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Show PURGE COUNTRY OF LAWLESS ELEMENT UNITED STATES AND CANADA ARE WORKING IN UNISON TO SUPPRESS ANARCHY. Government Aroused to Danger Fronting Front-ing Continent and Decision Reached to Put an End to Bolsnevism nd I. W. W. Propaganda. i Winnipeg. The United States and Canada are to join forces in the suppression sup-pression of anarchy in the northwestern northwest-ern section of the continent, and it is predicted that when the loyal representatives repre-sentatives of the two nations . get through with the Bolshevists, I. V. V. members and other enemies of law and order, the North American continent conti-nent will have been cleansed of the anarchistic propagandists. Information brought here on Saturday Satur-day by high government officials is that a careful canvass of radical circles cir-cles has been made with the aid of organized labor in the United States with a view of bringing revolutionaries under international surveillance. Agitators Congregate on Coast. The survey has shown that the agitators agi-tators for a long time have been congregating con-gregating in the Pacific coast cities. New York is said to have lost many of the wildest leaders, who were thick with Trotzky in the days when he lived in the tenement districts of Manhattan, Man-hattan, and they have appeared out west as promoters of the "one big union" idea and "proletarian dictatorship." dictator-ship." Other cities of the east and the middle west have also had a migration mi-gration of extremist leaders to the coast. The section from Seattle to Vancouver Vancou-ver was picked as where the soviet idea was first to be established, the plan being to get a foothold and then drive it eastward. The Seattle strike was to have been followed by a tieup at Vancouver, but the breaking of the I. W. W. at Seattle led the leaders to pick Winnipeg as the spot for starting their Canadian movement. Radicals Migrate to Canada. The boundary line has been nothing of a barrier so far, but the authorities on both sides are now using it as an agency for checking up on the radicals. At present, according to word brought back from Washington by Canadian officials, most of the chief disturbers are now on the dominion side of the boundary. The United States is taking tak-ing measures to keep them from crossing cross-ing back. Revoke Charters for Cause. Martin Ryan, president of the Brotherhood Broth-erhood of Railroad Carmen, has revoked re-voked the charter of two local unions of that order at Winnipeg, and a third at Edmonton, Canada, it was announced an-nounced at American Federation of Labor headquarters at Washington, on the ground that action of their members mem-bers in appropriating money for or-ganizinz or-ganizinz "the one big union" which has led to strikes now progressing in western west-ern Canada, is a disregard of union law. Other heads of international unions are said to be preparing similar orders affecting their crafts. |