The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1924, Page 3

eae Monday, March 3, 1924 FAKE GRAIN BILL DENOUNCED BY F. FL. SECY McNary Plan Passes Senate Committee (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 2,—The McNary bill providing for a $200,- 000,000 agricultural export corpora- tion has been favorably reported by the senate committee on agriculture today. The bill was amended in committee to reduce the operating period from ten years to five. The cceporation directed by a commission headed_by the secretaries of agriculture, com- merce and treasury would be authorized to maintain prices on farm pao by balancing the ex- port of the surplus. . * “Fake Bill”, Says Manley. Charges that Julius Barnes, Presi- dent of the United States Chamber of Commerce was the real author of the MeNary bill were made yesterday by Joseph Manley, secretary of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party. “This is a fake bill,” said Manley. “It was drawn for the prpose of kill- ing the Norris bill which provides for price fixing by putting the entire grain selling business, domestic and foreign, into ‘the hands of the gov- ernment, There are so many loop- holes in the McNary bill that only a small portion of even the export business would actually be handled by the Agricultural Export Corpora- tion, “The Chamber of Commerce has this sham substitute jammed thru the senate committee in order to leave the banks in control of the wheat belt. South Dakota, particular- ly, is being flooded with specious arguments for this plan which will do nothing for the farmers. The Chamber of Comimerce’s hope is to quiet the unrest of the poverty- stricken farmers by this piece of bunkum. a Class Party Gains. “South: Dakota farmers will not be satisfied with the McNary bill nor any other Big Business trickery. The South Dakota Farmer-Labor Party is making tremendous strides thru the wheat lands. It has the whole-hearted support of the Fed- erated Farrenlavor Party and Tom Ayres, its candidate at the March primaries for United States Senator, is running on the Federated Farmer- Labor slogans of the “Five Year Moratorium for all Working Farm- ers” and “The Land for the Users”. Demand Freedom, Not U.S. Navy Rule (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, March 2.—Copies of the draft of a measure creating a permanent form of civif govern- ment for the Virgia Islund, favored by the people of that new possessicn of the United States, have been handed to Chairman irfield, house committee on insular affairs, and to Admiral Latimer, judge advocate general of the navy, by Rothschild Francis, chairman, Virgin Islands committee. Since the purchase of the islands, during the war, the United States has ruled them thru the navy ca =e ment, without in any way consulting the wishes of the people themselves. Resolutions have been adopted by the A. F. of L., the American Civil Liberties union, the Negro Sanhedrin, Lincoln League of America, and the Virgin Islands committee, demand- ing citizenship and a permanent form of civil government by and for the natives. The colonial councils in the islands recently adopted a resolution which in part asked con- gress to determine the political status of the natives of these islands in the American government. German Seamen Tie Up Ships in Australian Port (By The Federated Press) SYDNEY, New South Wales, Mar, ble the 5 Sette ho di Tir wise, while the men remain on THE DAILY WORKER Canadian Worker Sees Gleam of Hope Break Thru European Mists The DAILY WORKER:—The sun is now breaking thru the clouds in Great Britain, and the dock strike May appreciably hasten the progress of the workers towards the ideal of a Workers’ Republic. When this ideal is within measur- able distance of attainment, then will come the great offensive of capital in North America to starve out the workers of Great Britain and then Canada will be called on to play a great and perhaps decisive part in keeping open food supplies for the British workers. Let us see that in season and out of season the workers are saturated with the philosophy of hope rather than the hopeless fatalism whi considers that the workers of Can- ada are forever predestined to lie helpless in the grip of the oil-soaked autocracy of Washington. For once let the workers of Canada cease speculating upon the golden day when labor will triumph in Europe and the United States, and instead bend their energies to bringing nearer this golden day. Let us look forward to the immediate realization of a Canada both self-contained and able to extend valuable aid to labor all over the world, M. GERRISH, Montreal, Canada. Head of Mellon’s Steel Co. Hires All Treasury Employes (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, March 2.