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Citizens of Canada were proud last week that the Dominion had ended its first legal battle with the Ku Klux Klan in no uncertain manner. In Oakville, Ontario, some weeks ago, a band of hooded Klansmen kidnaped a white girl from the home of a Negro with whom she resided, posted a sign on the Negro's door: "NOTICE: THERE SHALL BE NO MINGLING BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES IN OAKVILLE...
...minutes before the regular delegates meeting at Indianapolis did the same thing. They kept the Union's regular name, voted Lewis out simply by declaring all national offices vacant. Official salaries were cut in half, a five-day week and six-hour day were approved. Communists, 'leggers and Ku Klux Klansmen were banned from...
Indianapolis. The Republican party, hard-ridden by the Ku Klux Klan, stumbled and fell in defeat as for the first time in 16 years the city chose a Democratic mayor, Reginald Sullivan. In similar disrepute was the Klan-Republican alliance in many another Indiana municipality, including Senator James Eli Watson's own Rushville where Republicans were turned out, Democrats turned into office...
Detroit. By the narrowest of margins Charles Bowles, Dry Protestant, Ku Klux Klandidate, defeated John W. Smith, Wet Catholic, for Mayor...
...Simultaneous with England's centenary of toleration towards Catholics (see p. 52) all Baltimore's fraternal organizations except the Ku Klux Klan, warned by bicentenary good-feeling, formed a permanent non-sectarian body which they promised to make worldwide...