The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05
BOSTON CULTURE
ACHAST AT RISE
OF RED ACTIVITY
Bolshevism Is Winning
in the u. S. A.
By H. M. WICKS
Especial to The Daily worksr)


BOSTON, Mass.-Staid and conser-
vative Boston, always alert to add to
its laurels as defender of that meta
physical entity called "Americanism"
has made the startling discovery that
the Department of Commerce at
Washington is under the domination
Of Bolshevik sympathizer, Mr.. Her
bert Hoover. This was revealed to
the writer and William Simons, or
ganizer of District 1, Workers Party
Of America, by an elegant lady acting
as a guide at an anti-Red display, held
at $50 Dartmouth Street, this city.
Before visiting this address, we had
been under the impression that Boil
shevism was gaining in the United
States, but we never before had the
slightest inkling of the number Of
people that had been affected by this
revolutionary propaganda.
Displays Weekly Worker
A full page article in the BOSTON
TRANSCRIPT of January "a, deal
ing with the Red menace to the United
States and containing a reproduction
of the first page of the Weekly Work
er containing the proclamation Of the
Workers Party regarding the Hughes
forgery against Soviet Russia, con-
cluded with the information that an
exhibit Of Revolutionary literature
and other forms of propaganda was
being held at the Dartmouth Street
address which was open to the public.
We decided to investigate, so we
started out the next morning in
quest of the place which we located
in the aristocratic Back Bay district
of Boston. Upon entering the room
we were greeted by a middle aged
lady who informed US that an admis-
sion price of fifty cents was required.
We invested the required amount
and entered a room with walls pro-
fusely decorated with newspapers,
posters, proclamations, etc. Four
large tables contained pamphlets,
books and leaflets alleged to have
emanated from Red sources. A sec
ond lady somewhat more aged than
the first escorted us around the room
explaining the sinister Vaccinations
of those horrible Bolsheviks who are
out to wreck our sublime government.
''Young Comrade" Exhibited
The lady asked us precisely what
we were interested in and we said
nothing in particular, but we were
curious to see the whole display. Not
knowing where to start her expose we
suggested that propaganda in the
schools was rather interesting, so she
first selected a pamphlet issued by
thu Workers Educational Bureau, an
institution founded by Matthew Vol
of the Gompers dynasty. This she
informed US was one of the most
diabolical conspiracies for the pro-
pagation Of Bolshevism under the
guise Of education that is known.
Nearby were copies of the young
Comrade" with heavy underscoring in
pencil of a paragraph dealing with
young workers ignoring gods in the
sky and concentrating upon the pro-
blems of their everyday life here.
The inconsistency of the display
and the simple naivete of the lady was
revealed when she next showed us an
hysterical folder issued by the A. F.
Of l. containing all the banalities Of
the Chester Wright-William English
Walling libels against Soviet Russia
ana Jnc AOUuuulliSb AItCllldOAOidAs
When Informed that the Workers Ed
lcational folder was issued by the
A. F. of L. the lady merely muttered
IN inaudible sentence and fastened
o show US the rest of the exhibit.
Next we were shown a page Of the
Iew York Times, containing an ar
icle by the notorious renegade So
.ialist and preverter of Marx,
ohn Spargo, wherein he reviled the
Soviet regime and hailed American
democracy as the protector Of hui
nanity.
Hoover a Bolshevik
Mr.. Herbert Hoover, we were in
ormed is dangerous Red sympathiz-
and succeeded in obtaining an ap-
reputation Of taxpayers money" for
ne famine in Russia. She also re-
tied how Hoover and the big pack
RS, principally Armour & Co., are in
conspiracy to repeat the perform
nee with the German famine as an
Reuse. According to our hysterical
uide the packers have a large sur
lus of meat they want to get rid Of
nd Hoover is trying to assist them
ID the government by purchasing
MS surplus at government prices"--
hatever those are. This so as