Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-04
REDS PLANNED To
. SEIZE Government
Development of Steel and Coal
Strikes Into General
Tie-Up, Aim. n,
D A G EFT GATHERS MANY
Activities of Federal Agents Ex-5
tend to Every Part of Country.
New York Heads List.
DRAGNET GATHERS MANY.

fBy Associated Prrss1
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.-Nation.v;5.
raids on radicals have bagred 5.4gg
suspected Reds in ffty-one cities. az
cording to figures reported here uo to
a late hour today.
The raids may continue for two ~
three days until all of those marksdI
i ieor examination and possible deportas
otHn, are caught. according to Federal
~, New York with 500 arrests, headed
t tne list rsnor. so sto and Detroit have
ing large number taken by STAR
oihcialS; 200 in Now Hampshire: isSf
at PhIladeiphia; 100 each in Cleve
Brockton, Mass. $50
Assistant .Attorney-Gcneral Garyans
IN oo Snharse OF the raids, said more thafiI
cases" and that the raid promised hi
DC not only the greatest in scope, biIt
also the greatest in results Of any SiIg
:, More Arrests Thnn warrants.
-, In. In svery city where the rafding
aueeeas st was set in motion he said
thousand warrants were issued. Sui
'hf se srfest s., ex 3 Ss6 that NUMBER
GarSa n1es said lae E FeGe Pesfsst
sufficient evidence to Justly the ara
rests Of the others so -
,m seores ,h Of parlor Bolshevists wers
officials said. These. il was admTfiesl
may have to be dealt with under Sat-,
laws, as they are citizens s~'S>.9iS
new feature of the present "a III
S Fan t;yo ~; The e, Communist party aieas
s sew .Myehl.y,ive newspapers printed HiHt
the cause. The Communist Iab,,
GropIp. the second radical Contingent
WAS ra,, wnich the raids were directed
IN propaganda through its neWspAns.SFs
s n9 m Rnh,n,, as through literature. toTfs
where raids were conducted u Sis sss
Planned Huge Revolution
evidence that the radical #e1e,5as
Planned to develop the recent ste eItay <,
H1ai strikes into a general strike all
throw 't the i ro9e;nr rey9lulion tosaxsS
ny the Federal agents in the t,,,tats
s saii,ca r,on nianp, 1t is held that tS
expand tho two labor disturbaneas1 M
INC INC purpose OF plotting out every sen,
1ate or organized government! mi
that the nationwide raids ninned I'M
uncarthed Piot Se
Officials indicated both eroun. n
radicals were only awaiting an onnor
tune moment to carry on among othsy
e.aSses or workers the same sort Ia
srs 'a an1 co emploEed among steel work
eign element OF the Commi,nisf az
d Gommunist Labor parties informatio]
the pasro lis SSo aa bssn 5eysalsa
fesrt tinieor d.i to be sent suddenly to ever
sfrin neia IN support of genera
Propaganda of Distrust.
coal strike Communist agitators twet{
discovered to have penetratedG i praSI
ssiTrf aE every mining center east oi.thl
th. st in env.r Riv ; Evidence shovel
m INST had spread their propaganda
an u cs,nn, or or the goyernment to, 2snS
jobs o'Ae'N 20 Tag
Attempts to incite the mine worke,
Virginia, officials said, serious fro',ty5
s oens narrowly avcrted there. but a.
,e,,, regions were infested an
natlon- wide raids was gathe redsSf
secret agents circulating among al
,,,tn WORKERS and coming In conta}
disclosed ~
g.. The raids also disclosed that
,slush fund" has been created bystl
ment moves were directed. Much5Ns
this money. said to run into sever
III neiI had been set aside for Us
MP M Daiiiihg out adherents Of the do
the teaching of violence.
Bnii Funds Available.
Proof also was said 10 have bkfS (.
obtained that in the case of agitatd
VINO went among. the steel and mf
n,Naiiaoie In every section frequent
by the red" agitators, Their pIsa
TOT organization OF the workers.
H Si or the communist cause We
political campaign. 1t was eyidai
officials declared, the movement MI
ripe" and that settlement of tho al
TO the radical leaders. M .s2s|
Assistant Attorney General Gary
made public tonight the department.
or Immigration. upon which was has
the government classification of
communist and communist labor pa
a,es as coming under the espiona
were pledged TO fight any suggestfl
or military action by America again
me soviet Russians. Membershipsa
p wera ind , revealed that both gr9p
the Russian communist council
Significant among other features
tho communist iabo. partys doctri
was the enunciation OF tho folI5wi
pr!i .1SG rs: ,,.,,, -. ~. !, q .ss
gle - essentially n political atrugg{
TO CONQUER the capitalist state. whei
er It's form be nonarchial or democf
q governmental stru-eo lid. aprucnl
tic-repubiican, and to replace 1t BY
governmental structure adeuuaTS
adapted to the communist transit
nation. 1TlgFF
Sought State Power. ga
The most important ncaEs ofsc4
turing state power for the worK
IS the action az the masses, proEEi
ing from-the places where the Wfs;I
ers are gathered together--!r \
shops and factories. The use OF,
political machinery of tho capftat
state is only secondary. The work
class must organize and train IA
for the capture OF state power,
Federal officials deplo~ed ~eaknkE'
IN the present laws governing thosH
cedure preliminary TO d~poytats0H.,s
was pointed out that, la nost c66