Emmons County record., 1920-04-29

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which tend to raise criminals rather
than good citizens by citing for the
benefit of Totten and his crew the
names of 43 good American boys from
the state industrial school who volun,
tarily enlisted in the United States
army in the late war, three dying on
the battlefields of France.
! Devine as yet hasn't rendered his
resignation and will not do so with
iout fight. The fighht will rebound
to his credit. It is second bull that
Totten has made within few months,
political whizzers that fail to work
So his promise to quit if Stangaland
was fired is remembered, and to date
Governor Frazier has not denied that
Totten will be asked to resign.
"Know where you stand," pub
lication edited by Sgt. Douglas S.
McCallam and Major Charles l.. Sher-
idan at Helena, Mont, has been es-
tablished as the official organ or Mon,
tana service men in fight against the
inroads of Townleyism and Bolshevism
in that state.
In the first issue copies of which
have been received in Bismarck, his
tory of the activities of A. C. Town.
ley and W. F. Dunn, and the so-called
Labor League and Nonpartisan
League convention at Great Falls is
given much prominence.
| Dunn, who was editor of the Butte
Daily Republican, who has openly es-
poused the cause Of the I. w. w.,
!ectured for that organization and who
was convicted of sedition in federal
court, together with A. C.. Town!ey
president of the Nonpartisan League
also convicted of sedition which was
called for the purpose of amalgamat.
ing the labor of Nonpartisan farme,
forces.
Douglas & .McCallam in their pub.
lication print the following resolution;
WHEREAS. there is an absence
of democracy in the organization as
tho American Legion and it appears
to be aristocratically inclined and op.
posed to the aims of labor, and
WHEREAS. the Great Falls Shor
Crafts are endorsing and request the
State Federation of Labor to endorse
the organization Of privates known as
the World War Veterans, and
WHEREAS, the World War Vet.
;lspans. ctand for free speech, free press
free assemblage and guarantees of the
constitution, and have endorsed the
Plumb plan of railroad control,
THEREFORE,, lie it resolved, that
we request the State Federation Of
Labor in convention assembled to en-.
dorse the World War Veterans as g
body that can be supported by organ.
lied labor"
| This was passed at the Nonpartisar
League convention, and shows clearly
the attitude of Townley towards the
Legion which is standing for 100 pc,
cent Americanism and pledged to 'spol
icies not politics" has not and can moi
enter the field as a political organiza
tion.
| Howver, the Montana Legion has ac'
cepted the challenge from standpoint
j. of Americanism, not politics, and il
many places is openly fighting Town
leyism.
Citing facts to prove that the I. w
Nv. and the Townleyites, the radicals
and Bolsheviks of Montana were the
ones responsible for the passage of the
resolution condemning the Legion
Mort M. Donoghue, ex-president o.
the Montana Federation of Labor, mai
expressed himself as follows:
"Tke secret of that resolution i.
that the American Legion is composed
Of Americansr and patriots; they wert
that way when they entered the wal
and are patriots today; and subterfug'
or camouaage will not change til.
hidden meaning contained in the reso
luton, and as one labor union man
whose son is a member Of that Amer
, lean Legion, / utter my most emphati,
protest against the coupling of tn,
homes labor sentiment of this stat:
with the action of convention il
which was seated a man already con
; victed of sedition against our coun
try during the war. The union labol
people Of Montana are not opposed
to the American Legion, neither arr
they unpatriotic notwithstanding tn
unfavorable position, or light, il
which they have been placed by th'
, actions of the convention.
H9andan n-Three hovs are unf1or a,