Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-22

Last Saturday the rules of the Rus
sian Soviet organization were publish
ed in this column. They had been
compiled in Russia and sent secretly
to this country. Among those rules is
found a section headed I'm the Do.
main of Economics" ITO ferment and
assist general strikes, damage ma
chinery and boilers by systematic
sabotage, and to that end disseminate
provocative and incendiary litera-
ture."
There have been strikes in this and
other countries which involved meth
DDS Just as destructive as demanded
by the above Soviet rule, both before
and since the Soviet conspiracy was
formed, but that fact does not detract
from the measure of loss by the action
of the Soviet Communist domination
in the recent strike of the Fur Work
ers' International Union of New York,
which was openly and brazenly con-
trolIed by the Communists receiving
inspiration and direction from Soviet
Russia, according to charges by the
officers of the American Federation OF
Labor.
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Last Thursday, 100000 garment
makers of New York, members OF the
American Federation of Labor, quit
their work an hour early, in order TO
attend meetings in denunciation OF
the interference of the Communists In
the affairs of the trade unions. Several
meetings at which from 5000 TO 1O,UoO
angry wage earners were croWded
listened to fiery speeches against
Soviet methods and in support of the
Right Wing of the American FedeS'
alton of Labor"
The loss of $1,000 hours of labor
cost from $4,000 to 100000, whether
that loss came at the expense OF the
wage earners or the employers Mr..
Hugh Frayne, vice president OF the
New York State Branch of the Amerl
can Federation of Labor, declared al
these meetings that the Communists
are "a threat, not only IN New ORE
but a menace to the entire country
and he referred to charges or bribery
Of the New York police which, II was
alleged. had demoraliZed police protec
ton of workers.
He had in mind certain serious
charges recorded in long report of a
committee of the American Fedora
tion of Labor charged with investi'
eating the conduct of last years strike
of the Fur Workers international
Union. Of which committee Vice
president Wolf of the American
Federation of Labor was chairman.
The report says:
almost at the inception of the
strike a lawyer named - was
hired He was supposed TO handle
the court cases of those who mlgh1
get into trouble with the police de
nartment. but the evidence shows that
i hi
buy members of the police department
the district attorneys office, the in
dustrial squad and even all the officers
in at least two station houses, so that
the authorities would be on the side OF
the strikers. He received total oil
| ISL 1850.
cat this time there was a very
audible demand by the strikers fol-
strike benefits, but they were put off
| In the meantime many acts or violence
were taking place. not only upon the
streets but particularly in the halls
where the strikers gathered. 1t was
! charged that workers not in sympathy
with the communistic Left Wing were
summoned into those halls. In one
| hall in particular they had an lnquisi
| ton room known as Room c. Houi
| committee has sworn atfidaV1tS or per
sonal testimony of So strikers who
came before your committee and &C
cused the picketing committee with
| having beaten them up. The testi
mony showed that these sluggers were
| largely Greeks and We're equipped
with metal knuckles covered with g
black glove. In Room c. many strik
ers received severe beatings, some
until they became unconscious.
| "Resnick, one of the three men ir
charge Of the plcketing committee