The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-08
Attorney General Declares Red
PrOpagandists Are Busy.
Spend Much Money in Z. S. Ex-
plotting Americans.
WET WAVE NOT RECEDING
Number of Illicit Booze Cases
Has Not Decreased.
Courts So Crowded Daugherty
Asks for More Judges.

washington, Dec. s. - The move
ment launched by the Third or Com
munist International at Moscow to
gain control of the trade and indus
trial unions turnout the world is
meeting with marked success IN so far
as it relates to syndicalist unions IN
the United States" says the first an
nuaI report today of Attorney General
Daugherty.
Communist parties in this country,
Mr.. Daugherty says, have united TO
more effectively carry on propaganda
and the policy is to endeavor to gain
control of the labor organizations thru
the control Of the executive commit
tees or other governing bodies therein.
MANY of the leaders Of this move
ment are American citizens he says
Tho they are subject to orders from
Moscow as to their action ana acllVl-
ties in the United States.
societies Only Camouflage.
The attorney general says there mas
been a noticeable effort upon the
mart of various so-called defense so
cieties to propagate and carry on agl-
tation in behalf of the ultraradicals IN
the United States"
"Inconspicuous individuals in the
ultraradical movement apprehended
locally" he asserts, are martyred and
mona eanda started in their behalf
not only within the United States bpt
turnout the entire world. In many
Instances the so-called defense or
ganizations are found to be merely
camoufIage for such movements as
the United Communist party which
must conduct its activities under
ground" ,,,
fIockfnc o the United States, accord
ing to the report, which notes that Az
of them arrived in the last fiscal year
The movement, the nature and the ex-
tent of the activities of these individ-
uaIs have been carefully observed, 1t
is stated, and the government has
Much Red Propaganda.
been kept Intimately informed"
"During the past fiscal year." the
report continues, the activities OF Tor
eien propagandists in the Onlted
states have been particularly notice
able and careful attention mas been
given to this pernicious form OF work
within this country. 1t is Impossible
TO accurately estimate the vast amount
of money spent in the United states
bv the foreign agents engaged IN eX-
Dloiting the American people and in
creating interest in a support for
movements and schemes entirely Tor
eign to the interests of the American
people 49,.
Calling attention that activities of
the federal government IN deaHnS
with ultraradicalism are limited by
law to aliens, Mr.. Daugherty notes
that practically all of the states now
have enacted laws defining and pun
ishing criminal syndicalism and an
archy These laws reach the citizen
as well as the alien.
The dealing with ultraradicalism is
49,. a sf1Kr I
department of justice during the past
fiscal year when 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.
Wet Wave Still On.
The attorney general observed that
there has been no decrease in the
number of Illicit distilling cases since
the enactment of the prohibition
laws" and that the court calendars
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 a material reduction OF
such violations OF the law
Selective service act cases disposed
Of during the year numbered 1903,
berine 14S with 1870 pleas Of guilty
Cases pending at the beginning of the
last fiscal year numbered 2S.087 and
1881 new cases were begun.
Violations of the so-called disloyalty
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 forty-one
cases were disposed of. 1870 cases hay
ing been docketed at the beginning
of tho year.
Mr. Daugherty declares that as ar
organized syste-i the white slave traf-
fic has been broken up, but adds thai
great many individual cases still eX
list with the department making every
effort to break up this practice also
Complaints arising under the peon
age act increased during the year, the
report continues, and peonage wa!
found to exist to a shocking extent il
Georgia, Alabama and some parts o
Texas" Sew raj convictions have beer