The producers news., 1927-06-10
Slavery in Abyssinia

of recent date, on the subject of sIsr
cry in Abysinnia-the one significas.
omission from report on that cO',u or,.'
try which the commerce departman,.
has just published. D'
"The slaves" says this anonvmon.
report, Gin the capital at least ~
no useful work, their conception ~ ~
their whole duty to their owners VI
ing the ornamental function of rU1
ming beside him on the few occas;on,
when he rides forth upon his monr4
1t is an easy life, and the class ~
people used as slaves desire no otS
er."
In its report dated July 25. 1o2z
the temporary slavery commission -;
the league of nations says Abvssir;1
is the only christian country in which
slavery is still legalized.
Kellogg Stays Away from Geneva
One very good reason why Secre-
tary Kellogg will not 60 to Genev.
to take the lead in the three-nower
naval limitation conference is tbot
neither he nor President Coolidge i
now giving much support to this
Coolidge-Kellogg scheme. The bio
thing before the administration. er,
ery member of it is made to feel is
the reelection of Calvin COOLIDGE
for the good of business and fba
country, this year. True, the ballot.
ing will not take place under the law
until November, 1928, but the Cool.
idge organization proposes to devote
the summer of 1927 to making Cool.
idge's third term inevitable. And nav.
al reduction or limitation, which
looked like a good issue few months
ago, looks hopeless as a campaign
slogan today. Except for some ex.
traordinary break of luck, the Gene.
va parley will be a complete failure
That is why, on the day the Amer.
lean naval and diplomatic delegates
and their staffs were embarking al
New York for the journey to Geneva
to put an end to naval expansion anC
naval threats, Calvin Coolidge dOnnet
his naval officers uniform as com
O mander of the fleets of the America
( nation, and sailed down to the Viz
Z ginia capes to review 90 ships 0
!, war. The cameras were on hand. H
q tipped up his cap so that the pic
lures could betray his likeness to tn
= commander of the "Pinafore." The
: he walked among his guests, remark
- ing on the muddiness of the water q
e the Potomac.
- . NOn-U Union Coal Supplies Markets
- Thus far, predictions by the MOI
: union coal operators that they wou
= furnish enough bituminous fuel
= keep the strikers in the central con
~ petitive field idle for a long tim
~ have proved true. The Bureau
70 Mines publishes a table of estimatr
production per week, by states, whit
reveals that for the week ending N;
- 21, 1927, total bituminous prOductl
was 8,273,0O0 tons, compared with
100000 in the preceding week; 92S
- 600 in the week of Nav %, 1926;
100000 in the week of May %, 19i
and 11,347,OOO tons in the week
May 26, 1923.
oo Pennsylvania produced $4,000
OO 0O tons in the week of May q, 1927,
OO O0 compared with 2,437, 900 in the Ct
90 90 responding week of 1926. West Y
O0 .OS ginia produced 100000 compa
OO with 100000 a year ago. Ohio m
ed only 100000 compared with 43
IN 600 a year before. Indiana nil
Ia $4,000 compared with 315,000 a "
ms ago. Illinois produced $1,000 to
he compared with $4,000 a year a
an The Arkansas Kansas Oklahoma Fl
IA produced $4,000 as compared "
10000 last year, for the measu
nat week.