The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1927 LEGION, CHURCH | USURP PLAGE OF KKK, TERRORISM | Patrioteers Do Work of Hooded Order Now The American Legion has replaced | the Ku Klux Klan as “the most ac- / tive agency in intolerance an repres- | sion” in the United States, according 2 report just issued by the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union, with head- quarters in New York City. This statement is based on reports from 44 states, in 27 of which re- pressive tactics by the Legion are cited and also on the fact that “many of the attacks on freedom of speech during the year have been traced to propaganda emanating from the war 7 Exploitation of “Big Four” | Agents to Be Exposed In New Series May 23 A series of ten articles exposing the swindling of industrial insur- ance agents by the “Big Four” will commence in the DAILY WORK- rd and daily ER, Monday May e t The will be by Charles Yale Harrison and will deal with the exploitation of agents. /The ar- ticles are being published at the request of thousands of agents who have written to the DAILY WORKER asking that the paper espouse their cause also. Be sure and see that your. own insurance agent gets the first ar- ticle! Beha Stalls On Quiz Of. Bri? Navy Nea billeted ig tents. Te big disappear- | }ing guns of the coast forts were oiled Quebec Getting Liberal Party Government; 26 Arrested for Stuffing MONTREAL, Que. May 16,—- Provincial elections are being held throughout Quebee today. The re- turn of a Liberal government is conceded, The first charges of fraud in con- nection with the election were made today when Louis Fitch, K, ©,, Con- servative candidate from St. Louis, and 26 others were arrested by police armed with five warrants charging electoral frauds, Fitch later was released on parle. New England Shore In War Maneuvers, FORT ADAMS, Newport, R. I..} May 16.—In a drizzling rain U. S,| Army Officers today laid tactical) plans for the defense of New Eng- | land from an invading British Army somewhere along the coast in this| region a joint Army-Navy “War” | maneuver, i! Fort Adams was a scene of activity. | Planes drored overhead, troops | marched and countermarched. War | correspondents” arrived and were} up and put in readiness for action. Defending warships were lined up in Narragansett Bay. Major Gen- eral Preston Brown, in charge of| Flee Incendiary Fire. Sixteen families fled to the safety RIEF “Big Four’ Companies (Continued from Page One) and the Metropolitan, by means of an interlocking directorate, are one. We also stated that the “mutual” department the American Legion and other patrioteering societies,” accord- ing to the report. K. K. K. Kroaks. the defending U. 8. forces, inspected the various army units and conferred with army officers on plans to repel the invading British fleet. Up to a late hour today the British of the street early yesterday from a fire in the four story brick tenement house at 114 Belmont Ave,, Brooklyn, Firemen found evidence that gaso- line or kerosine had been spilled in The Ku Klux Klan is losing its in- fluence in practically every section, and in general the civil liberty situ- ation throughout the counry continues to improve, the report wtates. Lynch- ings, and interference with public meetings are the exceptions to the general condition, acts of mob vijo- lence, and prosecutions involving civil liberties unless conditions at- tendant on industrial conflicts are considered, y dec sed, The report quot comparative table of | these four fundamental violations of civil rights as follows: Of prosecu-| tions involving civil liberty issues, | there were in 1926, compared with | 352 in 1 instances of mob vio-| lence are recorded as 21 for 1926,/ compared with 40 for 1025; there were 34 lynchin, in 1926, compared with 18 in 19 and 28 meetings were stopped in‘1926, compared with 22 in 1925. Congress Protests Lynching. policyholders of the Metropolitan do not benefit by this arrangement in any way. We showed that Charle: Schwab, Henry Ollesheir Frede H. Ecker and Albert H. Wiggin, rectors of the Chase National, are also directors of the so-called mutual Metropolitan, Apparently this does not seem to you to be a violation of good insurance practice. Your silence proves your tacit connivance. Your Silence Evidence We also brought evidence to show that this condition of bank directors interlocking with insurance director- ates is common with the Prudential, John Hancock and the Colonial Life Insurance Companies. Your silence is an evidence of guilt. We charged that Frederick H. Ecker, vice president of the Metropoli- tan, is also a director of ten railroads in which tens of millions of Metro- politan “mutual” funds are invested. _| will penetrate the sky for traces of fleet, which is “somewhere at sea”’|the hallway of the first floor. preparing to attack the coast and land | 100 men; had not been sighted. | night great beams of searchlights | Will Unearth Herculaneum. NAPLES, May 16.