UNITED STATES
HUNTING I.W.W. MEN,
By. Electric Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and K.Z. Cable Assn. WASHINGTON, November 12
At Centralia (Washington State) a mob lynched a member of the 1.W.W., hanging him from a railway bridge. After the death of the. man lynched four were shot with revolvers when they were passing the I.W.W. headquarters during) a victory parade. Troops are endeavouring to .restore order.
At Oakland (California) soldiers raided the I.W.W. headquarters, wrecked the building and burnt the contents. '
WASHINGTON, November 12,
Mr Johnson, in the House of Representatives, said that the Centralia outrage was obviously an attempt at an industrial revolution. Syndicalism and communism - were rampant, and the United States must purge itself of seditionists and' revolutionists.
ROUNDING UP UNDESIRABLES.
"WASHTNGTON, Nov. 12.
The round-up of Radicals and T.W.W. has been resumed throughout the country. 'Scores of arrests have been effected in the north-western States.
MEXICAN BANDITS
Mr Lansing, explaining the Mexican captures of Americans who were held to rausom j said that the United States intended by diplomatic meats to see justice accorded to Americans and. protection given t 0 their rights.
THE POLICE NET,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11,
It is announced that 391 Radicate are held as the result of raids throughout the nation. The total bail is 3 - 920.000 dollars. -
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16981, 14 November 1919, Page 7
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