The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-28
WOMhN AGENT OF TR0TzKY IN
 U. 5. SOUGHT Lusk Committee Operatives Are Instructed to Find Mime. Sarah ". Ravvicn. CLAIMED TO BE
 IN HIDING HERE Said to Have Served Ger many Well Tn Late
 War.

New York, July 2S - Mme Sarah Nauovna Ravvich. said to have been sent to this country by Leon Trotzky to organize the forces of unrest and revolution. with a view of seizing the government, is now being sought by operatives of the Lusk Joint Commit tee on Bolshcvism. Mme. Ravvich. !. described to the committee as the one who directed the betrayal of Rus sia, arrived in this country some time ago uutiier an assumed name. Accord ing to the information of the com mittee she Is said to have served Ger many well in the late war. She was one of those allowed to pass through Germany in scaled cars from Switzer- land to Russia just prior to the over throw of the Constituent Assembly by the Bolsheviki.
 Immediately after evidence had been presented to the committee yes terday that Mime. Ravvich and others who were active in the Bolshevik revolution were in America, Senator Clayton F. LusS sent for Immigration Inspector A. E. Schell, who has been assigned to the committee. When Scheu arrived the meeting was ad- tourned, and the committee went into secret conference with the immi- grafton officer.
 Scheu was requested to ascertain just how many of the agents of Trotzky had entered through Ellis Island in the last three years. The immigration officials on the Pacific Coast and on the Mexican borders also have been requested to aid in checking up on the Soviet agents sent here.
 Ven Svarc, the Cleveland attorney who was on the witness stand Thurs day. continued his testimony yes terday and gave the committee a list of 179 names of persons who travelled on the "IohenzoIlern SpeciaP' that carried leaders of Bolshevism from Switzerland to Russia. He furnished q list of more than two hundred trusted propagandists of Trotzky and Lenine who prepared the way for the revolution. Both these lists will be investigated in all parts of the coun- try.
 Mme Ravvich's name appears on one of the lists. It Is alleged she is the mysterious woman who left Rus sia with the wife of Trotzky for Nor way when the Russian director sent 100000 rubles out of the coun- try It Is known most of this money was intended for the dissemination of Red propaganda, but the committee has been unable to ascertain how much she brought to this country Secret service operatives abroad re- port that part of the fund was in tended for the l. w. w., now openly cooperating with the Bolsheviki.
 svarc told Deputy Attorney General Berger that the methods ern- ployed by the Bolshevic propagandsts here now are identical to those used in Russia just before the revolutions Berger showed that some of the men sent out to engineer the overthrow Of the Russian government now are .ac- tive in the United States.
 The witness testified the Bolshevik work toward the d!sintegration and ruin of industry as a means of fore ing the masses to join them, with promise of better conditions
 He said the BoIsheviki teach work ing1nen they are masters of all enter prises and should have the fruits oS all products. Under these conditions, he explained. the workmen took much of the product of the factories home with them, but still demanded wages at tho end of the week. Svarc said that only about per cent. of the product was sent through Bolshevik channels for distribution.
 Much of the material read into the record yesterday consisted of transla- tions from Russian papers, conducted under the rule of Trotzky.
 The committee adjourned until Wednesday at p. m., when it is ex- pected detectives Investigating Trotz- ky agents in this country will make their reports. It Is expected that be- fore machinery is put in motion for the deportation of these aliens they will be called before the committee.