Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-16
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ARE IMP PR|SONED
Kansas Started a Round
up at the Beginning of the
Harvest Season; Organ
ization Has New Name.
NV The Associated PressO

Topeka. Kans., July 15.-More
than SO alleged members Of the l.
W. w. are now In Kansas jails as
a result of the drive against the
organization OF inaugurated by state
ard local authorities when the
present harvest season began.
These men are being held in coun-
ty jails at Hutchinson, Pratt, lnde-
pendence and other central points
of the great Kansas wheat belt.
Literature taken from many this
year, indicates, according to Off
cials, that the l. w. w, now Is or
ganizing under another name,
THE Red Feathers"
A force of half dozen field
deputies under State Fire Marshal
L. 7. Hussey is securing the coun-
try in search of l. w. w. organ
izers and members. Reports from
his men, the fire marshal says, in
dicate that many still are in the
wheat country.
The fire marshal said that |. w.
W. workers are not moving in
large numbers as in previous
years. Where alleged groups of
as high as 200 were found moving
across the country in previous
years, he said. small bands of usu-
ally less than ten are reported this
season. Freight trains carrying
large numbers of men going to and
from the harvest are being ''work-
ed" by organizers of the |. w. w,
reports indicate, but when such
reports come in, officers are imme-
diately dispatched to the scene to
make Investigations and more ar
rests.
The fire marshal displayed a
stack of little phosphorus phials,
collected by his force from the
pockets Of men taken into custody.
These glass tubes, known as kit
ties" are about Q 1-2 inches long
and the size of an ordinary pencil,
One end is capped with a brass
knob, which is easily removed, dis
closing a thin layer of paraffin
This gum. when tube Is stuck in
a shock or stack of grain. mells
quickly and the contents of the
phial flame Immediately the air
strikes it. The other end of the
tube holds diminutive magnify
ing glass. which, when exposed to
the sun, heats the phosphorus
causing 1t to smoke and break the
glass.
All those arrested, according to
the fire marshal, carried creden-
tials of their organization, and all
of them seemed to have plenty OF
money. AS high as $3.50 was
found on one Of them. Core
spondence taken from them this
year, the marshal added, indicates
that the directing head of the or
ganization is located in Denver,
whereas heretofore Chicago ap-
peared to be hea dquarters.
A restraining order granted At
torney General Richard j. Hop
kins, of Kansas, against the Indus
trial Workers of the World and
their general executive board, by
Judge A. T. Ayres in Butler coun-
ty district court in June, 1920, has
been made final and copies Of the
order have been posted all over
the state. the attorney general
said. The defendants, including
Thomas Whitehead, general secre-
tary-treasurer of the I. w. w, and
George Speed, chairman of the
general executive board, have ap-
pealed the order to the state su-
preme court.
| c. B. Griffith, assistant attorney
general of Kansas, has been as
signed to cooperate with the state
fire marshal's office in COMBATING
radicals in this state.