WAR ON "REDS."

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1919, Page 5

WAR ON "REDS."

CLEANING UP AMERICA,

SEEDS OF ANARCHY UPROOTED, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, Nov. 9. Seven hundred policemen and State and Federal agents raided 73 Radical headquarters in the Metropolis, arrested 500 persons, and seized tons of literature. The Radicals arrested included Jim Larkin, the Irish agitator. The majority of those arrested were charged with criminal anarchy. Senator Lusk, who had charge of the Radical raids in the city, in a statement said: "We have established the fact that the Communist Party in the United States received substantial contributions here and from abroad. The Communist movement, however, started in Germany, not in Russia. It has been completely determined that the Red Government of Russia was established by 500 Radicals whom Germany shipped, via Switzerland, to Russia. These were the organisers of the Red Guards and gave many Russian securities."

Later it was announced that, although more than a thousand Radicals had been arrested in New York, only 35 had been detained and charged with criminal anarchy.

j Washington, Nov. 12. e -Department of Justice has pub* hshed a document approved by the Federation of the Union of Russian Workers of the United States, which is fathering the Radical movement, ° It states that the proletariat must convert small strikes into armed ones and the latter into an armed revolt of the laboring masses against capital and the State. The workers must immediately seize all means of production and all articles of consumption and make the working classes masters of all the General wealth. They must mercilessly 0 destroy all the remains of Governmental authority and class domination, liberate the prisoners, demolish the prisons, kill police officers, destroy all legal papers pertaining to the private ownership of property, all field fences and boundaries, all certificates of indebtedness, and shoot prominent police and military officers. They must establish city communes, which later will combine into an international federation of communes.