The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-13
|BOLSHEV|K REGIME DESCRIBED BEFORE
 INQUIRY COMMITTEE
Most of Leaders Are Jews From New York, Declares Dr. Simons in His
 Testimony

Washington, February 12.-The
 boIshevik regime in Russia was de-
 scribcd today by the Rev. G. A.
 SimOns in testimony before the
 Senate committee Investigating
 IayvIess agitation in the United
 States as a minority military dic-
 tatorship supported by terriorism.
 pr. Simons, who for many years had 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.
 I. w. w. ARE BOLSHEVISTS
 The 1. W. w. movement in this coun- try, which the committee has included in it's general inquiry, was said by Dr. Simons to be identical with the pol shevsts' system.
 Bolshevik propaganda apparently Is being carried on in the United States, Dr. Simons said, by means of speakers. pamphlets and articles in newspapers and magazines. He declared that John Reed and Albert Rhys Williams, Ameri- can writers, have been closely affiliated with the bolsevik government In Rus sia and that Williams had come to this country with a quantity of bolshevik publications. The wItness said pub fishers of bolshevik literature in the United States included the Rand school of Social Science in New York, Charles IT, Kerr Co Chicago; the Socialist Literature company of New York and Novy Mir. Russian newspaper in New York
 Dr. Simons, whose headquarters were in Petrograd before he fled the coun try last October, told the committee John Reed and his wife, Louise Bryant, were very close to the bolshevik lead CTS in Petrograd and spent much tune at their headquarters.
 Reed was described as persona grata to the bolshevik gov srnment so that they wanted to make him consul gener- al in New York"
 Was he regarded by Americans there as an American or bolsheviki?" ques- toned Senator King of Utah.
 REED A BOLSHEVIK AS bolsheviki." replied the witness, There were a number of American bolshevik sympathizers there. We re- ferred to them as 'mush- headed muddle- headed
 Albert Rhys Williams frequently par ticipated in bolshevik meetings, Dr. Simons said and was heart and soul with them" Mai. E. Lowry Humes, who is direct mig the inquiry for the committee, in quired if it were not true that Will Hams came to this country as a repre- sentative of Lenne and Trotzky and was to organize a Russian information bureau in this country for the Russian government The witness said he un- derstood Williams was to do that work. Chairman Overman interrupted to in quire:
 How about Raymond Robins?" He referred to the head of the American 1 Red Cross mission in Russia.
 He was supposed by the bolsheviki to be the best American of them all,' - replied Dr. Simons.
 Major Humes read into the record tho text of an official order of the Lenino government dated December 13. l917 ap- propriating 2,Oo00oO rubes for the spread of bolshevik opaganda throughout the world.
 FUNDS PROVIDED "The struggle against the war and i'm . perialsm can lead to complete victory only if conducted on an international scale" said the order. gro this end the council of peoples commissarat orders the appropriation for the requirements of the revolutionary international movement to be put at the disposal of the foreign rep resentatives of the commissarat of for eign affairs. 100000 rubles.' Dr. Simons said almost from the begin ming of the bolshevik regime the move ment was led and agitated by apostate Jews. most of whom bore German names originally, but who later changed these to Russian names. He presented list of bolshevik leaders with their Russian assumed names and their original Jewish names Scores of New York East Side Yiddishers came to Petrograd shortly after the overthrow of the kerensky gov ernment, the witness said. and he attri- buted much of the success of the bolshe- vik movement to aid from the lower East Side of New York.
 Dr. S'imons explained that he did not mean to cast reflections on Jews Tn general He said the better classes hoped for the overthrow of the present regime and that many Jewish rabbs had thanked him for exposing the situation within the boshevik organization.
 The witness declared not more than one e-fifth of the whole of Russia was rep resented in the bolshevik movement, that 90 per cent of the peasants and 7J per cent of workmen were not in sym pathy with the Lenine government. which he described as d dictatorship of the pro letariat
 Dr. Simons said that in a prominent educational institute in Fetrograd young girl stcdents had been compelled to live in the same quarters with the bol- shevik red guards and that the practice was sanctioned by the volsheviS leaders. At this point the committee went into executive session. which Dr. Simonds gave names of Americans suspected of being bolshevik propagandsts in the United States.