The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1927, Page 2

THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESUAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927 BILL TO CREATE LIQUOR MONOPGLY Mellon, Big Distiller, to Pick Distilleries WASHINGTON, Ft vise tor liquor under medicir the manufa in from twe six distilleries strict government supervision, was favorably reported today by the house ways and means comm The bill bore little resemb! to the original plan advanced by Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews, whereby an 80,- 000,000 semi ernment corporation was to have 1 set up for the man- ufacture of medicinal liquor. No Government Ownership, The provision for government man- ufacture was not liked any of the committee, and was speedily shelved, the substitute adopted permitting a favored few distilleries, selected by Andrew Mellon, himself a large own- er of distillery stock, to exercise a veritable monopoly of the production of legal, medicinal whiskey. Mellon—-Booze Boss. Under the bill’s provisions, Secre-| tary of the Treasury Mellon would be authorized to issue permits to not! less than two nor more than six dis-| *tilleries to turn out medicinal liquor. Government inspectors would main- tain a close watch on the operators/ to eee that the liquor was up to medi-} cina] standards, and that none of it| “leaked” into unauthorized channels. | Besides selecting the distilleries, Mellon, under the provisions of the bill reported in, will be given the privilege of fixing “a fair price” for the product sold. Indonesian Workers Arrested, Accused of Plotting Java Revolt, AMSTERDAM, Ja: —Two Indonesian workers have been arrested in Djohore (Straits Settle- ments). The two, Alimin and Moeso are accused of being connected with the insurrection in Java. The Indones- ian government is conducting negotia- tions with a view to securing the ex- tradition of the two and also the ex- tradition of the worker Dachlan who arrested previousl, 21 (By Mail). | was Hindenburg Gets in Touch With Royalty BERLIN, Feb. 14,—For the first time since the President Von Hindenbu ned n royalty today when he a dinner given in honor of the King of Sweden by the Swedish minister here. The king was passing through en- route to Rome te visit the queen who} is recuperating there. Enthusiastically Ask ‘Central Press Phote From left to right, front row, R. and W. T. Harrod. Behind, James Ho sentenced to death, and are in Jefferson Co. jail, Louisville, K The tough looking customer in the inset, is Jailer turw in the electric chair. Thos. A. Dover, Criminals are made stance—with differing opportunities 0 another a jailer. Money for Subways; It Isn’t in the Treasury | Possible curtailment of the 182,- | 000,000 subway building program | this year was indicated yesterday by | igures on the city’s financial con- ion made public by the Board of imate. The amount available for subway building is considerably short of the xppropriation asked. There will be debt margin of $230,000,000 on h 1, but about $30,000,000 must | be set aside for emergency require- ments. Appropriations for schools, hospitals and street improvements will use up from $40,000,000 to $50,- 600.000. City officials expressed doubt whether even the $300,000,000 ex- emption on the debt limit, now be- fore the Legislature in the form of an amendment, will be sufficient to finance the entire program. It will be an important factor, however, and Mayor Walker plans to appeal the Legislature to approve the amendment when he returns from Cuba next week. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb, 14.—Goev. i intimated today that he fa- the proposed constitutional! t which would extend New 's debt limit by $300,000,- the money to be used for sub- 600, way construction. BIG CAB BOSS TRIES TO SUPPRESS WORKERS’ PAPER; GETS HOT ANSWER TO “STATEMENT” PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 14.—The Cab. Driver, official organ of the Cab Drivers’ Union, has aroused the ire of the employers to such an that Earl Hunker, “the big boss,” has had to issue a statement reprimand- ing readers who read it. He announ- ces, “I have been besieged by a great number of our drivers who have de- manded that I issue a statement, and further that I make every effort to stop the distribution of these circu- lars.” Who Surrounds Hunks. To this The Cab Driver makes _re- tort: “We know who -are besieging Hunky. H has a bunch of feeble- minded dollar-a-day men “besieging” him. A crew of profiteering bosses may also be huddling about him, fearful that the bank-book may be a All Workers but particularly Irish workers will want to read “Jim Connolly and the Trish Rising of 1926,” by G, Schuller with an intro- duction by T. J. O’Flaher- ty. “Connolly,” name of the military the Easter Week Rebel- lion, is a magic name to jeader of every Irish worker who has within him a single spark of the divine fire of reyolt. PRICE 10 CENTS. The Daily Worker 33 First Street New York City | that? ztepned on. But with the actual cab drivers Early Hunky is about as pop- ular as a skunk in a perfume fac- tory.’ The Cab Driver states the case of the chauffeurs as follows: Those Long Hours!! ‘Can we make a few cents by driv- ing cabs? Is it péssible to make a iiving at this job? In a way, yes. “But what does it require? It re- qu:res we keep at it from 12 to 14 and even 18 hours a day. If we spin around and around till we are zzy, and if we keep that up ab f of the night we can get $36 a week. lsut ve to put in at “How much does that make per nour? If we work 80 hours and get $20 it means that we get 25 cents an y. Is that decent pay? s get $1.00 an hour nd the plasterers and those that get $1.15 an hour, “Can we hope for anything like Not if we remain unorgan- Never! But with an organiza- we can gradually win shorte: hours and large wages. All trades have had that experience. We can- not expect to get all we deserve at ence, Lut in the long run we will get nis and be able to live like ized tion Moron Yells “Fire”. MONTREAL, Feb. 14. — Police we investigating today in an effort to learn the identity of the person who started a near panic in the Vheatve Francais here last night by shouting “fire.” More than 1,800 persons were in the building, and only the prompt action of attendants in opening all exits and assuring the crowd that there was no danger averted a dis- aster. Body Found on Tracks. The body of Michael Dugan, 26, of 4707 Foster avenue, Long Island City, Queens, was found on the westbound tracks of the Corona line elevated near the Bliss street station, Long Island City. The motorman of an I. R. T, subway train drawing in to | the station saw the body and, with the help of a conductor and a guard, | brought it to the station platform. ST AND MEANEST? L. Bennett, O. Seymour, Chas. Mitra, ward and Wm, Moore. ll these are waiting their largely by environment and cireum- me man becomes a highwayman, and | 132 Cups, Please! Proof that the worker seldom gets enough coffee to hurt him: consider the case of Earl Smith, a Sioux City truck driver, who drank 132 cups of coffee in six hours during a contest recently, and then, having won the title, went home and had his wife prepare him ‘another cup before go-} ing to bed. Four physicians exam- ined him and found his condition not much out of normal at the close. Other truck drivers drink less, for one thing because coffee is darned expensive lately. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) s, wine mugs, blind pigs and nels provided the United States is willing to stake them for a loan. Cool- idge is willing to do most anything four more years in the White House. Now, if England, France, Italy te} "or and Japan, agree with the above pow- | ers the conference may turn our bat- | tleships into coastal cabarets or rum *unnors. IR OLIVER LODGE is ‘about as nutty get, when under the influence of spiritualism, Th boys nanage to dodge the lunatic asylums, ‘yecause the form the malady not considered a public danger questionably a public nuisance. Lodge is in constant communication with the dead, those who amounted to anything in life in the business or intellecutal world. He can extract a ‘nessage from a ghost with as much celerity as tears can be drawn from 1 wet sponge. Lodge’s latest’ dodge ‘s to send out feelers over the radio for telepathic reactions. He will place a group of freaks in a room, have an officer present them with, an object vt stated intervals and Lodge, sta- ‘toned at the broadcasting station will ask the public to tell by telepathy what the freaks are thinking about. My answer would be an eniphatic “nothing.” And I would be right, 1%, Ebaby ibidarg awh are supposed to be endowed with the virtue of skep- ticism, but this may be the exception that proves the rule, It ts a para- graph from the Sikeston Standard, Sikeston, Missouri: “It seems to us that the height of optimism has been reached, if the fol- lowing story, whieh came to us this week, be true. According to reports, at the Sunday night service of a cer- tain religious sect, an official from out of town was present to take the wing measurements of the congrega- tion, the idea being that at Judgment Dey when the Angel Gabriel sounds his horn, the wings will be waiting and ready for the devout to slip on and flit up to the celestial regions, without the necessity of their taking part in the last minute rush at the wing counter. And a cynic, having in mind the number of airplanes that refuse to go up in the air adds, “And they want to be sure that those measurements were made to provide wings that fly up.” PART OF BRIBE \Show Custodian Eager | | To