—King Victor Emanuel today went by destroyer to Resina, where he will inaugurate the excavation of the ancient city of the enemy. Airplanes are darting cut over the sea at ihtervals for the same purpose, When the British fleet is sighted, opening hostilities on a seale simu- lating actual war conditions will be begun. cult attempts in the history of ar- chaeology. Hereulaneum, once the resort of wealthy Romans, has been buried for nearly twenty centuries beneath a bed of lava flow, having been devas- tated by an eruption from Mount Vesuvius. Crimi nal Syndicalism Law Upheld (Continued from Page One) court found, did not show that the I, W. W. advocated the overtavow of} autopsy was to be held today for the government by revolution. Fred Haas, 58, who was killed when The Supreme Court upheld the law | a section of the stand at Baker Bowl, a second time in affirming’ lower|home of ‘the Philadelphia national Federal Courts’ decision in the con-| league team, collapsed. Fifty per- Baseball Fans Leave Hospitals. PHILADELPHIA, May 16, — An Herculaneum, one of the most diffi-foperating in Mexico, and their oil Partner, Praises U.S. Imperialism WASHINGTON, May 16.—(FP)— Thomas W. Lamont, member of Mor- gan & Co., speaking on “America’s Foreign Investments” at the Intl. Chamber of Commerce dinner in Washington, coincident with the meetings of the Pan-American Com- mercial Conference and the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, lauded the Coolidge administration’s action in | Mexico, Nicaragua, Haiti and else- where in Latin-America, At the same time he warned American bank- ers that their chances for safe and profitable loans in Europe were rapidly fading. The Land Tax. a Mexico’s governmental and railway debt, Lamont said, was about $725,- 000,000, with interest payments since 1921 of $80,000,000 gold. This in- terest payment was only one-fourth of the stm due on the principal, but it did represent “an earnest desire on |the part of the Mexican state to ful- | fill its obligations to its foreign credi- tors.” However, its handling of the| land and oil questions “has had the effect of discouraging most of the British and Ameriean oil companies | productibn has fallen off heavily.” Lamont went on to predict that until | a settlement on the oil and land ques-| tions is arrived at with foreign in-| vestors, Mexico will probably “not invite foreign capital to seek outlet there on any large scale.” Lamont’s whitewash of American military occupation of Haiti, Nicara-| | gua and Santo Domingo was in the} | familiar tone of “We-do these things! solely for their good.” | A Permanent Slavery. | After reviewing the financial re-| covery of, many European countries,| |and cautioning American investors Lamont, Morgan's | S iked Trench Before City of Peking British, American, and White Rus- sian officers have helped the bandit gangs of Chang Tso-lin to adapt all the recent discoveries in the seience of war to Chinese conditions. Chang ex- pects a powerful drive by the Kuomin- tang, and this trench, full of spikes, is intended to be used like the barbed wire of the Great War, in an attempt to stop them. Experience has shown that determined and courageous troops can not be stopped by mere mechanica] devices, however. Feng Takes Northern Stronghold; Advances (Continued from Page One) The Nanking government is deeom- posing, It is in serious financial dif- ficulties. Tradesmen refuse to accept the new paper money issued by The increase in lynchings is attri- buted by the report to the failure of to take action on anti-lynch- ing legislation. The number of pro- secutions noted in 1926 does not in- clude those arising from the many industrial disputes, which were in- cluded in the 1925 figures. The Legion and the patrioteering societies eame in for another rap when the report discusses the educa tional situation. “These groups, states, “together with the bible eru- and other fundamer st or- ions are held responsible also inroads on freedom of teach- uppression of student publica- dismissals of teachers and stu- y expression of opinion, en- reed military drill, compulsory bible reading laws and “salute-the-flag” regulations, and one new anti-evolu- tion law, in Mississippi mark the course of their campaign of repres- saders | We charged that Ecker benefits by this arrangement to the detriment of the million Metropolitan policy- holders. And still you are silent. Are these men your masters? No Refunds We have shown that weekly pay- ment policyholders pay for two, five | and nine years and then, when due to economic nec they require a re- turn of their deposits, the “Big Four” refuse to make such refunds. Under the law ney is irretrievably lost. We charged that in this respect alone the “Big Four” make upwards pf fifty million dollars every year. What do you think your duty is in | this miatter—we mean your duty to | the policyholders? We have shown that on the director- , ate of the largest of the “Big Four” | sits Frank P. Noyes, president of the Associated Press, an organization which feeds high finance propaganda to over 1200 newspapers in the United viction of William Burns, a delegate of the Industrial Workers of the | World. Civil Liberties Comment. “One of the most far-reaching decisions affecting civil liberties | ever handed down” commented For- rest Bailey, director of the American Civil Liberties Union yesterday when informed by the DAILY WORK- ER of the California criminal syn- | dicalism ruling. | Attorneys for the Civil Liberties | Union argued the Anita Whitney | case involving the law, before the supreme covrt on March 1, 1926.