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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Mussolini Doesn't Like
Coolidge's New Move on
the Military Chessboard
BY j. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

hit his neighbors while barely graz
ing his own national ambitions.
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France is also turning deaf ear
to the proposals from Washington.
France was on the side that is sup
posed to have won the last war.
But France has been on the verge
Of bankruptcy ever since, struggling
to recoup her finances, virtually in
the position OF . defeated nation.
In spite of this unhappy position
for French imperialism, every pos
sible franc has been spent ON anna
rnents, to maintain the French mill
tary position on the continent, and
to tighten her grip on restless
colonies.
France doesn't forget that Musso-
lini has his eyes on Paris, pretty
much as the kaiser turned his gaze
in this direction when the "all high
est" ruled in Berlin.
Thus the French and Italian re-
fusal to grab at Coolidge's disarma-
nent bait, for very vital and fun
danental reasons, bound up with
the struggles of the inperialisms
of these two countries, makes the
Washington proposals sterile in
their very inception.
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Germany alone loudly applauds
the Coolidge proposals. What the
Versailles treaty started, the
Dawes plan finished, so that the
present rulers in Berlin are very
anxious to have the rest Of the
world disarm to its own lowly level.
But the German endorsement of the
Coolidge offering fools no one.
The only real disarmament plan
ever offered. since the ending of
the last war, has come out of Mos
COW, the capital city Of the Union
OF Soviet Republics. But it is be-
cause the Soviet proposal to dis
arm is not a maneuver. but a bona
fide effort to strip the nations of
the weapons of war, that the CAPT
talist nations will have nothing to
DO with it.
The Coolidge proposal is just an
other move on the chessboard of
militarism. The reactions of the
other imperialist nations clearly
show this. Only the triumphant
workers and farmers, in all coun-
tries, will be able to abolish the
game of wholesale murder. called
war, through their own seizure of
power and the Inauguration of the
victorious Soviet rule that will unite
the world into one harmonious eco
nonaic unit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
WRITER BLAMES AMERICAN FARMERS TROUBLES
ON HIS HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING

up with the workers organization
throughout the country.
No Juggling.
The farmers organization buys his
wheat, stores it when necessary, ana
sells it in the European market
There is no pyramiding of profits as
in America through the activities
the Chicago Pit and numerous middle
men. There is. one profit charged
and that is against the. European
buyer. The Russian organization has
successfully eliminated the excessive
profits that the middleman exacts in
this country. As an example, bread
sells in Moscow for less than two
cents pound.
The American farmer can solve his
problem if he will organize his owr
system Of distribution along similar
lines. Not until he can definitely
control the sale of his product viii
be be able to shake himself free Of
the parasitical practices of American
marketing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
CURRENT EVENTS

Continued from Page One)
stems, wine mugs, blind pigs and
eanIels provided the United States is
willing TO stake them for loan. Cool
idge is willing to do most anything
'or four more years in the White
House. Now. if England. France, Italy
and Japan, agree with the above pow
ers the conference may turn our bat
tleships into coastal cabarets or rum
'unners.
CIR OLIVER LODGE is about as
~ nutty as they get, when under the
Influence Of spiritualism. Those boys
Manage to dodge the lunatic asylums,
because the form the malady takes is
not considered a public danger though
lpquestionably public nuisance.
Lodge is in constant communication
with the dead, those who amounted
70 anything in life in the business or
intellectual world. He can extract a
message from a ghost with as much
CELEBRITY as tears can be drawn from
wet sponge. Lodges latest dodge
IS to send out feelers over the radio
FOR telepathic reactions. He will place
group of freaks in room, have an
officer present them with an object
vt stated intervals and Lodge, sta
Toned at the broadcasting station will
ask the public to tell by telepathy
what the freaks are thinking about.
My answer would be an emphatic
nothing" And / would be right.
NTISS0URIANS are supposed to be
1V1 endowed with the virtue of skep-
ticism. but this may be the exception
that proves the rule. 1t Is a para
graph from the Sikeston Standard,
Sikeston, Missouri:
at seems to us that the height of
optimism has been reached, II the fol-
lowing story, which came to us this
week, be true. According to reports,
at the Sunday night service of a GER
tain religious sect, an official from
out Of town was present to take the
wing measurements Of the congrega-
ton, the idea being that at Judgment
lCdy WHtn thc anger Ndoflel cOuHuc
his horn, the wings will be waiting
and ready for the devout to slip on
and fit up TO the celestial regions,
without the necessity OF their taking
part in the last minute rush at the
wing counter. And cynic, having
In mind the number Of airplanes that
refuse to go up in the air adds, "And
they want to be sure that those
measurements were made to provide
wings that fly up"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Bureau Issues Cotton
Consumption Figures

