The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-23
Partly Responsible for New
Disorders, Says Daugherty.
Delay of Mail Trains in Okla
hOma Is Causing Concern.
ARE AGAIN SEEKING FOSTER
Some Sixty Other Radicals
Being Sought Near Chicago.
Fifteen Captured Following
"Red" Convention Sunday.

Chicago, Aug. ga game of hare
and hounds was being played in this
city today by government agents and
William q. Foster, so-called master
mind" OF American reds"
eFoster. sought in connection with
the ralds of communist convention
in the Michigan woods late yesterday.
was reported to be in the city waiting
proper time TO reveal himself
"A statement from the Federated
Press. of whose executive board Fos-
ter is a member. said that Foster was
in the Cook county court house at the
time of the raid and that he was not
al the alleged red" convention in the
woods where fifteen men were ar
rested
Dougherty Makes Charge.
washington, Aug. %. New rail
strike disorders, particularly in the
west, in which mail trains have been
delayed, were declared by Attorney
General Daugherty today to be due
partly to renewed activity by I. w.
WIS, and their sympathizers-
The attorney general said 1. w. WIS.
are invading troubled traffic centers
and causing fresh disturbances. They
are very active, he asserted, in TO
menting outbreaks among rail men at
junction points and they are suspected
of having part in getting rail works,
ers to refuse to haul nonunion coal
shipments.
Holding up of mail trains in Okla
hOma gave concern TO both Postmaster
General Work and the attorney gen.
eral. In this situation they agreed
that the I. w. VS. were to be chiefly
blamed The department of justice
. will have about 100 deputy United
States rnarshals at-Shawpee investigat-
ing conditions. Sixty deputies were
on duty today at that point and be-
fore the end of the day, the number
will be nearly doubled. officials said.
Governor Robertson, of Oklahoma,
may call out state troops, officials
were informed, as measure to pre-
vent interference with the malls and
to prevent disorder
4ssThe /. w WIS. are tanning ana
agitating wherever they light and they
are seeking the spots were the trouble
already exists" the attorney general
said. They are overlooking no op-
portunity to. make more trouble"
The attorney general ventursd no
predietion of what disposition will be
made of the evidence gathered against
the ]. w. W's. He blamed states
mainly for not forestalling attempts to
stop mail trains.
Hunt for Foster.
Chicago, Aug. 23.-William 2. Fos-
ter. believed by department of Justice
officials to be the leading mind of
American reds" was again being
hunted in Chicago today Some sixty
other alleged radicals also were being
sought. DOLh IN city anu III par u
of northern Indiana and Michigan.
part OF a band OF reds who escaped
from their rendezvous IN the Michi-
gan woods near Bridgeman late yes
terday as government agents swooped
down upon it.
Fifteen of the band were captured
together with much literature OF a
cornmunfstic nature.
The secret convention Of the reds"
was said TO have been revealed in pa
pers found in the recent raid of the
Trade Union Educational headquar-
tiers in this city According to gov
eminent agents it was the most i'm
portant to be held in this country
since the war
sFoster is believed to have been
among the men escaped together with
Boris Reinstein and Arnold LokowslSy.
close aides of Nipplai Lenine, Russian
red premier.
Blamed for Unrest.
Federal secret service men claim
the communists were involved in the
railroad strike and in plotting indus
trial unrest turnout the country, altho
no direct evidence has been found. IL
was stated. that they had a hand in
the wrecking of the Million Dollar
Michigan Central express at Gary,
Ind, on Monday.
The search for Foster is being d.
rected by William ]. Burns, chief OF
the United States department of Jus
tice. The ''red" convention was held