The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-09
BY S. BoRKSEvITCH.

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THE Moscow trial of the famous
forger of Soviet documents,
Druzhilovsky, provides interesting
and sensational material about the
Vaccinations of bourgeois govern
ments and different groups offended
by the October Revolution. These doc
uments are intended to hamper the i'm
provements of INTERPRETATIONS between
the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies and the United States of Ameri-
ca. Druzhilovsky's first forgery was
made by order of the Berlin agent of
the Polish General Staff, Patserkov-
sky, and contained an INSTRUCTION for
the preparation of elections in the
executive committee of the Proffn-
tern" 1t was addressed to the exec
utive Committee of the United States
of America"
This forgery, intended to aroused
public opinion in the United States
against the U. S. S. R., gave instruc-
tions now to organize elections of the
executive committee and in an ex-
planatory note on one of the points
it was stated that "the Executive
Committee of the Comintern ratified
the assignment of 10000 dollars to
Comrade Ruthenberg as the first
monthly instalment beginning with
January 1925 of $4,000 dollars to
cover the needs of the Party and that
Comrades Ruthenberg, Foster and
Stoklitsky are put in charge of the
money" The forgery was signed by
Kolaroff and Stewart.
THE Polish spy Patserkovsky and
Druzhilovsky with this document
to the American Consul in Berlin, and
to Druzhilovsky's old friend, Gam, a
Russian officer.
Gam, on seeing this document"
sent Druzhilovsky with a letter of
recommendation to the American
journalist, Seldes, in the Berlin office
of the Chicago Tribune.
The latter called Druzhilovsky's at
tention to the fact that Ruthenberg's
name was not properly written (Rut-
berg) in the forgery, but Druzhilov-
sky declared that it is the same per-
son and showed him another forgery
on notepaper of the official govern
ment organ of the U. S. S. R., which
he had received from the Buonsted
detective bureau stating that "the
money sent to the Communist Party
of the United States is despatched bv
the Comintern to Ruthberg- Ruthen-
berg"
Stoklitsky also had never been in
the American party, having returned
to Russia, after Foster came into the
Party. Hence they never could have
been on any sort of commission to-
gether.
At the bottom of the notepaper
Druzhilovsky added that the Gives
tia" office is branch of the Exec
utlve Committee of the Comintern."
SELDES paid Druzhilovsky for the
document" and published it in
his Chicago Tribune of February Is,
1925. simultaneously the document
was also published in the New York
Times of the same date.
Druzhilovsky sold these documents
for 100 dollars also to an American
office on Neue Wilhelm trasse No. 8
which gathers all kinds of information
for the United States, and for so dol
lars to an employee of the American
Consulate, George Meyer, a former
Russian officer.
Druzhilovsky could sell this so
many times because he sold his docu
ments on condition that his clients
returned them Immediately after they
had taken down Photographic copies.
Apart from these documents Druz-
hilovsky prepared forged instructions
of the Executive Committee of the
Comintern, on notepaper prepared in
his own printing house to "the Am
bassador of the Comintern, Section
2" in which the Comintern thanks the
Ambassador" 'tfor his successful
campaign in favor of the recognition
of the U. S. S. r. by the United States
of America" it also states that 20
WV uOlldIo nave Deen assigned 1Or
secret expenditure. The instructions
also pointed out the necessity of tax
ing measures ito prevent deteriora-
ton in the personal relations between
Senator Borah and Coolidge, Presi-
dent of the United States, pointing
out that the physical elimination of
Warren who was advanced by Cool
idge to the position of General At
torney may help Coolidge in his
foreign policy which is favorable to
the U. S. S. R."
IN the same forgery it is stated that
"Petkovsky, Soviet Ambassador in
Mexico has to inform some Baianke
that a credit account has been opened
for her to the amount of 10000 Amer
lean dollars"
The forger made it his aim to dis
credit in the eyes of American public
opinion the Soviet Union which al