The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1927, Page 2

‘Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927 tf SINCLAIR, BURNS FACE CHARGE OF HINDERING TRIAL. Contempt Case Today) for Jury Fixing WASHINGTO. Charged with court, Wm. J. . C. Dec. 4, —- ikebreak- erman Burns, il operator who é to Teapot at Geneva } mediate disarmament follows in “The government of the Union of |Socialist Soviet Republics, having {been unable to participate in three sessions of the preparatory commis- 1al contempt of |sion for a disarmament conference, , most noted of |has intrusted its delegation to the fourth session of the preparatory com- mission with the task of making a Text of Peace Proposal by U.S.S:R Conference GENEVA, Dec. 4.—The text of the proposal tf the delegation of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics for complete and im- full: 7 ae eas pce tS eer the Soviet-Swiss conflict evoked by the assassination of Vorowsky, and the subsequent acquittal of the assassin by.a Swiss court has prevented the Soviet Union from attending the pre- vious sessions of the preparatory commission, declaration covering all questions con- Complete Disarmament. ;nected with the problem of disarma- ment. 1, two, i » of Burns’} “The Soviet government adheres to office rn ¢ourt to-|the opinion it has always held, that morrow Pin- | under the capitalist system no grounds for counting upon the removal the causes which give rise to ned conflic Militarism and big 'S are essentially natural con- equences of the capitalist system. By fact of their increase they chot of Penn Baron Sin existing differences, giving Secretary setus to all potential quar- the Bur tably convert these into them mi an acquittal. Swore False Affidavits. siete aces “The peoples of all countries, how- In pursuit of this barg enfeebled and impovertshed by charge of contempt, the Brnus Detec- | ¢} imperialistic world war, are im- tive Age not only shadowed, | hued with a determination to struggle hounded and frightened the juro zainst new imperialist wars and to n the confession of one of antee peace between nations. is precisely what makes it pos- |sible for the Soviet Union to accept the invitation of the league, the latter g expressed itself in favor of armament, In so doing the Soviet rument demonstrates before the whole world its will to peace between nations and makes clear to all the real ations and true desires of vitalist states in regard to dis- armainent. | % Hague Evades Issue. “Despite the fact that the world war was called a ‘war to end war,’ the whole history of post-war inter- national relations has been one of un- two with empl charged Sinclair The object Sin- in the language of contempt is that of Furthermore, ram was that of = clair had in min the citation fo: ‘impeding the part of their p some of the jw Besides Pinchot and government attorn concerned in the testimony of the Burns agent, Mullin as to false affidavi ther appear in court as‘\a witness against Burns, Donald Woodward, a Washington de- partment store owner, in whose home it is asserted the Burns agents made many of their reports to Day and Clark. All the members of the Fall-Sin- clair trial will be called. Sine and Burns have alree *y in- that their defense will thi charge of “being n jeopardy for the samv al- loged offense.” The triaf judge in the contempt e is the same Judge Siddons who i the graft trial. Texas Fights Order Excluding Mexicans SAN ANTONIO, Tex The Chamber of Comme is fighting the Immigration Commis- sion’s order, which would exclud both Mexican and Canadian inhabi- tants from earning their living in the United States. Armed Seabs Riot Thru Mine Town (Continued after three in dividual stri om Page One) morning. The in- could not get out of their houses jein forces to make a concertad drive against the scabs Fearing for the safety of their homes and children if their men went dov the hill for two of the miners’ wives faced the rising tumult outside, and managed to make their way “through the groups of scabs to the public highroad. Protect Only Property. The women and two of tne miners out looking for Ben Smith, constable, ran into a state trooper, “If you are a citizen you can protect yourselves, said this re entative of the law in the state of Pennsylvania, when they told their story. ‘‘We are here to protect company property “In Penn- sylvania a citizen can keep a gun in his home.” On Sunday night the scabs broke loose again. About a score of them. armed with rifles, guns and _ picks, come over to the picket post sta- tioned at the ca: op—- three picke according to the Pittsburgh Terminal Injunction—and began firing. Othe: strikers ran up to the pickets’ aid, aud the firing went on for the next two hours. This time the strikers were not unprepared, The Pittsburgh Terminal . Coa Company has been one of the most vicious assailants of the locked-out miners, torn the roofs off str 3 houses, turned off water and ht arrested strikers by the thousands. Hunger Too, Now the company has won the ap peal on the eviction of miners whos: houses were bonded, and is taking steps to evict hundreds of farhilie: within the coming days. The organization of mass seab attacks