The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-19

the installment plan from their smali
pay, to pay for their Laundry, anu
even for the material Tor eleanIe
their rifles. Crouch denied tha1 the
average soldier gets any euuca'ion
except in every vice and CRIME unuer
the sun, and absolute SUBMISSION ~
the most inhuman and brutal treac-
ment." Showing how undesirable II
is for soldiers to learn anytnIhg
worthwhile, he mentioned an lncldehC
IN which a soldier was ordered 10
destroy a copy of the National Geo
graphic Magazine by his company
commander because if a soldler
should learn about oppression OF
workers in other countries, he mlgnt
realize that he and they have noun
ing to lose but their chains and d
5 world to gain"
f i" The army builds men, say re-
e cruiting posters. If many parents
= could see what sort of men the army
f has made of their sons, they would
n wish they had never been born. II
i they could only see.
e Prison Life
: ''In a guard house in the Philip
pines, prisoners were forced to sleep
on the cold cement floor with only
i one blanket In Hawaiian guard
e houses today, prisoners are not per
/ mitted any reading matter except
It religious literature. In the post
q stockade at Schofield Barracks, the
d, order when at work is: Heads down,
S backs up, and picks moving. Inside
y the prison.. they are forced to sit up
S; on the floor If anyone sings or
&c whistles, he is thrown into the dun
at geon on bread and water for seven
- days. No reading matter is permit
n. ted, except the Bible on Sunday. Let
re ters are delivered only on Sunday and
as must be destroyed by the following
al day.
p Crouch told of a speech delivered
m to prisoners in the stockade, reported
e to him by several who were present
ar at the time Major General William
re r. Smith, commander Of the Hawaii
an an Division, they said, told them: =
'm have the law in this hand and you II
'es this, and l will do with you as l wish
los l know this place is hell because
. .iu have made it SUCH"
-of The story of his arrest (and tn
10 arrests of many other soldiers) an
IL his Imprisonment, being held incom
!ld municado for weeks with no charg
len against him or the other soldiers, an
IiC- how he was sentenced to forty year
Tor Imprisonment because of his oppos
srl- ton to imperialism was told b
Crouch. Walter Trumbull, anothe
soldier active in the effort to unit
OF the soldiers in protest against til
ana enslavement of the Hawaiians, We
use sentenced to twenty-six years in
la prisonment, but "due to the effor
Uhe of the farmers and workers of tn
ahg country it was reduced to one year
ign Magnus Johnson Speaks
1 11. After another selection by the Fl
IN IN tertainers and the taking up of a co
M lection to defray the expenses of Il
we meeting the Chairman called
'u u former Senator Magnus Johnson
Inc speak. AS the famed Minnesota ia
rulg ner walked to the platform the hu
al a. crowd greeted him with cheers.
o III "This is one of the best meetin
t 1iio l have addressed for some time," So
Inc Mr.. Johnson. maybe that is due
x ue the fact that up here you have
II Farmer-Labor party functioning I
- litically and officially or maybe y
lN came out here to take a good 10
IL ite at Magnus Johnson. l think that
LIE LIZ am at least as good looking as
eie average farmer here and a dal
'l ~. sight better looking than the cha
cue man there pointing to the chairma
L la The audience had its first big laU
of ioo at this sally of the speaker.
u Ill. Mr. johnson then told story af
'o I'm story that literally brought down
oans house.
loeeiio 'Raise More"
"I was one time at a meeting
80 &c. which Congressman Hull and c
80, 80 gresham Stein were present.
! h, of them was a brewer and the OF
go ~ was a consumer of malt produ
80 They had some fun with Mag
.; 49,, johnson about him being a glass bl
49,, er in Sweden. When I was ca
:. "a 10 70 upon to speak I told the crowd
Isa 10 l was a glass blower and for a
se Of time l blew the bottles which one
the congressman filled and the Of
= the emptied."
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o life