The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
Pastor Charges /. w. Wism In
Epworth League Boycott.
Answers Local Labor Leaders
Attacking Church Society.
INDUCE CHILDREN TO RESIGN
Topeka Labor Paper in War on
Religious State Body.
"a Piece of Nonsense" Says
Superintendent ZOOk.

product of I. w. WIS and Nom
partisan league leaders is the way DIR.
f. J. Kulp, pastor of the First Metho-
dist church of Topeka. characterizes
an article appearing in a recent issue
of Topeka labor union paper. the
Kansas Trades Unionist. which asks
all laboring men and women to place
the Epworth League on the unfair list
ana induce their boys and girls not to
Join 1t. because John H. Crawford,
state labor commissioner. has been
elected president of the Wichita Ep-
worth League district.
If the unions boycott the Epworth
League, the unions will suffer, not the
league, Doctor Kulp said when oues-
uoned as TO his opinion on the stand OF
the local unions. I'm sure that
Stevic and Brown and others like them
are responsible for the trouble
Labor leaders said today that the
Epworth League had not been boy
cotted but that it should be.
Ihe article charges that since Craw-
ford's appointment by Governor Allen
ne has done all he can to destroy or
ganiZed labor and make the serfdom
OF the middle ages again the rule in
Kansas
He is now a pariah in the labor
his Hindu brother, even one who
spoke to him or touched him would
become an outcast. too.
"On Unfair List"
with this as Mr.. Crawford's caste
| in society at this time, this Fpworth
league has elected him president We
| therefore call upon all orga uized work
/ ers, in the name of their orders, and
upon all unorganized, or non-sffiIiated
workers, in the name of even liberty
itself, to place the Epworth league o.,
the unfair list and there keep it until
| 1t shall have purged itself of this con-
tamlnauon by inducing your boys and
girls not to become members and tell
ing their friends and companions
about it Also.
Crawford's election occurred about
three weeks ago. 1t was the eighth
time the Epworth league had chosen
him for the district chair
Crawford Doesn't Worry.
II haven't anything to say" said
Crawford today. Life is too short to
worry about such things"
"a Piece of Nonsense"
For labor leaders to think they can
/ throttle an institution like the Ep-
worth League is ridiculous" is the
/, opinion of the Rev. c. B. Zook- s,,per-
intendent of the Topeka district of the
| Methodist church, which includes sew
enty-five pastorates. Il am quite sure.
that the attempt of any union leader
10 boycott the Epworth League Will
fail It's a piece of nonsense-this
placing of the Epworth League on the
unfair list
John Crawford's election for the
eighth time to the district presidency
was proof of his effective work for the
church and Epworth League. Doctor
| Zook said, and no investigation can
show any reason why Mr. Crawford
| should not hold that office.
1t Is generally accepted in Topeka
TO-DAY that conservative labor men
VINO represent the real true spirit Of
unionism and its benefit to society ana
industry, will not reflect in any man.
ner the move of the local labor paper
against the Methodist religious society.