New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-28
Paci6sts to Talk
Peace En- Route
To Minneapolis
Delegates Leave City on
Thursday; Will Scatter
Anti-War Circulars
Conference Saturday
Agitators Expect That 10000
Will Be Present at
Meetings
Conference Saturday

Inc spectacle OF an elght-coacn
train crossing the country with 1000
New York pacifsts, furnishing paci-
fist demonstrations en- route, flooding
the country with anti-war propaganda
and Haunting streamers and banners
opposing the governments war plans,
will be a preliminary of the peace con-
ference which begins Saturday at
Minneapolis.
The train will leave the Weehawken
station Of the West Shore road on
Thursday at $3.50 p. m. 1t will carry
the officials and the stenographic staff
of the Peoples Council, the pacifist or
ganization which started the pro-Ger-
man mo annexations, no indemnities'
peace movement in this country and
which is responsible for the Ninnespo-
lis conference.
The council boasts that from 10000
to 10000 persons will be drawn to Min
neapolis and that there will be 1000
delegates sent by labor unions, church
peace bodies, suffrage societies and
Socialists.
Thousands of banners will be un-
furled from the train windows 70 at
tract attention. The train itself will
be christened "The Peoples Council
Peace Drive-On to Minneapolis for
Peace and Democracy" A large banner
prepared for the occasion says. Lets
Knock the Moe out of Democracy
Another is g pharaphrase from the old
English song. "And shall Trelawney
de-" and SAYS "Shall 100000 Con
scripts Die? Then 100,00000O Ameri-
cans Must Know the Reason why
Another saws, Peace Eventually-Why
Not Now?"
Many Speeches En- Route
The campaign to stir up peace sentl,
ment" will be enlivened by rear-eno
speeches. Stops will be made at Al
banv, Schenectady, Syracuse, Rochester
Buffalo. Erie, Ashtabuia, Cleveland
Flvria. Sandusky, Toledo, Detroit and
Elkhart, where the pacitists Will ma
ranrue such crowds as happen TO sp-
near These speeches will be devoted
70 demanding the repeal of the con-
scription law. IAN early peace, the
tight of free speech and the upholding
of labor standards during war time. Al
Chicago. where two coaches filled with
nacifsts will be added TO the train
there will be thirty-minute demon
stration.
The rear-end speakers will be Sara
BARD Field, Leila Fay Secor James D.
Baglev, Edward Cassidy, JACOB Psnkeh'
chairman of the Workmen's Council;
Chrystal Eastman, secretary OF the
American Union Against Mllltarism'
Pebecca Shelly, secretary OF the REQ
nIe's Council: Fola La Toilette, daughter
If senator La Toilette; Algernon Lee,
one NJ the Socialists who was denied
nassport TO the Stockholm CONFER
cnre and Linley Gordon, an anti-con-
scription agitator Of Australia.
THE nacifsts are scheduled 10 arrive
- MINNEAPOLIS on Saturday morning
After being welcomed by Mayor an
Lear sympathetic Socialist, they eX-
nsct IN plunge into the work OF stop
- the war. Louis P. Lochner, q
pesca EXPERT. who helped navigate
Eord's peace expedition through tu-
rons has been in Minneapolis for sew
eral weeks contracting for the teh.s
which the pacifsts will be forced 70
occunv He telegraphed yesterday tns'
tra;rloads Of pacifsts would move or
10 Minneapolis from all sections OF the
conp+rv Others who are 70 go are
John D. Works, former Senator IRON
CaI;fo-ria who is TO head peace
sneciaI" from San Francisco; MOTIFS
lillian. Scott Nearing and Rabbi Ju'
dan L. Magnes.
Programme OF First Day
The kind of work the pacinsts eH A
meet TO do is shown in their announce
ment of the first days programme
con Saturday afternoon the elecCIo oIi
n committees on terms OF peace 80
no made. with three sections one ~.
the consideration Of American W".
aims. one for peace terms ana one ~.
international organization 10 man H. a..
neace. Committees on American ~
ties and constitutional rights, INC!
democratic control and cohsot Ip''T T.
A committee on economic poueLe'' 80
nor standards, taxation, ana hieh 80
of living. One 70 CONSIDER p.Sn De-,
the uermanenL OIsdH4@St-N'' \,
rI.,s Council. which will also CONSIDER
wavs and means TO unite the peace aho
erti-rilitarist forces of the nation.
Saturday night will be devoted 10
reception, which, according 70 MI. Lo'n
Nv will be attended by thousands OF
neonle from Minneapolis, ST. Paul arc
r. surrounding country. Sunday morn
&c the assembly will hear the reports
90 nittees and then will follo" 'ne
Sn.ecbes and debates upon peace
STbe assembly will take. up the pro,
rosai Of Pope Benedict, who addressed
~. b.lligerent nations on pan 70
sra the war, and the stand OF Fresl'
dent Wilson will be thoroughly ais
'D' Bookbinders Refuse to ATTEND
r.aI Union No. Of the lnterna-
.ionoi Union Of Bookbinders. 100 Mas,
go Street. in reply TO an invitation
sttsnd the conference, YESTERDAY
70, letter to the Peoples Council
~ II had thrown the INVITATION into
IT, American Alliance for LABOR an ntGi
democracy. $50 Broadway, which w, VII
ia .n snti-pacifist conference IN MIN
n 49, beginning September o, yes.
tsrJav announced that It's delegate.
would leave in special tram mex
Sunday.