Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08

ried on through the medium of more
than fifty newspapers published In
different parts of the United States
Copies of these papers, circulated
among workers in industrial estab-
]ishments from Maine to California,
and from Michigan to Texas, have
been collected and sent to the Wash
ington headquarters of the National
Association OF Manufacturers.
All of these publications, openly ad-
vocating overthrow of the govern
ment and substituting for 1t a reign
of no law, are carried in the United
States mails and bear the legend en-
tered as second-class matter at the
post office" of the city in which the
various sheets are published.
Besides the newspapers, most of
them weekly. though a few l. w. w.
dailies are published in the northwest.
are a score or more of periodicals of
the ma gazine type. These are more
ably edited and written and their ex-
position of bolShevist doctrine Is
couched in more scholarly language.
but the basic ideas are the same.
Maintain Schools of Anarchy.
Schools are maintained in many
parts of the country for instruction
in bolshevism, anarchy and /. w. w.
principles. all of which are substan-
TALLY the same. In several western
cities. according to various newspa-
pers and pamphlets. such schools are
even maintained for children, and par
ents are urged to see that their boys
and girls are given every opportunity
to attend these schools and become
educated in class consciousness" and
the tenets of the new freedom"
Lecturers of the so-called "intellec-
tuar type are available in every sec
ton of the country to address public
meetings. to speak at gatherings in
the homes of what, for want Of a
of bolshevism, and in other ways to
spread bolshevistic propaganda. These
statements are borne out by edi-
torials. advertisements and reports
pu blished in the bolshevist-I W. w
papers and announced on handbills.
dodgers, etc, circulated among work
ers in factories, stores, mills, on
farms and elsewhere.
No Meetings Since Last Outrage.
In this connection 1t may be stated
that ofdcials of the government now
engaged in a nationwide hunt for
reds. as we'll as police in all of the
larger cities of the east. report that
since last Monday nights bomb ex-
plosions in eight cities not a single
public meeting of bolsheviki or l. W.
VS. has been held and that not a
single gathering of the "parlor boil
shevikr or ''parlor anarchists" has
been reported.
Occasionally one If fheso onorob;s%
becomes too bold in its
denunciations of the agencies society
mas created for it's own protection
and is suppressed. Usually 1t hap
pens shortly thereafter that the paper.
under another title, resumes publica-
ton and again circulates through the
mails.
to Law They Have Reviled
Officials of the governments secret
services and of the Post Office Depart
ment say that invariably. as soon as
the activities of these organs of an
archy are questioned and efforts are
made for their suppression or for re.
fusal to them of the use of the mails,
their publishers at once fall back on
the law they have denounced, and ap-
peal to the courts they have reviled
for protection.
very
avs they daily violate" said an ofi-
cial Of the Department Of Justice,
and without the safeguards of the
very courts upon which they heap
svery vitriolic term Of oblouuy of
which their brains and pens are
capable. these publications could not
exist for a month and these speak
ers would not dare to harangue street
corner crowds a week"
L W. W. on q. s. Mediation Board.
Showing the 'Tnfiltration" of MEM
Ders Of the I. w. W. high in the coun-
cals Of the American bolsheviki into
governmental activities IL the asser-
ton, Of which complete confirmation
has been made, that an active I. w.
W. was for six months Of last year
mediator on the United States board
of mediation and Cancellation.
This man, 1t Is stated. is under fed
eral Indictment for completely In the
dynamiting of the Llewellyn Iron
works and the Los Angeles Times
building. For a considerable period he
eoured the country making speeches
IA behalf OF Thomas j. Mooney, con-
11cted Of the San Francisco Prepared
ness day bomb explosion. and collect
Itn asa, money for the Mooney defense
While attending the trial Of William
D. Haywood. head Of the /. W. W.. as
, representative of that organization,
his man, 1t IL stated, was given an
as a mediator Of labor
troubles on the board of mediation
md Cancellation. serving in that ca
pacity from July to December of last
pear.
Say Investigator" Got $500.
According to documents contained
IN the material in possession Of the
local headquarters of the National
Association Of Manufacturer another
investigation" on the board received
from Alexander Berkman, Anarchist
leader, payment of $500, while he
was serving ostensibly al an IN
for the board. into circum-
stances surrounding the arrest, trial
and conviction Of Mooney.
II also has been found that he was
employed for a short time as a writer
ier the Committee on Public informs.
ton and was assigned to cover the
Department Of Labor
Secretary Wilson Not a Partv
Oficials and members of the No
ttonal Association of Manufacture.
declare that they do not believe for a
moment that Secretary Wilson of the
Department Of Labor has ever been in
my way a party to these activities OF
employees Of his department.
Secretary Wilson's rugged Scotch
makes 1t certain that he
never has had any connection with
these activities of members of what
may be called his official family" de-
clared an official of the association
I. w. w. influence extending into
other departments and activities of the
before, during and since
the close of the war is the subject of
other documents, reports. pamphlets.
etc, contained in the mass of material.
of the working methods