Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-25
FORMER BUTTE EDITOR

Butte, Aug. 20.-Nllliam n. bunn
who was among those arrested Id the
Bridgeman, Mich, raid OF federai
authorities, and described as the work.
ers' party candidate for governor OF
New York, was editor of the Butte
Daily Bulletin. a newspaper advocat-
ing radical policies.
During the war he and other editors
of the Bulletin were hauled before the
Montana state council OF defense on a
charge of d%isobeying an order of a wal
fine hoard relative to restrictions
placed on the use of white print paper,
it being alleged that he and his asso-
ciates ~disregarded the boards injunc-
ton against converting the weekly
Bulletin into a daily publication. be
was not convicted on this charge u
later was tried in Helena on q sedltlon
charge growing out of the same case.
In the Lewis and Clark district court
he was convicted but OF application to
the state court was acquitted. the court
holding that it had not been shown that
his paper was generally circulated IN
the county in which the prosecution was
brought. :,
Dunn was born in Kansas City and
was educated in a school in Minnesota.
His newspaper during the war up
held the cause Of striking miners, an
action criticized by his opponents as
being contrary to the best interests OF
the nation.
Dunn was elected to the state legis-
Ilature as a democrat from Silver Bow
county and served one term. He
sought the democratic nomination for
mayor of Butte but was declared de-
Heated by Captain William Cults after
a contest in the courts in which the
charges of fraud were made by his sup
Iporters but which was held ~groundless
by the court.
Dunn was charged with sedition
and the charge was pressed oy the
state council of defense. He was con
victed of the charge at Helena IN the
district court of Lewis and Clark coun-
tv and fined $4,000 in February 1919.
In May, 1920, he vas granted a new
trial BY the supreme court and the
Judgment of the lower court was re-
lyersed. Dunn came to Butte from
Vancouver, b. c., where he was en-
ployed as an electrician. He had
Lived in that city since January, 1917
and was business agent of the union
there from 1913 to 1915.
USE SYNDICALiSM LAW
Chicago, Aug. 24.-Michigan's state
s~yndicalism law was the first weapon
| state and federal authorities planned
to use Thursday in breaking up what
they termed one of the greatest radical
conspiracies of recent years.
AS il men, captured in a raid or
| their secret meeting in the woods OF
| Berrien county, Michigan, faced syn
| dicalist charges at st. Joseph Thurs
| day. William z. Foster, head of the
| Trade Union Educational league, leader
. of the steel strike of 1919 and one OF
the foremost radicals Of America, who
was arrested here, awaited ~extraditior
to Michigan.
Meanwhile state and federal agents
| continued their search for 90 others
said to have escaped when the secret
meeting In the hills WAS broken up
Among those for whom the authorities
were looking was Rose Pastor Stoke:
of New York. wealthy communist
leader.
Foster, awaiting extradition Il
Michigan, denied he had been at tbs
meeting in Berrien county. He sale
he had not been away from Chicago
during the last few days. He wa!
arrested at his offices. which were
raided by States Attorney Grove Sun
| udt u46Hl. 4NCNOluo ocALCu III khC LAW
on Fosters headquarters and tn
Michigan rendezvous contained tn
names OF many radicals Throughout
the country and will prove valuable il
the roundup, the authorities said.
Foster was arrested by James Roo
ney of the bureau Of investigation o
the department Of justice. and A. NJ
DeVoursney, operative for the privat,
agency headed by William J. Burns
chief of the federal secret service.
For several days before the gather
ing in the woods, strangers dropped
off trains at st. Joseph and Benton
Harbor singly and In twos and threes
They turned up later. according t,
federal agents, at a forest resort neaI
the village of Bridgeman.
Burning pine knots furnished tn,
light for the assemblage in a lionel,
glade at the bottom of a valley. Oper
atives for the federal department whc
watched the gathering noticed tn,
chiefs. In the meantime word tina
they were watched apparently reached
the delegates 10 the radical convention