New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
Martens Seized
In W Washington
As Undesirable
Deportation Warrant Is
Served on ''Soviet Ambas-
sador'': Hearing Is Fixed
c. III o'clock Tomorrow
New Evidence Disclosed
Documents Urging Armed
Revoh III u. S. Found on
Captured Red Courier

rsers The Tr,bune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. March 2oe-Ludwig
AK. Martens, self-siyied "ambassa-
Dor of the Russian Soviet government.
was arrested here this afternoon on
sspertatlop warrant issued by tho La
Dor Department.
TIE action was taken as the result of
.se discovery by agents of the State
department of fresh plots for the over
throw Of the American government by
snned revolt. outlined in documents
seized or a Hc!sncvrk courier en- route
% the United States. The papers also
proposed the establishment in this
rsuntry of dictatorship Of the prole-
,ariat
Martens had just completed his testi-
nonv before the Senate committee in
yes.igatug Russian propaganda in the
DATED States, and upon his release
from Inc custody OF shat committee was
notified that the warrant had been
issued. On advice of his counsel,
former Senator Thomas " Hardwick,
Of Georgia. he went AZ once TO the La
Dor Department; and surrendered to
Acting Secretary CT Labor Post.
Hearing Set for Tomorrow
The latter fixed next Wednesday at
/, o'clock IS ihe time FOR the prelimi-
raYy hearing, and released Martens,
pending that. to the custody of Sen
stor Rardwica. i is probable that the
hearing win be public.
The State Department made public
extracts from the seized documc nts
through Third Assistant Secretary
Breckenridge Long. who announced that
eop.es had been sent TO the Sonata com
mittee for use III its further investiga-
ton of the Red propaganda in this
country. The documents dispute the
claim frequently made by Martens in
his testimony before the committee that
.he Soviet authorities in Russia long
since hid ceased sheir efforts to stir up
Yevoiuton in the United States.
The evidence was cabled to the de-
vsrtment in official advices from Riga,
where the arrest Of the courier was
made Il was in the form OF three
documents, one an address by G.. limo
vicy, president of the executive COM
mitee of the Communist international.
to the central committees Of the Ameri-
can Communist party and the Ameri-
can Communist Labor party; the
second form OF unification agree
ment between the American Communist
and American Communist Labor parties,
and the third al appeal OF the execu-
tive committee of the Communist In
1ernationa of the Industrial Workers
Of the World, signed by Zinoviev and
dated January, 1920.
The fact that the propaganda seeks
4 reunion Of the two American Com
munist parties may hasten q decision
by the Labor Depart and the De
partment OF Justice concerning whether
the American Communist Labor party.
as we'll as the American Communist
party. comes within the scope of the
alien deporta ton act. partic ulariy as
the basis OF such reunion would be rec
ignition of the right to armed revolt ="
Heretofore all alien members Of the
second named party have been held
liable to deportation. inasmuch as the
constitution and manifesto of that
party Pledges it to armed revolution.
The third document in the series
calls for both general STRIKE and
armed revolt in the United States and
extols fulsomely Victor Berger, Will
lam Haywood and Vincent St. John,
convicted in the Chicago Federal courts
in 1918.
The documents urge the Communists
Of both parties in America to ally
themselves with the |. w. w. to seize
power They reveal the Russian Com
Nunlst view that "the most important
task OF the radicals in America is to
BRING the wide proletarian masses into
the path Of revolutionary struggle
Excerpts from Seized Papers
The following excerpts were quoted
BY the State Department from the first
Of the documents seized:
From reports of comrades who have
arrived from America, the executive
committee Of the Communist Interna-
tionai has acquainted itself with the
oFen split between the two American
parties. This question has been sub
mitted to, and considered by. the mem
bers Of the executive committee, to-
sether with representatives. OF The
American parties and the other ma
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