The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1925, Page 2

t # Page Two te STARVING MINERS, WIVES AND CHILDREN RAID TROOPS SHRINK FROM CONFLICT (Special to The SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, June 15.—Rloting on both sides of} Sydney Harbor in the coal strike area is reported. Strikers and sympathizers drove out the company police of the British Empire Steel corporation (Besco) from Bay and captured a company store at Sydney Mines. ‘ So desperate and hunger-driven are the miners and their ragged, emaciated wives and children—all actually starving for four months—that even the troops which are sent to suppress the raids of these famished thousands upon the company stores The Canadian authorities know that if the troops precipitate bloody conflict, the miners are in the mood are holding their hands. to carry it out unto death. Starving Women and Children Join Food Ralds The area of disturbance is widen- ing and the wives and children of the miners, gaunt, pallid and dressed in sast-off clothing sent them by relief workers or in clean but ragged gar- ments, join with the miners in raiding the company stores and carrying off food and clothing they so sorely stand in need of. In Sydney, the fire and police depart- ment was called to a remote part of town to put out a small fire. When they returned the large company store of Besco’s was in the hands of several hundred miners and their families. The chief of police tried to interfere, but was overpowered. Wagons of the company were re- quisitioned to carry off the loads of goods. These wagons were loaded and then men and women pulled and push- ed them away. Boots, shoes, clothing and foodstuffs all went. Only Two Stores left A summary of the damage done in the southern colliery district indicates that only two company stores are left. The rest are cleaned out entirely. Although 500 more troops have ar- rived, they are powerless to stop the miners unless they begin a battle which may mean the extermination of thousands. This is the outcome of the attempt by the British Empire Steel corporation to cut the wages of the miners of Distriot 26, U. M. W. of A. below the level of existence and to en- force the cut by lockout from the mines and cutting off credit at the company stores, An Attempt to Cut Wages This conflict has been going on since March 6th, when 12,000 miners were driven to strike against a lock- out. Earlier, the company had shut off credit at the company store, as a measure deliberately aimed to starve the miners to submission to the wage | strong, STORES WHILE Dally Worker) the firm's warehouse at Glace cut by putting their children and wives into starvation conditions. Two days before the strike, even the premier of Nova Scotia, E. H. Arm- had interceded verbally, by asking Besco not to shut off store cre- dit, telegraphing R. M. Wolvin, presi- Miners Have Babies But No Food Despite Coolidge Prosperity (By Worker Correspondent.) MONESSEN, June 15—"Who wants a little baby?” is getting to be the slogan now in this Coolidge suppos- ed-to-be-good times. The unemployment situation in this district is pretty bad. The miners have beén out of work for months, and their little bit of savings are about used up if they ever had any. An unknown man left a_ three- months old baby boy at a local home here and then departed. The baby was turned over to the police. If nobody wants’ the little baby, it will be taken to the county home, but the poor people can’t afford to take it as they have a hard time getting along themselves with the measly lit- tle pay they get. The rich who really can afford to take_the poor tot, will not take it just because it is a “nobody.” Several days ago a baby was left on a door step in Donora near here. RIFFS CAPTURE dent of Besco, as follows. Premier Protests Shuting Off Credit “The present situation coal mines particularly Cape Breton occasioning great personal and provincial concern and evidences of acute distress are ac- cumulating intensified by company’s recent action stopping credit at stores at a time when further distress must follow, and your action cannot be ex- plained or understood. “Submit original purpose of com- pany store was to meet an emergency of the character now existing and if any expenditures necessary to main- tain organization or prepare for sum- mer shipments those for keeping workmen alive are not only justifiable ‘but compulsory. “With this in view, seriously sug- gest that you arrange at once to bank out even a limited quantity of coal for shipment next summer and thus as- sists in further employment and con- tinue a policy that has been followed in the past with satisfactory if not Profitable results. “Quite apart from the respective dis- putes re new wage scale I submit you should extend your credit at stores and not further pursue a course that is disturbing to the public and creat- {ng suffering which I am convinced now exists at your collieries.” While Armstrong in the above said clearly enough that the keeping