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?f THE TOILS eminent Agents Conduct Sweeping Raids Through out the Country aO?SANDS OF AGI TATORS ARE CAPTURED of Raid to Secure Evi r 4e?ce to Deport the Trouble -Makers v iWashington, Jan. 2.?Launching a e? Concerted and carefully prepared f&imovement against communists and 1 communist labor groups of radicals, agents -of the department of justice tonight conducted raids in 33 cities ex Sending from coast to coast. ..-Raids were, conducted in the fol lowing cities: 1 " New York, Baltimore. Boston. Buf falo, * Chicago, Cleveland. Denver, Des Moiaes. Detroit, Grand Rapids, Hart fqrd, Indianapolis. Jacksonville, Fla.. Kansas City, Los Angeles, Louisville. MihraUKee. Newark, Omaha. Philadel phia, ^Pittsburgh, Portland. Me.. Port pafioadir Ore., Providence. San Francisco. Sc^nton,,Spokane, St. Louis, St. Paul. ' g&ring&e??. Mass., Syracuse, Toledo and Trenton.. vTh? .object of the raids, Assistant Attorney Garvan said, was to obtain for ^bmission to the department of t?bor cases for deportation of "a very iar^..number of our most dangerou-'J "anarchists _ and radical agitators.'' Adepts-of the department, he added, ^nt, out prepared to catch the radi ^a?s- ''with the goods." / general charge of attempting to ^erthrow the government by force an^j violence was placed against the ner?tons. arrested during the raids. Of 3"eiais. declared they believed that sev eeal.hundred members of the Com munist and Communist Labor party; foulet be behind the bars before j &crning Officials _ here declared the nation ?flrf?e- . round up was the most com-j pleteiy planned and the machinery,1 w^^rthc^., best oiled for this of any raidspunched against the radical ele Khtni in, this country. It was arrang ed ^opcie'. ten days ago that the raid .^oj^^jtake'v place tonight and con ft-* communications were sent to d^artm'ent of justice representatives i ft^v^nited States attorneys in the 33 ,l^9p^xtm^nt of justice agents de < '^ie^'niost"of all to capture incrimi nating^ documents not so much of the; literature "and. propaganda but papers, ffiovnfig. details of. the communist or-! \^;ipgTti?ns in each city. It was inch-j <^?jgf$ 'tbaf if such evidence were ob ?|$ttft?ScUr 'deportation of the persons ^aacetped . would be an easy matter. in.the case of the members of the \;iiifen erf Russian Workers, several Sfb'ore of whom .were aboard the trans port^ Buford. which sailed'from New -^ork ie?j days ago. membership cards hr^e organization were regarded by '^f^jiajls. as constituting the best doc umentary evidence on which to base ^?tppttation cases. v.O^RciaIs said the only difference -be-j trre?n the communist party and thoj Cjomxminist labor party was one of; leadership. Both have been endeavor fog t? bring about the establishment of a soviet form of government in this country since their organization liiSt September, according to officials. Documents gathered by federal as?nts. recently show conclusively, it 1*5?s said that plans were drawn up by the leaders of each of these parties to the d-evelopment of a score or more of Soviets throughout the country. These,! ?vere-to be> urged under a soviet coun- j ciT similar to that which now exists in j ?ttssia according to Mr. Garvan. The" department revealed tonishtj -ac^yities of these two organizations! 1 amonir the negroes. Their attempts to! Organize the negroes in support of j plans to overthrow the present politi-; cal and economic system were carried j tar, and. officials admitted that thi.1j propaganda had gone to such . length \ that trouble may yet be expected j among, certain negro communities. j /Mr. Garvan made puTdie information j gathered by federal agents showing j tfc nature of the work done amons t the-seffT-Oes. One document contains! thr following: "In close connection with the un-j xkilied: workers is the problem of the j negro. The negro presents a political economic problem. The radical oppres- \ slon of the negro is simply the ex-j j?re?*ion of his economic bondage and ! oppression each intensifying the j other:- This complicates the negro! Problem but does not alter its prole-j tarian ? ' character. The communis:' party, will carry on agitation among1 th? negro workers to unite them \vi>-?i I class conscious workers." The -communist party recently; spread broadcast among its adherents j a "manifesto" setting forth its views! and- plans. While officials have been Unable to obtain a similar document from..the communist labor party thev asserted that its views were not unlike those of the communist party as dis-! Clo:<ed in the manifesto. ? "The communist party of America! is the party of the working class." j ihe manifesto says. "The communist j party of America proposes to end cap italism and organize a workers' in-. iJustrial republic. The work ?