Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-12
ANARCHY INQUIRY
STARTED BY NAVY
Intelligence Service Sends
Experts to Many Large
Cities Of Country.

Attorney General Palmer today
asksd Cengres1 for q special half-
niyiien-Aellar .ppropriation to
CARRY ON the hunt for anarehists,
b5ab thrswers and enemies Of law
ind order.
Investigation Of bolsheyik-I. w. w.
anarchist activities and propaganda IN
IA score or more large cities of the
east, south and middle west. under
direction Of the naval intelligence
service, IL in proEEess. it became
known today.
The, inquiry set on foot, Saturday
~ Monday. It 10 sl1ts t1$3tA.
lively. u occupying the entirs atten-
ton Of at least 100 inyeitigators
These men. 1t was learned. are work
ing in -Philadelphia, New York, Bos-
ton, Newark, N. J.; Paterson. n. J.:
Pittsburgh and other. .Pennsylvania
cities, manufacturing centers An New
Buffalo, Cleveland, Akron, Chicago
apd other middle western points.
Agitation Among Negroes.
Propaganda and recruiting activi.
ties of the I. w. W, it was learned.
are occupying the attention Of the in
vestigators, who, 1t was also learned
later. are to conduct similar investi-
cations in several southern cities
where, it is declared, w. w. agita-
tors are busily working among ne
groes at industrial establishments and
wharves and on farms and planta-
lions.
Reports of 1. w. W. recruiting in
Savannah have been called to the
special attention of the Investigators,
these reports stating that /. w. w.
delegates" are working in such 3
way as to incite negro longshoremeD
on the wharves there and at Charles.
ton, as well as laborers in mills and
on plantations, to INSTRUMENTATION.
According to information gathered
by members Of the National Associa-
ton OF Manufacturers, these dele
gates" tell the negro 2aborers that the
I. w. w. is the only organization that
admits negro workers to full menu
bership on equality with white conn
rades." The negro laborers are re-
minded that they are excluded from
other organizations Of eworkingmen,
but are told that membership in the
the labor field, but political, social and
racial equality as WELL
That these reports are correct is
attested by statements published in
recent issues of the Rebel Worker,
the official I. w: w. publication. is
sued in New York. An editorial In a
recent issue of this paper states that
negro 1aborers in southern sections
can only hope for manhood, equal
ity," Industrial, political and social
through utilization with the l. w. w.
Negroes sLpt From Chicago,
Within the last two weeks several
negroes sent from, Chicago to or
ganize southern negro laborers have
charges of melting to riot, their
speeches to negro stevedores and
other audiences composed OF colored
laborers having been such as to war
GUS race troubles would result IL the
talks were permitted to be continued.
Two Of these organizers. the re-
PORTS state. were arrested last week
in Savannah, where they had been
telling negro stevedores that COM
would follow Immediately on .organf-
cation of the negro laborers by the
1. W. w.
Under the heading. South Calls for
Wobblies." and a Savannah date line.
a recent issue Of the I. W. W. paper
"There is big chance for Wobblies
here, as there Is no union (of steve
dores), most Of the workers being coll
order and therefore ignored by the A. F.
Of L. The colored workers are ready
to line up II somebody will come and
talk to them. There is great discomfort
among them, as the bosses are firing
them and taking them back at a lower
rate. The A, F. Of L. refuses to have
anything to do with them because they
are colored. Conditions In the south
have changed and there is more freedom
of speech here than there is In New
York.
1.-The workers all talk bolshevism and
hold meetings every night to support
the bolsheviki in Russia. So far the
police have not interfered."
Referring to the street car strike in
Savannah the article. signed card No.
204o7s," says some Of the striking car
men are working in the shipyards, where
they have refused to Join the shipyard
workers union. as cit is an A. F. OF
He'll organization. The article con-
cludes with an appeal for more /. Wv.
delegates to be sent to Savannah and
other southern cities.
Absorption Of Organizations.
Showing the absorption of local So