Evening star., 1922-10-19
.225k, v. v, ARE HELD
IN PORTLAND RAID
Police SWoop Down on |. w.
WIS Gathering for Wa
terfront Strike.
FEAR INFLUX OF 25,OOO
Slogan '.0n to Portland" Stirs City
Officials to Take Drastic
Steps.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Ore, October lS-More
than 200 men were under arrest here
today. following Mayor George L.
Bakers declaration that Portland
was threatened by an invasion of
thousands of members of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, coming
here to participate in tn ewaterfront
strike. and his orders to the police to
round them up.
In wholesale raids in sections Of
ukhe city where most OF the dock
workers reside. $50 men were arrest
ed. When they had been checke ed
over 225. most of them believed to
be members of the Marine transport
Industrial Union, No. $40, of Portland.
were jailed on charges of vagrancy.
The others were released.
Head Out ON Bail.
William Ford. said to be head of the
Portland I. w. W. organization, was
among those arrested. He was re-
leased on $500 bail furnished by
Frank Cornell, a member of the Inter-
national 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
secretary of the Portland branch of
the l. w. w, also was taken into Gus
tody.
ION to Portland" Slogan.
Reports in the hands of the officials
were said to show that l. W. ", pa
pers in various parts of the country
have adopted the slogan "On to
Portland" and that plans call for the
immediate march of more than 25,OCO
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
the city council concerning the situa-
tion and an ordinance appropriatins
$4,000 for the immediate hire of sew
enty-four special officers to aid in
combating the l. w. W. was passed
after the conference police and men
from the sheriff's Office were comb
ing the city for members of the l. w.
w. known to be active in the present
waterfront strike, and also in meet
ing freight trains said to be loaded
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 that he would ask
railway officials to cooperate in the
present movement and prevent, as far
as possible, the entrance into the
city of the "brakebeam" riders.
Mayor Baker said that the officials
were not taking up the standard of
the employers in the strike, but in
stead were waging war on the I.
w. w.
Strike Not Authorized.
Prominent Portland labor leaders
have informed Mayor Baker that the
strike it not authorized by organized
labor, according to the mayor.
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
tactics of that organization, which
has for its only known purpose the
overthrow of law and order, the ruin
alton of industry and the Russianiz-
ing of the world"