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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
Legion Tries to Force
Collector Out of Job

Claiming that he did not meet the
official American Legion require
ments during the last war, a number
of New Jersey Legion posts are de-
manding that John r. Rogers, recent
ly appointed collector for the fifth
district, be relieved Of his office. They
have received the reply that the APP
pointment is strictly matter between
President Coolidge and the republican
party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
Daily Worker Readers to See Performance Of
Centuries Tonight At Playwrights Theatre

striving to build a genuine work
ing class theatre. is a graphic por-
trayal of life ON the east side just
prior to the rise of labor unionism.
The performance tonight will be
a special benefit for The DAILY
WORKER. During the past two
weeks large number of labor and
fraternal organizations have taken
special nights at the theatre, in
cluding the striking window clean
ers, the Greco Carrillo Defense
League and Anti-Horthy League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08

Readers and friends of The
DAILY WORKER are expected to-
night to crowd into the New Play
wrights' Theatre. 40 Commerce St,
near Seventh Ave. where Em Jo
Basshe's play Of New York's east
side, "The Centuries" is now play
ing.
The play--the second to be put
on by the insurgent group of drama
lists who have broken away from
the traditions of Broadway and are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08

They will all be there: militant
New York workers, members of the
staff of The DAILY WORKER and
"The Freiheit," prominent left wing
leaders, directors and actors of the
New Playwrights' Theatre and
thousands of visitors from Newark,
Trenton. Philadelphia, Baltimore
and other cities.
All will be present at the Labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
Big Response Expected.

Representative of many shops are
expected to attend two-day confer
ence called for Saturday and Sunday
by the Committee of so of the Cloak
and Dressmakers Union at Webster
Hall, 119 L. 11th st.
Shop chairrnen and shop commit
tees of shops registered with the right
wing and those affiliated with the
Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers
Union will attend, according to yes
terday's indications.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
Four Workers jailed
For Distributing An
Anti-War Throwaway

-Four workers were arrested yes
terday near the Morse Dry Dock.
Brooklyn, for distributing leaf
let issued by the Workers (Com-
munist) Party entitled Down
With Injunctions."
The workers arrested are Emil
Makvista, Thomas Thorsen, Eric
Hennonen and Neils Knith. They
are held in $500 bail each. The
International Labor Defense is con-
Quoting the defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
PREMIER, Former Rail
Union President, Dies

CLEVELAND, Dec. William S.
Premier, former president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, whose removal from office fol-
lowed the collapse of the Brother
hood labor bank, died yesterday at
his home in Cleveland, at the age of
72.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
Pressers Meet Today.

A group of progressive pressers of
Local 35, l. L. G. w. u, announced
yesterday that they had issued call
for an open forum to discuss methods
of rebuilding the union today at D..
m. at Manhattan Lyceum, sc East 4th
St. Registered and non-registered
pressers are invited in the call.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
RYKOFF DEMANDS DISSOLUTION OF
OPPOSITION IN PARTY DISCUSSION
Kameneff Admits TrotsEy Group Won't Abandon
Views In Speech at Communist Congress
Especial Cable To The DAILY WoRKER)

MOSCOW, Dec. THE complete dissolution OF the Opposl-
on was advised by Aexe Rko president of the Council OF
Peoples Commissar in the discussion of the Opposition at the
Fifteenth Congress the All Union Communist Party yesterday
Leon B. Kamenev, in speaking for the Opposition declared
that Opposition minority the Party and can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
Twenty Thousand Chicago Car
Line Workers Ready to Strike
MAY NOT WAIT SANCTION FROM
PRESIDENT MARON; men FIRM
Company Played With Arbitration Rule In the
Union Constitution; Postponed Issue
Especial To The DAILY WORKER.)