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-The Cen
sus Bureau today issued the following
report, showing the number of bales
of cotton consumed, on hand. and
other details during January, 1927 and
1928, respectively:
Cotton consumed, 604,5S4 bales and
5s2,3l5 bales.
In cotton growing states, 437, 7SS
and 411,652.
Cotton on hand, Jan. 81:
In consuming establishments, bales,
1,852,9S7 and 1,S15,232.
In public storage and at com
presses, bales, 6,07O,O20 and $3.50 900.
Exports in JAM; Bales, LIS 92
and 749,967.
Number of spindles active during
JAM. 1858, $50 and 32,S1O,30S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
HOUSE RECEIVES
BILL TO CREATE
LIQUOR MONOPOLY
Mellon, Big Distiller, to
Pick Distilleries

WASHINGTON. Fb. IA re-
vised medicinal liquor bill, providing
tor the manufacture OF medicinal
liquor in from two to six distilleries,
under strict government supervision,
was favorably reported today by the
house ways and means committee.
The bin bore little resemblance to
the original plan advanced by Gen.
Lincoln c. Andrews, whereby an So
100000 semi-goyernment corporation
was to have been set up for the man
ufacture of medicinal liquor.
No Government Ownership.
The provision for government man
ufacture was not liked by any Of the
committee, and was speedily shelved,
the substitute adopted permitting a
favored few distilleries, selected by
Andrew Mellon, himself a large own
er of distillery stock, to exercise a
veritable monopoly of the production
Of legal, medicinal whiskey.
MellOn-B0Oze Boss.
Under the bills provisions, Secre-
tRry Of the Treasury Mellon would
be authorized to issue permits 70 not
less than two nor more than six dis
tilleries TO turn out medicinal liquor.
Government inspectors would main
tain q close watch on the operators
to see that the liquor was up to medi-
cinal standards, and that none Of it
leaked" into unauthorized channels.
Besides selecting the distilleries,
Mellon, under the provisions Of the
bill reported in, viii be given the
privilege of fixing "a fair price" for
the product sold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
COOLIDGE MEN
READY TO SWAT
PREXY BUTLER
Will Run Chas. Hughes
Just to Spite Him

President Coolidges New York
state machine leaders framed this
program at a weekend conference in
che national republican club.
To draft Charles E, Hughes, if nee
essary, for head Of the 1928 ticket,
in case President Coolidge declines to.
lun again and Butler persists in his
campaign to put himself or another
wet in the White House.
Butler viii Go.
Buffers adherents in his home,
nineteenth congressional district, re-
ply chat they already have assurances
of sufficient votes to send him as
delegate to the national convention.
He has participated in all Of them
beginning with 1880. They also urge
that they will do their utmost TO
make him a delegate at large.
Should the Columbia University
president fall in his home district or
for delegate at large, wet republicans
assert they will run him in as a dele
gate OF substitute from one Of the
forty-two other congressional dis
tricts.
To Spank Prexy.
Bertrand If. Enell, Coolidge whip
Of the house Of representatives and
ono Of the two original Coolidge dele
gates in 1924 is the chief promoter
of the movement to chastize DR.. But
Ter for his onslaught upon the presi-
dent.
He conferred with vice-chairnlan
Charles d. Hilles, of the national
committee and sixteen members Of
the New York republican delegation
at Washington Lass Friday. A
majority Of the delegation agreed
that even should the president finally
announce that he will not seek an
other term, Butler should not be per-
mitted to speak for New York at the
national convention, or annex any
New York delegates vote for the
presidential nomination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
PART OF BRIDE
BONDS TRACED
TO 7. ". MILLER
Show Custodian Eager
To Deliver Goods

