The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 2

Workers Rally To Save Union LL.G.W. Fund | Bond Issue Going Over, Said Joint Board Head Negro Colonization | Project in Michigan Ends in Disaster | IRONWOOD, Mich., Jan, | More than 200 Chicago Negroes! were preparing today to return to| Chicago. with funds raised by the Ironwood County board following the failure of their colonization project. All of the occupants of the suburb, | Elmwood, were described as desti- tute today and authorities were seek- ing the promoters who sold them the | property with the alleged promise| 24 THE DATL Coolidge Feels Mexican War | Unpopular Resolutions Show Public Y WORKER, NEW YORK. TT that the heavy stand of spruce would make them wealth The settlement was established t summer, Thousands of workers thruout the country and hundreds of organiza- tions are carrying on an energetic | campaign to make the “Save The) Union” bond issue of the w York} jomt board of the I. L. G. W. U. a} suecess, according to Julius Portnoy,! secretary-treasurer of the joint zoard in a special interview to The DAILY WORKER yesterday. | Workmen's Circle “There are already Cirele branches that have ¢ League of Nations to Admit Fascist Unions To Its Labor Bureau ROME, Jan, 24.—The labor bureau of the ague of Nations has de- {cided to recognize the Fascist trade unions in preference to the general Branches. 54 Workmen ‘ibu-} a" jeenference of labor, it was learned | ted to the loan m their tr eS) ere today. | and there are active committe in| Albert Thomas, representing the | ib0 braccaes of that org 1 labor burean established at Geneva working to put the loan a ; by the League of Nations has been Active work is going on in the! ng conferences with Edmond/ tadependent Workmens’ Circle|R i, spokesman for the black} 0. branches, in hundreds of unions and! shirts who smashed the bona fide} other workers’ organizations, com-) trade unions of this country and es- rade Portnoy declared, giving the) tablished in its place organs for the names of a few: jadvancement of fascism parading Organizations Assisting. | under the name of Fascist Syndicates, Upholsterers’ Union, Phila.;}| When Mussolini more than a year Progressive Carpenters, 3’ }ago made the general confederation ile Workers, New Rondon f labor an illegal organization and The 6 Cap- makers, Rochester; Capmakers, Los! "tified the employers that only the | Angeles; Capmakers, Boston; Work-| Fascist Syndicates could deal with See Oatoaal | League, Worcester,|them, the labor bureau of the league N : Ladies’ Educational Club, Den-|&! 2ations continued to recognize the vt Colorado; Mothers’ League of| former. Therefore, the change of pol. in Geneva at the present time is New England; Vacationists at Camp ; "ite ef major importance. Niteedaitd (Co-op.); Lithuanian é ate Workingelass Women; Worke matic Studio; Workmens’ Circle Workers Throng Picket sociation, Dallas, Texas; Women’s) y . . A Progressive League, Bridgeport,| Line in Early Morning Conn., and progressive workers in! ig { (Continued from page 1) expmakers,|in power a little group of bureau-| Amalgamated Clothing! cratic officials who like their jobs. | Workers at.i others. |The joint board will oppose such tac-| The following contributions were|tics by calling strikes wherever it is received from out-of-town points dur-| found that workers have been dis- ee Bie ens” 7 o) 5 i. i Gwaha, Nebs eg cine vee Mr. Hyman also called attention to! St. Joscph, Miss., $100 cash and $200| (BS meeting bciondiceysl Sire caer pledged; irom Philadelphia. an addi-|* oe P tional $600; from Worcester an addi ane. te iran up for Wednesday eve- ae Ble Groner a jning in Cooper union to “present to ! Leake ba gaia pos 8M"'the dressmakers for their approval, peymer ae ea 9 An-| the contract he has made with the dol more us contri- s i ” Youngstown, Ohio, $200,{ 78 suereen tit. e a nas : | Repudiate Dress Contract. Success is Assured, . agi th ! “The workers do not recognize Mr. el sean pre ieheye there} sieman’s contract and will not at- number of subscriptions re-|tond his meeting to hear him discuss m several . organizations! i¢ ne satas ~~ Ptiey-) hare ve ted uals in New York! City|that they cannot trust any agreement | other places. \the International may make, but that! The complete amount of $250,000)‘secondary’ treaties kept secret by the will be undoubtedly raised,” said| International are likely to nullify Comrade }«aitnoy, “but it is of the| even such terms as it has secured, as} gveatest importance that the com-|expericnce in the past has proved.” ploté issue should be subscribed at} the earliest moment. The full conti- Rejects Hull Clause to dence of the workers in the joint yf beard is ling demonstratei every! Branch Bank Bill | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Na-| | | i j i shirt iro: | Wants Arbitration WASHINGTON, D. ©., Jan. 24.