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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Tex Cuinan's $50 Rum
Only Denatured Alcohol
In Chemists Test Tube

"The very finest Scotch whiskey,
for cur own exclusive trade" whis-
pered the waiter.
TITS expensive, but you have to
pay to get the best. Three pints,
$50. Thank you sir. I'm sure you'll
be surprised by the quality"
These soft spoken words were
purred into the ears Of two prohibit
ton shoppers by a waiter in Texas
Guinan's 1900 Club" but II turned
out that the waiter was the one that
was surprised.
Today J. w. CULLEN, chief chem
list of the prohibition headquarters,
announced that the ''whiskey" is
nothing mere than re-distilled de-
natured alcohol cut to an alcoholic
content of 1895 per cent. He added
that if a person drunk enough Of
it he would be poisoned slowly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Columbus Communists
Tell the Local Press
Facts About Beheading

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 27.-The
Workers (Communist) Party branch
here has passed the following resolu-
ton, to be sent to the Ohio State
Journal and other papers:
According to press dispatches of
today members of the Kuomingtan
Party and also some members Of the
Communist Party, which participated
in the present general strike at
Shanghai (China), were executed
with the most cruel and vandalistic
and barbarous methods.
Strike agitators, pickets and stu
dents were beheaded and the decapi-
tated heads of the victims are now
exhibited on poles in the principal
thoroughfares of the native quarters
at Shanghai.
The men and women throughout
the world who are members of the
Communist International realize that
the class struggle is a severe affair
We recognize that the capitalist class
perceives in US Communists a bitter
and uncompromising foe. But we
feel also, that as enemies we work.
ers should not be murdered like dogs,
but should at least be treated to the
courtesy Of the firing squad.
The local (Columbus) Workers
(Communist) Party has passed this
resolution to protest emphatically
against these cruel, inhuman out
RACES, which occur in the presence
Of French, British and American
troops. A copy has been forwarded
also to the American section Of the
Bloomington Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Denver Capmakers'
Strike Continues;
Scab 'Ad' Is Killed
(By a WORKER Correspondent) i.

DENVER, Colo.-Capmakers in two
shops have been on strike for about
two weeks and are still out, asking
for an increase in wages, especially
for the lower paid girls.
At the Midwest Cap Factory the
matter of wage increase was brought
before the State Industrial Commits
sioner Williams.
1t was agreed to by both the COM
pany and the representatives of the
union that the 40-hour week be post
poned until 1928. The girls who were
getting as low as $500 per week
were allowed an increase of 5 and 10
per cent.
The strike is still on at the Per-
lection Cap Company and no effort
is being made to run the shop.
Look For Scab Help.
At the Capitol Cap Works an eff
fort has been made by the manager,
Mr.. Cohen, to run same with non
union help. He has advertised for
help and not stated that a strike was
on in the shop which is against the
state laws. Cohen was called into
the district attorneys office and
warned not to repeat the advertising
unless he states a strike is on. Co
hen says he can get plenty of girls
to work for 50 and $40 per week.
The journeylnen have no wage
scale at present, but, an agreement
has been reached for apprentices.
A year ago a well known Com
munist capmaker represented the ma
tional organization and secured a
good agreement with all of the shops
while this year a non-Communist
was present and the result has been
a partial failure up to date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Senate Foreign Affairs
Committee Dodges War
Probe in Latin America
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

