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Show r r V i - rT -i . I . Z. FOSTER NABBED AFTER RAID IN WOODS Michigan's Syndicalism Lav Used Against Alleged Reds MEETING BROKEN UP Men Arrested Declared to Have Records for Communist Com-munist Activity CHICAGO. Auff. 24. Michigan's state syndicalism law was the flrM wmpon state and federal authorities, planned to use tcmIhv In brcsVklnfc up hnt they termed on- of the greatest radical ;tnd revolutionary cOMplrstcii of rerent j-ears. As 1" men Ckptured In a raid on tl-olr iecret rendexvous in the woods of Beirlene i oumy, Michigan, faxed syndicalism charges at Si. Joseph today. to-day. William Z. Foster, head of the (rail union educational .aK'.ie. leaiw of tlio steel st,-i!? of r.lS. and on: Of the foremost ra 11-a's f XpktI. i, who was arrested nere, awaited extra-dillon extra-dillon to Michigan. BlSI K I in OTHERS MeanAhtle state and federal agents continued their search for f0 others said to have escaped when the secret moetinu tn the hills wus broken up Anions: those for whom nutborltlt were looking wao Kore Pastor Stokt-s of Nov. York. wealthy communist Teacler. Foster, awaiting extradition to Michigan, Mich-igan, denied he had been at the meet log at liirrline county. Ho said ho had not been nwaj from Chicago during dur-ing the luxt fe.v days. He was ar-resled ar-resled si his ofi?ea whlclvwere raided raid-ed b- state's attorney Crowe Hundav night. RKCORDS .1 I N Vll. 1 cords seised In the- raid al F-tor'S F-tor'S headiiuartci-K and the Michigan tiic-f-tlng place contained the names of many radicals thioughout the countr) and will prove valuable In the round-up. round-up. th1 authorltlea said. Foster was arretted b James Hoon-ey, Hoon-ey, of the bureau of Investigation of the deportment of Justice and A. J. I Devoursney, ppei ittve for the private agency headed by Yllllnm J. Burns. chief cr the fe(i. ml secret service. l.'or several days before th gather ling in ihe womls strangers dropped ! off trains at St. Joseph and Benton llarhor slngl'. and In twos and threes They turnedUP later, according to fi deral agents, a a forest resort neat the village of Bridgnftaii. t n i ins urjjj : j; Burning pine knots furnished the light for the osVeofiblage in u lone) glade at the bottom of a li. r. i'y tinibere.i valley operatives for the federal departm-ni who watched I no githering notified their chlefy. In the meantime word 'hat Ihcy were wotch-d wotch-d apparently reached the delegates to the radical convention. f"f many of ihem disappeared. VN'hen the word came to make ih arrets, after i-om-i muni cations between federal and local lo-cal authorities, sheriff's ilepntlcs and I govern oient operatives drew in tne.t I dragnets. WOMW soli. ITT Thief among those h were a i - j r sted wa? o. E. luthenborg once a candidate for ma or of Clo eland. Tnaflipg some of i h. who escaped di-ctlvs assriied Ihe belief that .Mrn Slokes was among 'he fugitives. Efforts Ef-forts to lo ate her as the state of Michigan Invoked its criminal syndicalism syn-dicalism law the first time, were redoubled re-doubled today. Following Poster's arrest detectives Visited his home 'icre In uest of more evidence V VTB MUTlov sOl GUT ST JOSEPH Mich.. Aug. 24. Charles V. Goore, prosecuting attorney attor-ney for Bfrrlgno county announced today (It u extr.idvtion would be sough J for William Z. FbsteiS former steel strike leader, arjheftd In Chhago late M I nesday. following Ihe raid neat Brldgmen and lyith 17 others, charged l Willi criminal -viellcali.-.n In n wn.-r.nr wn.-r.nr Lsaued by Justice Ray W, Davis Federal investigators whose opera-tionn opera-tionn led to the . rl . nle .n also, It was 'ie formal charges again'sl more than 70 other p.-rvons. It I'OUT 'l ION wlMI.Y. The identity of th' Bridgm.an conferees. con-ferees. It was ail .was d!s.(-e.l In papers uncovered after the raid. A 1 list of the radical leaders In the Cnlted State as well as pamphlets advocating the overthrow of this government, gov-ernment, and the establishment of a soviet form was uncovered in the lit "rniiire the of flf crs seized, much i 1 v. hi h was p'-intf 1 bo'ii In 10 1 I : x 1 1 ai"i I l:uK.,in. Federal authorities said they were convinced that two noted i Woman radicals were In the party along with two representatives of th t Kusion soviet. I '"ip .f 'h. foreign representative! ; of the eQmmunlbls. who was identl- i field wtth ti,e Bridgjnan gathering, so Continued on Page Two) FOSTER HELD IN RADICAL RAID State and Nation May Move To Break Up Alleged Plot (Continued from Pago One) far as rfa hn disclosed bv the Investigators In-vestigators was Norman E. Tallentlre of Great Britain, one of tho seventeen who Is to go on trial today Authorities Indicate deportation pro-eeolngs pro-eeolngs would be instituted against Tallentlre an.J also Alex Bail, whose home is In Phliaelphla. but who is Bald to be a Russian. KNOWN AS RED. SEATTLE, Wnsh . Aug, 24 Max I Lrner, one of the 17 men captured in: a raid on a me-tlng of asserted radl-l pals at Brldgmau, Mich.. has boon I Identified by th. Seattle police as having hav-ing been connected with certain radl- cftl movements In the state of Waah-I Ington On August fi the police said he was' found at a state convention of the workers' Party of America, held on, the farm of Jacob Tulskus. near Ka!a-m Ka!a-m a The convention was raided by federal fed-eral officers ;i-companicd bv the sheriff sher-iff of Cowlitz county. Lerner apr-ear- ?K.?m n I)ort!f"'"' ot papers Just as thS officers arrived . The papers were taken from him after a f:ght. No arrests were made hut fh r,r fleers sjid they obtained data show-, show-, Ing a connection of the workers part with the Russian soviet. . The convention was to havo chosen delegate;, to a national convention ol the party ANOTHER RADICAL. PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 24. Z iNordllng. taken into custody In raid on a meeting of alleged radicals at Brldgman Mich, was one of the or- UhrS IS W" the communists' labor party during the war nnd was arrested a numbe- of times by federal olircers on various charges n wtLt a member of the locnl of the Boilermakers' Boiler-makers' union which was disowned D the ( entral Labor Council of Oregon and denied membership for a Time bemuse of (ti aed radcftl ten6 |