Evening journal., 1919-11-08

captured by government agents In
raids throughout The country, are In
Iial today, suspected OF p,Otting.
through the union OF Russian workers.
& overthrow the government and plunge
I The national into anarchy.
With the alleged red rebels the Fed
cral detectives seized stores Of arms
and ammunition. red flags. machinery
I for making paper money for the pro
iected reign Of disorder and other para
phernalia Of revolution.
Many Of the anarchist leaders are
/ still at large and are being hunted
down. Raids are 90 last several days
Government forces expect they may yet
come 20 grips with organized resistance
by the revolutionisls.
All those now In custody are aliens
and deportation proceedings Will be
begun against them
The uprising. which Is said 20 have
/ been planned 90 start with general dem
onstrations today, apparently was
averled through a sericA of raids by
| Department Of Justice operatives in
nearly a score Of cities last night and
early today, in which close 10 GOO men
and women We're arrested
The revolutionary movement, accord
ing 90 officials. was directly in charge
Of .bc union of Russian workers. de-
cHred 20 be more radical than the
Bolshevili." Organized In Pctr0grad,
/ it was said 20 have 1000 members In
this county who were ready TO estab-
lsh their own form ~ government as
soon as the United states government
had been destroyed.
According 90 government officials,
quantities OF arms gathered in prepara-
ton FOR the revolution were seized In
the raids.
70 was regarded as significant that
most OF the prisonc were Russians.
The due books Of the members con
taned the following preamble or the
organization. which reveals the pur-
pose of the union of Russian workers:
d" The present society Is divided into
two opposing classes-the downtrOdden
workers and peasants on one side, pro
ducing by their work an the riches OF
the world. and on the Other side the
rich people. who have grabbed all the
riches into their hands.
Many a time the class OF the op-
pressed stood up against the rich para
sites and their faithful servant and pro-
iecior. the government, 20 conqueror
IFS run liberation ON the yoke or
capitalism and political power. but
every time it suffered defeat. not being
fully conscious OF IFS final goal ana
means by which victory can be accom-
plishcd.
The struggle between these two
classes is being fought also at tho
uresent time and viii end only when
Inc toiling masses organized as class
,yu understand their true interests and
will make themselves masters Of all
the riches OF this world by means OF q
violent social revolution.
".Having accomplished such a change
and having annihilated at the same
time an the institutions OF government
and state. tho class Of the dlsowned
must establish the society OF free pro
ducers aiming at satisfying the needs
of every individual person who on us
side is giving 90 the society It's labor
and is knowledge.
For the attainment OF there aims,
we consider as Of final importance the
necessity Of building up a wide revo-
lufionarv organization OF tOilers whlcn
by conducting a direct struggle WIN
Ian the Institutions Of capitalism ana
government must train the working
class 20 Initiative. and an INDEPENDENT
action i'm an its acts thus educating the
consciousness Of the absolute necessity
of a general strike, OF the social reVo-
luton.
The Russian union has sixty locals .
with a total OF 1000 active members al |
nledeed TO overthrow the government, |
officials said.
The last convention Of the organi- !
z1tion was held On New York, January I
10 at which time plans were made 20 /
organize hundreds more locals ana eA-
TEND the membership.
PROPAGANDA work was being carried /
ON in every part Of the United States /
through newspapers and paid agiiators I
secording % The Justice Department. /
srning the methods Of organization |
fine Justice department statement sald
THE Union of Russian workers De
Iieves in mass action, including arlleu
action i'm time Of great national strile'
It's principles do not favor the bolsle-' .
vik form of government, but the mem-
hers OF the organization are willing 10 /
accent the support OF any radicals or
croup of men as an eXpedicnt for FUR
iherinr their OWN ends. And while not
supporting the Bolsheyik movement IN
this country openly they are secretly
10 in order that they may
achieve through it their own ends.
"U is am anarchislic organization That
does not believe in any form OF or
ganized government and teaches the
overthrow Of the government by force.
Conventions are held about once a
wear. Sub-conventions or regional con-
as the union calls them. are
called from time TO time and are at
tended bv delegates from branches
under a given territory. The purpose
OF these conventions Is 10 devise means
OF mriherlng the propaganda OF the
agents Of the Department OF Justice
and the Bureau Of immigration mas
been collecting cvidenc' iu these mar
iIcular cases for many months. All the
principals are aliens and the evidence
collected will be presented 20 the Com
missioner Of immigration and their de-
portation asked.
Among the books seized in the raids
we're: "The Future Society by John
GRAY. issued by the Union OF Russian
Of Newark ana described as
dealing purely with anarchistic doc
.rines"
"Thc Program Of the Anarchist Com &