Matters here are severely complicated on account of the strong religious prejudices.
The religious matter is complicated by the fact that the Roman Catholic Church and the Pseudo-Russian Greek Church are extremely bitter against the real Orthodox Russian Greek Church, which established a branch in this city about two years ago, being the first of the real Orthodox Churches to exist here. These priests have represented tot he ignorant Russians that their Church was the real Orthodox Church. The Bishop in Syracuse has found it necessary to remove three of these priests for dishonesty in money matters. This man did not have a very good record while in this city. The active Communists are mostly in Endicott, N.Y., a suburb of this city.