The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-13
Demonstration. in Topeka One
= of Best in Many Years. {.
Parade and Mass Meeting We're
Big Success.
SPEAK FOR LOYALTY IN WAR
Speakers Handled Enthusiastic
Crowd at the c. of c.
Labor Must Make Sacrifice in
War, Capper Says.

Among the more than 1000 laborine
men who marched down Kansas
avenue Tuesday evening at O'CLOCK
was a big force from the Santa Fe
shops, recently applicants for the
union ranks. The entire parade was
a demonstration and a pledge of the
loyalty of the working men of Topeka
to the nation in the great war.
The parade extended for four
blocks and was composed of repre-
sentatives from all the union organic
atoms in the city and from proba bly,
1000 Santa Fe shopmen carrying din
ner buckets 1t was led by the
Knights and Ladies of Security band
and a section of policemen and fire
men. The State Journal was repre-
septed by probably four times as
many employees as any other publish
ing or printing establishment IN the
city.
The parade ended at the Lincoln
statue in the state house grounds,
where c. H. Danner, acting as spokes-
nan for the men, placed a wreath on
the feet of the statue as the outward
and visible expression of the sent1-
ment of the men to do everything pos
sible to hasten the war to successful
conclusion.
Every time the paraders passed a
street car on the line of march they
called out to the conductor and motor
man: Come on. why don't you join
us?" At the Santa F'e offices the men
yelled a plea to the employees in the
offices to come on out and get seat
in the labor band wagon.
After the parade the men dld con-
siderable cheering around the statue
as an expression of loyalty.
The mass meeting at the Chamber
of Commerce closed the days celebra-
ton. Otto L. Rain, assistant foreman
Gid
ed at the mass meeting and kept it at
high pitch. Resolutions were adopted
at the meeting pledging the whole
hearted support of the laboring men
of the city to the administration in
washington to the end that the two
headed eagle of the Hun be shorn of
its plumage and the great war eagle of
the United States wing its victorious
way thru the streets of Berlin
The Governor Speaks.
II am not surprised that you are
elated and pleased with developments
at the Santa Fe shops. 1t is great
victory for organized labor.
"Laboring men and labor organiza-
tions are willing, and must be willing
to make sacrifices that we may win
the war; sail Governor Capper. But
there must be no backward step taken
at this time. 1t is not necessary for
labor to sacrifice principle any more
than it is necessary for the church
to give up the eternal principles upon
which it is founded. Labor is willing
to do it's part, but it will not agree
that the war be made an excuse for
the. overturning and sweeping aside
of what it has won by years of patient
striving. 1t will not agree to the i'm
portation of coolie labor or cheap
Porto Rican labor to disgrace Ameri-
cans; it will not agree to the breaking
of child labor laws, nor to the ignor-
ing. in the alleged interest of speed
and increased production, of any of
the fundamental things that it has
won for humanity"
Labor Makes 1t Possible.
Doctor Kulp in his speech stated
that it was the laboring man of the
United States who had made possible
the building and equipment of the
vast army of men who will go over
seas to maintain the American stan
dard of freedom in the trenches. 81
belong to a church." declared Doctor
Kulp, which has written into its
declaration of principles the very
thing for which labor organizations
stand. That is the betterment of
humanity and the securing of condi-
tons under which men and women
can live out their lives. in comfort
and satisfaction"
J. o. Stevic, president of the To-
peka Industrial council, explained the
American Alliance of Labor and