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...struggle in Logan County, West Va., between the United Mine Workers and the coal operators has become more than a simple class conflict of Capital and Labor. The American Civil Liberties Union and a representative Citizens' Committee headed by Norman Hapgood, editor of Hearst's International, have intervened to make the Logan situation a test of free speech and constitutional guarantees in West Virginia. The first thing they did was to hold an open meeting at Logan, in the heart of the non-union coal country, closed for years to free speech on coal questions, and discuss...
Having spoken in the citadel of the coal barons, in the mining Mecca where no union man can show his face without danger of physical violence, and having spoken on the most forbidden of all subjects-coal and the rights of unionism-the Citizens Committee and the Civil Liberties...
Union will bring to bear all the legal weapons in their power to have the union miners protected in their civil rights and to prosecute the operators who have denied those rights by force of arms...
Gandhism is rife in Korea, province of Japan. Koreans are being urged by their leaders to use only articles of Korean manufacture. Although civil disobedience has not been advised, the movement is an attempt to copy the Gandhi methods in India. Governor-General Saito says that the people are as a whole satisfied with the Japanese regime and that the state of unrest should not be taken too seriously...
Died: Mrs. Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan, 84, widow of John A. Logan, Union General in the Civil War. It was she who conceived the idea of Memorial Day, which was first declared by her husband as Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1868. After her husband's death in 1886 she wrote several books on the Civil War, and made a valuable collection of war souvenirs in memory of her son Major John A. Logan, Jr., killed at the battle of San Jacinto in the Philippines...