Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-13
WAR ON REDS
DECLARED BY
COAST TOWNS
Cities Join in Impromptu
Raids on l. w. W.; Service
Men Storm Poolroom
LEADER IS IDENTIFIED
Man Lynched at Centralia
Was an Organizer; Quick
Convictions Planned

Centralia, Wash, Nov. 13.-For-
mer. service men last night entered
poolroom here, lined about 100
patrons against the wall and search
ed them. Sixteen who were said to
have carried Industrial Workers OF
the World membership were ar
rested.
George Paxton, Centralia,
former soldier, was fired upon
before daybreak to-day as he
was patrolling n road between
Centralia and Chehalis, near the
bridge where the alleged 1. w.
W. was 1ynched Tuesday night.
Police, National Guardsmen and
former soldiers searched vainly
for several hours for the man
who fired the shot. Paxton was
not hit.
Cities of Western Washington
joined Centralia in arresting men,
bers of the Industrial Workers of
the World and raiding their head
quarters following the firing on an
Armistice Day parade here Tues
day. Four former American SOL
diers are dead and a fifth is re-
ported dying as result of the shoot
ing, and one alleged I. w. w. has
been lynched.
Identify Leader
The man who was lynched here
Tuesday night was identified early
to-day as Ernest Everetts, by a
woman who conducted the rooming
house where Everetts lived. He was
working here as an l. w. W. Or
ganiZer, the woman said.
This identification was partly
borne out when the police went
through effects found in the room
occupied by the man. These effects
included receipts for I. W. w. liter
ature and blank receipts for MEM
bership dues in the l. w. w. accord
ing to the police. The body had
previously been identified as that of
Brick" Smith, secretary of the local
branch of the |. w. w.
All informations. it was under
stood would allege either partici-
patton in or criminal knowledge of
the killing of four members of the
American Legion.
County Attorney Herman Allen
said he had information which he
believed would result in convictions
in all cases. This information, he
asserted came to him through alleged
confessions of two young men who
admitted membership in the l. w. w.
Several State and Federal officials
have investigated the situation here
since the shooting Tuesday and have
conferred with Allen.
Further indication that Federal
tod a q
completely in the shooting was con-
tanned in the statement made by
Robert l.. Saunders, u. S. District
Attorney.
I'm my judgment the I. w. W.
have gone far enough with their acts
TO emphasize the truth hat their
principle is the overturning of the
Government, including the Federal
Government" Saunders was quoted
as saying. ''If that is so and can
be established by the evidence, every
individual l. w. w. is guilty of that
crime.
II shall place charges against
every one of the men arrested. The
complaint will be placed before the
United States Commissioner at Ia
coma, and I believe that my evidence
will be conclusive enough to hold
all of them for the Federal Grand
Jury.
Military Funeral
II shall charge that each and
every one of them wickedly and fe-
loniously confederated, conspired
and agreed to overturn the Federal
Government by force and resist the
execution of it's laws"
The local post of the American
Legion has made plans for a military
funeral tomorrow of the four former
service men killed during the parade.
Resolutions demanding drastic ac-
tion by State and Federal authorities
against radical organization have
been adopted by American Legion
posts and other organizations in
many Pacific coast cities.
Through it's commander the
Yakima Wash, post, sent telegrams
TO United States Senator's Jones and
Poindexter, demanding that steps be
taken Immediately to enact proper
legislation to "exterminate the 1,
w. w. and other radical organization
inimical to the Government"
Twenty-Five men and one woman,
reported to have radical beliefs,
were placed in Jail here and later
four of the prisoners. including the
woman, were removed to the Lewis
county Jail at Chehalis by National
Guardsmen. Raids were conducted
in Seattle, Tacoma and Aberdeen on
the Industrial Workers headquar-
lers.
In Seattle IL men and tons of |
literature" according to the police. |
we're taken to police headquarters. |
The Tacoma police arrested "a al
leged members of the Industrial |
Workers and seized a quantity of |
radical literature. At Aberdeen |