The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-01-07
PLAN OVERTHROW.
OF COVER NMENT.
FEDERAL AUTHORITIES NIP
WIDESPREAD PLOT TO
START REVOLUTION
LAST WEEK.
ARREST THOUSANDS
Strikes Were To Be Capitalized
And All Industry Paralyzed
Deportation Will Follow
Arrests.

Washington, January g. Radical
leaders planned to develop the recent
steel and coal strike into Q general
strike and ultimately into a revo-
luton to overthrow the government,
according to inforation gathered By
Federal agents in Friday nights big
wholesale roundup of members OF
the communist and communist labor
parties. A definite program to ex-
pand the two labor disturbances for
the purposes of blotting out every
semblance of organized government
was disclosed in evidence gathered in
half 4 score of cities. This data, Of
ficisls said tended to prove that the
nation wide raids had nipped the
most menacing revolutionary plot
yet unesrthed.
Officials indicated both groups of
radicals were only awaiting an OPP
perfume moment to carry on among
other classes of workers the same
sort of agitation employed among
steel workers and coal miners. Owing
to the foreign element of the COM
munist and communist labor parties
information described as conclusive
revealed that the psyrolls had been
loaded with agitators to be sent
suddenly to every fertile field in
support of a general strike campaign.
During the last two weeks of the
coal strike communist agitators were
discovered to have penetrated prac.
tically every mining center east Of
the Mississippi river. Evidence Show
ed that In several instances, where
miners had voted to return to work
the communists had spread prepa-
ganda of listrust of the government
to such an extent, it was said, that
few II any miners actually got back
to their jobs.
Attempts to inci.e the mine work
ers to violence were the most bold in
West Virginia, officials said, serious
trouble being narrowly averted there.
But all soft coal regions were infest.
cd and much of the data leading up
to Fridays nationwide raids was
gathered by secret agents circulating
among the mine workers and coming
in contact with the agitators them
selves, it was disclosed.
Had Fund to Protect Agitatofs
Arrested.
Investigations showed that a
"slush fund had been created by The
two parties against whom the gov
ernment moves were directed. Much
of this money, said to run into sew
eral millions, had been set aside for
use in bailng out adherants Of the
doctrine in case of arrest for seditioh
and the teaching Of violence.
Proof also was said to have been
obtained that in the case of agitators
who went among the steel and mine
strikers, funds for bail were made
available in every section frequefted
by the "red' agitators. Their plans
for organization of the workers In
support of the communist cause were
pictured as more complete than even
political campaign. 1t was evident
the officials declared, the movement
was ripe" and that settlement bi
the coal strike had been keen dis.
appointment to the radical leaders
Assistant Attorney General Gafvah
made public tonight the departments
memorandum to the bureau of i'm
migration upon which was based the
government classification Of the com.
munist labor parties as coming under
the espionage act. This disclosed that
both groups were pledged to fight
any suggestion of military action by
America against the soviet Russians
Membership applications revealed
that both groups were indirectly un'
der the control of the Russian com.
munist council.
Significant among other feature;
of the communist labor party's doc.
trine was the enunciation of the fol
lowing principles:
We maintain that the class strug.
giles Is essentially a political str'.ggio
that is. a struggle by the proletaiial
to conquer the cspitaiijt state, wheth.
cr its form be monsrehial CT demo-
cratic-repuhlican, and 20 replace i
with the communist state which il
adequately adapted to the communist
transformation
The most important means Of cap