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The Machinists Election.

The progressive machinists group
representing the militant and pro-
gressive forces in our union through
out the country calls upon the mem
bership of the l. A. of NJ. to support
the candidates who stand for a mill
tant policy Of struggle as against the
ruinous policy of surrender TO the
bosses pursued by the present admin
istration.
Only those candidates who have
shown in action that they stand for
progressive policies should receive
support from the progressive forces
in our union.
For executive council, United
States, Peter Jensen, Lodge 492, Chi
cago; for executive council, United
States, A. T. Mcnamara, No. 1871,
Baltimore, Md; for executive council,
Canada, j. f. McGovern, No. Ill,
Montreal; for delegate to the A. F.
of L., J. Weudert, No. 800, Chicago;
for delegate to the A. F. of L., w.
Waterworth, No. 113, Chicago; for
law committee, U. S. A., j. Friedrich,
No. sc, Milwaukee.
The progressive group make no re-
concentrations on the other A candi-
dates. We take the same position
relative TO the delegates to the A.
f. of l.. and the law committee. We
support only the candidates as stated
above, who are the only ones who
have expressed themselves on any
progressive issues facing our union
and the labor movement in general.
A Fighting Policy.
The policies proposed by the pro-
gressive group are well known to all
militant and progressive members of
the /. A. Of M. The program we con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
BY H. NJ. wICKs

THE history of the Philippine policy
4 of the present administration is an
odious record of systematic suppress
sion of the native legislature, which
unquestionably reflects, though some
times inadequately, the overwhelming
sentiment of the Filipinos for indie
pendence from the ravages of the i'm
perialist plunderers of the United
States.
Every act and every utterance in
relation to the Philippine problem on
the part of the Coolidge administra-
ton has indicated a vicious suppress
sion of the will of the people of those
islands. The veto of the independence
plebiscite bill is the climax of whole
series of acts of despotism against the
Legislature Of the islands. Coolidge, in
his message to congress last year de-
clared:
"There are indications t hat
more authority should be given to
the governor general, so that he
will not be so dependent upon the
local legislative body to render
effective our efforts"
The swash- buckling military despot,
Major General Leonard H. Wood, wan
ted free hand to enable him further
to increase his autocratic rule. Even
Col. Carmi H. Thompson, who went
on rowing expedition to the Philip
pines in the interests of imperialistic
America, reported that the Wood
regime was a blunder and urged that
the governor generals office be de-
militarized by substitution of capable
civil officers for soldiers. OF course
Thompson is not in favor Of independ-
ence, but thought that softer policy
would better serve the interests of the
American investors than the policy of
violence carried out by Wood. But
the Coolidge government would not
even consider the Thompson recon-
mendations. It's policy is the iron fist.
=
THE next move in the Philippines
L came when the legislature passed
bill demanding the right of the peo-
pie to vote on the question of indie
pendence. Wood vetoed it. 1t was re-
passed by two-thirds' vote of the
legislature in spite of the fact that
Wood and the low renegade and trail
tor. Aguinaldo, tried to mobilize all
available forces against it and even
went so far as to try to terrorize the
legislature. After being passed over
the veto of General Wood it then
went, under the provisions Of the
Jones act, to the President of the
United States. Coolidge also vetoed
it and that veto is final as far as the
confines of legality are concerned.
II IKE Torquomedo, the dungeon
Lbuilder of the Holy Roman in
QUESTION, who assured his victims at
the stake that their bodies were being
burned that their souls might be
cleansed, Coolidge tells the Filipinos
that it is his sacred duty to force them
TO abandon all hope of independence
for their own good. Their manifest
destiny, if they are to be saved from
themselves. is tc abjure agitation
against their benefactors in the United
States and grow rubber for Ameri-
cans, raise sugar cane for the sugar
trust and tobacco for the American
tobacco trust, besides guaranteeing
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in public utilities.
Says Coolidge in his message that
vetoed the independence bill:
"In the calendar year 1926.
761,000.OO0 pounds of sugar were
imported into the United States
from the Philippine Islands. The
duty waived on this sugar was
slightly less than $17,000,000. or
this SS,000,000, approximately ac-
crued to the producers of sugar
in the Philippine Islands in the
I increased price thereof. The large
Producers of sugar appreciate
this"
Indeed they do! But how about the
slaves who produce the sugar? Of
what interest is it to them that the
banking and industrial capitalists who
invested money in order to enslave
the workers Of the Islands benefited
because the duty was waived on this
commodity? In the first place the
duty was waived by the United States
government not for the benefit of the
inhabitants of the Islands but in order
to benefit the capitalist exploiters
whose money is invested in sugar
plantations. That there is small
strata of native capitalists who profit
from sugar and other Industries, goes
without saying. 1t is a well-knOwn
phase of imperialist policy to bride,
through distribution of stock, certain
favored natives, who can thereby be
relied upon to support the policy Of
the predatory nation.
The same is true Of tobacco which
is shipped duty free into the United
States, and the motive is the same.
In the same vein the president re-
gales the Filipinos with the matchless
benefits derived from the absence of
duty on cocoanut products, cotton and
other commodities. concluding with the
observation:
Briefly there was waived on
Philippine products entering the
United States duty amounting to
S42,000,000."
He does not mention the fact that
most of these commodities are held by
the great American trusts. Nor does
he draw the logical conclusion that
even though independence were gran
ted the Islands these trusts would not
permit their government of the United
States to force them to pay heavy
duty for the entrance of their Philip
pine products into the American mar
ket.
/ I is not the present holdings alone
4 that the government at Washing
ton is concerned about, but the fact
that the Philippine Islands are still
capable Of absorbing enormous
amounts of investment capital and the
American bank capitalists want the
exclusive privilege of exploiting the
rich natural resources of that terri
tory. A native Philippine government
might permit the investment of other
foreign capital, or even develop its
own resources for the benefit of the
Filipino masses, which would be un-
thinkable from the standpoint of the
American plunderbund
T n summing up his reasons for the
1 veto Coolidge states that such a
vote, if taken, would be unconvincing.
George III of Britain said identicallv
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Music Notes

