The Story of The American Legion eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 231 pages of information about The Story of The American Legion.

The Story of The American Legion eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 231 pages of information about The Story of The American Legion.

    (a) It demanded investigation of the pardon and subsequent
    honorable discharge by the War Department of convicted
    conscientious objectors.

    (b) It condemned the action of the I.W.Ws., the Anarchists, and
    the International Socialists.

    (c) It protested against certain nefarious business concerns who
    are employing men in uniform to peddle their wares.

(d) It recommended that Congress should take steps to reclaim arid, swamp and cut over timber lands and give the work of doing this to ex-service men, and give the land to them when it had been made available for farming purposes.

    (e) It demanded of Congress the same disability pay for men of
    the National Guard and National Army as now pertains to those in
    the Regular establishment.

    (f) It initiated a campaign to secure to service men their
    rights and privileges under the War Risk Insurance Act.

(g) It demanded that Congress should deport to their own countries those aliens who refused to join the colors at the outbreak of the war, and pleaded their citizenship in other countries to escape the draft.
(h) It undertook to see that disabled soldiers, sailors and marines should be brought into contact with the Rehabilitation Department of the Government, which department helps them to learn and gain lucrative occupations.
(i) It authorized the appointment of a competent legislative committee to see that the above recommendations were effectively acted upon by Congress, and that committee has been appointed and is now at work.
(j) It authorized the establishment of a bureau to aid service men to get re-employment; and of a legal bureau to help them get from the Government their overdue pay and allotments.  These two bureaus are being organized at the National Headquarters of the Legion and will be in active operation by July 1st.

    (13) What else did the St. Louis caucus do?

    (a) It endorsed all steps taken by the Paris caucus, and adopted
    a temporary constitution which conformed to the tentative
    constitution adopted in Paris.

    (14) What does this Constitution stand for?

(a) The preamble answers that question; it reads:  “For God and Country we associate ourselves together for the following purposes:  To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent.  Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligations to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.”

    (15) How does the Legion govern itself?

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