alive of the workmen by the stores was “compulsory”—nevertheless he called out no troops to compel Besco to do it. But the troops are out now when the miners have undertaken the task of making “compulsory” the right they have to preserve their lives and those of their dependents. MEXICO CHALLENGES WALL ST. (Continued from page 1.) internal affairs. Calles pointed out “the contradic- tion found in Mr, Kellogg’s statements when he declares that the United States have the greatest interest in the maintenance of order in Mexico and in the stability of her government and at the same time stating that he has seen news of revolutionary move- ments.” Calles “reject with energy any im- putation that the government of Mex- ico ia on trial before the world as an insult.” The Mexican government’s state- ment was in reply to a declaration issued by Secretary of State Kellogg, wherein Kellogg charged that Calles “was not protecting American life and property,” and hinted that the Mexican government would not be supported un- less further steps were taken to sup- press militant workers’ movements and unless strikes were stamped out by the use of troops. No Interference “Mexico does not accord to any foreign country the right to intervene in any form in her domestic affairs,” Calles note stated. “Nor is she dis- posed to subordinate her international relations to the exigencied of another country. If the government of Mexico is now on trial before the world, such is the case with the government of the United States as well as those of all other countries. But if it is to be un- derstood that my country is on trial as a defendant; my government ab- solutely rejects with energy euch im- putation, which in essence, would only mean an insult.” “In no way will my government ad- mit that a government of any nation may pretend to create a privileged si- tuation for its natynals in the coun- try, nor shall it either accept any foreign interference contrary to the rights of sovereignty of Mexico.” Hearst's Finger in Ple The trip of the presidential yacht Mayflower was devoted to discussion of the Mexican situation, according to reports. Hearet is a large landholder and controls many interests in Mexico. Arthur Brisbane acted as Hearst's re- Presentative on the trip, it is thot, in the dual capacity of publicity man and business representative. » Pershing and the head of the mari- nes were taken on the trip, as the Coolidge government is known to be worried over the spirit of revolt mani- festing itself among the colonial and semi-colonial peoples, A quick milit- expedition may be planned to Soloan out the Feds,” in Mexico, It ts known that the Standard Oil company for some months has been exerting ghee hide Pressure on the Calles government to break up the more militant unions and to suppress strikes among the oil workers. Sheffield Not Wanted The Mexican government does not want ambassador Sheffield to return‘ to Mexico, it is felt here. Sheffield made the report to the president which prompted the Coolidge admini- stration’s note. “Action and not words is what the United States wants from Mexico,” was the reply to the Mexican note in high administration circles, intimating that Coolidge will continue in his de- mands that Calles obey the will of the Standard Oil company. Borah With imperialists The “progressive” Senator Borah, chairman of the foreign relations com- mittee of the senate, took part in the conference at the White House at which ambassador Sheffield painted Mexico as a land of banditry and at which the Kellogg note was framed. Borah agreed to the sending of the imperialistic demands. The Mexican government has not paid its interest on the Morgan loan, and it is thot in some quarters that Coolidge is helping Morgan to collect his money, at the same time that he aids the Standard Oil’s drive against the trade unions, “The Washington Post, in an editor- ial a column long, states that Calles “must put down Communism or face revolution by a Mexican element that will be stable and reliable,” showing that Coolidge threatens to promote an uprising against Calles unless the Present government bows to Wall Street's demands, Hello Girls String Housewives for Big Total of Stock Sales NEW YORK, June 15.—(FP)—The telephone trust, American Telegraph and Telephone Co., part of the great electric trust and in Morgan’s empire, {s boasting thru the mouth of its vice- president, David F, Houston, how its employes have been selling stock for the firm, Houston announces that in two years “hello girls,” lMnemen, office workers and other employes of the company havo raised $126,000,000 and added 188,000 subscribers to its stock. The company says that housewives and clerks are the principal biters on the stock bait held out by tele- ephone trust workers, jer, made feeble protests against this | | | BIBANE HEIGHTS ON ROAD TO FEZ Socialists Give Up Cap- ital Levy Demand (Continued from Page 1) have now given up their demand for the levy on capital, in spite of the fact that they had