A concert of American music will
be given at Carnegie Hall, Friday
afternoon, April %, under the aus
pices of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. Ernest Schelling.
pianist, Francis Macmillen, violinist,
and Nine. Francesca Peralta and The
American Orchestral Society. under
the leadership of Chalmers Clifton,
will take part.
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to voice their protests against the regime Italy
Its crimes known to enlightened worker Serious
fighters too busy organizing sentiment against the
black shirt yrants and modelling the workers give
movement in Italy that will eventually sweep from power
regime despsed by the vast majority of Italian workers and
which only exists through frghunes stoop level
of the fascss even in fighting against them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

The new Theatre Guild production,
"The Second Man" opens at the Guild
Theatre this evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
PROGRESSIVE MACHINISTS ISSUE STATEMENT ON
ELECTIONS COMING UP in THEIR UNION

With the the elections
Mass the and militant members have
candidates opposition the states
field The Progressive Machnsts following
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

The Beethoven Symphony Orches-
ira, Georges Zaslawsky, conductor,
gives its second concert at Carnegie
Hall on Friday evening, April 20. For
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THE veto of the demand of the legis-
i allure of the Islands for vote Of
the people upon the question of in
dependence is also dictated by the
general policy of the United States in
the Pacific. Certainly American i'm
perialism now endeavoring, with other
powers, to crush the national liberia
ton movement in China, is not going
peacefully to surrender control Of the
Philippines. If useful for no other
purpose the Islands would serve as
they do serve for a naval and military
base for operations in the Far East.
Furthermore, independence for the
Philippines would give the natives a
free hand against their own exploiters
and the probability is not remote that
they would follow the lead Of the
nationalist movement in China, that,
in the course of the struggle, is de-
veloping toward workers and pea
SAINTS government.
Coolidge has said that mere de-
mands from legislative bodies are Gun
convincing" Such demands on the
part of the nationalists in China were
equally unconvineirg. Today, their
arguments, fortified by the organized
might of the Kouminchung, are de-
cisively convincing.
1t is to be hoped that the Filipino
masses soon generate that accumula-
tion of force and energy necessary to
convince even Calvin Coolidge that
they mean what they say when they
demand independence. In this they
will have the loyal support of the
vanguard of the working class in this
and every other country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

Paul Althouse has been engaged to
sing three performances on the Steel
Pier Atlantic City. The first will take
place this Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

