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Show II EDITOR DEFIES 1 STRIKE COURT Posts Placard Expressing Sympathy for Striking Shopmen EM PORTA, Kan.. July 20. William Alien While, editor of the Emporia Gazette, today defied the Kanwi court of Industrial relations fry placing n contraband placard, expressing sympathy sym-pathy for the trlklhg shopmen In the window of the CJazeye office. Mr, White posted the pl.ir;ird after he hud been Informed that the attorney Rcn-eral Rcn-eral had ruled It against the industrial indus-trial and antl-syndicalisxri lnw The poster expressed sympathy for the strikers In their announced stand for "living wagU and fair working Conditions." In today's Gazette, Mr. "White explains his stand. "The order of the Industrial court Js an Infamous infraction of the right of free press and free speech." White writes. "Certainly It has not come bo pass In thiscountry thai a man ma;, not say what he thinks about an Industrial In-dustrial controversy without- disobeying disobey-ing the law." "If th government desires to make I a test ease, hero it Ib," says the editor. I j 'It is not a question of whether men are right or wrong but a question of the right of an American citlaen, white . and 21, to say what ho please about the strike " Placards expressing "10n per rent" pympathy for the .striking shopmen have appeared during the past few days In local store windows. White changed the sign in his window making mak-ing it read -49 per cent Instead of 100 I per cent, "for the striking railroad men." saying he would add 1 p- ' cent every day the strike lasts, TOPEKA. Kan . July 20. Governor Henry J. Allen refused Wednesdaj night to make a statement as to what action he intended to take In answer in the dare of William Allen White to make a test case of White s hanging a placard In his window supporting! tile railroad strikers. "We all know Bill," Governor Allen Al-len said. "If ho insists on being funny j wi will have to do something about It.) But I will not Issue any statement at this time." Richard J. Hopkins attorney gen- eral. also declined to Bay that White! (would bo arrested at once "One who encourages lawlessness in Xansaa by advocating it is himself violating vi-olating the law and therefore is subject sub-ject to arrest," Hopkins said In a , etatement. The statement Issued by Mr. Hopkins Hop-kins follows, in part: "Mr. White has Jumped at a con- elusion without realizing the funda-m funda-m ntal prln iole involved it is not a matter of free speech or a free press. It is a question of obedience to law.' .A strike which would prevent the pub- lie from procuring food, fuel, elothln;-. I 'transportation and like neci life has been made unlawful in Kansas, Kan-sas, it is a strike against tho public it is a strike against the state itself. "One who encourages lawlessness In Kansas by advocating It is himself violating vi-olating the law and therefore should I ' be subject to arrest." |