— Administration officials let it be) known yesterday — that President Coolidge and his advisers are serious- ly concerned by the demands pouring in from many quarters and from | many groups in the social structure, | quarrel. | President Coolidge feels that hi \Policy of provoking a war with Mexi- co, if necessary, in order to guaran- tee the American oil companies in full possession of their immensely | profitable wells is unpopular among Americans who own no oil land in Mexico. Public Resentment. The President is of the opinion that the American public sees sordid and unworthy aims in a situation in which it has always been the of- ficial theory that nothing but the most idealistie principles rule—the public as a whole, the recent resolu- tions show—not seeming able to destin- guish beween a threatened war over the sacred principles of private pro- perty (already stated by President Coolidge to not be subject to any arbitration) and a mere merchant adventuring, in which American oil companies secured from various re- actionary Mexican government a more or less clouded title to lands, and a somewhat doubtful exemption from taxes. Against Land Law. The American people do not appear, say the President’s friends, to under- stand the iniquity of the Mexican land law, which declares the mineral wealth below the soil of the nation| |\to be a national trust, and thereby conflicts with the claims of American | and other foreign oil and mining com- panies. An assurance that no war with Mexico is expected is issued by ad-! ministration officials in close touch | with the President, but this is ac-/| companied by a considerable amount | of talk in favor of lifting the em- | bargo on arms and ammunition shipped from the United States to clerical rebels, savage Yaqui Indians, | and other discontented elements in| Mexico, including the expected up-| nine 2 fama ee sidents Adelen Dro la Huerta, now in Los Angeles, Cal.,| near the border. — | The situation of the administration | is not rendered any more comfortable, | say the President’s friends, by the fact that the Senate Committee on foreign relations has reported in a resolution providing for arbitration of the Mexican difficulty, and that this resolution coming from a repub- lican controlled committee, is greeted by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, democratice floor leader, with the ex- day. The determination of all the workers to defeat Sigman’s pogrom, plan is as firm as ever, which is only| tional banks today won their fight what could be expected from those|to kill the Hull Amendment in the; who know only too well, Sigman and| McFadden branch banking bill. The | his clique.” {amendment was rejected by a vote} |of 228 to 166. The Hull Amenduient | {would forbid national branch bank-| Insurgent Republicans Vote With Regulars On Lausanne Treaty | s2,000.000 BROOKWOOD DRIVE. | ee | KATONAH, N. Y., (FP),—En- | ling in states which do not now per- | mit branch banking. pression, “I welcome it!” The President’ is reported to be considering a special message to Con- gress, setting forth his views on the Mexican question, similar to the mes- ‘sage on Nicaragua which he made when popular dissatisfaction with the course being pursued by the State Department became audible, ANUARY 25, 1927 Oil Land Owners to Get | $100,000,000 From U. S.; Result of Court Ruling _ TULSA, Okla., Jan, 24.—The de- cision of the U. 8. circuit court of appeals in Philadelphia that federal income taxes cannot be levied against profits from development of re stricted Indian land, will mean that stockholders of midwestern oil com- panies can recover something like $100,000,000 from the government. This is said to be the sum already paid by owners of oil land on the Osage Indian reservation in this state. Relief Bill By J, LOUIS HE New York World sums up two possibilities confronting the | MeNary-Haugen farm relief meas- | McNary-Haugen Farm Be Republican Football Must Not ENGDAHL. Pagé Two American Admiral Placed to Lead Invasion of China WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24. In spite of the more extensive pre- parations of Great Britain, an Amer- ican naval officer is now in charge | of operations of the allied navies in | Chinese waters. | Full responsibility for the protec- ‘tion of all foreigners in China has | been placed on the shoulders of Ad- jmiral C. 8, Williams, Commander-in- | Chief of the American forces there, it time for closer tacts with the | was learned today. workers in the cities. The St. Louis | As ranking officer over either the joint gathering of the cotton and | British or Japanese commanders, he |for arbitration of the Mexican land Frame Up Four Miner} Union Delegates (Continited from page 1) for a week. He represented the gang- sters. The judge set it for Friday. It is reported ffom administration ircles that if Hapgood is not fright- jened out by thid, or kept in jail {on charges of ttery, an attempt |will be made to bar him