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,10,205 READERS
THIS WEEK
No. 45—Vol. 6.
The Oklahoma Leader
oklahoma city, oklahoma, may 15, 1920.
NOW LET US
REACH 35,000
Weekly.
a
WE OF WAR
\
Situatio % Called Anomalous
and lniq\ >us and Fraught
With Injustice.
TRUCE IS PATRIOTIC NEED
WASHINGTON' — Declaring that
President Wilson preferred to "keep
the country in an alleged state of
war rather than abate one Jot or
tittle of the full measure his Isolated
will has set for the nation," Senator
Knox. Pennsylvania, Wednesday
opened debate In the senate on nls
peace resolution.
•The welfare and safety of the na-
tion ItilReratlvely demand that we
know that we have peace." declared
Knox. "The whole world seethes
with revolution. Our own nation is
In ferment *nd turmoil. Forco and
strife arc rati)pan' and threaten the
destruction lot. only of our prop-
erty. but of our free institutions, an.l
even of our very lives. And yet we
stand, and have stood for months, us
a rudderless ship, foundering In the
irough of tremendous seas. Wo
must not dare longer to delay a re-
turn to the ordered government of
peace: we must not hazard a fur-
ther postponement In turning our
undivided deliberations to our home
problems. They htc great enough
to tax the utmost wisdom we pos-
sess. As a preliminary step the e*-
ecuttre must he returned to his
peace time powers and prerogatives.
WILSON IS STUYIBORN.
"Internationally we are at peace.
Oar national executive with a stub-
born irresponsibility continues to de-
clare we are at war. But aa a prac-
tical mattei the only war which he
irages Is againtit American oitlzens
nd American Industry. The situa-
tion Is so anomalous and so Iniqui-
tous. is so fraught wtth injustice and
irlth possibility of disaster that one
cannot reconcile it with the opera-
tions of sane statesmanship.
"It la not only legally unsound,
but economically, morally and patri-
otically necessary and Indispensable
lhat we at once repeal the declara-
tion of war and so Immediately end
the despotic war powers with which
a power-maddtned administration
continues to misrule this great
people."
WILL ASK BCPRKME COURT.
Knox Indicated that the supreme
court will be asked to rule on power
nf congress to declare peace by reso-
lution.
« Knox said he was sorry it was nec-
"ssary for him to "make observa-
tions which I wish were not needful
lo advert to to attain conditions and
iltuatlons" which it were infinitely
pleaaanter to blink at or Ignore, for
;t Is an unwelcome task to Judge one
who has fallen In the public esti-
mate But the time has come when
re must speak plalnlv.
"I entertain only sympathy for
Ihe president In his Illness and sym-
pathy for the country which must
luffer under him because of it.
"We must proceed now in the res-
rue of the people from their present
unhappy state, leaving the weight of
rensure and responsibility for past
irrors and misadventures to fall
irhere It may."
CITES WILSON SPEECHES.
Knox cited precedents to prove
that war may he ended without ac-
tual treaty. Knox next reviewed
the events leading to the entry of
the United 8tates into the war. He
said President Wilson "bluffed and
blustered, wrote and fumed, but
look no action "
He quoted from the "peace with-
out victory." aid "loo proud to fight'
«pee« hes of the president and the
*ljeech In which Wilson sail he
had nb quarrrl with the German
people.
German imperialism ended the
revolution. Knox pointed out. "leav-
ing: us without Ht4y titular enemy
unleaa we were warring on the Oer
Man people afrid we have clearly
topped ourselves to make such
contention."
ENGLISH FORCED
TO FREE MOST OF
! INDIA POLITICALS
Growth of Revolutionary Sent-
iment Compels
Action.
CALCUTTA On account of the
tremendous rrowth of revolutionary
activities in Inla. the British gov-
ernment has at last been forced to
release most of the political prison
era. Amongst these are Barindra
Kumar Uhose and Hem Chandra
I as who were deported from India
in 1909 as a result of the famous
Manlktola conspiracy case to
throw British rule in India. On his
turn to Calcutta Kumar Ghose. a
brother of Aurobindo Ohose, said in
part:
'Some time In December, 1909.
first batch of prisoners of me
bomb case, consisting of Hem Das.
