Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-10-02

Seamen who had enlisted under the
banner of the Third International
faker were deSetting him and return
ing to their legitimate union.
The committee on labor press was
Singularly fortunate in obtaining one
of Americas foremost labor editors
to act as its secretary, with the result
that a wonderfully fine report was
submitted TO the convention. After
several consultations with the other
members of the cuhmittee on labor
press, John p. Frey, editor of the
Molders' Journal and president of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor. sub
mitted a report that all of the mem-
bers of the committee gladly signed
and which was unanimously adopted
by the convention.
Frey Came As Fratelna Delegate
Mr.. Frey was fraternal delegate
from the Ohio State Federation Of
Labor and was in Champaign urbana
for the entire week. His main pur-
pose in attending the Illinois eonven-
ton was to obtain help for the Inter
national Moldefs' Union in fighting
the Holland Furnace Company. Pres
ident Walker drafted Mr.. Frey as a
member of the committee on labor
press, to which Mr. Frey strenuously
objected, saying that President Walker
had no legal authority to appoint him.
The other members of the committee
told Mr.. Frey to 'can that STUFF ana
get to work, which, like good soldier,
he did. International Labor News
Service came in for further commen-
dation in the report read to the con-
vention by Mr.. Frey.
Wills Heads Labor Press Committee
Charles f. Wills, circulation man.
ayr of the Federation News of Chi
cago. was the chairman of the COM
mittee on labor press. He was on the
Job from the start, rounding up COM
mittee members and insisting that
they do their full duty.
The daily newspapers represented AT
the convention managed to create a
great sensation over question raised
by Delegate Edwin K. Wright, a Chi
cago printer and former president of
the Illinois State Federation of Labor.
Delegate Wright called upon the
officers and faculty of the University
of Illinois which is located at Cham.
paign- Urbana, TO tell the convention
whether there was any truth in pub
lished reports of drunkenness and
licentious conduct among the student
bodies of American universities and
colleges.
Mr.. Wright was careful to say that
he was not making any charges
against the University of Illinois, but
that he would like to hear an answer
from the authorities of that institu-
ton in reference to the salacious
stories which have been printed in the
newspapers and in books which have
been written by college men.
Faculty Refutcs Charges of Vice
Mr.. Wright said he hoped that the
faculty could show that the University
of Illinois was as clean as hound
tooth in this regard and that 1t could
be demonstrated that the taxpayers OF
Illinois were not subsidlzlng wee IN
maintaining such an institution as the
University of Illinois. i
Several members of the faculty OF
the university appeared before the
convention and gave facts and hgufes
to show that the institution was clean
morally. -,
The incident was closed with the
best of good feeling on both sides.
The delegates arose and cheered the
university men, who in their turn
waved smiling adieu.
Streator to Get Next Convention
Streator won over East st. Louis IN
a spirited contest for the 1926 eonVen-
tion. The delegates voted for Streator
largely as a compliment to Repre-
sentative r. G. SoderstrOm, a union
printer and who is organized labor 5
floor leader in the Illinois House OF
Representatives StreatOr is Repre-
sentative Soderstrom's home town.