from the | floor when the ot starts, | Lewis has issued a statement that ‘the convention | wage contract, to take the place of the one which ejpires on April 1. whether his pol a duction of wage: Unorganizel Must Strike. | The militants pre determined not | to take a reductipn, but realize that | Lewis’ policies hqve so weakened the union, that a stfike in only the or- ganized fields Yith sixty-five per- y involves coming from t non-union fields, could not win. Their fight will cen- ter on action to force the Lewis ad- ministration to place in the unor- ganized fields the vast army of “in- ternational organizers” now held al- most entirely im union fields where they take part in union politics to keep the intermtional and district machines in pover. To Eleva Big Guns On U. Battleships Washington, J: . 24.—Elevation of the big guns on American battle- ships was recommended today by the house naval affajs committee, in vio- lation of the unilerstanding between former Secretary Hughes and Great} Britain. This came in ajrevised report to the house providing for funds to modern- ize the battleshiys Oklahoma and Ne- vada. The big guns would be ele- vated from 15 ddgrees to 30 degrees, | to equal the rang} of the biggest guns in the British Today’s action | carried autho: m only for work ae wey big ships. Some years 4zo, great Britain pro-| tested elevatitm of the guns and/ Charles 1. Hughes, then secretary of | state, came to an understanding with | the British state department, grant- ing the English protest. By this ac- tion, the understanding is considered in official circlés here to be abro- gated. | | er Re ea \ Lytchings. | Thirty-two lytchings were record- ed in 1926 against 18 in the twelve months of 1925,/and increase due to a great extent, it is believed, to the failtre of Co: 3 to take action on anti-lynching legislation. A consid- erable decrease jn cases of mob vio- lence is shown jin the 1926 record— from 40 in 1925 to 21 in the period WASHINGTON, Jan, 24.—The hatchet that administration surgent republicans have luried in a flower-strewn plot be- hind the capitol during the recen' vote on ratification of the Lausann Treaty. The insurgents forgot their differ- ses and voted as a man alongside | ‘ aty. It was the first time since heodore Roosevelt made_his historic holé from the party in 112, accord- ing to senate historians, that the two groups voted solidly side by side against the democrats on a major! political issue. REPRESENTATIVE HUDDLESTON DEMANDS COOLIDGE OPEN ~ BREAST WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-—Notice | that opponents of the administra- tion’s foreign policy will demand an extra session of congress unless the Nicaraguan and Mexican situations | are cleared up by March 4, was) served In the house by Representative |that we must declare war,” he said. ceived yesterday by the New York} Agency as donations on the Honor Roll, Over two thousand lists are| still outstanding in the hands of col-| lectors, Our friends are requested, to bring in these lists as fast as pos-| sible to help meet the extra expenses that The DAILY WORKER incurs this week. ¥ and in-; and endowment fund drive which wielded | Brookwood Labor college is launch- | upen each other ever since 1912 was jing has been’ given by the New York | city body to representatives of the regular brethren to support the | TRUST PHONES @UTNUMBER IN- ONOR ROLL The following amounts were re-| NO. 39 AMERICAN METAL dorsement of the $2,000,000 building tate federation of labor and the New’ ‘ork central trades and labor council, y rt wwe been issued by the | Pgh ny = + LONDON, January 24,—Lans-; bury’s Weekly, representing a sec- tion of British labor unionists, anti- | Communist in policy, discusses the | American “Committee for the Pre- servation of Trade Unions” under the title of “A Strange New League”. tend, oa | DEPENDENTS. CHICAGO, (FP).—Of 17,000,000 | telephones in the United States Jan, 1, 1926, 12,000,000 were American | Lansbury’s goes on to say of the | Yelephone & Telegraph installations | movement of Sigman, Hillman and and 5,000,000 belonged to independent , certain reactionary A, F. L, chief- companies. tains: | - -—~ “And from what are the American trade unions to be preserved? Is it) from the savage brutality of the: jivonmasters and coalmasters of the | United States? Or from the more) ‘insidious slave-driving of the Henry Fords? From neither. This impos- | ‘ing organization, which claims, and probably possesses, the allegiance of the rank and file of the workers generally, as well as of the right and center leaders, exists for noth- TO CONGRESSMEN setae ing else but to fight the Workers Huddleston (D.) of Alabama. (Communist) Party,” He called upon President Coolidge! After a review of the published to say whether he will submit the statement of “The Committee for the Mexican dispute to arbitration. jPreservation of Trade Unions,” and “We do not want