Arthur Middleton, baritone, has
been engaged for the Pittsburg, Kan
sas, Music Festival on April 81, 20
and 30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

Robert Goldsand, Viennese pianist,
will give his second recital at Town
Hall, Tuesday evening, April 10th.
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Dusoiina Giannini. soprano, will
give an all-Italian program in Car.
negie Hall on Sunday afternoon, April
oath. She y-ill sing a group of ole
Italian arias, a group of modern Ital.
ian and group of Italian folk songs
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Coolidge Philippine Veto

the same thing about the demand for
independence on the part Of the
American colonists of $50 years ago,
But the colonists began organizing
secret, conspiratorial revolutionary
Committees of correspondence" which
eventually penetrated every part of
the Atlantic seaboard and convinced"
his Britinnic majesty in most salu-
tary manner.
Coolidge further reveals his no
tons of independence and its effect
upon suppressed peoples by the obser-
Yation:
"To submit to man the ques-
ton whether he desired to be in
dependent, or rot, is really trif-
ling with the sacred feelings
innate in humankind"
What would former president of
the United States who more than a
hundred and fifty years ago sat down
and penned that document that began
"When in the couse of human events"
say about this miserable apology for
despotism from the pen of the puppet
in the White House at Washington
today?
But we have travelled a long way
since the Declaration of Independence.
jefferson and the revolutionists who
wrote that document were the leaders
of the struggle against the reaction
of their day. Hence their proclama-
tions were virile, dynamic with the
Indignation of rising class entering
the conflict against it's oppressor. To-
day Coolidge personifies the reaction
airy tendencies Of a class that no
longer serves the forces of progress
but is trying, with all means at hand,
to maintain itself against the course
of history.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

Guy Maier and Lee Pattison,
pianists, are making an extensive
concert tour in Europe appearing in
Berlin, Paris, London, Amsterdam
and The Hague.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

The schedule at the American La
boratory Theatre for the week will be
as follows; Monday, Tuesday and
evenings, big Lake.; Thursday,
Friday and Saturday evenings, and
Saturday matinee, "The Sea Woman's
Cloak"
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this performance, Mr.. Zaslawsky has
chosen an all-Russian program.
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Broadway Briefs

The Theatre Guild will present Pr
randello's Fright You Are If You
Think You Are" at the Garrick The
atre for evening performances begin
ming tonight.
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This weeks repertory at the 14th
Street Theatre is as follows: tonight,
Wednesday matinee and Thursday and
Saturday night, "The Cradle Song;
Tuesday and Friday night, Tnheri-
tors; Wednesday night, "The Master
Builders; Saturday matinee, Twelfth
Night"
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what Anne Brought Home" at
Wallack's Theatre will give special
Easter week matinee on Tuesday
April 10Th.
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The L ADD +
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Earl Carroll Thea, 7th Ave. & 5Oth st.
A'e'AA VA Mats. Thurs. Il Sat. 2:so
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IN summing up his reasons for the
L veto Coolidge states that such a
vote, if taken, would be unconvincing
George III of Britain said identically
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28
EAGLE SCOUTS OF NORTHWEST
BUILD PATHS 1M GLACIER PARK

Camp director, Scout Executive M. L.
Crouch, Great Falls.
Trail boss, Scout Executive r. @. Math-
ews, Everett, Wash.
Director Of camp activities, Scout Exec
utive r. E. Crompton, Wenatchee, Wash.
Liaison officer Commissioner E. G. Nc
clay, Great Falls.
N. p. S. men in charge OF trail work,
G. E. Wiley and H. Berzolheimer.
Kitchen staff, William Burlison and
John O'Malley.
Eagle Scouts: Burrel Whitehead, Cut
Bank; Ray Torbenson, Seattle; Ray Blair,
Chelan, Wn.; Wilford Wiley, Great Falls;
Howard Stafford, Eugene, Ore; Gordon
Williams, Great Falls; Rex Manion, Great
Falls; Walter Morris, Great Falls; Brad
ford Datson, Eugene, Ore; Ray Souther
Spokane; Bryce Wood, Everett, WASH;
Van Demick, Kellogg, Idaho; Jerry Kopet
Spokane; William Bergeson, H II n a;
Charles Campbell, Dallas, Ore; Richard
Webb, Dalls, Ore; Jean Smith, Missoula;
Donald Kendall, Iron, Mimi; Lloyd Lille
Portland. Ore; Homer Bergren, Seattle;
Jack Travis, Portland, Ore; Stuart Lillico
Seattle; William Hannes, Council Bluffs
Iowa; Robert Waters, Bellingham, Wash;
Gordon Day, Portland, Ore.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28

