The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-01-08
CHICAGO RAIDS
NET 200 REDS
Plan to Set Up Soviet Form of
Government Baked by State
Attorney of Illinois.
BIG MAILING LISTS TAKEN.
Names of 100000 Communists in the
Country Obtained as a Result
Hayne Charges Leak Came From
Department Of Justice.

Chicago.-A sweeping drive against
Reds and kindred radicals in Chicago
was made when every known head
quarters of communists, anarchists, l.
w. w. and many other similar organi-
cations was visited by squads of po-
lice and operatives of the state at
torney's office. Almost 800 police
participated in the raids, which were
made simultaneously at o'clock p. m.
Thirty places were raided and al
usr=E zoo arrests were made. An organ
lied campaign of Chicago merchants,
bankers and representatives OF civic
organizations is back of the drive to
rid Chicago of the radical elements,
and State Attorney Maclay Hoyne is
personally directing the fight against
the anarchists.
The following party headquarters
were raided: The Communist party
headquarters, the Communist Labor
party, the Anarchist and Syndicalist
headquarters and ten headquarters of
the l. w w. Many radical book shops
We're also raided. Thousands of let
ters, pamphlets, charts, books, maps
and circulars of printed propaganda
assailing the government and member
ship lists were seized and taken to the
state attorneys Office.
State Attorney Hoyne, I'm charge of
the raids, charges that his Office was
of hv ntt nc
Edward j. Brennan, superintendent of
the bureau Of investigation of the
United States department of Justice
Fifty federal agents were to have
participated in the raids, which were
set for late in the afternoon.
1--WE had definite information" said
Mr.. Hoyne, that n secret mass meet
ing was to have been addressed by sew
eral dangerous anarchists. When my
men arrived at the place of gathering
not single |. w. w put in an appear
ance. l am convinced that the Peds
were tipped off about the raids.
Il don't need any help from the fed
eral government to get these anarch-
lists out Of Chicago / will prosecute
them under the new bill which makes
it felony to utter any statements or
publish any literature tending to en-
courage treason to the government of
the United States. l drove all the
crooked labor agents out Of Chicago
without the aid of the federal govern
ment and l am going 10 accomplish az
much with the Reds.
81 have just started I will rid this
community of Bolshevists and anarch-
lists. The main headquarters of these
Reds is in Chicago Their presence
is real menace. My investigations of
the week have disclosed the fact that
they have already started to establish
in this country a soviet form of gov
ernment patterned after the present
government in Russia
"They have already laid elaborate
plans to stop the industries. the bust
ness and the natural resources Of the
country by direct action They have
even gone so far as to establish schools
in Chicago and in the middle west,
where they teach not only the adult
but the children as well their propa-
gaHda, their poison and their doc
trines
"The raids developed the fact that
p nationalties were represented i'm
the arrests, and nearly every one of
them aliens. / intend to deport every
one of them" concluded Mr. Hoyne.
Two Of the most important arrests
made were the capture Of Annie Gro
darsky, "a years old. She is known as
rebel Girl' and Is said by the police
TO be one Of the most active and dan
gerOus l. w. w. agitators I'm the coun-
try. The other was George Audrey
tchine who gave his home as CrOton-
Hudson. n Y. He was released
from the Leavcnworth Penitentiary a
month ago Both these noted Reds
were literally loaded down with
printed matter dcnouncing the United
States government.