—Sen, Couzens has discovered, by a private questioning of the mysterious “Col. Drake,” who has been put in charge of employing all personnel at the Treasury, that Drake is president of the Pressed Steel Car Co., a Mellon concern. The Pressed Steel Car Co. is in- famous in strike history, and in its record of bitter warfare upon organ- ized labor. ~ Couzens is demanding that Con- gress investigate the Internal Rev- enue Bureau, to discover the loop- holes in the law and in the rules of its enforcement, whereby hundreds of millions of dollars of income tax- es have failed of collection. Drake is supposed to report secretly to his private boss—Mellon—as to the “safety” of employes proposed for transfer to the Internal Revenue Bu- reau. He is not on the government payroll, but is credited with guard- ing the Bureau against radical clerks, who might talk too much when big reductions in tax levy are handed out to oil companies for “deprecia- tion of plant,” etc. Mellon has sent representatives to Couzens, seeking to prevent his go- ~ further with the investigation plan. New York Firetraps Owned by City Are Highly Profitable (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, March 2.—A large group of city-owned buildings in Brooklyn were condemned by Alder- man George U. Harvey before the board of aldermen, Harvey charging that’ these structures are firetraps. He suggested that the. dangerous buildings be destroyed and the site used as a playground. He pointed out that the former owners were still allowed to collect rent after the city had purchased the tenements in ques- tion. These illicit landlords, he said, were reaping substantial profits. Alderman John J. McCusker, in whose ward the buildings are situ. ated, protested against this “inter- ference” in his iliwick. Despite McCusker’s solicitude for the law- breaking profiteers who squeeze high rents from the condemned tenement Harvey’s resolution was filed. Lewis Tools Bring Besco Slaves Raise in Price of Coal (By The Federated Press) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, March 2.—The 12,000 coal miners employed by the British Empire Steel cor- poration are talking of a new fight less than a month after the Montreal agreement was signed, The agreement was objected to by a num- ber of locals, including two that have consistently opposed, the radical trend of the rest of District 26 of the mine workers, The contract runs for one year, expiring Jan. 15, 1925, contrary to the wishes of the miners, who did not want it to end in late is par- of company coal to miners of a ton over the old price of a ton, ‘ Amalgamated Bank Sells $500,000 in First Mortgages 1.80 . Over $500,000 worth of First M have been sold by the and Savings Bank in one year. Societies, unions and individ are investing. Lar ng on which loans are granted the Amalgamated Trust CHICAGO UNIONS — || GAL cannot on witt JOINBATTLE FOR | FOREIGN WORKERS Council Endorsed by Labor Federation. The Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday cast itself into the fight against the Davis laws which plan the fingerprinting ani indexing of foreign born workers under the guise of “selective immigration” measures, By unanimous vote the federation adopted a resolution passed by the newly constituted Council for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers that met at 180 W. Washington St. that morning and that represented numerous Chicago labor locals, lan- guage and political groups. The protest adopted by the Feder- ation will be forwarded at once to both houses of Congress. It repre- sents the largest and most formid- able body of labor opinion yet formu- lated against the open shop seheme and shows that the workers from the Windy City are not taken in by the “anti-foreigner” ery which Big Busi- ness is raising for the purpose of having several million workers at its mercy, The resolution follows: . Flay Peonage Laws. Whereas, There are now pending in the United States Congress sev- eral proposed laws, backed by the big employers of the country, in- tended to enslave the workers, cut down the standard of living, and establish the “open shop” thru the destruction of the existing unions, and Whereas, Some of these notori- ous proposed laws, known as House Bill No. 691, introduced by Repre- sentative Rosenbloom; House Bill No, 2900, by Representative Kelly, and Senate Bill No. 4303, by Sena- tor Colt, provide for selective im- migration on a contract basis, registering of all foreign born workers in general contained in these foreign born workers be also photographed and _finger-printed like criminals, and ; Whereas, These proposed laws are a menace to native and for- eign born workers alike, inasmuch as the true ,purpose is to force these foreign born workers to be- come a club wherewith to beat down the standard of living to all the workers of this country, to force then to become strike-break- ers to help destroy the established trade unions, and zs ‘Whereas, The Convention of the American Federation of Labor held recently at Portland, Ore., in a forceful manner went on record pointing. out the dangers to the