Six hundred and ninety head of high
grade Hereford cattle, belonging to
members of the Northern Cheyenne
tribe living on the Tongue River reser-
walton, were recently sold at public
auction and brought $4,000. Between
20 and 30 buyers from Montana and
wyoming and from the principal mar
keCs OF the middle west bid on the
stock.
Most Of the cattle sold are to be
shipped to market where they will be
sold as feeders. The Northern Cheyenne
Indians have bred up a very fine herd
OF Hereford cattle in the last Is years
and this stock has commanded highest
prices in the markets where 1t has been
sold for number of years. The plan
OF selling the cattle before shipment was
thought to be more satisfactory to the
Indians than shipping.
The cattle are all in fine shane and of
an extra good grade Of Hereford stock
Inc highest price was brought by a lot OF
Al head Of three-year-old steers which
was sold to William H. Jensen for S111
apiece. M. Levine of st. Paul, bought 165
head of two-year-old steers for $50, and
w. 3. Spear Of Sheridan, took another
lot OF 80 head at the same price. Charles
Iompktns OF Kirby, bought seven COWS
and calves at $85. John Wallace of Sheri-
dan bought al 1.-The yearlings offered
paying 500 apiece for 207 steers and S5C
apiece for Al heifers. Forty-three ole
oulls were sold to w. L. Cooley at $51
and 81 dry cows to William n. Jensen FOL
$3.50 each.
The money received from the sale O.
Gnees cattle is the property of the indi
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28

laying six federal aid projects in Mon
tana, were taken by the highway COM
mission on the advice Of ATTORNEY Cen
eral Foot, following the sweeping opinion
Of the state supreme court in the Broad
water county case. The supreme court
holds that the right Of eminent domain
in acquiring right Of way for state high
ways lies within the state Commission
rather than in county commissioners.
Hence, in cases where counties have
taken the initiative to secure rights of
way, the state must now become the
plaintiff.
Preliminary action starts with proceed
ings in Silver Bow county.
Plans providing for the construction
Of a 150-room hotel and natatorium at
White Sulphur Springs in connection
with the operation of motor bus lines
between West Yellowstone and Gardiner
in Yellowstone park and Glacier and
Belton in Glacier park, are included in
the application fled with the state rail-
road commission for the bus line permits
The application for a certificate Of pub
lie necessity is made by the Northwest
ern Finance corporation with j. v. Pot
ter as president.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28
STACK DARKENED
TO SAVE BIRDS
MANAGER WIGGINS OF GREAT FALLS
SMELTER GRANTS REQUEST
OF BOY SCOUTS
Illumination of Big Chimney During Mi
gratOry Season Of Ducks, Geese and
SOngbirds, Results In Many of Them
Killing Themselves Against Bricks

The big stack at the Great Falls
smeIter is dark these nights. Light
houses that guide ship of the sea
through the shoals 20 s<1ety in the
storm lure feathered ships of the air,
the birds, to destruction. So at the
suggestion of the Boy Scout OrganiZa-
tiOn of Great Falls, A. E. Virgins, gen.
eral superintendent of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company plant, has or
dered that the SmOkestack Iikhts re-
main darkened until the fight is past.
In years gone by thousands of birds,
1t is estimated, have died in the crash
on stormy nights against the illuminated
stack. 1t has Just come to the attention
OF the smelter management, and Mr.
Wiggtn has been glad to do what can be
done to eliminate the lure Of light, often
as fatal to the birds as the candle flame
Is to the moth.
The toll has been as varied as it has
been extensive. AS the season has turned
the birds south, the stack has claimed
the little songsters as well as ducks and
geese. Not so long ago, one morning
after storm, hundreds of fickers, q
type Of yellow-billed bird resembling the
woodpecker, were found at the base OF
the stack. Last year a watchman one
morning discovered seven or eight in
Jured ducks at the foot Of the great
tower Of brick. He put the birds into g
fountain pool nearby, where they re-
matned until they were again able tC
hy. Then they continued south.
The floodlights on the stack will be
of until after the fight, and that may
be at least another month. It is probable
that the same thing will be done in the
spring when the birds are returning from
the south. But at that period the dan
ger is less.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28

