New-York tribune., 1919-03-12
Nation Uttered With
Propaganda to Pave
Way for Revolution
Private Ownership
Would BE Abolished
Documents Presented 10
Oyerman Committee
Urged Seizure Of Land
Ncr York r1,brtne
&c eb'uOio~ Ru-ccr

WASHINGTON, March IL Bolshe-
vis. anarchist and red revolutionary
propaganda IS circulating in great
masses all over the United States, in
circulars, haudblls. posters and pam
nhlcts. as we'll as in newspapers. j;
was shown BY stack Of material OF
this Kind which was put into the record
Of the Ovcrman propag ganda inquiry
committee to-day by order of f. Lowry
Humcs, The committees S counsel.
The documents include appeals in
English, Spanish, Russian. Italian
Finnish, Hungarian and other Ian
guages They include publications OF
all kinds. from postcards to books
They arc addressed to workers. farmers
and soldiers. and they abound IN de
nunciation of all who have achieved
success under the present social
system.
In general tone the documents are
similar, and all agree in defence OF
the BolsheYk revolution in Russia
some even cxultins in the bloodshcd
and terrorism there The outstanding
features are:
Denunciation Of and demands for
resistance to all forms Of govern
ment and the Church
Demands for government owner
ship Of everything.
Predictions of great Bolshevik
armies, which are to sweep Europe
and the world.
Plans for organization for a gen
cral strike to start a revolution in
America.
Formation OF schools for instruc-
tlon in the principles OF revolution,
the technique of agitation and the
means OF Conducting the business"
Incidentally. there are direct appeals
against the draft, and to returned sol
diers and sailors TO prepare now to
hgh. to free yourselves"
|. ". ". Activities Disclosed
One exhibit is list of the known
organizations Of the l. W. W, the or
ganization which is foremost in the
revolutionary propaganda This shows
the organization has established at this
time 1901 centres of agitation, of
which 1884 are unions and 4,567 are
recruiting stations
The unions are:
Forty-six bakery workers industrial
unions, 100 marine transport workers
Of Atlantic, 200 marine transport work
ers OF Pacific, 200 metal and machinery
workers, 325 shipbuilding industrial
unions, 400 agricultural workers, 450
oil workers. 490 iron miners, 500 lum-
Der workers, 579 construction workers
500 railroad workers. 700 marine trans
port workers lpacifc), 500 metal mine
workers, $50 coal miners (Eastern)
$50 coal miners (Western), 1000 tex
tile workers; total, 1894
The recruiting stations are:
General recruiting union, s. Detroit
recruiting unions, 64 Minneapolis, sc
Fresno, GO Salt Lake City, II Sacra-
nento, 73 Stockton, Cal; 81 St. Louis,
50 Toledo, So Reading, Penn; ia Oak
and, Cal, 499 San Jose, 500 Omaha
'95 Los Angeles, 6l4 Denver, 222 Spo-
zane, Wash; 173 San Francisco CLati.i
branch, 5eS New York diminish
oFanch), g. Portland, Sandusky. Ohio;
Pocatello. 81 Kansas City, 60 Bisbee,
''s Seattle; total, 4,567.
Foreign Appeals Translated
A translation from foreign language.
o. more than fifty posters, circular.
ana pamphlets which have been pub
"shed and circulated since the arms
''se include the following:
from an anarchist poster which re
Gently appeared simultaneously all owe
New England
Inc senile fossils ruling the Unitec
o'a'es see red. Smelling their dcstruc
"on' they have decided to check tn
"oFm BY passing the deportation Law
Affecting all foreign radicals. We, tn
american anarchists, do not protest, fo
= 10 futile to waste any energy OF
'scoie minded creatures led b. his ma
cay Fhonograph Wilson. You hay
'no"n no pity TO us. We viii do like
wise. And deport US. We will dynn
mite you. Either dcport US or fre
ALI
from an anarchist circular recent.
circulated in various sections of tn
eh''ed States, a translation Of Rus
''sn anarchist propaganda document:
"e are robbed. we arc suppressed
'at 10 get rid Of these robbers ant
sappressors all at once Is impossible
ne can say that government has nevc
reached such banditry az ut the pres
n' hioe, together %ith religion. whicf
ns nsfSens the minds Of The people. to
sstner With the robbers of the poo
nnofking people, the government stand
."W Ike an iron rock upon Inc bncl
the workingman. What peraon viii
s.hsaitny mind, with y spark Of hon
~ and human feeling vim NOT vii
hs pricc Of his las. drop Of blood re
sla Of and absolutely destroy all farm