The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-05

count y-wde raids last Friday night
department Of justice agents are still
seeking members Of the communist
and communist labor organizations
who have SO far escaped the general
dragnet-
Nearly three thousand of those un-
der arrest are being held for deporta-
tion.
New York, Jan. 5.-Gregory Vein
stein, chief of staff for Ludwig G. A.
X. Martens, self-styled ambassad/
OF soviet Russia to tho United States.
was arrested today on deportation
warrant by agents of the department
OF just 'ce
Weinste'n, according to the officials
Is the most influential Russian COM
munist next to Martens in America.
Washington, Jan 5-Radical lead
ers p'anned to develop the recent
steel and coal strikes into a general
strike and ultimately into resoln-
tion to overthrow the government,
according TO information gathered by
federal agents in Friday nights
Wholesale roundup Of members of the
communist and communist labor pa
ties.
A definite program to expand the
two labor disturbances for the pur-
pose of blotting out every semblance
OF organized government, was dis
closed in evidence gathered in half
a score OF cities. This data, officials
said, tended to prove that the nation
wide raids had nipped the most men
acing revolutionary plot yet un-
earthed.
Officials indicated that both groups
of radicals we e only await ng an OPP
portunity to carry on among other
classes of workers the same sort of
agitat' on employed among steel work
ers and local miners. Among the for
eign element of the communist and
communist labor parties information
described as conclusive evealed that
the payrolls had been loaded" with
agitators to be sent suddenly to every
fertile field in support Of general
strike campaign.
During the last two weeks of the
coal strike communist ag tators were
discovered to have penetrated prac
tically every M ming center east of
the Mississippi + yer. Evidence show
ed that in seve al instances where
miners had voted to return to work
the communists had spread Their pro-
paganda of distrust Of the govern
ment to such an extent, 1t was said,
that few il any miners actually got
back to their jobs.
Attempts TO incite the mine work
ers to violence were the most bod In
West Virgin a, officials said, serious
trouble beng narrowly ave ted there
But all soft coal regions were In fest
ed and much of the data lead ng up to
Fridays nationwide raids were gath
cred by secret agents circulating
among the mine workers and coming
in contact with the agitators them
selves, it was disclosed.
The raids also d sclosed that
"slush fund.- has been created by the
two parties against whom the gov
moves were directed.
Much of tn S money, said ITO run in
TO several millions, has been set aside
for use in bailing out adherents of the
doctrine in case of arrest for sedition
and the teaching of violence.
Proof also was said to have been OBJ
tanned that in the case of agitators
who went among the steel and mine
workers funds for bail were made
available in every section frequented
by the red" agitato 8. Their plans
for organization of the workers in sup
port Of the communist cause were pic
tured as more complete than even a
political campaign. 1t was evident,
officials declared that the movement
was ripe" and that settlement of
the coal strike had been keen disap-
pointment to the radical leaders.