Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-04-23
GOVERNMENT IN
FIGHT on REVOLT
Strike Raid Seen as Move to
Nip Soviet Rule in the
U. S.
RED ORGANIZATION POWERFUL
Gained Control Of s5o,ooo,ooo Of I'M
perlal Russian Money In This
Country and Have $4,000
Speakers and Organizers.

Chicago, April 1.-THE first move
Of the government in an open tight
against revolutionary groups whose
avowed purpose is the overthrow OF
the constituted government of the
United States, substituting therefor
"rule of the proletariat' patterned
after the Russian soviets, is seen In
the arrest here of 80 "outlaw' railroad
union officials for violation OF the
Lever act.
1t is known-has been known for
some time in official circles, due TO the
vigilance of certain volunteer espion-
age organizations centered in Chicago
that an attempt at revolution was
to be made in the United States May
[, 1920. The date was originally No
vember Is, to follow the unauthorized
steel strike. 1t was postponed month
to follow the tieup of the coal mines !;
then it was set for May l, to follow a
general tieup of the country's indus
try through a nationwide railroad
strike-all unauthorized by the inter-
national labor unions.
The organization is powerful, ac-
cording to William r. Moss. chairman
of the committee on AmericanIZatlon
of the Chicago Association of Com
merce, who has been touring the coun-
try speaking before business men,
manufacturers, bankers and en-
ployees' associations. trying to warn
the country of the proposed attempt at
revolution.
Ambassador David r. Francis,
upon his return from Russia, said Mr..
Moss Showed that the soviet organ
izations in America had gained con-
troll of S50.OOO,OOO of imperial Rus
sian money in this country. The revo-
.lutionary groups are not poor. they
have 81, 900 speakers and organizers
scattered throughout the country. The
country should be aroused to this at
tempt by the minority togrule the ma
jOrity. Tt is not time to get excft-
ed, the thing is going to happen. This
IS the time for every man who IS an
American and who has the nerve to
say so, to stand upon his own feet, TO
talk sanely, to act sanely. for the sit
uation is one that calls for the sanest,
coolest, clearest thinking heads in
America.
''The situation is grave and cannot
be overestimated. The revolt move
ment can be defeated If the American
people-by that / mean the people
who believe in this country-can he
brought to realize the peril Radical
ism as we'll as bourbonism, the two
extremes that are causing the trou-
Bile, must be corrected. can only re-
fer for confederation to the book on
syndicalism by Earl G. Fore and VIII
liam q. Foster, who engineered the
steel strike, published in 1912"
The situation is known to business
men, contractors, bankers etc. It is
next to impossible to get contractor
to make bids upon work now that can
not be completed before May /.
''This idea of revolution is not a
scarehead one" said man, who can
not be quoted for the reason that he
Is one of those who have been look
ing into the unmasEed red of the vol
cano and reporting its seething. ut
began in Seattle more than eighteen
months ago.
Washington, April 1.-THE OUTLAW
railroad strike is practically at an end.
Reports reaching the department of
justice from cities in which the strike
was beginning TO assume alarming
proportions Indicate a general ten
dency on the part of the men to return
to work
The rapid assembling of the railroad
labor board as result of Geographic
appeals to its members from President
Wilson was considered q large factor
in the determination of the strikers
to resume work.
The adjustment of their demands, 1t
is understood, will be one Of the first
problems to be worked out by the
board, which held it's first meeting with
seven of the nine members present.
Those absent were: A. O. Wharton
of Kansas City. Mo-. and r. 81. Barton
of Memphis. Tenn, both of whom are
expected to be here Monday when the
board will resume work in earnest.
Henry Hunt. former mayor of Cincin-
natl, was elected chairman and Wal
lace w. Hanger of this city, secretary
of the temporary organization of the
board. whose work will be the adjust
ment of the wage demands of approx
mately 100000 railroad employees,
aggregating about $1,OOOOO0.OOO an
nually.