repeatedly declared they would not support the Palnleve gov- ernment unless their demand for the capital levy had been met. The socialists, meeting with the re- formist left block, have agreed to sup- port minister of finance Caillaux’ fy nancial program which omits the cap- ital levy, and instead, places.an in- creased taxation burden on the French workers. H. Blum the socialist lead- abandonment of one of the main (&- mands of the socialists, but after maintaining that “There is not enough time to discuss properly such a grave question,” the left bloc unanimously agreed to support Caillaux’ taxation program. “Morocco For Moroccans” “I will make a full report of my visit to Morocco to parliament Tues- day afternoon,” Painleve declared as he boarded an airplane at Malaga. The Communist deputies in the French chamber will oppose the appropria- tions asked by the Painleve govern- ment to prosecute the campaign against the Rians, and will demand that Morocco be left to the Moroccans. Altho Painleve has repeatedly talk- ed of combined Franco-Spanish at- tacks, it is now felt that the Spanish do not contemplate any action against the Riffian further than a blockade of gunrunners. Fear General Uprising Painleve’s visit was prompted in part by a fear that the Moroccans be- hind the lines would revolt, wedging the French invaders between a double edged front. In order to attempt to appease the restless tribes, Painleve has asked the puppet sultan Mulay Yussef who “rules” by virtue of French permission to “solemnly enter Fez next week end,” to “rouse the lo- yalty” of the Moroccans. Several parts of Morocco have never been conquered by the foreign imper- ialists. Twenty miles south of Taza it is unsafe for Europeans to go. The Atlas mountains are filled with natives who have never been subdued by French imperialism, Spanish Attack Futile Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Rifflans, who have never accepted Spanish or French domination, declared in an in- terview with a London paper, “I have 160,000 mon available, but up to the present I have only used 60,000, The Spanish government sent an ultima tum to me saying it wanted to nego- tiate a friendly settlement, intimating that if I did not fall in with thetr views I would be instantly crushed. To our poor Moorish sense of humor this is very funny. They have been trying to crush us for thirty years. I only used 15,000 men against 150,000 Spa- .nish troops, 20,000 of whom are pris- oners. Between my headquarters and the Spanish fleet are these 20,000 Spa- nish prisoners, who would be blown to pieces if the fleet attacked,” African Empire At Stake The premier’s declaration that Fran- ce would retain her troops along the Ouergha “for the defense of Morocco” shows that Painleve is fighting to save the whole African empire of French imperialism, which the Rif_ans now threaten to reconquer for the Africans. Workers Badly Burned in Fire Trap Factory NEW YORK, June 15, — Twenty workers in the King Book Match Co, factory were trapped in the one-story building and 12 were badly burned, one of the girls so badly that she may die. After the lunch hour a worker was carrying strips of potash of chlorate dipped cardboard, As he dumped his load on the pile near the machine which cuts the strips into match-book lengths the mound suddenly burst: into flames, The draft from emergency fire exits opened swept the flames quickly thru the inflamable materials. None of the workers escaped without injury, ‘ wer cel CASUALTIES IN BOOZE WAR ARE MOUNTING UP Gangsters Make Mistake of Shooting Cops (Continued from page 1) kind of admiinstration suits some of the capitalists, there are others whose interests demand a more rigorous en- forcement of law, and furthermore Thompson’s policies in other respects ran counter to those of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, and its offici- al organs the Chicago Tribuno and the Daily News. Thompson was hound- ed until he was forced to decline mak- ing the race for re-election. The of- fice was given to Dever, a submissive, colorless Roman catholic puritan, and a lickspittle of big business. The Tri- bune and News deserted their own candidate Lueder for Dever at the eleventh hour. ped The K. K. K. Got Busy. As soon as Dever assumed office the ku klux klan, under the pseud- onym of the Better Governmert Asso- ciation, presided over by a Cromwelli- an skypilot named Elmer Williams, got busy and Dever was forced to raid soft drink parlors and other Places where John Barleycorn was worshipped well and wisely, tho in de- ance of the 18th amendment. But the Chicago police. did not have their heart in the work and the vendors ot beverages with a kick found that’ a wad of bills rightly placed was as effective in securing freedom from Police interference as vaccine is in |guarding against small pox. It was not always easy to satisfy the police, the prohibition agents and the rival gangs of bootleggers. The result was that several accidents took Place and the history of Chicago