The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-01-06
WALL ST. EFFORT
TO FRAME LAFOL-
LETTE EXPOSED
By ROBERT DUNN

1924 election campaign is revealed in
the January LABOR AGE. Jacob
Nosovitsky, self-confessed information
al spy, tells of the plot in the first
installment of a serial story. Noso-
whisky played the lead role in a piece
that nearly ended disastrously for
him. He now tells the world what
happened.
A group of Wall Street business
men were out to "get" senator La
Follette,-to show, by any kind of
evidence, that he was tied up directly
with the Russian communists. They
hired one Maj. Charles E. Russell.
we'll known in detective circles. Rus
sell called in Nosovitsky, who had a
record as a document fixer and who
still boasts of his talents in this field.
Nosovitsky says he ridiculed the
idea that La Toilette had anything to
do with the reds. But Russell and
his paymasters were apparently in
terested In presenting a case and were
quite willing to pay big money for
forgeries.
RusselPs reasons, according to Nos
ovitsky, were that che saw no reason
why he should not make a neat sum
If he could AS for Nosovitsky him
self,-"I needed money badly
knew l was playing with dynamite.
but | must get money" Nosovitsky
tried hard to get the names of the
wall st. men behind the scenes, he
says, All he was able to do was to
learn the name of one intermediate
agent.
UndercOver men on the Operation
against La Toilette tore around the
country sending each other hopeful
kilograms with the obvious purpose
of showing the big boys that they
were hot on the trail. There was
Operative NJ, Cooperative N-2". a.
we'll as Nosovitsky himself, working
unGer CDR"
"You will depart immediately fo1
Cleveland and Detroit, RusselPs frs
oCrdre In the frame-up to Nosovitsky
and you will communicate with mt
by telegram as often as possible, writ
ing your telegram in such a wav a.
TO show that you are on the Job anC
digging hard for facts. Operative
NJ and NJ are now in Chicago. The,
will report. to you on your arrival ii
Cleveland"
Nosovistsky endeavored while. il
cleveland to engage a dummy VIII,
would swear that Bob La Toilette Jr
was In back room of a Clevelan,
hotel with Morris Hillouit. leader n
american, Socialists. From Hillqui
1t was only a step, of course, to Mos
cow, as the professional patriot the
DRY is that the Socialist and Commun
lst parties are simply branches of tn,
same Soviet movement. Corporation
lawyer Martin w. Littleton, attorne7
for William J. Burns, has used thi
argument repeatedly.
The spy did his work with "docu
ments", nhOney affidavits, "plausibl
reports, and invented kilograms
Russell fed the stuff to the Wall ST
men.
Later Nosovitsky was sent south +
expose La Toilette spokesman Il
New Orleans by tying him up wit
Lynn Gale, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
who had been in Mexico. At the l.
Toilette rallv where Nosovitsky wa
to do the exposing, things took s
nasty turn and Nosovitsky foun
himself in the cooler. Meanwhil
Russell had double-crossed him an
came through with none of the heav
pickings he had held out as an in
ducement for Nosovitsky to do all tn
dirty work.
The Wall st. men were apparent
dissatified with the "dope", at leas
! none of the forged material was useC
, How much Russell cleaned up on til
deal Nosovitsky doesn't know. At on
point IN the proceedings he told Nos
ovitsky that $4,000 had already bee
given him out of the $4,000 he wa
to receive, if he linked the senator u
with the Third International.
\ This is the outline of fascinatin
!, narrative that begins with the SWEEP
f ing statement that there are "enorn
e Gus lie factories and forgery mill
f in this country which make bushes
: of supplying evidence of imaginal
r red uprisings, bomb plots, dynami
i conspiracies, whenever unscrupulo1
f men and corporations have reason f,
frightening and bamboozling Il
people"
NOSON1CShy 10 oil ola mana at u
game. He was fixing" Mexican do
uments long before the present Anvil
appeared with the discredited Hear
forgeries. He spied on Communis
at various periods since the Russi;
% revolution. He was active in provi
= ing mill owners with document
IN during the Passaic strike and attemr
- = e~n~-e IN Albert Weishord in
r ludicrous breach of promise case.
Nosovitsky is a former "social re
olutionist" from Russia. Some of
t. relatives, he states, were killed in t
early days of the Bolshevik revol
f ton.