The Connecticut labor news., 1924-01-12

lutionary and anti-British press cam paign in Persia through the notorious Rothstein.
 "(d) The Soviets supplied Turks with large subsidies and arms and had directed press campaign against Great Britain.
 "(e) The Soviets subsidized a Bol- shevist and anti-British campaign in Afghanistan."
 FACT NO. 20.
 Among other organizations used by the Soviet government and its allied propaganda agencies for propaganda III foreign countries, including the United States, is the official Soviet united press service, known as "Rosta"
 Describing the operations of "Rosta," Mr. Percy Noel, long the Russian correspondent for the Phila- delphia Public Ledger Foreign News Service, said in a dispatch written from Berlin, whither he had gone to escape the Soviet censorship:
 "The most effective trust is Rosta. Rosta disseminates false news and steals real news. The powerful arm of it's radio station reaches around the world. Every word I sent by wireless from Berlin about conditions in Russia was read in the Foreign Office at Moscow before 1t arrived in Philadelphia.
 "Rosta issues propaganda to the world and is paid for it because it has theoretically and nomina1ly a monopoly of all the news of Russia Unless the propaganda department of the Foreign Office desires otherwise, %14 1l, x1. tators wish to give to the world be- If the Associated Press, for example. obtains news before Rosta, it will not be transmitted until the trust news service has had time to send the same explanation"
 FACT NO. 21. 1
 The Third Internationale joined in the effort to spread propaganda under the. guise of an appeal for famine l relief. An official appeal issued by the Third Internationale for circu1a- ton throughout the world contained the following:
 What is holding in check the mad designs of the capitalists just now? Who inspires the mwith fear and ter TOTS? Your Soviet Russia! For every
 
 ed Russian workers. Therefore, lelp Soviet Russia. Help its workers who have received the first united blows of the capitalist governments A number of labor organizations nave already contributed their mites 10 the Russian workers and peasants
 . This applies especially to you workers of the United States, South America, Australia and South Africa"
 FACT NO. a2. |
 The Friends of Soviet Russia" is mother organization ruled from Mos ;ow and serving the purpose of Mos cow in spreading communist propa- yanda in the United States.
 In the course of an expose of the operation of this organization in rais- ng funds supposedly for Russian Relief, Abraham Cahan, editor of he powerful Jewish Daily For vard," New York City, said:
 "I charge that the persons who the funds collected by the Friends of Soviet Russia are diverting parts of such funds from he purposes for which they were col ected; that considerable sums of money collected for the relief of the .aminestricken people of Russia have been used for the support of the com nunist press in the guise of pay, nents for advertisements and that other sums have been wasted in the payment of salaries to communist agi- -ators who are thus enabled to give much of their time to the work of 1isrupting the labor movement"
 FACT NO. as.
 During the Russian famine there was organized pursuant to instruc- lions from Moscow, an organization calling itself "The American Feder- ated Russian Famine Relief Com at this time the American Relief Administration was operating effectively, expending twenty mil ion dollars appropriated by the United States Government for the American people and serving as the great expression of American friend ship and sympathy for the Russian people.
 The American Federated Russian Famine Relief Committee sought to 1ivorce labor's support from the to direct the bounty of Americas wage earners to purely soviet agen- :ies.
 In an appeal issued by this sovietiz- ed organization there was a clear indication of its real and vital pur- pose the sowing of the seeds of dis rust of their own organization among the wage earners of the United States. The following is a qhotation rom that document:
 "The American Federated Russian Famine Relief Committee is organ zed to get Labor here in the United States to render to Russia this serv- ce in this spirit; to raise funds to ouy food, etc, and to ship it to Rus ;ia as the Russians i. e. the soviets prefer to have. it done and to send with it the mute message the Rus sians are hungry to hear-that Amer can Labor understands. . For it is ] sign that the American workers re-