New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
froletarian Dictatorship
Forecast by Eastman at
Garden; Rose Stokes
breaches Armed Force
Martens Defends Bureau
Near Riot as Police Eject
Man and Girl; Lusk Com
mittee Violently Assailed

The ultimate triumph Of Bolshevism
IN America was predicted at meeting
OF Socialists and radicals in Madison
Square Garden last night The predic-
ton was wildly cheered by the 5000
Russians, Ukrainians, Let's, Ruthea-
ians, Poles and other foreigners who
filled the Garden. The principal speaker
of the evening was L. C. A. K. Martens,
the Bolshevik Ambassador" to the
United States.
Mr.. Martens was cheered for more
than ten minutes when he arose to
speak. The cheering was broken by
the sudden swoop of detectives into the
audience and the removal of girl who
waved a. red hat. A man who, the de-
tectlves said, tried to prevent her ar
rest, also was taken out. He was Jo-
seph Lasken, of 80 East Thirteenth
Street. About twoscore men in the
audience tried to rescue him from the
hands of the detectives, but were
beaten back. Lasken was taken to the
East Twenty second Street police sta
tion. The girl said she was Lizzie
Robitch, of 332 Beekman Avenue, The
Bronx ss,a
Ben Reitman Also There
The meeting was graced, in addition
to the Bolshevik "envoy," by the pres
ence Of Ben Reitman, the anarchist and
friend of Emma Goldman, who arrived
in this city from Chicago yesterday.
Reitman showed little enthusiasm, how
ever. the predictions of the triumph of
Bolshevism in America apparently MAX
ing no impression upon him. 1t was
declared that he considered Bolshevism
counter revolutionary" movement be-
cause of the persecution of the an
archists by the Lenine government in
Russia.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Russian Federation,
recently expelled from the Socialist
Party and the Left Wing of that
party. 1t was called for the purpose
of protesting against the raid upon the
soviet bureau in this city on the
orders of the Lusk committee. For
mer Socialist Assemblyman Gitlow
presided. Other speakers were Max
Eastman, John Reed, Louis C. Fraina,
C. E. Ruthenberg, of Ohio, James Lar
kin, Dennis E. Bait, of Michigan, and
Rose Pastor Stokes.
Martens Defends Bureau
While Mr.. Martens, in & prepared
speech, disclaimed any desire on the
part of his bureau to bring on Boil
shevik revolution in the United States
or any efforts in that direction, the
other speakers boldly proclaimed such
an intention on the part of the Left
Wing and defied the state and national
governments to stop them.
Particularly outspoken was Max
Eastman, editor Of "The Liberator."
Mr.. Eastman said:
~ came here as regular American
citizen to protest against the act Of
sidering the Russian soviet bureau
the centre of revolutionary propaganda
in the United States. protest against
the implication that the citizens of the
United States are not able to conduct
their own revolutionary propaganda.
~ would like to remind the Lusk
committee that there is an old Ameri-
can tradition, first expressed by
Thomas Jefferson, a President Of the
United States, when he said that "a
little rebellion now and then is a good
thing
"The propaganda of Rolshevism in
one form or another has been conduct
ed in the United States for the last
sixty years and it will be continued
to its logical CONCLUSIONS Dictator
.l - oo4H
States.
Do Our Work in Open
1--WE ask no aid from the Russian
ask Of it is that it continue to exist
We do all our work in the open. The
only secret conspiracy that is going on
in the United States is the conspiracy
Of Archibald Stevenson to conceal frov
himself facts which everybody else
knows and which he is paying datec-
tives to find out"
Mr.. Eastman read what he said was a
copy of confidential cable sent last
january by Acting Secretary of State
Polk to Secretary Lansing in Paris,
wherein Mr.. Polk expresses apprchen-
sion over the growth of opposition to
States and cautions Mr.. Lansing and
the President not to expect from Con-
gress any approval or appropriation
for the carrying out Of American enter
prises in Siberia in conjunction with
Japan. Mr.. Eastman added that al
though the cable was marked secres
and confidential he considered it his
duty to make it public.
Critcises Lusk Probers
Mr.. Martens reiterated his previous
claims that his bureau was in no way
stirring up Bolshevik agitation in the
United States. He criticised severely
the Lusk committee and the press,
charging that his bureau is being
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