since the advent of prohibition was some- thing like the history of Ireland dur- ing the Land League days when the life of a landlord was a poor insur ance risk. The city officials did not howl very loudly until police began to get |slaughtered. But {t is a well known |fact that the police are part and par- cel of the beer gangster mobs. The blind pigs run by the bootileggers had no better customers that the po- |lice, from the NMeutenants down to the | |Ppatrolmen. And the police would jcurse prohibition roundly while quaf- fing their drinks at night in the haunts of those hootleggers whom they might be chasing around the ci- ty the following day, threatening to “drive them out of town within twen- ty four hours.” Such.is life in a big capitalist city, v Crowe Talked of Hanging. Every time 4 policeman or a gangs- ter got killed in an alcohol war the states attorney, Robert H. Crowe, Mayor Dever and Polite Chief Collins called in the local ‘papers and gave lengthy interviews, promising to shoot, jail or hang the gangsters. On those occasions the sadistic state at- torney would feast his soul on the Prospect of a hanging case. But the storm blows over and the gangsters, bootleggers and vice lords know when | jto open up again and “business as | jusual” becomes the slogan until an} overnervous finger touches a trigger | and the story cannot be kept out of | the press. | One day after the ‘elections last | November, Dean O’Bannion, florist, hi-jacker, bootlegger and murderer of parts went down on’ the floor of his shop amid the Posies never to rise again. He had enough lead in his body to sink a tug. He made the front | Page because he was a big fellow and the bosom friend of some of the ci- ty’s leading Politicians, including many in city hall. There was a big outcry and the usual threats were made, But States Attorney Crowe who is usually so glib with Promises of a ride to the gallows for evil doers with the gun, was strangely silent. The cat walked out ofthe bag, but the capitalist press maintained a dis- creet silence. The following facts de- veloped: 3 O’Bannion Good ‘Vote Getter. Mike Merlo, the leader of the Itali- an gangsters, who died the day be- fore O’Bannion was murdered, deliver- ed or promised to deliver his ward to the political machine that was in op- Position to Crowe. But O’Bannion shot his way into Merlo’s balliwick, kidnapped Merlo’s workers and made the ward safe for the state's attor- ney. That was the story that went the rounds in the news-gathering agenctes. But the ‘editors blue Den- eilled it. It does not take a Sherlock Holmes to make out a plausible theory for the motive of the O’Bannion shooting. One of the Genna gang was arrested on suspicion of shooting O’Bannion, but he was turned loose again. It is said this is not the first time that Crowe's office turned a useful gangs- ter loose. From that day to this no Ught has been shed on the O’Bannion ne is nc ete rand —— Persia Refuses to Allow of Shi Parley alee GENEVA, Juno 15—Persia has withdrawn from the arms traffic con- ference because of the decision of the conference that Persian ships in the Gulg of Persia coult be serched if sus- = aaa Capitalists Now Hunting for Plan to Put Over the Morgan-Dawes Plan By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY, Washington reports that the stream of gold pour- ing into the United States is greater than ever in volume. More than a billion dollars for the 11 months ended June 1! This is shown in America’s balance of trade totalling $1,038,000,000 for this period, establishin war commerce with exports of $4,540, of $3,502,114,000, or a total $8,000,000,000. a record for post- 1,000 and imports foreign trade of more than This compares with the much amaller excess of exports over imports for the same period in 1923-24 of $724,600,000, which was made up of $3,200,000,000 incoming commerce and $4,004,000,000 outgoing. it buys. oe America still sells more than This means, for instance, that Western European cap- italism is incapacitated still more in its efforts to pa the war debts owing to the United States; that the Dawes Plan is still further crippled in its futile attempt to stave off capitalist chaos, not only in Germany, but in those countries depend- Ing on Germany for reparations gold. * This situation will occupy the principal discussions at the meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce this week at Brussels, Belgium. It is this aggregation of the world's big business interests that claims credit for launch- ing the Dawes Plan. But even its best financial wizards admit they are still at a loss how to carry it out successfully. Sir Josiah Stamp, of the Noble Industries, Ltd., of Eng- land, is going to read a paper to his fellow business bandits at Brussels, but all that he has to offer is to urge more “‘cor- dial American co-operation,” loans and-credits into Western Europe, especially to buttress the now parading under the name of “Stinnes' a year of the Dawes Plan, durin which German exports increased