The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-13

OIL, by. answering all questions as TO
the authenticity of his documents"
by saying loftily that they "speak
for themselves"
They Speak for Themselvesw
They do speak for Themselves
and they speak against Whalen.
If the reader will examine the cut
of documents we give on Page 1, you
will see Whalen's forgeries shown as
numbers l and 4. Those numbered
2 and 8 are those printed by Max
Wagner at 204 East 10th St., New
York City. Number 5 is Wagner's
statement.
On No. I, the forgery, and on No.
8, Wagner's work, the reader who
understands Russian will see in
stantly that the same mistakes of
the forger are in both. In No. /,
for example, in fine type above the
two workers in heavy type at the
left, the phrase lin Russian) "Pro-
letarians of all countries, unite!"
contains the same faulty punctua-
ticn found also in the letterheai
shown as No. 8, which was obtained
by the "Graphic" from Wagner's
printshop. This clumsily written
phrase, impossible for a Communist
to write and certainly incredible to
be found on Comintern printing, was
exposed in the Daily Worker" on
| May 9.
| Likewise, under those two words
in heavy type, two Russian words
are given in both Whalen's No. /,
and Wagner's product No. 3. These
are in fine type and only part of
the last word shows in No. 8, the
photographer arranging them with
out thought of this detail. But these
two words mean american Sec
tion," which, written under the two
heavy typed words that stand for
"Comintern Polcom," would mean
that the Comintern has an Gamer
lean Section" in it's Moscow head
quarters. But no such section"
exists, as pointed out by the state
ment of the Communist Party of the
U.S.A. in the Daily Worker of May
8, which said that: "The letterheads
create non-existing institutions of
the Communist international"
The story as told by Wagner is
that four months ago Russian
walked in and asked that three diff
ferent kinds of letterheads with a
Moscow date be made up for him.
saying he wanted 5000 altogether.
Wagner set the copy given him
by the Russian into type and ran off
three or four proofs of each on or
binary typewriter paper, as is usual
in printshops to allow customer to
correct any errors made by typeset-
ters before printing the order in
full. The Russian came around and
took away some of these proofs, as
is also usual if they are to be shown
to someone else for approval. But
he never came back after the order.
When the "Graphic" found out
that they had the proof of forgery,
it tried, according to what it states,
"for two days to inform the COM
missioner that he was wrong before
publishing the story--and the police
commissioner refused to see them or
permit comparison of his originals
with the letterheads which the
Graphic had obtained"
LaGuardia in Congress yesterday
expressed a doubt that Whalen has
any originals, and said that he gave
only photographs to the Committee
on immigration which is startling
thus and very excellently-an Din
vestigation on red activities" The
whole sinking mess, with Matthew
Woll of the A. F. of L. initiating it,
by Whalen's own claims, smells to
heaven, and was shown by the Cen
trail Committee of the Communist
Party in its statement on May 3, as
follows:
"These forgeries are a part Of the
anti-Soviet campaign with which in
ternational capitalist reaction pre-
pares its contemplated war against
the Soviet Union"