Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-01-08
REDS IN 80 CITIES
IN BIC ROUNDUP
National Government SEXES
Radicals in Many Raids.
HUNT FOR 1000 LEADERS
Warrants Charge All Caught With
Plot Against U. S. Government
Evidence of Communist Con-
spiracy Seized.

spIracy Seizeo.
Washington. Jan. 3.-The United
! States government, through the de-
partment of justice, struck With all ITS
power at the agitation that seeks to
overthrow it.
Without a hint or forecast, the full
force of federal authorities fell on
radicals from coast to coast, and, as
reports came into the government
Headquarters, where William J. Flynn,
chief of the departments bureau OF In
vestigation, sat directing the drive, 1t
was said that thousands Of America
foes had been trapped in the nations
greatest raid.
Raids were conducted in the follow
ing cities:
New York, Baltimore, Boston, Buff
falo, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Des
Moins, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Hart
ford, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kan
sas City, Los Angeles, Louisville, Mil
waukee Newark, Omaha, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Portland (Me), Portland
! (Ore.), Providence, San Francisco,
Scranton, Spokane, st. Louis, st. Paul,
Springfield (Mass.), Syracuse, Toledo
and Trenton.
Deportatons Planned.
The object of the raids, Assistant
Attorney General Garvin said, was to
obtain for submission to the depart
ment of labor cases for deportation OF
"a very large number Of our most
dangerous anarchists and radical agi-
tators." Agents iof the department,
he added, went out prepared to catch
the radicals with the goods on
The general charge Of attempting to
overthrow the government by force
and violence was placed against the
persons arrested during the raids. Of
! ficials said they believed that several
hundred members of the Communist
| and Communist Labor parties would
be behind the bars.
The department of justice has is
sued 1000 warrants for arrest of radi-
| Gals throughout the country.
Attorney General Palmer personally
directed the roundup. Federal officials
stated the raid had as it's aim the
"ridding the United States of every
alien who has plotted aginst the
American government"
The department of justice issued a
statement explaining the raid against
the radical leaders throughout the
country. The statement contained
the following "manifesto," issued by
the Communist party, which had been
seized previously and which provides
evidence of the Communist plot:
'The Communist party of America is
the party of the working class. The
Communists of America propose to
end capitalism and organize a work
ers' Industrial republic. The workers
must control industry and dispose Of
the products of industry.
''The Communist party is a party
realizing the limitations of all existing
workers organizations and proposes
to develop the revolutionary move
ment necessary to free the workers
from the oppression Of capitalism. The
Communist party insists that the prob
, lens of the American worker are iden-
teal with the problems of the workers
Of the world.
'The Communist party is the con-
scious expression of the class struggle
of the workers against capitalism. It's
aim is to direct this struggle to the
conquest of political power, the over
throw Of capitalism and the destruc-
ton of the bourgeois state.
''The Communist party prepares it.
self for the revolution in the measure
that it develops a program of imme-
date action, expressing the mass
struggles Of the proletariat. The strug-
gle must be inspired with revolution
airy spirit and purposes.
Party of Action.
"The Communist party is funda-
mentally a party of action. It brings
to the workers a consciousness Of
their oppression, of the impossibility
of improving their conditions under
capitalism.
:'The Communist party directs the
workers struggle against capitalism,
developing fuller forms and purposes
in this struggle, eliminating in the
mass action Of the revolution.
"In close connection, with the un-
skilled workers is the problem of the
negro workers. The negro problem is
q political and economic problem. The
racial oppression of the negro is SIM
,ly the expression of his economic
bondage and oppression, each intensi-
flying the other. This complexities the
negro problem, but does not alter it's
proletarian character. The Commun.
list party will carry On agitation
among the negro workers to unite
them with all class-conscious work
ers."