BRUTAL MURDER OF PA. MINER BY COAL POLICE ROUSES STORM OF PROTEST THROUGHOUT NATION
Brutal Murder of Pa. Miner By Coal Police Rouses Storm of Protest Throughout Nation Senator Wheeler Holds Mellon Chiefly Responsible Secretary of the Treasury Dominates Company Which Killed...
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...Senator Wheeler is about to tell the Senate the story of the murder of John Barkoski...
...Civil Liberties Union Investigators report that there is no reason to believe that the murderers of Barkoski are unusual types In the coal bosses' private armies...
...Congress has taken no action, and Mellon controls the state government...
...The companies pay the deputies...
...A. F. of L. Lays plans to War On Critics ¦^joinittee on Education, ¦ Beaded by WolL Will be I Ensme of Attack rflt Executive Council of the Amerm federation of Labor has just corntied ks regular sessions in Miami, brida...
...A Philadelphia newspaper comments: "The case is not an Isolated one...
...pacifists are being fought and military training for school boys Is being fought for...
...Asked to comment on the recent murder of John Barkoski, coal miner, by three of the Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s uniformed gangsters, he told Federated Press: "The killing of a defenseless worker by the coal and iron police is not rare in Western Pennsylvania...
...Wheeler proposes that Congress shall have the facts, on the eve of Hoover's re-appointment of Mellon to the cabinet...
...Miners union officials are also calling for abolition of the sheriff's prerogative to add hundreds of coal and iron gunmen to his staff as deputies...
...After the 1922 coal strike Gov...
...Lecka*- Y„ with 45 members, and Long !m* V., with 25, are the other reEducators Gird For Labor Battle Conference at Brookwood Says Labor Education Needs A Progressive Movement JT ATONAH, N. Y.—<FP) —Workers edu**¦ cation must fight for its life...
...Morris HUlquit Is expected to indicate the policy which he feels the Socialist Party should follow In the present situation...
...No state authority has anything to do with thenselection...
...Matthew Woll earn this commission...
...One of the most Interesting parts of the discussion will be the short speeches from various persons active in the trade union movement who have indicated their intention of being present...
...For nearly 50 years, they win tell you, the record of the coal and boo police has been that of a gang of dangerous and degraded professional criminals...
...For eight years," said Umstadter,- "I have worked for the union, attempting from the first to make it the power that It is today...
...PAUL—(FP)—The American Federation of Labor's ban on Brookwood Labor College, Issued without giving the school a chance to defend itself against secret charges, has not done the federation much credit in the opinion of editor William Mahoney of the Minnesota Union Advocate, the official organ of the Minnesota and St Paul labor movements...
...the league cooperated with other self-appointed saviors of the nation In running "a naval discussion dinner" at which Mr...
...Fisher, a political took of Mellon...
...Notable employers of such forces outside the mining industry are Bethlehem Steel Corp., Penna, Railroad, and Baldwin Locomotive Works...
...A J. Muste is expected to answer the charges made against Brookwood by the A P. of L and to outline a policy for the progressive elements within trade unions...
...Israel Mufson, secretary of the Philadelphia Labor College, Algernon Lee of the Rand School...
...Hamilton was the last ¦*••» city—except Quebec, which has ' °»*oUe Union—to hold out against 1 Hhters' unionization under the PederaUon of Labor...
...Weeks before the balloting, the Berry campaign began...
...The current Issue of the "National Security League Quarterly" calls for action to replenish a scant membership roll...
...ADLEB STREET IN BRATISLAVA (By a Htw Leader Correspondent) Prague,—The Municipal Council of Bratislava (Pressburg), which since the signing of the Peace Treaties, has belonged to Czecho-Slovakia, decided unanimously at a general meeting Jan...
...This recent action of the central labor council may lead to the withdrawal of the painters from that body...
...sponsored "California >lan" of workers' education through the extension departments of the big universities amounts to putting social science teaching for unionists into the hands of employers, it was charged...
...League members will recall th the International Labor Press, the \. finis Federationlst, Washington, O. I the United Mine Workers Journal .Washington State Labor Papers, the An eriean Labor World and the Mich.v Conner Journal have from time to Ur commented on the value of Miss Leigl...