workers in general gintained in these proposals for legislation for selective immigration and register- ing of foreign born workers ang recommended that the Executive Council use all means at its dis- posal to defeat such legislation, therefore, be it f Resolved, That this Conference go on record to constitute itself as a Council for Protection of Foreign Born Workers and do everything in power by means of public protest meetings, publicity, ete., to oppose the passage of these proposed laws to oppress the foreign born workers. Conference Plans Action. The morning conference which formed itself into a couneil for the Protection of the Foreign Born laid plans for mass meetings and litera- ture to arouse the workers of the Chicago district to the menace of the so-called “selective immigration” laws and the necessity of all workers standing together against attacks at any one group. The conference will meet again Sunday after next at which time it is expected that additional unions will be represented. The conference was called by the Czecho-Slovakian Page Three NOT ANSWER SENATOR GARAWAY'S QUESTION (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 2nd.— President Coolidge will make “no comment” or reply to the question hurled at him in the Senate by Senator Caraway, Arkansas, it has been stated officially at the White House. Caraway, in a speech, said he would like the President to reveal whether he ever had any communi- cation with E, B. McLean, pub- lisher of the Washington Post, while McLean was in Palm Beach in December and January. He said one hundred million people want an answer to that question because of a telegram to McLean in which reference was made to “the prin- cipal” receiving a message from MeLean and being gratified that “no resignations” would take place. “Who is the principal?” asked Caraway. “Who knows whether there were to be more resignations from the Cabinet? Who could have been the principal?” IMPEACH COOLIDGE! SERF LIFE FILM IS MOSCOW ART PLAYERS’ LATEST German Relief Will Get Proceeds NEW YORK, Mar. 2.—“Polikush- ka,” the first screen production of the Moscow Art Theatre’ players, which features their leading star, Ivan Moskvin, in the title role, will be shown at the Amalgamated Tem- ple, 21 Arion Place, Bklyn, Wednes- day evening, at 8:30 p. m., March 5, and in the Bronx, at Eblings Casino, 156th stfeet and St. Ann’s avenue, Friday evening, March 7 at 8:30 Pp. m. The film is an adaptation from the story of serfdom written by Leo Tolstoi at the time when the Russian peasants were emancipated. “Poli- kushka”’ is a jovial drunken peasant, typical of that period, who manages to earn or steal enough for drink, but the care and responsibility of raising a large family rests lightly on his shoulders, It happens that the mistress of the village entrusts “Polikushka” with an earrand to get a large sum of money in a nearby city. The peasant is elated over the trust, and s a changed being; for the first time in his life he has been entrusted with responsibility which he must carry out on the peril of his life, +e “Polikushka” carries out his trust but on the way home, he falls asleep and loses the money which falls out from a hole in his cap. To his simple way of thinking there is nothing left but to do away with himself. He picks up his cap for one last, hopeless search and then hangs himself. Moskvin plays the role with such realism and sympathy that one might almost say he, “lives” “Poli- kushka.” The picture is altogether different from any film produced in America, The work of an artist in- terpreter of the highest order, such as is Ivan Moskvin, and the remark- able simplicity of the story written by the master-artist Tolstoi, cannot be sur, All those who want to see a re- markable film ghould not fail to come, In addition, a new film called “Russia-Germany” in which is de- pic the condition of the German wo) , will also be shown in the Amalgamated Temple on Wednesday evening for the first time in America. These performances are given for Workers’ Council. The organizations sending delegates were: Organizations in Council. (Czecho-Slovak Workers’ Coun- cil; Machinists’ Local Union, No. 84; Machinists’ Local Union, No. 134; Machinists’ Local Union, No. 113; Machinists’ Local Union, No, 478; Painters’ No. 194; Painters’ ¥ Work aa Ge as oun; orkers je; rman Protenive Bilahisthe toncarien Sick and Death Benefit Society; Lithuanian Workers’ Aljiance. The Council for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers is-a particu- | M: larly important thing for Chicago labor, delegates pointed out, use such a large pro) of the city’s workers are of pean extraction. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! WAGES DOWN, PROFITS UP. SYDNEY, N. S, W., March 2.— Statistics published by the New South Wales bureau of statistics Teas wale ‘higher chante the pee- ir. Feast GE Wala Senta the cost of raw ma the benefit of the starving German workers and their families. * uuis | IMPEACH COOLIDGE!