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Show NATION-WIDE RAID ON UNDESIRABLES TWO HUNDRED REDS ARE BAGGED BY GOVERNMENT AGENTS IN NEW YORK. Russians Alleged to be Soviet Propa-gandists Propa-gandists are Seized in First of Raids Planned to Rid Country of Anarchy. New York. A nation-wide raid, on anarchists began here on October 7. Agents of the department of justice, led by William J. Flynn, arrested more than 200 radicals assembled in the headquarters of the Russian soviet republic, re-public, and, after they had been taken to headquarters of the department of justice and cross-examined, fifty were held for deportation as undesirable citizens. Eight women were taken in the raid, of whom two were held for deportation. deporta-tion. While the men were being examined, ex-amined, reports were received of other raids which were made on radicals in Philadelphia, Detroit, Newark, Jackson, Mich. ; Waterbury, Conn. ; Chicago and otlier places. It was learned that thirty-six warrants war-rants had been issued by Commissioner General of Immigration Caminetti for radicals known to have been particularly particu-larly active in the industrial unrest of the country. It was reported that these persons, who were particularly sought, had been caught. They were taken to police headquarters. The raids, taking place on the eve of widely advertised celebrations of the second anniversary of the establishment estab-lishment of the soviet government in Russia, were said to have nipped in the bud a country-wide plot openly to defy governmental authorities. This has been advocated, it was said, for several weeks by combined radical elements, the I. W. W., anarchist and Russian agitators. Pamphlets and other literature to this effect are now in possession of the department of justice, it was said. Country-wide attempts to organize German branches of the Industrial Workers of the World have been disclosed dis-closed by the police. |