...But 3,000 of the 100,000 who flocked to the stanoou u» the super-patriots In 1917 and 1*18 have remained In the fold...
...Resolutions have been introduced demanding a thorough investigation of the Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...The Miss Leigh ton referred to is Civic Secretary of the National Security League...
...Dewey Is a member of the New York local...
...a miner, by three of Andrew Mellon's coal and iron police, in the barracks of his Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...Imnn^llBBnC-nnw »>jjrUJh|lM r injH^fefeA ij|1VJ fighters Union Makes New Gains '•SBTRGTON — (PP) — Organization Sate new locals of the International "•"Whoc of Pire Fighters in recent ** **• part of the news carried by Thwa...
...But Umstadter said he was not disheartened...
...Now Wheeler hopes to awaken Congress, by citing the facta in this one crime, so that in the coming session the coal miners may get the protection of a federal law whicl* will stop gunman rule...
...Thirty-six state troopers out of a total of 350 were also fired or quit at that time as a result of the exposures by the governor's committee...
...If there is no basis for militant progressivism in the American labor movement, then workers' education will die...
...Martin Littleton and ex-senator James W. Wads worth fulminated...
...Purely for its news value, it Hew Leader herewith reprints a reft Mr...
...set since the nineties has there been och a seething attack upon official pollss within the trade unions...
...We who believe there is such a basis must be willing to fight, to get hurt, to speak plainly, to be called names...
...For years, Umstadter has been active in progressive movements...
...The fact that these three brutes continued for six hours to beat and stamp upon the body of their victim...
...Reservations should be made at the office of the L L D„ 70 Fifth Avenue...
...During Oct., Nov...
...As a result of this crime Fennsylvanians are demanding abolition of the coal and iron police...
...One Musmanno bill abolishes the coal and iron police act and requires posting of a ?10,000 bond for each armed cod...
...as "one of a body of men of whom we are justly proud...
...Chester IV...
...the league's Civic Secretary has cooperated with the Nebraska State Teachers Association hi preparing a teachers' manual on the^coistitutton...
...It speaks of "a long series of outrages against the lives and liberties of American citizens," of "a series of outrageous abuses of athority culminating in another brutal killing" which has left Pennsylvania "ashamed before the world...
...Editors of commercial dailies all over the state are penning denunciations which sound as though they had been clipped from a fighting labor paper...
...A coal company doctor told the jury how Earkoskl'e ears were twisted, his broken nose pulled and his crushed body beaten and lashed as he lay helpless on the floor of the police barracks...
...Denies Attack On Leaders...
...On the heels of this resolution a bill was introduced in the state assembly proposing entire abolition of the coal and Iron police...
...Plnchot examined the list of permltees and revoked some 3,500 of the 6,000 permits because of the criminal or dogbiful ch-racter of the holders...
...Both hard and soft coal companies, V. S. Steel and the Pennsylvania R. R. are fighting tooth and nail the two Musmanno bills demanding repeal of the coal and iron police act and the right of railroads to swear in private armies clothed with police powers...
...The storm of public sentiment arouse by this particular case is due mostly to the sensational details of the murder, and the fact that it occurred at a time when no strike was on...
...The cover charge is $1.25 for members and $1.50 for non-members...
...Rape and Murder Committed...
...For just so many years have the reactionary forces opposed me at every step, until my opposition to Berry in the last international convention decided him to use every method in installing his own man, Conway...
...I hate to say it, but apathy seems to be growing on some of...
...Jury Holds Three Police...
...Baring that those in the American ufcrattan of Labor "loyal to former agroishv policies'* are becoming restive, m this meeting President Green, with is snproval of the council, has appointed MsnWlBaon to appraise the whole field ! workers' education...
...Wheeler \isited the Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...If it has a leader, that ider is probably Professor John Dewey tot Teachers' union, a fact which ika the present contest of unusual tenet outside the ranks of trade unions ss well as within...
...William Green, Matthew Woll, and some of their colleagues at the head of the labor movement in the United States," he continued, "are blind to the real needs of labor and are pursuing a policy which may ruin American labor...
...Many of these offenses are a matter of public record...
...Our movement Is not even rekiotely i thuger," said one official here, "but bat h not the point...
...Typical of the general feeling outside the ranks of labor is a resolution demanding a legislative investigation of the coal and iron police, introduced in the state senate by a representative from Allegheny county...
