The daily worker., 1926-11-13
Bare FORGERY
OF LEAFLET A
FASCIST RUSE
Pittsburgh Blackshirts
Try New Ruse
BY ARRAM JAkIRA.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. IL. - The
election campaign of the Workers
Party aroused the ire of the fascist
and white guard hoodlums Of this city.
Comrades Ben Gitlow and Harry M.
Wtcks were to speak at mass meet
ing in the N. S. Carnegie Music Hall
October 12. On the day Of the meeting
several fascist representatives Of
Pittsburgh called upon the superin-
tendent Of the North Side Carnegie
Library, who is in charge Of the meet
ing hall, demanding that the hall be
closed to the Party and that the meet
ing be stopped, threatening with a
riot in real fascist fashion if the
meeting was allowed.
Mysterious Leaflet
The same day a police officer pres
ented the librarian with leafet print
ed in Russian and supposed to be an
advertisement issued by the Workers
Party. Shortly after, special delivery
letter, bearing the postmark of Oct.
II, p. m, and addressed to Super
intendent, Carnegie Library, Ohio and
Federal streets, North Side, Pitts
burgh, Pa" reached the librarian.
The envelope contained no return ad-
dress. The letter contained what was
supposed to be the translation of the
printed Russian leaflet in possession
of the police officer.
Needless to say, that the Workers
Party never published either this or
any other leaflet in the Russian Ian
guage in connection with this or any of
the election campaign meetings held in
Pittsburgh, or in any other part of this
district. The contents of the leaflets
are so brazen and ridiculous that the
librarian from the very start took it
to be a forgery and refused to stop
the meeting. Later on the translation
was turned over to the Workers Party
for, investigation.
Strange Sounding.
Starting out with the subject which
the speakers were supposed to cover
and giving the date and place of the
meeting, the leafiet forged by the fas-
cist and black hundreds of this city,
proceeded to say, "Come and hear Ben
Gitlow in stirring speech against the
numbering, blood-sucking capitalists Of
this country, as represented by the
crooked, thieving, pork chop pol
iticians and their ward heeling thugs
of Pennsylvania.
Hear him tell how the red star Of
the revolution is rising in the east to
soon cast its red rays over this i'm
perialistic land-hear him tell how the
red wave of revolution will soon engulf
this decadent country and sweep be-
fore it the social parasites-the human
leeches-the bloated monsters who are
suppressing and depressing the prole-
tariat.
Obvious Fraud.
Hear Comrade Wicks, the Commun-
ist candidate for governor OF this
state, tell how we will baptize this
country in a shower of blood-how we,
the workers Of the world, will seize
the press and the industries and turn
their products against our common
enemy, the capitalists, and their lick
spittle cousins, the petty-bourgeoisie
of America.
Comrades! Arise! Come and join
us in this, the first real step taken to
follow in the path of our comrades
of the Russian revolution"
The forged leaflet is in the hands
Of the police and bears no marks
which would indicate where and by
whom 1t was published. According to
Mr.. George J.. Schaeffer, the attorney
for the Workers Party, who is in
vestigating the matter, the superin-
tendent OF police, Walsh, knows moth
ing as to the circulated leafet, altho a
copy of it is kept in the files of the
police.