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Show DRIVE FOSTER " OUT OF DENVER Told to Leave Colorado After Arriving From Salt Lake DENVER, Colo. Aug. 7 William v. Poster who. ncrordln lo Adjutant General P. J. Hamroek of the Colo-rado Colo-rado rangers, is u former steel worker w bo took ,-in actlvi part In si 1 strikes in 19in. was run out of Denver Den-ver and Colorado $unday at General Hamrook's oniet!,. Foster. General Hamroek declared, is the aiiege.1 1 pnsleb-nt of ; - s.in jet -Russia" socl- ety. the correct title of which General Hummel; did not know. Federal agents, detectives and rangers ran-gers had been looking for Poster for uH.vn, il was saiei rui wueu no :irrl.d on a train from Salt Lake this' afternoon he eluded those w;itr hlng ' for him and registered at 11 hotel General Hamroek said Foster was disguised dis-guised The man was located at his hot"l ; and his suitcase. Which th.- author!-; tics said contained 1 w w and Hoi- Sbevist literature, was confiscate. 1 Poster was taken under protest to an ! aaatbound train and ordered by General Gen-eral Hanirock not to stop in Colorado The police did not have a hand in the Incidt nt General Mam rock said he had be.-n Informed that n secret meeting of those Inter, sted in the society was to have been held here tonight. He declared that Foster Is one of the most dangerous men In the country" and that be had been ordered t.. move, on because he Is undesirable." 1 he forcible , j, , Hon from Colorado, by state rangers of William Z Poster leader of the big steel strike two years 1 ago and nationally known labor or-i ganlzer. was "for the- best inteiests of I the state" and "no Ihw was consulted." Adjutant General Hnmrock said today. Foster, wbe was characterised a 1 dangerous radical," by the adjutant general was taken from a hotel here! shortly after his arrival from Salt Like, placed In an automobile and! escorted by the rangers to a town on th- Kansas state line, Harnrock announced. an-nounced. Previously it had been reported re-ported he was placed on a train here. The adjutant general said Foster said he intended going on io Kansas City, where he was to address a labor meeting tonight, hut later, he said Poster declare. l he whs going to Omaha. Neb Foster resented strenuously being expelled freun the city and State, telling tell-ing the rangers his mission here was "legitimate." He offered no physical resistance however, when he was ordered or-dered into the automobile. A grip which Foster had carried, and sold by Hanirock to contain radi- a literature, was seized and Its contents con-tents confiscated. Foster, who la alleged to be president presi-dent of tho society of "Friends of Soviet Russia." was denounced U lb" udjutant general, who said "we have characterized him as an Undesirable In Colorado, and we s. decided to have him kept right on going without an stop in Denver." A corps of officers and rangers had stood guard awaiting the arrival of Foster Sunday night. 'but the latter was not dete. : until he had regtster- ed at the hotel where ranger.-- seized him He would h.ie been sure to Ftait some trouble and law breaking here" said Mr. Hamroek. "Just for the sake ol safety, we decide,) l-'osL, would not. need his lnflanunatory literature while on hie Journey out of the state and so we confiscated It We told him he could get a lot more in the east If I he nee.l.fi it there, but that It would not do him any good In Colorado "We do not Intend to stop with Poster," Pos-ter," the adjutant general added, but, in radical who enters the state whom, we ouslder a menace to law and order will be treated likewise." 00 |