New-York tribune., 1919-11-08
Fifty, Including Two
Women, Held Here,
Thirty in Philadelphia,
Thirty-six in Newark
Aimed at Plot for
Revolution i'm L. S.
l. ". W. in Campaign to
Organize German Work.
ers Here, Police Find

The Federal governments long pre-
dicted roundup of radical aliens began
last night. In cities east of the Mis-
sissippi Department of Justice agents
launched raids on red" headquarters,
gathering in hundreds of men and
women, presumably for deportation.
One hundred and fortytwo mon ond
eight women were arrested here at ne
Russian Peoples House. 1873 East Ff-
teenth Street. Of these. forty light
men and two women were later locked
Up IN Police Headquarters charged with
being "alien criminal anarchists"
Quantities Of pamphlets and placards
and several bags of letters ready for
mailing were confiscated. The women
prisoners said they were Ethel Bern
stein and Dora Lipkin, alias Perkins.
The raids are said to have been
aimed at plot for red revolution,
which had been Matching for weeks.
Department of Justice men we're cogni-
2ant OF every move of the radicals.
Similar raids were reported early
this morning in Chicago, Detroit, Phila-
delphia, St. Louis, Jackson, Mich,
Waterbury, New Haven. Hartford, New
Britain and Ansonia. Conn. and New
srk, N ]. The total OF prisoners
aggregates nearly 1000
Special significance is attached to
the fact that these raids came on the
eve of the second anniversary of the
foundation of the Soviet Republic in
Russia.
Radicals Spread Propaganda
Radicals here are known 70 have
been spreading propaganda for weeks
past, calling upon the workers of the
nation to declare a general strike to-
day.
According to agents who took part
IN the invasion Of the Peoples House,
last nights expedition was inspired
directly by immigration Commissioner
Anthony A. Camminett, who armed
The raiders with fifty deportation war
rants. naming many of those who have
been most active in radical movements
in New York
Many of these. the agents said, have
been calling upon the workers TO rise
and declare general strike to-day in
honor of the Red" Republic Of Russia
Their activities were divulged to the
Department of Justice by an operative
who has been working inside the I.
". ". and kindred organizations here.
Among those locked up at Headquart
ers were Hyman Lackowsky, said by
the police 10 have been sentenced to
twenty years in Jail for violation of
peal; Alexander Scernoff, said to have
been arrested in Waterbury, Conn. and
now out on bail; Marcus Orodofsky,
Boris and Harry Schatz, Naum Ste
paniki, Arthur kietzes. alias Feinstein,
and Peter Pianci. Many of those ar
rested have records, the police say.
Headquarters Cells Overflow
All of the prisoners could not be
kept at Headquarters overnight There
are only twenty-three cells there, and
many were taken to nearby stations TO
sleep.
Although this Is the third time their
building has been invaded by the police
in the last three months the men and
women in the Russian Peoples House
last night showed no signs of becoming
accustomed to raids. Several fights
started when the police and agents en-
tered the place, and numerous radicals
nursed bruises and scalp wounds when
they were finally bundled into the four
patrol wagons that waited before the
door.
through the building, searching all
found on the first two floors of the
structure which are used as club
rooms, and after those found there had
pSeN started downstairs to the patrol
"agons, proceeding to the third floor,
"Nere night school classes were in ses-
SION. These We're broken up and
'r4cners and students informed that
'"eI were under arrest
Literature Is Taken Also
besides 100 prisoners, the expedition
eaptured several hundredweight of
pamphlets, letters and placards in
@"4llsh and Russian, which will be ex-
amiued later
AT the entrance Of the police several
"ho were lounging in the club rooms
As'empted 10 leave the building bv way
e1 the windows. The police declare.
however, that none escaped.
4he prisoners were taken to the Of
rce OF Chief of the Secret Service
William J. Flynn on the fourteenth
moor of the Park Row Building and
mere questioned. 1t took only a short
time to sort out the sheep from the
goats, and hundred of the prisoners
we're soon free, although not until
each OF them had been fingerprinted
and photographed. " - .
Inc nifty detained were packed into
army motor trucks and rushed TO po
,lce Headquarters, where they were
Locked up for the night 1t is under
stood that these are the persons for
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