The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-02-13
RED RADlCALlsM AS SHOWN BY
IT'S OWN LEADERS
Office Of the Attorney General

Office OF the Attorney General
| Washington, D. c., Feby. 11,192O.
The Editor of the Banner,
Dear Sir:
In order that as one of the leaders
of the thought of this country you
may have before you an authentic
source of information as to the signi
ficance of the present situation, am
taking the liberty Of sending to you
copies Of original documents publish
| ed by various branches of the Com
munistic Press in Russia and in the
United States. These furnish the pur.
pose, history and character of the Red
Redical movement, not by hearsay
but under the authoritative sanction
of its own progenitors.
Exhibit No. /, is the report OF Louis
c.. Fraina, international secretary OF
the Communist Party of America, de.
scribing fully its antecedents, birth
and projects, and follows the form OF
:! rsAA bPR4AN6tAOA "a Lie OOAAAAunlOS Al
ternational as major party"
Exhibit No. 2, is the manifesto Of
the Third Communist International
adopted at Moscow, March 2-6, 1919
and signed by comrades c. Rakovsky
N. Lenin, NJ Zinerzen, L. Trotsky and
Fritz Platten. It is an exhaustive
statement of the national, principles
and program of Russian Bolshevism
and its amhi1ipn for world wide do
minion.
Exhibit No. 3, is the responsive and
cooperating manifesto, construction,
and program of the Communist Party
Of America.
| Exhibit No. 4, represents the form
Of application for membership in this
party, containing the pledge to active
enlistment in its seditious work.
Exhibit No. 5, gives the Novimi
rski manifesto of the Anarchists Com
munists organized in the Federation
of Unions of Russian Workers of the
United States and Canada, similar In
purpose to the manifestos of previous.
/ ly numbered exhibits and containing
particularly the declaration I'VE are
atheists; we are communists; we are
anarchists. You have one task to de
stroy the world of gain and create a
world of freedom; for all there is one
means-an armed instruction and
forcible seizure of all instruments and
all products Of toll. Woe to the enc
mics Of the laboring class
Exhibit No. 6, Your Shop" is an
evidence of the sabotising of labor
and labor enemies prescribed in the
communist program.
| Exhibition No. z, The State-Strike
Breakers, of like use, but stand at the
Determination of government and the
employing class.
Exhibit No. s, A proclamation of the
Communist International against the
Versailles peace, designed to exert in,
fluence toward its failure of ratifica
ton.
Exhibit No. s, A proclamation of the
Russian Bolshevik propaganda among
our soldiers in Siberia
Striking passages in these exhibits
are marked for convenience.
The whole is submitted for the
furtherance of a more realizing popus'
lar appreciation of the menace involv-
ed In the unrestrained spread of Grim
inal Communism's unspeakable social
treason among the masses.
It is the contention. of the Depart.
ment of Justice that these documents
standing alone demonstrate:
Cd That the present aim of the
Russian government and its officers
/ is to foment and incite discomfort
aiming toward a revolution in this
county.
CD That the entire movement is
dishonest and criminal one, In other
words, an organized campaign to &C
ouire the wealth ad power of all
countries for the few agitators and
their criminal associates.
The Red movement does not mean
an attitude of protest against alleged
defects in our present political and
ocor a.,,i<, r,voo ', i1o t;oy, 1f roo;o+vy II
does not represent the >radicalism Of
progress. It is not a movement of
| liberty flowing persons. Lenine, him
self, made the statement at the Third
Soviet Conference, Among one hun
tired so-called Bolsheviks there is one
real Bolshevik, thirty-nine criminals
and sixty fools" It advocates the de
struction of all ownership in property,