Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-16
REDPLOT FOR July
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syThat the stage is set for a country
Vide roundup of reds, radicals. an
Srchists. !. w. W. and other elements
advocating revolution and overturn-
ing of the government and institu-
lions of the United States is indi-
tonists in this city and elsewhere in
Che last few days.
Participation of the American De-
6nse League in the war against the
teds became known with announce
bent of receipt by mayors and chiefs
af police of practically every big city
in the country by warnings, sent
from league headquarters in New
York. of bomb outrages planned for
the first few days of July.
Show Plot Planned for July.
I'm these warnings. issued officially
by the American Defense League. city
officials are informed circumstantial-
u that documents in possession of
Government Investigators show that a
terrorist plot involving all of the i'm
1ortant cities of the country has been
Itlanned for the period immediately
prior to July 4. and urge municipal
authorities to take all possible pre-
stationary steps In many cities the
mayors and chiefs of police already
have provided large forces of extra
policemen and special guards to be
on duty July I to 5. inclusive.
Officials of the Department Of JUS
tice maintain the attitude of pro-
found secrecy that has enveloped
Eotr Gtr hnp "a
manifest that an actual revolutionary
Tpovement. to open with a season or
SEASONS of terrorism, was under way
in this country. Other government
Investigating agencies also refuse to
invulge any information. Only when
arrests are made of suspected rev.
osutionists is any statement given
out. Meanwhile revolutionary and Sc
dttious propaganda continues through
the medium of anarchist publications..
many of them printed III English, but
the majority in foreign languages
Tell of Russian Red Organization.
Existence of a widespread propa-
ganda of revolution among members
OF an organization known as the
Federation of unions of Russian
workers of the United States and
Canada" has become known to gov
eminent investigators, who say that
10 this country the ramificationS of
this organization extend from the New
England manufacturing centerS
through the mining and metal work.
ing sections of Pennsylvania and the
middle west and into the western
agricultural sections.
Copies of a crimson bound booklet
issued by the organization, whose
headquarters is in Detroit. together
with English TRANSACTIONS of the Rus
sian text, have been placed in the
hands of government investigating
agencies. Members of the National
Association n Manufa cturels, COM
'municating with offices of their rep
Russian organization particularly
active in and around Detroit
Appeals to Class Hatred.
Opening with direct appeal to class
antagonism the pamphlet says that
society of the present day is divided
into two opposite classes; on one side
the disinherited workmen and peas
ants who by their labor create all the
wealth of the world, and on the other
side the rich people who grasp that
wealth in their hands.
! Sees End Of Government.
1.-THE struggle between these class
u.
tinues. land the way things standsst
present 1t will end only. when the
toiling masses. organized as a class.
will understand their true interests
and will. through a forcible social
revolution. acquire control Of all the
wealth of the world. Having achieved
such a forced transformation Of
things and having annihilated at the
same time all institutions of the
government and state. the class of the
disinherited will establish a society
of free producers. the efforts of which
WILL be directed toward satisfying the
needs OF every separate individual.
the latter giving in his turn to the
society his labor and his knowledge.
In order to attain our aim we con-
sider the most important thing the
necessity OF creating on a broad ba-
sis a revolutionary organization of
workmen, which, by direct fighting
with all institutions of capital and
state. shall teach the laboring class
initiative and independence in ali its
phases, and in this way deyelop the
REALIZATION Of the imperative necessity
70 concert a general plan of pro-
cedure-social revolution"
Organizations Agreements
The fellowship agreement" OF the
orga nization Is briefed as follows:
I Unification Of the organisation
~ ieosSida workers IN the United
states and Canada for the simuI-
taneous struggle with capital and the
State 'fls- '"e
%. support OF the liberatine up-
rising in Russia. ~ - :
Support of the revolutionary
risings of the American workers.
a. Moral and material support NJ
the organ of the federation, .Nabata.'
or the alarm bell.
.. Establishment of orRanfza.
tons where there are none and the
supporting of those that already ex-
list"
Efforts of representatives of this
nihilistic organization to proselyte
among the little Russian colonists en-
gagged in agricultural work in several
parts of Wyoming, Idaho. Montana
northern Colorado and the Dakotas
IL is stated, have proven futile for the
reason that most of these own their
own farms and are prosperous and
ontented tiliers of the soil Propa-
eandists have. however II Is stated
made considerable Roadway among
Finnish factory workers throughout
New England. Notwithstanding the
racial antipathy existing between all
classes of Firms and Russians
Members of the Russian organiza-
tions, it is declared. are admitted on a
footing of absolute equality to all
meetings Of l. ". W. branches, and
some of the prime movers in the
Russian organization. II is stated. are
officials in the Russian branches of
the /. w. W.