JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2407
FORMER CALIFORNIA SENATOR BRANDED TRAITORLos Angeles, California (JFK+50) One hundred years ago today, August 20, 1917, former United States Senator of California John D. Works* "was openly denounced as a traitor."
The former senator reportedly said that the United States should have never sold munitions to the warring powers of Europe and was wrong to enter the world war.
According to the Chicago Daily Tribune, F. A. Blake, secretary of the Olive Milling Company, had some harsh words for Mr. Works. He said...
"Your actions...have been antagonistic to the government. I brand your remarks to be traitorous and lending aid to the enemy."
*John Downey Works (1847-1928) was born in Rising Sun, Indiana & served in the Indiana Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War. He moved to California where he was appointed Associate Justice of the state supreme court & served as U.S. Senator from 1911 to 1917. While in the Senate, he was on the committee on expenditures in the War Dept.
"Former Senator Works Branded Traitor To U.S." The Chicago Daily Tribune, August 21, 1917.
John D. Works