Deliver Goods | (Continued from Page One) before they could be paid. Wyant,| mentioned in the first telegram, was | | Miller’s orderly in France, and acted | \as his chauffeur after the war. | « At Bribe Scene. A fourth telegram was introduced | |for the pufpose of showing that Mil-| }ler was in New York on September} |30, 1921, the day the $7,000,000. was} jhanded over to Richard. Merton, rep-| resenting the German interests, at a} champagne dinner, Virginia Ware, pretty employe of} the alien property custodian’s office | in Washington, identified papers in| the files including a claim for twenty shares of American Metals Company stock owned by the Merton interests, which claim had been disallowed by the United States government. John Foster Dulles, first retained | as lawyer by Richard Merton to take) up the $7,000,000 claim, was the next| witness, | Negotiations Start. Dulles told of a conference in 1921) with George Williams, managing di-~ |rector of the alien property custo- \dian’s office in which Williams ques- tioned the validity of the claim and} suggested Dulles get a ruling from} the department of justice. | Lucien Boggs, lawyer and judge of | Jacksonville, Fla., formerly connected | | with the custodian’s @ffice and the| |department of justice, was called | next. | Boggs testified he talked with a| jlawyer in 1921 in connection with a) hypothetical case involving a large! |amount of money. Palmer Hard-Boiled, Paul Smith testified regarding} | papers of the American Metals Com-| pany submitted to the government in 1917 and 1918. At that time two stockholders in the company, Julian Beatty and Henry Bruere, attempted to arrange the sale of German owned | stock in the concern to American in- | |terests, so that the concern could be/| released by the alien property custo- | dian. The release was refused by A,| Mitchell Palmer, then attorney gen- eral, ‘however, and the government |eontends that the defendants should | not have released the $7,000,000) | knowing that it had been Mfused. | There also was testimony regarding | jan investigation of the case started by a New York newspaper in 1922, at which time, Smith said, Miller} }asked for the papers in the case, to} |look them over, Later, at the first | | Daugherty-Miller trial, certain of! ‘these papers could not be located. ” | | Read The Daily Worker Everyday | | | {War Veteran Leaps Under I. R. T. Train In full view of a crowd of passen- gers that packed the Interborough {subway at 149th Street and Mott Avenue today, John Barclay, 33, a wounded war veteran, jumped under an express train that was just puil- ing in. He was instantly killed, the first | passing over his body, Women| screamed and tremendous excitement prevailed. Traffic was tied up twenty 1ainutes. Convicted Youth Glad | To Avoid the Gallows Herbert Koerber, “cake-eater ban- dit,” was taken to Sing Sing today under sentence of from twenty years to life for the murder of Angelo Ma-| hairis, a yestaurant owner. } The youth was convicted of secon | degree murder at a second trial, af- ter having been convicted of first de- gree murder the first time, and being sentenced to die. “This is like going to a picnic compared to the last time,” he said | lake. | Balkans, ready to get into any fight as he started for the prison. Another Suicide; Nerve Can’t Stand the Strain PRINCETON, N. J, Feb. 14.— Martin Arthur Gearhart, 33, of Ba- tavia, Ia., committed suicide because of a nervous breakdown. it was stated today. Gearhart, a student at Prince- ton Graduate College, was found stretched out across the gas range in his apartment here yesterday by a neighbor. He leaves a wife, who is in a hospital suffering from a nervous disorder, and a small child, cee ag Read The Daily Worker Everyday Second and Last Time | IN NEW YORK “Breaking Chains” A Film of Russia Reborn Sunday, February 20 Mussolini Doesn’t Like | BONDS TRACED | Coolidge’s New Move on TOT. MILLER | the Military Chessboard By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Bee MUSSOLINI has no in- tentions of sheathing the sword | in the Mediterranean, The fascist | tyrant has not retreated from his effort to make this fy of water on Italian pond, no more than Wall Street will surrender the intention of turning the Pacific Ocean into “Dollar Diplomacy’s” —_ favorite Italian fascism sets forth its po- sition in its reply to President Cool- idge’s disarmament proposals. It declares it cannot afford to cease developing her bigger navy pro- gram. No new excuse is offered, The reason given is the old one, as old “ve? the development of militarism in ermany, or the growth of naval- ism in Great Britain, during the long period of “preparedness,” of armament competition before the world war and directly leading up to it, 3 * * * Mussolini claims that the smaller powers about the