Evening star., 1927-05-26
SOVIET DOCUMENTS
NAMING AMERICANS
ARE MADE PUBLIC
Britain Issues "White Paper"
to Show Hostile Activities
of International.
PARLIAMENT MEMBERS
ARE REPORTED II! LIST
Letter Taken in Raid Asks Work.
ers' Party of America About
Industrial Conditions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 26.-Sixteen docu-
ments. including a list of addresses
Of many persons in the United States
canada and Central and South Amer
lean countries, found in the raid on
Soviet House were issued by the
British government today as a white
paper to illustrate the hostile activ-
tiles" Of the Soviet government and
the Third international against
Great Britain.
1t was stated in official circles this
afternoon that the names of hum
dreds of persons in Great Britain, in
cluding a number of members of
Parliament. as well as persons more
or less known i'm America and other
parts of the world. in addition to
those published in today's white
paper, have come to the hands of
the government during it's investi-
cation of alleged Soviet activities.
World Center of Espionage.
A Government spokesman said to-
day that. in six years, the Soviet had
world center Of an espionage and
propaganda system which operated
extensively, as Premier Baldwin stated
in the House of Commons. in the
United States, Mexico, South America,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa.
The spokesman alleged also that.
with London as the center and
Chesham House the Soviet legation)
having diplomatic immunity, it was
an easy matter to carry on com.
municatiOns with various parts Of the
world, the Russians having postal.
cable and telephone facilities at their
command. He attributed several
Australian shipping strikes in the last
two years solely to Soviet agents who.
he said. went to that country to
spread propaganda, stir up trouble
and further Moscow's aims.
Among the letters in the white paper
showing the documents seized in the
ARGOS raid is one from NJ. Jusefovitch,
general secretary of the revolutionary
leather workers interna tional com
mittee of propaganda and action, to
''Comrade Bixby. New York"
The letter. dated Moscow, April 26,
1927, acknowledges receipt OF letter
from Bixby. and says: I'VE are glad
to note your agreement to accept a
ma andate as member of the interna-
tional committee of propaganda and
action of the revolutionary workers,
and to participate in its activities"
Addressed to Workers Party.
Although the letter was addressed
to Bixby. it was enclosed in an en-.
yelope inscribed: ITO the Workers
Party of the United States, New
York"
The letter asks Bixby for full infor-
nation about conditions in the
leather trade N America, says
Ford systems" are being introduced
in the large scale and modern plants
of the American boot and shoe indus
try, and expresses desire to know the
position of he workers under these
as that is question that
concerns us.
Bixby is urged to strengthen the
left wing in the trade unions of work
ers in the boot and shoe, harness,
saddle. glove and kindred srades.
CIynes Asks Fair Trial.
Speaking for the Laborites, j. r.
Clynes t1ld the House Of Commons
today that Soviet Russia must not
be condemned without trial"
Mr.. Clynes faced a packed, floor and
galleries Wien he rose. amid labor
cheers. to place his motion before the
House. The government, he said,
had reversed it's former position that
British trade and the future peace of
Europe would be injured by sever
ance of relations with Russia. lie
the government position
now to be that Russia was in .he
dock.