The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-01-03
THOUSANDS
CAUGHT IN
RED RAIDS
Second Nationwide Drive
Against Alleged Radicals
Carried Out in Thirty-three
Cities by Government.
PLAN ANOTHER lark"
(By Associated Press,

(By Associated Pressl
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The gov
ernment's dragnet into which the
greatest number Of alien radicals ever
arrested in America was swept last
night. still was in operation today.
with the lists of arrests growing
hourly.
In nearly two score cities, depart
ment of justice agents. swooped down
upon headquarters and other meeting
places of communists and the total
arrests have exceeded $500 at noon.
Among those taken into custody
were men regarded by the government
as ring leaders in anarchist propagan-
da- Other leaders are being sought.
Evidence gathered by department OF
justice agents will be turned over to
! the department of labor, which will be
asked to deport the radicals.
Hearings Will Take Time
Anthony Caminetti, commissioner
general of immigration, said deporta-
ton would require time, as many hear
| ings would have to be held in the var
ious cities and then those held for
deportation, moved out of the country
on ships.
More than half of those arrested will
In fact, many officials of the depart
ment of justice are confident that the
| deportations to result from the raids
| will break the backbone of the COM
munist agitation in the United States.
! Assistant Attorney General Garven,
In charge of the raids, said more than
1000 persons were held on perfect
cases." and that the raid promised
to be not only the greatest in scope,
but also the greatest in results of any
in history.
1000 Warrants Issued.
In every city where the raiding ma
chinery was set in motion, he said,
| success attended the efforts. Four
j thousand warrants were issued, but
! the arrests exceeded that number.
/ Besides the 1000 perfect cases."
! Mr.. Garyan said, federal agents OBJ
| tanned sufficient evidence to justify
| the arrest of the others.
/ The raids were conducted particu-
larly against communist and commun-
list labor groups Of radicals, the de-
4 partment of justice announced, with
the object of obtaining evidence TO
submit to the department of labor for
deportation of "a very large number
of our most dangerous anarchists and
radical agitators.' The general charge
of attempting to overthrow the gov
eminent by force and violence was
placed against those arrested.
The agents particularly searched
for discriminating documents, some of
which they claimed revealed plans
to establish soviets throughout the
country to be later merged under
soviet council similar to the Russian
council.
Try to Influence Negroes
Attempts to organize the negroes
in movement to overthrow the pres
ent political and economical system
of the United States were disclosed,
officials of the department said, and
they admitted that the propaganda
was of such far reaching effect that
trouble may yet be expected in some
negro communities.
Fruitful fields for the radical pro-
pagandists was found specially among
the ignorant and foreign workmen
officials stated. A manifesto issued
by the communist party stated that
the party was the conscious express
: 'sion of the class struggle OF the work
: ers against capitalism, and it pro-
posed to lend capitalism and organ
ize a workers Industrial republic.
CHICAGO, Jan. Approximately
one third of the more than four
: thousand alleged radicals arrested in
, the federal department of Justices
second drive to rid America of the
forces of anarchy and bolshevism to-
day were in jails in the central west.
Almost one thousand of the num-
ber were arrested at Detroit and Chi
cago. which department of justice Of
ficials have declared were strong
holds of organizations inimical to the
government. Five hundred were un-
der arrest at Detroit and about $50
were added to the 200 taken at Chi
cago in the New Years day drive by
state and city officials.
The raids in the central west were
conducted quietly and with precision.
Nowhere did the federal agents and
state and city officers who aided
them encounter opposition.
, The drive was directed mainly at
members of the communist organiza-
: tions and most Of those arrested were
Russians with a scattering of Ger.
mans, but a number of representa-.
; tives of other radical organizations
and nationalities were entangled in
the net.
Few in Southwest
In tho southwest few arrests were
made. Principally they were at Kansas
City, Kas., where As men were taken
D They were Russians and Jugo Slavs
g Mainly they were employees of packing
Y houses and in railroad yards and had
e been under surveillance three months
!. At Rockford, H., 1S3 alleged radi
: calls were arrested. Milwaukee and
y Cleveland, where 9S, and from 75 to
: 100 persons were arrested, were the
; only other central weetern cities
where the number of arrests approxi
mated these figures. Other reports
were: st. Louis, 16; Louisville, 20;
. Grand Rapids, Micr., 20; Des Moines
Ia. 16; Denver, Col, 8; st. Paul, 10;
Minneapolis, II.
. NEW YORK, JAN 3.-Radicals held
: here today as result of New York's
l. share of last nights countrywide
i. roundup of apostles of anarchy, vio
g lonce and sedition numbered hetveov