is a new weapon of the com- pany to terrorize the miners and smash their resistance. Those with the miners must keep the coal oper- ators from. adding ‘the weapon of hunger to ‘the terrible array with which they are trying to bludgeon the miners into submission. Send money, food and clothes to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief Committee, Room 307, 66 Penn. Ave. Help the minera win. intermittent and systematic increase of armed forces general burden of militarigm. So far none of the solemn promises of the league has been even partially ful- | filled, while in all of its activities in | this regard the league has systemat- ically evaded setting the question in a | practical light. “All of the work done by the prep- been purely of a decorative nature. | Indeed, the league only approached the question of general disarmament in 1924. It decided to call a confer- ence on general disarmament on May 1, 1925, ‘but to the present not only advanced a single step, but no date “Likewise, the league has been fruitlessly engaged upon the question of the limitation of war budgets since 1920. Reluctance to put into practice the policy of disarmament, both on imperialist states, was manifested both in the methods adopted and the alternation of the questions of dis- }armament and general guarantees, | while simultaneous attempts are made to sum up in detail all the factors de- rious countries concerned. Endless Arguments. evoking endless and fruitless argu- ments on so-called military potentials, affords opportunity for an indefinite postponement of the fundamental and decisive question of the actual dimen- in the capitalist! states and of a vast increase in the, | aratory commission in this regard has | has the matter of disarmament not! for a conference has even been fixed. | the part of the league and individual | termining the armed power of the va- | “Such a setting of the question, | “In now sending a delegation to the fourth session of the preparatory commission the government has au- thorized it to present a scheme for general and complete d: rmament. The Soviet Union delegation is au- thorized by its government to propose | the compiete abolition of au marine and air forces. “The Soviet government suggests the following measures for the real- lization of this proposal: “A, The dissolution of all land, sea and air forces and the non-admit- tance of their existence in any con- cealed form whatsoever. Destruction of Weapons. “B, The destruction of all weapons, military supplies, means of chemical warfare and all other forms of arma- ment and the means of destruction in possession of troops or military of general stores. “C. The scrapping of all warships and military air vessels. “D, The discontinuance of calling: aand, |U.S.S.R. Wants Peace | Stalin Tells Congress | (Continued from Page One) honestly admit its mistakes. The Op- | position will have to do this or else |seek for itself another party. | Preserves Peace. | In concluding, Stalin summed up |the suecesses of the All Union Com- munist Party. He showed how it had preserved peace, promoted the unity. of the proletarians thruout.the world, raised the authority of the dictator- |ship of the proletariat in the eyes of millions among the masses of the in- | ternational workingclass, has devel- oped at a rapid rate, the Socialist con- struction of the Soviet Union, and ad- vanced the unity of industry and ag- rieulture and consolidated‘ the union of the workers and peasants. The All Union Communist Party will continue | to follow in the path of Leninism and | to achieve new victories for Commu- nism and a Soviet Union of the whole world, he said. } Applaud Stalin. Stalin concluded his speech amidst enthusiastic applause and the cheers of the delegates who rese and sang the International. After Stalin’s speech, Kossior made -the organizational report for the Cen- tral Committee, * Open Congress. MOSCOW, U.S. S: R.,. Dec, 4.— Stormy applause greeted the opening speech of Alexei Rykov, President of the Council of People’s Commissars, to the Fifteenth Congress of the All Union Communist Party,‘*in the Krem- lin, At the conclusion of the speech, on ‘a-motion of the standing orders com- citizens for military training, eithermittes,-the 1,612 delegates proceeded in armies or public bodies. Abolish Military Service. “E, Legislation for the abolition of military service, either compulsory, |voluntary or recruited. |. “EF. Legislation prohibiting the call- ing up of trained reserves. “G, The destruction of fortresses and naval and air bases. “H. The scrapping of military plants, factories and war industry plants in the general industrial world. End War Ministries. “T, The discontinuance of assign- ing funds for military purposes, both state budgets and those of public | bodies. “K. The abolition of military, naval and air ministries, the dissolution of general staffs and all kinds of mili- {tary administrations, departments and institutions. Stop War Propaganda. “L. The legislative prohibition of military propaganda, the military training of populations and military education both of state and public bodies. “M. The legislative prohibition of patenting of all