CHICAGO Ill., Dec. PLANS for strike of Chcagos twen
thousand traction workers moving ahead and is believed
only unforeseen developments prevent the most complete
transportation teup here years Members of street and
elevated lines unions have voted unanimously strike to enforce
demands for wage increase
The wage demand made in June and the companies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
STAIN STRESSES
PEACE POLICY OF
USSR IN REPORT
Declares Britain Seeks
Anti-Soviet Bloc

MOSCOW. - Declaring that Great
Britain's efforts to create united
front of capitalist powers in its drive
against the Soviet Union were un-
successful only because of the con-
flicting interests in the imperialist
camp, the opposition of the European
working class and the fear that an
attack on the Soviet Union might lead
to workers revolutions at home, Joseph
Stain, Secretary of the All Union
Communist Party, in his report to
the Fifteenth Party Congress, again
stressed the Soviet Unions desire for
peace:
His report declares:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

Richard B. Moore will lecture on
"The Negro Problem at the Bronx
Open Forum Sunday at p. M. at
2075 Clinton Ave, the Bronx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
Britain Led Attack.

"The British bourgeoisie assumed
the initiative in intensifying the inter-
ventionist tendencies. Evidently the
help rendered the British miners by
the Soviet workers, and the sympa-
thies of the working class of the USSR
for the revolutionary movement in
China, could not but add fuel and fire
their animosity.
"All of these facts account for the
rupture between England and the
USSR, and the straining of relations
with a series of other states. There
are two tendencies in this struggle
in the relations between the capitalist
world and the USSR, the main tend
ency of military aggression (above all
Brittany and the tendency to maintain
peaceful relations with series of
other capitalist countries. These are
therefore the main facts in the sys-
tenn of our foreign relations given at
the moment.
U. S. S. r. For Peace.
Facts showing a tendency towards
peaceful relations of the period are
under review: non-aggression treaty
with Turkey, guarantee pact with
Germany, tariff agreement with
Greece, agreement with Germany
which recredits recognition with Uru-
quay, guarantee pact with Afghanis-
tan, guarantee pact with Lithuania,
the initial guarantee pact with Latvia,
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
WINDOW CLEANER KILLED.

Falling from a sixth story window
of the Roosevelt apartments, 1475
Grand Concourse, William Murphy,
"a a window cleaner, was instantly
killed yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08

Pass the Paper to Fellow Worker,
Work Daily for the Daily Worker!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
POLICE TO SPOT TRUCK DRIVERS
MPERILING ALL OTHER TRAFFIC.
Check-Up Begins Tomorrow to End Reck-
less Practices-Public Is Asked to
Report Offenders

and Is miles an hour for those with
solid tires. There are no exceptions
to these speed limits in the case of
continually being driven at speeds as
high as % to 80 miles an hour, the
range allowed passenger vehicles.
Inquiries at the District Building
and among citizens generally evoked
not a single word in defense of these
drivers who have left a trail of fatal
or serious accidents in all parts of the
city where the light delivery vehicle
speeds it's deadly and destructive way.
While all these tranSgreSSionS of the
traffic regulations and the rights of
others do not result seriously, the
mental torture to which both pedoS-
trian and mOtoriSt are subjected by
the practices of the commercial vehicle
driver have brought his universal and
vigorous denunciation. That one class
should presume contemptuouSly to
terrify and harass thousands on the
streets daily is a significant trend
that calls imperatively for action,
observers declare.
In the downtown area where these
vehicles are concentrated during the
rush hours of pedestrian traffic, they
contribute immeaSureably to the diff
ficulty experienced by foot traffic in
reaching safety zones and car loading
platforms. While the passenger auto
mobile, the taxi and the bus also are
factors in this particularly trying
situation, it is the commercial vehicle
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
President of Republic Init
mates Giving Province to b.
Iivia Is Not Acceptable.
CHILEAN PAPER BITTER
TOWARD u. S. MEDIATION
Same Publishing Group Opposed
Return of American Ambas-
sador to Santiago.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, January Am
intimation that Peru will refuse to
accept Secretary of State Kellogg s
proposal in the Tacna AFRICA con-
troversy is seen in a New Year
message from President Leguia, pub
lished prominently by La Nacion.
Secretary Kellogg proposed that
Peru and Chile end their dispute
over the sovereignty Of the provinces
by ceding them to Bolivia. The
Peruvian presidents message to La
Nacion says:
Il hope that this year of 1927
will bring the so much desired solu-
ton, although it appears yet very
far away. l say this because the
ideal formula destined to settle this
serious matter. maintaining peace in
America, is not that formula of con-
venience which proposes to substi-
tute money for the claims of right,
but another one which should be
more in conformity with the spirit
of our times and the mentality of
our race, which subordinates the
petty commercial ambitions to the
superior ideals of justice and
honor"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
PARKING VIOLATION
LAID TOB[ANTON
Accused of Occupying Re-
stricted Space 2 Hours After
Being Warned by Police.

