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> Growing fear in labor circles that desperate Communists might provoke disorder, try to create a new Centralia* case, was heightened by a riot in Aberdeen, Wash. In this lumber centre with a big Finnish colony, the Finnish Brotherhood scheduled an anniversary meeting. Grays Harbor Communists then scheduled a "Victory Dance" for the same date at the old Red Hall in B Street, two blocks from the Finn Hall. Twenty-five Communists appeared for the dance, huddled in the hall while a crowd of some 400 battered down the door, pulled siding off the walls, tore out the plumbing, smashed the piano, burned pictures of Stalin and Browder when talked out of burning down the hall. The 25 inside escaped unhurt through a rear door. Two blocks away the Finnish meeting went off quietly.
*In Centralia, Wash., in 1919, crowds attacked an I.W.W. hall, were fired upon. Result: four dead, seven imprisoned for 25 to 40 years. Last September the last imprisoned member of the I.W.W. was released.