New Britain herald., 1921-12-08
COMMUNIST MOVE
 IS CANNING HERE
So Declares Atty. General in His
 First Annual Report

Washington, Dec. S.--The move ment launched by the Third or Com munist Intcrnatonale at Moscow to eaIn control of the trade and indus trial unions throughout the world lis meeting with marked success m so far as 1t relates to syndicalst unions in tho United States" says the first annual report today of Attorney Gen. eral DauGherty
 Communist parties in this country, MT. Daughcrty says, have united to more effectively carry on propaganda and the policy is to endeaVor to gain control of the labor organizations through the control of the executive committees or other governing bodies therein.
 Many of the leaders of this move ment are American citizens" he says, though they are subject to. orders from Moscow as to their action and activities in the United States.'
 The attorney general says there has been a noticeable effort upon the part of various so-called defense so- cieties to propagate and carry on aSI- tation in behalf of the ultraradicals in the United States"
 "Inconspicuous individuals in the ultradadical movement apprehended locally" he asserts" "are martyred and propaganda started in their behaf,not only within the United States, but throughout the entire world In many instances the So-Called defense or ganizations are found to be merely a camounage for such movements. as the United Communist Party which must conduct it's activities under ground"
 PropagandiSts Here.
 Foreign propagandists still are foclSing to the United States accord ing to the report, which notes that 427 of them arrived in the last fiscal year. The movements, the nature and extent of the activities of these in- dividuals have been carefully ob- served, it is stated, and the govern ment has been kept intimately in- formed"
 During the past fiscal year." the report continues, the activities of foreign propagandists in the United States have been particularly notice able and careful attention has been given to this perniCious form of work within this country. It is impossible to accurately estimate the vast amount of money spent in the United States by the foreign agents engaged in exploiting the American people and in creating interest in a support for movements and schemes entirely for eign to the interests of the American people"
 Activities of Government.
 Calling attention that activities of the federal government in dealing with ultraradicalsm are limited by law to aliens, Mir. Daugherty notes that practically all of the states now have enacted laws defining and pun ishing criminal syndicalism and anar- chy. These laws reach the citizens as well as the alien.
 The dealing with ultraradicalsm is only one of the many activities of the department of justice during the past fiscal year which are reviewed in the attorney generals report. He calls attention that while the department ceased last January its activities in the enforcement of prohibition, it is continuing to cooperate in this work.
 Liquor Cases.
 The attorney general observes that there has been no decrease in the number of illicit distilling cases since the enactment of the prohibition laws" and that "the court calendar in some jurisdictions have been over taxed by this class of cases.'
 Where the facts warrant" he says, the offenders have been vigorously prosecuted, and it is hoped that this will result in material reduction of such violations of the law"
 SeleCtive service act cases disposed Of during the year numbered 1893, the report says, the convictions num- bering 14S with 13O pleas Of guilty. Cases pending at the beginning of the last fiscal year numbered 2S,0S7 and 1881 new cases were begun.
 Violations of the so-called disloy alty sections of the espionage act have greatly decreased, according to the re- port, which notes that only six cases were begun under the entire act dur ing the fiscal year, while Il cases were disposed Of, 130 cases having been docketed at the beginning of the year.
 MT. Daugherty declares that as an