Heshlkesh, Kanjltal, Indu Bhusan
Hoy, Hlbhutl Bhusan Sarkarm Ul-
laskar Dutt, Ablnash Chranda, Bhat-
tacharjee and myself, left the shores
of the motherland for the Anda-
is. We were nt first chained m
an isolated hold. Our feeling . .en
can be more easily Judged than de-
scribed. On our arrival at the penal
settlement, the Indian Siberia, we
were first given rope making from
copra fibre. I^ater one morning at
parade those amongst us who
were thought fit for hard work were
given to the mills, in place of .bul-
locks. I'lla.i was asked to work In
the brica field. 1 was |1vm to the
engineering file. We refused to do
these works
"Refusal to carry out orders were
met with most abominable tortures
lashing, standing handcuffed with
little or no food, gunny clothing, bar
fetters, crossbar fetters We went
through all theso atrocities and more
but did not submit. • • •
"Well, Indu committed suicide
during MaJ. Barker's office, and 1*1-
laskar became Insane, and we are
back In Calcutta again."
10B PER CENT
Former Labor Board Official
Blames Profiteering for
Rising C. of L.
CITES TREASURY REPORTS
IS AFTER PEACE
WARSAW—The workers of Pc- I
land are engei frr- peau* with rtirm
Russia, according to the manifesto u«'
the Polish Socialist party to the Rus-
sian people. The message declares:
"We aspire to a democratic and
Just peace, based upon observance
of the independence of peoples. We
oppose the militarist who insists
on annexing by force strange peo-
ples. We are aiming at attaining
a solution of the problem of the
so-called border lands which
should be in harmony with their
interests and based upon the free
decision of the peoples inhabiting
these lands."
HI ss STILL SEEK PEACE.
WARSAW — The latest com-
munique declares the soviet foreign
commissary proposed opening peace
negotiations at Grodna or Blaiystok.
The Poles have taken more vil-
lages and occupied the t'astoff rail-
way station, it claims.
In the past five days, the state-
ment nays, the Poles have taken U6,-
000 prisoners. 120 guns. 418 machine
guns and quantities of material.
HI ss EY \C I ATE KIEFF?
LONDON—Russian soviet troops
evacuated Kieff las: Thursday and
retreated toward Kharkov, a War-
saw dispatch to The Dally News said
Tuesday.
The announcement by the newspa-
pers In Warsaw that the Poles have
occupied Kieff ik unfounded, says a
dispatch :o The Loudon Times from
Warsaw.
Violent fighting in the vicinity of
Kieff i* reported in an offl. iul state-
ment Issued by the soviet govern-
ment at Moscow Sunday. The state-
ment says:
"In the Kieff region our troop*
are fiercely engaged «ost «.f the river
Irpen and at Fas'.off U0 miles west
of KUffi Our flotilla on the river
Priplaty has captured an enemy
steamer.
"In the Rezhltsa district (govern-
ment of Vitebsk,), north of Rerenov-
skala station, the enemy drove hack
our troops, but our former position
was restored by a counter attack.
"On the Black sea our troops cap-
tured Stotchy after severe fighting,
and the enemy is retreating In din
ordor on Adler. We captured two
armored trains and large military
booty."
COMMITTEEMEN HURRY
JEFFERSON COUNTY
NOMINATES TICKET
Socialists of Jefferson county met
In Waurika. April 1?. and after or.
ranizing by meeting J. E. Betiton.
figunty chairman, and E. T. Autrey
!' county secretary, nominated the
following ticket to he voted upon In
Ihe August primaries:
Representative. A. F. Bart
iheriff. Galloway; county clerk. J. C|
Longest; tax assessor. J. it. Epper-
son; commissioner. No. 3 Tom
llardner; commissioner. No, 2.