**” Trachtenberg to Speak on the International Communist Movement NEW YORK, March 3.—Alexan- der Trachtenberg, who has recently returned from a fourteen months trip in Europe, including eight months in Soviet Russia, will speak on “The International Communist Move- ment” at two meetil arranged to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Third International. The first meeting will be held on March 4, in th ‘ig = Palace Hall, 16 ‘anhattan Ave., Brooklyn, and the second meeting will be held on March 5th at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Avenue, New York City. Comrade Trachtenberg is a well known student of political and social institutions, and is larly qual- ified to speak on this so much mis- understood and important topic. Admission is only twenty-five cents. , IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Five Radical Pamphlets. Pasquale Russo is the author of fread popula siya fee propaganda 8 ‘or pro) im The Wgokioes’ anos in hold strokes the radical’s reaction to the subjects taken up. The titles are “Ku Klux Klan, Church and Labor;” Neato, Savery sTwelve Oochock ej a ‘elve oc! Luneh.” are ied at 25 cents each author at wick street, FINN WORKERS GIVE LEAD IN CO-OPERATION Bing, Builder, Boosts Municipal Housing By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Abolition of the slums thru private initiative is hopeless, said Alexander M. Bing, one of the largest real es- tate operators and builders in New York, at the opening of the cooper- ative housing exhibit held under the auspices of the United Neighborhood Houses, Inc, Bing favored state aid in housing and stated that it was possible for the state or municipality to embark on a program of slum clearance without losing money. State aid in financing the cooper- ative housing efforts of groups of ‘wage earners apeared to be the most practical method to those attending the exhibit which contains models and posters illustrating co-operative housing ventures already undertaken by wage earners in New York City. The cooperative housing proper- ties of a colony of Finns in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, afford the most in- teresting example of such ventures by New York wage earners. A group of. Finnish workers, chiefly carpen- ters and bricklayers, started their co- operative idea in 1916. Today they own cooperatively ten apartment houses sheltering 450 families or about 2250 persons. The tenants’ incomes vary between $40-$50 a week and their rents between $30- $50 a month. For this they get apartments which compare favor- ably with those renting for three times as much in New York. Apart- ments are thoroly up to date with/ electric light, steam heat and hot water. Bathrooms include tub and shower. Workers purchased their apart- ments in these coopérative houses for about $100 a room. In the newest building this price has been some- what. increased as a result of the high cost of building. If, however, a worker is without the necessary cash he receives a loan to the extent nec- essary. The cooperative housing idea in this instance has branched out to in- clude a cooperative meat market, a cooperative bakery and a club. The club has a large auditorium for lec- tures, dramatics, musicals, dances, etc., a pool room, a coffee room and other clubrooms and serves as a gen- eral center for the community. Other outstanding examples of co- operative housing undertaken by New York wage earners include the five cooperatively conducted tene- ments begun under the auspices of Dr. H. M. Tyndall of the People’s Tabernacle, the Beekman Hill Homes on East 50th st., and the Workmen’s Cooperative House at 1786 Lexing- ton ave. These experiments show what can be accomplished when people get to- gether and throw over their depend- ence uy.~ profit-seeking private ini- tiative. But even in this matter of housing the possibilities of coopera- tive effort cannot be fully realized because the cooperators must go to profiteering private interests for the land on which their houses rest, for building materials and for the credit required during the building period, Only when private interests have been ousted from their control of land and other natural resources will it be possible for workérs to acquire good homes with a reasonable ex- penditure of labor. This cooperative housing exhibit simply points the way. Connecticut Job Seekers Finding “Not Wanted’ Signs (By The Federated Press) HARTFORD, Conn., March 2.