The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12
IMMIGRANTS TO
SOVIET RUSSIA
TO Be ASSISTED
Technical Aid Society
Warns Of False Agents

Especial TO The Daily Worberj
NEW YORK, Aug. Flor the past
SIX months number Of complaints
have come to the attention OF the
Central Bureau of the Society for
Technical Aid to the Union of Social
ist Soviet Republics against various
interruptions agencies and fndivid-
uals who, IT appears, have found a
new source of easy income thru ex-
ploitation Of uninformed people de-
string either to return to Russia in
dividually or to obtain restitution
Of Russian citizenship.
Some Of these complaints deal with
remuneration, at times extremely ex-
orbitant, exacted by some agencies
and officers for soliciting services.
Other complaints are directed against
persons styling themselves Soviet
consuls" who have been charging
from five to one hundred dollars for
issuing passports" invalid in any
country. Also there are complaints
by persons stranded at various Eu-
ropean ports, simply because they fell
prey to irresponsible agents provid-
ing these unfortunates with worth
less documents and permissions of NO
value whatsoever.
False Agents Cheat.
People in large numbers from all
parts of the United States arrive in
New York, ready to sail But at their
great dismay and disappointment,
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t. A. S. r. that they have been
tricked and cheated by reckless
agents and that unless they are pro-
vided with proper bona fide docu-
ments they cannot gain entrance in
to the U. S. S. r.
Lastly, applications presumably for
obtaining admission into U. s. S. r.,
have been incorrectly accomplished
by these agents and solicitations I'M
dertaken by them have proven to be
in fragrant violation of particular re-
quirements obtaining in re-emigrant
cases.
Russian immigrants apply to those
various agents and Offices merely be-
cause there is no official representa-
tive of the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics in the United States.
To avoid a recurrence Of such de-
plorable cases of cheating and mis-
leading of Russian immigrants, and
in order to establish a proper and
correct procedure for such soIIcita-
tons, the Central Bureau S. T. A.
S. r. (799 Broadway, corner nth ST.,
New York city,, has undertaken the
task of accomplishing the application
blanks for entering Russia and for
warding these to the proper Soviet
authorities.
Offers Aid.
The duties of the Central Bureau
S. T. A. S. R. in this respect are as
follows:
1. To solicit for Russian citizens
desiring to return to Russia
q. To solicit for all persons Of
foreign nationality desiring to be-
come Russian citizens or being re-
instated into Russian citizenship.
NOTE:-Persons who left Rus
STA without permission after 1917,
and contemplating at some time
to return there, must effect a res
titution of their Russian citizen
ship formerly held by them.
8. To solicit for foreigners desir-
ing to obtain temporary permits
sion of stay in Russia
The handling of application
blanks and solicitations for obtain
ing permission to enter Russia will
be conducted by the Central Bureau
S. T. A. S. r. in strict accord with
precise instructions from proper
Soviet institutions having jurisdic-
ton in this matter.
The Offices of the Central Bureau
S. T. A. S. r. for execution of the
services above-mentioned will be
open daily from a. m. to 6 p. m.
and Saturdays till p. m.
For all information, in writing or
in person, please apply to Central
Bureau S. T. A. S. R., 799 Broadway,
Room 402, New York City. Telephone
Stuyvesant 5916.>