I'harlea Oaks: commissioner. N'o. i.
Jordon Riles; county weigher, J. E.
Betiton.
JEWISH SOCIALISTS BLAME
BRITISH FOR DISORDERS
LONDON—-Responsibility for the
disorders in Jerusalem April 4, r. and
€, when 160 casualtiea occurred, lies t , ,
at the door of th* local British ad- ] I SV fr°"'
m.ntatrntinn. arcnrdln* to ■*'? of Leader stock,, and have neg-
lected to do so. are holing up the
shipment of the "Autographed Life
WASHINGTON—Profits of prac-
tically all big corporations dealing
.n food, clothing, fuel and basic raw
materials now are more than 100
per cent greater than before the
war, W. Jett Lauck. former secre-
tary of the national war labor board,
told 'be railroad labor board Frida>
In support of his testimony, I^auck
submitted United States treasury r>
ports and published statements of
groups or corporations showing
average net profits compared with
capital stock totals for the three
year periods 1912-1914 and 1916-
1918.
Sugar profits, I*auck showed. In-
creased generally 300 per cent; meat
packing profit* between S00 and 400
per cent; clothing, 500 per cent;
shoes. 100 per cent, and coal," 400
per cent.
100 PER CENT PROFIT.
Profits of from 25 to 100 per cent
on capital invested were not uncom-
mon for hundreds of corporations
during the three war years, accord-
ing to Lauck's evidence. This would
indicate that many big corporations
earned enough during ihe war pe-
riod to return their entire invest-
men. he paid./
I*auck appeared in in-half of rail-
road workers asking the board to
approve their demands for wag. in-
creases totalling approximately $ 1.-
000,000.000 annually
He blaimil advancing lining cost*
almost entirely upon profiteering.
Ijauck called the boar.! - attention
to publi statements of 205 concerns
which showed a net earning of 8 7
per cent on capital stock in 1912-14;
and 2S a per cent In 1916-18.
EAUN S1.3MUiitO.WO YEARLY.
'The outstanding fact." said J
La tick. "Is that during the years
1916-18 These corporations earned
$1,260,000,000 a year or nearly 24 1
per cent of their capital stock This'
appears to be nearly three times the
average for the pre-war years of
1912-14. They were due in large
measure to the fact that these cor- j
poratlons took a large proportion of I
every dollar spent by !i purchaser." •
If all corporations did as well as
the 20." cited, corporate profits wore
$4,800,000,000 greater during the I
entire three way years than in the!
pre-war period. Ijauck said.
"A total of $4 800 o00.000 a vcar |
he said, "means $240 per fa mil - of
five throughout the nation. Consider
that each family paid as a 'oil not
to so-called legitimate profits, but
to excess war profits over pre-war
profits $240 a year, and one gains
an idea of the total burden which
profiteering meant to the country.
SUGAR PROFITS TRIPLE.
"During the three yours of 1916-
18, the consumer has been paying
the food corporations, whose i port
are available, over two and one-half
times as large profits as were con-
sidered acceptable before the war."
The profits In a pound of sugar.
I<auck showed, were thrte times a;;
much as before
The high price of sugar, he said,
was the dire ' result of speculation
The net profits of 12 refining and
producing companies as shown by
their reports totalled $1 1 000.00"
during 1912-14. but rose to $34 000
000 during 1916-18 that Is from 6^fc
to 19 per cent on capital stock
WHAT PAC KERS CiOT.
"Four big nvat packing houses
earned during the \ cars 1915-17 a
total of $140.1)00,000. Such profits
werp made despite enormous deduc-
tion* for exceashe salaries, advertis
ing and overhead charges. Alto-
gether in 1912-18 these concerns
took $250,000,000 in profits or nearly
double the pr war value of their
stock."
Ijauck also snljniitted treasury
data to show that of 492 bituminous
coal companies reporting, 33 showed
net profits of 29 per cent after every
possible deduction; 218 over 50 per
cent on capital stock; while lis
<arnod net profits of over 100 per
cent.
