The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-01
| ,be Same Time Department
: Justice Officials Have Re-
iterated Their Warnings
lettings TO BE OBSERVED
,,ounced Source of Pay Com
nunist Agitators Traced to
amsterdam and Russia.

r,,binrton. April S0.-After check
ovsr confidential reports from all
:, NJ the country, government Of
~, expressed confidence tonight
!. .be threatened May Day demon
Aons by radicals would not result
,rv nation wide attempt at violence.
The same time the Department of
,,.lcs renewed its warning to local
,,sorities everywhere that if radical
,.nsrts were to be controlled, every
.,ts and federal agency must be
wake.
Assistant Attorney General Garvan
id reports indicated that whatever
[,ence might occur will be sporadic.
said meetings are scheduled in
E.ny places and that the department
Eould allow those gatherings to talk
Eemselves blue" but would observe
ei- tenor of agitation. Agents have
zen instructed mot to incite or excite
ouble at any such assemblies"
GarYan said thousands of laborers
,ght quit tomorrow but he believed
would be more in the nature of
hciaration of holiday than malicious
tent to cause a tieup. Garvan also
|haed attention to the unlimited
mount of money employed by the
snmunist labor party in fomenting
fsorders. He traced the source of
honey to Amsterdam, thence to Rus.
Garyan disclosed that several mem ;
frs Of congress, three federal judges
|hd an attorney recently active in in
fstigating radical disturbances had
Ven marked for assassination. With
|srnngs however, he believed they
y amply protected.
Chicago. April 30.-Federal, state and
fy forces tonight were prepared to
fnbat any overt act that might grow
fnof the various May Day demonstra-
tras planned tor tomorrow. Sixty
pre- suspects were rounded up by the
Fhcs today in continuation of drive
FAt resulted in the arrest of more
pan three hundred men and women
p night Large quantities of radical
FEature were distributed throughout
3 Westside today.
The Nationalist Socialist Committee
fued statement advising Socialists
carry out plans for meeting and to
fstuse to be stampeded by any an
Ehist outburst." The committee de-
fred the May Day bomb plot an
Fanced by Attorney General Palmer
|s manufactured in his own mind
The Socialist statement asserted that
|aieyer disorder might occur to-
prov will be caused by the insane
p criminal discovery of Mr.. Palmer's
Fne novel plot" 1t declared it is IAN
Fer attempt of inefficient and ambi-
PS officials to create violence and
Forder on day that for over thirty
FAis mas been set aside by Socialists
an International labor day."
Warrington, April 3o.-In defending
Ecs F. Post, assistant secretary of
POI, whose administration of radical
Fpo'aton cases is being investigated,
ESon ii. Ralston, counsel for Post,
(acked the Department of Justice,
faung its agents used methods in
faang with alleged radicals that were
eountenanced even in Russia dur
The Cars regime.
4smoers OF the immigration Com
wee declared they had evidence that
\ goVernment's efforts to break up
\ most damnable conspiracy in the
ions history" was practically null-
FC, Oy The release by the Department
A0of, at the instance of Post, of
[as ol live thousand communists ar
60 Ralston said Post exercised
Danity IN dealing with the cases.