The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
SOCIALISM IJNMASKED


now before the public, has given the
Kansas Nonpartisan League agitat-
ors a chance to show their true colors.
J. o. Stevic, who is at the head of
the Nonpartisan League organization
in Kansas, has come to the front. The
Topeka Capital tells of his activities
as follows:
''First steps towards the formation
of a local unit of the National Labor
party, organized recently in Chicago,
were taken last night at Labor Hall
when union men met and started the
wheels to rolling in that direction. A
membership committee will canvass
the labor unions of Topeka for the
purpose of pledging every union man
towards the movement.
Gone of the first actions of the new
party in Topeka will be to meet Sat
urday night and resolve against the
proposed industrial bill, which will be
considered at the special session Of
the legislature 1t was declared by
speakers that every union man and
most of the farmers in Kansas are
bitterly opposed to Governor Aliens
industrial court and an effort will be
made to make the governor "see the
light"
"Dave Chandler, of the Garments
union, presided at the meeting and j.
o. Stevic was secretary. Many OF
the union men present were out
spoken in their opposition to the "old
line" political parties, which they ac-
ccused of not "toting fair" with the
unions of the country. Governor
Allen was the subject of especial bit
ter denunciation at the hands Of
Frank B. Brown, editor and publisher
of the Kansas Trades Unionist. 9th
ers were not complimentary to his
industrial court proposition.
At the meeting Saturday night
strong resolutions, aimed at the spe-
cial session of the legislature and the
governor in particular, will be dis
cussed."
Dor party is radically socialistic, and
the convention advocated the nation
alization of land, handing of rail
roads over to the employees and many
other radical measures. 1t is so ex-
treme in its views that even the Amer
lean Federation of Labor refuses to
have anything to do with it; even
though the Federation is more radical
now than it ever was.
Although the other states are do
ing great work in fighting Bolshevism
by educational propaganda, Kansas Is
not supporting its Anti-Bolshevik
campaign as well as the other states
The recent raids show that rea-
peril confronts the nation. Red re
volutionists have been found in large
numbers right in Kansas, which wa
supposed to be a safe state. Kansas
should pass an anti-syndicalism bill
and it should rally to the support o,
those who are trying to fight props
ganda with counter-propaganda and
educational campaigns. The Kanss-
Anti-Bolshevik Campaign deserve
support, now, of all times. Educa
tional campaigns are even more i'm
portant than laws, for the law cannot
reach the process of thinking.
One of the most significant thing
that has happened in Kansas in con
nection with the radical movement !.
League to the Industrial Relation
Court
The thing that makes this especial
ly significant is that the real farmers
organization of the state, exemplifec
by the Farmers Union, Grange
Equity and State Board of Agricul-
ture, have come out strongly in fave
of the bill. Any one who has taker
the trouble to sound the sentiment OF
the state knows that the vast mas
ity of the farmers favor the legislc-
ton that will curb the activities o.
the strike-inciting radicals, withc1
distinction as to party. It is no. +;
party measure, for Democrats are
enthusiastic for it as Republicans.
The ''bug under the chip" is n.
fact that the Nonpartisan League i
not a farmers organization at ALL bu
radical movement led by men VIII
are not farmers but soap-box agitat
ors, and these leaders are trying t.
form a binding partnership betceel
the farmers of Kansas and the rad
zeal, strike-inciting labor leaders.
10. Stevic, the Topeka labor lead
er, is also the state leader of the Non
partisan League forces, is lobbyin
every day against the bill. A protes
from the Ellsworth county branch o
the League, dominated by M. L. Amo
editor of the Ellsworth Leader" tn
official state organ of the League i
Kansas, was sent to the legislator
last week. Then came Brewer of s.
Paul, former Kansas director c