TO SEIZE THE CAPITOL.
A STARTLING CONFESSION. LABOUR AND REVOLUTION. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received March 18, 1.20 p.m.) NEW* YORK, March 17. The arrest of five leaders of the unemployed demonstration at Sacramento led to a confession that the unemployed were planning "for half a million demonstrators to'mai-ch on the Capitol at Washington, with munitions of war, which it was intended to seize at Chicago. It was afterwards intended to seize the railways and begin a widespread industrial revolution throughout the United States. While the Secret Service men are not inclined to believe that the grandiose plans are practicable, they admit that precautions were taken against the unemployed crowd camped around Sacramento, which is now dispersing.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 35, 18 March 1914, Page 7
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116TO SEIZE THE CAPITOL. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 35, 18 March 1914, Page 7
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