| They were Walter Pollack and Walter Nelles of New York and John Moy- lan and Thomas Lennon of San Francisco, The Burns and Fiske} jcases . were also handed by the} Liberties’ Union. Prisoners Still In. | Added significance is given the} sons were injured, but all have been released from hospitals. Say Associates Killed Ensign. LOS ANGELES, May 16.—Forma- tion of a second naval board of in- quiry into the unsolved riddle of the death of Ensign Julian J. Moshane of Maryland, awaited today arrival in port of the dreadnaught Tennessee. Moshane was attache to the Tennes- see. The dreadnaught is due here to- morrow. An earlier official investigation de- cided that the dashing naval officer drowned, His body was found float- ing in San Pedro harbor three days after a merry yachtine party at which he was last seen alive. Agents acting on behalf of the ensign’s family, how- ever, adduced evidence tending to prove McShane died a violent death, In consequence the navy department ordered the second investigation. jagainst reckless subscription to fur-|Chiang Kai-shek, The discipline in |ther loans there, Lamont touched up-| the army is “declining. The soldiers, jon the favorite topic of international; Who have received no pay Since | |bankers—the trend toward lowering | March, are plundering. The policy of | tariff walls so that payments may be|the Nanking government has caused made. He said that “Certain states-|Sevious differences to arise, partieu-| men on the other side, men of|larly amongst the military leaders, sobriety and judgment, experienced |The Canton dictator, Li Tin-sing, who| and schooled in the world of politics,|intends to make himself independent | declare that Locarno means the per-|°f Chiang Kai-shek, is pursuing his| manent appeasement of Europe, CY pes policy under " the slogan: | new era; that while there may be oc-|“Kwangtung for the Kwangtungers!” ‘Maurer Charges Old Age Pensions Beaten by Grundy HARRISBURG, Pa., May 16.—Big | business united in a “deliberate dis- tortion of faets” to defeat the old {age pension bill in the recent. legis- lature, President James H. Maurer charged yesterday before the conven- tion of the Pennsyivania Federation |of Labor, in session here, The Manufacturers’ Association, junder the leadership of the unspeak- able Grundy and the Etate Chamber of Conimerce gave orders to their henchmen in the legislature to kill the jmensure, he declared in his presiden- tial address, The convention will be in session several days, Paris Automobile Workers Strike _ Against Employers PARIS, (By Mail)—Declaring that Citroen would never see the success of his project to exploit his workers in chain-gangs, 15,000 workers of the Citroen automobile shops, the Ford of Europe, yesterday went on strike. Within twenty-four hours they were joined by thousands of workers from the Granelle, Epinettes, Levallois and Saint-Ouen shops. At Saint-Ouen, Epinettes, and Levallois, Citroen was | forced to close down his factories. In |the 15th Paris Distriet, the center of | the Citroen Paris shops, and the scene of the first strike action and lockout, work has slowed up to such a point that the bosses have suppressed all passes in order to prevent workers from leaving the shops and to eut off communications with the outer world. Despite these precautions workers are gradually leaving the shops in District 15 and joining their comrades on the sidewalks and at the organization meetings. Issued Strike Appeal. The Strike Committee of the Metallurgists Union issued the fol- lowing-appeal to all workers of the sion and intolerance in 1926.” Pennsylvania First. Civil liberty issues were prominent in industrial conflict in the Passaic textile strike, the Indiana Coal strike, | panies legally employ is more than the Rhode Island textile strike and| 49% inaccurate. And still you have the New York City fur and garment| made not public statement relative to strikes. Prosecution of+workers un- er state criminal syndiealism and ed by these facts. sedition laws however has practically | ceased. States and Canada. ° Misleading Table We have proved that the American report, in the number of prosecutions | is nezrer 6%, for opinion and expression. | Beha? The most important free-speech} We have claimed that the directors fight of the year, as recorded in the of these “mutual” companies are report was the New York City school | elected by fraud and fixing and that beard’s ban against the American! not one of the elected gentry repre- Civil Liberties Union, which revealed | sent the class interests of the policy- the existence @f a “blacklist” against | holders, Why the silence, Mr. | Table of Mortality which these com-| | an investigation of the scope warrant-| e We have stated that these compan-| Pennsylvania has taken the! ies assume a 344% return on their in-| lead over California, aceording to the| vestments whereas the actual return! supreme court’s decision by the exis-| bo RAT gg 2 yremcaned tence of criminal syndicalism ser- Charley Chaplin Attorneys Plea, ; ‘ - LOS ANGELES, May 16.