The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-15
EARLY TRIAL R|.!|.A!| FOR
TEN u W. MEN
Charged Conspiring to
Murdek Srmer Service
Men ng Parade at
ntralia.
SUSPEND UNION PAPER
Seattle Record Not Allowed to be Pub
Iished Until After Trial of Its
Editor, e. B.
Aut.
SUSPEND UNION PAPER

OLA L WdSull., 1NON. To-
Charged with conspiring to murder
former service men, ten alleged 1. W..
W., In the Centralia district jails will
be brought to an early trial,
The charges were formally made
upon the coroners inquest at Cen
can Legion members killed during
the parade Tuesday.
DR.. Frank Bickford's testimony to
the effect that the soldiers in the
parade attacked the I. w. w. hall
before shots we're fired from the hall,
was commented on today by c. D..
Cunningham, assistant county attor-
ney. DIR. Bickford was one of the
marchers.
Cunningham said he had many
witnesses who would insist the sol
diers were fired upon before they ad-
vanced against the hail. DR.. Bick-
ford, he said, must have failed to hear
the first shots.
! From Spokane came the report
/ that national guardsmen were held
under a1ns throughout the night and
/, that many members of the American
Legion were sworn in as special Off
! GERS because concerted attack Of
/ reds" was feared.
| Spokane has for years been one of
the chief centers of the l. W. W., in
America. A series of raids on I. w.
| w. rooms has been conducted in the
past two days.
Another report said I. w. w. were
concentrating at Cumberland, an iso-
lated mining town.
United States District Attorney
Saunders has announced the Seattle
Union Record will be suspended un-
til after the trial of E. b. Ault, it's
editor, and George p Listman and
Frank A. Rust, members of the
papers board of directors, who are
charged with violating a section Of
the espionage law.
The three are charged with pub.
fishing matter tending 70 "fncite, pro-
woke and encourage" resistance to
the United States government. Ault
is charged with criminally libeling
the four American Legion men killed
in Centralia.
The Union Record, official paper Of
Seattle union labor, was raided al
second time late yesterday by deputy
marshals on a warrant issued the
day previous.
Federal officials announced they
had reconsidered the situation" and
had concluded to close the entire
plant They had previously an
nounced the Union Record would be
allowed to publish under careful
watch of the authorities.
The strength of the radical element
at Portland was shown when d. e.
Nickerson, radical, defeated c. H.
Copeland, conservative, for the presi-
dency of the Portland labor council,
Nickerson won out by majority of
one vote.
Spokane Isl Armed Camp.
SPOKANE, Washn., Nov. 15.-Spo.
kane spent a feverish night last night
and today found herself an armed
camp with national guardsmen wait
ing grimly at the arInory for the ad-
vance order on the l. w. w.
Reports last night that an invasion
Of Spokane was about to be attempted
resulted in Spokane's two guard COM
panies being mobilized They were
held in readiness at the armory all
might.
The l. w W. were rumored to be ad-
vancing on the four main railroads
leading into the city, hundreds com
ing from the Butte mines and other
hundreds dropping their tools in the
timber belt.
Whether they heard of the recep-
tion that awaited them and turned
back, or whether the report was with
out foundation, was a question early
today
Mobilization of the national guard
last night came as a climax to events
of the late afternoon, when American
Legion headquarters received let
ter signed by Fred Rushman, man
aging secretary of the |. w. W."
The letter threatened nine leaders
of the Spokane post with massacre
unless they desisted in their attacks
upon the syndicalists.
The legion promptly answered this
letter by having 100 members of it's
forces sworn in as special police.
Armed with army reyolvers brought