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New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
LOO Slain in Riga
By the Bolsheviki:
200 Reds Executed
Head of u. S. Military Mis-
sion Says Lett Government
Is Creature of Germans:
Baltic States Need Food

PARIS, June 10 (By The Associated
Press).-Colonel Warwick Green, chief
of the American military mission to
the Baltic States, who left Riga on
June 13 and Libau on June is, on his
return to Paris, told the Baltic COM
mission to-day that the reign of terror
which the Bolsheviki instituted before
withdrawing from Letvia was far worse
than that begun by the Let's and
Germans in retaliation.
The Bolshev'ki, he states, killed 1,7O0
men and women OF all ages, many Of
whom The American mission saw lying
in the streets when 1t visited Riga
the first time, May %.
To Shoot 400 More
Major Fletcher, who imprisoned 1000
that it would be probably necessary
to shoot 400 more. Colonel Green says
that many of these prisoners are un-
doubtedly murderers who would be
executed by any government, but fair
trials were not given them, nor were
they furnished with decent quarters
until after the intervention of the
Allied missions.
Conditions in Riga were found to be-
improved when the Americans re-
turned June 13. They inspected the
JAAAoJ VAASA WCAC IOuuO u U0 Clcdus
and women prisoners had been segre-
gated under the care of a matron.
Trials were being conducted by mixed
courts of Let's, Russians and Ger
mans. The Allied officers fear a re-
currence Of Bolshevik attacks as the
result of their successes against the
Kolchak forces, which will release
troops that will be rushed to the Volga
district.
Baltic States Need Food
Colonel Green added that the Allies
should Immediately extend food relief
to the Baltic states, send officers to in
sure the enforcement of the Allied ul-
timatum, that German armies there be
withdrawn, and prevent the Bolsheviki
from again overrunning the states af-
ter the Germans have left
Colonel Green says that there are
probably 10000 regularly organized
German soldiers in Letvia and Lithu-
ania, under the command of General
Won der Goltz. In addition there are
several thousand Germans and German
Russians. under Major Fletcher, mill
tary dictator Of Riga, who are appar-
emily not under orders from General
Won der Goltz. Colonel Green declared
that the present Lettish and Lithu-
anian governments are mere creations
of Germany and are dependent on her
for money and organizers"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

sentence to ten years. Imprisonment
Tor Violation Of the espionage act, said:
I'VE will stand our ground DESPITE
the obstacles being put in our way.
mere IS no measure Of oppression that
can stop us. We will go forward with
Mrs. Stokes pleaded for "the organi-
captured the bourgeois state" She
ridiculed the practice mobilization ~ Of
the National Guard in this city Thurs
day for the purpose Of rehearsing the
crushing OF q hypothetical rebellion.
and cried:
ask thousand soldiers-what could
they do against millions of organized
workers? Nothing. The change must
come. We must organize and organize,
Tor before an organized working class
the opposition must yield. When they
cry to arms, we must be ready, too"
MI. Ruthenberg, who is under If
teen-year sentence for violation Of the
espionage act, also predicted the tri-
umph Of Bolshevism in the United
States, and called upon the audience
to organize in the Left Wing Of the
Socialist party.
editor Of "The Novy Mier," who spoke
in Russian, said that "the proletariat
Of Russia and Of Europe will know how
to appraise the raid Of the Soviet bur-
eau and the insult heaped upon the
Russian proletariat when the dirty
hands Of the New York state officials
were laid upon the representative Of
Soviet Russia" He called for three
cheers "for Soviet Russia, the dicta-
torship Of the proletariat and the
Soviet bureau in the United States"
The cheers were Justify Given.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
5000 Acclaim
Prediction of
All Red i. S
treated unfairly by both these agen-
cies. and added:
Continued from page I

treated unfairly by both these agen-
cies. and added:
"Our bureau is being incessantly at
tackled by the bourgeois press and at
this particular time by a legislative
committee of the State of New York
Senate, on the alleged ground that the
aim of the bureau is to propagate Boil
shevism in the United States
"1f any of the gentlemen who make
these accusations had the slightest
understanding of the social causes of
the birth and growth of communism
they would not look for these causes
in our bureau. Only ignorance and a
purely animal fear, which seem to
have gripped the capitalist classes
everywhere, prevent them from a
proper understanding of the situation
and lead them into fight against
imaginary sources Of danger"
Mr.. Bait, who is one of the leaders
of the Left Wing in Michigan, ex-
pelled by the Socialist party, said:
I'VE have in the United States gov
ernment, despite it's democratic form,
the most ruthless, brutal government
on the face of the earth. l say this as
an American whose family have been
in the United States more than two
hundred years. You can't tell mo to go
back where l came from"
Mr.. Bait said that the Left Wing
asked no quarter from "the govern
ment and the capitalist class" and that
the "only thing these can understand is
power" "When the working class ac-
quires power" he said, "the opposition
will be swept aside"
Rose Pastor Stokes, who Is under
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Polk Denies knowing
MOscO,U Finances Reds
Acting Secretary of State Says
He Told Nu6rteva That u. s.
Could Not Recognize Souies
Nesc Yorh Tribune
WuShiu0tO7s Bnrenu

