HOW PLOTS WERE HATCHED.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 September 1919, Page 7

HOW PLOTS WERE HATCHED.

AMERICAN BOMJS OUTRAGES. TERRORISTIS ‘MEET SECRETLY. The police authorities at Pittsburg report that John Johnson, the president of a local branch of the Indus—trial Workers of the World, who has been arrested, was the directing genius of tlie bomb Dlots Which resulted in the explosions at the homes of Mr W. H. Thompson, the Federal judge, and of Mr 7SibraY, the Chief Inspector of the Bureau of Immigration. Superintendent Alderdice, of the Pittsburg DOIiCO, Says that Johnson came to PittSbUl‘g at the instance of “NO. 1001.4” William Haywood, the President of the National Union of the Workers of the World, bears that pass number. Johnson is said to have named 9. Cleveland man as the maker of the bombs. ‘This man is believed to be in Clnicago, and is being sought for there. It. is learned by the Post Office Department olficialg that a secret meeting of Radicals from many parts of the country was held at Plfiladclphia on May 24, when it is believed that :1 nation-wide terrorist conspiracy was hatched.