Evening star., 1924-10-19
TRAIL OF 'sREDS'' In AMERICA
Communist Propaganda in U. S. Now Works Secretly
Following Wholesale Deportations in l9l9-Mos-
COW Still Directs American Activities.

Russian Soviet bureau, which held
direct communication with Russia
and received instructions as to how
to proceed in spreading communist
propaganda
Finally, at one OF these meetings of
the bureau. a delegate arrived from
Moscow with information that he
possessed a mandate to appoint a
representative OF the Soviet govern
ment in this country. After some
little debate Ludwig H. X. Martens
was created Ambassador to the
United States from Russia
Martens Good Organizer.
Martens proved to be an organizer
Of no small ability. Through his ef-
forts all the revolutionary elements
were consolidated and through him
the radical memberships were swell
ed to twice and three times their
former size. Through the efforts of
William Bross Lloyd he was brought
to Chicago, where he addressed thou
sands nightly during his stay At
many Of these meetings there was
such jam of people that 1t was
necessary to call the police to pre-
vent rtoting among those who ar
rived too late and were unable to
gain entrance to the hall
~ " 40 NhdTlcHS luea also, the aQOD.
tion Of a regular military plan in the
appointment Of meeting places
throughout the country. About each
large industrial plant were estab-
lished branch meeting places"
where. on "the day" to be decided
upon for the uprising which should
overturn the present government, all
members might rush to receive arms
and from there make a simultaneous
attack on the Industrial plant. 1t
was-and is-the plan of the COM
munist revolutionary that when
revolution" does come the first act
Is to be the seizure Of every indus
trial plant in the country.
For instance, near the Crane works.
meeting place was established at
South kedzie avenue and Thirty
eighth street. Another Russian
branch was located at Thirty-n ninth
and Kedzie. q Lithuanian branch at
Forty third and Kedzie. These meet
ing places have been establishe d
about each large plant in the city
the International Harvester Com
pany. the stock yards. the railroad
yards at Pullman, the Argo Corn
Products Refining Company. the steel
mills at Gary, Indiana Harbor. East
Chicago and South Chicago, etc. The
are located so that in case OF an up
rising each branch will have oppor-
tunity to take immediate possession
Of the factories.
Hold COmmuDist School.
In these places members are COM
PEELED to attend Communist school
three times a week. In these meeting
places communism is taught. bulletins
and instruction received from Moscow
are read, and teaching given as to
how best to create unrest in the in
dustrial plant where the members are
employed Many of the large strikes
have been directly attributed to the
communists-more noticeably the rail
strike of two years ago, the steel
strike of 1918, the strike OF the Corn
Products Company; in fact, a number
of Industrial outbursts of the last five
years can be traced to communism
and evidence is in the hands of the
Government to show that workers
were actually appealed to to use
harmed force against police and Fed
eral officials.
Most of this. however. took place
before the middle of 1919. when the
communists were operating in the
open. At that time the propaganda
began to assume such sinister proper
tionS that the Government decided to
take sudden action against them.
A special division of the Depart
ment of Justice was created to in
vestigate the growing menace, with
the result that wholesale raids were
made and hundreds were deported as
undesirable citizens. More than 5000
were deported. 800 of them from Chi
cago.
That ended their "fn-the-open'
activities. Since then, although