Continued from Page Ons)
before they could be paid. Wyant,
mentioned in the first telegram, was
MIXERS orderly in France, and acted
as his chauffeur after the war.
At Bride Scene.
A fourth telegram was introduced
for the purpose of showing that Mil
Ter was in New York on September
80, 1921, the day the $7,O00,000 was
handed over to Richard Merton, rep
resenting the German interests, at a
champagne dinner.
Virginia Ware, pretty employe OF
the alien property custodian's office
in Washington, identified papers in
the files including a claim for twenty
shares of American Metals Company
stock owned by the Merton interests,
which claim had been disallowed by
the United States government.
John Foster Dulles, first retained
as lawyer by Richard Merton to take
up the 100000 claim, was the next
witness,
Negotiations Start.
Dulles told Of a conference in 1921
with George Williams, managing di-
rector of the alien property custo-
dams office in which Williams ques-
toned the validity of the claim and
suggested Dulles get a ruling from
the department of justice.
Lucien Boggs, lawyer and Judge of
Jacksonville. Fla, formerly connected
with the custodian's office and the
department of justice, was called
next.
Boggs testified he talked with a
lawyer in 1921 in connection with a
hypothetical case involving large
amount of money.
Palmer d-Boiled.
Paul Smith testified regarding
papers Of the American Metals Com
pany submitted to the government in
1917 and 1918. At that time two
stockholders in the company, Julian
Beatty and Henry Bruere, attempted
to arrange the sale of German owned
stock in the concern to American in
terests, so that the concern could be
released by the alien property custo-
dian. The release was refused by A.
Mitchell Palmer, then attorney gem
eral, however, and the government
contends that the defendants should
not have released the 100000
knowing that it had been refused.
There also was testimony regarding
an investigation Of the case started
by New York newspaper in 1922,
at which time, Smith said, Miller
asked for the papers in the case, to
look them over. Later, at the first
Daugherty- Miller trial. certain of
these papers could not be located.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
(By a Worker Correspondent

The New York Times Of January
80 contains an article, Portrait OF q
Typical Farmer" by William Allen
White. Contrasting the American
with the Russian peasant, White
tries TO lay the blame Of the farmers
plight on his higher standard of liv-
ing; that is, he says the U. 5. farmer
owns a radio and goes to movies reg
ularly in a flivver, while the peasant
gets his recreations in a much less
expensive fashion. This simple COM
parison Of standards seems to Mr..
White to be a logical explanation Of
the problem.
Russian Competition.
The Russian peasant is as big A
producer Of wheat as the American
farmer. Despite the handicaps of an
tiquated machinery and his primitive
methods of production, he also takes
lis place with the American farmer
as compet for the Flu
ropean market. The American far
mer for all his scientific, ingenious
machinery and bumper crops has
been unsuccessful in competing with
the Russian in the wheat market. In
fact, bumper crops often mean star
walton for the American farmer.
This can hardly be attributed to Sc
slight a factor as different standards
of living, as White would have it. A
truer comparison would be gained
through a study of the different
methods Of production and distribu.
ton that prevail in these two coun.
tries. The Russian peasant does not
buy his land, which fact obviates the
need of sustaining mortgages. The
government furnishes the necessary
seed. The farmers are organized into
local councils with representatives IN
state and national organizations
These organizations are closely linked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Convicted Youth Glad
To Avoid the GallOws

Herbert Koerber, "cake-eater ban
dit" was taken to Sing Sing today
under sentence of from twenty years
to life for the murder of Angelo Ma
hairs, restaurant owner.
The youth was convicted Of second
degree murder at a second trial, af-
ter having been convicted Of first de-
gree murder the first time, and being
sentenced TO die.
"This is like going to picnic
compared to the last time" he said
as he started for the prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
DOGGY Man" Sought.

