The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-12-08
VIOLENCE g,tl, ,,,,c
IS INCREASING

.,,r,rs UNION REPORT
EISE91TrTf1EEMENT BY p PROM M
WS MEMO CASE y. VI
5ssBcuTIONs foS % :.
les.
800 ca aSIeeite I'd States in the p
/ Up to made mad public yesterday
plato. a 1n Civil Liberties Union
An ns1st entitled Vine Nay az
gsnphle eto Force and Violence :,
AdVo voc mob violence are sci
bets Of , mG to the quoted ut
% give n, pDl'i in public life" ad.
ss Of men and violence against
% force Tse 1 figures compiled from
s. ;, 1n nssco n show that from from
Dj jon T. 1920 1920 to June IL l., asz y
sf & ( iynchings, - y cases o. OF
and 1 lsbSs'' mob deportations.
. to+s'Pbl brought out by the fig
g ta q, Is % % Of the IS men
be tnss White hi as we're 40 Of the
were ts.r Tt and feathered, and
sons ~ 81 logged. Five of the
ths ., ~ women nGe of whom three
sef' Negroes numbered less
Fhlt Ed T If those attacked. The
-l RIsn was identified with So
j . .''D[. says, while most Of a the
's 3poes too took place in the South
! e 5tsTsst 1T It was also well distri-
4 Iaa.o',rh the far west and mid
th'o %itb fewer e cases in the east.
y, 5t totals over 700 victims at
o ost Tnossible count, and oyer
l,sdirp riot victims. The fig
y u IL doubtless low, because our
ii a AZ necessarily incomplete,
NV " on inadequate press re
.;+onent to mob violence, &C
81. ~ ~ the pamphlet, began in the
y. " | Of the war and has since
LIN he utterances Of many pub
r The analysis of these utter
Ir officials and others contrasts
',.p Sjln from prosecution with
pr;sonment of radicals for far
temperate utterances." In
ting on the collection of quot
rs I the Civil Liberties union
n have no record of any case
s II when these restrictive laws
II radicals were first passed,
tbose clearly guilty Of melting
II Or actually using violence
radicals or workingmen have
rcessfully prosecuted. Nor
any record whatever Of mob
ID by radicals. We do not refer
In, to the record of industrial
in which violence on both
81 been common, hut which in
10 issue of radicalisn."
81 citing wartime utterances of
loot, late Secretary Of State,
Ambassador to Germany JAS.
am, Ex-Governor Warfield of
hd and others, the bulletin
81 statements are typical of
b others. But no purpose is
b going back to war days ex-
u show the origin of the incite- |
Bk violence that marks attacks |
RIals since. It will be remem-
30, that during the war whole |
hob violence was practiced |
The |. ". W. and the Nonpar-
ague, admittedly by business
because of their radical
nd their organization of the
and farmers, without any re-
the war. AS a matter Of
ID NOnpartisan League vigor-
Imported the war, while oppos-
prOfteers.. The wholesale de-
Of over 100 miners from
Arizona, into the desert, the
y Of Frank Little, |. w. w.
at Butte, Montana, and the
n instances o. lob violence
chiefly by tbs Nonpartisan
ganst its members in their
Memorial to Congress" stand
gnifcant Of the condition.
a single case were those re-
II for this violence punished.
bee deportation was even up
ne courts in an extraordinary
81 P1 Of a so-called law of ne
81 i !, Is almost needless to point
s. RADICALS and others who op-
| war, or those who even re-
ggested violence of any sort,
laws"
a implicit cites more recent
aaVocacy Of mob violence. It
Tetary Of State Langtry of
selts under the claw and or
| e1nOr, Calvin G. Coolidge, in
4 anng Of the radicals: eff RI
Ssg would take them out
IA y i every morning and shoot
III I'm NE NE ne next day would have a
d st stethe s.t they were guilty"
a i5'' oi 6 Senator George E.
la y ior bo!l'S,hevists, we have a
ss ~ with them out west.
\ VI, Lands, while still onI
d n, pe1ch, IS quoted as SAYING,
||s 4sual Judicial poise::' what
30, new definition of treason.
81 s5n use the side of a barn
'l0 would destroy our gov
n t General Pat Hammock of
h ' VI quoted in regard to
gas, if anvtb;,o. So