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Show I Department of Justice Has Information In-formation Instigators Working Work-ing With Europeans. AGITATORS MAY CAUSE j SERIOUS TROUBLE ! t Ton sof Inflammatory Literature Litera-ture Circulated Within Last Month Says Palmer. WASHINGTON, April 29 Radlc.il demonstration In every Industrial center cen-ter In the country are being urged Tor May Day by the cbnimunist and communist com-munist labor parties and other exponents expon-ents of "direct notion," department of juBtlce officials said today. Information in, possession of the de- ' partment was said to reveal that rad- ical elements both In the United Slates I and In Europe were planning to mako Saturday the first "real" international j labor day. I In the United Stales, department ag ents asserted, workers In industrial i centers are being urged to "down tools May 1" and participate in "Interna tional labor day exercises." WASHINGTON, m April 29. Plots against tho lives of'moro than a score of federal and state officials havo i been discovered by tho department of 1 ustlce as a part of radical May Day demonstrations, Attorney General Palmer Pal-mer announced tonight. Tho department has information, according ac-cording to tho nttorney-general, that the Instigators of the May Day demonstration dem-onstration here have boon working "in I dlrcot connection and unison" wth ' leaders of disturbances set for Bur- ope. As In Europe, attempts aro bcin made to incite strikes in all basic American Am-erican industries, Mr. "Palmer said, al-though al-though ho did not belloVe they would Radicals May Cause Trouble. "I am not going to prophecy what v will happen," Mr. Palmer said. "I am just making public some of the things i our agents havo discovered. But if a will to upset our nation's wholu y I sqhemo of living counts for anything, I me raaicais may cause some irouoie. Mr. Palmer said that while he could not disclose tho nature of the Communist Com-munist Labdr party's plan in connec-, iu.n with further strikes, leaders of till1. 1 organization had concentrated on' ;tjveral important industries and that1 uiu demonstrations planned throatonj tu cause trouble in ihe way o -walkouts. Foreign Sections Scheming. All of tho propaganda, advocating May Day disturbances, reierrcd to "in-' I human treatment" of ilie souet gov- eminent of Russia by the United ' blates'and the allied powers, Mr. Pal-J Mer continued. In foreign sections of) Industrial centers, appeals for -peace' 'with Russia" have been cmpioed as l the main method in stirring up dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction with this government, Mr. Palmer said. Strikes and disorder, he said, simply are meant to eniphuslzuj to ijVmerican officials the threats of! the radlcala that relations must be re-, 1 ' sumed with Russia. I Tons of inflammatory literature have been circulated in the last month by express and freight and secretly distributed dis-tributed by local leaders, according to information obtained by departmoui agents. The Communist Labor group also has sent numerous "personal emissaries" em-issaries" into cities where the field! was deemed ripe, Mr. Palmer reported. report-ed. These men have been under con-1 i stant surveillance by federal agents I and it was through their activities that' the government was first able to es- tablish definitely the aims of the group ' for May Day disturbances. Men and women havo been used par- tlcularly in the textile manufacturing ' districts. |