The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-03
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those taken during the night. Evil
dence was being telegraphed in from
all parts of the )untry to be used in
preparing the necessary papers.
The department of justice made the
following announcement of the aims
and purposes of the communist party,
as revealed by its own propaganda
documents:
Give Communist Plans.
1.-The communist party is conscious
expression of the class struggle of the
workers against capitalism. Its aim is
to divert this struggle to the conquest
of political power, the overthrow of
capitalism and the destruction of the
bourgeois state. The communist party
prepares itself for the revolution in the
measure that it develops a program of
immediate action expressing the mass
struggles of the proletariat. These
struggles must be inspired with revo-
lutionary spirit and purposes. In
close connection with the unskilled
workers is the problem of the negro
workers The negro problem is a po-
1itical and economic problem. The
racial oppression of the negro is sim
ply the expression of his economic
bondage and opp sssion each intensi-
flying the other. This complexities the
negro problem but does not alter its
proletarian character.
agitation among the negro workers to
unite them with all class conscious
workers.
Evidence in papers seized by the
raiders indicated, it was learned, that
the Communist party was organized
early in 1919 in Moscow, capital of
soviet Russia. Agents i slipped into
this country and began organizing for
the revolution which would result, in
a soviet government being established
here.
That the Communist leaders in the
United States were in communication
with Lenine and Trotzlxy is believed
likely. The recent New Years mes
sage from Moscow, sent by wireless
predicting establishment of a soviet
government in Washington during
1920. was recalled today, and great
significance attached to it, in view of
the plots unearthed in last nights
raids.
Catch 500 in New York.
New York, Jan. 3.-More than 500
men and women were under arrest
here today in the nationwide round
up of members of the Communist and
Communist Labor parties which al
ready had resulted in three thousand
persons being taken in custody in
| fifty cities. The raids were still being
conducted by operatives of the depart
ment of justice.
II believe we have succeeded in
breaking the backbone of the radical
revolutionary movement in the United
States" William J. Flynn, chief of the
| bureau of investigation of the depart
ment of justice, who directed the
raids here, declared today
''These raids mark the beginning of
the end of organized. rabid revolu-
! tionaries in this country. We planned
this move very carefully and the re-
suits exceeded our expectation"
In cities adjacent to New York, the
following arrests were reported:
Newark, n. j. $50.
Bayonne, N. J., rs.
Passafc, N. J., SO.
Jersey City, rs. -
/ Eight hundred and eighty warrants
were issued in New York, alone and
| operatives were confident that prac-
ideally the entire number would be
| served before this evening
One Was City official.
Forty federal operatives here were
assisted by seventy-five policemen in
plain clothes. Every known head
! quarters and gathering place was
swooped down upon. About fifty
women, ranging in age from 16 to. 60,
were arrested.
| A man who gave his name as julius
| Cooking and said he was employed in
/ the city tax department, said he was
| elected secretary of the Harlem
! branch of the communist party only
yesterday. III
1T was born In the United States,
! but I believe in overthrow of this gov
eminent by force. IL necessary" he
was quoted as saying. II believe the
time will soon come when the whole
of the United States will be under
Bolshevik rule
! All aliens included in the prisoners
! taken in various cities will be brought
to Ellis Island Immediately for depor-
ltation, it was believed. The American
citizens were expected to be turned
over to state authorities for prosecu-
ton.
1000 Now Held.
j Chicago, Jan. 3.-Reports from