kinds of armaments ;and means of destruction with a view to the removal of the incentive to the invention of the same. “N. Legislation making the in- fringement of any of the above stipu- lations a grave crime against the state. Want Immediate Action. “O. The withdrawal or correspond- ing alteration of all legislative acts, both of a national and an internation- al scope, infringing the above stipu- lations, ‘ “The Soviet Union delegation is empowered to propose the fulfilhment {of the above program of complete disarmament as soon as the respec- tive convention comes into force in order that all necessary measures for the destruction of military stores may be completed in a year’s time. The Soviet government considers that the above scheme for the execution of = . complete disarmament is the sim- sions of disarmament. There can be Fae no doubt that by setting the question |Plest, and the best conductive to | thus at the coming disarmament con- | : ference not only will it be impossible | Eraescal Program: to achieve a curtailment of existing, “In the case of capitalist states re- armaments, but the states belonging Jecting the immediate abolition of to the unanimous election of the pres- idium. The fifty-two members of the | presidium include, Stalin, Rykov, Kal- inin, Bucharin, Rudzutak, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Molotov, Ordjonikidze, Tom- sky, Uglanoy, Yaroslavski, Kossior, Menjinsky and others. ' Approve Agenda. After the election of the secretariat and the Auditing Commission, the Congress unanimously approved the agenda, which ineludes the’ political report of the Central Committee by Stalin, and its organizational report by Kossior; the Central Auditing Com- mission’s report given by . Kursky; the Central Control Commission’s re- port by Ordjonikidze; the report of the delegation of the All Union Com- munist Party in the Communist In- ternational by Bucharin; the report of the directions for elaborating the five | years’ plan of national economy by Rykovy and Krijanovsky; the report of the work in the villages by Molotov; the report on the election of the Par- ty’s central organs, Consider Opposition. Ordjonikidze, chairman of the Cen- tral Control @ommission read the well-known resolution passed by the Central Control Commission on No- vember twelfth in regards to the ex- pulsion of from the Central Control Committee and the Central Control Commission of Kgmenev, Rakovsky, Smilga and other leaders in the anti- Party struggle of the Opposition. The resolution submits to the Congress the question of the continued Party membership of the leaders of the Op- position. The Congress elected a special com- mission composed of sixty-five com- documents bearing upon the Opposi- tion. The commission includes’ Or- djonikidze, Tomsky, Kalinin, Yaro- slavsky, Uglanov, Skrypnik and oth- ers. After a study of the“materials and documents characterizing the ac- tivities of the Opposition, the Com- mission will report its findings to the Congress. Workers Greet Congress. Clara Zetkin, who greeted the Con- gress on behalf of the Communist In- \RichardWashburn Child MORE PROO (Continued from Page One) jover fascist actviities in Amerca is indicated by its control of ths society. The Italy America Society acts as the link between the still somewhat un- popular: faseist dietalurship and. the so-called “cultural” element of Amer- ica, the Universities, the periodicals, the public speakers, ete. by which the atti “is made to inflifrate into the “culture” of America sentiments fav- orable to Mussolini. Morgan Men in Recent History. Thomas W. Lamont, then as now a partner in the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co., went to Paris with As U. S$. Ambassador to Italy, Mr. the Woodrow Wilson staff of diplo- mats in 1919 as “representative of Child, by Bis ewn ‘admission, con- |i. U.S depariment of the treas- spired with Benito Mussolini, then jknown as a leader of reactionary gangsters, to overthrow the parlia- mentary government of Italy. The bloedy dictatorship which took its place was financed by J. P. Morgan & Co.—and Child admits that MOR- GAN WAS ALSO IN CONFERENCE WITH HIM during the days when he the American Ambassador and Mus- solini were plotting the overthrow. | “Ttaly-America Society,” a pro-! organization of which Morgan’s part- ner, Thomas W. Lamont, is president, —and with the Morgan firm is con- nected Count Thaon di Revel, organi- zer of the “Fascist League of North America,” which is the moving force in the effort to railroad two Italian- American workers, Greco and Carillo, to the electric chair for their opposi- tion to Mussolini’s dictatorship. Expect 1,000 Fords To Be Daily Output DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 4—The The new Ford Car was displayed yes- terday to more than 100,000 persons. in the Convention Hall here. Pro- duction on the old cars was stopped ten months ago, throwing thousands of workers out and causing great poverty, so that this new car could Now Child is vice-president of the | fascist | s. jury.” It was an open secret at the ing the American proposals” for the treaty of Versailles which fastened ‘upon the world’ the control of allied !groups of international bankers. Lamont, ceasing? to be an agent of |the U. S. government, then, as agent lot J. P. Morgan & Co., proceeded un- |der‘advanteges of the terms of the treaty of Versailles to fa the fin- ancial yoke upon Central Europe. The turbulent movement of the working class of Italy in 1922 was ganization after a conference between the gangster-leader and U. S. Ambas- |sador Richard Washburn Child. The \Italy, was established and kept in |power over the heads of the Italian population with funds quickly secured thru the representations of Ambas- sador Child, in the form of loans |floated by J. P. Morgan & Co., with | Thomas W. Lamont as the active fig- | bank. When Mussolini overthrew the par- liamentary regime in Italy in No- | vember 1922 by his “march to“Rome” J. P. Morgan was in the Italian cap- ital in conference with Richard Wash- burn Child, the American ambasador to Italy. This admission is made by time that “Tom Lamont was dictat-| lerushed by Mussolini’s blackshirt or-| ure in the deals on the part of the; rades to consider all materials and} 'to @ consi’ | ments, to the league may even receive legal sanction for increasing armaments. “The Soviet Union has systemat- ically endeavored to get the question of disarmament definitely and prac- tically formulated. Its endeavors have, however, always encountered de- termined resistance from other states. The Soviet government, the only one disarmament, was not admitted to the Washington conference of 1921 and 1922, devoted to questions of the cur- ‘ailment of marine armaments. The proposal for general disarmament made by the Soviet delegation at the Genoa conference was rejected by the conference. Offers to Disarm. “Despite this opposition, the Soviet never has relaxed its determined en- deavors in regard to disarmament. In December, 1922, a conference called at Moscow by the Soviet of rep- vesentatives of the border states for a joint discussion of the problem of he propo: nal curtailment of ar- aament ‘She Suviet Union agreed able diminution of a.ma- despite the fact that this would not affect many of the great, ; rs, glways ready, whether under obligation of treaties or not, to come to the assistance of the other coun- tries represented at the Moscow con- ference should these be involved in conflicts with the Soviet. “A definite and thorough scheme for a diminution of armaments was proposed at that conference by the Soviet Union. This was, however, rejected. Despite the skeptical attitude of the Soviet Union toward the labors of the League, it accepted the invitation of December 12, 1925, to attend the com- ing disarmament conference and only Ws to show in deeds its will to peace and | was | |standing armies the Soviet Union, in lits desire to facilitate the achieve- |ment of a practical agreement, pro- ‘poses a program of complete dis- ‘armament to be carried out simultan- feously by ail the contracting states jby gradual stages during a period of |four. years, the first stage to be |accomplished in the course of the coming year. ' “Under this proposal national funds freed from the war budgets are to be employed in each state at )its own discretion, but exclusively for productive and cultural purposes. While insisting upon the views just stated, the delegation is nevertheless ready to participate in any and every {discussion of the question of the limi- ‘tation of armaments whenever prac- tical measures really leading to dis- armament are proposed. | Assails Poison Gas. | “The delegation declares that the Soviet government fully subscribes to the convention on the prohibition of the application to military pur- poses of chemical and bacteriological substances and process and ex- presses it readiness to sign the con- vention immediately. “While insisting on an early date being fixed for ratification by all states, it considers that, in order tc insure the practicability of the con- vention, it is necessary to raise the question of the establishment of con- trol by the workers in those chem- ical industries capable of being rapidly converted to War purposes in states which have a highly developed chemical industry.” The resolutfon offered by Soviet Union delegation follows: “Whereas, the existence of arma- ments and their tendency to growth by their very nature inevitably lead the to armed conflicts between nations, i \ \ o ! _ ——- ternational was greeted with a stormy ovation. She emphasized the danger of the disruptive work of the Oppo- sition, Peasants’ and*workers’ dele- gations from a number of cities in the Soviet Union, including factory workers from Leningrad, Moscow and Kharkov, and agricultural workers from the Ukraine, declared that the workers and peasants would follow the Leninist leadership of the Communist Party and vigorously demanded the cessation of the anti-Party activities of the Opposition. | Replying to the greetings Rykov de- | clared that they indicated the desire f the workers and peasants of the oviet Union for the maintenance of nity within the ranks of the Commu- nist Party. diverting workers and peasants from peaceful and productive jabor and Child in a book of memoirs. Today we find Thomas W. Lamont at the head