Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-14
CLAIMS COMMUNIST
PLANS WIDESPREAD
over i. S.-CANADA

- w. SshHvsh0Ht
New York, Sept. ia description
purporting to show that the Com
munist Party Of America was
founded amid dramatic secrecy atop
mountain in the Catskills rs
months ago. and has mushroomed
over the United States and Canada,
is contained in the fifth of a series OF
articles made public today by the
United Mine Workers Of America,
charging movement to bring Amer
lea under the banner of the Moscow
communists.
At first, the. article asserted, the
party was an underground" organ
ization. functionins in secrecy To-
day. according to the miners, II has
a membership, direct and auxiliary,
Of 100000. with interlocking direc.
torates binding it TO IS national or
CARNATIONS and 200 locals, and work.
ing In the open.
Prior to May, 1921, the Communist
international was represented as
having become so impotent through
federal prosecution and deportat ton
of members that formation of an "un-
derground" society," was determined
upon.
And so, having chosen one Of the
most historically primitive spots in
the East as setting, 30 Communist
leaders, representing the two factions
Of the Communist party and the
United Communist party, gathered
in the ancient hotel on the top Of
Overlook Mountain on the morning
of May Is, 1921, to compose their
differences and unite in a single
group, to be known as the Communist
Party of America" said the article.
This assembly was not only at tho
command of Lenin and Zinoviev Of
the Communist International, but II
was accompanied with the threat
that if the factional differences were
not put aside and a united front
presented for invading the labor
unions of the United States. no more
money would be forthcoming from
Moscow for financing the revolution
AIRY movement in this country. Up
to that time Moscow lad contributed
money to both these factions, but had
decided that their hostility to each
other was neutraliZing the results Of
their work"
A personal emissary Of Lenin and
Iinoviev was alleged to have domi-
mated the session.
silent and taciturn. this emissary
met the 20 delegates near Kingston,
y. "" the narrative continued.
They were conveyed to the foot of
nNrprlnOl- mountain in ai,tnr,onhiInc
Guards saluted them along the roads.
For more than two weeks these
guards had been stationed in the
vicinity Of Fort Montgomery, Tan
nersville. Saugherties and Kingston.
Trains arriving at these towns were
observed by sentinels A guard re-
manned behind the delegates to watch
the village marshal in Woodstock.
Other guards were scattered around
the countryside as farm hands. There
were guards also in the Grand Cen
trail station at New York"
When the party reached the hotel,
military discipline was alleged to
have been inaugurated Delegates
were forbidden to write letters or
take notes. Twice day everyone
was searched. An "Out-of bounds
was established and as night APP
preached guards could be seen sig
Mailing each other with flashlights
from the mountain tops that all was
we'll"
Thus. according 10 the article. was
born the Communist Party Of Amer
lea. and the Central Executive Com
mittee OF the new party was chosen
from among the prime leaders of the
Communist organizations throughout
the country" These committee mem
bcrs were alleged 10 have had places
on the central executive committee
Of the workers party when It later
was founded.
Mass action by tie workers: seiz-
IRE Of labor unions and converting
them into militant enterprises: boring
from within the American Federation
Of Labor. and. in particular tho
United Mine Workers Of America"
was the platform adopted declares
the article.
The extreme radicals are pro-
noting the revolutionary movement.
and a dozen intermediate degrees Of
liberal radicals and 'parlor pinks'
are cooperating with them intimately
and closely. so that the contact is
complete from end to end Of the
scale" the article charged. referring
~ VI X Il III Id Ntti4> dtsF5 ~ ~ ~ ''''"@
with the Communists. There IS no
gap or breaking point"
"A larger volume 0, perncious
ultra radical activity is centcred
around Los Angeles than any other
CITY in tho United States with tEo eN-
ception Of the metropolitan district
Of New York Revolutionary radical
ism is profitable around Los Angeles
because il is made SO by the wealthy
fntellectuals there who are dabbling
in =.
"Pernioious and revolutionary
propaganda distributed among The
coal miners in The strike o: 1922 and
intended 10 arouse them % violence
and mass action was, in number
Of instances. turned out b. o-caIled
popular authors and novelists in Los
Angeles who are receiving from s'gV
70 $500 4 month from the intel
Iectual pinks' If that vicinity for do
ing that sort ~ thing"