Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-03
NEW YORK CENTER
Of RED ACTIVITIES
Raids in Metropolis Find Many
Radical Meetings in
Progress.
D0UGHBoYs AID IN CAMPAIGN
Nearly 500 Radicals Arrested in
City During Night, Includ-
ing 100 Women.
DoUGHBoYs AID IN CAMPAIGN
fHy AssocIatnd-prn.. ,

BY Associated Press
MEN YORK. Jan. 2.-Between 700
ana sVo radicals were arrested tonight
in Greater New York as the c.ty's
share in the nation wide roundup of
sedition mongers and anarchists. car
ried out by the Federal government on
a gigantic scale.
From p. AT. until long after mid
night an army OF Federal agents. re-
enforced by hundreds Of city police
men and soldiers. raided the gathering
places OF men who have returned the
hospitality OF their adopted country by
plotting TO destroy it's government and
institutions with violence
At the very hour that the raids were
ornoreI the men against whom they
were directed were gathering in scores
greater city. 40 less than seventeen
:, suGn NIP, tp,aees wers Er raded. each yielding
menters of revolution and anarchy. in
one the number running as high as $50.
when the agents of the government
entered the various halls and rooms
fhc radicals submitted TO arrest with
out protest.
Few Americans Involved.
Few native Americans were among
ihose taken into custody, tho most
notable exception being a New York
Julius codkind, isss nroolsiyn G tame tax co.'s ds
lcctor. and who. according TO the Fed
cral agents. boas:ed OF his revolutions
commune would he established in the
United States within five years.
The great majority of those arrested
Srs an Almost ali Mere OF
knewleIse Of the English language or
the institutions Of the country they
plotted against.
s c2aleins. ind such oth:es s@of Tire pr!s-S
tr.ned ,,t,,., OYER to ths pol,Se to be dealt
The aliens were distributed among the
different city police stations for the
night and Will be sent to Ellis Island
in the morning, pending deportation
proceedings.
All Communist Headquarters.
Virtually all Of the places raided to-
night were headquarters OF the Com
boasts of the leadership OF Nicholas
Lenno and Leon TrotzSy. and pro-
or n reign of terror and the annihiIa-
tion Of all existing authority.
The most active spirits in this snis-
back TO Soviet Russian on the trans
port Buford. with the notorious an
arehistS; Emma Goldman and Alex
wireless message was received from
the Buford contingent today, which
Good wishes TO our comrades In
America from the eSiled comrades on
the high sea-"
oludcd in tonight's prisoners, ranging
in age from girls of seventeen to
grandmothcrs. The majority OF. the
women were released after a brief
detained for further examination.
1t was noticeable that while the men
ously anxious to obey their. captors.
the women were openly defiant and
eonstan5iIy c q, rallied At the Federal agents
them spoke English, they wasted their
efforts.
Dnrgex Held in Readiness.
Scores Of bargcs were moorcd along
the New Jersey shores opposite this
land the radicals rounded up by Fed
seey districts, The prisoners. will he
ing and, transported to the island.
Aided by zoo policemen Federal agents
r9anasd !.Rnss un oseS several hundred alleged
the Federal agents more than 1000
active Communists have been enrolled
In Northern New Jersey since last
September
Raids were also, carried out in New
snuh Bivs Paterson nora and
sent to Newark for the night
DouEhbOys Help in Raids.
The radicals were taken to the head
quarters of the Department of Justice
= police patrol wagons and army motor
trucks manned by doughboys
The largest number secured in a
single meeting place was at the COM
mpnist headqnarters in Brooklyn,
There $50 were Corralled.
In various communist Headquarters,
including one with the title. "Heli
Gate Branch. meetings we're in prog
ress when the raiders arrived and from
one to twenty arrests were made in
each place.
Attorney General Palmer personally
directed the great roundup from Wash
stated, had as It's definite aim the rid
ding of the United States of every
alien who has plotted against the
specifically, directed against the Com
munist party and the Communist LABOR
party.
Advocate "Direct Action.o
The Communist party represents the
advocates Of Violence and direct ac-
bership with the names OF Nicholas
L.enine and Leon Trotzky. In the
United States it has found its main
sources sources, OF e recruits n Its, among the most
its principal strength has been in the
congested districts OF New York and
Chica go. What the communists, who
Of bloodshed and anarchy which Paris
experienced after the Franso-Prussian n
War really stand for was set forth
IN ma manifesto ma oy Lenine, which was
ing before the Lusll legislative com
mittce in Rochester. -
This manifesto declared that tho com
ment of .'bourgeolsio. the arming of
the laborers' and the formation Of a