—A quarter of the applicants for work at Connecticut free employment offices during January were turned away be- cause no jobs were available, accord- ing to the report of the state depart- ment of labor. This represented a considerable falling off in the labor demand as compared with December. The report shows that out of 3,265 applicants only 2,483 were furnished work. The figures show that employers were more anxious to obtain women workers than men, for 86 out of every 100 women applying got a job while only 66 out of every 100 male applicants were placed. This illus- trates the tendency in modern indus-~ try to give the cheapest labor the steadiest employment. Frequently, as shown in the U. 8. children’s bu- re itudy of the last depression, the breadwinner of the family cannot get a job but the mother and even the younger children can find em- ployment. Compensation Bill Fought by Lobby of Insurance Interests (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, March 2.—For- eign as well as American insurance companies have now admitted that they are carrying on an organized lobby to prevent passage of the Fitz- id Mikado compensation ill for the District of Columbia. They demand that the state insurance fund feature, which excludes all pri- vate concerns from writing insurance against industrial accident liability under this law, shall be dropped. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! | tance "on the aga tne Nan Little Entente Doomed by New Balkan Treaties By FRITZ KREJCSI (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press PRAGUE, March 2.—It is consid- ered an obvious fact that the r Franco-Czech and _Italo-Jugosla treaties spell the doom of the Littl Entente, which supposedly embraces Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rou- mania, Rome treaty came as a surprise to the-Czech government, and a thor- oughly unpleasant surprise at that. Both Roumania and Jugoslavia re-| sented the alliance which the Czech Foreign Minister, Benes, concluded with Poincare; it was felt that this alignment meant the complete en- slavement of the Little Entente to France, unless it were counteracted. The Italian-Jugoslavy pact was the antidote. Benes’ attempt to thwart that treaty failed miserably, While the connection between Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia will be maintained, a new alignment of forces is arising, which will embrace Italy, Hungary and Poland, with the eventual adhesion of Jugoslavia and Roumania, This means that Czecho- slovakia must seek some modus vi- yendi with her restless neighbor, Hungary, The recognition de jure of Soviet Russia by Czechoslovakia is approach- ing. Even the most virulent reac- tionaries here are now reconciled to the inevitable. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! 48-Hour Law for Women May Pass N. Y. Legislature (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, March 2.—A heated debate ensued before the Senate and Assembly Labor and Industries com- mittees at Albany, where bi§s pro- posing a 48-hour week and the es- tablishment of a minimum wage com- mission were discussed. The bills would apply only to women and min- ors. Opposition to the bills was ex- pressed by the employers’ represen- tative, Mark A. Daly. It will be re- membered that Daly’s role as the paid lobbyist of the Associated In- dustries was exposed recently during the bosses’ unsuccessful attack upon the State Labor Commissioner, Shien- tag. On that occasion, it was shown that the Associated Industries have been expending immense sums to maintain a lobby, devoted to sabot- aging every measure of social or eco- nomic progress. Sponsors of the bills included em- issaries of the State Federation of Labor, the Consumers’ League, the Women’s Trade Union League and other labor groups. In 1923, both the minimum wage commission and 48-hour week bills were defeated, but it is considered that the latter measure stands fair chances of being passed this year. League of Nations Labor Bureau Is Good for Something (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, March 2—he World War was fought on less coal, iron, steel, lead, zinc, cotton and wool than were used in peacetime manu- facture in 1913, according to statis- tics compiled by the International Labor Office of the League of Na- tions, and issued thru their American office here. The second volume of an exhaustive inquiry into world pro- duction is the immediate source of these figures. Use of copper, aluminum, rubber and silk was increased during the war. Wheat and rye production averaged during the five war years from 80 to 90 per cent of pre-war, while sugar and rice were inreased, Cattle were 5 per cent higher, hogs about the same, and sheep 10 per cent less than in 1913. Housing construction in Germany in 1917 was only 4 per cent, in the rincipal cities, of that for 1913. In jenna in 1918 and 1919 it was only 1 per cent, in Milan and Rome 8 per cent, and in Britain, on a valuation basis, as low as 4 per cent of the amount for 1913. Banks Crash in Canada; Sir Thomas White to Be Quizzed OTTAWA, March 2.