Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-11
POSTAL SOLICITOR
. UNEARTHS SCHEME
OF BLOODY REVOLT
Mail Matter Seized Reveals
Propaganda to Establish
Bolshevist Rule.
LAMAR NAMES FULL LIST
OF !. w. w. NEWSPAPERS
Evidence of Revolutionary Plan:
in United States Given Sen
ate Committee.
RADICAL GROUPS JOIN HANDS
Anarchists and Socialists Support.
ing Move to Organize Regime
Similar to Russian Form.
RADICAL GROUPS JOIN HANDS
Anarchists and Socialists Support.
ing Move to Organize Regime
Similar to Russian Form.
GBy Associated Press. /,

I BY Associated Frcss.l
WASHINGTON, March l0.-Amil mat
ter seized since tho signing of ths
armisticc has disclosed that Industrial
Workers OF the World, anarchists. rad.
ical Socialists and others arc perfect.
inG an amalgamation." which has fol
its object the overthrow OF the Amer.
lean government through ''bloodJ
revolution" and the establishment OF
4 Bolshevist republic, according to-
memorandum sent to the Senate pro.
paganda committee by Solicitor Lamar,
or the Post-Office Department.
The memorandum was made public
by the committee, and Chairman Over.
man said 1t would be read into the
record tomorrow
Declaring that in Bolshevsm the
radical elements of the country had for
the hrst time found common cause
upon which they can unite" Mr. La
mar said his information showed pro-
paganda against the governments WAS
and It's magnitude could be m easiIst st.l
by the bold and outspoken9 state.
ments" found in tho literature. Ac-
companying his memorandum were soy
eral hundred excerpts from mail mat
ter. showing the trend of the propu-
ganda. These will be made public
later. 70
!. w. W. FIELD WORKERS
CALLED CHIEF PROMOTERS
Particular reference was made by
the solicitor to the activity of the dis
satisfied foreign element i'm the coun-
try, but he said. perhaps. the Industrial
workers or the World was the most ac-
tive in the dissemination of the pro-
paganda, because il has at its COM
mand a large field force, known as re-
cruiting, agents, subscription agents.
etc, who work INCREASINGLY in the
furtherance or the cause"
Mr Lamar's memora ndum TO which
was attached list of ne .spapers
printed in English and foreign Ian
Quoted and published by the Industrial
Workers of the World. said, in part:
This propaganda is being conducted
win such regularity. that its magni-
outspoken statements contained in
these publications and the efforts made
therein to inaugurate a nation-w wide
reign of terror and overthrow the gov
crnment. N
I'm classifying these statements, they
are submitted In a major or general
class as follows: Industrial Workers
OF the World, anarchists, radical So
ciaiistic and Socialist. 1t will be seen,
from these excerpts, and it is, indeed.
significant. that this is the first time in
the history of the so-called radical
movement in the United States thas
these radical elements have found =
common cause (Bolshevism), in which
they can all unite.
PLAN BLOODY REVOLUTION
1O OVERTHROW NATION
World. anarchists, Socialists. radical
and otherwise. in fact. all dissa tisffcd
clements. particularly the foreign ele-
nent, are perfecting an amalgn nation
in view; namely, the overthrow of the
government of the United States BY the
means OF bloody revolution and the
establishment of the Bolshevist repub-
lie.
The Industrial Workers OF the
world is perhaps. most actively en-
gagged in spreading this propa ganda.
and has at its command large field
scriptIon agents, etc, who work un-
ceasingly in the furtherancc of tho
cause
This organization publishes at least
five newspapers in the English lam
guase and nine in foreign languages.
as shown in the list sivei. below. This
list comprises only official papers OF
the organization. and does not take
INTO account the large number of free
lance papers published In the interest
of the above organization"
NEWSPAPERS PRINTED
TO ADVANCE GAUSS;
The newspapers listed were: the New
Solidarity. English weekly, Chicago;
One Big Union. English, monthly. Chi
cago; Industrial Unionst, English.
weekly. Seattle: California Defense Bull
ietin. English. weekly; San Francisco:
Rebel Worker. Enilish. bimonthly. New
York: La Neuva Solidaridad Spanish,
weekly. Chicago; Golos Truzent=i Rus
sian. weekly, Chicago: Ii Nuovo Pro-
latario. Italian, weekly, Chicago: Nya
Narldon. Swedish. weekly Chicago;
Der lndustrialer Arbiter, Jewish week.
ly, Chicago: Probuda. Bulgarian. week
~, Chicago: a. Feis Badulas. Hum
garian. weekly. Chicago.
The informa,ion furnished by Mr.
Raymond Robins, former head or tha
american Red Cross mission In Rus
sla. when he again appeared befnrs
the committee. primarily to anSwss.
statements concerning him made Salur.
day by David e Francis, n Americas
ambassador TO Russia.
Mr.. Robins insisted ii was the de-
sire OF the Bolshevssts 10 overthrow
all the governments OF the world ard
in their place set UP terroristic gov
ernments similar to those In Rnssia.
WORK IN PROGRESS e
~ FOR TWENTY YEARS
tIc said he did net know of HIS own
knowledge that Boishevlsts from Ruy.
sta actually were cnBn ged In trying
to accomplish this butposc IN t,A
United States. but he was convinced
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