ROUNDING UP I.W.W.’S

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5608, 3 May 1919, Page 2

ROUNDING UP I.W.W.’S

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT'S DECISION MAY DAY RIOTS. SMASHED BY TROOPS AND POLICE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received May 2, 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 1. Owing to attempts to assassinate prominent Americans, the Government has decided to round up and deport Anarchists, LW.W’s., and Bolsheviks. The Government is determined to root out the Anarchists throughout the country. Soldiers and sailors stormed a May Day Labour demonstration in Madison Square, New York, and policb reserves dispersed the crowd, who left three dead. I.W.W. riots were also started in Cleveland, Ohio, when soldiers seized the red flag carried in the procession. (Received May 3, 11.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 1. The World’s • Boston correspondent states that three policemen were shot and a number of persons injured in May Day riots between the soldiers, sailors, and Radicals. (Received - May 3, 11.35 a.m.) NEW - YORK, May 2. The World’s Washington correspondent says that secret service officials have cabled the American peace delegates in Paris warning them that bombs have been mailed to them .