Receipts from the three-cent gasO-
line tax for October should exceed that
of any month since the new law be-
came effective, according to a report
in the state board of equalization.
When the month was half. gone, the
state board had received S116,296.2O
from this tax alone, while the total tax
income for the first Is days of Oc-
tOber reached $153, 1880.
During the 80 days of September the
entire receipts from the three-cent tax
reached S2O3, ,078.02 and based on the in
come during the last Is days of last
month, receipts for the next Is days OF
October should bring the total receipts
to well above 1920 900.
Metal mines tax jumped from 90 last
month to $31 .46 this month when
the Elm Orlu mine Of Butte paid It's an
nual assessment, according to the report.
Receipts from the coal tax reached
compared to $173.85 for the entire month
Of September. This increase is attrib-
uted to the quarterly payments which
became due on September 80.
The inheritance tax netted the state
$2O8.O9 for the first half Of this month,
the oil tax $1O5.41; corporation tax,
$3S3.05 and cement, 1888 .03.
More than 5000 gallons Of liquor were
seized during July, August and Septem-
ber by Montana prohibition agents, ac-
cording to Sam A. Roberts, chief en-
! forcement officer. During the three
months 4,194 gallons Of beer were seized;
1851 gallons of whisky and $40 gallons
Of wine.
During the same period 2s,7s7 gallons
of mash were seized, 256 arrests were
made. 5 stills captured, and % cars
seized.
In July and August, IL agents were
employed in the state. During Septem-
ber, IA were employed.
September was the banner month fol
arrests, there being "a as compared with
| SO in July and 93 in August.
In July 654 gallons of whisky went
into sewers, as compared with $40 In
August and $50 in September.
More than $4,000 pints Of beer went
the same route in September. In July
there were 4,680 pints Of beer seized
and in August 13, 3,765. August leads the
list Of wine seizures, with 2O3 gallons
going the route, with 46 in July and q
following in September.
Money derived from the sale Of cattI,
carrying brands not officially recorded IL
the state office has reached $40 O0O &C
cording to report of E. A. Phillips sec
retary Of the Montana livestock commits
sion. A special fund known as the estra'
fund is maintained for this purpose. Cat
Tie carrying brands which are not re
corded in the livestock office, are shipped
to eastern markets with some Montan
stockman's cattle and the money place,
in the fund. Under the law the none
after two years Is transferred to the live
stock commission general maintenance
fund, but up to the present time non
has been taken from the fund. Man
claims are received from cattlemen, VIII
have identified stock sold under tn
above conditions and these men are pai
from the standing fund.
, Preliminary steps in Strengthening on
| highway condemnation proceedings de
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28
stick Skaters Mans Nose

Frank A. Lghtner, nemploye Of the
Glengary Mining company, Of Cook City,
is convalescing at the Park hospital In
Livingston from injuries received In an
accident that occurred at the property
Of the company Lghtner was operating
a circular saw. The end Of small stick
he was saving flew from the machine
and shattered his nose.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28
LerseYs Win Honor

r. M. Shoemaker's herd Of nine grade
and purbred Jerseys Of Missoula was the
high herd in Montana Of all herds on
test in the COW testing association and
clubs for the month of August. The
herd f.eld the record as highest in Lake
county with an average Of 43.3 pounds
butter fat.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28
seeIv Denies RumOr

Earl w. Seely. acquitted in Billings In
August, 1924, on a charge of first de-
gree murder In connection with the
death Of William Frink, taxicab driver,
is alive, contrary to recent rurnors, ac-
cording to information received by his
attorney, Guy @. Derry.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-28

vidual Indians owning the various brands
represented and WI be distributed
through the agency office during the
next few months. The sale Of cattle Is
the principal source Of income TO the
I.5OO Cheyennes living on the reserva-
tion. Last year 100000 worth Of cattle
were sold on the Omaha market in Octo-
Der and the money was distributed dur
inc the winter