CENAToR WHEELER (demo-
~ crat-Montana) declared re-
Gently that the great bankers were
only awaiting the adjournment of
congress to plunge the United
States into war with Mexico and
open actual hostilities in order to
crush completely Nicaragua.
The senator takes himself and
congress too seriously. This has
again been shown by the meek
obedience with which the senate
committee on foreign affairs,
against the wishes Of it's chairman,
Senator Borah, voted against
trip to Mexico and Nicaragua to
actually investigate conditions
there.
Secretary of State Kellogg sent
a clerk to capitol hill urging that
the Borah request be rejected and
the administration senator's" eff
fectively clamped the lid on the
proposed investigation.
The best that Senator Borah
could do in the hope of securing
some favorable action, was to urge
the adoption of an amendment to
his resolution providing simply
that the committee have authority
to investigate Central American
and Mexican matters without
leaving the country" Nervous
Nellie" Kellogg would thus be per-
mitted to tie his apron strings Sc
curely around the legs of the Sc
date senator's, permitting them to
hobble about within sight where
they would be incapable of doing
any damage to the policies of IDOL
lar diplomacy" On fair days
Nervous Nellie" might take his
senatorial wards across the street
from his ow- offices, for a stroll
through the White House grounds
where Cautious Cal" Wall
Streets parliamentary nurse ex-
traordinary, could beam upon his
good little children.
But the administration sena-
tors" even refused to demand this
liberty. Senators Moses, Lenroot
Willis, Pepper, Mclean, Edge,
Capper and Gillette went over the
top for the complete vassalage Of
the legislative wing of the govern
ment to the executive power en-
bodied in the president and his
cabinet. Borah got the support of
the farmer-labor senator, Shipsted,
and the democrats rallied back of
him but this oily gave him a bare
majority of 8 to 8 on the commit
tee, with hiram Johnson, of Cali
fornia, absent. Hiram, the run
ming mate of the late republican
progressive" Roosevelt, on the
1912 "insurgent" ticket, is now
with the administration crowd, sup
porting the White House and state
department in its Mexican, Near
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
CHARGE MOTION
PICTURE TYRANT
CREATES TRUST
Department of Justice
investigates Hayes

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. - That
viii II. Hayes, moving picture car,
has built up a ruthless monopoly of
the production of moving picture
plays and their distribution, is the
essence of charges preferred against
him with the department of justice
by Frank ]. Rembusch, head of the
Motion Picture Theatre Owners Assoc
citation Of Indiana.
D. of ]. Won't Explain.
The department Of justice admitted
receiving the charges, and acInowl-
edged it would ask for further in
formation, but otherwise would not
comment
Rembusch states that the companies
operating under Hayes, constitute an
association for producing plays, and
that they have crushed out nearly
all competition.
Wrecks Opponents.
If a theatre owner does not like
their prices or other terms, and tries
to deal with a rival, they are not
content with threatening him with
boycott, but will send agents into his
city to break down the good will Of
the public for him, and in the final
act, if he does not succumb before,
to build theatre of their own near
his and put him out of business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
College Students at
Workers School Are
Visibly Impressed

Two hundred men and women,
many of them college students, visited
the Workers School and Workers
Party headquarters, 10S East 14th
St., Saturday afternoon as part of
their tour conducted by Clarence V.
Howell, director of the Reconciliation
Trips.
Previously they had visited the
Russian colony of Harlem and had
heard speakers representing the
former nobility present their point'of
view at a meeting held at 5 West
125th st. They then had visited the
Jewish Daily Forward, where B.
Charney Vladek, spoke on the social
ist point of view towards Russia.
According to Howell, they had not
learned very much from either the
emigres or Vladek, and were keenly
interested in the Communist point Of
view.
DR.. Abraham Markoff, instructor,
and lecturer in the Workers School,
told of conditions in Russia before the
revolution and then recited conditions
at the present time.
Referring to the trade unions, Mar
koff pointed out the Importance they
play in the life of the workers. How
all workers in the lighter industries
obtained two weeks vacation while
those who done heavier work received
a four weeks vacation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
WON'T DISMISS
FORD TAX TRIAL.;
EVIDENCE is IN
Dodge Got S25,OOO,OOO
For Ford Stock

