The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
BUCK MAY | PLAN
Topeka Industrial Council Mem.
bers to "Stay on job"
viii Not Take Part in Allen
AmericanizatiOn Move.
TALK OF PROTEST PARADE
Recognize July Fourth as Only
American Day.
/ Charge Governor With Slight to
Kansas Labor.
TALK OF PROTEST PARADE

Declaring that it does not wish to
hamper the continuity of production"
as prohibited in the industrial court
law and that it does not wish to take
any part in an alleged attempt on the
part of Governor Allen to create the
impression that there is an un-Ameri-
can spirit in Kansas" the executive
committee of the Topeka Industrial
Council passed resolutions Sunday to
the effect that they would stay on
the job" declining to recognize the
governors request to make MAY 4
American Day.
Stick to Fourth of July.
THE Fourth of July has been the
national holiday thru all the years.
We can see no reason for changing to
May l." said j. o. Stevic. president of
the Industrial Council. today.
Does not the industrial law prohib-
1T any breaking into the continuity OF
production?' Stevic asked. IF we
were to all quit work on May / would
not we be seriously hampering pro-
duction? We can't agree to do any
/ thing like that" and the labor man
smiled
Then, in a more serious and thought
full mood. Stevic continued: Neither
Will we admit contrary to the evident
attempt of Governor Allen to create
the impression. that there Is an un-
agree
to quit work on May 1 to take part in
any such celebration as the governor
desires to promulgate would be a
! tacit admission that the condition of
! un-Americanism exists in this state.
, We will make no such admission. We
decline to participate. There will be
no parade as far as we are con-
| cerned."
Talk of Protest Parade.
Stevic pointed out that May was
a day celebrated by labor organIza-
i tions in various parts of the world,
but that it had never been observed
| in the United States except in a few
large industrial centers. To his knowl-
edge 1t had never been observed in
Kansas. There was some talk in the
labor mans office this morning in
favor of separate, private parade in
protest of the governors action. Stevic
stated, however. that al a whole labor
union men were opposed to any such
action. A petition of dignified disre-
gard of the action arousing the uni
Yersal protest of labor men, was the
position that was to be maintained,
Stevfc declared.
Union Resolution.
The resolution passed Sunday by the
executive committee of the Industrial
council is as follows:
Whereas, the Governor of Kansas has
Issued proclamation naming May / as
American Day and is calling on the people
of this state to feature the indiscriminnte
marching together of men and women
etc, and
Whereas the Fourth of July has been
the American holiday for one hundred and
forty odd years and is emblematic Of this
great Union and is recognized in oil con-
tractural relations by the labor unions as d
legal holiday, and is nationally celebrated
| in honor of the radicals who gave birth
| to free government in America. and
| Whereas, Tho Topeka State Journal and
the Topeka Daily Capital and sundry
other papers, are habitually using their
editorial columns to urge increased pro-
duction: therefore, be 1t
Resolved, by union labor in the city Of
| Topeka that IL does not wish to hamper
"the continuity OF production" as pro-
hibited in the Governors Industrial Court
Law, and will "stay on the job" on May I
AS II has in the past-npd take no part
| in Governor Aliens attempt to create the
impression that there is un-Ameriean
spirit in Kansas, and his effort to sup
plant the established Independence Day
and be 1t further
Resolved, that the labor organizations of
Kansas and other American liberty-loving
people be asked to adopt similar resoiu-
tions and thus show the governor that we
are not in accord with his support of a
move initiated by the National Security
League, whose purity of purpose was ques-
toned during the war.
TOPEKA INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL,
By the Executive Committee.