Evening star., 1924-01-23
ENDS TESTIMONY
AGAINST SOVIET
State Department Concludes
Documentary Evidence of
Activities in U. S.
CHARGE WORK HERE VAST
Officials Say Army, Navy, Legion
and Youth Asked to
Join Move.
CHARGE WORK HERE VAST

! State Department evidence regard
ling communist activities in Russia
and America was concluded today be
fore the Senate foreign relations COM
mittee with charges of widespread
work and propaganda in this country
A. w. kliefoth, assistant chief Of
| the eastern European division Of the
State Department, presented scores
or documents to establish the depart
ment's case. Efforts to enlist tho
American Army and Navy, the Ameri-
| can Legion. and, especially, work
among American youths. were charg
! ed by the witness
/ Numerous papers from the State De-
! partment files We're presented to es-
| tablish, Mr.. KIefoth said, Il COM
! hunlst enort to align the ]. W. ".
IN lhcir cause. Others were submitted
20 show an attempt at .communis
! propaganda among American wome;s
ana among foreign born citizens TO
place communist propaganda IN
American public libraries.
Says Sports Field Invaded.
Even in the field of sports, Mr. klie-
10th asserted, the communists were
| busy. The red sport international was
organized, ne said. and has "a nun
| Der Of branches in this country.
| A report made to the third inter
| national congress at Moscow, it was
said, proposed establishment of gym
| naslums and to famiiidrzing com
| munists in use of firearms.
| Documents comprising about 100000
words were submitted during three
partment witnesses. and today the
committee also was offered much ad-
/ ditionai but confidential evidence.
Senator Borah, republican. Idaho, III
/ n nf hn 11Y11i1 foo INN liTNr
no action OH this offer and also sus
| pended further hearings for a few
days.
| None of the State Department wit
nesses testified to instances of acts
| OF violence aimed at the American
government.
/ In documentary evidence presented
| today by Mr.. Klfefoth was proof, he
| said. that the illegal apparatus Of
| the underground communist organi-
Zatton in this country received or
ders from the third international di
rectorS at Moscow. TWO Moscow rep
reSentatives he said, We're present at !
the American communist party meet
ings.
| Touches Foster Report.
An alleged report by William H.
Foster. prominent in the radical
movement, proposing that the commun-
lists bore from within the American
Federation of Labor was referred to
by Mr.. Kliefoth. He also introduced
orders, reports and bulletins and
other published statements of the
American communist party to the
workers party relating to propaganda.
Discuss Procuring Arms.
one of the documents, he said,
which referred to the work among :
the Army and Navy and the work
iof procuring arms was signed with
the name Pepper, identified as q
representative in this country of the
third International
Mr.. Kliefoth, before turning to
disclosure Of communist activities in
this country. said he believed it
established that the third interna-
tlonal sought to overthrow all capi-
taliStic governments by violence and
tdirectcd such a movement in this
icountry with a declared specific pur-
ipose to establish, hy force, comrnun-
lSt rule of the proletariat OF the
United States.
He said he believed it had been
demonstrated by the State Depart
| ments evidence that the communist
| and workers parties were under di-
rections from Moscow.
A special effort has been made to
enroll American youths in the COM
munist movement. Mr.. Kliefoth said.
! citing organization of Young Work
communist schools were ordered estaI,-
lished in eleven Of the principal cities
OF this country, he said
Red Movements Linked
The American and Russian COM
munlst movements and official parties
We're linked together in testimony
and documents submitted by Stat,
Department officials yesterday to the
subcommittee
Through many documents obtained
pS government agents. some in radj-
cal raids. A w. kliefoth, assistant
chief of the State Department's aast
ern European division and Robert 1. ,
Kelly of its intelligence office. souchf
to prove that the American and Rms
sian communists operated in close
cooperation and toward n commnn
goal. The aim. according 10 some nf
the papers presented. was an armed
uprising in this country designed to
DESTROY the bourgeois government"
! CopleS of code cablegrams and
| other communfcat tions sent by tba
| thlrd communist internationale ex-
ecutlNe committee at Moscow. whose
o1ficers also were high officials of the
! soviet government, to the comrnniS@
party leaders in this country yrara
presented to the Senate committee,
Names Leader Here.
Charles L. Ruthenberg of Chicaro
was named by Mr.. Kliefoth as
prominent communist leader here
and the witness presented many com
| munlst documents. including official
bulletins, which had been barred previ-
ously in the Michigan syndicalism
trials OF Mr.. Ruthenberg and others
| The state Department officials fold
the senate committee that the COM
munist party of America was organ
! IZed at Chicago in 1919 under specific
instructions from the third interna-
nj nt,
sentative" of the Russian party also
| was sent here and identified as John
Moore, alias j. Ballin. Papers sub
mitted by the government witnesses
told OF orders to form a legal" party
in America, but also to retain an "un-
seen, underground" communist organ
| ization to press the workers revo1u-
tionary movement.
Organized I'm 1921.
The workers party. the witnesses
said. was vas pr proved by documents .1 IS pre- pre-
York December 23- 1921 There were
10S delegates present, according to
the testimony, for the most part from
foreign workingmen,s groups.
| Cablegrams in code from Russian
| officers of the third internationale to
communist leaders in the United
States were presented by the State
Department officials One of these.
sent from Moscow and said to order
postponement of the workers party
convention, scheduled for July, 1922,
| read:
"Both statesmen returning home
with full instructions from board di
lrectors. Postpone stockholders meet
ing until they arrive. Acknowledge
receipt Block 6. Co"
This was translated by Mr.. Kliefoth
| to mean:
"Comrade Cook, your representative
on the executive committee of the
| communist internationale and Com
rade Raphael are returning home