Meditefranean have vefused to accept his sugges- tions for reductions in naval bui! ing. That is the old gag. Coolidge, at Washington, the political puppet of Wall Street plunder, that’ sits astride the world with cannon ready to roar, proposes disarmament to other nationg less in the sun. [t is the altruism of the prize with his victim prostrate on the inat. The Uniied States, with its foot firmly planted upon the nack of the rest of the world, is in a rather strategic position at present to bid other nations park their guns and turn navy yards, munition plants and poison gas laboratories over to fly specks and cobwebs. It is making the most of that oppor- tunity. * * ¢ | Mussolini claims that Italy isn’t down by any means. It has its eyes on Yugo-Slavia. Spain is also within Italy’s vision as well as the northern coast of Africa and be- yond, Italy is also interested in the that will be of advantage to itself. Thus, while Mussolini declares that, “Ttaly can’t agree to measures en~- dangering, even indirectly, her vital interests,” the fascist twrant at Rome is perfectly willing to fa- vor disarmament proposals that will hit his neighbors while barely graz- ing his own national ambitions. * a France is also turning a deaf ear to the proposals from Washington. France was on the side that is sup- posed to have won the last war. But France has been on the verge of bankruptey ever since, struggling to recoup her finances, virtually in the position of a defeated nation. In spite of this unhappy position for French imperialism, every pos- sible franc has been spent on arma- ments, to maintain the French mifi- tary position en the continékt, and te tighten her grip on restless colonies. France doesn’t forget that Musso- Vini has his eyes on Paris, much as the kafser turned his. ¢ in this direction when the “all high- est” ruled in Berlin. Thus the French and Italian re- fusal to grab at Coolidge’s disarma- ment bait, for very vital and fun- daniental reasons, bound up with the struggles of the imperialisms of there two countries, makes the Washington proposals sterile in their very inception. eel ee Germany alone loudly epplauds the Coolidge proposals. What the Versailles treaty started, the Dawes plan finished, so that the present rulers in Berlin are very anxious to have the rest of the world disarm to its own lowly level. But the German endorsement of the Coolidge offering fools no one! * * . The only real disarmament plan ever offered, since the ending of the last war, has come out of Mos- cow, the capital city of the Union of Soviet Republics. But it is be- cause the Soviet proposa! to dis- arm is not a maneuver, but a bona fide effort to strip the nations of the weapons of war, that the capi- ialist nations will have nothing to do with it. The Coolidge proposal is just an- other move on the chessboard ofs militarism. The reactions of the other imperialist, nations clearly show, this. Only. the triumphant workers and farmers, in all coun- tries, will be able to abolish the game of wholesale murder, called war, through their own seizure of power and the inauguration of the | victorious Soviet rule that will unite the world into one harmonious eco- nomic unit. WRITER BLAMES AMERICAN FARMER’S TROUBLES ON HIS HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING * (By a Worker Correspondent.) _ The New York Times of Januar3 30 contains an article, “Portrait of a) Typical Farmer,” by William Allen} White. with the Russian peasant, White) tries to lay the blame of the farmer’s| plight on his higher standard of liv- | ing; that is, he says the U, S. farmer owns a-radio and goes to movies reg ularly in a flivver, while the peasant! gets his recreations in a much less expensive fdshion. This simple com- parison of standards seems to Mr, White to be a logical explanation of the problem, Russian Competition. The Russian peasant is as big a producer of wheat as the American) farmer. Despite the handicaps of an- tiguated machinery and his primitive! | methods of ‘production, he also takes’ |his place with the American farmer asa competitor for the Eu ropean market, The American far-| mer. for all his scientific, ingenious machinery and bumper crops has been unsuceessful in competing with the Russian in the wheat market, In fact, bumper crops often mean star- vation for the American farmer. This can hardly be attributed to so slight a factor as different standards of living, as White would have it. A truer comparison would be gained. through a study of the different’ methods of production and distribu- tion that prevail in these two coun- tries. The Russian peasant does not buy his land, which fact obviates the need of sustaining mortgages. The government furnishes the necessary seed. The farmers are organized into’ local councils with representatives in e and national