk
out again as best he
mperiaist elements plainly worried the
events taking They Rugged the deuson that Suns troops
winning Now the horrible truth being troops
demorazed Chang TsoLns boasted advance almost
stationary WuPeFu still in the questionable column and
ea Feng reported to be giving his the final onceover
before setting on Chang tracks Sun Fang reported
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rushing his troops southwards
in a frantic effort to halt the
victorious Cantonese.
Both Sun and the Cantonese
have spurned the proposals en-
bodied in Kellogg's note.
Communists Denounce Imperialists
PEKING, Feb. l6.-The Commun-
list Party of China in a new appeal to
the masses declares that nothing can
break the revolutionary spirit of the
workers, peasants and artisans.
1t was the nationalist revolution
airy movement that crossed swords
with the forces Of imperialism in
Hankow, the manifesto states.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
CURRENT EVENTS
By t. ]. O'FLAHERTY

T Unless all signs fail, Coolidge's
~ attempt to embed his reputation
in history by staging fake reduc-
ton or arms conference is liable to
be as successful as Woodrow Will
sons effort to jam the United States
into the league of nations. Coolidge
may emerge from the wreckage with
his faculties intact, since one cannot
take nothing from nothing. Wilson
was one of those do or die" fellows.
CAP is content with making recon-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
Landlords Scott at
Epidemic Warming;
Fight to Finish Due

New York workers will pay % 100 per after
June ].
This the threat today dispatches from Albany where
reactOnary republican state legislators threatening allow
the rent laws to die when they terminate this
Assembyman Edmund B. jerks, in charge of the laws
declared the emergency is over although Health Commissioner
Harris drew appalling picture Of the danger of epdems
Stun areas of New York
The city drawn into two opposing today what
probably the most vital immediate the metropo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17

The Cloakmakers' Defense Commit
tee, which swung into action today in
behalf of the victimized union men
following its organization by dele
gate committee elected at the Webster
Hall meeting on Feb. 5, declared that
its first big job is to crystalline ma
tional protest against Rosalsky.
Defense of the prisoners and the re-
lief of their families, the formation
of committees to visit various shops
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
JOkersin Fake
48-HOur Bill
Exposed Here
Nine-HOur Day Allowed In
Proposed Law

with meeting OF wOmenS repre-
sentatives scheduled at the Women's
National Trade Union Leagues head
quarters this morning, sentiment was
rapidly crystallizing on the report of
the industrial survey commission.
The central theme of the commits
sion's report, denatured 8-hour law
with liberal loopholes for the 9-hour
day, is to be discussed and the leagues
attitude framed A general meeting
Monday will consider the report of
today's meeting.
Criticism against the evasive rec
ommendation Of the survey commits
sion, controlled by reactionary repub-
licians, were rife. Emanuel Kovaleskie,
vice-president of the New York Fed
Grafton of Labor, and labor's member
on the commission, tore holes in the
proposal to prevent any change in
compensation rates for five years.
An analysis of the so-called 4S-hour
week provision for women workers
reveals loopholes sure to destroy the
law, in the opinion of labor attor-
neys. When a Saturday halliday is
provided, the bosses may lengthen the
weekday to nine hours. In addition
the bosses may work their employees
7S hours year overtime, these hours
to be determined without consulting
the workers. Thus women toilers may
easily be found working hours a
day, it is claimed, at any and all times
of the year while employer claims
that they are doing their "extra" 70
hours plus the Saturday halliday adj
justment.
Chance for CorrEption.
An army Of inspectors viii be need
ed to enforce the law, it was to be
urged at today's Women's Trade
Union League meeting. Enforcement
of the law will be well nigh impos-
sible.
But even this compromise proposal
is objected to by the employers rep
resentative on the commission. Backed
by the open shop Associated Indus
tries and Utica textile manufacturers
for whom he is counsel, Merwin X.
Hart submits his dissenting opinion
to that part of the commissions re-
port to the legislature.
Considering the Importance of New
York state industrial ally and that it
is the most populous center, the COM
missions report on a shorter work
week for women and children is some
thing for labor nationally to heed.
Opponents of the 48-hour law who
testified at the commission hearings
were mainly from the Women's Par
ty,-a textile trade paper editor who
painted a picture Of havoc wrought,
he said, by the Massachusetts, 4S-hour
law,-and manufacturers. A brief
against protective legislation "going
too far" prepared by the anti-union
National Industrial Conference Board,
was presented by the Associated In
dustries.
Kovalesh protested against the
section of the report advising no fur
ther labor law change for five years
after those based on the present sur
vey. He also disagreed with sections
criticizing New York city building
trades unions for maintaining closed
books. He dissented from the recon-
mendation that workmen's compensa-
Continued on Page Three
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BROOKLYN WORKERS WILL HEAR CHINESE SPEAKER
DUNE, WEINSTONE, WICKS AGAINST WAR ON CHINA

Workers Brooklyn will China.
Friday February the
Brooklyn. Get off at the Flushing Ave. station b.
the speaker will be w. w. H.
+. will speaker is Free
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17
LABOR TO ANSWER BOSSES JUDGE,
ROSALSKY, With U. S. CONFERENCE
New York Workers Form ClOakmakers Defense
Committee to Voice LabOr's Protest

The workers Judge Rosaky and his savage
against striking cloamakcrs will be given by national
conference to be held here in the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-17

The Daily Worker Fights:
For the Organization Of the I'm.
organised.
For q Labor Party.
For the A0-Hour Week.