The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-25
Steel City Now Under Martial
Law Was Hot Bed of Follow
ers of Lenine, Senate Com
mittee Is Told.
ABUNDANCE BOLSHEVIKI
LITERATURE IN EVIDENCE
Would-Be InstigatOrs of RevOlu-
tiOn Were All Foreigners,
Mostly Russians, Witness
Tells Committee.

washington, Oct. 24-Followers of
Lenine and Trotsky in the steel city
of Gary, Indiana. which is patrolled
by troops as a result of violence dur
ing the steel strike, grew so bold this
summer that they attempted organ
ization of the Red Guards" with dis
charged soldiers Lieutenant Donald Z.
Van Buren,, military intelligence Off
Ger, today told the senate labor COM
mittee.
Lieutenant Van Buren who is on the
staff of Major General Wood in COM
mand of the troops at Gary laid be-
fore the committee scores of pamph-
lets, circulars and propaganda tracts
along with statements of men ar
rested after the military occupation,
to back up his assertion that the
agitators at Gary were urging the
workers to get ready and get pre-
pared to take over the industries and
the government and run it themselves.
Some of the circulars We're signed
| by the German American Citizens
League, which he said would support
any kind of American agitation.
Speaking of efforts to get the agita
| tors deported, Van Buren said, 1T
seems as if you have to get them with
bomb in their hands before the i'm
migrating officials will act.''
Oscar E. Anderson. chairman of the
steel workers council at Gary put up
| a staunch challenge to most of Van
Buren's conclusions, saying that there
lare only two hundred and fifty to
three hundreds Reds at Gary and that
they don't count
aCur first interest in Cary he said.
l"came when Chief of Police F'orbis
came to Chicago from that city last
spring with request for machine
guns and military intervention. He
told us the reds there We're planning
to parade May and start a revolu
ttion. Two names were given us as
those of leaders of the anarchist club
at Gary, Ivanoff and de George. They
were Russians or Austrians. De-
George was chemist and we learned
| later that he was operating near the
Aetna explosive works outside of
Gary, where gun cotton was available
from the wastes outside of the mill"
Replying to Chairman Kenyon, Lieu
tenant Van Buren said a report was
made to the department of justice.
but so far as he knew there had been
| no prosecution. He added that the
two men had left Gary.
1--WE found in Gary after military
occupation there tremendous quanti-
ties of red literature" he continued,
explaining that local police and asso-
Citations of citizens had prepared the
way for raids on the storage places.
THE, bible of the red, the anarch-
| list and Bolshevist,' he said, els the
mantle sto of the communist party of
RussiaL put out at what is known as
the third international which assem-
bled at Moscow in March, Many thou
sand copies of this were in Gary"
Lieutenant Van Buren read extracts
| from a booklet seized at Gary. 1t
urged revolution upon all workers in
| all lands in the name of the CON
quering proIetariat of Russia and
said "open combat" was the only road
to the redress of alleged grievances.
| All the radicals of the country are
and Trotzky. the witness continued.
Il call to your attention the fact that
it was printed in Chicago by the
Arbiter Zeitung Publishing Company,
which is significant"
Are there any organizations in
Gary which adopt this program ?'
asked Senator Phipps, republican of
| Colorado.
| yes 1 have a list of them" said
n
the witness.
/ He commenced producing a series
/ of documents printed in Russian with
names of societies attached and a con-
siderable quantity of 1. w. w. litera-
/ ture.
How many foreigners are taking
part in this strike at Gary?" asked
Senator Mcclellan, democrat of Ten
nessee.
| II haven't found an American yet
the witness said, though some of the
Headers have second naturalization
papers,
Here are some of the productions
of the union of Russian workers, .
Lieutenant Van Buren continued
That's a straight anarchist society
Here's one of them. entitled the
tcrimes of Cod an anti-religious
pamphlet discussing war
A whole series of tracts and pamph-
lets in Russian, put out by the union
iwere read into the record
4 Did you get these in houses or
how?" Chairman Kenyon asked.
| In houses and halls" Van Buren,
replied. Some times men arrested