Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1940 — Page 8

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8% TRIAL REVEALS KLAN ACTIVITY AGAINST UNION

| Crosses Burned Outside Halls Where Labor Organizers Meet in Georgia. (Fifth of a series) By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer - ATI ANTA, Ga. May 38.-—Fast 8 Point, Ga. on Atlanta's outskirts hotbed of Ku-Kiux Klan activity ie a mill community. gi

The Fast Point Klan instigated

+ Tey the flogging outrages in this secoy Which already have caused in-| actment of 17 persons. A series of '

trials has Dbe- N \ Ne X \ | VERE YT \ See our large selection of youthful women’s ET | : N NW hats for Mother's Day gifts. $1.95 and $2.95. | Millinery, Recond Floor

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“FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1040

Cupid Listed as War Casualty

CHICAGO, May 8 (U PW deplete the supply of eligible achelors and result, in girls ane Set men, the American Med sspelation Jo - ported today Journal re ife insurance company survey showed that 72 per cent of the German soldiers killed and approximately 53 per cent of the French losses in the last war were men under 30, the journal said. The situation was reflected in rbluses ol women of marriagee age during th - period. : The journal said that another ert as a decline in the birth ate after the war, but this was attributed in part to economic factors.

ton County House and will weeks. the East Point Klan flog. ging crew — or “wrecking crew” As it is called— broadened its self « assumed guthority be- § yond punishing

private conduct Mr. Stokes by the whip and

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orders. We reserve the right to limif, Saturday’s the last day of this in recent weeks have found them-| Resurfacing 85 miles of state

great sale. | selves subjected to various types of {highways in Howard, Hamilton, | intimidation. Crosses have been! Delaware, Randolph, You're sure to be the belle of the graduation ceremonies in one of

Grant and |i burned outside of union meetings, (Madison Counties, awarded to the | | these lovely formals. Laces, nets and organdies in whites and pas-

placards placed on the doorstep of (Grady Bros’ Construction Co. Ina union hall, veiled threats passed |dianapolis, at a cost of $83,480. tels. Sizes 10 to 20. nN ~Y\ A SS WP pa BN - ; 4 aS i — c 4 4 Ue 7 4 LS re 200 New Spring JY

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WU Springy rubber soles. § Sizes 11 to large 8 who was creating a; N ) : : RX A disturbance in Scottdale by trying on this vacation spot today for the = ; SRE PA Saturday Selling! to organize a union. He reported two-day annual session of the In- SrTMAREE A | "Gy the matter for action. diana Academy of Science. | Tomorrow-Last Day 3 & i$ A brand new group of stylish dresses in spun

Floggers Filled Two Cars Frank N. Wallace, president, was, | of This Sale rayons, laces, sheers and Bembergs, Choose from

Bollcitor General John A. Boykin, ito head the business session this, : | onducting the flogging trials, | afternoon which was to open activi-| Beautiful tweeds in boxy and fitted Plaids, checks and monoblack, navy or gayly colored prints, Star Store, Second Floor

August Deadline Set for 67 Miles of Highways in 20 Counties.

Contracts for the resurfacing of {approximately 67 miles of State | roads in 20 counties at a total cost included also an anti-labor union SITIAGSNG were op tated Sosyaie crusade has come to light in the |98¥ by the State Highway Cominisfirst trial. This resulted in the con-|3ion, viction of Henry Cawthon, East] All construction is scheduled to

Point garage operator, for the flog- : ging of a Yoel er tho ase completed by the middle of Au- || trying to organize a C. I. ©. textile|8Ust. Contracts call for: 1 union Resurfacing 18.23 miles of state}

ways in Allen, Huntington,

Story Pleced Tegther Grange, Whitley, Miami and Kos-| i The fogeing of P. 8. Toney, who ciusko Counties, awarded to the, | was trying to organize a ©. IL O, Ercoks or toe Co, Ft. Wayne | | | cost © 637. union, occurred two years ago. The| pecrracing 2243 miles of highstory of this outrage was pieced ways in Greene, DuBois, Orange, together from testimony given in the Lawrence, Vanderburg and Warrick | recent Cawthon trial by two Kians-|Counties, awarded to the Middle men—H. A. Guffin, shoemaker and West Roads Co, at a cost of $125, | Baptist deacon of Scottdale, Ga, [588.50 : tr 4 | land Luke L. Trimble, barber and All repair work is to be done with secretary of the East Point Klan— Fock asphalt, according to T. A 8 and by Mr. Toney himself, who has | Dicus, commission chairman, |

