The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-25
RUSSIAN REDDISH
IN UNITED STATES
CENTERS At GARY
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TESTI.
FIES TO FINDING TREMENDOUS
QUANTITIES OF BOLSHENIST
LITERATURE THERE, URGING
REVOLUTION

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district were given TO the senate com.
. mIttee investigating the strike today.
/ Lieut. II. G.. Nanburen, an intelligence
officer on the STAFF of Gen. Leonard
/ Wood. commander of the central dis.
trict Was the first witness.
'Our first interest in Gary" he said.
came when chief of Police Forbis
. came To Chicago from that city last
| spring with "a request for machine
guns and military ntcryenton> He told
us the reds there We're planning to
parade May 4, and to start a revolution.
| Two names We're given To us as those
/ of leaders of the anarchist club at Gary,
| ivanholt and de George They were
! Russians. or Austrlns. DE George was
a chemist and we learned later that
| he was operating near the Aetna cx.
| plostNe works outside Of Gary. where
! suncotton was available from the waste
outside OF the mill"
! Replying To Chairman KENYON. Lieu.
tenant Nauburcn said u report was made
to the department Of Justice. but so far
as he knew there had been no prosecu-
uon. He added that the two men had
left Gary Describing military inter
yention in Gary the Witness said:
No one has even sustained a black
eye since"
We found in Gary after military oc.
cupaton there, tremendous quantities OF
red literature" he continued. explain
lng that local police and associations OF
! citizens had prepared the way for raids
ON the storage places. The Bible OF
'ycd.' the anarchist and bolshevist," ne
said, lis the manifesto Of the communist
| party of Russia. put out at what is
known as the third international
which assembled in Moscow in March.
Many thousand copies Of this were in
| Gary
Lieutenant Nanburen read extracts
from booklet seized at Gary. 1t urged
revolution upon all workers in all lands
in the name of the "conquering prole.
tartan Of Russia and said open com.
bat was the only road to the redress or
alleged grievances
IAN the radicals of the country are
centering on the propaganda Of Lenine
aud rrot2l,y,' the witness continued.
II call TO your attention the fact that
It was printed in Chicago by the 'Arb
ter Zeitung Publishing Company. which
is significant"
o. Is this stuff going through the
mails?' Chairman Kenyon inquired.
"Oh, yes" Van Buron said.
Well, it'd better be stopped. if our
government is not to become impotent,"
remarked Chairman Kenyon.
which support this program" asked
Senator Phipps, republican, Colorado.
Yes, we have a list Of them said
the witness.
lie began producing a series Of docu.
ments printed in Russian, with names
OF societies attached and a consider
able quantity of l. w. w literature.
How many freighters are taking
part in this strike at Gary asked
Senator McHcllar, democrat, Of Ten
nesscc
81 haven't found an American yet"
the witness said though some Of the
leaders have second naturalization pa
pcrs"
Here are some of the productions
Of the Union of Russian Workers"
IL
a straight auarchistic society. Here's
one Of them, entitled The Grimes OF
Coz, an anti-religious pamphlet dis
cussing war"
a whole series Of tracts and pamph-
lets in Russian. put t.odt by the union.
worc read into the record.
did you get these in houses, or
how2' Chairman Kenyon asked.
In houses and halls Vanburen re.
piled. Sometimes men arrested would
have L. W. W. literature in their poclS-
cts"
1T has been charged that this ma
teriaI was sent into Gary to create pre-
judice against the strikers" said Chair.
man Kenyon.
I'VE only know we found it there"
Nanburcn returned. These people who
had it usually hau a big picture Of
Lenine and Trotzky. We found liter.
ally thousands Of these photographs. 1t
was reported to us that Richard Yer
hagin vice president and treasurer Of
the steel workers council at Gary was
q rcvolutionist,'
Lieut.. Nanburen then read tran
script Of Nerhagins examination before
| Il UuItdIE tribunal Nerhagln admitted
belief in revolutionary tactics, opposi-
tion to the existing form government
and faith only in organization along the
lines Of soviet Russia.
What is this steel workers coun-
cil?" asked Senator McKellar.
1T Is the central body Of the unions
engaged in the strike" was the re-
ply.
IAN American Federation Of Labor
organi2ations?"
II understand So"
Vanburen characterized the work.
ers' international defense league" as
nothing less than an anarchlstic out
fit working through the 1. w. W."
I'VE found several of the members
at Gary" he said
81 asked Paul Glazer attorney for
the strikers il he was a boshevild,
Lieut.. Vanburen continued. "and he
answered. You bet | am We've rec
commended to the department of JUS
tice that steps be taken to cancel his
citizenship papers,
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