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Show FEDERAL ACTION TO MEET MENACE URGED BY MAYOR WASHINGTON. Nov. U.-Deela r it : I til public inflamed against the activities of radicals and the situation serious. Mayo. Baker of Portland, Ore., and chairman of the League of Mayors, telegraphed y ice President Marshal: today u tiring federal legislation to meet the situation. An appeal is made o the memoers of the senate. ' said Mr. Baker "to at once consider national legislation to enable ue a-rest and conviction of persons, aitcn o-otherwise. o-otherwise. who are preaching disruption of the government of the t'niled Mates , or preaching violen.-e or disloyalty to this country. The troubles of late, and nota-hlv nota-hlv the affair at Centra'.ia on Armistice dav are due to the growing boldness ot this element. It is a national Droolem. and cltv and state law-enforcing agencies r.rd that existing federal laws on this sublec- are lax. and. upon appre.iendlng persons whose liberty is inimical to the afety of the people individually and col-ectivelv. col-ectivelv. prosecutions either are not possible or fail through technicalities. "The situation is so serious and tne pjhltc is so Inflamed against this element that law-enforcing agencies should have ironclad federal laws under which they can operate in ridding our communities of this element." |