! THE DAILY
Better send your subscription to The Daily in at
once. You want The Daily, so why wait? As soon as
The Daily starts the circulation manager is going to be
swamped with work. Help him out by having your sub-
scription attended to at once. Get on the mailing gal-
leys now.
The completion of a contract for print paper, a car
load of which was shipped in April, two more cars to
come in May, two more in June, enables us to say that it
is almost certain that The Daily Oklahoma Leader will
begin publication about July 1.
' The big press and typesetting machines are ready to
I run and most of the composing room equipment is either
; here or on the road. We are sure to begin to realize our
splendid dream in a very short time.
The big job just now before us is the securing of a
list of subscribers of such a size as to be somewhat in
proportion to our plant, and our facilities for printing
I > and mailing.
We should start out with at least 50,000 subscribers.
We name this modest number because it will be easy for
the 30,000 owners of the paper to get at least two sub-
scribers. If they will do that we shall have more than
the number named. But they will do more and better
than that, they will begin now and send in all they can
every day until the paper starts and then they will have
but begun to work.
Now, Comrades, that we are assured that The Daily
will start on or about the date named, let us have your
best effort in this direction at once. Send us the largest
possible list of annual subscribers just as soon as you
read this, and write us a letter saying how many we may
expect from you, daily, weekly, and monthly, in the
future.
This is your job, Comrades, our job. Everybody
works, nobody shirks—all are in with all their might.
The exactions of the news print paper trust have
compelled the management of The Oklahoma Leader to
advance the price of The Daily 1-eader to $6 per year,
and this figure is much below that made by the capitalist
papers of like size. Oklahoma papers, containing no
more news matter or features that The Daily Leader will
carry are selling for $9 per year. Our low rate of $6 is
made because we will not have to pay for circulation as
the capitalist dailies do.
Thousands of loyal men and women in Oklahoma,
Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri will attend to the
circulation of The Daily Oklahoma Leader, and readers
will get the benefit of the low rate.
DEPT. OF JUSTICE
TRIES TO CREATE
TERRORIST SCARE
CHAIRMAN OF MEXICO'S
FOREIGN AFFAIRS BODY
LIBERATION OF
—LOl IS F. I OS I
Official Declares Caminetti
Memoranda Frequently Wot
Backed by Evidence.
WASHINGTON—Charges that the
department of justice with the usslst-
anc- of certain two salaried news-
papermen," is trying to create a
terrltorist scare," throughout the
country were made Friday before
the house rules committee by Louis
F. Post, assistant secretary of 1 ibor
i'ost defended his action !n freeing
1,293 aliens caught In the nation-
wide radical raids.
Post, against whom impeachment
proceedings were started by Repre-
sentative Koch, Kansas, also at-
tacked the house Immigration com-
mittee and the bureau of immigra-
tion of the department of labor.
FACTS OFTEN LACKING.
• Misleading arid unjustified rec-
ommendations are found in the re-
port of the public committee and I
I have often found that the memor-
anda «'f Anthony Caminetti, director
J general of Immigration, urging de-
! portation are not backed by the evi-
j dence," Post claimed.
I Members of the rules committee
called on I'ost to name the two
' newspa perm en.
"From Nov. 1, 1919, to April 24. i
6.530 warrants for the arrests of
aliens were Issued," Post said.
"About 6,000 were arrested, of whom'
approximately 3,000 were immedi-
ately released. Of the remaining
number 762 have been ordered de-
ported. but only 22 have been sent
out of the country*■ This is largely
due to the fact that most of those
to b- deported come' from Russia
and it is Impossible to obtain en-
trance to ports of that country."
FKW FOR VIOLENCE.
Post claimed Caminetti had no au-
thority of law to make recommenda-
tions for deportation.
Post declared that of all the peo-
ple arrested In th^ raids only 40
testified that they favored violence.
The others were simply members of
some Communist group, he said.
