New Britain herald., 1917-09-18
PROTESTS PLAN
 GREAT CAMPAIGN
Say There Are 2,500,000 in Coun-
 try Opposed to War

New York, Sept. 1S.-PaclhSt aC- tivity hereafter is to be conducted along new and aggressive lines" Organizations are to be effected in every state, whose officials are to re- port to the New York headquarters. About "2, 2,500,000 persons who oppose
 the war are to be enrolled immedi- ately,' and more recruits to the peace movement are to be sought through "a systematic propaganda which will extend to every city, town and hamlet in the country.'
 This was decided upon by tho Peo- ple's Council of America yesterday after a three days conference of its executive committee. Sixty pacifists, to whom had been delegated the task of carrying on the peace movement after the authorities in Chicago had curbed the peace conference there, met quietly in an office building and, unhampered by official interference, formulated their plans.
 Professor Scott Nearing. whose home in Toledo was raidcd by Fed eral authorities last Wednesday, and whose papers are still under scrutiny by the government, was elected to head the peace propaganda work. It was announced that he twill devote his entire time to the work and will have headquarters in New York;
 More Fest Than Ever.
 Professor Nearing was in Toledo yesterday, but he let it be known from pacifist headquarters, West Thirteenth street, that the agitation for peace would now be promoted with more zest than ever." in spite of the seizure of his papers.
 His activities in behalf of peace have been beset with vicissitudes. Ousted from the University of Penn sylvania as professor of political and social economy because of his radi- cal views, he became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of the Municipal college of Toledo, Ohio. only to be busted again because of his anti-war views. Since then he has been leceuring as a pacifist and organizer of the Peoples Council. He is credited with having inspired the organization of many local branches for the council and he was placed at the head of the peace movement because of the pacifitsts' confidence in his organizing ability.
 Outgrows Those Who Control.
 The Peoples Council was said to have grown too big for the persons cOStrOlling it. Assurances were coming from all parts of the country telling us people wanted to join, but we had no way of properly enrolling them,' was the way one pacifist put it.
 Louis P. Lochner is to remain ex- ecutive secretary of the council.
 Despite the busting of Rebecca Shelley as financial secretary and Lel- la Faye Secor as organizing secre- tary women are still to retain firm grip on the management of the peace movement. Miss Shelly, who origin ated the plan of the Peoples Council, was elected a member of the perma- nent executive committee. Crystal Eastman, Elizabeth Freeman and Emily Greene Balch are to have voice.
 The work of financing the peace movement, which is said to entail eX- penses of $3.OoO a week, will be vest ed in the executive committee of fifteen members.
 Eleven of these members were elected yesterday. They are Miss Shelly, Morris Hillquit, James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsyl- vania State Federation of Labor; Pro- lessor Nearing, Jacob Panken, cahir- man of the Workmen's Council; George Roewer. of Massa chusetts, Jo- seph Schlossberg, William Short, of California;, Mrs. William I. Thomas secretary of the National Woman's Peace party; Dr. Judah L. Magnes and William c. Rempfer, of South Dakota.
 The pacifists profess to be still in doubt as to where they will establish headquarters. The owner of the building where they now meet has given them until October 1 to move.