The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20

Some two thousand strikers paraded.
led by three hundred khaki-clad ex-
soldiers, and held mass meeting IN
defiance of the order of Mayor w. f.
Hodges 1t was direct challenge to
law and. because of the meager force
of state militia, the mayor could only
aaI for government aid.
Says Strikers Welcomed Soldiers.
Since then there has been no disor-
der The city is under military control
and the strikers say openly they are
glad the military was called in. FIX
cept for soldiers on patrol. Gary today
is the Gary of a month ago.
1t is practically impossible to learn
the degree in which foreign working
men would have been infected by Boil
shevism. The military believe the IN
lection is widespread, not only in Gary,
but in every other similar industrial
center. Colonel Mapes. who is in COM
mand of the troops, said:
I'VE have conclusive evidence. that
the strike is in the hands OF the Reds
and we can prove il"
The military believe a large percent
age of the men still out on strike are
led by I. w. w. and Bolsheviki beliefs:
The radicals have run the gamut of
foreign breeding; men often who can
not understand the English language
and have not the slightest conception
of American ideals. have been the real
teachers and leaders of many OF the
foreign groups. As a result, rattle
brains who have no understanding OF
the difference between the civilization
of Russia and America have been tell
ing these people they can take over
the mills and many have believed. we
have known here in Gary that the rad
icaIs were at work. But they speak
in a foreign tongue, and not until the
army came did any one have any COM
prehension that the infection Is as
wild espread as military investigation
would indicate And even now some
of the people wonder II the mihtars
are not seeing things.
"Reds Don't Like Rough Stuff"
| 3 There is no general belief that the
| Gary radicals would attempt revo-
| luton. A very large majority OF po'
| tential Bolsheviks have no heart fol
| trough stuff. If they take over tbs
| mills, they will want to put on theil
| Sunday clothes, march over TO tn'
mills and let the bosses do the work
| That sort of BOlshevism is not very
| dangerous unless it is given an un
| trammelled leadership by men of &C
| ton.
| 1t is these men of action the militar!
are seeking out. Thus far eight n
held for deportation. Before the mil
pect to have the trouble makers, who
| with few exceptions are aliens, turn
ed over to the Immigration authori
ties.
| Passes Buck to Chicago.
All of which would indicate tina
| GaKy is not the center of the nation
wide conspiracy as some reports hav
stated. Chicago is the center o
American radicalism. Gary is onl.
one of a number of infected industrial
centers, but it's proximity to Chicag
has made 1t something of a radical eX
pertinent station.
The situation, while not alarming
is serious Alien agitators must no
be permitted to teach immigrant
their ideas of America. A vast dea
more effort must be made by Amer
cans to do our own Americanizlne
| But the trouble cannot be settle
unless there is a change in the re
lations of capital and labor. Unies
labor is satisfied the radicals will sue
coed in their undoubted effort to seiz
the machinery of unionism. Then tn
situation will not only be serious bu
alarming.
u Here in Gary, we are watching tn
industrial conference with intense in
terest that has back of it the know
|; edge that the steel industry needs
|