Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-07-02
TRADES COUNCIL
AROUSED
DECLARES ACTION OF CITY
COUNCIL is UN-AMERICAN
AND UNCONSTITUTIONA
cOUNCILMEN ARE DENOUNCED
Helena Trades and Labor Assembly
VIII Not Stand for Any Inter-
ference With the Right OF
Free Speech.

political play made by the republicans
last week in refusing the Auditorium
for the debate OF a working class pro-
gram, through their errand boy on
the city council. Bob Fisk, the Trades
and Labor Assembly, Wednesday
evening. took action condemning the
city council for denying the right OF
free speech In the city OF Helena.
The following resolution was adopted.
without a dissenting vote:
Helena. Mont, July 1, 1908.
Whereas, at a recent meeting of the
City Council a resolution was adopted
denying the use of the Auditorium,
the property of the citizens OF Helena,
Mont, to Mrs. Ida Crouch -Hazlett,
for the purpose of debating a political
question with Miss Emma Goldman,
an exponent of philosophical An
archy'', this action having been taken
as the result of a petition being pre-
bers of the G. A. r.. prompted with
the idea that Miss Goldman in her
tour through the West was melting
riot and bloodshed; and
Whereas, her lectures are but mast
erful attempts to show the people
how II would be better and happier
for all TO live with government as
we understand 1t abolished. and she
stands a constant, living, forceful ex-
positor Of all crimes committed in the
name OF government.-the sins OF
what is called high society. the
brutal discipline and oul-destroying
Influence of army and navy life, the
crimes against the common people In
high places, the enslavement of the
masses by the few, the horrors OF
prisons. OF child labor and the hum
dreds OF other things that go to make
this earth a hell: and
Whereas, We believe that the opin-
ions held by the public in regard to-
Emma Goldman and her doctrines
have been formed through reading
the capitalist press, the "moulders OF
public opinion, and have let IL go
at that, and that the attitude of the
capitalist press is due TO the fact that
Emma Goldman tells the truth, and
the people whom the said press rep
resent would rather that the truth
would not be told; and we further
believe that IL society is not as mall
odorus as she claims II is. society
should prove that IL is not, and IL
says, the governed should know IT,;
and further. the fact that she is at
liberty at the present time. and try as
they win, government officials have
not been able to fasten a single crime
upon her, is the best proof that such
acts have never been a part of her
teachings; and
Whereas, Organized Labor through
out the world is in the throes of battle
for free speech. being curbed at every
turn by injunctions and restraining
orders, and the action taken by the
City Council in this instance is q
menace to the future weIl-being and
constitutional rights of Trades Union
ism. and believing that IAN injury 20
one is the concern of all. and that
TO let this usurpation OF power pass
unnoticed would be a dereliction OF
duty; therefore be IL
Resolved. that the Helena Trades
and Labor Assembly. in regular ses-
sion assembled. condemns the action
OF the City Council in refusing the
use OF the Auditorium to Mrs. Ida
Crouch -Hazlett for the reason that
Emma Goldman would possibly ap-
pear there in debate. as un-American
and in direct violation OF the Consti-
tuition OF the United States and the
State OF Montana.