Arizona republican., 1920-01-02
LAND 200 REDS
 IN CHICAGO IN
 NEW YEAR RAIDS
Is Start Of Drive On Radi- calls By State Attorney Pa l m e I Severely Criti- cized Because Federal Agents Take No Part
[aepubIican A. p. Leased wireI

LRepublican 4. p. Leased Wire
 CHICAGO. Jan. 1.-Raids resulting in the arrest of 200 or more Industrial Workers of the World. communists and other radicals were carried out today under the direction of States Attorney Hoyne, who tonight in a statement at lacked Attorney General Palmer for the failure of the department of jus tice agents to cooperate Agents of the military intelligence branch of the central department of the army aided the prosecutor.
 Mr. Hoyne said the raids had been timed for P. m. New Years day. He said he had recently gone to Washing ton to confer with government officials. At noon toady, after receipt of a per sonal letter from Attorney General Palmer, asking him not to proceed with the plan, federal department of justice agents withdrew, Mir. Hoyne said.
 Apparently Attorney General
 Palmer some of his friends are
 playing petty politics with the situ
 foot policy" said Mir. Hoyne's
 statement. Expressing my opin-
 ion as citizen and democrat.
 do not believe Nero or any other
 fiddler can be elected president of
 the United States"
 Edward G. Brennan. chief of the bu reau of investigation of the department
 
 absence of his men in the raids.
 Reds Plot Governments Overthrow
 The prosecutor asserted that daily in Chicago members of radical organi- cations addressed meetings urging heir hearers to await the one big lay" and that their purpose was nothing less than overthrow of the government" MT. Hoyne declared that he I. W. w.. the communits party and he communist labor party members and anarchists and syndicalists were distributing tons of seditious literature. He said today's raids were only the be- ginning of his drive, which he de- clared was intended to extirpate all radicals from Cook county. His in- vestigttion. he said, had disclosed thas he leading agitators in this criminal conspiracy" centered their activities in Chicago, New York, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit and Seattle.
 MT. Hoyne declared his men had been armed with 200 search warrants and hat in addition a number of warrants charging conspiracy had been issued oy Judge Hugo Pam of the criminal court Four men were arrested on [ the latter warrants today. Among i them was George Andreytchine, an l. | ". w released on bond some time ago from Leavenworth penitentiary pend i ing decision in the appeal of e2 ]. w w. convicted of violation of the es- [ pionage law.
 Anne Grovarsky. 34. was the only taken from I. w. W. headquarters. | James Crowley. secretary of the I. ". w, also was arrested
 Soviet School Raided
 Among the places raided was the Russian soviet school. This was de- cared by the raiders to be under the direction of Ludwig Martens. Russian | IL Who has headquarters in New York.
 Only one man among those arrested | wore insignia of war service. He was when it was learned he had | been found wandering on the street and taken into a meeting place of 
 Several men alleged by the states attorney to have been active among . gitators at Gary. Ind. in connection with the steel strike were arrested
 A half dozen women were taken in Ia Fer raids tonight. Among them were Mrs. B. Dobrow and the Misses Vera and l.. Dobrow. who the states attor ney charged were brought from Russia 10 work among women.
 Assistant States Attorney Henry \. Berger asserted. 1t had been learned. hat Russian radicals reach this coun- try by way of Sweden and Mexico. He declared they obtained passports -nTOuSn Inc SWeu1Sn CONSUL dt MeNltO City to the United States.
 Among 163 individuals for whom warrants were issued were William D. l"Big Bilr') Haywood, the general secretary of the I. w. w. who was convicted before Judge Landis in the r. W. W. trial, and many others of he original 100 I. W. w. who were in- iioted- Haywood, however, was not found. although a number of those convicted with him were arrested.