-s m?st; ?jontr?T industry and dispose of ^thei products of industry. The contmun-l ists party is a party realizing the.j limitations of all existing workers' or ganizations and proposes to develop j th<- revolutionary movement neccs-1 sary to free the workers from the op pression of capitalism. The com ? ?nun 1st party insists that the prob lems of American workers are identi cal with the problems of the workers <>f the world. "The^ communist party is the con scious expression of the class strug V. Will Not Participate Officially in Discussions of Paris Council NOTICE GIVEN BY AMERICAN AMBASSADOR I - ; Request Made That Formula Used in Announcing Decisions Be Changed Paris, Jan. 5.?Hugh Wallace, the American ambassador, has asked the supreme council to precede future decisions of the council with the for mula "allied powers" instead of "al lied and associated powers" which has been used in the past, according to The Echo de Paris. "This," says the newspaper, "marks the determination of the United States not to participate officially in the decisions to be reached in Paris." ! CANARY ISLANDS ARE SHAKEN Earthquake and Volcanic Erup tions Do Damage fi Madrid, Jan. 5.?Earthquake shocks 'were felt in the Canary Islands yes ! terday. according to dispatches from Las Palmas. Great crevices opened in the earth from which smoke is is suing and volcanic eruption is feared. LETTS DEFEAT THE BOLSHEVIKS Russian Front on Dvina Broken and. Many Prisoners Taken Copenhagen. Jan. 5?Riga despatch es today declare that Lettish troops have broken the Rolsheviki front along the Dvina and that numerous prisoners were taken. It is asserted that the Bolsheviks are retreating. gk of the workers against capitalism. Its aim is to direct this struggle to the conquest of political power, tho overthrow of capitalism and the de struction of the. bourgeoise State. "The communist party prepares it self for the revolution in the measure that it develops a program of imme diate action, expressing the mass struggles of the proletariat. These struggles must be inspired with rev olutionary spirit and purpose. "The communist party is fundamen tally a party of action. It brings to the workers "a consciousness of ihcir oppression, of the impossibility of im proving their conditions under cap italism. The communist party direct^ the workers' struggle against capital ism developing fuller forces and pur poses in this struggle culminating in the ma?s action of the revolution. In connection with the announce ment of the raids tonight Attorney General Palmer made public a letter| which he had written to Macleyi Hoyne, State attorney for Cook coun-j ty. at Chicago, in which Mr. Hoyne was requested to defer that local raid conducted there last night. Mr. Pal mer explained in his letter that the department of justice had planned aj nationwide campaign against the same! people which were to be raided byi Mr. Hoyne in Chicago. Department! officials said which were to be raided) by Mr. Hoyne's agents in Chicago.} Department officials said they were without information as to why the! Chicago raid went through last night j when Mr. Hoyne had full informa- j tion as to the plans of federal agents j to do the same work tontght. Advance information on the activi-i ties of the communist party revealed 1 that its emissaries were in many cities., boring into labor organiaztions which) hitherto have been noted for their! conservatism. Literature obtained by! federal agents made it apparent thatj the communist leaders were concert-! ing on plans to obtain control of well] founded labor groups. Through thisj method they were to exert then' pow- ; er politically and to put forward can-j didates which could be regarded by government officials as nothing more than destructive elements within thei present government. The communist labor group was j said to have directed its propaganda j more generally among the foreign ele-! merit of citizenry. From several sources, federal agents gleaned infor mation that the communist labor party was appealing to the foreign workers with the argument that thej present government was unfriendly to] th*"-m and that their righls would nev-l er be respected by the appointed au-j thorities. The insertion of the work' "labor" in the name of the party was] regarded by officials as only a subter- I fuge, the leaders realizing that it i would lend strength to their argu- J ments among foreigners. Mr. Garvan expressed the opinion] that the leaders of the two parties! uad n working agreement and: planned eventually to bring all the radicals under one communist party1 and thereby amass enough strength toj upset the constituted government. Officials :<r" working on the theory! that a higher power is directing tre work of both organizations and that the leaders who are behind this di recting hand only recently have comej to this country from Russia. This !??-, lief, they said, was supported by evi dence gathered by representtaives of th's and allied governments In the heart of soviet Russia. It is know;: that agents of the allied nations have; been working for nearly two years among the followers of Lenine and] Trotzky and their efforts have result-; ed in connecting links in the chain of soviet propaganda in this country an?'j Lhe oovict leaders of Russia. British Official Reports Desper ate Conditions in Cen tral Europe ; PEOPLE FACE A GREAT FAMINE i Unless United States Comes to the Rescue With Assistance Recovery Impossible j (Correspondence of Associated Press) London. Dec. 19.?Sir William J Goode. British Director of Relief, who recently returned from a ;our j of the war-impoverished countries of j Europe, declares that unless the Al j lied and Associated governments pro vide credits for food and raw mato j rials. Central Europe is likely to bfc j come "a desolate waste of seeding thistles." England, he .declares, can not do anything likely to be effectual unless the United States extends credits in proportion