First clues to the identity of the
DOGGY man" believed to have kid
mapped four-year-old William Calf.
ney were obtained today coincident
with the receipt Of letters claiming
the boy has been drowned.
On information furnished by a
man whose name police Of the Fifth
Avenue Station. Brooklyn, did not
reveal, search was begun for n
feeble-minded man.. we'll known lin
the vicinity Of the Gaffney home, al
20 Fifteenth Street, Brooklyn.
Every building in the neighbor-
hood is being searched, as well as
the docks a few blocks away and va
cant lots. Sewers also were investi-
gated on the theory the boy might
have been killed and his body drop
red through a manhole.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15

ztepned on. But with the actual cab
drivers Early Hunky is about as pop
ular as a skunk in a perfume fac
tory"
The Cab Driver states the case of
the ehauffeurs as follows:
Those Long HOurs!.
Can we make few cents by driv-
ing cabs? Is it possible TO make a
living at this job7 In way, yes.
"But what does it require! 1t re-
cures that we keep at it from y to
Ia and even 10 hours day. If we
spin around and around till we are
dizzy, and if we keep that up ali
day and half of the night We can gel
a wage of $50 to $50 q week. But
it means that we have to put in al
least 80 to 80 hours a week.
"How much does that make per
hour? If we work 80 hours and gel
$50 it means that we get % cents an
nour. Is that decent pay!
"The hodcariers get S1.00 an houl
and those that attend the plasterers
get S1.15 an hour.
"Can we hope for anything like
that? Not if we remain morgan
lied Never! But with an organiza-
ton we can gradually win shorter
hours and large wages. All trades
have had that experience. We can
not expect to get all we deserve at
once, but in the long run we win gel
our rights and be able to live like
men.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
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War Veteran Leaps
Under |. X. T. Train

In full view of crowd of passen-
gers that packed the marlborough
subway at 149th Street and Mott
Avenue today, John Barclay, SO, a
bundled war veteran. jumped under
an express train that was just pull
ing in.
He was instantly killed, the fiji ST
passing over his body, Women
screamed and tremendous excitement
prevailed Traffic was tied up twenty
minutes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Enthusiastically Ask
Money for Subways; 1t
Isn't in the Treasury

Possible curtailment of the 1872.
100000 subway building program
this year was indicated yesterday by
figures on the city's financial con-
dition made public by the Board of
Estimate.
The amount available for subway
building is considerably short of the
appropriation asked. There will be
a debt margin of S230000,000 on
March 1, but about S30,OO0,000 must
be set aside for emergency require
nents. Appropriations for schools,
hospitals and street improvements
will use up from s40,O0O,OOO to $780,
100000.
City officials expressed doubt
whether even the S300,O00,000 eX-
emption on the debt limit, now be-
fore the Legislature in the form Of
an amendment, will be sufficient to
finance the entire program. II
will be an important factor, however,
ard Mayor Walker plans TO appeal
t. the Legislature to approve the
amendment when he returns from
Cuba next week.
ALBANY, n. Y, Feb 14.-Gov.
Smith intimated today that he IA
vored the proposed constitutional
amendment which would extend New
York City's debt limit by 100000
COO, the money to be used for sub
way construction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Indonesian Workers
Arrested, Accused of
Plotting Java Revolt

AMSTERDAM, Jan. q (By Mail).
Two Indonesian workers have been
arrested in Djohore (Straits Settle
ments). The two, Alimin and Moeso
are accused of being connected with
the instruction in Java. The Indones-
ian government is conducting negotia-
tions with a view to securing the eX-
tradition of the two and also the ex-
tradition of the worker Dachlan who
was arrested previously.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Robbed in Montmarte.

PARIS, Feb. 14.-William Day Of
Syracuse, N. ". was forced to cable
home for funds today, having been
struck over the head and robbed of
$1,000 francs in Montmarte last
night.
Day has been here with Horace
Dodge of Detroit, but was alone when
attacked as Dodge has gone to
Cannes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Bandits Burn Office

TARRYTOWN, n. Y, Feb. Ia
After threatening to throw a watch
man TO his death at the bottom Of
ore hundred foot stone quarry, four
bandit-vandals late last night set
fire to the office and machinery plant
of the Universal Marble Products
Corporation, at Thornwood, near
here. The plant was entirely de-
stroyed. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Another Suicide; Nerve
Can't Stand the Strain

PRINCETON, N. j., Feb. A.
Martin Arthur Gearhart, 33, of Ba-
tavia, Ia, committed suicide because
Of a nervous breakdown it was stated
today, Gearhart, a student at Prince
ton Graduate College, was found
stretched out across the gas range
in his apartment here yesterday by
a neighbor. He leaves wife, who
is in a hospital suffering from a
nervous disorder, and small child.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Rody Pound on Tracks.

