Evening star., 1922-09-01
Disclosures at Chicago lndi-
cate Plan to Attack Presi-
dents or Kidnap Families.
DYNAMITE AND TORCH
= BEING FREELY USED
Several Bridges Burned and Homes
of Workers Attacked-Ex-
plosives Found.
BY the AssOcia ted Press.

CHICAGO. September Police and
federal operatives here were under
orders today to start vigorous drive
against radicals and agitators be-
lieved to be behind railroad wreck
and bomb plots.
Activities here followed twenty -four
hours of increasing disorders. bridge
burnings and dynamiting of railroad
property throughout the country.
Disclosures of an alleged plot to
kill three railroad presidents or hid
nap members of their families were
made during the investigation of
radical plots. according to the Chi
cago Herald and Examiner today.
The three rail reads against whom
the alleged plot was made were said
to be the presidents OF the New York
Central lines, the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn, and the Chicago. Rock Island
rfngleader was said to be under sur
veillance and his arrest was e expected.
May Deport Aliens.
Deportation proceedings against
aliens arrested in connection with
plots against the railroads are prob
able. authorities said
Gov. Small of Illinois granted a
requisition TO extradite William z.
Foster, radical leader and head Of
the Trades Union Educational League.
to Michigan, where he is wanted on
charges of criminal syndicalism
growing out of the alleged COM
munist meeting in the Berrien county
wood.
Among numerous plots and actions
against various railroad properties in
the past twenty-four~ hours were
these:
Carried Explosives.
W. P. Seyfred. president of the New
Mexico State Federation of Labor.
and Andrew Bruno. a plumber, were
held at Albuquerque following their
arrest on Santa F'e train and the
discovery of bombs fuses and caps
in their grips. Searching Seyfred's
room, police said they found more
bombs.
Road officials said they believed
Seyfred and Bruno planned to blow
said they had information of plans
to dynamite a bank building and
hotel under construction by nom
union labor at Albuquerque.
Several bridges on the st. Louis
Southwestern railway in Arkansas
wires were cut The road offered a
reward of $1,000 for the arrest Of
persons responsible for the fires.
Loose Rail Found.
Track walkers discovered a loose
rail near the junction Of the Cotton
Belt and the Missouri Pacific at North
Little Rock, Ark. Spikes had been
pulled from the ties. ~
Bridge burners fred a Sante Fe
trestle near Tecumseh, Okla. after
saturating it with kerosene. Posses
were in pursuit of three men said to
have started the. fire.
Homes of three employees Of the
illinois Central at Paducah, KY,
We're dynamited. The explosions oc-
Cured in different parts Of the city.
Five Arrested In Missouri.
Five men, including the chairman of
two striking shop crafts were ar
rested at Slater, Mo-, by deputy United
States marshals and taken to Kansas
City, charged with interfering with
the mails. The. charges included the
alleged beating Of a volunteer fireman
on the Chicago and Alton who was
dragged from an engine cab by mob
at Marshall. Mo.
Other developments included threats
against railroad officials at Memphis
a clash between striking shopmen and
workers at Lacrosse, Wis, and the
sluEging Of a Missouri Pacific shop
foreman at Sedalia, Mo.