The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-09-15
COLLECT FUND :
! TO PROMOTE
A REVOLUTION
Mine Workers Charge Com
munists with Attempting
Revolution in u. S. J
ALL CLASSES COMBINE
Unable to Trace Disposal of
Large Quantity Of Funds
Collected

New York, Sept. 15.--Collection OF
funds from American people of high
and low degree for the promotion OF
social, economical and political revol-
ution has become an organized in
dustry in the last two years, it is
charged by the United Mine Work
ers Of America in the fourth article
of series which purports to be an
expose of a far reaching plot to
spread the dictatorship Of the Com
munist International at Moscow over
this continent.
Laborers, society leaders, school
teachers and well-meaning philan-
thropists, ignorant of the menace
they are promoting, add millions Of
dollars annually to the war-chest of
the underground workers for revolu-
ton in America, it is charged. Other
millions are described as streaming
in from Moscow, Berlin and Stock
holm to make total impossible of
estimate.
"The United Mine Workers learns
from an authoritive source" says
the author of the expose, that the
money from abroad is coming in
through the usual international
banking channels and that it is dis
tributed to the accounts Of various
individuals in different banks after
it reaches this country"
Capture of the miners union is
alleged to be the first aim of Com
munist agents in this country, as
step toward establishment of the
zone big union" principle in all in
dustrial labor groups After that
naturalization of coal mines under
the SOVIET form of rule as preli-
minary to naturalization of other
industries; then forcible overthrow
of the governments existing in the
United States and Canada, and es-
Enlistment of Communism after the
Moscow pattern.
allegedly 'the first object of attack
in the fulfillment of this program,
solicitation of funds is said to have
been most active among the miners.
Money usually is asked for some ode
Tense" Or relief cause, the donors
being led to believe ''that it was to
be used in the upbuilding and
Strengthening of their union organi-
cation and for other legitimate pur-
fposes."
"One such collection agency is the
Miners Relief Conference" says the
author, "a Communistic enterprise
that has been operating in the Pitts
burgh, Pa, region since last August
This conference has been one of the
most important channels through
which money has filtered into the
Communist organization for destruc-
tive work within the miners union. ,
Numerous examples of the methods
of collection are set forth, but the
. union Investigators were able to un-
) cover few records of sources of ex,
! penditure. inspection of the rec
ords fails to show even the simples
, forms Of bookkeeping in accounting
| for the moneys and supplies receiv
ed. While considerable sums were
} contributed by sympathetic person.
who needed appeals broadcast ovel
I the country, records of the contri
E buttons are found only on scraps o.
!, paper or in the original letters o.
t the donors" The Communists are al
legged even to have solicited and re
ceived Is cent assessments per mem
t Der, from United Mine Workers 10
calls in the so-called thot-beds o
radicalism." 1t is asserted that mos
y OF the bail money and trial lawyers
t fees for men seized in the Bridgma1
+ raid was subscribed through "Labo
8 Defense Councils" and the Miners
s Relief Conference by such methods
The author of the expose say
:, that while Communist agents wer
h appealing throughout the nation fo
b money for the relief of 'starvin,
o miners" they also were holdin
t mass meetings Ito collect from thes
starving miners money to remit t
n the Labor Defense Council at Chi
!, cago."
; Other correspondence alleged t
/, have been seized by authorities i
t raids On revolutionary headqnarter
d is quoted to show that the America
i Civil Liberties Union of New Yor
e City, of WHICH Roger Baldwin is e,
i ecutive secretary, loaned the Con
munists money from the Charlie
y Garland Foundation Fund, entruste
! to the union by the North Carve,
e Mass, man who refused to keep
! 81 100000 legacy inherited from hi
. father.
o How considerable portion I
n money collected by the Communist
l. in the coal regions was utilized
!. recited as follows: @
n Efforts Of the Communists to Q,
j. control Of the United Mine Worke,