to go, home and), statement against Communism, | then be called back here and told}i14 editorial continues: “Therefore we are not likely to be suspected of partiality when we. say that the new organization is the sil-' liest of which we have heard for years. Any trade union leader, whether it is Mr. Jones, of York- shire, or Mr. Sigman, of New York, who spends his time in organizing | a heresy hunt against a section of his own members is playing the fool, WORKERS UNION, PER HENRY F, MINS.... LANSBURY’S WEEKLY IS ANTI-COMMUNIST, BUT AMAZED AN IDIOCY OF “PICKLING COM) 'TTEE” | they would be less seared of the Com- know. that tradgj unionism is forbid- den in great sftions of the United States engineering trade? There are ample tasks for them there. “The only man who is secure from Communist or other attacks is the steady and reliable fighting official, who cannot be suspected of truckling to the employers. If American “sane leaders” had a little more backbone munists. A league for more ginger in the American unions is what they need more.” This is considered here the judg- ment of the rather conservative groups in British trade unionism on the fantastic adventure of the re- actionary elements in American unions, Freiheit Recognizes an Ally We greet The DAILY WORKER, ll consider a new} | But he has carefjlly avoided stating! re-} cent of the coal production already) | ure now before congress as follows: | “If it passes Lowden will get the | credit; if it is defeated Coolidge will | get the blame.” } The only inference that. can be drawn from this declaration is that the measure is being used as a poli- tical football to determine who is to be the presidential nominee of the republican party in 1928, | With little more than a month re- | maining of the present session of congress, it would be easy for Pres- ident Coolidge to prevent the pas- | sage of the measure. In the | words of The World, “That might | aid him in the east, where his strength already lies, but it can | | only injure him in the west.” ' The injury in the west is ex- | pected to rebound to the benefit of | Frank 0. Lowden, the multi-mil- ; the republican unpopularity created | by Cal. Coolidge and turn it into the | republican popularity that is neces- | sary to retain the rule of Wall Street’s pet party in Washington. The. problem before the workers and farmers, therefore, is not only to rap Coolidge on the knuckles, forcing him to drop his grip on Wall Street’s ruling class sceptre in Washington, but also to give Low- den the boot so that in his gyra- tions he will miss the White House by many a mile. The McNary-Haugen legislation - has been the central rallying point | for agrarian discontent for several | years. That discontent has been | | growing, contrary to the deep ex- | pectations and the fond hopes of the leading reactionaries of both the old parties that conditions | would improve. Low prices, how- | ever, hit the cotton and corn belts | especially hard, while little im- provement ‘was shown in other crop { producing sections of the nation, | with the result that even the staid | and reactionary Farm Bureau fed- | eration, let loose some radical ut- terances, even declaring that it is | | lionaire, who is expected to catch |. | corn growers was an historic event | in itself, Everywhere that farmers gathered, the Coolidge-Mellon ad- ministration was damned, with the Wall Street financiers and the profit-gorged industrialists. It is easy to understand that, un- der this mounting storm of pro- test, the senate committee on agri- | culture under the chairmanship. of McNary, “should add another bram- | ble in the administration’s bed of | thorns by unanimously voting a favorable report on the MecNary- Haugen bill.” The World adds that this bill “is much nearer passage | now than at any time during the | three years it has been before con- gress.” Whether the bill passes or not, it should not be a case of “hate Coolidge” and “love Lowden,” but rather of turning the wrath of the farming population against both these “birds of a feather” who prey on the whole working class. Great beginnings have been made in the cluster of states that ex- ‘is westward to the Pacific from W'naexota. the 1armers say, “Let us take the MeNary-Haugen farm re- Nef bili if that is the hest we caw snrcly does not is. We are going to keep on fighting, Loewever, until we get what we want.” This spirit finds its reflection in the staunch attitude of the city and land toilers in-Minnesota in support of their farmer-labor party. It was expressed in resolutions adopted at the first convention of the progres- sive farmers of America, when resolutions were adopted declaring for the labor party. The growing reply to the Coolidge-Mellon admin- istration, that 1efuses relief to the | farmers and that fights*the indus- trial workers with every weapon at its disposal, is independent political } } action through the labor