The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-08
WAR IS DECLARED
ON RUSSIANS WHO
ARE BEHIND Plan
Present Chief Police of PetrO-
grad Organized Move.
Most Dastardly Scheme Ever
Unearthed in Country.
MORE ARRESTS MADE TODAY
No Letup to Tightening Of Net
Around the Traitors.
Find Guns, Ammunition and
Literature for a Revolution.
No Letup to Tightening OF Net
Around the Traitors.
Find Guns, Ammunition and
Literature for a Revolution.
MOBILIZE POLICE IN new YORK
Eight Hundred Ready for Fight
at Rutgers Square.
Reds Had Planned To skill as
Many as Possible"

A nationwide revolutionary
plot in the United States, alleged
to have been fostered in Russia,
has been frustrated by federal
agents, it was announced in
Washington today.
The uprising, which is said to
have been planned to start with
general demonstrations today,
apparently was averted thru a
series of raids by department of
justice operatives in nearly a
score of cities last night and
early today, in which close to 600
men and women were arrested.
The revolutionary movement,
according to government Of
ficials, was directly in charge of
the Union of Russian Workers,
declared to be more radical than
the Bolsheviki." Organized in
Petrograd, it was said to have
1000 members in this country,
who were ready to establish
their own form of government as
soon as the United States gov
errment had been destroyed.
According to government Of
ficials, quantities of arms, gath
cred in preparation for the revo<
luton, were seized in the raids.
1t was regarded as significant
that most of the prisoners were
Russians.
Mobilize in New York.
New York. Nov Slight hundred
police were modified shortly after
= noon today at Rutgers square. which
was to have been the starting point
this afternoon of a Russian Red
day. according to information I'M
earthed by secret service operatives.
The demonstration, which is believed
to have been planned as part of the
nation wide radical program uncov-
cred last night, was to have resulted
in a general attack on the police, ac-
cording to this information.
Lots had been drawn by REDS to
select committees to murder certain
officials it was stated. and as many
police as possible We're to be killed.
regardless of the number of Reds
who would fail.
Thousands of persons gathered
around the square today following the
arrival of the police Officials be-
Ieved. however, that many were
drawn there thru curiosity. With the
police on duty they believed there
would be no outbreak.
In Shadow of Capitol.
Washington, Nov S.-Activities of
the Union OF Russian Workers have
been conducted in the nations capital.
This became known today when 1t
leaked out that agents of the depart
ment of justice had made nine arrests
last night in connection with the ma
tion-wide raid against the leaders of
this union. It is understood that five
of the prisoners were released after
proving their citizenship.
. In Many Cities
Last NIGHTS raids included only the
leaders of the organization in the fol-
lowing cities: New York, Chica go.
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Newark.
Cleveland. Detroit. Buffalo, Akron.
Youngstown, Ohio Baltimore. Eliza
beth. n. J.. and Hartford, Waterbury.
Ansonia, Bridgeport. New Haven. and
Seymour, Conn. OF the activities of
members of the union of Russia
workers Mr.. Palmer's statement said:
The union of Russian workers is
even more radical than the Bolsheviki
It was organized in New York in 1907