Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-04-27
GOVERNMENT in
FIGHT ON REVOLT
Strike Raid Seen as Move to
Nip Soviet Rule in the
U. S.
RED ORGANIZATION POWERFUL
Gained Control of $5o,ooo,ooo Of I'm,
periai Russian Money in This
Country and Has $4,000
Speakers and Organizers.

Chicago, April 1.-THE first move
against revolutionary groups whose
avowed purpose is the overthrow of
the constituted government of the
United States, substituting therefor
rule of the proletariat' patterned
after the Russian sOviets, is seen in
the arrest here of 80 OUTLAW" railroad
union officials for violation of the
Lever act.
1t is known-has been known for
some time in official circles, due to the
vigilance of certain volunteer espiOn-
age organizations centered in Chicago
that an attempt at revolution was
to be made in the United States May
1, 1920. The date was originally No
vember 10. TO follow the unauthorized
steel strike. 1t was postponed month
to follow the tieup of the coal mines;
then 1t was set for May 1, to follow
general tieup of the cOuntry's indus
try through a nationwide railroad
strike-all unauthorized by the inter
national labor unions.
The organization is powerful, &C
cording to William r. Moss. chairman
of the committee on AmericaniZation
of the Chicago Association of Com
merce, who has been touring the coun-
try speaking before business men.
manufacturers, bankers and en-
ployees' associations, trying to warn
the country of the proposed attempt
at revolution.
Ambassador David r. Francis.
upon his return from Russia" said Mr..
Moss. Showed that the soviet organ
izations in America had gained con-
troll of $5O.OOO.OO0 of imperial Rus
sian money in this country. The revO-
lutiOnary groups are not poor. They
have $4,000 speakers and organizers
scattered throughout the country. The
country should be aroused to this at
tempt by the minority TO rule the ma
jority. It is not time to get eXcit-
ed; the thing is going to happen. This
is the time for every man who is an
American and who has the nerve to
say so, to stand upon his own feet. to
talk sanely, to act sanely, for the sit
uatiOn is one that calls for the Sanest,
coolest, clearest thinking heads in
America.
''The situation is grave and cannot
he overestimated. The revolt move
ment. can be defeated If the American
people-by that I mean the people
who believe in this cOuntry-can he
brought to realize the peril. Radical
ism as well as hourbonism, the two
extremes that are causing the trou-
BILE. must be corrected. l can only re-
fer for confederation to the book on
syndlcalism by Earl G. Ford and VIII
liam 2. Foster. who engineered the
steel strike. published in 1922
The situation is known to business
men. contractors. bankers, etc. 1t Is
next to Impossible TO get contractor
to make bids upon work now that can
not he completed before May I.
'"Thls idea of revolution is not
scarehead one" said a man, who can
not he quoted for the reason that he
is one of those who have been look
ing into the unmasked red of the vol
cano and reporting its seething. 'Tt
began in Seattle more than eighteen
months ago"
Washington, April 1.-THE "out-
law" railroad strike is practically at
an end. Reports reaching the depart
ment of justice from cities in which
the strike was beginning TO assume
alarming proportions indicate a gen.
eral tendency on the part of the men
to return to work.
The rapid assembling of the railroad
labor board as a result of telegraphic
appeals to its members from President
Wilson was considered large factor
in the determination of the strikers
to resume work.
The adjustment of their demands. It
Is understood, will be ole of the first
problems to be worked out by the
board, which held its first meeting with
seven of the nine members present.
Those absent were: A. o. Wharton
of Kansas City, Mo-. and r. Fl. Barton
of Memphis. Tenn. both of whom are
expected to be here Monday when the
board will resume work in earnest
Henry Hunt, former mayor of Cincin-
natl. was elected chairman and Wal
lace w. Hanger of this city, secretary
of the temporary organization of the
board, whose work will he the adjust
ment Of the wage demands Of approx
mately 100000 railroad employees
aggregating about S1,000,000,0OO an
nually.