JuUAbLSANCH 12T ftZCOHO
Juan Sanchiz Ascono, former pri-
vate secretary to Madero, is director
of the El Dario and El Demacrata,
two of Mexico's largo daily newspa -
per*. He is ut the present time
chairman of the senate committee
on foreign affairs in Mexico City.
i gene'debs'must be freed soon i
| orhemayhevergetout alive''
I I
I i
! Man Released From Atlanta Penitentiary)
Says Leader Cannot Live Through An- 1
other Summer in Prison.
II
British Socialists
committeemen
ministration, according to a message
received by The London Daily Her-
ald from the Jewish Socialist I.abor
party of Palestine It' charges the
local authorities with failing to pre-
vent preparation® for the pogrom
with Interfering with Jewish self-de-
fense. and finally with failing to pun-
ish thft. guilty
BRITISH LABOR PARTY
WINS TWENTYTW0 SEATS
of Debs." which was promised as
souvenir for this special work As
soon as we can ascertain the number
of books r -quired, we will order
them, but we cannot know this until
we hear definitely from the pledgers
Comrades who have fulfilled their
pledges will please be patient and
give the tardy, hut no less willing
workers, a chance to catch up.
CHANGE IN PHONE NUMBER
LONDON—Twenty two gains b> ■
th« ?/abor party in the recent urban j Preparation to the installation of
district council elections have caused a awttch board und the connecting
some apprehension in Liberal eli up of the several departments in The
cles here. Tlieae victories in the leader building by telephone, our
south of the country, which way phone number which was Maple
heretofore less of a labor stronghold [1614. is now changed to Maple 7t0«
than the north are declared to reveal Those desiring lo csll The Leader
the rapidly growing power of the will remember our numbei is no*v
i^bor forces. j Maple 7600.
Warn of Big Plans j
for World Conflict
LONDON—'A warning to th
orkers of America and Great
Britain, that the capitalists and
governments in both countries
were making unprecedented prep-
arations for a world conflict, was
sounded In a resolution passed at
he recent conference of the Brit-
ish Socialist party. The poison
gas for a world war more bloody
and disastrous than the last Is al-
ly being prepared, the resolu-
tion declared.
"We must show the workers
that there is nothing else for them
to do but to choose between a war
more horrible than the last—and
a revolution," asserted the dele-
gate who moved the resolution.
The workers of the two coun-
tries were urged to close up their
ranks to adopt the same tightinu
program and to tight simultane-
ously their exploiters In industilall
battle power as the first stepj
toward the world Communist re-i
iPublie.
BY T1IE FEDERATED I'll ESS.
NEW YORK—"If you don't get Gene Debs out of prison
this summer, you'll never get him out "
This message has been brought straight from the peniten-
tiary at Atlanta, Ga„ by John Randolf. whose 10-ytar sentence
in that prison for violation of the espionage act was recently
commuted.
Rnndolf reported that the rumors that Debs was to be trans-
ferred to a farm soon were false.
"(iene has not been transferred to a farm and ni^er will be.
And although he tells every one that he is feeling fi.ie, it is not
so. Debs is suffering from heart trouble and the doctor says
he may drop dead any time. He can't live through this summer
in that prison. He nearlj died several times last summer. Once
he had a sun stroke and whenever it gets hot (hey have to take
him to the hospital."
In the tailor shop or shoe Jiop Randolf said he had been
able to communicate personally with Debs several times a week
while he was in prison Debs had never made an appeal Cor
sympathy for himself but had always been interested in the
welfare of the other prisoners.
During an attack of influenza he took care of Randolf per-
sonally. In conversation with Randolf about the affairs of the
Socialist party. Debs repeated his views on the necessity for
unity within the ranks.
NEED OF ALLIANCE LARKIN SENTENCED
WITH WORKERS FELT TO FIVE TO 10 YEARS
BY BRITISH TEACHERS IN SING SING PRISON
Official's Action Called "Most
Flagrant Instance of Most
Despicable Crusade."
