Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-03


believed that several hundred mem
bers of the communist and COM
munst labor parties would be be-
hind the bars before morning.
New York's Big Bag"
New York, Jan. Between 700
and 500 radicals were arrested to-
night in Greater New York as the
city's share in the nationwide round
up of seditiou mongers and anarch-
lists carried out by the federal gov
ernment on a gigantic scale. From
9 until long after midnight an army
of federal agents, reinforced by hun
dreds Of city policemen and soldiers.
raided the gathering places of men
who have returned the hospitality Of
their adopted country by plotting to
destroy its government and insttu
tions with violence.
At the very hour that the raids
were ordered the men against whom
they were directed were gathering in
scores of meeting places throughout
the greater city.
No less than Y such places were
raided, each yielding grist OF from
20 to 50 fomenters of revolution and
anarchy, in one the number running
as high as $50. There was no talk
or show of violence when the agents
OF the government entered the va
rious halls and rooms.
Few Americans Caught.
Few native Americans were
among those taken into custody, the
most notable exception being a New
York city official who gave his name
as julius Codkind, a Brooklyn tax
collector and who, according to the
federal agents, boasted of his revolu-
tlonary opinions and predicted that
commune would be established in
the United States within five years.
The great majority Of those arrested
were Russians or persons of Rus
sian birth and almost all were work
ing men of scanty education and less
knowledge of the English language.
Codkind and such other Of the prs-
oners who were American born were
turned over to the police to be dealt
with by the laws of their own coun-
try.
Virtually all OF the places raided
were headquarters of the commun-
ist society. an organization which
boasts of the leadership of Nicholas
Lenine and Leon Irotzky and oper-
ly proclaimS its aim as the establish
ment of a rel gn Of terror and the an
initiation of all existing authority.
The most active spirits in this sins
ter organization are now on their
way back to soviet Russia on the
transport Buford with the notorious
anarchists, Emma Goldman and
Alexander Berkman. BY coinci-
dence wireless message was re-
ceived from the Buford, contingent
today, which read
Many Women Taken.
"Good wishes to our comra.le in
..merica from tic exiled comrades
on the high seas"
Almost hundred women were in
clud4d in tonight's prisoners. rang
ing IN age from girls of II to grand
iaot!iers. The majority of the women
we're released after brief examina-
lion, but about dozen were de-
tanned for further examination.
Scores of barges were moored
along the New Jersey shores oppo-
site this city tonight to transport to
Ellis Island the radicals rounded up
bv federal agents in the northern
New Jersey districts. The prisoners
will be placed aboard the barges i'll
the morning and transported to the
island.
Haywood Not Found.
Chicago, Jan. 2-Raids tonight,
directed by the United States De-
partment Of Justice, in which ap-
proximately 200 radicals were taken
in addition to the ESQ arrested yes
terday and today by local authori-
ties, brought the total number of
aeitators up to 4S0.
At the Russian soviet school, raid
cd yesterday by the county prose-
cutor. S. arrests were made tonight.
One hundred policemen, IS federal
agents and 80 United States deputy
marshals participated in the raids.
The governments activities were
directed against specific persons
rather than places. Hundreds of
warrants for individuals had been is
sued and each bore number. The
raiders in numerous squads sought
the individuals wanted, usually at
their homes.
A special grand jury to hear the
cases of radicals arrested yesterday
was ordered impaucled Monday.
Less than dozen were arraigned in
court on charges of conspiracy to
violate the Illinois law against GRIM
inal syndicalism. .-.a
Several of the men were held in
$4,000 bonds. which they protested
was too high. A prosecutor sug-
gested that their defense committee
would go to their aid THE defense