The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-09-30
RED LEADER TAKEN
IN CHICAGO RAID
Death Threat Seals Lips of So
VETS in United States.
RED ORDERS ARE SEIZED
Documents Captured Reveal Plans for
Revolt in Middle West Conspiracy
to Stifle Production and Ham,
per transportation.

Chicago, Sept. 27.-Threats of death
directly affecting between 1000 ana
5000 Reds of Chicago are contained
In communist documents seized at the
fiat OF Witty Moses ShaKman, Nicoiai
Lenine's Chicago lieutenant, accord
ing to information given out by the
police and department of justice here.
Interpreting part of the documents
seized, j. SpoanSky Of the department
Of justice was able to lay before oth-
GERS the following facts:
$4,000 Expended Here.
More than $4,000 has been sent to
Chicago communist, T. ". W. and
Third lnternationale leaders for the
distribution of destructive propaganda
here, OF this amount receipts for
$4,000 paid out were found in Shak
mans papers.
Orders direct from the soviet gov
eminent, dated at Moscow and re-
ceived in Chicago September IA
threatened death to any member Of
the party or of any party affiliated
with the communists or I. w. w. who
failed to destroy orders or documents
received from officials of the soviet
government in Russia.
Direct orders for the communists
of America TO cooperate and ally
themselves with the |. w. W. and Mex
team radicals are among the papers Sc
cured by the police.
Shakman was a delegate Of the
Third International at a meeting in
Detroit several months ago.
Admissions Are Denied.
Although Shakman denied many of
the admissions he made following his
arrest, officials are satisfied he is the
ieader of revolutionary movements in
Chicago, which, if they had succeeded,
would have paralyzed industry and
transportation in the central West.
Among other papers found in Shak-
mans rooms and at communist head
quarters 29l9 Division street, were
plans to stitie production and SO
hamper transportation that the entire
nation would become easy prey to the
radical movement.
Of the documents signed by Rus
sian soviet officials and dated from
cities of Russia was one detailing the
plans for a new and comprehensive
revolution in the orient. These revolu-
tionary plans included operations In
Japan, China, Hndustan and Turkey
1000 to 1000 Reds Here.
Shakman retracted the statement he
made to the :ect that ne was former
ty secretary to Lenine, Russian soviet
premier He admitted, however he
was an assistant secretary to the Rus
sian leader but when questioned fur
Their by department of Justice agents
ne clamored for counsel.
Included in the information cleaned
from the documents seized by the fed
eral agents was a statement there are
more than 10000 members of radical
organizations in the United States, and
of this number between 1000 and s.
900 are in Chicago.
The papers indicate Shakman is the
leading spirit of the red movement in
the central West and a powerful infu-
ence among revolutionary bodies gen
orally.
Shakman was born in Odessa, Rus
STA, thirty-seyen years ago, and fed
from his native land when he was
twenty years old to escape military
service. From Odessa ne went to Par
is and at the beginning of the Euro
pean war to Canada. He came direct
ly to Chicago.