The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-22
THE COMMUNIST PLOT

l By a coincidence, accldental or Cal culated, on the very day that Soviet Minister Tchitcherin was denying the Hughes allegation of soviet activities | in the United States directed from soviet headquarters in Russia, our state department gave out documenta- rv evidence substantiating the Hughes statement. As some may know, the soviet government of Russia is based on the Communist Internationale, With headouarters in Moscow, the purpose of which is the social revolution of the entire world The soviet republic of Russia is it's first and greatest con- crete experiment in Communism. From it's Russian stronghold the In ternationale has been visgalized as dl- recting revolutionary propaganda and organization throughout the world. It was a cessation and disavowal of this activity in the United States that Sec retary Hughes demanded as an indis- pensable preliminary to negotiations with the soviet republic. M. Tchitche- rin, however, in the face of the incon- trovertible evidence that he must have known was in the possession of our state department, denied such activity in toto.
 Yet the document produced by Sec retary Hughes is accepted by the American people as conclusive warrant for our diplomatic attitude towards Russia. The evidence is in the form of detailed instructions issued by Communist Internationale President Zinoviev to the Workers Party of America, outlining their program of organization and preparation for the social revolution in this country. The greeting to the w. P. A. is in part as follows: "We hope the W. P. A., the advance guard of the revolutionary proletariat of the United States of North America, will now more sue cessful1y conduct it's revolutionary work among the millions of American proletarians." This is proof that there is active revolutionary effort to over turn our social organization, and that this effort originates in and is directed from Russia and Moscow, the capital of the soviet republic for whom Tchitcherin speaks. Further indica- tion that such propaganda has been re- ceived among the workers is the for maj refusal of the American Fedora tion of Labor to have anything to do with the Communist movement, or even to indorse recognition of Russia by our government.
 The orders of Zinoviev stipulate: "All the activity of the party must at the present time be directed among the workers of the. large industrials, such as the railroad workers, miners, weavers, steel workers and similar workers engaged in the principal in dustries of the United States" Then these workers are to be organized in units of ten, the leader of each unit to be a trusted Commune, meetings are to be held regularly in the pres ence of member of the central com mittee, while "the members of the fighting unit, in addition to all other matters, must once week be given instruction in shooting and receive some instruction in sapping." Other details of this merry little party are set forth in minute particular.
 Thus it is perceived that, with all this soviet effort to cause division and perhaps civil war in our own United States, there is more than adequate ground for refusing to negotiate with the treacherous and utterly abandoned de facto government of Russia. It IS not believed that the revolution can succeed in any degree among the sound and wholesome citizenship oi our country, but it may be able to sti1 up serious trouble among our disaf. fected elements, and there is conse. ouent relief and qualification that oul state department and the department of justice are so completely cognizant of the situation.