Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-13
KILLING OF TROOPS
RESULTS IN RAIDS
ANDMANY ARRESTS
Guardsmen Patrol Streets of
Centralia Following Shoot
ing of Soldiers.
FOUR WORLD WAR VETERANS
DEAD; FIFTH NEAR DEATH
Records Are Seized in Tacoma,
Seattle and Other North
west Cities.
YOUTH TELLS OF PLOTTING
Representative Albert Johnson
Launches Attack Against I. W. W.
on Floor OF Congress.
FOUR WORLD WAR VETERANS
DEAD; FIFTH NEAR DEATH
YOUTH TELLS OF PLOTTING
Representative Albert johnson
Launches Attack Against I. W. W.
on Floor OF Congress.
fRy As.ocIstet rrean ]

to the death is now on against the
indusirial Hahar, q, sIa Workers OF fhe W9rld,
i!ict Attorney, declared here today.
No further evidence than the Central.a
nurd.rs isl needed. he asserted. -
prosccui all l. ~. w. TO the extent of
lhs law
seattle police today raided l. w. w.
headquarters here, arrested three mca
cities Of westsrn Washington joined
of the ImdEsirlal Workers OF the World
l9w'ns The hr!ns ON an Armisttce .ass
rormcr American soldiers are dead ami
e. MN is renor'ed dying & as a result W
": has been iynched.
Former service men tonight entered
a pool room in Centralia. lined about
searched them. sixteen who We're said
10 have carried Industrial Workers Of
the World membership cards were ar
Gunrdsmcn Patrol Streets.
twenty-five men and one woman
reported TO have radical beliefs, were
placed in jail here and later four Of
were removed 10 the Lewis County
jain at Chehal's by, National Guards
Raids we're conductea in seattle. Ta-
coma and Aberdeen on the ]. w. w
headquarters. In Seattle, eleven men
the police. were taken 10 police mead ,
quarters. The Tacoma police seized
indus,riaI indus, :o workSrs tiS ana and seized a
quantity OF radical literature Al
aberdeen larEy quantities OF literature
and the records Of the Aberdeen ioca!
OF the organization We're taHcn.
Prosecuting Attorney HeTman Allen
annoHneed -; i.ahD. RI s!N'sen IN ye"r II az W
confessed TO be!onEine 10 The organ,
zation, The boy. Aitvn deel.red, sad
who also was arrested. taxing oi
plot to start trouble mere yesterday.
The father aceo." .G 20 ALen, con
had iour former service inon marhei
for death because OF their acsl'iiigfs
z-ns TO nd the ETY. OF the /. w. W.
W. ". Expected Trouble.
The J. w w. expected trouble here
yesterday and they WsFe prsp'is.d i9r
t Alsn lns, saia: aver wihout M trSubps ng Fap ap
ncarimg they decided TO start II tAem-
selves"
in u the pas:' Sar as -, a espia.n, Vas on oi
the four marked by the l. w. w. loi
death. according 10 l1aupe afas'a 49,
here. lie announced the inquest VIII
he held tomorrow over the pooics OF
the four former seryiee niIh men r.nort.d
10 Nave h % Been an i. W. ~. secretary,
was found in the Chehals RiEegd, In, Inc
night was cut early today and the
p"dy fell into the river.
Centralia was quiet today and Juage
George Dysart said citizens had prom
is.d TO let the law take it's course
Last night 1 talked 80 them AM AM
promised mat every l: WI ;i,,c| m ala ,usi
trial." said Judge Dysart. Tne 1oImer
service men PROMISED 10 ana o"'c'i'S
'alHt Henry M 5. White United States I'm;
migration Commissioner, was reported
en- route 10 Centraiia TO inVsS'lsa.e INC
records OF all alien |. w. w. and en-,
deavor TO deport them if they are held
in connection with the shooting.
Lynched Man Had Record.
Brick" Smith. who was iynched.
was reported by :, oiiicials TO nave a
The war, 1t was said Smith caused
trouble in Western lumber camps and
a lumber company wrote TO a patriotic
organization that Smith was a menace
and asked that he be arrested.
Smith was arrested at Cedar rails,
Z July, 1917, when he and other alieged
IL w. W.'s dencd freight train crew
at il time farmers complained or sa-
bUthgc being practiced IN the gram
fields and fruit orchards
You fellows can't hang me, smith
said when overpowered. II was sent
TO do my duty and did it,"
Smith was tossed from bridge over
tied about his neck. and a volley or
bullets was sent into his body. The
lynchlng party worked silently ana
in darkness while taking him from the
Jail. At 1880 o'clock all the city's cleo
trio lights were cut off and eight men
easily oyercame the one man on guard
inside the Jail. Smith was placed In
one OF six darkened automobiles and
rushed to the bridge.
Refuse to Care for DOdy.
Two undertakerS refused to handle
Smiths body, and what disposal OF it
would be made was unknown
Clashes between the ]. W. w and
Centralia citizens have occurred at In
tervals during the past two years. The
first trouble occurred when a radical
spoke against Red Cross bazaar
At that time crowd removed all the
furniture from the I. w. w. hall and
burned 1t in the street
Mayor {. X. Fitzgerald of Seattle
late today, issued statement warning
all radicals TO leave Seattle off thcir
future Itineraries" The statement was
made after two raids had been made
by the Seattle police.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHNSON
ATTACKS l. w w CAyc
Bv Universal Service 7
WASHINGTON. Nov. i2Wrbo ,tt.o,,
by l; w. WIS on the Armistice 6aW
paraders at CentralIa. Wash. resultins
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