The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 15, 1919, Page 7

T s S S Tt attle, tfie:Seatfilq Union Record, theblggest and most ififluenfial" erators got together and did so. As Roosevelt always meant wha ~~labor union daily in America, was suppressed by official sanction., he said, this was enough. The public got coall ; o . This-destroyed the only mouthpiece of the Dbrogressive forces and ° In the meantime, North Dakota coal mines are producing 100 +§ 4 18 what is referred to by the employes of the Post-Intelligencer in ~ per cent, due to the policy. of the farmers’ administration in taking } -~ one part of their resolutions. = S © oo ' over the mines for state operation, pending the settlement of the wt~¢ - . - The Seattle situation is a disgrace to America. Honest citizens . labor controversy. The press, as usual, has refused to tell the truth R -+ must blush with shame when conditions approximating civil war ‘about North Dakota’s success with the fugl ‘situation. Almost ‘“i'f % . are brought about by fanatical intolerance of people’s organizations .everywhere a belief exists that the governor was forced to give the . - and progressive measures, They must despair of justice when the mines back, because the seizuré was held by the courts to be il- . press prostitutes itself to a campaign of lying, hate and prejudice legal.” This is not true. Eot : ! «§ . against the opposition to reactionism, and when men openly incite A lower state court did attempt an injunction against the § 7. to riot and lynching. - This is the condition we are rapidly drifting - governor, in the case of one of the largest mines, and used the <& .- 1o everywhere, and it can be checked only by a sane decision by all occasion for a violent attack on the governor in his decision, g __parties and interests to discuss the issues, giving both sides a fair 'which has been widely quoted. It is also true that the supreme f-%. - opportunity to present their case, and letting the ballot box ‘give g : j 5 ] - the final verdict. Rehgenn ; S HEERPING THE i | e ks : — = s HOME F/RFS I ° A PROMINENT Nebraska farmer writes us that the new farm TG LN bureau movement in that state—at least in three counties 4 . A with which he is personally familiar—is in the hands of *s | actual farmers, and that the movement there undoubtedly will be - e= . . b :{f&?fi;fig;}gmerr:’nyfléfi sn}.fevr‘gluf?gfie?g' sggggn&i‘zfiligzt court refused to issue a writ of prohibition against the lower court, .. ' . and that interests opposed to reforms the farmers want will be on the ground solely of wrong procedure by the governor's legal 7 unable to use the new organization in his state for their selfish counsgl, ngfxch.decxsmn did not affect the general status of state ; et 4 ; e i operation of mines. - : i >\ If the farm burean movement in Nebraska can be made of real . from the lower court in the way the higher court had indicated as | i § use to farmers and remain in control of farmers it can do so in Proper, the coal company which obtained the injunction reached - ' = other states. 'If the movement in Nebraska can. keep itself free 2N agreement with its miners, and under the governor’s policy, | .~ Trom politics and refuse to be used to stir up animosity between announced at the outset, the mine was turned back to the operators | farmers’ organizations, it can also do that in other states—and agdrtlzs.m&"- fi'fidficfllg; up %0 m:lrmaI: , At %1.‘9 saime txzn:hthe federal- | g et - : PR ‘ - - court In North Dakota refused an injunction against the governor | T %;:rsean the P??de?hf“ asked of the farm' burgau m?\remeqt 3V~ to another of the larger coal companies, = ; Boe e The Leader has not taken a position hostile to the state and : e : : ; L Bae . hational farm bureau movement. ‘We have merely pointed out the . = THE LEGION AND LAW AND ORDER : dangenthe'moirement-facesfby reason of the fact that many of its ~VHE Hennepin county (Minn.) local of the American Legion promoters (some of them in control of the organization in Some I deserves the commendation of all honest, law-abiding citizens z R a e S SR e : _for its repudiation of-lawless acts of some Minneapolis Le- Ff < B> THEWAY TO POINT THE GUN- gionaires, and for promising to expel any of its members found E ol T Ly ¢ SR L guilty of rioting, “direct action” or mob violence. The statement | B ' : - was made by George C. Ferch, secretary of .the Hennepin county & Y P central committee of the Legion, and was occasiored by a raid-by fi . S Y Legion members and others on a book store which sold radical = | - B . books. The front of the store was smashed in, and the rioters f > B 7 e iR earioly - carried off in an automobile a load of books to be burned, as a final | S e e ey . . = “and futile climax of the disgraceful and lawless proceeding. The ! % o states) hope and wish to use the new movement against the League book shop was owned by a woman. e e S S farmers and progressive farmers’ measures. We ‘have-also said ‘For participation ‘in these lawless acts, five men have been " I that the movement, to be effective and useful to farmers, must be arrested, including John W. Bryant, editor of a magazine supported &l < ¥+ absolutely in their hands, and not controlled by politicians, or what by anti-reform business interests but masking as a “Soldiers’ mag- | might be termed “agricultural officialdom”—that is; county farm. azine.” Bryant is a typical anti-reform agitator, securing slush . agents, state and national -agricultural departments, and agricul- funds to fight the farmer-labor movement in Minnesota by “scaring | . % ~tura&3college’ faculties: - - S e e : the coin” out of business men, many of whom really believe the . But the chief menace to the farm bureau movement' is the horrible things about the farmers and workers told by Bryant and =i : _ attempt to use it in politics. For instance, the Farmers® Dispatch, other agitators of his ilk. , : | { ~ asemi-weekly adjunct to’an anti-labor daily paper of St. Paul, plays . It is too early to conclude whethe the threat of the Legion ¢ | & -up in a sensational manner some ill-advised speeches made against in Minneapolis to discipline its members guilty of rioting, or the i _ the Nonpartisan league at the national farm bureau convention . move by the mayor to prosecute the.book store raiders, is mere - ‘held recently at Chicago. It is clearly the policy of papers like the camouflage, or that Minneapolis is really determined to have law | ' Dispatch to use the farm bureaus ‘against progressive farmers’ and order. St s b LMr (4. erganizations if possible, and they are quick to seize upon and play - The Minneapolis Legion recently offered. its services to Mr. A up anything that promises a fight between farmers’ organizations. = Campbell, chief of -the department of ‘justice secret service at St. T It is to the interest of these papers and the litical and business- Paul, in Suppressing anarchists and I.'W. W.s, and Mr. Campbell’s - oYX interests they represent to foment friction between farmers’ or- brief answer, in view of certain recent events, carried a big message ¢ "+ ganizations, because they know that nothing can damage the farm- to members of the Legion, = S AR -ers’ best inferests more than to have farmers at outs with each . = “THINKING AND REASONING MEN can be of great assist- g ? 5ty other instead of pulling together. S _ ance to any investigational body,” said Mr. Campbell. . Fi ° THE COAL SITUATION . - HoLDING Do > e“coal fields remains un- - THE. ¢t70 al i8 being produced in only a fraction.of normal * e e : : HENNEPIN, (o177 NTVLEGION - - .. -settled. Co . . The government’s move to settle the dispute, - = y injunctio agaitr;%t. the miners while letfing the - el ‘ = U\ dé(_:ent crtlzens wxll uph 1d the hand of the ‘gdvern_ment in * tracing down bomb throwers, anarchist , 1. W. W. guilty of lawless . acts. inals, but, a8 Mr. Camphell Afiéylisi._gpe ation “and lynchings: SCeaRE; R e Ifl “hope the Minneapolis law-enforcing ‘officials ‘and’ -are in earnest, and that similar functionaries elsewh llow. their example, No hing;jcan_ damage the Legion: