The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-06
National Security League.

The League functions through its national headquar-
tiers with general secretary speakers bureau
rotary and an educational department under civic
secretary, Miss Eta V. Leighton a former school
teacher The speakers bureau furnishes patriotic anti
radical and antpacifst speakers to organizations on
request conducts street meetings New York against
radcasm, and sends out debaters especially to colleges
where the radicals and pacfist thought be active
Frequent speakers for the League during 192526
Joseph T. eastman, New York lawyer, and J. Robert
0'Brien, professional antl-radlcal soap-boxer now
lecturing chiefly before Rotary Lions, Kwanis and
other business mems clubs in effort to show the
Communist origin of all trade-union strikes. During
1926 he gave valuable assistance in strike-breaking
Passaic, NJ j. being well compensated by certain of the
mill owners.
The educational department sends out quantities of
study material to teachers in schools and colleges Chief
among the pamphlets a study program of American
history Catechsm of the Constitution of the United
States" and printed speeches of former Solicitor
General James NJ Beck. The object of this work in
the schools is to inst knowledge of the form of gov
eminent and for the Constitution in order
Ito offset ignorance, radical criticism and apathy
The Leagues program is specific to its conception
Of Americanism and constitutional government 1t adj
vocates:
'The enforcement of laws to punish, and in the
of aliens to deport all who seek by word deed the
overthrow of the American government.
Laws to control immigration as to permit the adj
mission only Of the right kind of material for
American industrial progress
"The promotion Of 100 per cent American shops ana
factories through employees meetings to explain
American ideals and expose radical fallacies.
"The assurance that foreign-language newspapers
shall at all times actively and faithfully support the
Constitution
THE prohibition of the in all public and private
schools Of any language other than English the basic
medium of instruction"
1t also advocates universal military service and
bigger army and navy
Typical of the Leagues concerns was its agitation
upon the discovery in 1928 of boy of IL in New York
who a member of the Young Workers League,
a Communist organization. Leo Granoff had been
rested wandering around late at night, because his
mother had gone to show and had forgotten to give
him the key to the house. His membership card in the
Young Workers League, found him. raised storm
of indignation from the Security League officials Mr..
Solomon Stanwood Menken and Miss Eta " Leighton.
Said Miss Leighton:
"The pity of it is that Leo doesn't stand alone All
the country bright boys and girls victims of
the reds who lose chance to preach vile doctrines
that destroy personal morals and civic probity. How
long these fiends be allowed to exploit the souls
of little children? How long they to be left free
to warp the lives of little children and teach them
hate of the land that offers them freedom and oppor
tunity"
Leo Of course released by the Children's Cours
But he forgotten. His heresies were made the
basis Of very touching appeal for the Boy Scouts
signed by Franklin D.. Roosevelt
The educational and propaganda work of the League
is indicated by the list of its publications in the bibo-
graphy of this volume
ITO be continued.)