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

you are going to see the biggest line
up in the history of the labor move
ment the coming summer. The Non
partisan League of North Dakota
wants an understanding with the
A. W. o. No 400 for the hiring of
form help only through the union
here If this thing comes to a sue
cessful head at the Kansas City meet
ing the both of this month, which l
think it will, then it means that no
less they are union men with cards
up to date You will probably know
that this means the lineup of seventy
five thousand workers here"
At the time the letter is alleged to
have been written by Anderson, he
was at the A. w o. headquarters in
Minneapolis.
This letter, written June 4, 1917,
by Anderson to Fred Gouder at
Great Falls, Mont, also was intro
duced today:
''The proposition of the Nonpart-
isan League farmers of North Dakota
was approved at the convention. The
league has appointed a committee to
meet the farmers organization on
conditions. This means all the har-
vesters will be hired through the
Minneapolis Office of the A w. o. 1t
will mean a lineup of fifty thousand
this year."
AS having bearing on the conspir-
acy of the I. W. W. in the oil fields in
1917, and the intentions of the mem
bers of that organization there, the
government introduced letter which
told of a call to the ''wobblies" to
hurry to the oil country. The letter
is alleged to have been written by
Phineas Eastman, another of the de-
PENDANTS. In part, the letter states:
t'Sent out call for the wob colon
lists to ease, into the oil fields. Let US
pray for a hell of crowd of active
wobs."
The letter was addressed to Albert
Barr, co-defendant of Eastman, who
at that time was in the Oklahoma and
Kansas fields.
A good one was pulled off this
week, by a man who had been solic-
tied to join the Nonpartisan League.
He told the solicitor that he could
see no reason why he should join an
organization that had for its leaders
men who had been in Jail, or were in
jail, or soon expected to be in jail,
and that there must be something
wrong with an organization of that
kind. Pretty sound logic, Ell!
The Prayer Heard Around the World
With ''the prayer around the
world" the New Year will be ushered
in. In thousand tongues it will be
spoken at Watch-Night services in
near and distant places; in the great
cities of the western world no less
than in distant villages on eastern
hills. It will be heard by the kneel-
ing woman in a New York pew, by
the barefoot Igorot head-hunter, by
Chinese converts with bowed heads,
by Hindu women listening reverently
with their arms folded crosswise on
their breasts, by Persian, japanese,
Syrian, Russ-indeed by all the peo-
piles of the world.
From New York, it's starting point,
the prayer has been sent around the
world by the Interchurch World
Movement of North America, move
ment to bring about Protestant CO.
operation. By telegraph it has been
sent to the great denominations of
this country; by cable it has gone to
England and the East. Thus it has
been dispatched to every mission CEN
ter everywhere and from every mis-
sion center it has gone on again in
the language of the country to every
Protestant mission station near and
far.
This prayer is the first ever to be
sent around the world, the first ever
to be translated into a thousand Ian
guages and spoken simultaneously in
countless places. With one voice,
though in many tongues, it calls for
''the elevation of justice and of
brotherhood" and appeals for the
fastening of that Kingdom where
justice, mercy and love shall rule
the hearts and hands of men,"
To Mexico City and Montevideo,
the prayer was cabled for South and
Central America; to Shanghai also,
and from there it was relayed to
Japan, the Philippines, Malaysis and
Oceanica to~Lahore, India, for distri-
button throughout India and the sur
rounding countries; to Recht Persia
and to Beirut, Syria for the Levant
To Cairo for the northern stretches
of Africa; to Bolobo for the darkest
places of the Congo; to Durham fol
South Africa for the Zulu and the