—Attor- iously abridging free speech and as- ’ y | cccabtidee in nearly two score states. bee for Charles Chaplin prepared The California decision practically | % lay to go to court tomorrow in sets the seal of highest governmental | their twice-deferred attempt to strike approval of these invasions of rights | out accusations smade by Lita Grey in “guaranteed” by the American con- | her divoree complaint, The comed- atitation. lian’s lawyers also will argue a de- Nearly a score of political prison- | ™UTrer to the whole complaint. jers are still held in California jails | + ; “ Over Eight Miles Up. under the criminal syndicalism law. An application for a pardon will} Hoe ee age Bong a be made to Governor Young of Cali-| = alanis catablichéd a pei Llane fornia, Bailey indjeated yesterday. |altitude free balloon record when he : P attained a height of 42,470 feet, ac- Croatian Society Stops | cording to the official record received Y :. $ ih today from the U. S. bureau of et. Wing Lg DOLE gw! conaarae tie proviows witbae ae j rogressives individuals whose opinions do not con- Out {cord was 39,500 feet. We claimed these and many other| form to those of board members. Unemployment ‘Threat In Flooded Region Capitalist Papers Ignore It At the agency meetings of the “Big Four” managers have been instructed (Continued from Page One) things, all of which have resulted in| a condition in insurance circles which | may be adequately described as panic. | ; to boast to their agents that the capi-| BROWNSVILLE, Pa.,—May 16.— At the annual convention of the | Croatian Benefietal. and Educational | Society, the right wing aimed a blow |at the left wing, and failed to land. The rights wanted to bar Jews from the society, and had also a mo- Bury 102 At Poplar Bluff. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., May 16,—- Poplar Bluff today was engaged in the task of burying its scores of dead. The toll taken in Monday's tornado was placed at 102 lives today and the injured at about 250, of which 100 |easional embroilments, even sporadic} armed confliets, there will never jagain be any great cataclysm on the continent of Europe; that within the| |lifetime of our youth war will have! |become as outworn as witcheraft,! | slavery and dueling, It is true that| |Europe is happily becoming more unified. The moyement to break down the high tariff barriers, built up by \the growth of nationalism in almost every European country after the | war, is already well under way. It is |not ineonceivable that Europe may) jsome day become a great region of | free trade as the United States is within its own borders, “Such a development may take a long time in coming; on the other hand it may move much more swiftly than we imagine. If it does we shall be able within a short span of years |to witness a Europe restared, in-| dustrious, stable, peaceful, far stronger in every way than it has ever been in the past; with arma- ments vastly reduced, with swords beaten into. plowshares, and with a future bright with promise. “It would be well for the American | man of affairs to look forward to pre- pare himself to do business with a Europe of this sort.” The arrests, searches and execu-| Citroen plants: tions have become so common in} “In locking out 10,000 workers at Shanghai that the Chinese press re-|Javel and Gutenberg, the directors ports them on the back page in small/of the Citroen Automobile Corpora- print. The police of the International | tion have planned to break all op- and the French Settlements render} position to their vast scheme for the military authorities every assist-| wage reductions. Let no one enter ance in carrying out the arrests and, the shops this morning. Go to the searches. | gates at the usual time and obey the The entire Committee of the Indian | decisions of, your Union and of the Nationalists with its chairman at the| Lockout- Committee. head, has been arrested. The files} “For three days you have been and correspondence of the Committee} thrown out on the sidewalks, To .co have been confiscated by the police. According to the law arrested per- sons must be immediately handed over to the courts, this however has not beew done up to the present. Ouse eae Students Want Military Training HANKOW, April 10/ (By Mail).