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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1935
University Daily Kansan
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1935
STEP TOWARD SANITY
Some very sincere persons in the University have talked a length about the "pioneering done by our school" in the matter of race relations, social adjustments between the white and negro students. However smug this talk may be, our campus saw last night one of the first serious attempts on campus to discuss their problems together in a social setting which really recognizes the equality of the two races.
The Council of Race Relations sponsored a dinner for the purpose of bringing divergent points of view into friendly contact, so that discussion in a democratic way might help both whites and blacks achieve themselves at more deeply than their pigmentation.
Our University will see more or this type of meeting when larger numbers of students realize why they have been taught and influenced to react only with prejudice in their dealings with other races. At this time, particularly, it is imperative for us to understand the economic basis of our attribution to all sorts. In America, bulwark of freedoms of decades, we must not see repeated the fascist brutality of blaming our economic breakdown on minority groups.
MAY THE FOREIGN-BORN SPEAK?
A comparison might well be drawn between two cases that have come to the public eye regarding deportation of immigrant workers.
In Gallup, New Mexico, after the shooting of the sheriff on April fourth, two hundred people were arrested. When some of them were released, three were immediately rearrested on deportation charges. On the same day one Paul George was arrested on deportation charges in New York shortly after having been discharged from prison. That was the only person knowing his new address; thus he could have been the only person to report it to immigration officials.
The Kerr bill now pending in Congress would provide that "any employer is authorized to detain for investigation any alien he has reason to believe is subject to deportation." This bill is a fine thing, no doubt. The fineness stops at the point of enforcement, for it could easily be so interpreted that any person who was entitled entirely to his employer could be deported. This would put about fourteen million foreign born workers entirely at the mercy of their employers.
In both the New York and the New Mexico cases it is obvious that there is some connection between the displeasure of the employer and the deportation of the employee. Such abuse is what is to be guarded against carefully in the passing of such a bill as the
one now pending in Congress. In both cases the persons involved were probably innocent of any wrong-doing the displeasure of an employer because of beliefs of his employees over which he should have had no control was the dominating factor.
In truth, American citizens should be protected from foreign-born people who do wrong. But this means those who disobey the law; those to whom personal liberty of others means nothing; those who would go against the principles of American liberty. This is probably what the Kerr Bill is intended to mean. But the interpretation put upon it by the influential employer who is such a stickler for his own "rights" that he will allow no one else any rights may be far different from the original meaning of the Bill.
It might easily be interpreted to mean any act that was a matter of displeasure to the employer, down to the way the employee parts his hair. It is here that the danger lies in the passing of such a bill as the one proposed; and if things were not bad enough already, all personal rights and beliefs of millions of hard-work American people will be jeopardized. Though they may be truly American, though they may be the most patriotic and law-abiding citizens of this country, they will be entirely at the mercy of any whim in which their employers may choose to indulge.
Three Carinth Poems
**TWO WEEKS AGO**
(Editor's Note)—The committee of the Poean Poetry Contest, Second prized won by Doris Lawon Thompson, c35, for her poem, "Window." Due to its length, the prize was later doubled; later the Kansen will run "selected parts of it. We are printing the abortor of two poems that tied for third and the shortest of the winning receivable honorable mention.)
Celebration for Ferguson Ropes
Consolation for Forgaten Bones
It rains all day on the shore of the
sea.
And the sea seems one with the low- home arev
That covers the village of Fishing Bay.
A cold wind curves through the narrow streets
And on to a cliff bung over the sea Where are buried the men of the crumbling lea.
The peeling slabs of granite-grey edges
Are set aslant in the rain-green turf.
Are set aslant in the mud-stained earth.
And mark the age of Fishing Bay. The waves break low for the dead man's ears,
Make hollow sounds throughout the vearx.
It rains all day on the shore of the sea.
And the sea seems one with the low-hung grey
That covers the village of Fishing
Velma Friedrich, c35, Lawrence, Kan
(75th, for third prize)
When I was two or maybe three,
I saw a bird's nest in a tree.
A little鸟 with colors gay;
I loved to watch and play him.
One day my mother said to me,
"Give me the bird." he made the tree.
God's Tree
The bird my wonder for and rom,
Still some tree will be his home."
When I was five or six or so,
I went to the store where I
clipped my hands in childish glove.
To see them hanging from a tree,
My mother said, "God made them."
And put them for you to eat. "Sometimes I kept beneath the shade Of this great tree God had made, It fed, protected, sheltered me; Thus I learned to love a tree. Through a dozen years or more I grew to worship and adore The bird's home, the apple's bed,
Workers in Southwest Kansas Mines Organize to Gain Rights Under NRA
In the southeastern corner of Kunawa where huge, gray tailings piles of waste rock and rough, corrugated iron buildings were built under the ground, ground as far as the eye can see lead and zinc miners quit work at midnight on Wednesday to start what may possibly become the most important and most difficult effort to interrupt the peace of the state.
While flying squadrons in earn aras union pickets have closed all of the 54 mills in the tri-state mining area, while fattights that may become something of a national problem pickets, and while police and other officials have strongly awarded their ability to "do something" if grave weapons break out, 4,000 of 5,000 workers in the area are in self-imposed unemployment, many of them applying for felonies.
J. A. Lang, district president of the Ti-State Mine, Mll, and Smiller Workers' Union, explained the strikers' view on how to handle the force union recognition, better working conditions, and adherence to an American standard of living. The operators have ignored attempts of the union to negotiate relations between employer and employee as provided under the NRA." Said Sam Ash, head of the Baitin Mining company of Pachery Oyak, said the strike in the Kuznets boundary: "Ore prices were too low to operate, anyway." Other operator admitted receiving letters requesting their attendance at a meeting with the union, and there was no intention of a trile.
