Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-15
MOBILIZE TROOPS
TO DRIVE ALL REDS
FROM WEST COAST
Two Companies of National
Guard Called Out at
Spokane.
LIVES OF AMERICAN LEGION
MEMBERS ARE THREATENED
Murder Charges Filed Against
Men Arrested for Centralia
Tragedy.
SOLDIERS BECOME sHERIEFs
Outbreak at Los Angeles Results in
Three Radicals Being Car
ricd to Hospitals.
LIVES OF AMERICAN LEGION
MEMBERS ARE THREATENED
SOLDIERS BECOME sHERIFFs
Outbreak at Los Angeles Results in
Three Radicals Being Car
: ricd to Hospitals.

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for the mobilization OF two companies
OF national Euardsmen were issued to-
night b. Major Thomas e. Aston
Arrangements were being made with
officers at Fort George Wright for arms
and ammunition.
Members OF the American Legion arc
being sworn In 10 serve as deputy
therif'e and maintain order.
Eight members Of the Spokane
Legion received Letters in which their
lives were threatened.
Arrangements were completed today
TO iie murder charges against the men
arrested following the shooting OF four
soldiers Arrnis;icc Day.
Nn invasion OF 900 members of the
J! w. ". is threatened.
NJ l~oe Angeles, Cal. tonight Amcri-
can Legion members broke up meet.
,Hs OF Industrial Workers. and three
J. w, W.'s were taken TO the hospital
NJ Tacoma reports were received that
concentration OF |. ". ". was hc.ng
attempted at Cumberland. a mining
town in kinE County. that point being,
chosen for its isolation and the fact
that the miners at present are not
In san Francisco, Cal. nine men were
arrested and large quantity OF liter
azure was seized in Two raids on radi-
town or go 10 Jail
This briefly tells the events Of FIJI
DAY IN the idClflC Coast battle to drive
the radical element from the West
coast. The order TO mobilize sent 10
the National Guard companies TO-
night indicates that a clean sweep !s
10 be made and, according to the an
nouncemcnt Of Governor Hart yester.
day. no stone is 10 bc left unturncd TO
drive every radical out OF the Western
States.
Legion Members Thrcatcped.
The mos, significant development IN
the State wide drive against the J. w.
w. came late today. when eight mem
bers OF the American Legion reported
TO the authorities they had received
letters threatening them with the fate
that befel the four members OF The
The letters. so the police claim. were
signed Industrial Workers OF the
World. The letter was iypewr!tten
and the heading had been removed. Ii
was mailed yesterday.
with itty-e!ght alleged members OF
the |. W. w in the local jail charged
with criminal syndica!ism, police to-
day seized quantity OF radical litera-
'ure said 20 amount 10 nearly ton.
Rowan. former national secretary OF
the l. W W. timber workers union.
who !s At liberty on bond following
his conviction in the Chicago /. w. W.
wha, the police believe was the be-
ginning OF a German Soviet was dis
covered. they declared, in the arrest OF
; {. *. Quasi. Quasi is being held for
further investigation.
Meetings Are Forbidden
orders forbiddinG workers meet
ings" called for Saturday and Sunday
evenings at Turner Hall were sent di-
Tectors OF the German Turnve-cin to-
day by Commissioner J. II. Tillesly, of
the department OF public safety, who
he brought unless meetings OF l. w.
W. and kindred organizations were
barred ,If !, f1Sm 70 " The s,nn.,s hall;
rested, according 10 an agreement
reached at a conference here late TO:
the the Department S'ine of Pnbiie safniS f,,Ss'E bS
OF Police Weir. Sheriff Reid and other
S5erTesn SSimefFTs ina rebTSsGntafivfs of the
filled prisoners vii! be held elsewhere
under guard.
and closed the office and plant OF the
Seattle Union Record n daily newspa-
Members Of the American Legion
po!icem,en1 this evening to meet what
1000 to 1000 members OF the Indllstrioi
Workers Of the World due TO arrive
parts of the Northwest.
Murder Charges at CentraIia.
made today to ale - murder charges Tses
been arrested following the attack of
HwiiSfsd wnli. mrembeIs r,nt I Of the Industrial
Day parade which TesuIted re- lite frim's'iSe in t6e
deaths deaths Of four former service men
inhlic memorial scrv ccs for the four
veins of the shooting were held to-
day under the auspices OF the Amcr;- |
can Legion. Search was continued in /.
nehr-nE towns for sixteen alleged In
duStr!al Workers Of the World who
,wnrG reportcd en- route to Centralia !
The failure, of the coroncr's jury to !
tN reSpomsibiiity for the deaths of the |
ionr FORMER sold crs. c. u. Cunning |
hanl Nm, assistant county attorney de-
bs nf
nr@sac,,tion 1r% I. vi ". held IN Jail lie said the
IN the front ranks Of the parade and |
Whn insiSt shots were fred from the
u w. w: nan before any of the march /
erS started toward the building.
marebrrs rhs Gnr%nGrs ho1 inGussGt that one Of tho
doGr OF the l. w. w hall before q shot
mad been hred. Cunningham vas of
me opinion Or. Bedford faiIcd to hcnr
on ofe mr. nrSI Hho's ana saw only the crowd
'eES W Hland; W whn hn aleEed member of the
nam VIII be charged with nurdnr fn
somsht I'm in nn.r m.,n me tne shooting, is being
Only one IN Jail of the eleven noW rtv !
charged With 'iSNcIl HOW