The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
RED AGITATORS
IN CARY GOING
UNPROSECUTED! +!
Intelligence Officer Testifies in
Senate Today.
Lieut.. Van. Buren, Says Justice
Department Knew Facts.
LENINE- -TROTzKY FOLLOWERS
Witness Says All Gary Strikers
Are Foreigners.
Declares Military Rule Has
Quieted Steel City.
Lieut.. Van Buren, Says Justice
Department Knew Facts.
LENINE-TROTzKY FOLLOWERS

Washington, Oct 24.-Red
agitators in the Gary steel dis
trict have gone unprosecuted,
altho names were supplied to
the department of justice sew
eral months ago, Lieut.. D. G.
Van Buren, a military intelli-
gence officer, told the senate
labor committee investigating
the steel strike today.
A nationwide strike to free politi-
cal prisoners was part of the plan, the
committee was told.
Effects of the steel strike in Gary,
Ind, and some side lights on anar-
chistic activities in the district were
given the committee by Lieutenant
Van Buren, who is an intelligence off
Ger on the staff of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood, commander of the Central dis
trict.
Two Leaders Were Named.
"Our first interest in Gary" he said,
"came when Chief of Police Forbis
came to Chicago from that city last
spring with a request for machine
guns and military Intervention. He
told us the Reds there were plan
ming to parade May 4 and to start a
revolution. Two names were given to
us as those of leaders of the anar-
chist clob at Gary, Ivanhoff and De
George. They were Russians or Aus
trians, De George was a chemist, and
we learned later that he was ,oper-
ating near the Aetna explosive works
outside of Gary, where gun cotton was
available from the wastes outside of
the MILL
Replying to Chairman Kenyon Lieu
tenant Van Buren said a report was
made to the department of justice but
so far as he knew there had been no
prosecution. He added that the two
men had left Gary.
Military Rule Effective.
Describing military intervention in
Gary, the witness said, mo one has
even sustained a black eye since"
I'VE found in Gary after military
occupation there tremendous quanti-
ties of Red literature" he continued
explaining that local police and asso
Citations of citizens bad prepared the
way for raids in the storage places.
THE bible of the Red the anarch-
ist and BoIshevik." he said, "is the
manifesto of the Communist party of
Russia, put out what is known as
the Third International which as
sembled at Moscow in March. Many
thousand copies of this were in Gary"
Lieutenant Van Buren, read extracts
from a booklet seized at Gary. 1t
urged revolution upon all workers in
all lands in the name of the con
quering proletariat of Russia" and
said open combat was the only road
to the redress of alleged grievances.
Accept Doctrine of Leninc.
"An the radicals of the country are
centering on the propaganda of Lenine
and Trotzky." the witnessed continued.
I call to your attention the fact that
it was printed in Chicago by the 'Arbi-
ter Zeitung Publishing company,
which is significant.
rs this stuff going thru the mails?
Chairman Kenyon inquired.
NTar1 an cui
We'll, it'd better be stopped if our
government isn't to become impotent,'
remarked Chairman Kenyon.
Are there any organizations in
Gary which support this program %
asked Senator Phipps, Republican,
Colorado.
"Yes. I have list of them" said
the witness.
He commenced producing a series
of documnts printed in Russian with
names of societies attached and a con-
siderable quantity of 1. W. w 1itera-
ture.
All Foreigners in Strike.
"How many foreigners are taking
part in this strike in Gary?" asked
Senator McKellar, Democrat. of Ten
nessee.
4 have not found an American yet u
the witness said, tho some of the
leaders have second naturalization pa
aIere are some of the production OF
the Union of Russian Workers Lieu
tenant Van Buren continued. That's
a straight anarchistic society. Here's
one of them. entitled. The Crimes o1
Cod an anti-religions pamphlet dis
cussing war.
A whole series of tracts and pam
phlets in Russian were read into the
record
Found I. w W. Literature.
Did you get these in houses, OIL
how - Chairman Kenyon asked.
in houses and halls" Van Burer
replied Sometimes men arrested
would have I. w. w. literature in theil
pockets
1T has been charged that this ma
teriaI was sent into Gary to create
prejudice against the strikers" sale
" Chairman Kenyon
eve only know we found it there.
Van BurCn returned.
s'These people who had it usual,
had BIG picture of Lenine and