The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
FREE SPEECH
IS CHOKED At
UNIVERSITY
Pittsburgh Students Are
Denied Right to Hear
Plea for Mooney.
BARRED FROM CAMPUS
Club Gathers in Parking
Lot; Noted Author Tells
of Coast Outrage.

BR Jnjtcd Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, April "a
Flat refusal met the application
! OF the University of Pittsburgh
Liberal Club. composed of stu
dents and faculty members, for a
permit to hold a meeting today
in one OF the university halls
William Albertson, student
president of the club, said he was
turned down with little eXplana-
ton, except that the refusal was
"on orders from the adminiStra-
ton"
The refusal was made at the
office Of the registrar. 1t was said
at the office that no permits we're
to be issued for Liberal Club meet
ings, according to Albertson.
| B5f ines Spertai
PITTSBURGH. April 24.-Action
Of University OF Pittsburgh authorl-
ties in preventing meeting in one
Of the school buildings to discuss
the Mooney Billings case has
aroused students and created an is
sue over free speech.
Students ana faculty members
were driven from the building and
of the campus when they met
Monday, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes.
sociologist and author, was sched-
uled to address the meeting.
The Liberal Club, a student or
ganizatiOn. had ARRANGED the gath
erine. William Albcrtson. club
president, said today that uniyer-
sity authorities would be resisted
vigorously, when he learned that a
movement was afoot to halt all fu-
ture meetings.
Well hold our meetings in the
future without regard Tor the uni-~
versity authorities" he said.
Authorities arc Defcd
Wen hold them on the campus
if VIC can, but if We can't we'll hold
them as near to it as possible and
we'll make every effort TO arouse
the student body in all its force and
oppose the school authorities in
every way We can. We will not be
denied our right to hear whomeVer
we please and say whatever We
wish
Meetings Of the Liberal Club will
not be countenanced on university
property in the future, it was indi-
Gated by DR.. A. A. ArmbruSter,
dean of men.
Chancellor Bowman was silent on
Mondays affair Dean Arbruster
said little, except that the question
at issue now is not what is going
to be done with those responsible
for the clash Monday. but what can
be done to prevent meetings in the
future.
The gathering Monday finally
was held in parking lot in O'Hara
street in the rear Of the Concordia
Club.
Protest Mooney Outrage
Dr. Barnes. using the running
board of an automobile as a plat
form. addressed about twenty
members of the faculty and seven
ty-fve students.
The meeting was called as 2 pro-
test against the Imprisonment OF
Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Bill
ings. California labor leaders, on
alleged framed" testimony. A per-
NIT had been granted to hold the
meeting in q room in Thaw hall, it
was reported.
Albertson. the club president, and
Arthur Mcdowell another student.
who we're to have been speakers at
the gathering, we're summoned be-
fore Dean Armbruster, it is report
ed. and we're informed that students
continuing in Liberal Club activities
would be expelled.
When the students arrived at the
room for the meeting, they we're
prevented from entering by William
Daufenbauch, an attache Of the
deans Office.
Barnes Speaks Briefly
An attempt was made to hold the
meeting on the steps Of Thaw hail,
which resulted in the students and
DR.. Barnes being ordered from the
university property.
From there the group went TO tho
parking lot, where DR.. Barnes spoke
briefly on the Mooney Billings case,
asserting the continued imprison-
ment Of the two men is complete
denial of civil liberty.
DR.. P. w Whiting, head Of the
university zoology department and
faculty adviser Of the club, presided
at the meeting