...The WE3...
...that Morrow is directly in charge, and that he sees no reason why he should ylslt the barracks of his coal and Iron police to discover the truth as to their activities...
...Seattle Council Rejects Delegate As Communist SEATTLE— (FP) —The opposition of the Seattle Central Labor Council to Communism has been reaffirmed with the refusal of the body to seat Marius Hansen, elected delegate from the Painters Union, until he has appeared before the strike and grievance committee and satisfactorily answered questions as to his belief In communism...
...Despite Its drop in membership the league, founded in 1914 to promote military preparedness, boasts of many accomplishments...
...This luncheon will be Dewey's final task before he leaves for Europe and everyone interested in the labor movement should not miss the opportunity to hear our leading philosopher and educator pay his respects to the officialdom of the A F. of L. Minnesota Labor Editor Deplores Brookwood Ban ST...
...I have been contemplating making some comment in the Senate with reference to the situation...
...He insisted that militancy in labor was at low ebb, but such must not be considered a permanent condition...
...Lieut...
...Lyster, who is reported to have Jumped and stamped on the victim's unconscious body, has been repeatedly lauded by the Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...It must stand for an American labor movement definitely committed to work for a new social order...
...Abraham Lefkowitz of the American Federation of Teachers...
...Every member of this gunman army In Pennsylvania carries a permit issued by Gov...
...miner, by three coal and iron police at Imperial, miners union officials, backed by the State Federation of Labor, met in special session in Harrisburg to demand legislative action on bills aimed at controlling or abolishing Pennsylvania's private armies...
...Labor progressives started the workers' -education movement in the United States nearly 10 years ago, said Muste...
...Mark Starr of the National Council of Labor Colleges in England...
...They exist under authority of a state law passed in 1865, permitting banks and railroads to maintain armed private police...
...Barkoski Kilting Latest Of Long List of Crimes "Pennsylvania Is the only state In the union which permits an army of private thugs like the coal and Iron police to be i|?.intalned on its soil...
...Mahoney writes: "The editor of the Union Advocate, without essaying to speak far the local labor movement, considers the entire matter as unfair as it is unfortunate...
...Nevertheless they have legal powers as police officers, granted them by commission from the governor of the state...
...The chairman of the discussion will be Benjamin Stolberg, president of the New York Chapter...
...Its right to exist has been challenged by the attack on Brookwood by the A P. of L. executive council...
...About 3000 of these gangsters—not a few of them subnormal in Intelligence— are now at large in Pennsylvania...
...Yet there was evidence that Lyster had previosly served a sentence in prison for manslaughter...
...Here is what the "Quarterly" says about "Action of Union Labor Against Brookwood College": "The American Federation of Labor In conrenUon recently at New Orleans, Louisiana, confirmed the action of Its ExecnUve Council in recommending that 'all national and international unions, State Federations of labor, and city central bodies, each and all of them withhold scholarship* and financial support from Brookwood College.' "We are credibly Informed that a strong ' factor In this decision of the delegates to the convention was doe to the work of the Civic Secretary (of the National Security League) in teaching the constitution o! the United States by correspondence 1 working-men and women In thirty-si states...
...If It expects to live It must criticise the present A F. of L policies ss "opposed to the vital interests of the masses of working people in this country...
...My thought about the matter is that Mr...
...The point is that T effort is being made to undermine Bt ohrtroy, under leadership of a peculir though perhaps loose alliance of comajnhts directed from Moscow and of boaT educators who have had high ¦MBhtg in our own country...
...It published a circular letter in which they accused Umstadter of a "lot of bunk" in supporting Old Age Pensions and writing favorable articles in the Monthy Bulletin on government ownership of hydro-electric power...
...Throughout Its 10 years existence the Civil Liberties Union has known the coal Movement On in State Legislature to Abolish Private Police Force and bun police as lawbreakers...
...The killing has been called by coroners the most brutal in- this district's history, and it seems possible that riddance of the coal and iron police, vainly sought by Pennsylvania labor for a halfdozen decades, may result...
...Most '•¦alt of the three new branches of | ¦*» Is Hamilton, Ont., with about 1 •eabers...