— The Provincial Students’ Union has addressed a letter to the Educational Department of the Commission in charge of Political Affairs in Hupeh, asking that an order be issued for the introduction of military training in the Province of Hupeh. The letter says that military force is an important weapon in the work of national revolution and every revo- lutionary worker must be equipped with military training. For this rea- son the Union requests that the |schools should put in their currieulum |a course in military training and that ‘efficient officers be engaged to teach |the students war tactics so that the students might be useful in the actual Cooperative Youth Hold First Dance | back to work today means defeut, | means accepting all the present wage | reductions and all those to come, | means sacrificing 4,000 of your com- | rades. ’ Refuse to Work. “At the Saint-Ouen, Clichy, and Levallois shops you will enter to urge all your comrades to strike, but | you will refuse to work in order to | show your solidarity with the workers | of District 15. “The hour for action has struck! live the Citroen workers! Solidarity of all Citroen workers in the struggle!” The Citroen workers are striking against wage cuts and are demanding a minimum wage of 4.50 frances an hour for both sexes, suppression of fines for forgetting to punch in, lengthening of the noon hour now thirty minutes, payable at regular rates, and workers’ control of pro- duction. petition of Cuban sugar, which is pro- dueed very cheaply because of the exploitation of labor, prices for) Louisiana have been low for the past | five years. The return from this| sugar cane has also been low because | of plant disease. i Fear Unemployment. One of the most serious problems of this gigantic flood will be the un- employment to follow in its wake, and as usual these victims will have to shift for themselves as soon as the| Red Cross withdraws its emergency | relief work. Certain officials are quoted as stating that “it is expected | that unemployment will, in large| measure be offset by the need for! labor in reconstruction of levees and in building construction.” But builg- ing construction is destined to be! mighty slow in communities where agriculture is the chief source of talistic newspapers will ignore the! DAILY WORKER attack and that it will come to naught. No mention was made of the truth of our charges, which they know, and you know are} rue. Since the publication of this series | you have been attending luncheons and dinners paid for by insurance! companies praising the “great insti- tution of life insurance.” Do you think that truly “great institutions: of life insurance.” Do you think that truly great institutions stoop to petty larceny as do the “Big Four’? Do you think that your policy of silence lends prestige to the fraud of swind- ling American workers? In a series of articles which are to commence next Monday we propose to show that the agents of these four companies are underpaid, swindled, | fined and exploited just as the unfor- tunate policyholder is; will you be tion made by John Kolar, acting chair-| or more are in a serious condition. man of the convention, that anybody who “doesn’t obey the laws of the | State of Pennsylvania and the coi stitutionof the United States, shall expelled, Kolar, uder severe questioning, etated: “I will tell you what is in my heart; the motion I made, it means that all Reds shall be ex- pelled.” Koiar is a follower of the extreme reactionary, Geo. Ferega. His motion was defeated by a large majority. : id asd “Decameron,” whith were held up, Supreme Cou rt Uphol lds | Importers were advised that they | will not be permitted to order fur- Tax on Bootleggers ‘ther copies of these books from abroad WASHINGTON, May 16.—Boot- |until the department has had time to leggers ¢an be compelled to file in- |make a muling, come tax returns, the supreme court ruled today in reversing a circuit Decameron Books Released. | WASHINGTON, May 16,—A com- | plete investigation of the importation of risque literature into the United States was ordered today by General L, C. Andrews, assistant secretary of treasury. ‘ After a conference with importers, | Andrews ordered the customs author- ‘ities at New York to release for im- portation a number of sets of the \“Arabian Nights” and Boccaceio’s “inferiority Complex,” Shoots Self. BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, May 16, —Explaining in a note that he had reyenue, and this revenue has been cut off for months to come by the| destructive waters of the Red, the Old, the Atchafalaya and the Miss- | court decision in the case of Manly S. Sullivan, A sentence of six months in jail originally imposed on Sullivan in the | South Carolina federal court stands | silent when we prove these charges? | Last year your salary increased from ten to twelve thousand dollars a year. Are you being grateful? issippi Rivers. | We hold that obligations or no obli- According to the latest reports yes-| gation you come out into the open terday, there are 50,000 refugees al-| and either refute our charges or else ready being cared for, and fully 50,-|see that the intolerable conditions 000 more who will be made homeless | which now exist in the industrial in- | with the decision. The government appealed to the | high court, after the circuit court of | appeals reversing the district court an “inferiority complex,” which made \it impossible for him to “jump from ‘dreamland to earth,” George Emory, | 20-year old artist who said he’ was the seion of aswealthy Middleport, Conn., family, attempted to end his life here today by shooting himself through the chest. Physicians said he would reeover, in a few days. Dallas Blast Kills 6. DALLAS, Tex. May 16.