Washington, Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 20.-Acting
Secretary of State Polk to-day branded
as false the statement contained in a
document seized in the raid on the
oihces OF the Soviet Republic in New
York City that the State Departm snt
"knows we communicate with Moscow
ana receive large sums of money from
there"
The State Department, Mr.. Polk said,
never has recognized and never has had
relations with the Soviet bureau raided
a few days ago, and never has received
any one as q representative of it. He
denied he ever had talked with either
Martens or Lomonosoff. Mr.. Polk's
statement said.
II have never talked with Martens
or with Lomonosoff, or with any COM
mlttee of Soviet representatives and
the only time l ever saw Nuorteya
was about five months ago, when some
friend brought him in and introduced
him. That was before Martens had
appeartd on the scene in this country.
| devoted most of the time to telling
Nuorteva that the United States would
never recognize any people or govern
ment that failed to respect the sane
tlty of diplomatic and consular officers,
lated in holding American Consul Tired
we'll hostage for months, despite pro
test against this violation Of diplo-
matte and consular usage which everv
civilized government respects
"On two occasions-Once in April and
again in May--the Department Of State
took occasion to issue a statement to
the press regarding the activities Of
Martens and the Bolsheviki."
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

rested indignation over the Lusk COM
mlttee's raid, the "ambasador from
fetrograd" declared he was solely con-
c,erned with the endeavor to establish
diplomatic and trade relations between
soviet Russia and America.
Ihe meeting was held under the aus
p1ces OF the Russian Federation of the
Socialist party, cleft wing" organiza-
ton recently suspended by the party's
National Executive Committee. 1t was
called to protest against the Lusk raid
ana against recognition by the United
States of the Omsk government of
Admiral Kolchak.
Friend of Trotzky Speaks
Former Assemblyman Benjamin Git
low low presided. The speakers, besides
man, G. E. Rutherberg, leader of the
left wingers" in Cleveland and re-
Gently released after serving Jail SEN
tence for violation of the espionage
act; Dennis p. Bait, Of Michigan; Louis
g. Fralna, Of Boston, personal friend Of
Leon Trotzky and editor Of "The Revo-
iutionary Age" and James Larkin, Irish
labor agitator.
The audience sang revolutionary
songs in English, Russian and other
languages. Various radical publica-
tlons were on sale.
Martens charged the New York
newspapers with conducting a "cam-
paign of slander" against him and said
the Lusk committee was unfair and
unjust" in giving out the impression
that Lenine and Trotzky had sent him
to the United States to disseminate
Bolshevist doctrines.
Our bureau is being necessarily at
tackled by the bourgeois press" he
o)
legislative committee of the state of
New York on the alleged grounds that
the bureau is propagating Bolshevism
In the United States. If any of the
gentlemen who make this accusation
had the slightest understanding of the
social causes Of the birth and growth
Of communism they would not look for
those causes in our bureau.
Calls It Animal Fear
"Only an ignorant and purely ami
NAL fear which seems to have gripped
the capitalist classes everywhere pre-
vents them from a proper understands
ing of the situation and leads them
inso fight against imaginary sources
Of danger. The propagating of com
munism in the United States is not
the purpose of my bureau. If commu-
nism is to triumph in any country it
will triumph as purely domestic prop
osltlon, based on economic conditions in
that country and consciously supported
by the vast majority of the workers of
that country.
mo amount of propaganda from
abroad, if there were any such thing,
and no amount of money used for
such propaganda could develop a vic
torious communist movement if the So
cial and economic conditions them
selves were not fostering it,
The only aim of my mission in the
United States is to establish diplo-
matte and trade relations between the
United States and Soviet Russia"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Reds Form Soviet
In CzechO-Slovakia.
Budapest Reports
Indicates Bolsheviki Have
Broken Through Allied
Gordon Designed to Shut
Off Russia and Hungary