WASHINGTON*—Atty. Gen. Palm-
.er's warning of "May day violence"
and "steps taken "to*prevent It" were
.assailed before the railroad labor
board Thursday b Tlmoth> Healy,
(president, Brotherhood of Station-
ary Firemen and ' tilers, a* a part of
what he characterise-! "a despicable
propaganda ugairwt labor."
i Such piopagiiiida. Mealy said, was
started within !e*s than 24 hours
after the aiming of the armistic,
' md was designed "to poison the
minds of the people to Juch an ex-
tent that the profiteers could s ill
(further increase prices and place the
| blame on labor."
( Ill saiii on LABOR.
' Healy told the board the crusad*
! of a "high government official"
against radicals was "undoubtedly
for the purpose of aiding in the cam-
jpaucn of certain employers of the
v to secure laws establishing
LONDON—Abolition of the false
lunta
The
ed tc
nil's warning of
nd murder" of
Icials wa* char-
os t flagrant in-
picable cru-
! that If "govern-
id congress had
ention to limiting
titers as they did
hounding wn -e
of living would
within reason.
class system of England, nt present
fostered by education. Is only pos-1
Mble if the teachers feel their solid-
arity with the rest of labor and work
with then, shoulder to shoulder.
This stand was made with tremen-
dous enthusiasm at the convention
just neded of the National 1'ulon
of Teachers, reprt sending 11J 000
Kuual pay for men and women,
teacher- was another popular de-
mand of the convention, linked with
t i ;«lt for a minimum VK(t of $1,500
a year, rising by $125 increments tc
$ 2. 0 0.
An Important resolution on a na-
tional system of education included
demands for full and free education
for all maintenance grants where
needed, complete co-ordination of
schools and uniform regulations for
all types of schools in respect t<
btaff. floor space, playgrounds and
swimming pools The .lass of ti'1
.pupils was condemned catagorlcally.
I Indic ation that th< teachers are on
I the point of demanding the guild |
system of organisation under which
they will manage their "industry'
, without outside Interference, wan
j given by a vote on the question N<>
formal ballot was taken, and frou
|th«' show of hands It was evident;
that the sentiment of the delegate*
was about evenly divided between:
the guild idea and that of Whil'ey
! councils . in which the government
land the employers share.
BIG SOCIALIST PICNIC
IThe Socialists of Harkens Grow
and vicinity have planned a big pic |
nic for May 30. The ground* are!
jldeal for the purpose and'an excel
i lent program is being prepared.
|Good speakers, refreshments of the
most substantial eharpctei and de-
lightful music Havens Grove is
■ •situated 15 miles \\-£st of El .imo.}
i
NEW YORK—James J. l.irkln
ltor of The Revolutionary Ago.
nvie ted here last week of criminal
anarchy, was sentenced to not less
than 5 years and not more than 10
years in Sing Sl".g prison here Mon-
day by Justice Bartow S Weeks, in
the criminal division of the supreme
English Workers i
Vote $25M0 for I
London Herald1
I
MA N't 'H EST EH, England Oe-j
daring that labor must supple-®
ment industrial action hv an ef-|
fectlve polit II .t! weapon. The I
Amalgamated L'nlon of ''o-opera-l
tlve Employes at Its annual c«>n-|
ference here voted $26."00 to the!
support of The London Daily |
Herald. In moving th>' resolu-i
tlon. Councillor It. J. Davis
serted: j
"If there had been other pa-!
like the Herald, th. country|
ditu
uld have b«
of $50..
in Russia
the eo
lot on the question of amalgama-|
tlon With the Shop Assistants'i
union and the warehouse nndl
General Workers' union. The*
proposed amalgamation would!
have h membership to begin wtthj
of 260,000, and substantial funds.!
Advocates of the measure de-l
clared that labor Is now fighting k
massed capital and tinkering"
with trade union demarcation j
n detest for the I
ron* the bal-l
be complete!
MAY I IS < HOKT.X.