of the pro-fascist “Italy- America Society” which carries on be produced. Ford stated that he expects 1,000 ears to be assembled daily after Jan- uary Ist. Building a Firm Base Against Reaction (Continued from Page One) of new unions where necessary, was a task for which the con- ference adopted a series of concrete proposals. : ; The building of a labor party based on the unions and the necessary measures which must be carried out to accomplish this was another issue on which the conference spent much time and reached a unanimous decision. : The injunction menace, the conference decided, must be met whole labor movement for this struggle. paign for the miners came before the conference, not as an iso- lated issue’ as it was made to appear in the official A. F. of L. conference in Pittsburgh recently, but as a necessary task which lis part of the whole struggle against wage cuts, the open shop, unions. The conference pledged its full support to the miners’ relief campaign. i ' 5s The separate conferences of the National Industrial Com- mittees, composed of the left wing workers in the respective in- every militant worker—facts showing clearly that most of the decisive industries are entirely unorganized, or that the unions which exist are so small and narrow as to be completely ineffec- stances useless at present even as bases for extension of union organization. Company unionism and “union-management cooperation,” its first cousin, were targets of the conference. A program for real struggle against these two menaces was adopted and plans made for energetic application of the program. The conference atmosphere was entirely one of keen under- great obstacles to be overcome, courage with which to meet these obstacles and determination to organize all honest elements in the labor movement and in unorganized industry to check the capi- talist drive and build a powerful labor movement. Compared to the might of official reaction these But judged from the angle of the weak as yet. forces appear still weaker. official labor leadership has made a traitor’s peace with the capi- talist class and its government and that the official policy leads the labor movement straight to destruction, the left wing forces have a strength quite out of proportion to their numbers. The organized left wing represents the interests of the struggle. Its leadership will be looked to more and more by the uidance of the struggles they face now. The left wing must be broadened and strengthened. The con- erence laid the basis for this most necessary task, a task which bringing in their train countless dis- asters, and “Whereas, armed force is a weapon in the hands of the gerat powers for he oppression of peoples of smail and colonial countites, and “Whereas, ‘comylete abolition of aymaments is at present the only veal means of guaranteeing security and affording a guaranty against the outbreak of war, this fourth session ef the Preparatory Commission for disarmament resolves, “1. To proceed immediately to the \orking out in detail of a draft con- vention for complete general dis- armament on the principles proposed by the Soviet Union delegation, and “2, Proposes the convocation not later than March, 1928, of a Dis- armament Conference for the discus- sion and confirmation of the terms provided in clause 1.” The resolution was deferred for consideration at a later time. ust be carried out rapidly if the retreat of labor movement is 0 be stopped. The delegates left the conference with a sober but none the less firm determination to organize the labor movement for battle. n every industry, as the militants carry out the program adopted, he bosses and the reactionary officialdom will realize that new ife and spirit is being brought into the labor movement. f the working class. he To the militant and revolutionary workers in other lands, hose struggles and their meaning for the American labor move- ent was a major point on the order of business, the news of he conference, the program adopted, the splendid spirit of the elegates and their enthusiastic support of the Soviet Union, will hich comes from the United States. The fight against reaction, the struggle to build a militant nd powerful labor movement has a firm base in the ranks of e American working class. ' by -mass violations of, injunctions and the mobilization of the! The question of the organization of a nation-wide relief cam-_ the injunction menace and the drive for the destruction of the: dustries, brought out more clearly than ever facts long known to! tive as instruments of the masses of workers and in many in-| standing of the needs of the working class, correct estimate of the | The forces of the organized section of the left wing which | the Trade Union Educational League conference represented, are | growing conviction among great numbers of workers that the | masses in industry, it has a correct program, it has the will to, yank and file of the unions and unorganized workers for aid and | There will be tremendous conflicts and in these conflicts the! left wing will grow, develop and be welded into a keen weapon. pe welcome as a new and hopeful note in the roar of reaction, F THAT WALL STREET BACKS | GRECO FRAME-UP - the “cultural” activities by which Italian merchan’ in the. United States are coerced into submission to and support of the fascist govern- ment of Italy. At the same time the banking house is connected with the openly acknowledged organizer of the body of violent reactionists in this country—Thaon de Revel. Richard Washburn Child, who as ambassador of the United States by obvious interpretation of his own ad- missions, plotted with the gangster- leader Mussolin#for the violent over- throw of the parliamentary govern- ment of the country to which he was ambassador, is now found as vice president under Lamont in the pr.