New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Aid 10 Gen. Wood Asserts
Tons of Explosives
and Supplies of Arms
Were Found in Gary
Justice Department
Declined to Act
Plans for General Strike
Traced 10 I.enine and
Trotzky i'm Moscow
Nsm York Tribune
W0Shin0tO7, Bureau

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WASHINGTON, Oct pa new
German American Organization. the
successor 10 the German American
Alliance, under the direction of the
old leaders Of the alliance that CON
Quoted pro- German propaganda pro,
to and during Americas participation
in the war, is working with the radi.
calls at Gary, Ind, the Senate Com.
mittee on Education and Labor was
told to-day.
First Lieutenant Donald c. Var
Buren, a military Intelligence officer
attached to the staff Of General Leon.
ard Wood ut Gary, told the committee
that the Department Of Justice hao
declined to act against the new Ger.
man organization and against the Reds
Bolsheviki and other radicals al
Gary.
"You've got to ret man with q
lighted bomb in his hand catch him
putting it under the house, have him
confess it and swear to it before you
can send him out Of the country, n
Lieutenant Van Buren, said.
The new German organization calls
itself the Germanamer Citizens
League, he said AT Gary It has
fauntod the German flag and has cir
culated socialistic and radical pamph-
let's published il German, Russian and
hungarian, the witness said.
Connection Traced to Moscow
Lieutenant Van Buren,, OF the army
intelligence service, traced a connec-
tion between an international oonimun-
list gathering Of Russian Bolshcviki
held at Moscow last March. and The
disturbances among the steel workers
at Gary.
A magazine printed in Russian, with
red covers, was produced by Van
Burcn, who said it was published by
the Soviet workers Of Philadelphia >
1t was filed with Bolsheviki propa-
ganda and mad 4 wide circulation, Van
Buren said. A pamphe which con-
tanned the manifesto Of the "ovcr-
throw of capitalistic governments the
world over" issued at the Bolshevik
gathering at Moscow and signed by
Lenine and Trotzky, was also given
to the committee. This "lttle red
book the witness said was the basis
IF all Bolshevik movements in the
United States. Many of them had
service and Department of Justice. he
added.
Van Buron, a lawyer and Harvard
graduate of 1914, was attached to
General Woods staff and began opera
tions in and about Gary on October s.
the day before martial law was de-
c'ared. Early in May. he said, Gary S
chief of police asked the army officials
at Chicago to give him machine guns
to stop proposed Red parade in
that town. He said the names of the
leaders were given by him to the De-
partment of Justice and the War De-
partment.
did the Department of Justice take
any action against these men," asked
Senator Kenyon.
"Not that know of" Van Buren,
said.
"Were any arrests made ~
None"
"Why not?'
~ do not know
Van Buren told of the discovery of
one hundred tons of guncotton in the
rear Of a plant four miles from Gary
shortly after the signing of the armis-
tice. 1--WE had information as far
back as March and April that the reds
were planning a nationwide strike" D."
he said.
Arsenals in Homes
Describing the conditions at Gary,
which are now peaceful. Van Buren,
said that in search of suspected
houses, an Austrian rifle with four
hundred rounds OF ammunition shot
gun with 400 rounds OF ammunition
and revolver with a large supply Of
bullets were found in one house. He
said this was u sample of the con-
ditions
Van Buren said he had turned over
to the Department of Justice a large
amount of documentary evidence gath
cred by the army intelligence section,
showing the activity OF Bolshevik
workers among the Gary steel men. He
recommended to the department that
the American citizenship papers held
by all of the leaders in this movement
be cancelled and the men deported He
quoted one of the Rolshevik leaders at
Gary as having said to him:
~ do not recall ever having seen the
American flag displayed in our hall,
but I have seen the Red flag there. All
of US rend and distribute Bolshevik,
Socialist and I. w. W. literature. We
never talk Americanism but we have
advised our working men not to return