The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-10-23
Greco SLACKERS
NOT BEING FREED
Secretary Baker Carrying Out
Law as Provided in
Each Case.
TO ENFORCE WAR PENALTY
Review of Cases and Recommends
tons for clemency. Coupled With
Good Conduct, Have Served TO
Reduce Terms of Many.

Washington, oct. 2l.-Between me
efforts of the amnesty committee III
Chicago and the civil liberties bureau
in New York to bring about the re-
lease of conscientious directors from
The military prisons and disciplinary
barracks i'm which they are confined,
ana the protests Of the various posts
of the American Legion which desire
ia keep them in the war department
is striving TO maintain strict neutrai-
inv In the carrying out of the law In
each case made and provided
only those conscientious DIRECTORS
who refused to cooperate with any OF
the regulations framed especially 10
provide for them as sufficiently war
lire 10 earn for them the status Oh
general prisoners" are now held AT
Leavenworth. Alcatraz, Fort Douglas
and other prisons. the plan at present
being 10 concentrate the recalcitrahtS
al Fort Douglas.
Several of these since the armistice
have modified their resistance by con
Sputing "a work and otherwise TO CON
form ia The rules governing their rel
lows. thus bringing about material re-
auctions i'm their sentences ana IN
number of cases their release ReVie"
of cases and recommendations TOT
clemency. coupled with good conduct
have served to reduce the terms OF the
majority of directors.
No disposition toward clelnency eA-
lists. however, in the case of aglators
and propagandistS who Of their own
.vol.tion or as missionaries of societies
organized to encourage resistance 10
authority. have sought 10 convert oth-
err, 10 their own peculiar views.
Apparently in this the war depart
mcnt is following the attitude adopted
hy the department of justice in deal
ing with yiolators Of the espionage act.
There is no indication of any desire
on tie part Of war department othciaIs
further 10 mitigate the sentence OF
Brent DOVE Allison, the Chicago con
srieniious ohjector who was court
mnrialcd for deserving after persist
ent and defiant refusals 10 appear
when drafted. He was finally taken
from Washington TO Camp Grant IN
der guard and contaminated, receiv-
ing sentence of H. years at hard Ia
bur. Eleven years we're subtracted
from this sentence by special elem
g. t,tattfh- and II
is highly unlikely that anything short
of positive orders from The secretary
of war will relieve him from serving
The remainder Of the term
OF Approximately 500 conscientious
nbjectors who became general prison
rrs." about 200 are still serving terms
ranging for the most part from two TO
ten years.
The only DIRECTORS released from
prison and honorahly discharged with
nav aud allowances were those 40 In
number. released from Leavenw0rth
last January. after examination by
Judge Mack ana Dean Stones. who
found them sincere and would have
recommended them for farm burroughs
had the plan been in operation nt the
time II their Imprisonment.
While no general jail delivery is
contemplated of those directors who
nre sim serving. with more or less ac-
tive resistance. the terms imposed by
The courts martial acting on their
eases. recommendations for clpmcncy,
Communication of sentences. and oven
for release, are having their effect,
though not all the cases rcopcned for
consideration result in action favor
able 10 the ohipctor.