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workers, fifteen window cleaners, 20
metal trades workers and 200 grain
4 handlers. They sought either wage
increases, shorter hours or recognI
lion-
i Gary, Ind is threatened with com
i plete ueup. Street car men. building
trades workers, butchers and bar.
Ders are expected to strike.
! Considerable Improvement in the
labor situation in Seattle and Spo-
kane generally scenes of labor agita
ton was reported,
/ At ST. Paul $50 ice men are striking
for $l.35 an hour and 400 garment
workers are fighting for higher pay
and improved working conditions.
A total of 600 men are on strike in
! Oklahoma, most of whom are switch
men Records show there are five
| strikes as compared with the same
number year ago.
First Violence in Paris.
/ PARIS, May First violence was
recorded in Frances May day twenty
four hour strike here late today.
Thirty policemen and twenty labor
ties were injured when workers tried
to force police lines at the Place De
La Republique.
| About thirty persons were arrested
Later Deputy Plano was injured
while leading a small procession OF
workers toward the Bourse. Police
dispersed the demonstration.
! mo General Strike.
/ WASHINGTON, May 1.-The gen.
seral strike called Tor May day failed
/ to materiafize, reports to govern
lSnent departments To-Day showed. The
strike situation Throughout the coun-
try is better than it has been tor
weeks, according to Hugh kerWln.
director of the bureau OF cancellation,
labor department
kerwin was in possession OF re-
ports showing that in the week end
ing last night, fewer strikes were re-
ported to the department Man ID the
| previous two weeks.
At Ills D. M, the justice depart
.ment had received NO reports OF May
fday disturbances, according to Sec
rotary Hunt at the office OF Attorney
General Palmer.
THE industrial situation as IND.
Gated by labor's attitude appears en-
icouraging," said kerwin- The strikes
of the railway yardmen and the coast
wise longshoremen are now In the
way of adjustment and the general!
situation appears TO be clearing.
| One hundred thousand native Amer.
leans hold membership in radical
societies which planned demonstrs
tions today throughout the United
States, according to Investigations OF
Justice department secret service
agents.
! Among themselves members OF
radical societies refer to their local
/ groups as soviets, according to AS
sistant Chief Burke, Of the bureau OF
investigation.
Indications are 1000 soviets are in
existence in the United States, ac-
cording to justice officials. In New
/ York alone more than sixty soviets
have been organized, according to
one report to the department
Little to Excite Officers.
CHICAGO, May 1.-Petty radical
ism only was in evidence throughout
the midwest today. Although officers
generally were prepared for any red
May dya" outbreak, they found little
to excite them In Chicago a red
flag, bearing the inscription in vel
low, "Hurrah for the soyiets," was
nailed to a school flag pole. John
Dixon climbed the pole to supplant
the red flag with the American coiors.
THE event was turned into patr1-
otto meeting with several hundred
spectators cheering and singing.
Small stickers blossomed on store
windows in Indianapolis They read.
loaf May 1, 1920, international
labor day. C. l. P" The printing
was In red.
Several hundred suspected radicals
were held in police headquarters here
today as result of raids by thou
sand detectives.
Detroit celebrated May day by
large number of strikers returning to
work Kansas City planned to cele
brate with patriotic meetings.
4 Two men, arrested on charge OF
circulating posters advocating over
throw of the government were to be
arraigned in Milwaukee today.
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