ARRESTED IN AMERICA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15496, 27 April 1918, Page 6

ARRESTED IN AMERICA.

SYDNEY I.W.W. MAX. WHAT DETECTIVES FOUND. When an American mail steamer was about to leave San Francisco for Sydney recently, the secret service men made a raid of passengers’ luggage. Information had been received that as a result of a round-up by the police, members of the I.W.W. were attempting to get a passage to Sydney, and the authorities were determined not to allow anyone to get away. They had a fairly good description of those wanted, and the examination had not proceeded far when the detectives dropped upon what they regarded as an interesting find. One of the suspected men belonged to Sydney, where his family now resides, and the information in possession of the secret service was such as to lead to the belief that he was recruiting on behalf of the I.W.W. When certain that they had the right man, the detectives took him to a quiet corner of the ship and searched his clothes and baggage. The first papers found were something new in I.W.W. propaganda, which it is believed were intended for Australia. A further search revealed a plan of a saloon in Honolulu, together with directions for flu 1 bearer to find his way from the wharf to the meeting place of the organisation. The plan of the inside of the building showed how to End the particular room where 1 lie meetings were held. There were also other papers from American branches to the Honolulu section. Having secured sufficient evidence to warrant arrest, the defectives removed the Sydney man from the ship and placed him in custody. On the same boat a man who claimed to he a racialist was put ashore The literature found in baggage was of such a nature as '‘likely to cause dissension amongst the people,” and as there is a regulation against the carrying of such mutter, he was placed under arrest.