Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-21
PI1nTLA7I1 NIEENI|ACE:D
2..YI.T|. ". INVASION;
$4,000 EXPECTED

PORTLAND. Ore. Oct. 20.-More
than 200 men were under arrest here
today following Mayor George L. Ba-
lier's declaration that Portland was
threatened by an invasion of thou.
sands Of members Of the Industrial
Workers of the World, coming here
to participate in the water front
strike, and his orders to the police to
rou1G them up.
In wholesale raids in sections or
the city where most of the dock
workers reside, $50 men were ar
rested. When they had been checked
over 225, most of them believed to
De members of the Marine Transport
industrial union. No. $40, of Port.
land, were jailed on charges of va.
grancy. The others were released.
William Ford, said to be head of
the Portland 1. w. w. organization,
was among those arrc-ted. He was
released on $500 bail furnished by
FRANK Cornell, a member of the In
ternatlonal Longshoremen's union
here
Two Of the men, according to the
police, were identified as I. w. w. or
ganizers from Chicago. Their names
were given as Elmer Hanson and
Sven Swanson. GeCron Quinlaber,
secretary Of the Portland branch Of
the l. w. w, also was taken into
custody.
ION to Portland" the Cry
Reports in the hands Of the Off
Gals were that I. w. w. papers in
various parts of the country have
adopted the slogan, "On to Port.
land" and that plans call for the i'm
mediate march of more than $4,000
members Of the organization to Port
land and other points on the Pacific
coast.
During a conference yesterday in
The mayors office, word was sent to
he city council concerning the sit
uation and an ordinance appropriate
ing $4,000 for the immediate hire Of
seventy-four special officers to aid in
combating the I. w. w. was passed
as an emergency act. Within an
hour after the conference, police and
men from the sheriff's office were
combing the city for members Of the
l. W. W., known to be active in the
present waterfront strike, and also
in meeting freight trains said to be
loaded with "wobblies."
Fifty on One Train
One incoming freight train was re-
ported to have harbored more than
fifty members of the organization,
some Of whom were arrested. Mayor
Baker announced he would ask rail-
way officials to cooperate in the
present movement and prevent as
far as possible the entrance into the
city of the "breakbeam" riders.
Mayor Baker said the officials
were not taking up the standard of
the employers in the strike, but in
stead were wagins war on the I. w.
w. Prominent Portland labor lead
ers have informed Mayor Baker that
the strike is not authorized by or
ganized labor, according to the may
or.
Mayor Baker, in a statement to the
public, said:
with the outbreak of a general
I. w. w. strike on the waterfront
and an influx of I. w. w. from over
the country, Portland faces a critical
labor situation which must be met
forcibly and Immediately in order to
prevent serious disorder, if not a
reign of terror. The strike is an
nounced as an I. w. w. strike and is
sponsored by that organization and
will be attended by the blackjack tao
tics Of that organization, which has
for it's only known purpose the over
throw Of law and order, the ruina-
ton of industry and the Russianiza-
ton Of the world"