New-York tribune., 1919-06-19

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Russian Republic. We hope tina. you,
activities will become a strong i'm
press for the benefit OF the entir,
iaoorlng proletariat of the whole world
and that by your activities there will
De established a connection between
the American proletariat and the Rus
sian revolutionary proletarat Soviet
government,
Protest Against Troops
We also protest and demand the
immediate recall from the limits of the
RUSSIAN Soviet Republic of the Allied
troops and the opening by the Allies
OF the frontiers for the free passage
OF european citizens to their father.
land"
This was signed by M. Doresevin
Joe kosteck and T. Babak.
Attorney General Newton said that
there also was an answer to this let
ter, and that it would be introduced
later
Inc next document was a letter from
Charles Recht, attorney for Mr.. Mar
tens, who apparently went to the as
sistance Of various persons who on
May Day in Chester Penn, held mass
meeting at which some sort of sedi-
tious speeches were made. Sixty or
more ct the participants were arrested
and either locked up or placed under
bonds. Mr.. Recht's letter tells at
great length of his visit to Albert
Geary, District Attorney of Delaware
County.
1 was amazed at the temper with
which Geary told me about the case.
He boasted of the fact that there was
no lawyer in Chester who would dare
defend these wretches,' says Mr..
Recht in his report to Mr.. Martens.
Further on he writes: Before | left
Chester Mr.. Geary told me he thought
that we could get lawyer in Chester,
but that any lawyer who would act for
those men would be in disgrace in the
community, and for such a disgrace he
thought that such lawyer (whom he
would recommend) ought to be COM
pensated with fee of $1,000"
Describes Chester Case
Archibald Stevenson, of counsel for
the committee, read another letter.
written on the letterhead of Charles
Recht. which carried this memorandum
in the handwriting of Mr.. Martens:
ASK Comrade Recht to proceed
with this case This letter, which
was in the nature of a report to Mr..
Martens, told in detail of the proceed
;ngs which took place at Chester.
Penn, before Judge Johnson of the
Delaware County court, who after
hearing argument dismissed the writs
of habeas corpus and held the pris-
oners in bail at $4,000 each. The let
ter says that Judge Johnson based his
decision on a law of 1887, passed at a
time when feeling ran high on ac-
count of the adoption of the Ameri
can Constitution and when the anti
Jefferson men caused the arrest of
those who erected liberty poles as a
protest against certain articles of the
Constitution. The letter says that
Judge johnson held that the old law
was good law and that he Would hold
the prisoners on the charge of unlaw-
full assembly under $4,000 bail for the
grand jury. Attorney General Newton
said the prisoners were indicted this
month for unlawful assembly and pa
rade, contrary to the form of the gen
eral assembly law.
Next came letter from A. Lossef,
1881 South Fourth Street, Philadel-
phia, addressed to S. Nuorteva, diplo-
matte representative connected with
Mr.. Martens's agency. 1t starts with
the salutation, Dear Comrade" The
text follows:
"My son, Vladimir Lossieff, one Of
the I. W. W. men who was convicted
in the famous l. W. W. Chicago trial
and got sentenced to twenty years
imprisonment in Leavenworth and is
doing time since the end of August
last, asked me, being his father, to try
and get in touch with you and try
to find out if there is a way how to
send cable to the soviet government
in Russia and get the soviet govern
ment to deport him and a few other
Russian subjects at Leavenworth to
Russia-Moscow. If you think it is
in any way possible or advisable, just
drop me line and I will come to New
York to talk this matter over with
you in person. Also let me know,
please. what day in the week would be
more to your convenience"
Another letter, addressed to Eliza
beth Gurley Flynn by Glare K Christ
ensen, attorneys in Chicago, advises
her that the Lossief bail bond has been
fixed at $4,000. Mr.. Stevenson, in
answer to a question by Senator Lusk,
said that Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was
"a well-known member of the /. W.
w.. a radical agitator.'
The committee will resume its hear