The New York herald., 1921-05-01
POLICE ON WATCH
TO END ATTEMPT
AT TRED'UPHEAVAL
Churches. Public Buildings
and Prominent Homes
Under Heavy Guard.
RESERVES ARE READY
Last Minute Raids Believed
to Have Put Brake on
May Day Plot.
GET TONS OF PAMPHLETS
Two Women Are Arrested
When Caught Putting Sedi-
tious Papers in Mail Boxes.
EFT TONS OF PAMPHLETS

The police continued last night their
pRed Festival or revolutionary May
day demonstration to-day. They Wis
tied the rooms of the !. w. W.,
searched the Offices OF the 7oilcr. a
radical labor paper, arrested women
caught stuff1ng mail boxes with Com
munist literature and raided offices
which had been located as distributing
points for the Communist pamphlets
and handbills calling for a mass dem
onstration i'm favor of the "Proletariat
Revolution"
Detectives Brown and Van Valken-
hurgh Of the bomb squad inspected
the offices of the 7. ". w at 20S East
Twelfth street last night and found
sixteen men there. They we're searched
for weapons, but none Of them was
armed. a mass OF Communist litera-
ture was seized. but as all the men
present denied any knowledge of how
the stuff got there, no arrests were
made.
The offices OF the Toiler in the same
building. also were visited and con-
siderable literature taken away. The
premises of the Reliable Distributing
Bureau in West Forty first street were
raided earlier in the day and two
trucl1loads OF alleged seditious pam
phlets seized. The police found there
hundreds of handbills and many zinc
plates for the printing Of them. call
ing for Red Festival" demonstra-
ton on May day.
Caught PcddIinr Appeals.
Two women Who gave their names
as Mrs Minnie Kalman and Mrs Tina
1iersen. both living at 356 Brook avenue
IN The Bronx. were caught bv Patrol
man Scanlon stuffing Communist hand
bills and May Day appeals in the mail
boxes OF apartment houses. The women
said they had been paid by stranger
TO distribute the material, but an in
spection OF their apartment disclosed,
according 10 tho police. much more ma
terial OF the same general character
The women were turned over TO the De-
partmcnt OF Justice agents for examins-
ton.
Further proof that the Communist or
ganizers have been trying 10 implant the
red doctrine among tho neggAes was
contained in letter signed ~. W"
and found yriday night after the raid on
the Bleecter street flat. This letter
Il a. -,
"a splendid line on the military situa-
tion" through acquaintance at Washing
ton with "an instructor who lives In
New York" II was written In quad
ruplicate to four persons. all Of them
we'll known in negro circles and one OF
them woman, Grace Campbell. Of 206
West 1880 street. who is parole officer
connected with the lower courts In tnis
city. the others were j. Finley Wilson,
editor OF the Eagle. Washington. y. G.:
w. l.. Porter. editor OF the East Ten
ncs5se NeicS. published at Knoxville. and
Dr. Dubois editor OF the CRISIS. pub
lished at 20 Fifth avenue.
"Dr. Dubois" IS believed 10 be w. f.
Burghardt Dubois OF the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People He could not be located
last night.
Grace Campbell protested that she
had no interest in the doings of the
Communists. She admitted that she
was the Grace T.. Campbell who ran for
member OF Assembly in the Twenty
firs; District IN 1919 and IN the Nine
toenth District at tho last election. She
said she had no idea who wv, w"
might be and that so far ae he was
concerned tho phrase "A sricnd'd line
on he military situation 1ad 70 sig
nificance.
The letter. one COPY OF which was adj
dressed to her went on to state
~ am told he (thc New Nc'k pro-
fessor) can handle tho whole situation.
but he s n strict Catholic and : would
want 10 have him well sounded before
talking TO him. rho letter t''"r suv-
gcsts thnt the recipient misltt have
some one competent to handle this mat
ter"