Evening star., 1924-11-02
1RAII OF 'sREDS'' IN AMERICA
Government Appears Powerless to Curb Red Meet
ings-Call for 1920 Convention Issued While.
= -. "Comrades'' We're on Way to Jail.

vention meetings spies were sent to
search their rooms.
| Those in Control.
| Those 60 men were divided into IS
districts covering all of the United
States. This convention was called
| at the command of a special mandate
issued by Gregory Zinoviev. chairman
of the Communist International, and
under direct supervision of Charles
f. Scott. a member of the Pan Amer
lean Bureau of the Communist Inter-
national. who was later to supervise
! the development of unity among all
| Communist organizations in the
| United States. Scotts real name is
| Jacob Davidovitch Janson, formerly
chief of the eastern division of the
! foreign department of the Soviet gov
ernment. The chairman of the con-
vention was DR.. Jacob Hartmann,
| who was connected with the Russian
famine and medical relief in New
York City, who went at that time
under the code name Swift. 1t was
at this congress that methods of
propaganda and various underground
methods of carrying on Communist
work were decided upon. Here were
adopted the famous boring from
within methods Of gaining control
was decided to carry radical propa-
ganda among the farmers, the ne
groes the Army and Navy, and here
we're adopted the plans of attack to
| gain control of American labor
unions.
Instructions From Lenin.
For this work, it was reported, the
Communist. International at Moscow
had pledged $135,000 for propaganda
purposes, $4,000 of which already
! had been received. At this convention
also il was disclosed that specific in
structions had been received from
Lenin and Zinoviev to organize a
regular political party for the pur-
pose of functioning in the open. An!
when the Workers party was organ
| lied al the end of the same year it
was found that nine members of the
ecutive committee of the Communist
| party were also members of the ex-
ecutive committee of the communist
party. Those members are:
j. Lovestone, party name Wheat,
executive secretary Of the Communist
| party of America
| I,arl Browder. also known as Ward
and Dixon, editor of the Labor Herald.
cational League.
| James p. Cannon also known as
Cook. chairman of the Workers party
| of America.
Ludwig Lore. alias Young.
| Robert Minor, alias Bailister.
A. Bittleman, alias Raphael.
Alexander Trachtenberg, alias De-
| liam.
William Weinstone. alias Lewis.
| c. Z. Ruthenburg. alias Damon.
| Foster in Control.
At this time, too. was had first news
! of William T. Fosters activities in
! connection with the la Dor unions. 1t
was officially reported in convention
! that Foster was then in Moscow.
! These attended the convention from
| Chicago: l. Margolis, Jewish radi-
cal: Caleb Harrison, well known l. W.
! w. and syndicalist; Gustav Schaklar,
! ii former organizer of the Communist
! party Fred Eberhardt, editor The
| New Age, a Communist publication
! Rice. code name. Milwaukee barber
| Evans. code name a Slav of Milwau-
/ kee; Edgar Owens, former national
secretary of the United Communist
party.
The Chicago district at this conven-
tion, was designated .as district No. 5
and Caleb Harrison was selected as
organizer for the district.
! tCoprr.ght. 1924, by Chicago Daily News Coz
tThe next inxtallment of this series
will appear tOmOroW.D