THE KU KLUX KLAN.
COUNTER-CAMPAIGN OPENS.
JUDICIAL INVESTIGATION. A- and N.Z. NEW YORK. Dec 5. Direct action against the Ku Klux Klan hegan to-day. Two New York grand juries have started the investigation of the organisations activities in New York, and an aldermanic investigation has bei?un in Chicago of the Klan membership among municipal employees. One Chicago Judge also questioned every prospective juror whether ho waa a member of the K'an. Mr. Tinkham, a congressman lor Massachusetts, wrote P letter to the President asking why he was so anxioua to enforce the eighteenth amendment when the fourteenth amendment, which guarantees the vote to negroes, is a deadletter in the Southern States as a result of the Klans activities. He asked the President to urge Congress to decrease the representation of these Southern State.% as the law provides in the case of violations of the fourteenth amendment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18267, 7 December 1922, Page 9
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146THE KU KLUX KLAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18267, 7 December 1922, Page 9
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