organizations. These organizations are closely linked “Bogey Man” Sought. First clues to the identity of the “bogey man” believed to have kid- naped four-year-old William Gaff- ney were obtained today coincident with the receipt of letters claiming the boy has been drowned. On information furnished by a |™man whose name police of the Fifth Avenue Station, Brooklyn, did not veveal, a search was begun for # feeble-minded man, well known «in the vicinity of the Gaffney home., at ¥9 Fifteenth Street, Brooklyn, Every building in the neighbor- hood is being searched, as well as the docks a few blocks away and va- cant lote, Sewers also were }- gated on the theory the boy might WALDORF THEATRE a et have been killed and his body drop- ped through a manhole. Oa up with the workers’ organization throughout the country, No Juggling. COOLIDGE MEN READY TO SWAT PREXY BUTLER Will Run thas. Hughes Just to Spite Him President Coolidge’s New York state machine leaders framed this program at a weok-end conference in the national republican club, To draft Charles E, Hughes, if nec- essary, for head of the 1928 ticket, in case President Coolidge declines to- 1un again and Butler persists in his campaign to put himself or another wet in the White Hous Butler Will Go. Butler's adherents in his home, nineteenth congressional district, re- ply that they already have assurances of sufficient votes to send him as a delegate to the national convention. He has participated in all of them beginning with 1880. They also urge that they will do their utmost make him a delegate at large. Should the Columbia cuniversity president fall in his home district or for delegate at large, wet republic assert they will run him in as a dele- gate or substitute from one of the other congressional dis- to To Spank Prexy, Bertrand H. Enell, Coolidge whip of the house of representatives and one of the two origingl Coolidge dele- gates in 1924 is the chief promotor of the movement to chastize Dr. But- ler for his onslaught upon the presi- dent, He conferred with Charles .D. Hilles, of the national committee and sixteen members of the New York republican delegation at Washington last Friday. A majority of the delegation agreed that even should the president finally announce that he will not seek other term, Butler should not be per- mitted to speak for New York at the national convention, or annex any New York delegate’s yote for the presidential nomination, Bureau Issues Cotton Consumption. Figures WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The Cen- sus Bureau today issued the following report, showing the number of bales of cotton consumed, on hand, and other details during January, 1927 and | 1928, respectively: }_ Cotton consumed, 604,584 bales and | 582,315 bales. | In cotton growing states, 437,788 | and 411,652. } Cotton on hand, Jan. 31; Tn consuming establishments, bales, | 1,852,987 and 1,815,282. In public storage and at con- presses, bales, 6,070,020 and 5,180,000, | Exports in Jan.; Bales, 1,115,792 and 749,967, Numbef of spindles active during Jan., 32,638,550 and 32,810,308. vice-chairman TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Feb. 14.~ The farmer’s organization buys his, After threatening to throw a wetch- sells it in the European market There is no pyramiding of profits as in America through the activities o the Chicago Pit and numerous middle | men. There is. one profit charged und that is against the. European bryer. The Russian organization has successfully eliminated the excessive profits that the middleman exacts in this country. As an example, bread sells in Moscow for less than two cents a pound, The American farmer can solve his problem if he will organize his own system of distribution along similar lines, Not until he can definitely control the-sale of his product will he be able to shake himself free of the parasitica! practices of American marketing. Contrasting the Ameriean| wheat, stores it when necessary, and) ™an to his death at the bottom of a {one hundred foot stone quarry, four | bandit-vandals late last night set fire to the office and machinery plant of the Universal Marble Products | Corporation, at Thornwood, near {here. The plant was entirely de- |stroyed. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Robbed in Montmarte. PARIS, Feb. 14.—William Day of Syracuse, N. Y., was forced to cable home for funds today, having beeu | struck over the head and robbed of | 12,000 francs in Montmarte last night. Day has been here with Horace Dodge of Detroit, but was alone when attacked as Dodge has gone to | Cannes, PLAYING AN OLD PROLETARIAN GAME dimuy Risk % Frank Jackson, 65, of Kellerton, ing champ, is defending his crown at St. Petersbu: rival favored to defeat national horseshoe pitch Fla, And the is Jimmy Risk, 16, of Montpelier, Ind, —