The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-04
OFFICIALS NIP
SOVIET PLOT
IN PITTSBURG
Five Russian Reds to Be
DepOrted as Result of
Strike Plan.
SABOTAGE Is DISCOVERED
Steel Plants Are Increasing
Production Steadily De-
spite Workers Claims.
SABOTAGE Is DISCOVERED

tiles believe they have nipped in the
bud an effort to turn the steel strike
into a general revolutionary strike in
aid Of the Russian Soviet Government
Five avowed advocates of this plan
are tonight awaiting only a ship to
Russia that they may be deported to
the land whence they came. The cases
against eighteen other Russian agi-
tators now are being reviewed by the
immigration authorities at Washing
ton.
Federal action against the Russian
Reds became known simultaneously
with the appearance of what looks
like the first organized sabotage Of
the steel strike-the s15o,00O fire OF
suspicious origin at the Carnegie plant
in Mingo Junction and the discovery
Of nuts and bolts thrown into delicate
parts Of the machines which the Ale
gheny Steel Company was preparing
TO reoperate at its Breckenridge plant
Strike Is at Crisis.
1t came also on the day when it may
be said that the strike has reached a
really critical stage. Many strikers are
returning to work Steel tonnage is un-
doubtedly increasing. Tho irreconcilables
who remain out admittedly are becoming
more difficult for the cautious leaders,
like Foster and Fitzpatrick, to handle
Either they will flock back to work
within the next few days or they will
become sulSy and dangerous.
The Federal authorities here are care
full to make plain that it cannot be de-
duced from their discoveries that the
steel strike in itself is the child of
TrotzlSy and Lenine.
Their evidence is positive. however,
to the effect that the agents OF the Rus
sian Soviet Government sought to turn
the Industrial struggle here into a po-
litical protest against the refusal of the
governments of the world to recognize
their Red leaders at Moscow.
Circular Is Found.
Part OF the evidence against the men
who are to be deported consists OF a
circular in English which the Federal
authorities caught fresh from the presses
of local printing plant 1t is addressed
TO the american Working Class" II
concludes with the words:
I'VE ask you in the name of the BROTH
erhood Of workers the world over, in the
name of the solidarity of the working
class the world over, to raise your
mighty voice in protest against the ter
rible injustice and inhumanity to the
Russian people.
Let your Government know you are
opposed to the blockade against Rus
sia, or. If they will not listen to your
protests, then use the last and most ef-
fective weapon in your arsenal-the gen.
eral strike
The American worlImen should and
must fx date. not later than January
1, 1920, to call the general strike to
enforce the lifting OF the blockade
against Russia and TO correct the injus-
tices and abuses against Russia.
RUSSIAN WoRKINGMAN's CONVENTION ,
Two Charged with Call.
Frank Brolda and Andriev Belesta are
the meh charged with procuring the is.
sue of this call. They, with three others
who have like them been ordered de-
ported, have been active throughout the
strike, circulating among their country.
men and according to the evidence pro-
duced in their deportation proceedings
exciting them by word of mouth along
the lines OF the circular. The circular
was printed before the end Of the stee
strikes first week. So far as can be
learned II never attained circulation due
to the watchfulness of e. Lowry Humes
United States Attorney here, agents Of
the Department OF Justice and of the
immigration service.
Broida, Belesta and their co-workeri
are believed by the Federal authorities
to represent the extent of the active
Bolshevih propaganda here. All oi
them were members of either the l. "
w. or the Union OF Russian Workers
II is as yet admittedly unknown as &c
how effective they have been in theil
work within the strike organization
The real strike leaders. Fitzpatrick
Foster and the other A. F. of l.. leaders
will OF course repudiate them. Tn,
A. F. of l.. leaders have been careful
! throughout the strike to preach Ameri
canism and order.