...He has found that Lyster was particularly eulogized by President Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...51, tor eight years, was defeated by a ticket put up by Major George L. Berry, international president...
...Reactionaries, who have always distrusted workers' education as a frill or a menace, have obtained control and now want to km it off...
...Pittsburgh District Aroused by Murder PITTSBURGH — (FP) — Barring surprise, every possible public emotion has been aroused by the unprovoked murder of John Barkoski, miner...
...W.E.B...
...we believe this action win not add to the prestige of organized labor on the basis of f airplay If not justice...
...Former Gov...
...Because he had offended a drunken coal and Iron policeman, he was beaten to death by three private cops of the open-shop Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...The state will ask the death penalty for his slayers, the district attorney announces...
...Partial credit for the ban on Brookwood by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor is claimed...
...The unions who are defying the Won owmotsMp are the Federation of Men Teachers, the Federation of Women High School Teachers and toe WimoutBTy Teachers Union, all nil rug...
...The latest development in the history of the coal'and* iron thugs is the brutal and unprovoked murder of John Barkoski, coal miner, by three private cops of the Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...Green Backs Won...
...B k the first time In history that a U at professional rank has been anybae near the center of a conflict over lUey within the American trade union uKiKnt It was Professor Dewey's bps that was so dramatically thrown ini tht debate on workers' education in the oml New Orleans convention oi the , r. at L when Vice President Matthew roll asked whether this was "not the jot Professor Dewey" who had recently itemed from Russia speaking favorably [ tht soriets and soviet education...
...Mellon would say the word the strike situation in Pennsylvania would have been cleared up many months ago, and thousands of miners and their wives would never have had to suffer as they have had to during the past months...
...The coal and iron police, Baldwin explained, are responsible to no one but the companies which employ them...
...20, when he attended *y> anniversary celebration...
...Unfortunate industrial conditions are attributed to the leaders of the union, when they are caused very often by forces beyond their control," he said...
...Flan Criticised...
...Few, he said, are local men...
...P.)—New York Bute's industrial death toll was 149 in January, announces the state labor department...
...Neither in the press nor in public utterances has surprise been expressed at the commission of this outrage by special officers commissioned by the governor of the state to protect life and property...
...Harry F. Ward, teacher and outstanding friend of labor...
...The Mansfield bill, to certify coal and iron police and provide added state control, has been reported favorably by the senate judiciary committee...
...By Chester M. Wright fliitX, Fla.,—witnout mucn blaring ol 1 bands, the executive council of the nerksn Federation of Labor, has put B motion machinery which probably 0 bring into focus the whole dispute teem majority and minority within the jsntku and produce the majority's sSDg* and its answer to the minority...
...They do not represent the real masses of workers and are afraid that through workers' education this fact may become known and they will lose their jobs...
...Congress Indifferent...
...Bet with circumstances what they are x premie WiMng movement becomes a ar movement, with its Quietness indltitn a the diplomacy of President item...
...It has cooperated to having the constitution "taught" In 41 states and will continue the fight until the seven recalcitrant states are lined up...
...There was nothing wrong with Watts, he testified, except a small cut on the shoulder, which barely penetrated the sain and might have been caused by a pin scratch...
...properties a year ago last December, with Esnators Gooding and Pine, and heard at first hand the testimony of strikers, their wives and children, as to the bestial record of gunmen then stationed In Mellon's barracks...
...Private Watts, another at the slayers and also an old employee of the company, was whitewashed at a coroner's inquest in November, 1927, after be had shot a negro miner to death...
...Abraham Epstein of the Old Age Pensions Commission...
...Called "Private Gunmen" Baldwin described the coal and iron police as "a gang of private gunmen and imported strikebreakers...
...A Pittsburgh grand jury held the three cops who beat Barkoski to death responsible for murder and asked for investigation of the armies of uniformed gunmen...
...X. Y. INDUSTRY KILLS 14* ALBANY...
...locals of the American PederaUon of Teachers, the A F. of L. Inter, national...
...Muste urged progressives to fight these policies at the coming WE-B...
...Digging Into the printed record of the hearings which the Senate committee has conducted as to conditions in the Pittsburgh district during the coal strike which followed Mellon's violation of the Jacksonville wage contract with the United Mine Workers of America, Wheeler has found the name of Lieut...
