The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-01
FARMERS UNION IS
 ASKED ID VACATE
 FREE ROOMS HERE
Chamber of Commerce Un- willing to Be Center for
 Political Propaganda
By w. J. BoLEs

DCSduOS OI lIO 1f1CASO III w half of one of the candidates for United States senator the Farmers Union was asked yes terday by President R. A. Brown of the Chamber of Com- merce to vacate the quarters now occupied by them.
 The request to vacate was made yes terday by President Brown after he had come into the possession of cir culars of a political nature that the union had been distributing from the suite.
 Office space was given the union by the Chamber of Commerce several months ago, rent free. for the pur7 the agricultural industry of the state and when MT Brown learned that their activities were being directed along political lines, and not agricultural
 
 president of the union, stating that because of these political activities the Chamber of Commerce was i'm pelled to ask them to find other quar- ters.
 Mir. Browns letter to Mir. Dinsmore follows:
 March s1, 1920.
 ''Mr. c. M. Dinsmore, President J Alabama Farmers Union. City
 Dear Sir:-when you requested
 on behalf of the Alabama Farm
 ers,, Union, office space at the dis
 position of the Birmingham Cham
 Der of Commerce, we were very
 glad to extend to you this gratui-
 tous courtesy upon the idea that your work was along constructive lines pertaining to agricultural development in the state. In mat ters of this character we are greatly interested. and were glad to be of assistance on the basis stated.
 q find, however, that I was somewhat misinformed as to the activities which you are conducts ing and have had laid before me circular issued over your sigma ture dated March IS. 1920, which is in every sense partisan politi- cal circular having no relation whatever to the farming interests of the state. It purports to be an appeal on behalf of representatives of organized labor and the Farm CTS Union to support MT. L. B. Musgrove in preference over Sena- tor Underwood and MT. s. D. Weakley
 q am further informed that the courtesies extended you by the Bir- mingham Chamber of Commerce are being employed for the wide dissemination of this circular and as a basis for other propaganda along the same line, having no re- | lation to the agricultural welfare of the state.
 l 'As activity of this character l was not contemplated when you | requested the accommodation, and 1 as your further use of the premises 1 under the circumstances would be l foreign to the constructive pub lie purposes of the Birmingham | Chamber of Commerce. I am con 1 strained to request that you dis 1 continue the use of our quarters 'The Chamber of Commerce at 1 all times stands ready to cooper I ate in any movement for the gem 1 eral welfare of the farmers or agricultural development. but it canno: recognize political propa- l ganda as contributing to that end l and further acquiescence in your l use of our premises would be mis- 1 construed.
 l For the reasons stated, we re- l spectfully request that you act l upon this communication at once. Yours very truly, R. A. BROWN, 1 President | For the past several days the Farm CTS Union has had two or three clerk sending out literature from their head quarters. It is stated that most of thi 1 literature is of political nature. The letter from Mir Brown was de livered to MT. Dinsmore yesterda, morning. but up to late in the after noon the force of clerks was still bus addressing envelopes and enclosing cir cular letters preparatory to bein, mailed