Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...