Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-11
| Boil LSREI|K HEAD HERE
IS FRIEND OF TROTzKY
A Red Firm Acknowledged Partic-
ipation in Spread of Socialist
Terrorism in N. Y.

| their battles with Bolshcvik forces.
At No. 229 Broadway, in New York
CITY. is an office from which is carried
on throughout the United States propa-
ganda in behalf of Soviet Russia. 1his
propaganda is frank attempt by ITS
director to present tho Russian Soviets IN
favorable light and convince America
that they should be recognized as Rus
sia $ official government.
The director is =. Nourtcva, a Finn,
n member Of the Finnish Socialist party,
which brought about the Finnish rcvou-
tion last January, n friend OF Irotzky
and the authorized head OF the iniorma-
tion bureau Of the Finnish Reds
According to information which Nour-
tcva gave Yesterday to a reporter, his
work. which began in behalf OF the Firms
and was expanded to include the Bolshe-
wiki after large number of Firms had fled
10 Moscow, is carried on through English
newspapers. OF these, he says. he has
list of sixty or seventy which have printed
the information he has supplied. In
New York City, he says. he has been
most successful IN getting II III the New
York Call, Socialist daily.
The information comes IN part IN the
form uf documents got out by the Sovicts
and brought into the United states by
travellers who have left Russia through
neutral countries.
lie denies hat he received the $780,
600 rcportcd sent here recently hy the
Russian SoviCts for propaganda pur-
poses. but admits that the customs Of
fcials have prevented him from re ewing
non y sent 10 him from sweden by the
Finnish rcvomtIonists, and that 1T IS
m,itc possible that the Finnish workers,
Who themselves are deprived Of all means
of oc-lvltv and who are in close accord
with the Russian 80 lct. have received
the money from Russians.
Mr. \ourtcva said tho money was
brought from Sweden by an American
newspaper man who told American repre-
/ scntatjvcs IN sweden about his crrand IN
Tins respect. On his arrival the newspaper
| man whose name Mr. Nourtova would not
/ give showed the drafts 10 customs Of
| tccrs. uith tho result that be was deprived
| 81 them Nj \ourteva is still wondering
/ whether he nitcd States government ~
| going 10 1T Inn have the money.
/ n hone hc said Yesterday. that the
/ drafts viii t,c delivered 10 me, for | can soc
/. no legal reason for DENYING nc that right
| An official told me that the money might
have come from the Russian RolShCvlki
Ionly know that hv me u Will hc expended
IN 4 perfectly legitimate work of telling
| the truth atout Finland and incidentally
/ about Russia
II do not regard il as impossible that
the Russian Soviet Government might
have tricd u send eruR ~ money for
nihIcitv work about the Russian Soviet
hut II il altogether lnconccivahlc 10 me
why tins should bc regarded Is an awful
crime
There arc Russian groups IN America
who have IN their possession, without any
hodv haraSsing them, tens Of millions oi
dollars. which are hctng freely expended IN
an nsidIous lying propaganda aimed 20
poIson the minds IL the American people
Russi9 WHY should il be criminal for
the Russian Soviet 10 tell its side Of the
issue. and for that purpose to eXpend
II regard 10 the s400k, 900 which was
reportcd 10 have been received IN America
81 a pcrsonal representative Of 1rotzkA
Mr. Nourteva said
II am not q personal representative
Of Trotzky, nut ! am friend oi hE
and proud OF it | have an office in lower
| Proadwav. and it may be possible that
am supposed to he the possessnr OF the
money. | wish 10 heaven il were true, as Il
would relieve me Of extreme straits
Unfortunately il = not true | must in al
sincerity maintain that ] have not hcarc
OF ans such money.
There might be few hotheads wEC
think they serve the cause Of the Russian
Soviets by advocating Soviet institution
in America but | am afraid that official
are very much overestmatlng the strcngt
Of such elements am sure that the NOR
officials and the press indulge IN imagining
huge Bolsheyikist conspiracles aeains
America, the more they themselves com
phcatc the situation.
Word came Yesterday from PIttsburl
that the Bolshevikl menace was growlni
there: that an active Soviet had beel
formed and had succeeded in bringing to
gether three classes Of radicais-Ro
shcviki. SyndicaiistS and Anarchists Their,
arc, The Worlds information said,
thousand active workers among thes
: three groups in the immediate dlstrlc
, besides thousands of Russians who gre IL
sympathy with them.
30 far the program OF the Soviet ha
confined itself almost entirely TO Russlal
affairs and its propaganda has apparentl,
been restricted 10 persons OF Russian
birth Their Immediate aims, according
10 their own statements, include the with
drawal Of American troops from Russia
reduction of working hours, and edu
cation Of Russians 10 fit them for q large
part in governmental affairs when the
return to Russia They declare that thcI
attitude toward the United states govern
ment is not actively hostile, but rathc
one Of Indifference
4 further growth OF the menace Il
Pittsburg Is marked by the acccptanc
by the radical wing Of the American So
cialists Of the program OF the -Amencal
B0lshcvists Their platform IS demandln
the non-interfcrence Of tins country Il
Russian affairs and is IN complete accor
with BolShcvism both here and abroad
II was stated yesterday by perso
who has been in close touch with Rlssia
affairs in this country, that 80 per cen
Of the men and women Of that nationallt.
who are here are BolshcviEi, a large pro
portion Of them actively engaged II
passing along the propaganda.
Further proof Of the identity Of tn
AIMS Of the L. w w. and the Bolshcvik
| came out yesterday in the form OF
pamphlet printed by the i. W. " pub
lishing bureau in Chicago. The pamphle
is entitled THE Ret Dawn the Bolshevik
and the |. W. w, ]" and contains the fol
lowing paragraphs
Imagine the Industrial Workers 0
the World, the L. w. W; as having or
ganized American wage workers in it
folds, and these workers controlling q
we'll ~ operating Ill industries. and yo
have the same thing the BoIshcvik! hay