The New York herald., 1921-04-30
COMMUNIST HAUL
HERE BARES PLOT
FOR Big UPRISING
Two Men Are Arrested IN
Bleecker Street Apartment
With Outlined Plans and
Lists of Anarchists.
COAL NINE MAPS TOO
Hundreds of Reds All Over
Country Likely to Be Ar
rested as Result of Evi-
dence Obtained.
MARTENS'S HAND is SEEN
Underground Organization
Had Charge of Plans for
Armed InsurrectiOn. Ac-
cording to Papers.
MARTENS'S HAND is SEEN

The Department OF Justice and the
bomb squad of the New York Police
Department announced at Police
Headquarters just before last mid
night that they had reached into the
midst Of the Communist party Of
America and captured documents and
proofs that will lead TO the arrest OF
hundreds of the most dangerous radi-
Gals in the country. Three prisoners
We're taken 70 headquarters from
house In Bleecker street and these.
together with two great trunks filed
with papers, were referred 10 as the
most important seizures in counter
anarchy moves in the history of the
two departments.
Charles ]. Sculiy. agent of the De-
partment of Justice, who comma nded
the move against the reds" and Ser
geant James j. Gegan, commanding
the bomb squad, said that they had
found in the seized papers complete
lists Of secretaries, organizers and
members of the American Commune
Before daylight, they said, tele-
graph messages would be sent 10 vir-
tually every county in every State In
the Union requesting the immediate
arrest Of the reds named on the
lists
Included in the documents were
maps OF every coal mine in the conn
try. The raiders said these undoubt-
edlv were to have been used in
Nav day uprising. This. they be
lieved, had been nipped before 1t could
be got under way.
Underground Organization.
or all the documents taken, accord
ing 10 Sergeant Gegan, by far the
most Importance was attached TO ref.
erences 10 an underground organiza-
tion." This. II was charged, is the
subdivision Of the United Communist
party. which has been put in secret
charged Of armed insurrection. The
papers referring TO the underground
organization" according to the police.
We're seized at the baggage room OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad Station AZ
Thirty-third street
They had been left there by one OF
the prisoners. This man. II was said.
arrived in New York at . o'clock yes
terday morning. He was followed
from Pittsburgh. where an important
conference. open only TO leaders Of
the Communists. had just been con
cluded.
Two Of the prisoners described them
selves as Abram Jakira, aged 80,
Russian. Of 170 Bleecker street, the
address Of the house where the raid
took place, and Israel Amter. aged 40.
American, OF 205 Brook avenue. The
Bronx. They We're charged with Grim
inal anarchy and violation Of the Sui
livan law. three fully loaded, heavy
callbre revovers having been found in
the bed In the room where they were
seized
Jakira said he had been In the
United States nine years, but never
had become citizen. He said his oc-
cupation was writing" and that at
times he has been journalist. Amter
said he was born in Denver and that
he IS a musician and translator.
Rushes to Pittsburgh Meeting.
The third OF the prisoners was John
+. Siebert, aged Al. of 1856 East
Twenty street, Sheepshead
Bay lie. Sculiy and his men said.
was the prize of the raids. They ac-
cused him Of criminal anarchy and
said that they hold proof Of his being.
one Of the most important cogs in tho
Communist machine. BY trade, they
said. he IS 2 printer, but for longer
than they knew he has been travelling
over the country, visiting every big
city in both the East and the West
and reaching down to the South and
W INV 1iS ANOIth whenever uiS pusstS
saw ht TO find work for him. They
said he has been acting as a national
organizer.
Siebert II was alleged. hurried out
of New York recently to attend = meet
ing in Pittsburgh. Later II was learned
that this meeting was secret confer
ence OF Communist chiefs. Thursday
night two Department OF Justice
agents located him in the Pennsyi-
vania city and followed him to tho
Pennsylvania Railroad station there.
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