The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-19
SAY MARTENS AIDS.
REVOLT PLOTTERS

committee to make a deep and thorough
investigation. It lie also the purpose OF
the committee TO recommend and pro-
cure the enactment OF legislation which
will result in remedying anything which
may be wrong with the Industrial and
home conditions OF our people. While
this will be the most important feature
of the committees work, It 10 necessary
for us first TO give consideration 20 the
seditious activity now being carried on
within our state.
Whatever changes are necessary In
the Industrial and home life of our
State will be accomplished, but they
will be accomplished under the Consti-
tuition and laws of our State and under
the American flag and not by violence
and revolution and under the red flag.
THE time has come when lines must
he sharply drawn between the loyal and
the disloyal. Politics and personalities
must and will be ignored, and care will
be taken to see to Il that no loyal eiti-
zen Is placed under suspicion. The cir
culation OF publications and the holding
of public meetings advocating the con-
fscation OF property and tho forccful
ana VlOlenI ONeTtnTOW VI WI bVVcfh-
ment must cease"
When the committee began yesterday
Henry w. drunewald. former agent OF
the Department of Justice, and now
connected with the committee. took the
stand to place in evidence q copy OF the
Berlin Tdoeblatt OF April 4. which had
been taken from the files OF the Soviet
} bureau. Marked in red ink was dcs-
patch from the papers correspondent In
J The Hague headed; The Bolshevist
Agitation In America" II read.
J THE Daily Necs announces that in
New York and America a Systematic
Bolshevist agitation is under way. The
| American industrials have already been
warned and are handling the situation
with the greatest carefulness. They are
even sending experts to Europe to study
there the conditions. The unrest that
has seized the American public affairs
for the moment comes through the &C.
tivities OF the official representative Of
the Bolshevik Government, Mr.. Martens,
whose business quarters are in the
vicinity OF wall Street.
at deals with the American business
world by offering gold credits, for
which he has at his disposal in all
forty million pounds sterling, which are
to be used for Arms desiring TO estab-
lish business relations with Russia.
Martens Is pictured as a quiet man.
who IL well aware OF his responsibility.
To welcome him theatre was rented,
In which over 5000 people had conyre-
gated. A newspaper known as the
!, Rebel Worker was sold. and as red
| flags are not allowed to be displayed
in America many women wore red
dresses, AT this meeting a Soviet
America was demanded and the actual
American Government was Kissed. The
revolution in Hungary was wildly
| ogre I'd with"
Pledged Ala to Soviet Work.
} Then Sergeant Walter +. Brey Of the
State Constabulary who was placed in
charge of the seized papers. offered in
evidence number of communications
from various radical groups, greeting
: Mr.. Martens and pledging themselves
! to do what they could to bring about
, Soviet form OF government here. This
Is "A sample Of this class Of document
The members OF the Eighth Assem-
bly, District, Local New York Socialistic
; Party Of America, In regular meeting
assembled this Sd day OF April 1919.
\ send greetings to you and pledge our
! cooperation In establishing the first
, representative OF the workers Govern
. ment OF Russia in America. We also
, pledge ourselves to work INCREASINGLY
for the propagation OF those principles
and policies and tactics that will tend
directly in tho establishment OF a So
cialist Federated Soviet republic in
America"
A copy OF reply to this, signed Rep
resentative Of the Peoples Commi ssa ria I
OF Foreign Affairs" was produced.
Il trust that our devotion to the cause
OF the Russian Soviet Republic" 1t said,
will serve the Russian proletariat as
well as the proletariat OF other countries
as support in their struggle for their
final emancipation"
! One of the communications from a
radical group read: There shall come
America will send a representative of
their Soviet republic to. Russia. Until
then we are yours for the world revo-
luton and brotherhood"
Archibald l.. Stevenson. the allen en-
envy expert" then read into the record
two confidential reports of Charles
Recht, counsel for the Soviet Bureau,
rega riding his efforts on behalf of num-
her of Russians, Poles. Ckranians and
Lithuanians who had been arrested In
connection with a May Day demonstra-
ton I'M Chester. Pa. and who later were
indicted on charges OF riot, destruction
OF buildings and melting to riot.
on the second report, in what was
said by Mr. Stevenson to be the hand
writing OF Mr., Martens. was the indorse-
ment: ASK Comrade Recht to proceed
with this case In the report Mr..
Recht quoted the judge who held the
men for the Grand Jury as saying to
the local counsel, who had questioned
the existence of any precedent under
which they could be held: III you will
only look into case decided In the
year 1897 you viii md a precedent"
This was the famous Liberty Pole
case, when n man was arrested for al
legged participation in the erection of So
called liberty poles in movement
against the Federal constitution. which
was started by Thomas Jefferson. who
held that tho document gave too great
powers to the Federal Government
Another letter read by Mr.. Stevenson
was from the father OF Vladimir LOS
seff. sentenced to Leavenworth for
twenty years in the Chicago !, w. w.
trials, in which he asked $. Nuorteva
secretary Of the Soviet bureau, to cable
to Russia in an attempt TO have his son
sent back TO that country.
Also there was communication TO
Miss Elizabeth Gurlcy Flynn, said by
Mr.. Stevenson TO be a well known
member OF the /. w. W." from a Chi
cago lawyer and which she had sent to
Mr., Nuorteva. 1t WAS In reference TO
some bail and deportation bonds for
Lossleff
The committees investigators are
working night and day on the propa-
ganda OF other radical groups in this
city.