The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-19
KHAN RIOT AT
niles, O., SHOWS
FASCIST GROWTH
WGrwithFI Circle
Divides Workers
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MINERAL RIDGE, Ohio, Nov.
16.-lt is trite saying that out
of evil some good must come.
This saying is very applicable
to the recent riots in Niles,
Ohio, within a mile and a half
of here.
These riots were and have
been caused by members of the
Ku Klux Khan and members of
the Flaming Circle.
The Ku Klux Khan had been grant
ed a permit to hold parade in Niles,
but the Flaming Circle as on the oc-
easion Of other attempts Of the Ku
Klux Klan refused to permit them to
go thru with the parade.
In the recent elections the khan had
excited mayors, and other officials in
Niles and other towns in the Mahoning
Valley, and as a result of this the
Khan has been carrying on campaign
of abuse and hatred against the Ne
groes, catholics, Jews and foreign
born, threatening to run them out Of
the country, and campaigning against
the hiring of catholic teachers and
clerks in the stores and other places
of employment.
So arrogant has this organization
become that the press dispatches
have carried the story where the
grand dragon of the X. KS interview.
ed the governor Of the state on his ap-
pointments and how many were cath.
olics, and whether he sent his children
to a parochial school or not.
This grand dragon Of the K KS,
lawyer Of Youngstown, o., before the
recent election sent out a secret let
ter to all Klansmen to support Cool
idge, and a prepared slate for the
state Of Ohio, and It is a current ru-
nor that he aims to supplant the ma
tional head Of the Khan, Imperial
Wizard Evans
GoVefnof HAS Kan support.
AS a result Of the trouble in Niles,
the governor, who by the way, was
one Of the officials who received the
Endorsement Of Dragon Osborne, had
a special committee investigate the
Khan and its activities. This commit
tee in it's report asks that the gov
ernor take notice that a condition
dangerous to the community exists"
and they further report that it is brot
about thru the criminal actions of
some Of the high officials of the Khan.
Prosecutor Burgess Of Trumbull Co.
brings the charge that an organizer OF
the Khan by the name Of Watkins, has
a police force Of his own,
giving out police badges. guns and
clubs, and representing to these men
that they had the right of arrest and
all the powers of state appointed po-
lice officials.
These FISH" as the prosecutor dub
bed them, paid to this Colonel Wat
kins, as he styles himself, the sum
of $3.50, and this money the colonel
must have pocketed, for no trace of
it can be found. This p. A. Watkins
has been posing in the organization as
a minister Of the gospel, and an Amer
lean citizen, while the investigation
has disclosed the fact thai he is not
a minister, nor an American, but
and an agent provoca-
tuer OF the most Shiny kind
II seems that this man has been a
super-spy of the British government
in Egypt, during the late war, and
that he is now carrying on his trade
in this country in the interest Of the
same government, and the American
capitalists.
He has the title In the Khan of xii.
graap, which is the super-spy depart
nent of the Khan, and as kligraap
be is at the head of the BLACK Hun
lreds" in the valley, and his depart |
ment is only one of the many depart
ments maintained by this organiza-
lion, which boasts of having the best |
organized and largest secret service
IN the world.
Members of this secret service Of |
The khan have boasted, when off their
guard, that they would, If not able to
run the foreigners, catholics, Jews
and Negroes out of the country, join |
IN with the capitalists and make II |
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