The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-20
REDS STILL BUSY
AROUND SEATTLE
Are Spreading Propaganda
/ Against the Enlistment of
Soldiers in the Army
MUCH VANDALISM
BEING COMMITTED
Federal Government Has Secret Serv-
ice Men Investigating Serious
Outbreak than During Recent Strike
is Feared.

observers of conditions here are not at
all certain that the radical clements Of
this part of the Pacific coast have
learned their lesson al the hands Of
Mayor Ole Hanson and the militant
forces Of law and order which he in
yoked to suppress the recent strike |
Though the Bolsheviki, the |. ". ". |
various s'foreign legions, the Japan |
csc element and other radical or2an |
cations are apparently silent, there Is |
an abundance of evidence that they
never before have been 50 active De-
velopments during the past week among
widely separated portions of the Puget
Sound district combine to bear out what
has grown here from suspicion to posi-
tIve conviction in the minds of official
Observers They believe that a new
demonstration by the radicals is being
fomented wherein the mass force which
Mayor Hanson suppressed will give
place to a cumulative campaign of pro-
paganda, agitation and sabotage, Of
which tho forcign-born and radical
thinking Bolsheviki and wobblies
are past masters. While little of this
| has been permitted to be become public.
| it is known that agents Of the bureau of
| investigation, the United States de-
| partment Of justice and officers Of the
| army and navy intelligence services
| have accumulated mass of evidence
| pointing to the need of yigilant prepar-
| edness against further radical NANTES
| tations This evidence was laid before
Mayor f4srlson on his retnrn from New
York, where he fook part in the Vic
| tory Loan campaign.
/ Part Of the disclosures revealed BY
| the federal secret service came after 4
long investigation at Camp Lewis. the
big military post near here which for
merly commanded by Brig Cen Corne
lius Vanderbilt of New York, and on in.
formation furnished by Gen. Vanderbilt
and former officers Of his staff Gov
erument and army agents found that
soldiers either just discharged or await
ing rehabilitation have been the biec
tivfs If q most insidious campaign OF
disloyalty and treason. Petty inconven
fences were magnifed and every advan.
tage was taken nv the BolsheVik minded
l. VI. w. agents Of the anxiety of the
Capt Young. intelligence officer at
Camp Lewis, during this investigation
found enough evidence to convince him
that the entire personnel Of the Sol.
liers and Sailors Council Of Washing.
On needed an exhaustive inquiry
This was made with the result that when
Sergt G. T. Curtain was sent as a
'eommi@arv of the Council to at
tend the caucus Of the American LIE
gion in St Louis last week, Capt
Young himself found he had an errand
Of his own to perform there. It's nature
was revealed when he took the platform
Ut The caucus and denounced the whole
aggregation as a Bolshevik and l. ". W
agency of a dangerous character. Sergt
'sCommissary Curtain. despite hi,
protests, was refused y seat Ills re
: turn here has been the signal for re
/ neweH activity by the Council
OF greater Importance in the est
q nation of the federal agents and Mavol
Hanson are the acts of vandalism tina
J have8 attended the army s drive for re
/ cruits in this district 4 report la.
/ beeu} made to Washington by army Of
t | tieers in charge of enlistments here. civ
! ing details of what appears TO be az
O organized campaign Of destruction ant
,ab0taoc in connection with resistance
| to the enlistment campaign. Discour
e a2ement Of army recruiting IS the ain
[ | set bv the radicals in every city in th
: part of the Pacific coast, but their eff
e | forts will come to nothing, in The belle
&c the army authorities. Army recruit
na posters which soldiers put up o.
poles and at other vantage point
throughout the principal sections Q
this city are being torn down by til
d radicals at night. and their work ha
been so well organized that sct ia
police and military authorities have bee
e nnable to trap them. An even more seri
e GUS aspect attends the attitude of seN
i eral business establishments here whic
e. permitted photographs of European bat
r tie scenes to be displayed in their vii
n lows, with other pictures of America
Il soldiers in action but whose customer
made objections when pastors were a
Of taehed to tie pictures giving the locs
e tons of the nearest recruiting stations
G THE threats of hovcott against snc
w merchants as permitted the display 4
~ he recruiting pictures, have brought3t
N the realization of officials a new aspet
n If the radical campaign. It is causii,
genuine concern, not only among otici;
1t leeneies, but among bankers and bus
IN ness men as well. The boycott tactics al
oe being spread it is charged. by the men
I'll hers Of so-caIied foreign legions WI
n have ready for such nefarious work
'e fully prepared organizations Nheth
We well grounded or not, the suspicion lik
wise exists that the large and oecasio
ally troublesome japanese element he
Tr. is not free from blame in this cone
no tion.
N Army recruiting officers have dete
on mined to keep up their drive and to i
a tensify their appeals to the peopl
nd Mayor Hanson and other leading men
list Seattle believe that the publicity ear
ny | naignewhich is attending tie drive +
Efeeruits in khaki, for the navy al