New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-09-12
REPORT BOLSHEVIST
LEADERS led RIOT
IS Lithuanian Reds Said TO Have
Directed Hsrrln Massacre

charges In making public the third Of
Q series Of aruelss exposing an al
legged piot BY Moscow Communists 70
ssin eantfoi of organised labor IN
the United States ana Canada. stage
. revolution ana overthrow the exist
Ing goysrnments,
The mob leadsrs-=sT Of them
we're members At Hsrrin OF the Boil
sheyist Lithuanian branch Of the
Communist party Of America. accord
ing 10 the miners article. 10 other
members OF the same party were Inn
ported - Agents 10 foment the at
tack on the strip mine OF the South
ern iilinois Coal company which eul-
minated In the violent death OF %
Den IN June last year.
This revolving. inexcusAsle crime
was femented. promoted and caused
solely by Communist" says the writ
er 1T was a carefully planned sf-
fair. sehemed with all the diabolie
cruelty and disregard for law that
charterizes the communiit move
nnent."
william z. Foster. promoter OF the
zone big union" idea In America, 10
alleged to have been the dominating
nEure In events preceding the mas
sacre. numbering among his aides
Jack Carney. Chicago editor OF the
radical "voice Of Labor" Nick noz-
enburg. Carney's business manager;
Arne swabeek. OF the central execu-
tive committee. Communist Party OF
America; Oscar Larson OF the Young
Communist league; Gus Fraenckei.
RED" worker among rail employees;
Charles krumbein, district Commu-
mist official. and Nels Kjar. convicted
In Chicago courts for conspiring
against the government during the
war.
The Authors Story.
The authors history OF the mas
sacre follows:
For more than seven weeks prep
arations had been In progress in
franklin and Williamson counties to
bring about the attack upon strike
breakers and armed guards at the
strip mine. Violence and disorder
were rampant in southwestern Penn
sylvania. Communist groups in New
York, Cleveland and Chicago were
active in their efforts to cause the
strike In southwestern Pennsylvania
to expand into great revolutionary (
in which the original
causes for the cessation of work in
the mines would be lost sight of and !
an armed insurrection having for its {
purpose the establishment of Boil
shevist, dictatorship In this country I
and enforced recognition of the Rus $
sian Dictatorship and the Communist t
would be brought s
about. 4
THE plan was to have simultane-
BUS uprisings in southern Illinois and,
( possible, in the vicinity of Bel =
aire, Ohio which also was ilotbed Il
If Communist agitation and propa-
yanda, and in the region surrounding fl
Jniontown, Pa. p
"A telegram sent to local union
officials at Herrin by John l.. Lewis, fl
PRESIDENT of the United Mine Work d
RS, placing workers of the strip mines
n the category of strike breakers
vas shrewdly twisted and distorted,
ccording to the boasts of the COM NJ
nunist leaders at Chicago, into an
invitation to attack the strip mines
nd the workmen employed there.
Knew of No Plans ri
Officials Of the United Mine Work e.
RS had no intimation that an at y
ack was contemplated, or that "
onspiracy within the com Ipunist ne
a rty Of America existed at the tine M
, precipitate tragedy such as took IT
lace the day after the telegram was IN
eceived from President Lewis. nc
Agitation under the active efforts
the communists continued during OF
"a yand June. The strike area in GU
luthern Illinois was carefully ex- ne
mined and the points where riot, is
olence OF armed insurrection might cit
} started were charted and cata- hi
gued. In the list of these places tn
here Christopher, Zeigler, Sesser
ID Herrin.
with the local Lithuanian min
S as a nucleus, communist party n.
lapter was organized in Herrin,
,lding meetings secretly in the Lith-
lnian language but taking instruc- -,
ms from agents of Dozenburg in the ~, NC
fees of Carney at Chicago. Quiet .la
and stealthily they worked among uo'
e idle miners at Herrn, preaching ~,
med attack upon the strip mine" ",
Union strikers at Herrin inquired
President Lewis the status of the "a
n-union miners who continued ~
,rkins the strip mine while the ,ne
tional strike was in progress. In ~,
telegram on June 20 he classified ''''
EN- as strike breakers
Telegram is Distorted
The telegram was bounced upon !
the communist agents and dis am
ted into an excuse for an attack neS
on the strip NINE" continues the Ne'
rrative. 1.-THE workers there. were ere
ptured and under the leadership Of son
, 10 communist agents who, ac- VIII
ding to Dozenburg, had been i'm
tted for the purpose of starting in
.rection and revolution, the men n
re shot down." sire
Redoubled Activities her
. =. -. first
s the communists are said to have ~,
doubled activity among railroad, p .a
and farm workers. az !.
4 seamen already were organized
zone big union" so the minimum
effort was necessary In that d. :.
ton. The miners also were zone
union" ripe for capture by the tou'
scow agents. But there were four Del
brotherhoods and 1s unions on the
railroads, so, Tin order to control Hao