which means pouring more even into Germany, industrial structures and “Krupp.” After the first six months of 2.7 per cent, compared to tottering the same period in the previous year, German capitalism is so anaemic that it needs an injection of Wall Street bullion. Whatever success Germany has had in meeting her obligations under the Dawes Plan have been at the expense ot the nations she is supposed to benefit. Germany either sells to the countries to which she owes reparations, thus paralyzing industry in these nations; or Germany sells to other countries, thus stealing the her creditors, as they are to her. markets as necessary to The famous Sir Stamp offers no escape. He merely confesses that: “The way Germany can pay is in manufactured goods from electri- cal, iron, steel and miscellaneous Industries. The peoples who must receive reparations also manufacture these, If they were countries like Brazil and Argentina the problem would be fairly easy. But because they are so like Germany in economic structure is how the difficulty arises. If they receive all the German Products in thelr own markets, manufacturers will be aggrieved. If they keep them out so they are sent to neutral markets and the neutral eountrie: send food and raw materials to the Allies the edge of the difficulty will be gone. “BUT THE EXPORT INDUSTRIES OF THE ALLIES TO NEUTRALS WOULD THEN BE AFFECTED.” * * The task of the meeting of Commerce is to finda If such a plan is offered * . of the International Chamber plan to make the Dawes plan work. it will be about as successful as the capitalist promise that the last “war was to end all wars”. Capitalism marches ‘to its doom in western Europe as everywhere else. Communism com quickly on its heels. murder tho the underworld is covef- ed with stoolpigeons from the office of States Attorney Crowe, Money In Booze, Since the death of Dean O'Bannion, several policemen and gangsters have been laid low and no doubt the death harvest will continue to be reaped after the present flurry blows over. There is money in peddling booze and it will be peddled. ‘The capitalists need the gangsters and they will dodge the rope, except when they shoot. policemen. And even then as long a8 they have money, there is ve- ry little danger. Only a few colored unfortunates have passed away on the scaffold in Chicago in recent years for the crime of taking life illegally. The capitalists need the gangsters in labor struggles. But the gangsters must be taught that they cannot take the lives of the capitalist’s police with impunity, This will never do. The politicians must also make a lot of noise occasionally to keep the moral reformers from butting in, It's @ dangerous life but there is money in it, Chicago Suburban lectric Line in New Wage Contract AURORA, Ill, June 15—Under the new contract signed by the employes of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin elee- tric line and the company, trainment will receive 74 cents an hour for this year and 75 for the next. This Is a raise of two cents an hour, and an- other cent the next year, The workers affected are motormen, conductors, sub-station operators, switchmen and skilled mechanics. Finiannd agents and clerks are not in on it. eee Heart Stopped Beating, NEW YORK, June 15, — Julius Kruttschnitt, “open shop” railroader, director and retired chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific lines, died today at the Presby- terian Hospital, ,Death was due to a sudden attack of heart failure, haters Soviet Platinum in London, LONDON, June 15.—A shipment of platinum valued at 954,000 pounds ar- rived in London, consigned by the U. 8. 8 R, to a L ee. UNE Ww 3 Montreal Court Upholds Police Who Joined Union WASHINGTON, June 15—Justice | Coderre of Montreal has permanently enjoined the Montreal city council against dismissal of policemen in that city for membership in the Police- men's Union affiliated with. the Can- adian Trades and Labor Congress, ac- cording to a report sent to the Fire Fighters’ headquarters in Washing- ton. Policemen already dismissed are to bring damages suits against the council. Fire Fightere Organizing. WASHINGTON, June 15—Fred, Baer, international president of the Fire Fighters, announces that state districts of that organization are be- ing formed in Washington state, Iowa and Missouri. Four affiliated locals and delegates from membership at large in ve other Washington cities will meet June 18 in Spokane. On the same day seven locals and individual firemen from 16 towns will meet in Sioux City. On June 30 seven Mis- sourt cities will have delegates in the conference at Kansas City. These state groups will promote organiza- tion of all fire fighters in their dis- tricts, Attend Dead Loborer’s Funeral, DANVILLE, Il, June 15—The Hege- ler Zinc Smelting company will be closed for the funeral of James Brown, @ Negro laborer, who was the first employe of the company. Brown died of occupational heart disease. He turned the first spadeful of ground for the plant twenty years ago. Ten Day Shut Down for 2,000 Textile Workers in Mass. FALL RIVER, Mass, June 15,—~ (FP)—Nearly 2,000 workers of Kerr Thread Mills, Pall River branch of the American Thread Co., will be giv- en a forced vacation without pay for 10 days trom July 3 to 18, notices Posted in the factory show, Willimantic plant of American thread {s still closed by the strike of the ed ANOTHER LABOR CANDIDATE WINS IN MINNEAPOLIS ; Cramer Shifts Blame for Defeat on Van Lear (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNBHAPOLIS, Minn,, June 15.