COPENHAGEN, June 2o.-A Czecho-
Slovak Soviet republic has been es-
tablished, according to a wireless dis
patch from Budapest.
The proclamation Of q Soviet re-
public in Czecho- -Slovakia, if con-
fi,rmed, means an important advance in
the Bolshevik offensive against West
state, together with Poland and Ru-
mania, we're relied upon by the Allies
to form Gordon sanitaire" for the
isolation of Soviet Russia and Hun
gary. Ever since the Communist up
heaval at Budapest, in the middle of
March, Czecho-Slovak troops were en-
gagged in fighting off the Magyar Red
army which had invaded the Slovak
districts Of the former Hungarian
kingdom. The Magyar advance was
recently reported stopped by French
auxiliary troops. There were, how
over, advices received about frater-
nization between Magyar Soviet forces
and Czecho-Slovak troops who, the dis
patches said, were forming soldiers
councils in the trenches.
ZURICH, June 20-Professor T. G.
Masaryk, president of Czecho-Slo-
vakia, has replied to a message from
Bella Kun, Foreign Minister of the
Hungarian Soviet government, point
ing out that Hungarian troops repeat
edly took the offensive after the note
of the council of four had been sent
to Budapest, and declaring that when
the Hungarian troops have complied
with the demands Of the Entente the
Czecho-Slovak forces will cease hos
tilities.
Latest reports show that the Hun
garians attacked the Czecho-S -Slovaks
as recently as June II, having made
an assault upon the right wing of the
Czecho-Slovak army, which put up q
stubborn resistance.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
House Aroused
By 'Wison'sBig
Siberian Loan
President Attacked for
1000, 900 Obligation of
His Emergency War Fund
to Maintain Railroad
NesO York Tribune
WGskinQtos, Burecu


WASHINGTON, June 20.-The obli-
CATION Of $5,000,000 of the Presidents
emergency war fund for the mainten-
ance Of the trans-Siberian railway to
bring pressure against the Bolsheviki
was attacked by Republican members
of the House this afternoon.
An effort to compel the turning back
into the Federal Treasury of the $5,-
100000 SO obligated, of which, it de-
veloped, 100000 already had been
used, was defeated by a vote of 90
to 80.
The assault was led by Representa-
tive Walsh Of Massachusetts,. who was
supported by Representative Wood, of
Indiana. Both asserted that the $780,
100000 fund was for war emergency
use, and that continued expenditure
after peace had been restored could
not be justified by law.
A letter from Acting Secretary of
State Polk showed that the mainten-
ance of the trans-Siberian railway was
regarded as of greatest Importance in
opposing the Bolsheviki. The railroad
was to be supported by equal contribu-
tlons from the United States, Great
Britain, France and Japan.
Recalls Rail Loss Here
I'VE already have sunk 100000, 900
in support of American railways dur
ing the last year" Representative
Goodykountz, of West Virginia. re-
called. "Are we now to embark on q
similar programme of expenditure for
foreign railways
IF I thought the payment of this
S5,OOO,000 would bring our soldiers
home from Russia, would gladly vote
for it,
In reply to assertions by Democratic
leaders that the United States has been
obligated by the President to make
this contribution to the support of the
railway, and that the obligation should
not be dishonored by Congress, Repre-
sentative Goodykountz said:
This appropriation involves no
great international question. If it does,
the President, when he returns to this
country in few days, should come be-
sity for making this loan"
Good Defends Wilson'S Act
Representative Good, chairman of the
Appropriations Committee, opposed the
plan of his colleagues to withdraw the
financial support pledged by the Presi-
dent to the Transsiberian Railway. At
ter carefully considering the whole sub
ject, he said, he had concluded the Pres
ident had full authority to use the
money given him in the emergency fund
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