party, vaising the call for “the Labor Party in the 1928 Elections,” _ avr? Great events like great people are usually born in obscurity. When they have become famous it seems impos- sible that there could have been a time when they were unknown, “How strange,” we say, “that no one realized that on this day history was being made and the course of the world changed,” Today it is hard to believe that a year ago when the workers of the Botany Worsted Mill at Passaic walked out on strike, with Gus Deak at their head, almost no one knew about it. Very few paid any atten- tion to it. Even the labor world did not realize that one of the greatest New Jersey mill town. | World Famous Now. Today there is probably no country in the world that has not heard of ‘the Passaic strike. This is literally true, for as more and more workers jcame out on strike and the wrath of the employers was given vent through the clubs and bombs of the police, Passaic became a symbol of labor’s battle front and even outside the vanks of labor it was forced upon the notice of people in many lands * Policemen’s Clubs. As news of the strike spread, the word “Passaic” came to mean “strike” and immediately brought up pictures of sadistic police clubbing men, wo- men and children on the picket line and newspaper and camera men on the sidelines. “Passaic” meant the fire hose and tear gas bombs used to at- tack workers; it meant injunctions egainst mass meetings, arrests and excessive bail, police lawlessness and brutality almost unprecedented in America. Courage Plus. y But in this year of brave an? vigorous striking,,“Passaic” has come to. remind us of other pictures be and recognize the great help it will be to the struggle now being conduct- ed by the Jewish and other language press of the left wing in the New York unions agsinst the destructive tactics of certain reactionary leaders. The DAILY WORKER deserves the utmost support of all working men. —MELEGCH EPSTEIN, Editor Frei- heit, * False Income Report Perjury. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 1.00}and befriending nobody but the Seaniak Caen les pe capitalists. Have the American lead-| nd Saby Nehama .. ... 14.50 Jers never heard of the conditions in George Cerny Siveie'g . 2.00]their own steel industry? Don’t they NO, 1868 FREDA AISS . 8.76 [know that their own miners will soon have to fight the heaviest struggle Diniel Weitz their whole career? Do they not J L Lavidis . venue of the penal cole, 24,—-Wilful attempt to evade income tax by mak- ing a false return is punishable as perjury, the Supreme Court ruled to- day in reversing « Circuit Court de- cision which had held that the Re-| thing seemed hopeless. Act of 1921 reversed a section) a lone worker, with wife sides these. Anyone who has seen one of Passaic’s -mass meetings can never forget the enthusiasm, the courage, the determination which is seen in the faces of those plucky workers, For hours they stand packed in a meeting hall or an open field—old women with shawls over their heads, young girls, children, old and worn grandfathers, vigorous young and middle-aged men, all with a patience born of years of suffering; but all with a new faith which has come from these months of solidarity in the strike, This mass of worker seems to show unmistakably that they believe unionism has shown the way out. Before January 1926, every. What could id chil- Midn de MERI a DARIN ohe as “Passaic” Means Strike: ene fn OE CO CT mad Cit Wages Bes A low the starvation level; what could ' . strike of months, the paper box mak- ‘ers have been for 18 weeks meeting talist organizations, are held respon- events in America’s union history had begun with this defiance of a few thousand unorganized workers in & agrees to recognize the workers’ union and i he do to make his working condi- tions decent so that he might keep from disease and premature old age? ‘There was no answer to this prob-| lem until suddenly the Botany work- ers walked out on strike, and the Pas- saic textile union started. Since the Passaic strike began, the furriers have had a long and bitter battle, the cloakmakers have had a the clubs of the New York police on the picket line, yet Passaic is still carrying on. Remembering all they have endured, remembering the cour- age and determination in those faces at mass meetings, one knows that they will continue until every one of the mills—the last to strike as well as the first, which has already settled chosen representatives. As they s fag and shout at Passaic, along | can give the necessary orders to the | allied armada now gathering, it was | stated. At the same time it was learned |that Admiral Williams’ report to the jstate department was so “full of | dynamite” that its publication was | Suppressed so as not to unduly alarm | the public. New Mexican Crisis ‘Arises Over Land Law | MEXICO CITY, Jan. 24—A new crisis is forcing the issue between |the Mexican and United