The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-07
COMMUNISTS ON
WORLD PLOT To
TAKE OVER j. s.
Radicals Working Through Neuroes,
Unions, Social Organizations and
Women'a Clubs to Overthrow
American Government.
STATEMENT FROM HEAD
BUREAU INVESTIGATION
VIM. J. Burma Reveals Findings OF
Operatives Probing Radical Ac.
tivity; He Shows How "se.
ourity" Belief Helps Reds.
ny LAURENCE N. BENEDICT

Dy LAURENCE NJ. BENEDICT
tunitod Press staff Correspondent. }
Washington. Dec. THE com.
munists internationale, with head.
quarters NJ Moscow, Russia, * dl.
recting widespread campaign In the
United States for overthrow OF the
american government and its deliver.
ance Into the hands OF radicals. ac-
cording 10 William J. Burns. head OF
The federal bureau OF investigation.
Direct statements 10 this effect
were made by Burns before secret
sessions OF the house appropriations
committee and were revealed today
~ printed transcripts OF The hear.
,ngs.
.urns declared that documents oh.
tained by his bureau during the past
year clearly Indicate" that the Com
munist lntenationale is behind a
strong movement among negroes.
labor unions and various social or.
ganizations and womens clubs, the
ultimate purpose being TO undermine
those organizations with the view of
overthrowlng the United States gov
ernment and establishing dictatorship
of the proletariat"
"The prevailing sentiment" that
this country Is secure from the spread
OF radicalism. Burns said, 'is serving
to play into the hands OF the red
leaders, who are urging their follow
ers to take advantage OF this feeling
and work with greater diligencel"
A great wave of radicalism has
swept the country since the coal and
rail strikes and the Herrln, ILL.,, mine
massacre, Burns declared, and has
resulted in the spreading OF thou
sands Of circulars by the communist
party urging workers to disregard in
functions issued by the courts and to
engage in mass action against the
government
Burns made the startling revelation
that the reds have established regu.
lar schools In various parts of. the
country where radicalism is taught
outright, without interference of the
government. There Is no law under
which federal agents can operate,
Burns said, adding that radical
schools have already been spotted in
Seattle and near Boston and are
springing up in other sections of the
country.
1--WE have no authority whatever
to stop it, Burns declared.
The raid several months ago on |
communist meeting at Bridgeman,
Mich, when rs arrests were made,
resulted, according to Burns, in dis
covery of a well organized plot for
radical agents to get into the army |
and navy, $50 they could bore from
within" The Bridgeman meeting,
Burns declared, was largely for the
purpose of putting youthful ,"reds'
through an examination to see
whether they could pass the army
and navy examinations.
Burns testified that 1858 new rad
ical publications have sprung up in
the United States in the last year.
The latest check, he said, showed
that there are now Gil such publica-
tions in circulation throughout the
country.
TO illustrate the spread Of radical
activity, Burns submitted figures
showing that this bureau has re-
ceived 27,436 reports on that score,
covering both individuals and or
ganizations, in this country and
abroad Sixty-four cases have been
run down ard deportations made, and
lis cases are still pending.