Evening journal., 1913-07-19
DANIELS Is
BLAMED FOR
|. W.W.ATTACK
Friends Of Seattle Mayor Say
Navy SeCretary'S Red Flag
Talk Provoked Riot
SOCIALIST QUARTERS
WRECKED BY MARINES
ny md UniLed Press.


SEATTLE. Wash July 49, That
the attack on the headquarters of the
international Industrial Workers OF
The World was due directly to an ad-
dress by Secretary. oi the Navy. Dan-
ieis. the night before was the declara-
ton made today by Mayor Cotterill
and his supporters They assert that
the marines and sailors from the war
ships al anchor here, who smashed
the furniture Of the / W. w ana
attacked Socialist speakers we're in
spired by Daniels utterance in which
he d. <1unced any mayor who would
permit the red flag upon the streets,
Ihe utterance OF Secretary Daniels.
which they declare inspired the riot
erss was
"A mayor VINO does not enforce the
law against the reg flag is not ht to
hold uihce and people who believe IN
the rcd lag should be driven from the
country
Mayor Cotterill has recently permit
| ted Industrial Workers to speak ON
the streets, but not to display the red
/ dag He has been criticized IN the
newspapers for his attitude.
A thorough investigation was
lpromised today by both navy officials
aud the police of the rioting last bigLt
in which score OF United States sml-
lors aud marines from the Pacific re-
serve fleet, reinforced by soldiers aud
a large crowd of young civilians, raid
ed the headquarters of the Industrial
Workers OF the World, and the Social
lists and broke up a Socialist meeting
The raids were made while Sccre-
ltary Daniels was dining aboard tie
lcruiser West Virginia. They followed
an attack by l. w w. sympathizer4
Thursday night upon a party OF sod-
lsers in which three enlisted men were
stabbed.
dozen sailors said TO have beer
from the West Virginia made up th'
I Itirst wrecking party Waving flags the!
stormed a box on which Millard Price
a Socialist orator was speaking, upse
Price and shattered his stock Of maga
zines and literature about the street.
The tars. reinforced by this tim
by big crowd OF cheering citizen
. then moved on TO the Socialist heat
I quarters, smashed ID the plate gIai
= window and nai1ed American nag
across the front Of the building X
+ route to another Socialist meeting
they were met by a squad Of noicc
men who threatend their arrest /
I they continued
Meanwhile, Secretary Of the Nav
! Daniels was addressing the Rainier
Club In his speech he made indi
rect references to recent !. w. w. dis
turbances and praised the attitude O
Mayor Fitzgerald, Of Boston, fol
stopping a red flag parade
The secretarys remarks we're con
yeyed TO the sailors forming III,
wreeking party and they formed Z
new mob. The police had returned
10 headquarters and the sailors pro
ceeded to the Socialist headquarters
on Fifth avenue and Virginia stree
where they destroyed some furnitur,
and coniiscated several sacks OF So
cialist literature Meanwhile,
| second party Of men from the fee
sacked the rooms OF the l. w. w an,
made bonfire of all the literature
they could find
A provost guard OF fifty men wal
ordered out from the fleet and sever
al OF the sailors said to have par
ticipated in the rloting are under ar
rest today
Secretary Daniels friends declare,
today that he knew nothing Of the !
W. w troubles in Seattle. and tina
ia making his declaration regarding
! the red flags he was saying moth
ing that would not have fitted into thl
e usual patriotic address on such al
occasion. They declare that the sec
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