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Show MAY DEPORT ALL RADICALS. Natio-n-wide Raid to be Followed by Drastic Proceedings. Washington. Inaugurating a general gener-al warfare on radical aliens advocating advocat-ing forcible overthrow of the government, govern-ment, agents of the department of justice, assisted by the immigration bureau, rounded up nearly 500 men and women in raids Friday night and Saturday in more than a score of cities, including the national capital itself. More than 200 of those arrested will be held for deportation, and it was announced at the department of justice jus-tice that it was the intention to request re-quest the department of labor to deport de-port all aliens found to be engaged in radical activities. Primarily the raids, which occurred in practically every industrial center in the east and middle west, were aimed at the Union of Russian Workers, Work-ers, an organization which, Attorney General Palmer disclosed, was formed in New York twelve years ago by a group of men, at the head of which was William Szatow, now chief of the Bolshevik police at Petrograd. In their raids in Newark and Trenton, Tren-ton, N. J., the federal agents seized materials for making bombs and a . complete counterfeiting outfit, together with considerable counterfeit money. In practically every raid the officers found great quantities of literature. |