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.--Decision
by the board Of tax appeals in the
governments S80000,000 tax case
against Senator James Couzens Of
Michigan and other former Ford Mo-
tor Company stockholders will be de-
ferred until late in the spring it was
announced today.
Hearings Concluded.
Hearings were finally concluded
with testimony on special issues af-
fecting the John f. and Horace E.
Dodge estates, and an agreement was
reached to allow fifty days for filing
of briefs. Another twenty-five days
will be allowed for replying briefs.
Oral arguments summarizing and
interpreting the mountains Of docu-
mentary and statistical evidence will
be arranged for some time after May
LIST.
Former Ford Motor Company stock
holders lost the fight to dismiss the
governments long-disputed S30,OOO,-
600 tax claims and end the case at
once.
They moved to disallow the claims
on the ground that their Ford stock
value contentious had been upheld by
the evidence. Only by an unconsti-
tutional construction Of "fair market
price or value" it was asserted, could
a lower value be found.
Withhold Ruling.
The board Of tax appeals, however,
withheld any ruling on the motion
leaving it as one of the issues to be
disposed Of when it decided the case.
The attempt to win an immediate
decision for Senator James Couzens
of Michigan and other former stock
holders was made a moment after
the tax cases had formally ended with
the completion of their rebuttal tes-
timony.
s25,OOO,OOO To Dodge.
Twenty-Five millions. in cash was
paid to the Dodges within month
after they made their deal to sell out
to Ford. it was testified by Walter
L. Durham. vice-president of the first
and old Detroit National Bank, of De-
troit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
WILL NEGOTIATE
over SOUTHWEST
COAL AGREEMENT
Bosses Desire Separate
Contract and Wage Cut

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Feb. 81.
Coal operators in Oklahoma, Kan
sas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas
will not enter into new wage
agreement with miners effective
April if unions insist on the same
basic terms as applicable in the cen
trail competitive field, Miller D. Hay,
chief mine inspector of Oklahoma,
declared today following a canvass
of operators organizations.
A joint meeting of operators and
miners will be held in Kansas City
in March and the former will insist
local conditions must be the basis for
a new contract without reference to
the decision of miners national or
ganization in the Florida conference,
it was said.
Effects Lewis Program.
President John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers stated, after
the breakdown of negotiations with
the operators at Miami, that he re-
lied OH the signing Of agreements
with coal companies in the outlying
districts such as Oklahoma, Kansas,
and Washington to break the oppo-
sition Of the coal operators, and pre-
pare for a renewal Of the conference
just ended But this presupposes
that the new separate agreements
will be signed on the basis Of the
Jacksonville scale.
Proves Progresslves' Point.
Progressives in the miners union
see in the demands of the south
western operators for wage reduc-
tions proof of their claim that sepa-
rate agreements are not the best way
to approach the problem, and that
only immediate preparations for a
widespread strike and organization
campaign are effective as arguments
with the fairly well united mining
companies. The progressives are es-
pecially insistent on strike prepara-
tions, propaganda for the union,
and organization, among the nom
union miners. They charge that
Lewis has neglected this work in the
past, and demand that he busy HIM
self with it before it is too late.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Movie King Disclaims
Chaplin Divorce Move

Samuel Goldwyn, film magnate,
who arrived yesterday from Holly
wood with Joseph Schenck, fatty de-
MED reports that their mission is to
urge a quiet settlement Of the Chaplin
divorce suit.
"Mr. Chaplin needs no assistance in
managing his marital affairs, any
more than in his professional inter-
ests,' said the producer. Further
more, the film industry is in no way
affected by his wife's divorce action"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Congress Talks It's Way
Toward Adjournment

