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Show DAVIS SPEAKS j OUT FOR BEER Secretary of Labor Says Workers Need It, in His Autobiography CHICAGO, Sept. 1 James J DftvK secretary of labor, announces a stand In favor of ber for steel mill workers work-ers In a chapter of his autob'ography. "the Iron puddler." which Is now on the press As ; p'refai e to his observations on that subject Secretary Davis likened the temperature in the tin mills in the slimmer lime to the Fourth of July In Abyssinia. "Water do s not agree with the stomach, as well as doe beer." Is on sentence In his autobiography where Seen lary Davis quotes himself directly di-rectly in conversation with what he termed an ' upllftcr "You never worked al terrlfie muscular mus-cular exertion handling white hot iron in a mill like this" h' states. "You haven't got the muscles to do It nnd. I doubt if you've the part. You (annul (an-nul know the condition of a man when ho hits his hardest licks here. But they know and J know "Some of the men feel that lliey cannot drink water at that time M pal tells me 'bar his stomach rejects re-jects it, his throat seems to collapse as he gulps It. I'.ut l- er lie can drinii I and it eases him. I "The alcohol In beer Is a blessing at that time It soothes his laboring .'stomach until the water . an get Into j his system and quench the man's 1 I thirst Iron workers In the old world I have used malt beverages for genera- ; lions Why take away the other 'mans pleasure If It does not injurol jyou?" In an other cleupter the secretary ; writes. "Capitalism, as the communists call j it. Is an Imperfect system. But it Is the only system that has banished famine. Pnder communism and feud- ; alism there was hunger. Nature Is using communists, slack- ' ers, sick nun and fools t undermine the race that has conquered her. The' man who says quit work and divido our cake and eat If is opening, the way for nature to strike suddenly with a famlm "The man who advocates 'one big , strlke: to destroy our capital Is the secret agent of starvation." |