The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-23
COMMUNISTS 7.
 ACTIVE IN US.
State Department Submits Proof LinkingYThem With
 Russian Party

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The American and Russian communist movements and official parties were linked together in testimony and docu- ments submitted by state department officials today to the Senate foreign relations subcommittee Investigating the question of recommending Ameri- can recognition of the Russian soviet government.
 Through many documents obtained by government agents, some in radical raids, A. w. Kliefoth, assistant chief of the state departments eastern Flu ropean division and Robert K. Kelly of its intelligence office sought to prove that the American, and Russian communists operated in close co-opera- tion and toward a common goal. The aim, according to some of the papers. presented, was an '.armed uprising" in this country designed to destroy the bourgeoisie government"
 Coples of code cablegrams and oth- CT communications sent by the third communist international executive committee at. Moscow, whose officers also were high officials of the soviet government. to the communist party leaders in this country were presented to the Senate committee.
 Names Communist Leader
 Charles F. Ruthenberg of Chicago was named by Dr. Kliefoth as prominent communist leader here and tle witness presented many commit hist documents including official bull letins, which had been barred previ- ously in, the Michigan syndicalism trials of Mir. Ruthenberg and others. While the, committee was hearing testimony, Senator King, democrat, Utah, delivered m address on the floor of the Senate reviewing condi- tions in Russia on the basis of his visit there last summer. He de- nOunced the communist program and bolshevik rule, but urged establishment of American trade rela tions if confis cated American property should be restored or compensated for and other interests protected. This would aid Russia's recovery, he argued.
 The state department officials told the Senate committee that the com nunist party of America was organ ized at Chicago in 1919 under specific instructions from the third interna- tional. A ''plenipotentiary representa- tive" of the Russain party also was sent here and identified as John Moore alias J. Ballim. Papers submitted by the government witnesses told of or ders to form a 'legaF' party in Amer ica but also to retain an unseen. un- derground' communist prganizat tion. It is clearly established that the workers party of America was formed by the communist party for it's pur- nose" said Mir. Kliefoth, in commention on the many documents presented. Some of these, he added, were seized on a raid on Blocker street, New York city, in December. 1921.
 Proof Mentioned
 The workers party the witness said, was proved by documents presented to have been organized in New York, De cember 2S, 1921. There were 10S delegates present, according to the testimony, for the most part, from for eign working mems groups. A second convention of the new party was said to have been held in New York in December. 1922 when a program de- cared tj nave been framed by Mir. Ruthenberg was adopted. He was identified as member of the Ameri- can communists executive committee.
 Cablegrams in code from Russian officers of the third international to communist leaders in the United States were presented by the state department officials. One of these, from Moscow, was said to order pre- parement of the workers party con- Nention, scheduled for July. 1922