Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-05
FEDERAL AGENTS
BARE RED PLANS
American People Apprised Of
Real Purpose of Menacins
Groups"
ROUNDUP STILL GOES ON
Citizens Of United States Found
on Rosters of Communist
Party.
ROUNDUP STILL GOES ON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-rians OF ths
e . in m u i 81 and Comnuris, I.,hoy.
parties. against whom the great raid.
0N government agents inauGu-ateL
Friday night are directed. to gain con.
troi OF al Labor organizations as rh,
means OF tomenting revolution. vera
revealed toniGh: in documents mads
phhiic Dy the Department Of Justice.
Assistant Attorney General Garvnu
made public the documents. wb,eh
We're seized in several cities. with tho
desire, he said, that tn. American
people learn the real purpose. OF
these mcnacing groups and the nature
0: t!tc poison they Were sprcadins.''
department agents in many citie,
continued today the work of rnnnin..
down and ntcrrogatlns members &c
the two organizations. Otlicj:lls .oai
II was distinctly surprising thai :n,i'
party numbered SO many American iii
lMcna IN It's membership. The party
nnanS persons we'll known in their re-
spectivc communities. and Amer can
c,.'Icms, ,.r.,i i..;, Althoush there is no Fed
Communists can bo ic1l, win ia.
partncnt agents were not ovrrloot
lns these. Their cases will be ,urnoll
"Nct 10 state governments
sun Gathering Them In.
Two hundred and eighty persons ar
rested today IN Detroit were added Z,
ute @ iist OF those taken into custody.
WWnich W;mo,, Is fast approaching 1900.
't.,ehs We're reported 10 AIr. Garyan;s
oiiice today. sending tho total arajnse
mnoin Tue department believes il has
llin arrests reported today We're: JacL.
S9nNl:le. =; Grand Rapids. Iii; Omaha
IA. "a eaouT,.anI - ria H. ~ Y, 10; woodlawn.
cortland, Orcg, .; Toledo and Pitts.
Darsh, each, and Denver.
N"'S"nS those arrested in Portland
tcnuon BY his activities as n deierI,s
!" nc August convention OF the Com
SnniS;no Ssi"ti.st i;an9r llt party in Chicago. III
,"nS tody pe,s, reuftaI cdo AGENTS took into GUS
said. had been one Of the most d.
Ser9us asitators whom they had to
ae"i WITH IN the Northwest
"nore From Within"
In their plan TO bora from wi.,;,.,
IN the labor unions, as disc!osed in iE..ss
naniieSto and program" the leaders
o. 1 the Communist and Communist La,
Dor parties outlined for their adher.
.ntS me program for incitinG simul-
.aneously small strikes and devc.o,,-
,tgnt nn, OF me, 1rnese small strikes into mass
IN detail from small strikes To minor
mass strikes; from minor mass strikes
stri5sn nerai IA oci Strikes: and from general
Fi1t through revolution
IGNORING the trend OF development
oi trade uniontsm, the ''manifesto,
The Older unionism was based on tb,
,,; craft divisions Of small industry. TIC
unlInS ,rnr, consisted primarily OF skill"l
WORKERS whose skill in itself is !, form,
"i nroperty The unions are not o.
naWS naW o. me militant class struggle
IS n'W aetuaiix TiiSay, the hm,w Dominant unionisn,
ncrslns IN imperinlism and acccptin..
state capitalism" =
Revoiutionixr Trade Unions.
;c, Inc manifesto ''admonishes the par
engage in tho struggle to reyoiu,;o,,s.
!He the trade unions" Ii ADDS -,
,!5.,,.5 ms the unionism Of the .>moricai,
.rn'nas!s OF revolutionary implicatians
amu ; tnat; We recognize that the Amer
rv .I's and IinGnration rn OF LABOR is reaction
The Communist party members
nb,enSed IbaS themselves. the manifesto
stfiKss. 30 no, pas'lGina,e sn m,,"b in AL mass
rncS OF the particular strike. but In
i9r.her It's program OF revolution. Com
nteic capitu!ation by capital in ali
strikes is given rs one aim. while col.
,tciiNc bargaining. or tlickering of any
M SSa.t"; =, tween employer and employee
~, onro" ing The present political OF
u The 1I1n ,IiManitesto Mamie OF tho Communist
y" one OF the documents suhscrihed IN
~ n"ih the COMMUNIST and Commun.
.al i.in"f groups of this country char
"NttE3zte ne league Of nations as .th.
cover Under which the world cap;.ai-
;sas isaa, prennre , ior iheir linal battle" Tho
only "A deluGc OF pacitist phras
mo31serine.. desperate effort mad ia
pun ioget ethcr the tumbiing capital
Employed as Ammunition.
Action OF the government in obtain.
nS an injunction against the leaders
oi the b!,uminous coal strike was am
ployed by the Communists party heads
- antnunition In their campaign. de-
caring that the capitalist used the GOV
.th'ncnt power. weapon which tho
MorheFS ,, could not muster This ev-
printed within few days after Attor-
ncy-Gencral Palmer had reached an
~; auI;reemsAt WITH officials OF the United
The literature and documentary oyi-
Hence ,nm secured sec by the dcpartmfn, IN
pubic by Attorney General PaiI rs
the purpose Of showing that thI 81
munistS are actively planning a .. IL
revolution in this country, in acc6rd-
anc. with the manifesto Of the Moscow
convention of the third Communist In-
'ernaionM. comprises the following:
!. AlanitcSo and Program published
~ ~ the Communist party OF America st
Caicaso, and including report TO u.
Communist International
Manifesto of the Comminist IN
tcGnationdl Congress" issued March lQ
ana sisned by Lcninc. Trotzka and
TOR circulation in the United states.
Cali to Organize.
). Communist Call for National Con-
rcntion," issued July 10 1919. for tho
purpose of organizing the Commun:st
party or America
4. The State--Strike Breakcrp a
proclamation issued by the Com.nuniss
party OF America. declaring that ths
United States government !s a ''goYefn-I
ment OF the capitalists. by the cap
taiists and for the capitalists" and
citing the use OF government leRas