The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-02-27
''ZINOVIEV LETTER"
FOR U.S.. SHOWS UP
AS CLUMSY FAKE

The story printed in the Chicago
Tribune on February IA, signed by
George Seldes, and dated Berlin, pur-
ports to expos another "Zinoviev let
ter" much the same as that used in
the British elections except that the
forgery is so crude and patent that it
evidently did not fool even the hyster-
ical red-baiters who live upon such
food or the usually gullible Tribune
which relegated it to the back pages.
The whole document cited in the
story bears the marks eff clumsy for
gerry.
That the Communist International
should donate $4,000 for the pur-
pose of creating '1ahor party" at a
moment when the whole idea of a
'labor party" in the United States
has been taken off the calendar Of
immediate political questions, is an
idea so preposterous that only an i'm
beetle police agent and forger could
! have conceived it.
Just a few more items to clinch
this forgery. The letter, says Seldes,
"was written on the stationery of the
communist official organ, the Investia,
and rubber stamped with Communist
Party and government seals" That
/ the Communist International, instead
of using its own letter heads should
use hat of a Russian newspaper, is
/ about as reasonable and probable as
j. p. Morgan writing to Ramsey Mac
Donald on the stationery of the New
1 York Times, and sealing it with the
stamp of the Republican party and the
4 United States government.
The document itself is senseless
and silly. The only thing that could
have any connection with reality is
the statement about a '1abor party
but this, unfortunately for the forger,
would have been impossible for any
one connected with the G. l. to write
in December 1924.
The supposed signature of the doc
ument shows that the forger did not
even have sense enough to look up the
forms of the Communist International
correspondence as published in innum-
cradle papers all over the world. New
er did anyone ever see a Communist
International letter signed General
Secretary of the International EXecu-
tive Committee" And, again unfor.
: tunate for the forger and his custom
ers, the name used for signature, Kol.
arrow, was Used more than six month:
too late. Kolarov was secretary Of
the Communist Intenaticnal-unti
June 1924 when he left Moscow fol
his home country, Bulgaria but the
forged letter is dated, December 16
1924. At that latter date the secre
tary of the Communist Internationa
was Kuusinen. The supposed sigma
ture of "Stuart" also struck a snag
in that STEWART, an Englishman
surely knows how to spell his owl
name in the English language.
: But what does the capitalist pres
care fcs facts? Nothing. They glad
ly publish stories like this from
George Seldes, and pay more none
. for the forgeries of this kind thai
even these experienced liars CLAIM
that the Communist Internationa
sends to America for propaganda.
The purpose is obvious; it is the sam
as that of the other forgery, tn
/ 'ZinOviev letter used in the Britis
elections, and which the British trad
union delegaClOn, at er visiting Mos
! cow branded as a forgery. And lik
: The British forgery, this latest on
will have the result of waking u
! larger numbers of workers to til
! real meaning eff capitalist democrac
: and capitalist freedom of the press
= The Workers (Communist) Part
! of America calls the attention of th
= American workers to this impude1
! forgery. We warn the workers thu
! this is a part of a concerted attack
! not against the Communists alone
= preparatory to new war on Il
n workers and peasants governmel
of Russia and the whole workin
! class. Wage cuts are on the order
+ the day, unions are to be smashe,
/, Therefore the capitalists again rails
> the cry of the "red menace
y every worker who stands up for h
r. class interests will be branded as
= "red."
n Central Executive Committee,
~ Workers (Communist) Party
America
= William 2. Foster, Chairman