Arizona republican., 1919-02-13
SAYS EAST SIDE
 NEW YORK JEWS
 LEAD b0LSHEv|k|
Bold Charge Is Made At
 Propaganda Hearing - Two Million Roubles Ap- propriated For World Wide Dissemination-Life In Petrograd Revealed
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 WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The bol- shevik regime in Russia was described today by the Rev. G. $. Simmons, in testimony before the senate committee investigating unlawful propaganda, as a minorist military dictatorship sup ported by terrorism.
 Dr. Simmons who for many years has been head of the Methodist Epis copal church in Russia, said most of the bolshevik leaders were Jews, many from the east side of New York, and that they had set aside large sums for the spread of their doctrine in all the countries of the world
 The I. W. w. movement in this country, which the committee has in cluded in its general inquiry, was said by pr. Simmons to be identical with the bolshevist system.
 Bolshevik propaganda apparently is being carried on in the United States Dr. Simmons said, by means of speak CTS, pamphlets and articles in news papers and magazines. He declared that John Reed and Albert Rhys Will Hams, American writers, had been closely affiliated with the bolshevik government in Russia, and that Will Hams had come to this country with quantity of bolshevik publications.
 Names U. S. Publishers { The witness said publishers of bol- 1 shevik literature in the United States | included the Rand school of social science in New York; Charles H. Kerr and company, Chicago; the Socialist Literature company, New York, and Novy Mir, a Russian newspaper in | New York.
 Dr. Simmons, whose headquarters were in Petrograd before he fled the country last Ocober, told the com
 mittee that John Reed and his wife,
 Louise Bryant, were very close to the
 bolshevik in Petrograd, and spent mucn ! time at their headquarters. Reed was described as persona grata to the bol-
 shevik government, so that they wanted
 to make him consul general in New
 York
 Was Reed regarded by Americans there as an American or bolshevik?" questioned Senator King Of Utah.
 "As bolshevik.' replied the wit
 ness. There were a number of Amer
 ican bolshevik sympathizers there, We referred to them as 'mush head, mud 1 dled headed
 Albert Rhys Williams frequently , participated in bolshevik movements and was heart and soul with them, speaking in very tender tones of them Alr. Simmons said. f Mention Raymond Robbins
 Major E. Lowrey Humes, who was directing the inquiry for the court, in , quired if it were not true that Will , Hams came to this country as a rep
 resentative of Lenine and Trotsky, and , was to organize Russian information Q ! Gl1rno1r this bn l government The witness said he un- 3 oerstoOd Williams was to do that work 6 Chairman Overman interrupted to
 inquire: How about Raymond Rob- . bins?' He referred to the head If ' the American Red Cross mission in Russia
 Q He was supposed by the bolshevil5 $ to be the best American of them all. O replied Dr. Simmons.
 O Major Humes read into the record
 the text of an official order of tho !, Lenine government dated December 9 13, 1917, appointing two million roubles r for the spread of bolshevik propaganda
 throughout the world.
 'The struggle against the war and
 imperialism can lead to complete vic n tory only if conducted on an inter- o national scaIen said the order. "To
 
 r missary orders the appropriation for . the requirements of the revolutionary !. international movement, to be put y at the disposal of the foreign repre- | sentatives of the commissariat of for n eign affairs. two million roubles."
 Fostered by Jews T Dr. Simmons said that almost from y the beginning of the bolshevik regime. Q the movement was led and directed @ hX apostate Jews, most of whom bore
 German names originally, but who d later changed these to Russian names. l- He presented list of bolshevik lead 1t CTS with their Russian assumed names ,c and. their original Jewish names. f. Scores of New York east side Yiddish iot came to Petrograd shortly after the
 overthrow of the Kerensky government
 the witness said, and he attributed
 much of the success of the bolsheviH
 movement to aid from the lower east ie side of New York
 or pr. Simmons explained that he did lg not mean to cast reflections on Jews in rn general He said the better classes n- hoped for the overthrow of the presen- y, regime and that many Jewish rabbi. at had thanked him for exposing the In situation within the bolshevik organi e. Zation.
 e. The witness declared that not nor, es than one-fifth of the whole of Russi; on was represented in the bolshevil at movement, that ninety per cent of tn ca peasants and probably 75 of workmei en were not in sympathy with the Lenin m government, which he described as
 dictatorship of the proletariat a Dr. Simmons declared that in Al prominent educational institution il ce Petrograd young girl students ha, -iu been compelled to live in the sam ns quarters with the bolshevik red guard
 and that the practice was sanctione
 by the bolshevik leaders. At this poin
 the committee went into executiv, ;; session, at which Dr. Simmons gay af names of Americans suspected to b ~ propagandists in the United States. Mrs. Natalie Summers, widow o sr Madden Summers, American consu av general of Moscow, will testify to be morrow. She is a native of Russi nd and came to the United States afte lip the death of her husband severa
 months ago.