worked in the Scottdale mill since

he was 14. He is now 39. | Mr. Guffin told the court that HOOSIER SCIENTISTS he had taken up the union activity ! of Mr. Toney at a Klan meeting about two years ago, “when John L. GATHER FOR SESSION Lewis was causing all those - |

and strikes in Kentueky.” | Mr. Trimble described the incident] rymes speciat | at the Klan meeting, saying that] SPRING MILL STATE PARK, | r, Guffin "saic TA n | a Te a tie May 3 Indiana scientists converged

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who is « asked what was done. The Kian] ties. a meetings will begin styles. : ; Seas | tonight. | $ lorful a3 had secretary replied that one Kilans- : \ tones In colorful spring shades. In addition to the scient ro- : ; men “something should be I the scientists wil a ire All sizes for mother or daughter. done about and that two elaborate caves at the park and will A spectacular coat value—don't weeks later the textile worker was’ have an opportunity to examine the miss it. taken out by East Point Klansmen restored Spring Mill Village, with Reseed ne fo s I q {mills operated by water power { and flogged. The foggers, lie SAIC, | ye election of officers will be filled two automobiles, at a business meeting tomorrow. | Describing his experiences, My Em

Toney said that eight or nine hooded wwe men we ¢ around him lle about TULIP ‘MURDERED,’

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watching. One of the Klansmen,| he testified, said to him “Now I guess youll let that! NEW YORK, May 3 (U. P).—The damfied union alone, We're going City Park Department and Dutch bulb growers accused each other today of “murdering” most of the 900,- |

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to break up all these damned

unions He said he was handcuffed and thrown to the ground, his flesh ex-| posed. Three men whipped him, he | gaid, one of whom wore a fearsome black hood » “I asked that man with the hood | Bit he was going to kill me” the vietim testified, “because at first I thought the handle of the whip was) a knife. He said: ‘Were going to come damned nigh to it’ And they did come damned nigh to it.”

Other Incidents Related

Union members in East Point tell numerous incidents of Klan antiunion activity. The president of a company union, ag well as a foreman in the same plant who is very active in the company union, have been seen

going into the Klan hall, they reported. The Ku-Klux Klan paraded past] a union meeting in full regalia early | this year and burned a cross nearby. | Last fall a poster was found on the| doorstep of the hall where the union] meets, carrying the picture of aj knight of the Klan astride a roar-| ing charger and across it the cap-

on: “White supremacy must be maine mined. Ku-Klux Klan rides again.” A similar placard, captioned wmrotect American against Come munism. Ku-Klux Klan rides] again,” was nailed to a post in al barking lot used by employees in pre plant, Police Shrug Shoulders

The Klan demonstrated before he East Point home of a woman nion member, a Syrian. She dashed put and kicked the cross down. hen she and her husband told the solice. but they reported that the Moers merely shrugged their shoulders The Klan has been active at pouglasville, 20 miles from Atlanta, here one union organizer reported Bhat it was only necessary for the peal textile union to announce a meeting to have the Klan turn out f parade. $e described how the union at Douglasville got reports that the fi was going to come out in » to break up a union meetng, and how a humber of husky oung men from the Atlanta automobile union went over to see there sas no interference. The Klan alled to move in, but tore out the jegtrie switch in the basement of hall where the union was to set, throwing the auditorium into arkness

Uhlon members reported finding Rian regalia in the office of a mill ntendent in Douglasville. (NEXT-Imperial Wisard . in Interview, pledges ¢

(said, ‘those bulbs

00 tulips presented to the city last fall and planted along Riverside Drive in preparation for an intérnational “Garden of a Miilion Tulips” | festival May 12. The bulbs are dead and the fes-| tival has been called off, although the blame has not been established. The park department charged] that the bulbs were killed by heat | in their cases during shipment to saath » |

this country. George Van Der Mey, representative of the Dutch growers, | were drowned.” He said bad drainage on Riverside Drive was responsible.

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