New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
Attorney General Says Lusk
Inquiry Found the Aims
and Methods of Both
Radical Bands Identical
Tales of Red Terror
National Security League
"Constitution Day. Drive
Spreads Over 20 States

Bolshevism and the I. w. W. are one
and the same thing in aim and me-
thods, says experts who have studied
both at close range. The development
Of the Bolshevik regime, they say,
shows a similarity to what the 1. w. W.
seek to accomplish in the United
States. by establishing through force
and violence the dictatorship Of the
proletariat." This is one of the dis
closures made by the Lusk committee,
said Attorney General Charles D. New
ton, counsel for the committee, in
an interview at Albany yesterday.
"Bolshevism," he said, "calls for the
overturn of existing institutions by
force, the murder of all those who
oppose these ideas, and the substitu-
ton for the present rule Of law and
order of an unbridled dictatorship by
the few who are pleased to call them
selves the proletariat.
"The l. w. w. of the United States,
to which the advocates Of anarchy
have flocked in the last few years,
openly promote the seizure of all in
dustry by the workers, the destruction
one opposed to this doctrine of violence
and the rule of the mob. They simply
ornament the rule of the mob into
proletarian government. The express
sions are identical in meaning.
Along Parallel Lines.
"The purpose of this interview Is
tc indicate what Bolshevism has done
in Russia and what the l. w. W. hope
to accomplish in America Every state
ment following was given the COM
mittee under oath, the sworn testl-
mony of government official who
witnessed the outrage of Russia by the
Bolsheviki, and much of it was substan-
tlated by Photographic evidence show
ing the bodies of those murdered by
the plundering mobs organized by
Irotzky and Lenine, tho Russian die
GATORS.
When the Bolshevik hordes
reached Ufa. in Western Siberia one
witness told the committee, practical
- every official associated with the for
Ter government who was unable to
make his escape was taken into the
public square and shot. The charge
made against them was that Of coun-
ter revolution Among the murdered
were three judges of the district ap-
pellate court.
when the Jail was packed the Boil
shevik soldiers would seize certain
ones, take them out and shoot them
without trial. Men and women were
to dig graves for the prisoners who
were to be shot the next day. Often it
happened that members of the grave
digging squad dug their own graves.
They were picked for execution the
next day.
Digs Sons Grave
zone old man, Buglama farmer,
was dragged from the Jail one night
and instructed to dig a grave for his
own son. While he was digging he
heard the firing squad executing his
boy. He was SO affected he died during
the night.
"All government was overthrown and
the Bolshevik bands FOR weeks ma
raudcd the streets Of the city in quest
Of .plunder. Every day prominent cti-
zens were shot in the streets on the
goods at a profit or interfering with
the Bolshevik governments plans
Judge Paul Blumenthal of the District
Appellate Court of Ufa told me that
hundreds, yes. thousands, of the best
citizens were murdered.
THE barracks of the soldiers of
Lenine We're formerly the homes OF
law abiding Russians. These soldiers
drove out the men and compelled the
women to stay to do the housework
prepare their meals and wait upon
them while they drank and gambled al
night. The women were often out
ragged. The fate of some OF the younger
girls was terrible; so horrible it can
not be described.
Desecrated Churches
"No mans or no woman's life al
Bellebei was safe during the Bolshevik
rule. Nine. Koshevnikoff, one of the
few women of standing who escaped
with her life, told me of the desecratior
of the local church. Sacred pictures
were torn from the walls and destroyed
Then gramophone was installed and {
moving picture machine set up. Only
the Bolsheviki attended,"
/ II often have been asked to define
Bolshevism," concluded Mr.. Newton
I The thing cannot be defined. The
| sworn testimony Of men who have livet
1 more aptly defines it than any defni
4 tion | could give.
Il The foregoing Is the story of Boil
|; shevism, the ultimate outcome of tn
radica doctrines and prcachngs Of tn
/ Peds in Russia. And this is what tn
I I. w. W. are aRltatlnY Tor IN America.
I Anti-Red Campaign Grows
Il Complete organization in twenty
4 Ninc states Of the National Securit
! Leagues campaign to combat tn
/ spread Of radical doctrines by ma
Il ton vide popularization Of the Con
\ stitution of the United States was an
!, nounccd by the league yesterday fror
1 It's Offices at 10 West Forty-fourt
I Street.
/ Many other patriotic organization
| Of the country have Joined with tn
| league in q constitutional celebration
1 organization committee, headed by d.
:, David Jayne Hin. which has genera
! charge Of the campaign. This cam
| paign will eliminate in a nation wild
/ celebration of "Constitution Day" O.
! the anniversary Of the birthday Of tn
! | Constitution, September II next.
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