...thew Wall's attempt to pen the Bolshevik label on Prof...
...Each worker's death is known to have left an average of more than two people without means of support, although Information art the dependants of more than one-third of those killed Is not yet available...
...Tbt minority in this case styles itself rotrowiTt...
...it broadcasts radio talks every week over WNYC, the city-owned station, in New York City...
...Pressburg therefore now possesses a Victor Adler Street and a Josef Seliger Street...
...But the progressive bloc in the labor movement has disintegrated...
...Thenrecord during that period," said Baldwin, "includes repeated tnstanww of assault rape, murder, and general terrorisaUon of the communities fax which they live...
...Leonard Craig, director of workers' education for the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor...
...Correcting inaccurate newspaper reports, he said that the purpose of the conference was to work out policies for the workers' education movement, and that it had not discussed questions of trade union politics, such as the ousting of specific leaders...
...Public Indignation is showing a sharp rise in voltage as added details of the crime are uncovered...
...Hansen was expelled from the council some years ago and though sent back repeatedly by the union has never been seated...
...Albert Rogers received 100 votes...
...N. Y. (P...
...Such were the conclusions of the annual Washington's Birthday Conference on Workers' Education, held at Brookwood Labor College Feb...
...Patterson, coal company physician, now admits that he was present during half of the three-hour beating, but that he did nothing to stop it and left without giving the dying man more than the most perfunctory medical attention...
...nfkt, editor of International Labor em Service, speaks with a certain umi of authority concerning the detftstUms...
...The Workers' Education Bureau was cited as an example of control of workers' education by do-nothing reactionaries...
...Among them were Vice-Pres...
...convention...
...Oa the surface, the commission Just ppaeaed, which Includes John P. Prey, ! whnungton and Victor A Olander, of steam, both veteran workers in unionn, hu a prosaic function—to see what ¦ bum accepted by workers education ¦t what If anything is wrong with it Wang Movement Planned...
...The main job of the bureau, Muste said, has been "to make workers' education safe, not effective...
...The typical coal and iron policeman is a big bulk of a man weighing 200 to 250 pounds, and armed with a gun and a blackjack, reported the U. S. Senate investigating committee which visited Western Pennsylvania coalfields during the strike of 1927-28...
...Plnchot, acting on the findings of a committee appointed to probe violations of civil liberty, revoked the commissions of over 3500 coal and Iron police and reduced them to their present number...
...The current "Qaarterty" reveals the League's Interest in Brookwood Labor College...
...Fkher has refused to make public the nzmes of the go—en who are operating under s authority...
...The sessions were executive Hi 0ti only fragmentary reports have idui The New Leader...
...Editors of capitalist dailies who are now frothing at the mouth played down similar outrages during last year's coal strike...
...Fannia M Conn, educational director of the L L. G. W. U...
...In a drunken frenzy, has brought the latest killing in Mellon's coal camp to the attention of the country...
...Later this act was extended to grant the same permission to coal companies, steel companies, and other big industrial concerns...
...and Dec, 1938, but 34 new recruits were enrolled...
...Investigation by county detectives has shown that Barkoski was entirely unarmed, although Watts charged that his victim bad tried to stab him...
...Finds Data On Lyster...
...It was inefficient, undemocratic and sought to "put the university label, not the union label," on workers' education, he said...
...But most of them are written only in the hearts of working men and women whose heads and bodies have suffered from the clubs and guns of their bosses' private army...
...He declared that it was his Socialist training that made him a leader with fundamental principles to work from...
...Replying to an appeal from the Civil Liberties Union asking him "to lend aid to the movement now afoot for the ending of the coal and iron police," Senator Wheeler says: Says Mellon Is Boss...
...A few years ago there were 7000...
...Victim Was Defenceless...
...To workers who have lived their lives in .Western Pennsylvania the Idea at surprise at such an occurrence Is Itself surprising...
...liieag*TmAefUnions T# Honor John Dewey CsTOasOtV-OW OunWisiBjeyMst...
...Ellison Chalmers of the Pittsburgh Labor College...
...ton's work as antidote to Communism...
...14, on the proposal of Councillor Comrade Kalmar, to call two new streets in the town by the name of leaders of the working class...
...James J. Conway, the Berry candidate, received 898 votes, while Cmstadter's total was 644...
