Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-11-19
"WaR TO THE LAST DITCH"
I. w. w. OutraReS Bring Early Crys.
taliZation OF Opinion.

| Centralia, Wash, Nov. 12.---CitieS
Of Western Washington Joined Cen
| traliu to-day in arresting members
| OF the Industrial Workers OF the
! World and raiding their headQuart-
crs following the firing on an Ar
mistice Day parade here yesterday
| Four former American soldiers are
dead and Il fifth IS reported dying as
a result OF the shooting and cne al
legged l. w. ". has been lynchcd
Twenty-Five men and ono woman,
reported to have radical beliefs, were
placed in Jail here and later four Of
the prisoners. including the woman,
wore removed to the Lewis county
iail at ChehaIis by National Guards
men who patrolled Centralia to-day.
Raids were conducted in Seattle, Ia
coma and Aberdeen, Oh the Indus
tri.l Workers headquarters.
n Seattle, eleven men and tons
Of ''literature," according to the po-
lice, were taken to police headquart-
Crs. The Tacoma police arrested "a
alleged members Of the Industrial
Workers and seized a quantity Of
radical literature. AT Aberdeen
large quantities Of literature and
| the records OF the Aberdeen local Of
the organization were taken.
Marked for Death.
Prosecuting Attorney Herman AL
len announced that D. Lamb, 16
years old, who was arrested here as
an |. W. W., confessed to belonging
to the organization. The bog, AL
len declared, said he had heard his
father, James Lamb, who also was
arrested, al ing Of Il plot to start
trouble here yesterday. The father,
according to Allen, confessed last
night that radicals had four former
service men marked for death be-
cause Of their activities in a fight
wagcd by Centralia citizens 10 rid
the city Of |. w. w.
THE !. w. w. expected trouble
here yesterday and they were pre-
pared for it," said Allen. "When
the parade was almost over without
start it themselves"
DR.. David Livingston, who served
in the war as Il captain, was one Of
the four marked by the |. w. w. !or
death, according to Lambs alleged
confession. Livingston is the coro-
ner here,
The body of "Brick" Smith, re-
ported to have been an |. w. w.
secretary, 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 to-day and
Judge George Dysart said citizens
had promised to let the law take it's
course.
Veterans to Aid Officials.
Last night | talked to them and
promised that every l. w. w. ar
rested here would be given quick
"The former service men promised
to aid officials 20 Jail m@lI
"Nrick' smith, wnu was iyDchod.
was tAportca by officials to have q
police record In Washing lon. DuJ-
ing tho war, II was au,G smith
caused trouble in Western lumber
camps, and lumber company wrote
to a patriotic 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 a
freight train crew at a time farmers
complained Of sabotage being prac-
ticed in the grain fields and fruit
orchards.
Mayor G. b. Fitzgerald. Of Seat
tie, late to-day issued warning for
all radicals to leave Seattle off
their future itineraries" The
statement was made after two raids
had been made by the Seattle police.
"War to the Dcnth.'
Seattle, Wash, Nov. 12.-"War to
the death" is now on against the
Industrial Workers Of the World,
Robert C. Saunders, United States
district attorney, declared here to-
day. "No further evidence than
the Centralia murders is needed"
he asserted, Ito prosecute all l. w.
w. to the full extent Of the law"
| Serious Outrage.
Washington, Nov. 12.--Gen. Per-
shing tonight issued a statement in
which he said:
ut Is serious outrage that vet
Grams Of the world war, paratling in
uniform in celebration Of our nation
al victory, should be shot down in
cold blood, as was done in Washing
ton yesterday.
''Too drastic measures cannot be
| taken to rid our country Of the class
OF criminals who inspire or COM
nit such crimes
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