- fascist Italy-America’ society. Kakn of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Also In. In the same organization are found Otto H. Kahn, chief figure in the other huge Wall Street banking house of Kahn Loeb & Co. Kahn as the same time is listed as “Grand Officer , of the Order of the Crown of Italy,” “Officer of the Order of Saints Maur. izio and Lazzaro,” erd “Direct the Italy-America ety.” Also in the same Italy-America So- ciety is found John H. Fin‘cy + ‘itor of the New York Times, who js listed as “Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy.” The manager of the society until re- cently was Miss Irene di Robilant, an active pro-Faseist, who in reply to dictatorship of blood and iren, which a letter of inquiry stated that it was |swept aside the parliamentary Sys-gher hope that the American labor tem of “democratic government” of movement would become more sym- pathetic to the idea of fascism. The present manager of the society jis Mr, Gino Gigongiari, a pro-fcs- \fist, Italian journalist, now instruc- jtor in Italian at Columbia University. The Morgan-controlled Italy-Amer- ica Society almost invariabiy acts as the host to the various fascist “cele- brities” who arrive in the United States at regular intervals for the {purpose of furthering their propa- ganda. At the welcome accorded the Italian aviator, De Pinedo, were present practically the whole board of directors of the society, including Thomas W. Lamont, Count di Revel, now known to be employed selling bonds for the Morgan firm, and head of the Fascist League of North America, Italian consuls, representa- tives, ete., and including even such in- dividuals as John H, Finley, editor of the New York Times, Otto H. Kahn, so-called liberal banker and fascist admirer, as well as other sociaily- prominent individuals. Now that Count Thaon di Revel is !revealed as being under financial de- | pendence of the Morgan interests, the purpose of the widespread propaganda of the Italy America Society with its numerous chapters throughout the country, becomes more clear. The Bulletin of the Society, sent broad- jcast into the land, is uniformly filled with propaganda extolling the vir- tues of Fascist decrees and indirectly |attacking the American labor move- ment. One issue is almost entirely | devoted to a eulogy of the Italian Charter of Labor by which the rem- nants of their rights were taken from the Italian workers. In the light of this fact it is not surprising that among the thirty- seven American business firms which jare reported as supporting the Italy- America Society, besides the Morgan firm, are found such notorious open- shop, union-hating establishments as |the United States Steel’ Corporation, |the General Electric Company, the International Harvester Company, the National City Bank, the Guaranty Trust Company, the Chase National Bank and various others no less op- posed to labor. The Morgan firm which fights la- bor organization in America, subsi- dizes dictatorships in numerous Euro» pean countries, and exercises through its control of finance a heavy degree jof authority over governments it | Europe, has now reached out through its control of the gangster Fascist League of North America and its no jless insiduous control over American “culture” ‘by means of the Italy- America Society, to dominate the American working class by building up a fascist machine in the Unie. Stated unequalled even in black Count Thaon di Revel’s co: with the Morgan bank was révealec thru his admission to a WORKER reporter that “I | ranged the sale of many Italjan bonds {for Morgan. While I am not a mem- ber of the consortiym, I have worked wtih the Morgan concern on the sale — of many Italian issues.” 0 Private Ownership of | Railroads Costs U. S. | Wheat Farmers Dear WASHINGTON, Dee. 4 (FP), — Senator Brookhart of Iowa, advocate of public ownership of railroads, has gathered a series of quotations of wheat prices at Winnipeg in contrast with Minneapolis prices for the same _ grade of wheat on the same days. These quotations show that Canadian farmers have been getting from 12 to 20 cents a bushel more, for their _ grain, than hace American farmers whose wheat is shipped the same dis- tance to the seabnard. The Canadian government-owned— railroad system recently cut its freight rate on wheat by 6 to 9 cents a bushel, and immediately the priee at Winnipeg was advanced by about that amount—thus proving that the Canadian farmers’ advantage in prices on their crop is due to lower freight ra en fir : *: : i