The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1920-05-18
THE "RED MENACE"

OF course no one enjoys the notoriety that &C
companies large headlines announcing that vessels
of the Navy and Coast Guard were sent to Alaska
to suppress the Red Menace" Particularly not
when the announcement is without qualifications
and written in such way as to convey the i'm
preston that Alaska is seething with disoyal senti-
ment. 1t is not a wonder that the executive com
mittee of the Juneau Commercial Association was
annoyed at the manner in which the Seattle Times
handled the story of the sending of the Algonquin
and the subchaser No. 294 to Hyder
However, it is a msnomer to that there is
no red menace in Alaska in nearly any other
section of the United States The history of the
last years disturbances everywhere throughout the
country too plainly proves the contrary. The En-
pire does not believe the Juneau Commercial Asso-
citation meant its message to the Alaska Bureau to
be taken to that there is danger from radi-
calism here that there is need for Naval YES
sells in the waters of Alaska. The latent danger of
crime against persons and property exists in the
North elsewhere. Conditions unquestionably
better in Alaska than in many sections of the
try, and better here now, in the of the
country than they have been for year.
Deputy Marshal John Roman and United States
Commissioner John T. Reed the telegram which
caused the Algonquin and the No. 294 to be sent to
Hyder iPThey said alien radicals agitatng there
and there danger that trouble might The
subchaser No 294 reported after coming from Hyder
that the indications that the boats arrived there
at the right time to prevent trouble that might have
led one knows where. 1t is said that members of
the Canadian O. B.. T. organized in that section
of the country, and that leaders among them
endeavoring to induce all laboring both the
Canadian and American sides become members of
their organization before going to work and they
made threats when working people did comply
with the request One mine foreman actually
beaten up there
Last know that members of the o.
B. T., which is sometimes called the Canadian l. w.
w, in many sections of Alaska, organizing
strikes and circulating l. w. w. literature, preach
ing the doctrine of the general strike weapon
iii the fight for different political and industrial
system. We know that these agitators did promote
several strikes, that they preached sovetism, that
they condemned tho United States in bitter terms
and did all within their power to discomfort
We know that they argued in favor of upseting
private ownership and profits industry and bust
ness. We know that letters were exchanged be-
tween various members of the l. w. W. o. B. U.
people in Alaska, and their sympathizers, in which
it plainly evident that general strike in Alaska
planned for the beginning of the present sum
mer. 1t is known tht some of these letter writers
still in Alaska. 1t is known that these
clever politicians and that they cunnngly play
the emotions and interests of the unthnking among
others last summer and fall and early winter
Quoted more or less open campaign in favor of fish
piracy, claiming that it was not wrong to rob
nerymen's fish traps of their catches
1t is known that during all of last year the Reds
active throughout the United States There was
concerted dynamite attack less than a year ago
prominent jursts and high officials in dozen
cities. including the Attorney General of the
United States whose residence dynamted on a
single day proving conclusively that there
ganization of murderers. The Department of Justice
has secured conclusive proof of many murderous
plots 1t is known that there well organized
effort to pull off general strike after another
last fall in effort nationalize industry in the
United States plain of the general strike, a
weapon of force, to a political end.
1t is known that l. w. W. leaders in Butte
Gently the witness stand admitted the purpose of
the /. w w. to bring about revolution in the United
States through the strike method 1t is reasonable
TO conclude that there would have been serious trou
BILE with the Reds in the United States last winter
IL it had not been for the vigilance of the admin
stration, supported throughout by the leaders and
press of the Republican party, and the fine stand
of a majority of Union Labor in the country under
the sterling leadership of Samuel Gompers and sturdy
patriotic workingmen everywhere
There politics in this problem all All
the numerous Republican candidates for President
cave have devoted considerable part of their
campaign speeches and literature its discussion
Some of them haye. criticised the administration
including thel Detachment of Justice for not being
sufficiently rigorous in dealing with the situation
Labor leaders have recognized the dangers and
warned fellow workers.
1t is known that each spring thousands of men