Continued from Page One)
tricked into supporting, was already
influencing the actions of the Federal
Reserve Board today. Middle western
senators had the bitter sweet expert
ence of seeing the board grant au-
thority to the Richmond and Dallas
banks to establish branches at Char
lotte, N. c., and San Antonion, Texas,
hardly before the ink was dry on the
presidents signature-or on his veto
Of the farm relief bill.
Johnson Powerless.
The Boulder Dam bill, against
which an eight-day filibuster was
waged, was fundamentally an at
tempt to increase the property values
of Imperial Valley, California, at some
injury to the present exorbitant pro-
fits of the power companies controll-
ing in Arizona and Colorado.
Senator Johnson of California elo-
quently pointed to the power interests
as his chief opponents, but his hand
full of realtors did not have the driv-
ing power to line up the senators and
shut off debate.
Gag Unpopular.
johnson went down to defeat be-
cause Of the bitter fractional differ
ences in the senate and not upon the
merits of his bill. He had maintained
o big majority of the senate on all
previous votes, but upon cloture he
lost both vets and drys as well as
those senators opposing the Tyson Of
ficers bill. The drys thought fur
Their debate on the Boulder Dam bill
would serve as a filibuster against
their own measure, while the vets
opposed cloture because the same
gag rule" has been asked on the dry
bill. He also lost number of in
surgents who are opposed to cloture
in any form.
Some of the democrats also deserted
The bill in order TO help their coll
league, Ashurst, win his fight against
it.
Two more eloture petitions are
pending in the senate, one on the Ty-
son emergency officers retirement
bill and the other to stop debate on
the new public buildings bill. Still
another petition is circulating call
ing for the end Of debate on the An
drews reorganization bill. a prohibit
ton measure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
HUGE WASTE in CAPITALIST INDUSTRY

ers must produce enough food, cloth
ing, housing, fuel, etc. to provide for
the entire population. They must pro
vide not only for their normal de-
pendents such as wives, children, aged
persons and invalids but also for the
class Of idle rich and its host Of hang
ers-on, and for the millions Of work
ers serving competitive private inter-
ests fostered by a social structure
centering around private profit. Such
an arrangement materially increases
the burdens and decreases the rewards
Of productive workers.
,oportional distribution Of the popula-
A.A.f ..e..,l,tso,, on IOOrL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Petty Bourgeois Indicted.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Feb. 27.-
AS a result Of dispute over a box
of cough drops two local storekeep-
ers have been indicted by the federal
grand jury on a charge of kidnapping
a letter carrier and interfering with
the mails.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Church Roster Robs Poor Box

Quentin Prospect, porter of the
Faulist Fathers Church, admitted to
police today, after being caught in
the act, according to the officers, that
he had robbed the church poor boxes
of $4,000 during the past fourteen
months. He said he was sending the
money to a bank in Italy.
For his work in the church, where
he has been employed since 1923,
Prospect received 500 a month and
his room and board
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Anglo-Saxondom Again.

A triple alliance between America,
Canada and Australia in time of war
in the Pacific, is seen by Hugh Deni-
son, Commissioner for Australia in
the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
lConlinned from Paae one

(C0nflnhed from rage OneI
production of goods, including trans
portation. The percentage so engaged,
including manufacturing, transporta-
ton, mining and agriculture, has
fallen from 29.3@s in 1910 to 24h in
1925. If we could segregate from
this producer group the number en-
gagged in production Of non-essentials,
the small percentage Of the population
carrying the remainder on their backs
would appear even more striking.
This minority Of productive work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
New Custom House.

Construction Of a new custom APP
praisers' house in New York at a
cost to the government of not more
than $8,000,000, was called for In a
bill approved by the house ways and
means committee at Washington.
The building is to be erected upon
the plot bounded by Varick, King.
Hudson and West Houston SITS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
Ramsay Macdonald to
Study American Plan

LONDON, Feb. 27.-Ramsay Mac
Donald is planning a. trip to New
York during the Easter vacation.
During his visit, which will last a
week or ten days, the former premier
says he will make a brief survey of
labor conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28

