The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-02-07

highly appreciated, and 1t occur
red to Mr.. Jung that he ought to
nave his own spy-hunting organi-
zation, a trifle more secret, per-
naps, and built along the lines Of
a military intelligence outfit. Thus,
the American Vigilant Intelligence /
Federation was the fruits of his
labors-and its prospers.
The main business of the Vigi- |
lante is the collection, compilation |
and publishing of data on the
in this country. Of
course, Mr.. Jung and the Vigi- |
lants have plenty of time for 9th
er patriotic activities, such as see
ing to it that alleged communists
are arrested and held in default
of exorbitant bail, but they are
never so happy as when they are
circulating a dOssier upon some
individual in an attempt TO show
him up as a communist and a sub
versive. Thus, in a ponderous
mimeographed report, "Who Is
Back of the Pacifist Movement OPP
posing National Defense" they
say about Professor John Dewey:
In 1923 he wrote a pamphlet,
eff War Were .Outlawed," which
was circulated by several radical
organizations. He is a contribut-
ing editor to The New Republic.
:. He also joined the League
of Mutual Aid 1. was one of
the professors who signed a pro-
test against the law dusk Law,
New York State, 1920) ad-
vocates outlawry of war Pro-
lessor Dewey heads more pink
subversive organizations than
any other professor in the coun-
try.
Alleged deficiencies in sports
manship are sufficient evidence to
Mr.. Jung and the Vigilants to
make a man suspect. In the same
report, there is a coy note about
]. Henry Scattergood, Haverford
and Harvard graduate, treasurer
of the Pennsylvania Working
Home for the Blind, member of
the Red Cross Commission 30
France, member of the Friends
Service Committee, and advocate
of world disarmament:
At Haverford College he was
an accomplished cricket player
-. It is said, however, that he
has been seen TO kick the wicket
with his foot to jar the balls of
when they came close to the
stumps, which characterizes hi:
poor craftsmanship and is indica
tive of his mental capacity II
other phases of life.
The same report calls Jane AID
dams "the most dangerous woman
in America" Bishop Brewster Of
Maine is ga revolutionist." Sher
wood Eddy is "pro-Russian prop
agandist." Kirby Page is an cab
solute pacifist." Francis B. Sayre
son-in-law of President Wilson
and professor of Law at Harvard
is a "parlor Bolshevik," as arr
Dean Pound and Professor Frank
furter of the same university. Rab
bi Wise is an "endorser of racia
equality for Negroes" Also men
toned in the same report arr
Senator Borah, Mrs. Carrie C
Gait, iona Gale, Henry Noble Nc
Cracker, Senator George w. Nor
ris and George Foster Peabody.
The Weekly Bulletin service o
the .Vigilants, their Items of In
terest, is more concerned wit
Ewhat is going on from day to day
For instance, they are frightene,
at the amount of subversivisn
that is creeping in on the bench
Unless a judge gives a pacifist o
less-than-10 O-percenter 20 year
for holding a meeting or a parad
without a permit, the Vigilant
become extremely nervous an
sad. Items of Interest for Angus
IL, 1929, reports the case of on
Joseph Mittelman, a foreign Dor
American citizen arrested an
= charged with holding publ
meeting illegally and with distrih
! uting "incendiary literature" i
Chicago. Mittelman secured a fur
; trial and was speedily acquitte
!. when his attorney pleaded tn
right of free speech. But Vigilant
had a different idea about tn
matter:
Once again irrefutable proof O
d the value of apathy, indifference
0 and ignorance as an aid to com
d munism was evidenced. It is II
t deed a sad sight to see twelv
men in a jury box aid and 3
$ bet communism by freeing CON
n munists who were proven to hav
e violated city laws and whose OF
: ly intent and purpose was til
: building up of a communist ser
It timent favorable to the intende
overthrow of the government {
S the United States.
: Items of Interest for August q
It 1929, carries some more "accural
d information" of the Vigilant
+ Their New York correspondent
sends this note:
% The Workers Center, 26-1
Union Square. New York ia,
. has been treated 10 a new coat ,
= paint in the official colors of Il
r. Soviet Union. We now have .
+ official Red Square in New Yol
: rypifying the Red Square in Mo
= cow, and the Communist hea,
& quarters in New York painted
the symbolical colors of the rev,
II lutionary regime of the Soviets