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Show U. S. GOVERNMENT BEGMONOUP NET 18 OUT FOR CAPTURE OF ALL I. W. W.'S WHO ARE CAUSING TROUBLE I Seventeen Men Are Taken In Raid In Michigan City; Western 8tates to Receive Attention of Federal Men Washington. A roundup ot I. W. W.'s In a number ot westorn states, in connection with rail strlko disorders, dis-orders, has been docldod upon by tho department ot Justlco, It was learned Thursday. k The department's buroau ot Investigation, Investi-gation, concluding an inquiry extending extend-ing ovor several weeks, has supplied to the state authorities information which will bo mado tho basis for raids upon tho headquarters ot alleged radicals. radi-cals. Chicago. Michigan's state syndicalism syndica-lism law was tho first weapon stato and fed oral authorities plannod to uso Thursday, William Z. Foster, hoad of termed ono ot tho greatest radical and revolutionary conspiracies ot recont years. As 17 mon captured In a raid on their secret rendezvous in tho woods of Berrien county, Michigan, faced syndicalist chargos at St. Josoph Thursday, William . Foster, hoad ot the Trado Union Educational loaguo, leader ot tho stool strlko of 1010, and one ot tho foromost radicals ot America, who was 'arrostod horo, awaited extradition to Michigan. Foster, awaiting extradition to Michigan, Mich-igan, donlod ho had boon at tho mooting moot-ing in Borrlon county. Ho said ho had not boen away from Chicago -during tho last tow days. Ho was arrostod at his offlcos which woro raldod by State's Attorney Crowo Sunday night. Records seized In tho raid on Foster's Fost-er's hoadquarters and the .Michigan rendezvous contained tho names ot many radicals throughout tho country r.nd will provo valuablo In tho roundup, round-up, tho authorities said. Fostor waa arrostod by James Ilooncy, ot tho buroau ot invostlga-(ration invostlga-(ration of tho dopartmont ot Justice, and A. M. DoVoursnoy, operatlvo for tho prlvato agency headed by William J. Burns cholf ot tho fodoral socrot sorvlce. For several dayB bofore tho gathering gather-ing In tho woods, Btranors dropped off trains at St. Josoph and Bfinton Harbor singly and In two and threes. Thoy turned up lator, according to federal agents, at a forest rosort near tho vlllago ot Brldgman. Burning plno knots rurnlshod tho light tor tho assembUgo In a lonoly glade at tho bottom of a heavily timbered tim-bered alloy. Operatives for tho tod-oral tod-oral department who watchod the gathorlng notified tholr cholfs. In tho moantlmo word that thoy woro watched watch-ed apparently toachod the delegates to tho radical convention, for many ot them disappeared. When tho word camo to maka tho arrests, attor com. munlcatlons botween fodoral and local authorities, shorltts deputies and government gov-ernment operatives drew In their drag not. Trailing somo ot those who oscaped detectives asserted tho bollef that Mrs. Stokes was among the fugltivos. Efforts Ef-forts to locato her as tho state ot Michigan Invoked Its criminal syndicalism syndi-calism law for tho first tlmo, woro ro-doubled ro-doubled Thursday. Federal investigators whoso operations opera-tions lod to the raid, plannod also, it was Indicated, to tile formal charges char-ges against moro than 70 other per. uons. |