The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-12
That Is Charge Made Against
Non-Partisan League.
Big Effort Being Made To
@Line Up Kansas.
S "HUN-PARTISAN LEAGUE"
Elmer e. Peterson Gives Or
ganizatiOn This Name.
r. L. Cooper Denies League
Works With the 1. w. w.

During an interview with r. L
Cooper. state organizer for the Non
Partisan league, at his office. $40 New
England building, on Wednesday
morning. Cooper was asked, What
stand does the Non-Partisan league
take in regard to the I. W. w? 1t is
understood here that the I. W. w. and
the league are practically the same"
In answer to this came a complete
declaration that the L w w is as
obnoxious to the Non-Partisan league
as it is to any other set of patriotic
citizens The Non-Partisan league Is
Cooper .'and farmers do not find any
pleasure or profit in having their
threshing machinery broken down
with bricks and stones and pieces or
iron concealed in their wheat shocks
The Non-Partisan league and the l.
W. W. touch at no point
In direct refutation of this there is
an article in the July 81, 1917. edi-
ton of the L W. W. official organ.
Solidarity. published in Chicago
Beacon, in commenting on this article
in Solidarity" says: TT tells of the
agreement made last summer between
the agricultural workers branch of
the L W. W. and the Non-Partisan
league"
Of3I1o SO1uE
The tentative agreement between
the Non-Partisan league and the Agri-
cultural Workers Industrial union,
No 400 was drafted by a joint COM
mittee elected to represent both or
carnations" so reads the article in
Solidarity for July 81. 1914 1T Is
expected that this agreement will
cover the harvest season That it Will
establish for the first time in the har-
vest fields uniform wage scale"
Farther down in the Solidarity
article, the wages to be paid to har-
vest hands by the farmers is definitely
set forth IF this agreement was in
force in Kansas at this time" reads
the story. instead of SO to 81 per
day. we would be gettin~ IS to S."
The l. W. W is plainly one of the
tools used by Germany in gigantic
and inSidious effort to cripple and
embarrass the output of foodstuffs-'
This Is Peterson's statement and dec
laration in his story The fact that
the Non-Partisan league is centering
its efforts in North and South Dakota
Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and Kan
sas, where most of the foodstuffs of
the United States are grown, is an
explanation of the int ntions of the
Non-Partisan league leaders, of whom
the principal ones are all either mem
bers of the L ". w. or ardent sympa-
thizcrs.' explains Peterson 'Al OF
them are Socialists. Their attitude to-
ward the war is shown quite clearly
b. the fact thai they invited Senator
LaFoIlette to to address them at St
Paul and loudly applauded his
speech" This was the speech in
which he CLOSED ovef the sinking Of
the Lusitania-
Work TN Kansas Is Big.
A little farther down in Peterson's
Article ap. ,ears this statement: The
Non-Partisan league is making a des-
perate effort to obtain a foothold in
Kansas. To this end A c. Townley,
the president, has visited the state and
the league has sent o. M. Thomson
and A E Bowen, its cIeverest speak,
ers, who are experienced Socialist
agitators, INTO the Sunflower state"
The ten million acres of wheat
sown in Kansas this year looks good
to the league" says Peterson in his
article, land it is putting forth all
manner Of attractive arguments. In
cidentaliy separating each farmer
from SIS in cold cash to secure its
hold"
The farmers of Kansas will be de-
lighted to read" declares Peterson,
the story of the agreement especially
where it says in the third circle: If
this agreement was in force in Kansas
at his time instead of SO to "a per
day, We would be getting IS. to So"
In closing Peterson gives it as his
opinion that every loyal citizen of
Kansas should do his utmost to stamp
out this insidious propaganda, the
Hun-Partisan league"
According to the statements of P
L. Cooper. league organizer, the Nom
Partisan league has innumerabIe bones
to pick with all kinds of business
| organizations.