— The official report of the canvassing board to the Minneapolis city council shows the election of Theodore Jen- son, the labor candidate from the 12th ward, elected by sixty votes. The un- official returns showed his defeat by one vote. His capitalist opponent has filed notice that a recount will be institut- ed immediately. If the recount fails, the election of Jenson will give the socialist-labor combination nine votes in the council to seventeen for the “open shop” gang, The after election statements of the local papers give some interesting sidelights on the cause for labor’s de- feat. Reactionaries Praised. The Minneapolis Tribune editorially says: “When the more sober and rep- resentative element of local labor mo- bilized its strength and reconstructed the central deliberative body so as to make it conform more to the stan- dards and ideals advocated by the late Samuel Gompers, that action was a fortokening of what was to happen at the municipal election Monday.” The Minneapolis Labor Review, edited by Robley D. Cramer, has the following editorial comment: “The most disgusting feature of the cam- paign was the betrayal of the work- ers by a newspaper (the Minneapolis Daily Star—Insert ours) which the workers and farmers had put hun- dreds of thousands of dollars into that their ideas and ideals might be given broad expression. They found in this election that instead of founding .a newspaper for their advancement they had bought whips which in treacherous hands were laid over the backs of the workers in the attempt to bring advantaye to their oppon- ents..... “Men and newspapers can only be used in such an unworthy ad- venture once. Thereafter they are despised by those who have used them and discredited with those they have attempted to betray.” The capitalist press thus publicly The | The vocational acknowledges its debt to Robley D. Cramer and the labor right wing for their aid in destroying the unity of the local labor movement and Cramer in turn attempts to clear himself by pointing to Van Lear who for the time being appears the blacke: Textile Barons Fire 400 Workers Who Dare to Strike (Continue from Page 1) the two loom system; 2, a 10 per cent increase in wages; 8, one and a half for overtime. An addition demand for the exclusion of an instructor from the weaving room may not be pressed, altho the strikers are determined that this company agent, named Bogen, shall not continue his company Propa- ganda. Recently, he went around from weaver to weaver, urging acceptance of the two loom system. Capitalist News. The Shelton Sentinel, the local pa- Der, carried a long story containing company propaganda, showing how Door the company. was, that the work- ers should show consideration for the company, that two looms were as easy to work as one, and similar bunk, It has shown itself on the side of the bosses, and many of the strikers re- alize it. Of course, no capitalist paper has endorsed the strikers’ demands, altho like vultures they are ready to prey upon the situation for increased efr- culation. The Challenge, The Sidney Blumenthal Co., one week after the strike began, hes shown clearly that it doesn’t give two hoots in hell for the workers. Still, many strikers harbor illusions about the company, and place too much hope in proposed efforts of members of the Chamber of Commerce. Separated to / some extent by nationality and ham- bered by difficulty with the language, yet the strikers are display. ing a rare brand of solidarity. But so far they have not seen the necessity of picketing, some holding that this would alienate the “public.” They have not come to realize that ne paver lies in themselves, 'e hope that their discharge the company, which discharge here ers must not recognize as final, will arouse in them a consciousness of the real nature of the conflicts in which they are engaged. In another article, the company story of losses last year will be matched with the nancial his- tory of the company, showing sub stantial profits, i One Strike Among Many. This strike but adds another to the Willimantic strike still raging, to the Fecently concluded strike in the Sals's Textile Mfg. Co. in Bridgeport; and to the hat strike in Norwalk. The strik- ers are fighting to take the cut out of Connecticut. tsvennenmilsasapitshnai Discontinue Vets Training. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15. —~ training for world Veterans will be discontinued on fish 30, 1926, the government has an-