Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-29
LEClONPRER !,
MONTANA TO
/: Fight ;l Tl''0 /
Resolutions Drawn at Great
Falls Convention Have
Hidden Meaning.

A7SASAAAdASh, y: D.' @ApAE ~" IAio"
where you std" 9 publication edit
ed by Sergeant Douglas s. McCallum
and Major Charles L. Sheridan at
Helena Mont. has been established
as the official organ of Montana sery-
ice men in asHght against the inroads
of -Townleyism and . Bolshevism in
that state.
In the first issue copies of which
have been received In Bismarck,
history Of the activities OF A G..
Townley and w. +. Dunn, and the
%so-called Labor League and Nonpar-
tisan league convention at Great
Falls Is given much prominence.
Dunn who was. editor, of the Butte
Daily Republican, who has openly
espoused the cause of the I. w. w.
lectured for, that organization and
who was convicted of sedition in fed
eral court, together with A. C. Town
ley, president Of the Nonpartisan
league. also convicted of sedition in
Minnesota. were the moving factors
Of the Great Falls convention which
gamating labor and Nonpartisan
farmer forces.
Douglas & McCallum in their pub
LEGATION print the following resolu-
ton: ~.
l., Tho Resolutions.
Whereas. there IS an absence of
democracy IN the organization known
as the American Legion and 1t APP
pears to be ~aristocratically inclined
and opposed TO the aims Of labor, and
Whereas, the Great Falls Shop
Crafts are endorsing and request the
State Federation Of Labor to endorse
as the World War Veterans, and
Whereas, the World War Veterans
stand for frea-speech. free press, free
asseNblage and guarantees of, the
constitution, and have endorsed the
Plumb plan Of railroad control,
Therefore, be it resolved, that we
request the, State Federation Of La
Dor in convention assembled to en-
dorse the World War Veterans as a
body that can be supported by or
This was passed at the Nonparti-
san league convention. and shows
Iclearly the attitude of Townley to-
wards the Legion which standing for
100 per- cent Americanism and pledg.
ed to policies not politics" has not
and cannot enter the field as a poll.
teal organization.
However, the Montana Legion has
accepted the challenge from a stand.
point Of Americanism,i not politics
0 'AoAy HA0SSo 40 OPSAAy u6AlAAiE
Townleyism..
Real Labor Man Protests.
Citing facts to prove that the I
w. and the Townleyites, the, radi,
Ecals and Bolsheviks Of Montana were
the ones responsible for the passage
Of the resolution condemning tn.
Legion. Mort NJ. Donoghue. .exrpresi
dent Of the Montana Federatiop4s .,
t 1sIHsl has EXPRESSED himself assfo el
THE secret of that resolution i
that the American Legion Is cornpos
ed OF Americans and patriots; the.
We're that way when they entered thl
war. and are patriots today,sand.suh
terfuge or camou1age will not chang,
the hidden meaning contained in tn
resolution, and AZ, one Z labor unto,
man, whose son isl a member Of tina
American LEGION, / utter my mos
emphatic protest against the couplin,
of the honest labor sentiment of, thi
Estate with the action of axcopventio,
in which ~was>seated a man alread,
convicted of sedition. against gu
country during the war. The unto,
labor people of Montana are not on
posed to the American Legion. Meth
er ( they unpatriotic. notwithstand
ling the unfavorable position, or ligh,
lin which they have been placed b,
the actions of the convention"