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Show Go vernment Wages War on Radicals I I j ' ij. Federal Agents Arrest 200 "Reds" in 19 Cities II J r Determined and Prompt Action Will Be Taken 1 Against Radicals Caisght in Widespread Clean-j Clean-j up; Capture Bomb-Making Materials, Inflama-B Inflama-B tory Literature, Arms and Ammunition; Prac- 0 tically All Prisoners Were Russians; Had Laid 1 Plans for "Reign of Terror" k Chicaeo. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. Deportation of all aliens en-gaged en-gaged in "red" activities has been determined upon by the de-5 de-5 partment of justice, Attorney-General Palmer announced today. Details of the widespread clean-up of radicals last night and today shov. that more than 200 were arrested in nineteen ; cities. Mr. Palmer has asked the department of labor to de- port all of them. Included among the material and literature seized by government gov-ernment agents in the raids were quantities of articles used in making bombs, a complete counterfeiting plant, a larfe supply of counterfeit bank notes, thousands of pieces of literature, described as of the most inflammatory nature, and scores of red i flags, rifles and revolvers. Agents of the department of justice and the bureau of 1 immigration have been collecting evidence in these particular cases for two months, Mr. Palmer said. Practically all of those ! arrested were Russians. A Plan "Reign of Terror." I CHICAGO, Nov. 8 Activity in plan Ining a nation .side celebration of the I Eecond anniversary of the establish-Bnent establish-Bnent of the Russian soviet govern mrnt, curtailed by raids on alleged I radicals in ni:'n ; cities by federal department de-partment of justice operative . center-fed center-fed in Chicago, operatives of the b'i reau ho re said tod Men- than 200 prisoners were taken In the Chicago district at the same time other hun-Idrtds hun-Idrtds were arrested elsewhere, Ed-Hard Ed-Hard J. Brennan. chief of the Chicago Office, cyif I Most of the prisoners inl.n here ere arrested at their homes as were jbose at Gary and Indiana Harbor. Ind.; Milwaukee. Wis, and South l hi- rx'AQ, l!l i hirvo i- nu-n w - Period t(J i),, f, ,,., ,, ,,11'irr-i s ! From ciTuiars. pamphlets and b't Mors sent i'mtou; 1- th' muds and prized IN lh the department of Justice a stents. thc decided that the movement for 2'ne celebration received its impetus BCrt- The circulars seized gave de- 'Is of the nropo-ed celebration? in fcrious parts of the country, opera -KVs said, and tended to how that iKnrCy v, Jre distributed from Industrial i f Jorkors ol i he World headquarters y here. y to addition to their effoits to check k r tr redS" 11 wr: iri:1i, r,t,-d the federal Mincer? also v.-.-rr. so.-kinK p-non; en pSfd in promoting a pronged Or- I Bh Prancn of ibe 1 W. W. Some of . w circular s.-nt out wen written In , J.ernian and called attention to the -snpaiKn to forv.-nrd a new branch of ri. W W r,tnr,'ntr in the eart and jj working westward. v 0i" ' 'small fry' were arrested in t lit uUh in rhr ( lllraSo district, some lwi IK'"tlves ..aid. It was rumor-L rumor-L i natl0IinI leaders of the I W I 1 dfrn 1h 'i.'r'n arr,:j'"'l hut Mr Iir-nn.-n v Uon'"d ,haf v- "iiam 1 1 Haywood, na L,r r",rirv organization, I , auion6 the prisoners I US?"11?8 for ,ast n)eht at half a DW,1 " ln -'hK-aKO had been iVhlch Las Part "f ,h'"' "Irbration I ch was o last through today, but t in Uie raids stopped them, i The officers working ln Chicago 'used a fleet of taxicabs. As fast as ihe prisoners were questioned by Mr I Brennan, P. J. Rooney, his aid, and , three Chicago city detectives, they w-rre removed to outlying police sta-I sta-I tions. There they were held for fur-I fur-I ther action. Information regarding plans for "a reien of terror" in Chicago in connection connec-tion with the celebration was said to have been obtained by a department ; of justice agent who ingratiated him self Into the radicals' councils ' ( irculars distributed called upon ."brothers and sisters" to join the I movement. "Fellow workers, leave your children at home," advised the announcement an-nouncement of the meeting Several alleged I. W W leaders came to Chicago from New York yea itrrday, announcing themselves as "rep I reeentativea of the press commutes, i Per Klasseiikampf, German propagan-jda propagan-jda branch, L W. W." RAIDS AT AKRON. AKRON, x, Nov. S. Department of justice operatives, led b W H Kage, '.special agent, arrested forty men here early today in raids on alleged radical radi-cal and I. W. W headquarters 52 ARRESTED IN NEW YORK NEW YORK. Nov. 8. Fifty-two rad-leals rad-leals anes'ed in raids here faced deportation de-portation proceedings today The raids, personally directed by Chief William J. Flynn, head of the bu-i reau of investigation of the depart ment, came as a surprise to the 200 or' more persons assembled in the Rus sinn people's house in the lower East Si.ie A class was listening to what, the police termed a radical lecture but all the students hastened to inform ,the officers they were "learning Eng-i lisli." When the prisoners, with several women among them, had been heard I today, it was found that many had re ceived severe beatings Several truck loads of radical llt-i lerature were found In the building. i |