as he saw fit. If Congress should turn
the fund back into the Treasury, he
believed, the action would be regarded
as reputation of the President, and
he was not willing to take the response
bility for such a course
Representative Byrns. Democrat, Of
Tennessee, said the President would
have been ga superman" if he had been
able to spend the emergency fund in
such manner as to avoid any criticism
from his political opponents.
"The President was fully justified
and authorized under the law in making
this commitment through the War
Trade Board" he said. HE has not
given away this money, but has loaned
it, and the United States government
will get full return for the supplies
furnished to the Russian people through
this arrangement"
Relief Plan Demanded 1t
inter-Allied agreement to fight Boil
shevism in Russia by giving the peo-
pie there what they needed-food,
clothing and tin plate-it was found
that transportation had broken down.
"It was necessary for somebody to
finance the Siberian railroad" he con-
tinued. "We got good security and all
the money will come back in due time.
And, another thing, all this money we
agreed to loan will be spent under the
direction of a good American. Mr.. John
Stevens.
"We are committed to this obligs.
ton. Japan already has put up her
$5,O0O,O0O and Great Britain now is
putting up her share. France will do
The same.
Congress simply is being asked to
keep faith with Great Britain, Japan
and France in making good this obli-
CATION. The President was not required
to come before Congress for authority
to make this loan. To have done so
Congress was not in session at the time
would have defeated the whole pur-
pose of this allotment and commitment
through the delay incident to consid-
Grafton of the matter here"
Representative Gallivan (Democrat),
of Massachusetts, warned that a vote
of the House to withdraw the fund
would amount to nothing. He said:
"The President, if he deemed it neoe
essary in order to keep faith with the
other nations, could draw On the Treas
ury tomorrow for this money. This
bill will not pass the House and Sem
ate for two weeks.
"But such action by Congress not
only would be an attempt to repudiate
the President of the United States-it
would also be Reputation of a con-
tract made by the people Of America"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Vienna Exonerated
Serbia in Sarajevo
Deaths, Harden Says
Berlin Editor Declares That
the Official Telegram Was
Prepared, Then Ordered
Cancelled at Potsdam

BERNE, June 20--An official tele-
gram TO the Vienna Foreign Office ex-
onerating Serbia of responsibility for
tae Serajevo murder has been pub
hsned By Macmillan HARDEN in the
Berlin "ZuGunft," as part of the
mass Of evidence to show German re-
fponsibility for the war.
This telegram, dated July 13, 1914,
states plainly that the Serbian govern
ments against which no evidence can be
murder.
lhis document, Herr Harden said,
,.s was cancelled and ten days later the
uItimatum to Serbia was presented
10 addition, he said, seven days before
., vas drafted the Potsdam War Coun-
=. 81 already had arranged plan Of &C.
..oh IN anticipation Of Russia's inter-
Won Bethmann- Hollwcg may have
.sigo,ten IT." Herr Harden says, "but
Mis decision was taken and registere d
" July 8, before the Kaiser left for
.ae north, and he who had to choose
.ssween war and peace had already
snosen war. A hundred million indi-
'i'sasB we're thus deceived"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
German Austria to Aid
World Red Cross Work

GENEVA, June 20. The interna-
tonal committee of the Red Cross has
announced that the Central Bureau
founded in Vienna to fight epidemics in
Eastern Europe will include delegates
from Poland, German Austria, Hungary,
Jugo- -Slavia, Ukraine, Czecho Slovakia
and Rumania.
The bureau proposes, by means of
contributions from the states inter
ested,to assemble fund for the pur-
chase OF necessities, coordinate the eff
forts of the governments, establish a
sanitary Gordon and generally interest
the whole of Europe in the plight of
the peoples who are being decimated
by epidemics.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Russian Zealots Fight
Lenine as ssAntichrist''
DAR1s, June 20 Urench Wireless,

DARIS, June 20 French Wireless
Service).-The Soviet govern
ment in Russia in combating re-
igious movement, mystical in char
acter, which has spread through the
provinces Of Moscow, Novgorod and
Vladimir.
One OF the features Of the move
ment, which is said to be strong
among the peasants, according to
advices received here, is that Pre-
mier Lenine is called the Antichrist,
foretold in the Scriptures. The Boil
shevikf, 1t is said, are opposing the
movement by means Of an active
propaganda.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Salvador Judge Killed
BY Explosion of Bomb

SAN SALVADOR, June 2o.-An in
fernal machine sent to DR.. Manuel
Trejo Castillo, civil judge of Santa
Ana, in western Salvador, yesterday
caused the death of the judge and the
serious injury Of servant. The ex-
plosive was contained in a small box,
provided with a lock and key. The
fatal explosion occurred when the box
was opeped.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Martens Denies
Red Propaganda

Ludwig G.. A. X. Martens. unrecog-
nizcd envoy Of Lcninc and Trotsky to
.hc United States, in his first public
speech since the Lusk Legislative Com
mittcc caused the New York Russian
Soviet bureau TO be raidcd. denied last
night at Madison Square Garden that
his American mission had aught to do
with spreading Bolshcvist propaganda
in this country.
Before an audience Of 1000 Russians,
Letts, Ukrainians and Poles, who mani
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Vienna Is Expecting
An Onslaught by Reds
austrian Troops Hurried to the
Border to Suue Arms Plants
From, ADVANCING Huneorinns

