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Show & EIGHT MEMBERS I OF LEGION M I THREATENED SEATTLE. Wash i Nor. 14. (By the if I' ccoriatod rress.) -Renewed acrivitj V I b Both factions today marked the , 1 tichi In Hi- iinnli" - ' ' i Agents against the I. W. W orcanixa-tion orcanixa-tion The establishment of the See H tie Union Record was seized for the r'- ond time in iw..n four hour;' and H the American Legion in Spol,.,n. BBB reived a letter in which eicht l, 1 members of the organisation were Wfjfl Threatened with the fate nf form i I fill d,prs klilp(1 nt Centralia Tuesday The plant Of the nen ipaper was ''(Ir seized this afieinoon by John M III Tloyle T'nitr-rl Siat'S mar.-hal. and pub In Lcatlon stopped Jin.;! "My of fit -aid IV.-. ' i f.da i -"received Instructions to seize the'eh- W tlrr plant an. ke. p po.--" Ion of it In-IB In-IB definitely." E. B. Ault, editor of the Record and fflift MVn '"f'mDw r,f paper's board ot 'Jljljjl dire. u:-.- at.' a. IiImi! under bonds '3'x "n ' barge? of iolatiim the p;o 91 act 1ft "The government prohnbh f bouqhl (,' it. best to hold the entire R . rd plant if until the case against ils editor and HIm directors is disponed of." Boyle add Il cd Tbe 1 r t - r : r--e. i.d m Sp'dane wn LJh' signed "Industrial Workers of the jgp ' "World, Fred Rushman, managing sec-P!'-., rotary." Tt was typewritten and mail Hlij ed in Spokane yeslerday KJwt The men named in ;he letter as nil ' marked" were: Frank McKevitt. Lester Malic tie. Prank O'Leaiy, Henry V, ).- Ralph Gordon. Russell Alexander, T. E T. MM llom.-n .lame? Mhl an.! Handd Pitts. With but one or two inceptions lie- -. iJy m.-n ai-' ov. as veterans and held H commission- in he atnn V i-i i-i offie.-r ot the Spokane Amerl an Le glon post; Pitts is manager of the 'I Spokane office ot the state veterans' HI welfare commission and Albi i.- pre-i 2 den' ' :. I I: ;-'' !,(. ..: : - inlsa- tion ai' HI All hav. l.i . IjSI American Legion in the northwest H The letter said 111 part: j "For the past two or three months the Spokane chapter of the I.-W, W has been watching the activities of several leaders of the American Le-Iglon. Le-Iglon. Yon have taken an open stand against the I W. W Allow mo to Mate ;,t this time thai the American j Legion in Spokane Is doomed and will jbe curbed by the working classes. "Our members have instructed me to I write ynu at this time notifying you that unless the following men discontinue discon-tinue to create hatred against the I yy. W. of Spokane that they will fol-How fol-How in l he footsteps of the marked ones at CentraUa." Then followed the j names. Fift -eight alleged members of the I I W. W. are held in jail at Spokane on charges of eriminal .syndicalism Com- mis.sionei J. H. Tilsley of the depart-1 depart-1 ment of public safety has forbioden workers' meetings" scheduled for Sat urday and Sunday evenings.. Prosecuting Attorney Askren of Ta-coma Ta-coma announced late today he intended intend-ed proceeding immediately against six-Lv-aix alleeed members of the I W V held there on charges of criminal syndicalism. syn-dicalism. Advices received at Aberdeen, Wash , said I. W. W were responsible for the riddling wilh bullets of a large community flan flying on a hill above Cohhalls today. Governor Louis P. Hart today relt erated his announcement that " all members of the I. W. W. in Washington Washing-ton must go " I. W. W Army Arr.vinrj BPOK .NK. Wash . Nov 11 Members Mem-bers of the American Legion here were being sworn in as special policemen this evening to meet what was declar- ed to bp an invasion of one thousand io two thousand members of th Industrial In-dustrial Workers of lh World due to arrive here tonight from Montana and ' other parts of the northwest. Arrangements were being made with officers at Fort George Wright bere, for arms and ammunition tor the American Am-erican Legion deputy shcritu who nrere to be held in readiness for Imnie dlate action Major Thomas 0. Ash-ton Ash-ton commander of the third battalion of th national guard, announced lie had telegraphed Adjutant General Moss recommending thai the two .local companies nf guardsmen be mobilized. All 1 w W suspects are to be arrested, ar-rested, arcording to an agreement reached at a conference here late to-1 day between Commissioner Tllslej ol the department of publie safety Chief of Police Weir, Sheriff Reid and other officers, and representatives of the American Legion. After Jails have beenfilled. prisoners will be held else where under guard. Men Coming in Trams. Officers of the American Legion told the Officials they had received what they considered authentic re j I ports that I W W. are en route here and should begin arriving on (rains' 'tonight. All incoming trains, they !said. are loaded with members of ihe organization, and reports have been re celved from lumber camps In this re gion that I. W V . ap' leaving (heir jobs to go to Spokane. Desp.te efforts tq discount reports jof the invasion, officers of the Legion maintained stoutly their inform., t ion was from reliable sources. 1 The city jail is filled, it was stated, ; but Sheriff Reid said he could care for 170 additional prisoners In the county jail. All arrested men would I be held, it was declared. |