The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-04
Hancock Department
HAVE ONLY ONE
LEGAL RECOURSE
Socialist Publishers Could Appeal
to U. S. Supreme Court

only one course is left open In
Manager Nummivouri and Editor Sal
minen OF the Intensely comic mag
azine Lapatossu. published 10y the w.
omies concern of Hancock. whose iaiI
sentences of sixty days each imposed
as punishment for sending lewd and
obscene literature and Cartoous
through the United States mails. were
yesterday affirmed by the L. s. court
of appeals ut Cincinnati. The only
legal recourse left to further stay the
execution of the Jail sentence and i'm
opstion of fines of 500 each against
Themselves and $1,000 against the Ty-
omics company is the filing of an
appeal To the supreme court Of the
United States from the decision of the
courtsof appeals.
Whether this step will be taken or
whether NuomivOuri and Salmnen
will give up their attempt >to convince
courts that the literature and cartoons
IN the socialistically humorous Lapa-
tosslr are not obscene has not yet de-
Veloped.
The decision by the court of APP.
pcals upholding the verdict of guilty
rendered by the lower court holds that
there was no error preiudicial to the
defendants and that they were tried
fairly
Tyomies Editor Retains Job.
The row i'm the Tyomics company
over the editorial policy of the Tyo-
mics has resulted, according To unof-
cial reports, in the retention of Editor
Allanne by Il vote of Is to Il. The row
as previously has been explained. was
over the retention of .Allanne as editor
of T'yomies and it became SO bitter
that the two Hancock factions took it
onto the floor of the Socialist conven-
ton at Duluth.
Just what the vote of II in favor
of Allanne against 1G against him in
dicates is not known. unlo IS the dircc-
tOrate of the Tyomies company IS
composed of SO mcmbcrs, or the
company has all told 80 stockholders.
The result shows taat the radical
and conservative factions of the So
cialist party in Hancock are pretty |
evenly divided. Alannc holds the
editorial chair by the narrow margin |
of one vote and this is Il somewhat |
socialists are likely to sway between
the pin cipals and Il mighty little mo-
ton Of The pendulum would knock Al |
lanncorr his seat.
But the victory of the conservative |
party would seem To indicate that the
socialists of Hancock are not all in
favor of drastic methods of bringing
about the millennium. Allanne it APP
pears stands for education and a
gradual leavening of the masses with
the principles of the faith, while Gust
William Toppari, leader of the other
faction, popularity is supposed to in
cline tc more militant methods.
Aaltonen Halted at Canadian 500.
Frank Aaltonen, the fiery young Ne.
gaunee Finnish organizer and asita-
tor for the Western Federation OF
Miners during the strike in the copper
country. has started out on a lecture
tour, emulating Big Annie Clemenc,
the Calumet woman agitator. But
Aaltonen does not seem to nave such
easy sailing as has Anne. He headed
for Finnish centers of the Dominion
of Canada but his progress in that
direction was impeded 10y tn g i'm
pregnable wall of British authority.
Aalton was in the American 500 last
and intended to go into the
Canadian 500 and from there start on
his lecture tour for the benefit of the
striking Miners. He writes back 10
that the Canadian immiSra-
ton officers stopped him at the ferry
dock, ordered him back 60 the states.