New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Lenine Sends
Huge Sums
To Reds Here
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much 1 would like to see Bakhmetef1
and others of my friends in the docket
] cannot but admit that compared with
the problem of renewal of trade re.
lations, this expose is petty and fou
smelling. 1t is not worth while to pro.
woke the American rulers"
Not Paid for Commerce
After the volume of evidence con.
cerning propaganda and the data cover.
ing financial transactions had beer
spread upon the record, Chairman Lusk
said:
"1n connection with the financia
situation here, want to call the at.
tention of the members of the COM
mlttee who were not here the othe,
day, to the fact that it appeared in
the evidence of Mr.. Martens and A. A
Heller that they had not paid out any
money IN any commercial transactions
so, Whatever money they used must
necessarily have been used for some
thing besides commercial purposes. !
think that is information that ought
TO be before all the members of the
committee"
Early in the hearing yesterday At
torney General Newton and Mr.. Ste
venson put into the record a night
letter from Martens to the United
States District Attorney at Norfolk,
Va, in which Martens said: please
send If possible, information by wire,
collect, stating charges under which
Vastly Trimiloff and James Logow are
now confined in the city Jail of Nor
folk and when trial will be held. / de-
sire to provide counsel, as 1 under
stand the prisoners are now unrepre-
SERTED"
Accused of Resisting Draft
The letter had to do with Russian
citizens resisting military draft.
On direction of Chairman Lusk. Mr..
Stevenson read into the record names
from what appeared to be a speciallv
prepared mailing list from the soviet
headquarters. Some of the names
were: Leonard Abbott, who, according
TO Mr.. Stevenson, was connected with
the Ferrer Association of Anarchists in
New Jersey; Robert W. Bruere, a
writer, who, as Mr.. Stevenson stated,
on June % last signed an appeal for
funds to defend the l. w. w. on trial
with William B. Hayward in Chicago:
B. W. Huebsch, publisher; John Love
JOY Elliott, active, Mr.. Stevenson said,
on the board of directors of the Ma
tional Civil Liberties League; Carle-
ton Hayes, associate professor at Co.
lumbla University, who, like Bruere,
appeared to he sympathetic toward the
!. W. w.; Morris Hillquit, lawyer;
Paul U. Kellogg, editor of "The Sur
vey," and others:
After the reading of each name
Chairman Lusk wanted to know some-
thing about the man, and Mr.. Steven
son enlightened him, remarking that
there were about $50 names on the
mailing list.
La Follette's Daughter
Resuming the reading, Mr.. Steven
son came to the name of George W.
Kirchwey, former dean of the Colum-
bia University Law School, and of
Fola La Toilette, daughter of United
States Senator La Toilette Followed
the names of Louis Lochner, who was
secretary of the famous Ford peace
party, and now active in the Peoples
Council, in Mr.. Stevenson's judgment,
a radical organization; Darwin X.
Meserole, Scott Nearing, H. Over
street, professor at City College;
Mary White Ovington, Amos Pinchot.
Max Pine, of the United Hebrew
Trades; Raymond Robins, John Reed.
Gilbert e. Roe, Colonel Thomas D.
Ihacher, Colonel William Boice
Thompson, Lillian D. Wald and Wal
ter =. Weyl, Of "The New Republic"
After questions by Chairman Lusk
about those named, Mr.. Stevenson
went on with his reading, including
Albert Rhys Williams and Norman M.
Thomas. Mr.. Stevenson said the
names were those who are recognized
as radicals or apologists for radicals
in the United States.
Mr. Stevenson, in answer to inquiries
from Chairman Lrsk and Attorney
General Newton, described the letters
and documents taken in the raid last
week, and said there was a SURPRISING
number of requests for Santeri Nuor-
teva to speak at the various Socialist
and other radical meetings.
UAnSS <AOOuL CdDOCdEc
One from the East Side Socialist
party, of Cleveland, claiming to repre-
sent ten Bolshevik organizations. went
into the record in it's entirety. The
writer, in addressing Mr.. Nuorteva
said:
"The E. S. S. P. Com. is the soviet
OF ten Bolshevik organizations in
Cleveland, and since the local is doing
its damnedestto sabotage our John Reed
meeting (the Schiedemann locaD, we
want to sabotage them as far as YOU
are concerned. They have asked him
to cancel same, explaining that we are
anarchists, etc.--you understand their
dirty game. We are demanding Reed
stick to his agreement, and if he don't
stick with US we will, of course, have
our own speaker.
1.-THE integrity of the Reds is con-
cerned in this matter, for if they sue
ceed in getting Reed away from us they
Will have won the victory. We must
balk them, and not only that, we must
take you away from them.
"They got Frania (of The Revolution
ary Age Boston) here for three meet
lngs, and he was sabotaged by those
who ran the meetings. They'll do the
same to you. You must therefore can
eel their meeting.
(Signed) "E. S. S. P. Com, Chas. Sa-
molar, Sec'y."