, 1922-07-21
WARRANT OUTFOR
EMPORIA EDITOR
Strike Poster Viii
Stay in Window,
White Asserts

Kan, July 81.
-(By The Associated Press.)
William Allen White, Kan
sas editor, awaited today the
service of warrant for his
arrest for alleged violation of
the industrial court and a~nti-pieket.
Ing law. which. he was Informed last
night BY friends of Gov. H. J.. Allen.
was in preparation by Attorney Gen.
erai r. J. Hopkins. II was understood
that the attorney general prepared
tbs information lodging charges
against Editor White las, light.
Editor White and Governor Allen
are life long friends. both publicly.
and personally. Mr.. White has sup
ported the governor throughout his
and even IN the faca OF
the impending action against him he
said yesterday: There IL no personal
feeling between Governor Allen and
me. He is making a splendid COVER.
nor
Hearing Of his impending arrest.
Mr.. White re.stated his defiance of
the ruling OF the court that to display
signs of sympathy with tho striking
railroad shopmen was against the
law. Mr.. White said that he would
not take down ehe sign which he had
placed in h window OF the office of
his paper the Emporia Gazette.
II won't take Down TINT sign. II
is going to stay there in my window
he said.
The sign reads:
"wc are for SIS striking railway
men fifty per cent. We are for n lfv.
ils wage and fair living conditions
As originally placed in the window
the sign read 100 per cent? but Mr..
White cut the percentage to 40 per
cent "Wednesday and raised Il to SO
per cent yesterday.
Similar cerds appeared simultan-
eously in store windows at several
points where merchants are in sym
pathy with the strike. with the first
indications that the state did not ap-
prove the display OF the signs. many
merchants removed them but some
have since replaced Mr.. Whites lead.
crship and replaced the signs on dis
play. !
Both Governor Allen and Mr.. White
haro stated their personal friendship
for e-ch other has not been affected
by the controversy, Mr.. White said
today:
"Judge ]. A. McDermott, of the IN
dustrial our declares thai the caro-
in my window is lending moral sup.
port to an unlawful act. and thereby
creating an atmosphere In favor Of
law violation.
1.-THE rigct to a free u~tterance of
honest opinions Is a fundamental
right. Our fathers fought for It at
Bunker Hill and ut Gettysburg and to
restrict n man for the calm EXPIRES
sion of an honest opinion merely be.
cause there Is a strike on In Kansas
is unwtse. Industrial questions are
not honestly settled by a suppress
sion of free utterance, either OF
speech IT the press, or of any other
kind. so long as the opinion is order
ly and temperate and decent.
"As a matter OF fect I am not for
tho striking railroad men 100 per cent.
They hsve a Just cause but they have
taken a foolish time for fighting for
lit. But SO long as the right TO ex.
Tpress any opinion is regarded ms in.
cendiary. I feel an old fashioned
American duty to stand up and be
counted for free utterance"
The governor said that Mr.. White
had he wrong slant in, placing the
strike sympathy card in the Gazette
window and hat he did not believe
forbidding display of the cards an at.
tack on free speech. He said:
The Kansas court OF industrial re-
lations art prohibits a strike in an
essential industry. It declares every
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