Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-01-10
UNITED AMERICANS
 MEET AT PHOENIX

A meeting of the organization com mittee and the state committee of the United Americans was held Sunday afternoon at Phoenix for the purpose of hearing the report of the national committeeman, Fred o. Adams, who attended the recent convention of the United Americans at New York. The committees considered plans for a statewide drive for members to be launched in the near future.
 The report of MT. Adams greatly encouraged the organization commit tee to further the plans of the United Americans in this state. A commit tee was appointed to consider the se- lection of a permanent state secre- tary and state director for the hand ling of the coming membership cam paign.
 The only opposition which the Uni ted Americans may expect when the program of the organization unfolds, said MT. Adams in the course of his report, will come from persons of rec ognized radical or anarchistic lean ings. He added that the movement is being fostered nationally by men of broad patriotic views, many of whom are in active official capacities.
 Organization for All Loyal Citizens
 "At the outset, it was agreed that an organization such as the United Americans, which did not proceed from right motives and upon doctrines economically sound could not and should not succeed, and it was deter mined that the activities of the United Americans must be measured by these standards. .......
 Results of the foremost economists in this country, who are now engaged in research work, will be available to this organization. Believing that the United Americans should have clear ly defined purpose and one to which every loyal citizen can subscribe, re- gardless of his opinion or affiliations on other matters, the convention adopted the following:
 "The purpose of the United Amer jeans shall be to preserve the constitu- ton of the United States, with the representative form of government and the right of individual possession which the constitution provides; to stand firm for law and order; to fos- ter among our people high standard of individual and corporate conduct, and to advance the prosperity and happiness of all the people of the United States:
 Stand on the Constitution
 "Thus the constitution is the solid rock upon which the United Amer- cans intend to stand, and it is not pro- posed to be led into far off fields by the injection of unrelated and non- essential matters, which course would be fatal to an organization contem- plating so comprehensive member ship. The United Americans is con structive in its policy and views the present situation as regards unrest as follows:
 ''That the most thoughtful and ex. perienced community leaders all over the country while exercised over the daily increasing evidences of social unrest, are totally opposed to any concerted effort seeming to start out to fight organized labor or any other class of American activity. There has been too much unwise and tactless anti-organization and too little con- structive work to remove the griev- ances which for many years have been the cause of organized protests. One great work in which the United expect to participate is in the Americanization of the great for eign population within our gates.
 Against Disloyalty
 "While standing firm against dis loyalty to the government, it is not the idea of the United Americans to proceed along militant lines, but to present sound doctrine through chan nels acceptable to those sought to be reached.
 Membership in the United Ameri- cans is invited" said MT. Adams. Every loyal American citizen should enroll. One of the features of the United Americans organization, he said, will be the elimination of class or distinctions, and working people are especially invited to become members and to take an active part in the movement.
 Andrew Martin of Tucson, head of the American Legion of this state and president of the United Americans, presided at the meeting.