Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-10 | Page 2 | 2500 Reds are Taken in Raids by U. S. Officials

2500 REDS ARE TAKEN IN RAIDS BY U. S. OFFICIALS By Vnlversal Service. XEW YORK Nov. 9. The series of raids on meeting' places of radicals in thi and other cities throughout the Unlced States have ivesulted in the rounding round-ing up of 2500 suspects, two of whom, j Benjamin Gitlow and "Jim" I.arkin. are l held here on charges ofcriminal anarchy, jit is believed that simiiar charges will j be . against many others among the I suspects taken here In th raids of Fri-I Fri-I day and Saturday nights who are not citizens. i Tons of anarchistic literature were seized in the raids and records? found in the various headquarters are sakl to have j thrown new light on the activities and extent of the plans of the radicals for starting a revolution and setting up a "soviet" here. Many of the meK arrested ar-rested had cards in radical organizations, including the I. W. W. It was announced today that the rirVds : already made wore merely the beginning of a nation-wide roundup, and it was learned that plans are now under way" for the formation here of an organization I of "minute men-' similar to the one in ' Seattle to suppress radicalism in labor I organizations and elsewhere.