States gov- {ernments over the application of the jlaws for carrying out article 27 of |the 1917 constitution. The crisis ia seen in the action of the Mexican government in cancelling the drilling permits granted last year for lands tor which the companies failed to asi “confirmatory concessions” under the petroleum laws before January 1, | Managers in the Tampico field are in direct communichion with their principal offices in New York rela- tive to the coure of action to be pur- sued to meet the situation. The cancellations thus far made extend as far back as last autunm and affect such companies as the Huasteca Petroleum, Transcontinen- tal Petroleum, and the Mexican Gulf, owned by the Standard Oil, as well as other powerful United States in- terests. ‘Firemen’s Wages Are i ' Under Consideration At a conference held in the Wal- dorf Astoria, G. W. W. Hanger of the railroad mediation board discus- sed the wages of locomotive firemen with a committee headed by D. B. Robertson, president of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. A separate conference jwas held a little earlier between Hanger and a committee of railroad |managers led by vice president J. C. | Walber of the New York Central. | Negotiations continue. Twenty-eight cases of interference with meetings were reported during the year, the restrictions affecting meetings of Communists, Socialists, |K, K. K., the Salvation Army and tn. j affiliated liberal and radical speak- jers. Many of these attacks on free- dom of speech have been traced to propaganda emanating from the war department, the American Legion and patrioteering societies. The same groups, together with the bible crusaders and other fundamen- sible for the inroads on frecdom of teaching in schools and colleges. SOVIET UNION BOYCOTTS } SWITZERLAND ¢« | GENEVA, Jan, 24,—Sir Eric | Drummond, secretary genera] of the League of Nations, has received # message from Moscow, signed by Litvinoff, and stating that the Soviet government will refuse to take part in the international economic confer- “Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong!” “Success To Daily” Says Manager Local 2 Class conscious workers and com- rades of New York: Let us greet the coming of The DAILY WORKER to the City of New York, the city that has of late become the battlefield of the progressive workingmen’s move- ments, and where at the present time the greatest struggle the labor*move- ment has seen is taking place. At this moment, when the Sigmans, and Beckermans, aided by the dis- credited press of the S, P., and with the aid of the bosses have begun the campaign to dominate or to ruin and to break up the unions, the coming of, ‘The DAILY WORKER is surely an cmen of hope to the English reading masses, and with the truth and language with which The DAILY WORKER represents the American masses the fight of the progressive workers in these labor organizations will be aided tremendously. We, the Needle Workers, particu- larly, greet the Daily Worker, tor we well remember how very struggle, that we have partaken in was the struggle of the Daily Worker, and the nearer our friends are to us the more courage to our fight for the preservation of our unions, ruled and controlled by the rank and file of the working class. Let us all strive together to make the Daily Worker the paper of the masses, Success to the Daily Work- or, for the success of the work! masses, — JOSEPH BOUCHOWIT: Monager Clouk Operators Union Local No.2, LL, GW. U + ence, should the conference be held in | Switzestand, OPEN NEW TERM OF DENVER ( LABOR COLLEGE. | DENVER (FP),—“Labor must | cducate itself if the movement is to ‘take the place to which it is en- | titled,” said R. V. Holwell, director of worker education in opening the second semester of the Denver Labor College. Protection For U. S. Citizens. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24,——The Cofnmander-in-Chief of the Chinese (national army has been instructed by |the government council of the nation- ‘al Peoples Party to afford all protec- ‘tion possible to American citizens, Frank P. Lockhart, American Con- sul at Hankow, advised the state d¢ é partment today. <A British Forces In China. LONDON, Jan, 24.—The greatest ' sharp) naval and military force ever as- sembled outside of actual war time | was being gathered in China today. It is estimated that British troops either enroute for China or under orders to proceed there now total be- tween 12,000 and 16,000. Coolidge Nominee “Turned Down. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The nomination of Cyrus BE. Woods of Pennsylvania, to be a member of the interstate commerce commission, was rejected by the senate by a-vote of 49 to 28 today. nee Negroes Still Disfranchised. WASHINGTON, Jan, 24.—A sena- torial investigating committee re- pee today against the Ernst bill for federal ion of the disfran- chisement of Negro voters in South- ern states, ©