The body of Michael Dugan, 20, Of
4707 Foster avenue, Long Island City,
Queens, was found on the westbound
tracks Of the Corona line elevated
near the Bliss street station, Long
Island City. The motorman Of an
/. 4. r. subway train drawing in to
the station saw the body and, with
the help OF a conductor and guard,
brought Il to the station platform.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15

MONTREAL, Feb. Ia. -- Police
were investigating today in an effort
TO learn the identity Of the person
who started a near panic in dhe
Theatre Francois here last night by
shouting fire"
More than 1900 persons were in
the building, and only the prompt
action Of attendants In opening all
exits and assuring tho crowd that
there was no danger averted a dis
aster.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15

DENIT0 MUSSOLINI has no in
Otentions Of sheathing the sword
in the Mediterranean. The fascist
tyrant has not retreated from his
effort to make this body of water
on Italian pond, no more than Wall
Street will surrender the intention
of turning the Pacific Ocean into
Dollar Diplomaey's" favorite
lake.
Italian fascism sets forth it's 20
sition in its reply to President Cool
idge's disarmament proposals. II
declares it cannot afford to cease
developing her bigger navy pro-
gram.
No new excuse is offered. The
reason given is the old one, as old
"a the development Of militarism in
Germany, or the growth of naval
ism in Great Britain, during the
long period of preparedness" OF
armament competition before tho
world war and directly leading UP
to It.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15
Hindenburg Gets in
Touch With Royalty

BERLIN, Feb. 14.-For the first
time since the war, President Won
Hindenburg dined with royalty today
when he attended a dinner given in
honor of the King of Sweden by the
Swedish minister here.
The king was passing through en-
route to Rome to visit the queen who
is recuperating there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15

Proof that the worker seldom gets
enough coffee to hurt him; consider
the case of Earl Smith, a Sioux City
truck driver, who drank 1872 cups of
coffee in six hours during a contest
recently. and then. having won the
title. went home and had his wife
prepare him another cup before 60
ing to bed. Four physicians exam
ihed him and found his condition not
much out of normal at the close.
Other truck drivers drink less, for
one thing because coffee is darned
expensive lately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15

Mussolini claims that the smaller
powers about the Mediterranean
have refused to accept his sugges-
lions for reductions in naval build
ing. That is the old gag. Coolidge,
at Washington, the political puppet
Of Wall Street plumber, that sits
astride the world with cannon ready
to roar, proposes disarmament to
other nations less in the sun. Il is
the altruism of the prize fighter
with his victim PROSTATE on the
mat. The United States, with its
foot firmly planted upon the neck
Of the rest of the world, is in q
rather strategic position at present
TO bid other nations park their guns
and turn navy yards, munition
plants and poison gas laboratories
over to fly specks and cobwebs. 1t
is making the most Of that oppor-
tunity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-15

Mussolini claims that Italy isn't
down by any means. 1t has its
eyes on Yugo-Slavia. Spain is also
within Italy's vision as well as the
northern coast of Africa and be-
yond. Italy is also interested in the
Balkans, ready to get into any fight
that will be of advantage to itself.
Thus, while Mussolini declares that,
'Ttaly can't agree to measures en-
dangerinc, even indirectly, her
vital interests" the fascist tSrant
at Rome is perfectly willing to ia
vor disarmament proposals that will
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Manning & Bowman Co.
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Manning & Bowman"
quick heating element, ebonize(
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lovely flower patterns. And they
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Imported Linen handkerchieis. with real
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Other fine handkerchiefs with real
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Coty, Ouerlain, Caron, Piver, Nigny.
Gueldy and Gabilla perfumes,
Sl.75 to $27
Imported antimony metal ship model-a
happiness token ...... ..,....... So