—The domin- ion government has appointed a commission to probe the Home Bank disaster. It will investigate the ac- tion of Sir Thomas White, Conserva- tive minister of finance, about six or seven years ago. A complaint was made to White that the bank was unsound, Because of the danger to war time credit which would come from a bank failure he allowed the bank to go on. This is now one of the reasons urged by the Home Bank depositors for government relief, Another phase of this bank disas- ter, which caused the loss of sav. ings to so many poor people now involves a member of the King gov- | d: ernment, Solicitor General E, J. Me- Murray. McMurray’s law firm bor- rowed money from the bank and was unable to repay and the security which it gave subsequently declined in value below the amount of the loan. \ IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Gallows Not Needed, NASHVILLE, Ill, Mar, 2.—Sher- iff Martin Schnipper has asked the authorities of St. Clair County to have dismantled their gallows, which was erected here for the execution of Walter Cochran, Belleville wife slayer, who was a stay of ing. I heay that the Belgrade-| ‘SEDITION TRIALS | OF FARRELL MEN START IN APRIL Steel Trust Press Is | Poisoning Public (Special to The Daily Worker) FARRELL, Pa., March 2.—Siz members of the Workers Party, ar- rested by the Farrell police aided by Department of Justice agents, whe are now held under $3,000 bond, charged with violating the Pennsyl vania Sedition Law, will be tried in the Mercer County court late in April. The grand jury meets the first week in April, and the trials will follow immediately. The defense will wage a vigorous battle against the infamous sedition law and the Farrell cases, the first of such kind in the history of Mercea county, will be of great importance to organized labor and workers is general. Prosecutor Rickert of Mercer county, backed by the Steel Trust press is busy poisoning the public mind with yarns about the “Red Terror” and Chief of Police Ley- shock of Farrell is the small tows hero of the plot. Freedom of as semblage is absolutely forbidden in Farrell and workers must journey across the state line into Ohio to as- semble, as in the days of the steel strike when Bill Foster had to as semble his boys in “No Man’s Land,” which is a strip of land just over the Pennsylvania line. Max Lerner of Cleveland will ad dress a defense meeting in Youngs town, March 9, at the Hungarian Hall, 338 W. Federal street, at $ Pp. m. The case is in charge of the Farrell Defense Council, Box 883 Youngstown, O., Wm. J. White is treasurer, J. M. Dizdar, chairman and Wallace T. Metcalfe, secretary, IMPEACH COOLIDGE! POWDER TRUST BLAS T BRINGS DEATH TO FORTY One Hundred Injured in Giant Explosion «Special to The Daily Worker) METUCHEN, N. J., March 2.~ Forty workers lost their lives ané over one hundred were injured, soms fatally when a T. N. T. explosion ir the - Nixon Nitratione-pi a the Powder Trust wrecked the little industrial town of Nixon and brought sorrow and desolation to the hund reds of women and children. The T. N. T. that exploded was part of 2,000,000 pounds that had been purchased from the govern- ment’s Raritan arsenal and removed from big shells at the arsenal maga- zine. The explosion occurred at 11730 a. m. on Saturday in the ordinance salvaging plant. The bodies of the victims were so mutilated and burned that only a few could_be identified. The little settlement surrounding the dynamite plant is known as Nixon, When the awful report of the blast subsided the screams of the women and children from the settle- ment rose .on the air. It was heart~ rending. Girls and men were pinned down by steel girders, and showered with nitric acid. Wounded men, with barely a rag of clothes on their backs and with burned bodies scorched black, rushed from the little village in all directions, All U. S. Cruisers Not on Rocks Are Out Collecting Bills WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.— An American destroyer has been or- dered from Kingston, Jamaica, to Puerto Cortez, Honduras, where the revolution is menacing American lives and interests, the state department announced today. Thirty-five additional marines have been landed at Ceiba to protect the American consulate there. A negro, an American citizen, has been injured at Ceiba, according to the state department advices, which however, threw no further light on his identity. The situation both at Ceiba and Puerto Cortez was described as serious. Robbers Thrive Under Butler’s Rule: “Kill ’Em,” He Shrieks PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 2.— “Kill some bandits,” General Smed- ley D. Butler told his police force to- jay. After two months of intensive law enforcement, one murderer and a score of holdups and robberies net- ting more than $10,000 were reported to police headquarters today. “From now on the police force will work in two platoons of 12 hours each,” General Butler declared. “Rum Fighti Comes High. WASHINGTON, March 2nd.—An appropriation of about $14,000,000 to buy more than 300 fast motor boats for the coast guard, to Tum running, was carried in the ficiency appropriation bill favorably reported to the House today,