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Show I ofrV Senate Given Sidelights 1 on Anarchistic Activities Activi-ties in Gary. PLAN REVOLUTION 1 Tremendous Quantities I of "Red" Literature Is Found. I WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. Effects of the steel strike in Gary. Ind . and some side lights on anarchistic activities in the district were given the senate committee invest icat inp the strike today. to-day. Lieutenant p r Van Buren. an intelligence officer on the staff of Major General Leonard Wood commander com-mander of the central division, was the first witness. "Our first interest in Gary," he said, "came when Chief of Police For-1 bis came to Chicago from that city' last spring with a request for machine guns and military intervention. He told us the 'reds' there were planning to parade May 1 and start a revolution Two names were given to us as those of leaders of the anarchistic club at 1 Gary, vanoff and De George They were Russians or Austrians. De George was a chemist and we learned later that he was preparing for the Aetna Explosive works outside of Gary, where cun cotton was available from the waste- outnclo ol the mill." R plying to Chairman Kenyon. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Van Buren said a repor; was made to t h di partmept of justice, but so far as he knew there had been no prosecution He added that two men had left Gary. Describing military intervention in Gary, the witness said, "no one has even sustained a black eye since "We found in Gary after military occupation there tremendous quantities quanti-ties ol red' literature' he continued, explaining that local police and associations asso-ciations of citizens had prepared the way for raids on the storage places, 'The Bible of the 'red,' the anarch.-ist anarch.-ist and Bolshevist," he said, "is the manifesto of the communist pari f Russia, put out as what is known as the 'third Internationale' which assembled assem-bled at Moscow in March Many thousand thou-sand copies of l his were in Gary." Lieut, Van Buren read extracts from a booklet seized at Gary. It urged1 revolution upon all workers in all lands In the name of Hit conquering proletariat of Russia and said 'open combat" was tho only redress of alleged al-leged grievances. "All the radicals of the country are centering on the propaganda of Len-ine Len-ine and Trotsky," the witness continued. contin-ued. Printed by German Paper. "I call your attention to the fact that it was. printed In Chicago bv the 'Arbiter Zeitung Publishing company' v, hit h Is significant." "Is this stuff going through the mails7" Chairman Kenyon injuired. "Oh yes," Buren said. "Well, it had better be stopped Jf our Kovernment Isn't to become Impotent," Impo-tent," remarked Chairman Kenyon. "Are there any organizations in Garv which support this program?" asked Senator iTnpps, Republican. "Yes, i have B list of them,' said the witness He commenced producing a series of documents printed in Russian with names of societies attached and a considerable con-siderable quantity of I. W W liters-t liters-t ure. "How many foreigners are taking part in this strike at Gary''" asked Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten-, nessee No Americans In Strikes. ' 1 haven't found an American yet," i In Witness said, "though some of ihe leaders have second naturalization papers." pa-pers." "Here ar some of the productions of the union of Russian workers," Lieut. Van Buren continued. "There's a straight anarchistic society. so-ciety. Here's one of them, entitled,1 'The Crimes of God,' an anti-rellglous pamphlet discussing war" A Whole BerieE pf tracts and pamphlets pamph-lets in Russian, put out by the union were read into the record. "Did you get these in houses, or how9" Chairman Kenyon asked "In houses and halls," Van Buren replied "Sometimes men arrest ed would have I W W. literature in their ' pockets " |