COPENHAGEN, June 2O.-Unrest
continues in Vienna, according to dis
patches from the Austrian capital to-
day, and preparations are being made
for a new Communist attempt against
ters. it is said, has been converted
into fortress.
Hungarian Communist troops, the
dispatches say, are expected to cross
the Austrian frontier near Neudoer-
fel, south of Weiner-N Neustadt, and to
march on Woellersdorff to occupy the
munition factories there. Austrian
troops have been sent to Weiner-
Neustadt.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Brandeis to See Wilson
NeU York Tribune
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NeU York Tribune
Special Cable Service
oonrshs. 1918. Men York Tnbune Incl
fAkls. june 20.--Justice Brandeis
VI, = inc United States Supreme Court,
III arrive in Paris the first OF next
.sex en- route to Palestine. He will
snier With President wilson and
ssssisn - leaders here and then proceed
:" ais destination via Marseilles.
d .naries Weitzmapn, president OF
ssssish cl'tish Federation of ZioniS.s, will
fsn~ fs"pany Justice Erandeis to paIes-
s,ne, where, IL Is understood the two
& sssaonists viii make careful auryev Of
sas .a situation With view to maxine
Sfnsndatlon for the establishment
Z. ! = autonomous government az soon
S.st Turkish question is settled and
sfs. brita'n is<grantsd mandate
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
ADVERTISEMENTS
No. II
DEAR FOLKS:

TE i me tc11 you dOoul d
Wilson & Company party
~ given by the members of
the Fellowship Club of the New
York plant at the Waldorf Hotel
last Wednesday night. 1t was
c;yen in honor of Thomas E.
Wilson, president of the COM
many, who recently returned
from Europe, where he visited
his branch Offices there. He
made a special trip from Chi
caqo to fraternize with his fel-
low-workers in New York.
The New York Fellowship Club
has an active membership and
the members are very proud of
il so they wanted to show Mr..
Wilson how it measures up
alongside of the other Fellow
ship Clubs that exist in other
plants around the country.
But most of all, they wanted to
show Mr.. Wilson how much
they appreciate his efforts in
grouping his $4,000 workers into
one. big, happy family, where all
share in the generous distribu-
ton of goodwill, rewards and
privileges.
think it is great that one man
has the power and ability to lead
so many people into pleasant
paths and make them proud in
his leadership.
The evening party opened With
a performance by a minstrel
troupe composed of workers,
whose singing and acting and
conversation delighted the men,
bers and their wives who were
present. After this part of the
program had been carried out
Mr.. Wilson was introduced, and
the cheers that greeted him Ger
tilted to his popularity among his
fellow-workers.
1t is easy enough to detect the diff
ference between genuine and a
forced ovation; one is spontaneous
the other shows it is given because
it is expected.
When. however, hundreds of men
and women stand and cheer and
applaud and wave handkerchiefs-
and do so impulsively and heart
fully-then there is no doubt about
the spontaneity of it, nor is there
any doubt about their liking and
honoring the man.
Mr. Wilson talked to them very
briefly, but he said what was in his
heart to say, and he said it so sin
cerely that his fellow-workers knew
that he meant every word.
The secret of Mr.. Wilson's success
in his great business of supplying
people with his company's CERTI-
FLED FOOD PRODUCTS-such
as hams and bacon, canned meats.
vegetables and table delicacies-all
backed up also by the slogan THE
WILSON LABEL PROTECTS
YOUR TABLE" lis due to the
faith he has in his fellow-workers
and to their faith in him. He says
so--they say so-and that's all there
is to it-except, of course, that all
feel their responsibility in the prep
aration of the Wilson & Co. prod
ucts just the same as they feel
bound in honor to play on the level
with one another.
IT Is out OF the question for people living
IN the same household to act true blue in
one direction and false in another-and in
! ms particular household, don't forget,
'here Is absolute harmony as affecting the
spirit. the thoughts and the action Of
every member thereof
Mr. Wilson remained with his fellow
workers as one OF the lvellest and most
evenings saeties ended
And SO goes along merrily and happily the
building OF a great organization in mat
ters more important than mere cold busi-
ness calculations.
sincerely yours. william c. Freeman,
200 Fifth Avenue. New York City
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

others mentioned were selected be-
cause we were known as firm believers
IN the United States Constitution,
fair play"