Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-13
DRIVE IS STARTED
IN NORTHWEST To
ARREST ALL WITH
. RADICAL BELIEFS
Seattle, Tacoma and Aberdeen
Begin Drive 10 Make the
Country Safe By Rounding
Up All Known Anarchists,
FOUR SERVICE MEN ARE
MURDERED BY !. w. w.
Secretary Of the CentraIia
Reds Union Is LynChed By
Mob; City Quiet Following
ArniStice Day Riots,

teS MORNING JOURNAL GPFcIAt LEASED wlRsl
Centralia, Wash, Nov IL (by the
Associated Pressl Cities of western
Washington joined Centralia today in
arresting members of the Industrial
Workers of the World and raiding
their headquarters following the fir
ing on Armistice day parade here yes
terday Four former American SOL
diers are dead and a fifth is reported
dying as a result OF the shooting.
Twenty-Five men and one woman,
reported to have radical be iefs, were
placed in jail here and later four of
the prisoners, including the woman.
We're removed to the Lewis county
jail at Chehalis by national guards
men, who patroHed Centralia today.
Raids were conducted in Seattle, Ia
coma and Aberdeen on the Industrial
Workers headquarters.
In Seattle eleven men and tons of
literature" according to the police,
were taken to police headquarters.
The Tacoma police arrested thirty
four alleged members of the I. w. w.
and seized quantity of radical liter
ature. At Aberdeen large quantities
of literature and the records of the
Aberdeen local of the organization
were taken
18-Year- Old Boy Confesses.
Prosecuting Attorney Herman AL
len announced Dewey Lamb. 16 years
old, who was arrested here as an l..
w, w. confessed to belonging to the
radical organization. The boy, Allen
declared, said he had heard his father
James Lamb, who was also arrested,
talking of plot to start trouble here
yesterday. The father, according to
Allen, confessed last night radicals
had four former service men marked
for death because of their activity in
a fight waged by Centralia citizens to
rid the city of the /, w. w.
"The I. w. w. expected trouble
here yesterday and they were pre-
pared for it,n Allen said. when the
parade was almost over without trou-
BILE appearing they decided to start 1t
themselves"
DIR. David Livingston, who served in
the war as a captain, one of the four
marked by the l. w. w. for death,
according to Lambs alleged confess
sion, is the coroner here He an
nounced the inquest will be held to-
morrow over the bodies of the four
former soldiers
The body of "Brick' Smith. re-
norted to have been an l. w. w. sec
retary. was found in the Chehalis
river. The rope by which he was
lynched last night was cut early to-
day and the body fell into the river.
Centralia was quiet today and
Judge George Dysart said citizens had
promised to let the law take its
course.
Quick and just Trial.
Last night l talked to them and
promised that every l. W. w. arrested
here would be given a quick and Just
trial" said Judge Dysart, The for
mer soldiers promised to aid officials
Jail the men"
Henry M. White. United States i'm
migration commissioner, was reported
en- route to Centralia to investigate
the records of all alien l. w. w. held
and endeavor to deport them II they
are not held in connection with the
shooting
Brick" Smith, who was lynched
was reported by officials to have 8
rolice record in Washington. During
the war 1t was said Smith caused
trouble in western lumber camps anr
a lumber company wrote to patri'
otic organization that Smith was
menace and asked that he be arrested
Smith was arrested at Cedar Falls
July. 1917, when he and other alleged
/ w, w. defied freight train crew
at a time farmers complained of sa'
botage being practiced in the grair
fields and fruit orchards.
Mayor C. B. Fitzgerald Of Seattle
late today issued statement wafnlnf
ali radicals to leave Seattle off theii
future itineraries" The statemen
was made after two raids had beer
made by the Seattle police.