Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1920-01-20
OPENS WIDE ITS ARMS
TO RECEIVE EMMA
AND ALEX
DELIVERED BY F|NNS
TROOPS FORM ESCORT FOR COM
MUNISTS WHO ARE DELIVERED
TO BOLSHEVlkI AFTER DIS
PLAY OF WHITE FLAGS IN CEN
TER OF iCE-COVERED RIVER.

Terrijoki, Finland. Ian - Rus
SLAMS who were deported from tn"
United States we're given what might
be termed an official reception Juat
outside this village today. In the
crowd that greeted Alexander Berk'
man. Emma Goldman and their com
rades" was NJ. Zorein. r7ember Of the
allsoyiets executive committee who
after brief conference with Herk-
man agreed to permit the whole party
to enter BolshcyiK Russia
There is no question they will be
Welcomed in Russia. SAID NJ. IoIIcn.
we will give them work according TO
their professions and trades but first
We must provide them with comtor-
table home and feed them we'll
Madame Gorki. wife OF the novelist,
said when she met the deportees
Russia opens her arms TO all who
are politically prosecuted
There was a slight delay in getting
in touch with the EolSheviki whose
lines were about a mile distant from
the brook, marking the frontier Of
Soviet territory When finally a con
ference had been arranged. Berkman
accompanied by Finnish officers and
newspaper correspondents went out
ON the ice, meeting the BoIsheyiki in
the middle of the stream. Both par
ties con Npicuousiy displayed white
flags
After "A short parley the soviet olIl-
Gers summoned the members of the
soviet committee of Petr0grad, which
was conducted to Tcrijoki where a
conference was held,
IN the way back to the village VI.
Inricu. committee member told Herk-
man that Admiral I<olohak had been
made a prisoner in Siberia This
news was shouted to other dcp0rt COS
who were leaning out of tho windows
OF the train and was received with
cheers.
Shortly after the decision to receive
the deportecs was restehod tho whole
party dctrained A few VINO We're un-
able to walk were placed in sleirhs.
Finnish soldiers guarded the road and
The transfer was made without d
hitch
Rcd to Exchange Goods.
Paris Jan ~. Elaborate plans Tor
the resumption Of commercial rela.
tions hy the Russian people and allied
nations have been worked out and II
Is expected the Bolshevki will permit
the free interchange of manufactured
goods and raw materials, 1t viii be a
comparatively simple natter to dis
tribute goods among the Russian peO-
pie under the agreement announced
last Friday by the supreme council, it
Is said by Russians who a sisted in
the negotiations that preceded the an
uollnComcnt. Surplus stocks of wheat
flax and lumber await export from
Russia and all that is needed is ocean
tonnage to carry the products to the
markets of the world
Details Of the plan to be follow ed
were given to the Associated Press
today by Alexander NJ. Eerkenhoim
and Constantin Krovopouskoff re
spectivcly president and member of
the foreign board of the Russian Co
operative union, through which there
will be carried on.
IT must be understood the agree
ment has no political character what
ever" said Mr.. Berkheim. 1T is mere
" an economic business and humare
movement Russian cooperative
unions organized fifty years ago now
number 800 branches and have TWEEN
ty-five million members. These socie-
ties operate t throughout Russia
whether under Bolshcvik rule or con
lrolled by other governments,