Healy said May day had been se-
lected a* n day for imaginary tor
rlbio things to happen because con-
tra* ts of som« unions customarily ex-
pir- i April 30.
"There is one peculiar thing about
a newspaper editor." Healey said.
He believes everything he r<ads :n
• vetybody else's paper and he never
changes his ndnd with the changes
in the procedure of the labor move-
ment.
"This made them fall for the prop-
slaytng of high officials and public
men last May I." he continue!
Washington representatives of all
the newspapers in the United States
were railed into a conference and
told of the ereat dangers to the
American government.
DAV IS PEACKFL'I..
"May daj was to be n day of
slaughter, a red letter day in the an-
nul. "f government overthrowers.'
But May day came and passed. It
wn.; as peaceful a day as any other
In the year. Outside of newspaper
columns and the minds of certain
government officials all was content-
ment
This was a vital blow to the In-
stigators of the conspiracy to pla e
a more vicious stigma on organized
labor than any yet used "
ANOTHER DEPORTATION
SHIP WILL SAIL SOON
WASHINGTON—Another deporta-
tion ship loaded with radical aliens
will be started ->n its way to Russi
shortl>. according to Informatio
given the house o ppropriations com
mittee by Anthony Caminetti, dlrec
Abt.
siting
lost of them
BULLETIN.
NEW YOItK—Woodrow Wilson !
was elcctcd president over I
Charles Evniia Hughes by the I
YOtcs of Sochillsts, Morris Ilillquit |
told the national convention of 1
the Socialist party of America In I
tlie keynote speed* here Satur- j
day.
"If there remains any large sec-
tion of workers who put their '
trust in the old parly Messiahs, |
Woodorw \Y.I>on inu-t have ef- |
feetlvely separated then* from tlie !
nai\e faith," he said.
"For Is- it remembered in HMO
Woodrow Wilson ran as a radical.
He promised Socialism through
the short cut of the Democratic
party and thousands of radicals
^aml'dates' of the Socialist party."
SilenUcm of the name of En-
gene V. I)cl s. now in the federal
prison at \tlauta. Ga., taused a
great demonstration.
Ilillquit Mas elected chairman
of the convention over Louis Eng
dahl. Chicago, by 91 to i!!>. Cvorge j
Hani|M I. Milwaukee, was elected '
vice-chairman, and Walter Cook, i
New York. Hecreury.
Edward Theodore, prime
minister of Queensland, \ustralla. j
elected by the Labor party, told |
the convention that after four i
weeks In the I'tiited States far j
i.s i can eteehd the Socialist
jwrty Is the only one which truly j
represents lala r." . .
Reference to "the coming big !
strike" to enforce the demands of
Socialist* ami radical leaders by j
William /.. Foster, leader in the j
steel strike, threw the convention j
into pandemonium.
Delegates cheered for t.~ min-
utes. leaping on chairs ami stamp-
ing their feet when Foster, who J
ap is-a red before tlie convention on T
special Invitation, in a brier un-
oflici.il talk declared that the
genera! strike will prove its ef-
fectiveness in the United Stairs.
"\\ hen tla big strike does
come," Foster said. "I want to see
the railway men. miners and I
everybody—" here the speaker j
Detention of Radicals Is De-
nounced in Report as Move
to Crush Labor.
WANT SPY LAW REPEALED
CHICAGO—The policy of the fed-
eral administration lu keeping po-
litical priaonera in Jail, and in insti-
gating raids on radical organizations,
is denounced in the biennial report
of the general executive board of
the International Ladles Garment
Workers' union, now In session here.
Says the report:
"With the war over, and with
general political conditions return-
ing to their normal etate, the de-
tention of hundreds of men and
women who have been changed
with transgressing wartime re-
strictions and lawsja an unneces-
sary and futile state of affairs. All
of the former belligerents in Eu-
rope have already freed their po-
litical prlsouers ana It is the deep
and ilncere conviction of organ-
ized labor that no good can be
served by keeping these political
prisoners In Jail.