By Kansan Writer
The leaves that danced above my head.
Though deeply rooted in the sod it rose so high, so close to God. Then one day, I heard a cry— Footsteps trumping, stamping by, A howling moh pushed thru the street;
I looked... My Goal - it was a boy!
Then cursing lung in murderous glee.
They stopped beneath a tall green tree.
Dragged a body by its feet.
They beat, they kicked and screamed with joy.
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They tied a rope around his neck, Tore his clothing to a wreck, And even in such agony— They swaug his body to the tree. Then built a fire and its spark— I looked, and—oh, his face was dark. He stepped into the room Left dangling there a human coal. Not since the day when I was three Had I desired to shum a tree. In horror, now, I forced my feet To stumble blindly down the street; A city street, where there was light, And not a single tree in sight And even there I seemed to see If any boy hanging from a tree. Decid God, your tree?—to me 'twas fair—
A poor boy's body hanging there-7
Dear God do this thing for me-
Tmee me to not hate a tree!
Tmee me to not hate Washington, KS, Kansas
City, Kansas
It was doubtless to be expected that an effort would be made, sooner or later, to utilize the Civilian / Conservation Corps for military purposes. Accursions there were based on the fact that there would be outlawed violence and in spite of the fact that the army has been called upon to furnish personnel for its administration this promise has, on the whole, been pretty well kept. But the War Department sees an opportunity which it does not like to lose. Any large organization of young men of millennium age would just naturally make its mouth water to see them in uniform and under arms.
Sunday, May 12, 1935
TURNING THE CCC INTO A HEIM-
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Two measures have been introduced in Congress to bring this about. One of them, H.R. $502, said to have been initiated by the Chief of Staff, supported by the Chief of Stuff, provides that CCC men shall be offered an enlistment period of two months "for intensive military training" at the end of their service and after that shall be enrolled in an "auxiliary reserve force" for five years with a small stipend. The other, H.R. $502, sponsored by the chairman of the committee on military affairs, is similar.
(Honorable mention)
GRADUATE SCHOOL FACULTY:
A petition has been addressed to the President by about 150 well-known mer
Vol. XXXII
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No.152
PEACE ACTION COMMITTEE:
There will be a meeting of the faculty of the Graduate School at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, in the auditorium of the Administration building for the consideration of new graduate degrees in clinical medicine and in music education
E. H. LINDLEY. President.
The University of Kanoan Peace Action Committee will meet Monday afternoon at 4:30 in the book exchange room, Memorial Union building. Everyone
ELIZABETH CASWELL, ALFRED C. AMES, Executive Secretaries.
In the meantime the federal government has tried, with its usual success, to effect a conciliation. W. A. Rodgers of the department of labor made efforts to work with officials and operators, which failed when the operators declined to attend. The union has removed its headquarters from Joplin, Mo., to Baxter Springs, because it is accused of ill-treatment of district judges toward labor illustrated in a recent query strike.
The joke of the conflict is that anyone, especially the mill operators, should be surprised by the strike, merely because it is the first in the locality in 50 years. The mill operators were a year ago, when the union was being formed, and even at that early date it was clear that the miners were disgruntled and disillusioned to leave their fortunes in the hands of employees and workers. They were ruined individuals themselves.
This reporter was the guest of some miners for two nights, sleeping in the offices of a large Kansas mine about a mile north of Picker. The accommodations were comfortable and our cigarettes, and needless to say, the superintendent himself knew nothing of the arrangement. A blue-eyed old night watchman with a dropping mountain who had been a miner all his life, did his best to describe the attention impartially.
"Production is about one-third what it was in the good years," he said, "and prices have dropped to almost an airtime low. The bosses claim they've grown their business at all. We work on us here work part time, four days a week, at a dollar and a half."
and women, protesting against putting this military rider on a plan which was inaugurated with the understanding that it was to be a purely civilian relief measure. The objection is threefold: it is unnecessary; it will create alarm and suspicion at home. The objections are all well taken. We cannot expect to do this sort of thing and exist in a world where we have minds and on the minds of others. We know how quick the world was to see that Germany's storm troopers, labor units, defense divisions and all the rest really constituted an increase in her army whether at home or abroad.
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"We've always had a fight for decent working conditions. There used to be lots of accidents, but now state laws provide for protective helmets, iron-toed boots, and workmen's compensation for the miner. The company does not allow tuberculosis by mine-drain, gets plenty of men every year. I'm one of the few men lft who worked around here during the war, and that's because I've been above ground most of the time."
"Of course, I can see that the company is trying to improve lives figures from our prerep, wages, and the amount of concentrate shipped out of here weekly that the bosses were making plenty. But it cost dough to set up the矿, and they say they only stay open to give us work, and I guess they don't care. Still, it's pretty hard to live like us."
With conditions as he described them, it seemed likely that there would be many radicals and a strong union throughout the area.
"But no," said the old workman, "the only Socialist on here in the super-intendent himself. He's fine, all right, and worked his way up, and of course he's a sort of employee. Still, there isn't much reason for him to be a Socialist. To the union, we just formed one in 1920 and we made sure he shut down the mills for good. We'll have to try, though, if there's no other way out, and we haven't么长出."
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The future holds two broad possibilities: that the union will run out of funds and be unmanned, or that high ore prices due to the strike, and other in-deputies to profit, will lead employers to fight back. If the first happen, men will return in work at 86 a week. If the second happens, and operators use computers, the labor force will be hired instead, headings, injunctions, economic pressure, perhaps marital law, and certainly plus of violence. Now it is an endurance test.
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