The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-15
RADICAL HUNT
Is KEPT Up
Raids on |. w. w. and 9th
ers Produce Many More
Prisoners
VARIOUS CHARGES
ARE TO BE BROUGHT
In Some Places the School
Children We're Objects
Of Propaganda

San Francisco, Nov Is. Raids on
Industrial Workers of the World and
other radical organizations begun as
the result of the killing Of four former
service men at Centralia, Wash, last
Tuesday, continued during the night
up and down the Pacific coast As re-
suit of these raids scores of addition
al prisoners were in custody to-day.
Some of them face charges of crimi-
nal syndicalism, some of melting to
riot, and others of vagraney. Three al
legged members of the radical order sus-
tanned injuries in one raid which neces-
STATED their removal to a hospital.
At Los Angeles a number of former
service men broke into Industrial
Workers of the World headquarters,
cut and bruised with clubs three men
and wrecked the place before the po-
lice could respond TO a riot call
In San Francisco the Peoples In
stitute" and |. w. W. headquarters
were raided by the police and nine men
held in default Of 81 900 bond on the
charges of yagrancy.
The raids followed receipt Of infor
nation, the police said, that school
children were visiting the Peoples in
stitute and obtaining radical litera
ture which they carried home. Police
Captain OMeara, who conducted the
raids, said all Industrial Workers of
the World must leave San Francisco or
90 to Jail.
At Eureka, local headquarters Of the
Industrial Workers of the World was
raided by the police and large guam
tity of radical literature seized. John
Golden, secretary, was arrested and
charged with criminal syndicalism and
sabotage. He was held in the county
Jail with Charles Lessee and Henry elk
sohn, arrested in Arcata on a syndical-
ism charge At Seattle, Henry White,
commissioner of immigration, made
formal announcement that alien Indus
trial Workers Of the World rounded up
at Centralia, Wash, as a result Of the
shooting Of former service men on ar
mistice day, would be deported ii they
were not held on murder charges by
the county authorities. Fifty-three
members Of the /. w. w. were taken
into custody by Seattle police in sew.
eral raids and at Raymond, Wash, IL
Others were arrested by citizens com
nfittee
Near Centralia, former service men,
acting for county officials, gathered up
about 50 alleged Industrial Workers,
mainly in logging camps. These in
cluded a man giving his name as George
Lester, and his wife Katherine. The
police said he gave much valuable in
formation
Spokane, Wash, officials spent last
night in state of preparedness against
threatened Invasion" by Industrial
Workers Of the World from Montana,
idaho, and other parts OF the north
west. Members Of the American Lee
gion informed local officials they had
information that from 1000 to 1000
Industrial Workers were on the way TO
Spokane. As a result, conference of
legion members, civil officials and Off.
GERS Of the National Guard was held
following which more than 100 former
service men were sworn in as special
deputy sheriffs and two companies of
the Washington National Guard were
modified
Incoming trains were watched close.
ly and two alleged members OF the
radical order taken into custody No
Others were observed entering the city,
however,
What connection, If any, meeting
of Industrial orkers scheduled to be
held in Cumberland, mining town in
the western part Of Washington to-
morrow night had with the reports of
an invasion" was not established. Coal
miners are on strike there and one re-
port was that the Industrial Workers
were taking advantage of a miners
meeting to hold gathering on their
own account.