"Wo denounce the reaction
sweeping tho country at present
as an attempt of capital to sup-
press labor.
RAIDS ARE DENOUNCED.
"We denounce the raids and ar-
rests which the federal and state
governments have perpetrated
upon various radical organizations
in every section of the country.
"We protest against tho policy
of the Washington administration
to keep in prison the thousands of
political prisoners and we demand
that they be Immediately freed
through a proclamation of am-
nesty, as the governments In Eu-
rope' have done already.
••\\v , uitlng of
Ave Socialist assemblymen in New
York us un-American, unconstitu-
tional and undemocratic We
pledge our moral and financial aid
in the struggle against
the struggle against
forces which seek, und
of patriotism,
of their most c
REPEAL I
:t ion
In
the
rished libertic
DEMANDED,
deiru
repe;
ided.
conv
toration of
r called for,
cndatlon to
tion to call
th
^d
demo
>rnlt
licgn n.
I* In
tin
sflsctat the i.eapkr
NEW YORK with th arrivr
delegates from every portion of
country, and the completion of
preliminary work of the nati-
executive committee, the 1920
vent Ion of the Socialist p
oeaed here Saturda. Judging
repeal the espionage act, and we
call tipon all state leRlslative
bodies and governments who have,
under the pretext of war emer-
• ury, curtailed freedom of speech
pssembly, to return Immodl-
itelv these rights to the people.
•'We demand tills Iiecatise we
know that these laws are aimed
principally against the enlightened
and progressive workers. The war
was practically ended a year and
a 11 a 11' ago and it is ridiculous to
explain the curbing of our lib*
ertie.s by assertions tluit America
Is still technically at war."
SOLDIER BONUS
MEASURE FACES
DELAY IN HOUSE
j Question of Raising Sums
May Put Off Action Un-
til Next Fall.
vigo
whe
t hi
?d
ira before the
lidacy
preai-
egate
hall, the session will
momentous and the nv
in ehe history of th
Proir
discuss I
initial session were the ca
of Eugene V. Debs for th
dency, and the means to he adoi
by the party for overcoming
repression and reaction started
the olud Durties ith the declara
of war. lteconstrueti'-n on a n
tant and staunch plotonn as
thought uppermost in the minds
party leaders mid delegntrs.
PLAN BIG MASS MEETING
By Friday noon, the prellmlr
sessions of the national execu
committee, which opened Thui
had resulted in the perfecti,
plans for the convention Foil
the efforts of Julius G rher,
utlve secretary of the N- w
party, all arrangements w« re
pleted for the giant mass mi
to "be held In Madison Square
den Sunday afternoon, and
banqnet. of welcome In the (
Central Opera H- ise Mondn;
TI
|f«
fall Is proh
j This i > bcincr advocated by some "f
.th*1 Republican members of th«*
I way hii I means committee, who
j favor the bill in Its present form.
Tljeso members believe th*t unl-ss
a kal.-H tax e.sn be provided there is
no other suitable means of revenue
to r.ilsp the necessary funds.
It is ' wired d that thf> opponent*
j of i sales tax have made i: imp >'
j In. orporatlng such a provision this
*
' b;i*! > in pr • * T i !< • m the 111 ;nd> "■
i' They are" unnUerubly''Spp.^ed to
such .i tax on war profits as advo-
cated by Hep, Johnson, South J .
ada
DEAD MAN ELECTED
iddresM
Chicag'
plstfo
Ma
Di
Ho*
i Issued fro
J RICHMOND, Ind.— P.eturns from East 15th
; Indiana's primaries Friday disclosed mretinu w
.« dead man had been elected dele , . ( .
' '• to the Republican state conven "
— — anneuncen
^ '.yHINGTON—Postponment of
fforts to pass soldiers' bonus j
nbar. <*enter
had died
10 days before the primaric-a*
"Those Tho come to the meet-
ing aic giving ngtlce to the
dark period
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