Representative Thomas L. Blanton
of Texas ran afoul of the police of
the Navy Building today when he
parked his automobile at the main
entrance in a restricted parking space
and allowed it to remain for more
than two hours. He informed Capt.
M. H. Parsons, chief of the mainte-
nance division of the Office of Public
Buildings and Public Parks that he
intended to park in front of public
buildings at any time and for as long
a time as he wanted when he was
conducting the peoples business"
When Mr.. Blanton drove to the
space in front of the Navy Building
he was, informed by a guard that
parking was not permitted there. He
told the guard that he was Repre-
sentative Blanton and that he had
important business to transact with
the Navy Department. He left the
car blocking the way for other We
hicles intending to stop at the Navy
Building.
The guard reported the episode to
Capt. Parsons, who remained at the
main entrance for more than two
hours waiting for Mr.. Blanton.
When the Representative appeared
the captain courteously told him that
his act was a violation of the traffic
regulation and. asked him if he would
not in the future park elsewhere. Mr..
Blanton accompanied Capt. Parsons
to the car and pointed to one of the
congressional tags, asking the officer
if he did not recognize it. Capt.
Parsons said that he did, but that
it was difficult to enforce the regula-
tions if certain persons violated them
with immunity. Mr.. Blanton said
that he was in the Navy Department
conducting the peoples business
and that if he were required to park
three blocks away it would interfere
with his handling the peoples af-
fairs" He added that he would con-
tinue to park in any space in front
Of any public building whenever he
had business to transact and that he
had the congressional tags issued for
that very purpose.
The episode attracted q number of
employees of the Navy Department
who were out on their lunch hour
and Secretary Wilbur and other Off
cials of the Navy Department were
interested observers from the win
dows of their offices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

Washingtons entire metropolitan
police force tomorrow will be concen
trating it's attention on the wantonly
reckless operators of light delivery
trucks whose careless speeding and
usurpation of the rights of pedestrians
and other motorists has turned the
traffic stream of the National Capital
into menacing maelStrOm.
Along with the order issued today
by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superin
tendent of police, calling upon motor
cycle and bicycle officers and patrol
men to bring a summary end to the
hazardous situation now prevailing, is
the suggestion of NJ. o. Eldridge, di-
rector of traffic, that employers can
do much to assist toward this end.
Declaring that the unbridled exhi-
bitions of lawless driving by delivery
car operators constitutes the graVaSt
traffic situation in the city today, Mr..
Eldridge believes that employers
might help by demanding strict obe-
dience to the traffic laws and by invit-
ing the public to submit reports of
dangerous violations.
These two moves constitute the
most important steps in the campaign
to deal drastically with these drivers
until they are brought definitely and
permanently within the law, which
provides maximum speed of Is miles
an hour for the pneumatic-t tired truck
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
BI-CENTENNlAL BODY
TO MEET JANUARY 13
Commission Headed by President
Seeking to Celebrate Washing
toms Anniversary in 1882.

The commission, headed by Presi-
dent Coolidge, ex-officio, to arrange
for the bi-centennial of Washington s
birth, in 1882, is to meet January 13
at the White House at 10 o'clock, ac-
cording to announcements sent out
today by William Tyler Page, clerk Of
the House, who is executive secre-
tary. Senator Fess of Ohio is the ac-
tive chairman.
President Coolidge is to deliver an
address to the American people on
the subject of the bi-centennial cele-
bration, probably February %, Wash
ingtons birthday.
The commission is composed of 18
members besides the President, four
members of the House, four of the
Senate and others appointed at large
by the President.
The bi-centennial commission is
asking for an appropriation of over
$4,000 in the independent offices ap-
preparations bill, which is now being
drafted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
3O-MILE LIMIT ASKED.
ON CONNECTICUT AVE.
Eldridge Urges Increase on Sec
tions Between Klingle Bridge
and Livingston Street.

