The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-27
COMMUNIST LEADERS
HELD IN MILL CITY
AS RIOT AG|7A7ORS
Two Rearrested by Guardsmen;
will Be Tried in Mill.
tary Court
MAY BE DEP0RTEO By U. S.
City Remains Under Martial
Law With 1900 Troops
Stationed in Loop

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consider their refusal OF peace terms
advanced by federal mediators In the
tuck drivers strike Friday as fed
eral authorities turned inquisitorial
eyes on two suspected Communists
linked by police with the strike.
Reiterating their previous answer
they would not deal with Commun-
ists," the employers advised the Rev.
Francis Haas and E. H. Dunnigan,
niediators. they would not enter into
any arbitration with q wage scale
fixed in advance.
The city remained under military
rule with guards patrolling the streets
as federal immigration authorities ex-
amined documents and letters seized
when James p. Cannon, editor Of the
Militant, Communist League publica-
ton, and Max Schatman. editor Of the
New International, were arrested.
Both men, charged with vagrancy
were released upon presentation Of Z
writ Of habeas coruus In district court
Friday morning. They were immedi-
ately rearrested by guardsmen and
taken to the armory. They will be
tried in military court, officials indi-
Gated.
May Deport Communists
Results OF the investigation, federal
men said, would determine whether
deportation proceedings against the
two would be started While inquiry
was made into this phase Of the sit
uation, business was conducted as
usual.
The chief Of police said letters
found in possession Of Cannon and
Schatman were addressed to them In
care Of Vincent Dunno, one Of the
leaders in the strike that reached q
climax week ago with the firing on
pickets by police. Sixty eight persons
went to hospitals as q result, one Of
tkem dying from wounds.
One Of the letters, Chief Johannes
said. discussed Communist plans at
length and referred to the possibility
OF further strike developments in the
class struggle in general The letter
told how Communists had agents
agitating both here and in the San
Francisco strike, Johannes said.
Other letters and kilograms, ad-
dressed to Dunno, were signed Annoy
Arne swabeck. national secretary Of
the Communist League Of America, II,
New York. Simon Barach, released
from q hospital Friday, was taken in
custody. He was wounded in the
shooting last week.
His name and address also were
among the effects Of Cannon and
Schatman. He told police, they said,
he did not belong to the drivers union
but was called on to assist" the
pickets.
Driving Permits Freely Granted
More trucks piled the streets "a
guard officials issued permits to vir-
tually all who requested them.
Concentration Of National Guard
troops in downtown Minneapolis be-
cause Of the truck drivers strike was
increased by the moving in Of an
especially trained Shock troop bat
TALON.
Quietness pervaded the city as the
third battalion of the 2o6th Infantry
entered the downtown district with
q heavy complement Of arms, includ-
ing gas guns, field machine guns.
automatic rifles, and tommy guns.
The men, most Of them veterans with
war experience, are specially trained
In dispensing crowds.
Military rule Of the city. decreed
Thursday BY Gov. Floyd B. Olson.
Friday morning brought guardsmen
to every corner Of the heart Of the
downtown district. They acted on
instructions to prevent parki.4g with
In 76-block area except to discharge
passengers. and to forbid the gather.
ing Of crowds. They wore steel he'll
NETS and carried rifles with fixed
bayonets.
$4,000 Troops In City
The total strengt., Of the guard
within the city Appropriated 400.
Some 1890 more men still remained
at the fair grounds, Just outside the
city limits, ready for call. Whether
this reserve force would be demobil-
lied and sent home, depended on de-
velopn ents in the next few days.
Sixty-eight persons were injured,
most Of them wounded and one IA
tally, by police shotguns . week ago
when pickets attempted to halt Z
loaded truck.
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