...Inasmuch as roll has been singled out for attack by » whole minority movement, his apixnunent is regarded as indicative of the mfldence of President Green and the xmeB m Well and their readiness to icx bim in the coming storm...
...It is characteristic of strikes...
...Labor Wants Private Cops Abolished HARRIBURG, Pa.—(FP)—Stirred by the brutal murder of John Barkoski, Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...Mellon, who was Secretary of the Treasury during the past six years, and who undoubtedly will be the new Secretary of the Treasury, completely dominates not only the Pittsburgh Coal Company, whose policemen committed this murder, but likewise dominates the Republican Party in Pennsylvania, and to a large extent the economic life of the western part of the state, "All that he would have to do is to say to the legislature that these private policemen should be done away with and the legislature in my humble Judgment would no doubt pass a law prohibiting them, and he could likewise say to bis company that he did not approve of them and they would be done away with...
...Many come from the criminal sections of half a dozen big cities...
...Wright has written as correeUent for the Fort Wayne {Ind...
...Prohnior Dewey rejoined with a lengthy rods in one of the weekly periodicals...
...Lyster, chief of the murder gang...
...George J. Richardson to the ***al local, Feb...
...E. C. Lindeman of the New School for Social Research...
...22-23-34...
...If we avoid the battle we die...
...Um8tadter Defeated By Berry Man Progressive trade unionism received a set-back last week when Philip Cmstadter, president of the New York Printing Pressmen's Union, No...
...Miner By Coal Police Rouses Storm of Protest Throughout Nation Senator Wheeler Holds Mellon Chiefly Responsible Secretary of the Treasury Dominates Company Which Killed Barkoski, Progressive Charges * VV7 ASHTNGTON — (PP) — Pinal blame for the long series of coal and iron police outrages against western Pennsylvania workers is laid squarely on Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, in a letter just sent to the American Civil Liberties Union by Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
...He has asserted that he knows nothing of the management of the company...
...John Dewey of Columbia we^grrmg a breakfast m hts honor at Che Lagans Hotel Feb...
...It was Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, speaking...
...Progressives must accept these facta— not merely bellyache...
...Voiced by A J. Muste, they were concurred in by the two score trade unionists, organizers, officials and teachers present...
...When elected a delegate to the Washington State Federation of Labor he was seated...
...The Hudson, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley coal companies, owners of private armies, have Instructed their lobbyists to kill the two measures...
...It is a habit Into which employers have fallen, and one they should get rid of before its inevitable results descend upon us...
...the Mellon corporation, as a fine type of coal and iron police...
...Hillqnit, Dewey, Muste To Talk On "Labor Crisis" Readers of The New Leader win have an opportunity to hear John Dewey, the famous educator, reply to the charges of "Bolshevism" made by Matthew Woll, at the recent New Orleans Convention of the American Federation of Labor, at the coming luncheon of the New York Chapter, League for Industrial Democracy, Saturday, March 2, at the Town Hall, Club, 123 West 43rd Street, at 12:30 P. M. t The subject under discussion is a very vital and timely one, "The Present Crisis in American Trade Unionism...
...and Dr...
...There Is the best authority for lying that this commission will underlies to go into the whole conflict besom the majority, known as "true trade nnonhuj" and the group of minorities rboekt opinions and tactics range from alright communism to what is called r* *gi e— 11 In i n " and even down to mere ¦affection...
...In my humble Judgment, basing it upon the investigation, if Mr...
...The other speakers are A J. Muste, the Dean of Brookwood, and Morris HUlquit, the well known Socialist leader...
...Mellon, when forced to talk about the Pittsburgh Coal Co., has sought to evade personal responsibility for its record ol lawlessness, contract-breaking and terrorlzatlon of the coal miners and the population in general, in the vicinity of Its properties...
...thugs and a complete list of all private police with their home addresses...
...Immediate action has been thwarted by Republican bosses of the legislature...
...Security League Hits Brookwood Reactionary Organisation Boasts It Contributed to Action of A. F. of L. Council TTTHE National Security League hew fallen on sad days...
...It Is fighting government ownership of public utilities and "hears" that to Ontario, Canada, there Is "a change to public ownership sentiment" with a result that "state Socialism declines In comparative Influence...
...our workers...
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