A speed limit of 80 miles an hour
along certain sections of Connecticut
avenue between Klingle Bridge and
Livingston street was. recommended
to the District Commissioners today
by Traffic Director NJ. o. Eldridge.
In built-up sections along the avenue
the speed would be reduUed to 22
miles an hour, while a limit of 10
miles was proposed for the short
stretch between Livingston street
and Chevy Chase Circle.
Connecticut avenue is one of the
arterial highways originally chosen
by Mr.. Eldridge for increased speed.
The mile-an hour limit is now in
effect along certain sections of upper
Sixteenth street. Massachusetts ave-
nue.. Bladensburg road and Central
avenue northeast.
If the Commissioners approve the
recommendation. the speed limit will
not be raised until the highway is
marked with signs designating diff
ferent speeds.
Erection of signs calling attention
to dangerous grades also was ordered
by Mr.. Eldridge today. The signs
will be placed at the top of the
Thirteenth street, Fifteenth street,
California and Tilden street hills.
The signs will be inscribed with the
warning Drive Slow. Dangerous
HILL"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
HANKOw AGAIN QUIET.
American Sailors Land to Aid British,
But Chinese Desist i'm Attack.

IIANKOW. January R).-Han.
kow was quiet today following the
disturbance in which British marines
held at bay several thousand Chi
nese coolies who attacked the British
concession yesterday.
American sailors were landed dur
ing the evening at the request of
British authorities, but were held at
headquarters and not used in the
scrinmage. The American blue
jackets later returned to their ship.
Incited by anti-British speeches a.
a New Year celebration on the banks
of the Yangtse River, the horde of
yelling Chinese moved against the
British quarter. In their path were a
few British policemen, and they stood
their ground when stoned.
Twenty sailors of British warships
in the Yangtse joined the policemen.
They fixed bayonets to their rifles,
and they used their rifles as clubs in
exchanging blows with the charging
mob, but they did not fire. Marines,
hastily landed, reinforced the small
Larty.
Twenty coolies bore down on one
sailor, wrested his rifle from him and
Continued on Page 5, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
CHILEAN PAPER HITS L. S.
Efforts to Arbitrate Dispute Are
Called Useless.

SANTIAGO, Chile, January [P).--
An attack on the attempts of the
United States to settle the Tacna-
africa controversy between Peru and
Chile is made by the Ultimas Noticias,
an afternoon newspaper published by
Ell Mercurio. The latter is the paper
which recently inveighed against the
return to Chile of American Ambas-
sador Collier.
Referring to reports that the United
States would offer new proposal in
case Secretary of State kellogg 8
present plan fell through. the Ultimas
Noticias says this would be useless.
Failure of the Tacna-Arica attempts
thus far, together with the United
States attitude in Nicaragua and the
complications in Mexico, would de-
prive any new move by the United
States of interest and prestige, 1t as
serts.
South America, Europe and Asia
would regard such move as further
evidence of the North American I'M
perialism'' displayed in the Kellogg
proposal inasmuch as that proposal,
the paper charges, favorS Bolivia, be
ing an indirect manner of bolstering
up the United States influence in that
country, which is already dominated
by the dollar"
The paper thinks Chile should de-
clare the arbitral attempts at an end
and announce her annexation of
Tacna africa. or else take the matter
to the Permanent Court of Interna-
tional Justice.
Expressing belief that the Chilean
foreign minister is capable of handling
the matter and that he will soon put
an end to ''the hateful Washington
negotiations" the editorial concludes
with the expression: For Chile's
sake, enough Of Kellogg"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
GETS FINE ARTS POST.

Benjamin Wister Morris, architect,
of New York City, today was appoint
ed by President Coolidge to be a mem
ber of the Commission of Fine Arts
to succeed Milton NJ. Medary, jr., of
Philadelphia, whose term recently ex-
pired.
Mr. Morris was born in Portland
Greg, in 1870. He was educated at
st. Paul's School, Trinity College and
Columbia University of New York and
at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris.
He is the architect of two of the halls
at Princeton University, of the Nor
gan Memorial and several bank build
ings in Hartford, Conn, and of the
Cunard Building in New York.
He is connected with the school of
architecture at Princeton and is @
member of the Art Commission of
the City OF New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04