aguan and Chinese policies. "Bill"
Borah's threatened trip to Mexico
and Nicaragua is therefore squelch-
ed. He will not even be allowed to
play his timid game Of anti-imper-
ialism in the governments back
yard in Washington, unless he can
secure some action from the senate
itself, which is doubtful. Borah
will probably not even make the
fight.
1t is hoped that Borah will fight.
The New York World claims that
Senator Johnson might be won for
the "stay at home" Investigation.
Even such an investigation might
turn up some revelations that
would be of interest to the masses
of the American workers. But even
if the amended Borah resolution
passes the senate, the "administra-
ton leaders" are planning to over
look the matter of an appropria-
ton to meet the committees ex-
penses.
These incidents merely show
again how congress abdicates in
favor of the centralized govern
ment concentrated in the nations
executive power. Members of con-
gress, especially of the senate, do
not even dare ask for the informa-
ton upon which they are supposed
to carry out their constitutional
privilege Of declaring wars. Wheth-
err congress is in session, or out of
session, the plunderbund pulls the
strings that makes its puppet,
Coolidge, wave the flag as a signal
for the lawmakers of the old
parties to fall in line and whoop
it up for war.
The senate committee on foreign
affairs duplicates the care taken
by the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor in
turning its eyes away from the
troublous situations in Mexico and
Nicaragua. At the Detroit con-
vention of the A. F. of L., it was
impossible to get President Will
liam Green to agree to go to Mex
leo. Labor officials came all the
way from Europe to attend the
gathering held at Mexico City, but
Green refused to bulge from
Washington. The call for the
meeting of the Pan-American Fed
Grafton Of Labor was also issued
with, no mention Of steps to be
taken on the new depredations of
Wall Street imperialism south of
the Rio Grande.
The A. F. Of i. offieialdom has
shown itself, in these instances, as
obedient to the will of Wall Street
as the administration senator's"
on Borah's committee on foreign
affairs. Every effort is thus being
made to shut out the light on this
drive toward war. The workers
and farmers must demand that the
full glare of the truth be shed on
this situation. Open the war on
secret diplomacy. Fight the inn
pending war by opposing the drive
in the dark toward war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28

The following proportional distribution Of the popula
1926 taking the total population 100as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28

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Evening star., 1927-04-18
NARC|SSUS SHOW !
OPENS AT TAKOMA
B. Y. Morrison Wins Prize in
Display of 500 Blooms.
Closes Tonight.

More than 500 blooms, the greatest
number in the history of the club, are
on display at the twelfth annual mar
cissus exhibit under the auspices of
the Takoma Park Horticultural Club,
which opened yesterday in the Ia
koma Public Library. 1t will close
tonight at o'clock. DIR. d. n. Shoe
maker OF the Department of Agri-
culture was judge of the exhibits when
awards were made yesterday.
A Halfa narcissus, exhibited by r.
Y. Morrison, won the prize for being
the best bloom, and for the best "a
varieties Of narcissus awards We're
made to the following:
G. II. Popenoe, first; Homer G.
Skeels. second. For IL varieties-Ed.
win c. Powell, first; Mrs. ]. il.
GULL, second. For six varieties-J.
A. Hyslop, first; w. t. Simmons, sec
ond. Yellow Trumphets-W. T. Sim
mons, first; II. A. Axtell. second; J.
p. Wenchell, third. Bi-colOr-W. T.
Simmons, first; Thomas f. Holmes,
second; J. p. Wenchell, third. Incom-
parabilis-W. 7. Simmons. first; Mrs.
w. w. Stockberger, second: II. A.
Axtell, third. White Incomparabilis--
]. w. wellington. first: Fred l.. Har-
ries. second. Bari. W. wellington,
III 81 ItCu IL IictLllCSf SCtOiluB
Wenchell, third. Poeticus-J. W.
Wellington, first: Fred l.. Harries,
second; w. T. Simmons, third. Mis-
cellaneous narcissus-J. P. Wenchell.
first; Mrs. S. III. McCrory. second:
Mrs. w. w. Stockberger, third.
The exhibitors were Roy G. Pierce.
Fred L. Harries, Homer G.. Skeels,
Edwin G.. Powell. Mrs. Richard A.
Hales, Mrs. J. III. GULL, J. p. Wenchel,
Thomas E. Holmes, Mrs. Daniel Mil
Ter, Mrs. r. T. Dowsett, w. T. Sim
Stockberger, Mrs. S. II. McCrory, Pat
tie May Pierce, G. H. Popenoe, Mrs.
D. N. Shoemaker. B. Y. Morrison. J.
w. Wellington, II. A. Axtell. Frank
E. Reppert and NJ. Van Waberen &
Son.
Large crowds are attending the
show.