--Six hodies had been recovered from the ruins of the Odd Fellows lodge build- ing here, which was destroyed by fire and an explosion last night. Fifty-six persons were injured, #ome seriously, in the blast. q A Y ; ' ff surance business be wiped out com- pletely. When may we hope for action, Mr. Beha? | Labor Asks Freedom CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 16.—The | Central Trades Council hes passed a resolution unanimously _ requesting clemency. for Sacco and Vanzotti, J held ‘that the secrecy attached to in- come tax returns did not equal the constitutioial immunity which pro- vides that no person may ve com. | pelled to give incriminating evidence | against himself, To Swim Channel Again. PLYMOUTH, Wngland, May 16,~ Mrs. Gade Corson, American woman who conquered the English Channel . |last summer, arrived here today to \train for an attem Sacco und Vanzetti Dover to Calais in July, Shall Not Die!| sacco and Vansetd Shall Not Dio} \ to swim from | Snyder had The recently organized Cooperative Youth consisting of young people liv- ing at the Cooperative Apartment House, 2700 Bronx Park, East, will hold their first dance, Saturday, May 21 at the house. All workers are urged to attend. The Cooperative Youth Club is a social and athletic organization that will accept into its ranks all young workers, whether they reside at the Cooperative House, or not. It devoted & great deal of its time to playing baseball, tennis, rowing, hikes and other outdoor sports. It also has lec- tures and discussions, Snyder, Gray Lodged - In Sing Sing Prison Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder and Henry Judd Gray, condemned slayers of Albert Snyder the woman's hus- hand, arrived at Sing Sing Prison shortly before noon yesterday.. Acompanied by an escort of motorcycle’ police, the two auto- mobiles containing the doomed pair swept through the main street of this village and into the gates of the prisaon. The shades of the cars were tightly drawn and the crowds thathad assembled on the sidewalks br no opportunity to glimpse the pair. Without stopping at the Warden's office which is the general rule the line of cars swept straight into the prison grounds, The doors clanged: quickly thut, and Gray and Mrs, of living uni pag calls them to chair. battle . against the anti-revolution- aries, e * * Protest U. S. Bombardment LONDON, May 16.—General Chi- ang Kai-shek has made a protest to the senior naval officers of the Brit- ish, American and Japanese naval forces at Nanking, charging that, war- ships of the powers have fired on Chi- nese troops in Kiangyin without prov- ocation, according to an Admiralty communique. Chicago Labor Warns Against Tax Slashes To Aid Big Business CHICAGO, (FP) May 16.—Fight- ing against proposed federal income tax legislation, The Federation News, organ of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor, says; “In actuality but 18 per cent of the people are paying income taxes today and therefore 82 per cent would de- rive no benefit from this proposed tax cut. Both democrats and re- publicians are furthering reduced i come tax legislation. are convinced that such legislation will appeal immensely to the people, only a small percentage realizing that it would be of material benefit to not more than 18 per cent of the na- tion. They aro simply taking adyan- tage of the doello apathy of the masses and their lack of inclination to become familiar with issues of far renching importance that are vital to thom,” eect At THE NEWSSTANDS U Both parties | ‘Organized Farmers of Oklahoma Rap Military Training f ine Colleges OKLAHOMA CITY—(FP)—May 16.—Military training in the Okla- homa Agricultural & Mechanical Col- ilege at Stillwater should be optiony)’ and not compulsory, says Pres. John Simpson of ‘the Farmers Union of Oklahoma in a protest to the state board of agriculture, | The college will not endanger its federal appropriation by making the present 2-year compulsory drill op- tional, Simpson points out on the strength of official federal informa- tion. He says farmers regard it un- just to compel their sons who want ¢ to acquire agricultural training at. the college io waste 2 years on marching with a gun under a retired army sergeant, 4 i ‘ Arvest Worker For Distribution Of Shop Paper in Mill WARREN, O., May 16.—Charged | with “trespassing,” S. Merton was arrested here ae shad alg shop papers among the workers in the Trumbull Steel Co. The issue called attention to the abominable work- ing conditions in the mill and called upon the men to organize, After being held in jail for two days Merton was +t before a local judge who fined 35. 4’