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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1920
Page
7
A Battleboro incident reports Mrs. Frederick W. Ludgate a 47 year old widow and daughter of Charles A. Marsh a wealthy jewelry maker and her 29 year old chauffeur husband were involved in a fatal event. The fragment notes a domino effect of misfortune surrounding the Ludgate family in this town.
Friends and relatives of the Attleboro social set search for Freddy Ludgate and his bride on their honeymoon. Reports of an elopement are denied by Mr Marsh, father-in-law, who says the marriage was planned for over a year. The couple may have traveled to New York by car and could return soon.
Announcement of the engagement between Miss M Lucy Cullinan and Eben Leavitt, a prominent Bangor merchant and club man, stirs local society. Cullinan, a Bangor High School graduate class of 1914, aided welfare work during the war. Leavitt, over 50, widowed, wealthy, and influential, belongs to Bangor clubs and the Chamber of Commerce. wedding planned for June.
Boston reports say the roundup of Soviet prisoners, including women from Concord Manchester and Nashua, arrived by train and steamship to the island prison. Prisoners were handcuffed and chained, housed in Bar racks B and the women's hospital, with chorus of L Internationale heard among the arrivals. Immigration officials barred visitors while chaplains offered counsel.
The manifesto from Communist and Communist Labor leaders urges inside pressure on unions to trigger small and mass strikes, then general strikes, aiming to establish dictatorship of the proletariat. It condemns American Federation of Labor as reactionary, pledges participation in all mass actions, and seeks abolition of collective bargaining in favor of revolutionary overthrow.
The covenant is labeled a deluge of pacifist phrase-mongering, a desperate effort to stabilize the tumbling capitalistic system.
Federal agents in multiple cities continue raids and interrogations of members of the Communist and Communist Labor parties. Officials say many Americans are on party rolls, with totals of arrests and aliens rising as cases proceed to state authorities.
Washington dispatch reports a rediscovery of Lenin and Trotsky era communism urging a dictatorship of the proletariat that transcends nations and borders, aiming to engulf the entire world through a global revolutionary movement.
New York January 4 statement by William J. Flynn head of the Department of Justice secret service declares the nationwide roundup of Reds is not near done. He says the operation will continue with renewed vigor after a rest period.
A State Department translation of a Bolshevik program excerpt criticizes their plan for a world revolution and terrorism. The memorandum highlights a dictatorship of the proletariat and was sent to Senate and House foreign affairs committees for review. Four American radical groups were named for representation and full member status.
A January 1919 wireless call, reproduced in a memorandum, lists the Social Labor party of America the Left of the Socialist party including Debs and the Socialist Propaganda Association the I W W of America and the Workers International Industrial Union of America. Boris Reinstein signed as Socialist Labor party representative and reportedly reached Russia without a passport. his wife was recently arrested in Buffalo.
New York report says more than 1760 alleged radicals rounded up in national raids will be brought to Ellis Island to await deportation. Detroit to send 600, Chicago 221, Philadelphia 200, Buffalo 136, Nashua 161, plus 650 already arrested in the district, totaling 1768 prisoners for the island.
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