to her means. The crisis in Central Europe, Sir William declares, is of such dimen ; sions and complexity as to defy iso lated or individual effort. I Speaking before the American j Luncheon Club recently, he said: ! "You, cannot heal the wounds of Eu j rope by driblets of government re I lief or dabs of humanity. The day 1 for palliatives is past. Emergencies ! such as that in Austria will not wait i for the emergence of the League of j Nations. Little nations generated by j the self-determination incubatorN of the Peace Conference are likely to disappear even before they are old enough to sow their wild oats, j "A comprehensive and far-reaching j financial arrangement must be quickly j arrived at by the Allied and Assoei 1 ated governments unless half of Con ! tral Europe is to be a desolate waste i of seeding thistles. The key to ?he 1 economic arch is organization of I credits for food and raw materials and the export of manufactures on a regular and ascending scale from the countries receiving such credit. "With the present value of the pound sterling and with the present position cf frreneh and -iv'ian ex ! change, it is eri-!?:?; that ; ny sttch I comprehensive credit scrhcrne will be /futile unless *he t'nited S-a:es takes la generous part. Great Britain has ji already borrov/oj, i? x-artnerchip iwith France' and ltaiy, S4S,"00,G0C j from the United Scares to feed Aus j tria. I dare ?s?.v we could borrow ! more and further discount our own j exchange but that would be only a I palliative which in the long run would j do neither Austria, ourselves, nor the j world any good. I j "It is not a case of saying to ihi I United States 'we will not do anything more if you will not.' "The fact of the matter is that we I cannot do anything which is in the least likely to be effectual unless the United States is also prepared to ex tend her credits in proportion to her means. It is no good being ''mealy mouthed* about admitting that we, who before the war were rich, are { now poor. Personally, I am inclined ! to think that the nations participat ing in some such comprehensive [scheme of credits will in the long run suffer no material disadvantage. I "Of one thing I am quite ???jrtain and that is that if Central Europe land the now nations are allowed tc ! stew in their own juice, the whole world will suffer. In many cases, whatever remedy may be adopted, it will involve on both continents a ! demand for common sacrifice and for common stimulation of production. To use Mr. Hoover's blunt, expres sion: 'Europe must work or starve.' "I thir.k I am authorized to say that it the United States can see their way to take part in some such com prehensive provision of credits as I have suggested the British govern ment and the British people will be prepared, and I think rightly pre pared to strain still further the re sources which have been so impover ished by war. "if that opportunity is not taken I am inclined to fear that the great I relief work done by Mr. Hoover, 01 which America is justly proud, will go down to posterity as a task only half dene. I realize that there arc many difficulties in the way such for instance, as the unison of unofficial American financial effort with opera tions that may be under the control of European governments, but i have unwavering faith that these are n0', insuperable." Describing the conditions prevail ing in Central Europe as he observed them in his recent journey, Sir Wil liam continued: "Locomotives from one country dared not budge across the frontier of another. Coal trains with their cargoes are liable to b< seized the minute they come withir the grasp of a neighboring army. The only real safeguard for a supply train going from one country through another is the presence of a lone British Tommie .who. perched on the caboose .iud knowing no language but his own. placidly escorts the few exchanges of food and raw materials which have so far enabled several of the countries to keep body and sou!.] together. 1 "The new allied Stains exhibit a nervous independence in dealing with their former enemies with whom. ro-| member, they still .?r>> technically a' war. This constitutes one of the :>:->ii eip.'l obstacles to the restoration 01* th" equilibrium of Central Europe j If" .von had the whole British Cabin*i rolled into one superman, he would ! be powerless to achieve appreciable! progress so long ;ls by the delay of I peace :i state <>f war prevails in Cen tral Europe." 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SUMTER, 9 SOUTH CAROLINA : William said that indus-rial and com I mcrcial activity virtually had been j {?paralyzed by political difficulties, by! j decreased population, demoralisation: j of railway traffic, shortage of coal, j j food and' finance. j Czecho-Slovakia. Poland, Hungary j land Austria, he declared are all con-i j fronted with large shortages of food. {In nearly ail Central European coun-j j tries the production of cereals had ] <been reduced at least one-third by! ! lack of cattle, fertilizers and fodder, j ! Even if credits were supplied, there would remain a vicious economic cir- i i cle to be broken. Shortage of coal I halted transportation and caused in j dustries to slack up or stop. This ] prevented expert of goods and. in : consequence, the countries had no i exchange with which to purchase in i foreign markets the food or raw ma j