The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-08
Searles Brands Attack As False and Says Charges He Made Are Not Denied By ''Bol- shevik Agency"
By ELLIS SEARLES, Editor, United Mine Workers
 Journal

| Journal. Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.-The 1 Federated Press is the chief propa-
 ganda distributing agency in America
 of the communists and bolsheviki ot Russia. This agency IS the medium
 through which the great mass of propaganda favorable to the red flag l of general destruction in Russia is being circulated in this country. My attention has been called to
 an article recently issued by the Fed erated Press, and unfortunately, pub lished in a number of labor publica-
 tions that have been misled and be-
 guiled by that outfit, in which an at tack of ridicule IS made on the series
 of articles given out by the United
 Mine Workers of America exposing
 the destructive activities of commun- lists in the American labor movement :. The federated Press falsely alleges l that the articles were the product of Ia man WHO was cIoseIy connected
 with non-union coal operators, and
 that he peddled them around among
 anti-unionists who refused to buy 1 them and that he then sold them to
 me. That statement IS wholly un-
 that is, sent out by the Federated
 Press.
 1 I started an investigation of com
 munist boring-from-withi activities last February. The trail led to an
 amazing disclosure of disloyaltyT to
 both the United States and the or
 ganized labor movement. I soon
 found that the task of following that investigation was too great for any
 one person to handle, and I hired
 several persons to assist in the work. lone of these persons was B. C. Clarke
 who the Federated Press falsely says,
 peddled the articles around Clarke
 did not offer the articles for sale to
 anyone. They were not Clarke's ar
 ticles. They were my articles. 1 am
 I directed Ciarke's work and the work
 of the others who helped in their preparation The Federated Press did not like the articles because they told some truths about that organi- zation.
 In one of the articles these state ments were made:
 "The major propaganda distributing agency. of the Communists IS the Fed erated Press"
 The Federated Press has not de- nied that statement "It has been financed an dpromoted | through the central Communist or ganization, under instructions of the l Communist International at Moscow '
 The Federated Press has not de nied that statement.
 "This agency Is the medium paganda favorable to the red flag of general destruction in Russia is being circulated in this country"
 The Eaderated ha de nied that statement.
 1 Instead, the Federated Press has sought to discredit the articles by side-stepping and insinuations. The article recently sent out by the Federated Press further proves that that outfit IS a deadly enemy of the American Federation of Labor and the legitimate trade union move ment in general.
 Another very significant fact about the matter Is this: one fthe articles issued by the United Mine Workers of America said the Com munist propaganda and Communist activities were directly responsible for the massacre of more than twenty men at Herrin, Illinois, in June, 1922, and facts were presented proving that statement to be true. This charge mas not been QeIlleU Dy lllC 0OilllIiuil ists nor the Federated Press. Both have side-stepped the issue. If the charge was not true the communists and the Federated Press would have paved up the earth and raised a mighty rumpus. But they did not. They merely attempt to cover up the devilishness of the Herrin affair by first ignoring 1t and next by poking ridicule at the expose.