crease in tax collections for the first
half of the 1926-1927 fiscal year, which
ended December 81. According to his
figures, $13.402, ,6O0.46 was taken in
during this period, as against
$11 1884, ,724.82 in the corresponding
period of the 1925-1926 fiscal year,
and $S,704 4,571.S0 in the same period
of the 1924-1925 fiscal year.
The increase Mr.. Towers attributed
to the raise in the tax rate, which
jumped from 1.40 in 1924 to $1.7O in
1925. and to $1.80 in 1925.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
Two Men and Pony
Drift Three Nights
On Lake Ice FlOe
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
SAULTE STE. MARIE, Ontario.
January 1.-Two Round Island
fishermen, Alex Mclean and c.. r.
Draper, saved by chance from an
ice foe in Lake Superior. told to-
day how they drifted in the bitter
cold for two days and three nights,
with their pony and cart for
warmth and shelter and frozen
herrings as their only food. The
foe was washed ashore on Isle
Parisienne. and the lighthouse
keeper there brought them back to
Round Island.
The men were taking in their
nets when the ice, inches thick,
broke off and drifted away. The
foe touched twice on Isle Paris
ienne, but drifted away the first
time before the men, numb with
cold, could crawl ashore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
new REVOLT BREAKS
OUT IN ALBANIA
Insurrection Follows Condemnation
of Six Insurgents for Parts
in Late Uprising.

BY the Associated Press.
BELGRADE. Jugoslavia, January
"A new revolt of Mussulman
tribes in Albania has broken out, re.
ports received here today state.
The insurrection was the revolt of
the condemnation yesterday at Sou
tart of six insurgents, who took part
in a recent outbreak, which was put
down by government troops. The
new insurgents are members of the
Puka, Shalja and Strupa tribes,
which, with four others. have already
raised their standards.
Informed circles in Belgrade con,
slider the rising serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
Taxpayers Pour $e,O94,319 Into District
Golfers to Set New Monthly Record

Taxpayers emptied $6.094. .319.28
into the Golfers of the District during
December, and thereby shattered all
previous records for monthly pay
ments, according to figures compiled
today by Chatham H. Towers, collec-
tor of taxes. The previous high rec
ord was in December, 1925, when
$5 $40 ,209.37 was collected, and COM
pared with December of the preceding
year this was an increase of
81 .679, ,2O937.
Mr.. Towers also reported an in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
CANAL PAYS $23,9O1, $40.
New Transit Record Set by Pan.
anna Waterway.

PANAMA, Canal Zone, January
4 R).-Vessels passing through the
Panama Canal during 1926 paid tolls
the aggregate Of which is second only
to the record year Of 1924. The total
for the year just closed was $23,901,-
$40, against $24.29O,963 in 1924.
A new high record for transits was
however. 5.420 commercial
ships using the waterway, against
$3.50 in 1924.
Since the opening OF the canal, in
August, 1914, tolls aggregating $154,-
064 037 have been collected from 81
500 commercial vessels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
Employees Take Over Paper.

BRADENTON, Fla, January up.
The Tri-City Morning News. Braden-
toms morning newspaper, was taken
over by employees of the publication
with this mornings issue and is being
published under the name of the
Manatee River News. A. S. Hough is
editor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, January 4.-Thomas
A. Edison dozes if he doesn't get
eight hours of sleep.
So says DIR. II. M. Johnson of the
Mellon Institute of Industrial Re
search, whose experiments on the sub
ject of sleep have convinced him that
toxins generated by muscular fatigue
act as stimulants to the nervous sys.
tenn, including the brain.
Mr. Edison sleeps eight hours a
night or more" DIR. johnson said,
terming a myth the story that Edi-
son sleeps only four hours each night
when he doesn't get that much he
dozes in his chair the next day. That
legend has been standing joke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
Edison Hits Hay light Hours Night,
and Dozes Next Day If He Falls Short of It

among his associates Harvey Fire
stone always gets a good laugh out
of it,"
DIR. Johnson and G. f. Weigand
started their sleep tests last Spring
with Is University of Pittsburgh stu
dents as subjects. DR.. Johnson de-
clared today he learned there was no
such state as sound slumber, point
ing out the IS students tossed about
to make an average restlessness of
one movement every 13 minutes. A
graph apparatus ATTACHED to their
beds recorded the motion of the
sleepers.