The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-14
|BOLsHEV|KI RIOT
IN SEATTLE SUNDAY
RED FLAG DEMONSTRATION STOP
PED BY POLICE 1000 TAKE
PART IN FIGHT

/ neutrality-suspicious. at an open
air meeting held here yesterday after
noon lin behalf Of Russia" said by
the police to have been of a violently
seditious character were followed by
a riot when bolsheviki sympathizers
in the crowd of 1000 persons openly
defied the police and attacked a po-
lice captain who stopped the meeting
and red flag parade.
Police reserves numbering 100, mill
tary police, soldiers and sailors were
joined by citizens in quelling the riot
in the business district Police clubs
were used freely, and soldiers and
sailors accorded rough treatment to
scores of alleged Industrial Workers
Of the World cheering for the "red
| flag" Thirteen arrests were made.
Last night Mayor Ole Hansen issued a
statement saying that "rioting and dis
order would be suppressed. Free
speech does not mean preaching the
country's destruction by force"
| Speakers at the mass meeting urged
a general strike to tie up all indus
tries engaged in the manufacture of
supplies for the American army and
its allies in Siberia. a.
Call for yesterdays meeting was
made by means of handbills, one of
which was signed by the International
Workers Defense league. Hulet M.
Wells, socialist of Seattle, under sem
tence for obstructing the army draft
was billed as the chief speaker, but
was sick. Walker G. Smith, author of
/. w. w. literature, took his place.
Twenty police officers heard the
start of the meeting, held at Fourth
avenue and Virginia street. Notified
by a police sergeant of the anti-Amer-
lean utterances of the speakers, Po
lice Captain w. H. Soaring went to
the lot and announced that the. meet |
ing was at an end. The man speaking
at the time, whose name had not been
learned, said We'll be bolsheviki
now" according to the police, and
summoned the crowd to follow him.
Many of the crowd broke into l. W.
w. songs and started a parade down |
Fourth avenue. Captain Soaring |
caught up with the head of the pa
rade and ordered M. H. Stumpf, it's
alleged leader, to stop it. Stumpf con-
tinued to wave his arms to the crowd I
and when placed under arrest struck
Soaring in the face, said the officer.
A half dozen sympathizers tried to
attack the captain who was rescued
by police officers.
In the meantime huge crowd
gathered and from here and there
came cries and cheers for the red
lag" Soldiers, marines and citizens
1ealt roughly with persons suspected
If joining in the cries, and man said
hnn dor, ~ tlo A,,oo, Mi Flo C
vas quickly the center of hundreds of 4
persons trying to maui him. Three
men were considerably bruised in the
light that followed before the man
vas arrested. Police reserves, SOL
Iiers and sailors by this time were on
he scene In great numbers and I
leared the streets of every person t
Who failed to move on" by order
S. w. Brooks of Seattle, chairman ,
f the mass meeting, is Under order :
t deportation by the federal authori- !.
les on charge of having advocatedJ
nlawful destruction of property. In
Is speech he advocated social rev. 7
luton" Smith, reciting |. W. w. his :,
Dry in the northwest, referred to the u
avail intelligence staff at this port, =
ccording to the police, as "a bunch Of
cab herders." He concluded by say
lg: Our system of government must =
lange. 1 would that it could change .
ithOut bloodshed, but if not, the less
oodshed the better. Hail to the boil y
leviki.' Hail to the revolution
One handful circulated called upon -
,ldiers and sailors ito put down in 8
lstrial autrOcracy in America" and =,
lelp make the United States safe for 81
ON Mooney and Billings" 1t added rs,
We demand $500 for every 6is- -,
larged soldier and sailor" IN,
Berger Incendiary Meeting. w
MILWAUKEE, Wis - Victor L. ar
srger, congressman elect, and others g
no recently were convicted in federal a
urt, Chicago, on charges of conspir- pr
y and violation of the espionage law, ag
dressed several gatherings last
ght at the auditorium and other
lis to express what Mayor D. w. I
IAN, chairman, called indignation
ainst the administration in setting
lde the fundamental purposes of the
institution guaranteeing human
hts
3ergers address in the main was a
otest against what he termed cap 81
lism." AS to the congressional seat, 9
said he did not think the congress y
uld be stupid enough to keep him W ~
on account of his socialistic prin-
les. ba
resolutions were adopted branding =
espionage act and what the reso- IL IL
IONS called "the policy of persecu- r
/ OF our national administration as ca
amy and despotism of the worst 20
9 ever known and attempted in any ca
liked country" gu
Their resolutions pledge "our- mon Al
time and, if necessary, our lives. th,
their cause, our cause and the Hs
az of human 1ihertxn and "tbat fro
struooIo will no+ az mil +ho io;, Ian
rs entombing them shall swing r.
n and the cause of free speech and eve
press and of political and indus Mo
| freedom shall be won" bel