Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-10-21
Editor OF Gary Post Declares
Few Items Relative To Big
Steel Strike Censored BY
Military Authorities.
Methods OF Regular Army In
Dealing With Reds Among
Strikers Is Described In De-
tail By Snyder.
BY Henry Burgess Snyder
editor of the Gary, Ind. Evening
Postl

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| written for the United Press.)
Gary, Ind, Oct. 21.-There has pce2
very little actual suppression Of news
during military control at Gary. The
newspapers were ordered at first to
publish no news Of raids on radicals,
but later the military decided that mill
! itary control rather than martial law
was in effect and the order was
changed to request With one or
two exceptions, the request has been
complied with.
| The desire for secrecy in the army's
dealings with radicals is based on the
fact that new leads to further raids
were being unearthed. If the facts of
the raids are made public, the military
fear that some of their quarry would
seek other fields,
And the army is not interested in
chasing reds out of Gary, 1t wants to
who is actually In charge of the Gary
situation, has very strong feelings re-
garding the treatment that should be
meted out to radicals who are trying
to undermine the government.
There can be no question that the
situation demanded attention. This is
a free country but we shall have to get,
over the impression that 1t is free for
every agitated foreigner to tear down.
y do not see how we can do without
the army in crisis such as this. There
is no other agency to step in and bring
order out of a threatened chaos. Spe-
cial police will not neither will the
militia Both were tried out in Gary
and labor was very antagonistic to
BOTH When the regulars rolled in by
motor truck they were received with
cheers by the strikers. Many of the
strikers had been in the army and
they felt they would get square deal.
Whether this feeling will continue.
only the course of the strike will tell.
Even now some of the more radical la
Dor leaders are charging General
Wood is playing politics.
But this charge on the part of radi-
calls is easily understood. The army
has followed every radical lead and |
has raided dozens of houses and meet
ing places. "Rout out the reds" Is the
slogan and a force Of intelligence Of
flee men are on the job day and night. |
Each night dozens of suspects are
brought in for examination. They are
all men of alien birth. 1t is no un-
common occurrence for them to hand
cut union card with one hand and
an I. W w. membership card with an
other. idany of them are so ignorant
they Go not know the gulf between
tho !. W. w. and the A. F. of l..
That Is the problem of Gary today
as 1t Is the problem of other industrial
centers. And 1t is problem that can
oply be solved by the army as the sit
uation now stands. Conservative lead
ers know this.
The Central Labor Union News, or
gan of organized labor, in Gary said |
recently:
THE army authorities CAME to Gary
at opportune tins This has been the |
fairest and best imaginable. The ira
ditions of the army have been built |
upon methods of absolute justice to |
al land are being carried out here in !
such a way that no one can complain |
Men who have been heckIed in the
past for imagined disloyalty and have |
had IA opportunity to be heard, have |
been cleared and permitted to go their |
way.
No rough house methods are used |
and no brutality Of any kind used. If |
you are innocent you have nothing to
fear, but If you are guilty you will be
found out. In fact it is Justice as It |
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