terials on which they rely to main I tain existence. For lack of Polish ! c?e.j people die in Vienna. .Tugo Isiavia and Rumania which have a {surplus of foodstuffs for export do no: I want to sell it to nearby countries I which need it but prefer to sell it for ! dollars, sterling or francs so as to ! establish credits for raw materials j with which to restart their indus j tri^s. I The greater part of the $000,000, ; 000 worth of foodstuffs which had j been delivered in European relief *} since the signing of the armistice was j supplied by the United States. Sir I William said. "Our own part." he J added, "was limit', d by our almost ? empty purse. Nevertheless, the Brit-; I ish government was able to allot j $1*2.500,000 pounds toward relief in' j Europe apart from credits to Allies.'" I Sir William said that it must not j j be thought for a moment that noth j ing remedial was being done. The Reparations Sub-Commission sitting at Vienna, was endeavoring to deliver coal to Austria, and middle Europe. Other Allied organisations were aid- I ing in this and in suppylylng food, j Other Allied organiatzions were aid- i ing in this and in supplying food, j notably the American Child Food: Organization, one of "Mr. Hoover's] finance legacies to Europe. The Allied authorities in Paris also j were bringing pressure to bear, in ! ( order to create a freer intercourse j J and exchange between the states of j Central Europe. ? SINN FEINERS ATTACK POLICE Strikers Claim 100,000 Still Out. Caraegie Works Report Near Full Force on Pay Rolls London. Jan. 4.?Three hundred armed Sinn Feincrs attacked the po lice barracks at Carrigtohill at 10 o'clock Saturday night according to a j dispatch to the Central News from I Cork. The attacking forces fired vol i leys for three hours and then blew up I the end of the building with bombs. Us occupants were made prisoners while the raiders looted the barraeics. The barracks was occupied by a sergeant and five constables, who re turned the raiders' fire. Finding eventually that they were unable to gain an entrance, the raiders threw bombs, ? entered the breach made in the building and seized and hand cuffed the policemen. They searched I the building, removing the arms, am-L munition, accoutrements and mono:..! then held a council as to the disposal j of the police, and decided to leave them bound but threatened them if an attemfipi v^as made to repair vhe (building they would return and cor.;-j iplete its destruction. - CONGRESS INVESTI- ! GATING NAVAL ROW i Whole Subject of Decorations to j Be Considered i _ Washington. .Tan. .".?The chair-1 men. of the senate and house naval} committees are expected <<>' confer on j the question of a joint investigation! of the whole subject of naval decora- ? fions. around which has centered a > sharp controversy in the navy d- part ment. NOTE TO GERMANY j The supreme council this morning ; finally decided on the wording of the' note !o the German delegation in con- j firmation <>f the verbal statement re j gar ding the indemnity demanded for > 'h"- Scapa Flow sinking. The note j was delivered a1 the same time the j protocol "?ras. signed. GOVERNMENT NITRATE PLANT Secretary Baker Would Havel Fertilizer Products Man ufactured i i 1 ? 'Washington, Jan. 2.?Continuation: of government nitrate plants at Mus- { cle Shoals, Ala., to manufacture fer-j tilizer products during peace time j was urged today by Secretary Baker! before a special house committee in-j vestigating expenditures. An appropriation of $12,000,000. hoi said, would be necessary to construct j a sulphuric acid plant and to furnish l necessary working capital to create i a quasi public corporation "in which | the stock would be held by the gov- j eminent and the public would profit | ;by the production." j RED HUNT j I NOT FINISHED, Government Agents Still Seek-i ing Communists j ? Washington, Jan. 5.?Although ? nearly five thousand persons have I been arrested since the last radical; raid started Friday night, department of justice agents over the country are j still seeking out today members of! the communist labor organiaztions > who have thus far escaped the general i dragnet. Nearly three thousand of. those arrested have been held for dep-! ortation proceedings. TURKS AND . GREEKS FIGHT! Saloniki, Jan. 5.?Greek occupation forces have clashed with Turks near Udemishe. Asia Minor, and grave loss es were inflicted upon the Turks, ac cording to an official statement issued at army headquarters here. Only a few Greeks were wounded. vRed Cross Meeting. \ ' -?? ? r There will be an important meeting of the Red Cross at .the Qiris* High School building Thursday, January Sth at S p. m. 5 How to Save Money on Tires. Come to our Tire Conservation Day explanation and learn more about your tires and how to keep them in good repair and lessen their cost to you. Shaw Motor Company.??i&tL i HERE AT HOME. Sumtcr Citizens Gladly Testify ana CorSdently Recommend Doan's Kid* ney Pills. It is testimony like the following that has placed Doan's Kidney Pills'so far above competitions. "When people right here at home raise th^eir voice in praise there is no room left for doubt. Read the public statement of a Sumter citizen: W. T. Hall, blacksmith, 226 Salem Avenue, says: "I am glad to rec ommend Doan's Kidney Pills>. for they have been of great benefit. 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