The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-22
rORCERS FREE:
FOSTER JAILED!
= nti-Soviet Forge rs
Yet Unmolested!

With Grover Whalen retiring into
more obscure strike-breaking, the
question arises: What about the
forged "Comintern letters?"
The Federated Press correspon.
dent at Washington states that;
"The republican and democratic
members of the house immigration
committee, apparently convinced
that the Whalen red plot documents
were crude forgeries, have lost al
interest in having Representative
LaGuardia prove to the committee
that Whalen bought gold brick
The Daily Worker is unconvincet
that Whalen was taken in" or mis-,
led. The scandal sheet Graphic
which published the exposure of the
forgeries and gave a chance to the
fascist congressman, LaGuardia tt
get bit of publicity by presenting
them in congress, itself has dropped
the case after belly-crawling edi
torial stating that "Mr. Whalen's
honesty of purpose is not to be ques
toned"
The Daily Worker, nevertheless
questions not only Whalen's "hon-
esty," but demands to know why
when there are forgers and plot.
tiers who are responsible for this
particular outrage, they are allowed
to run loose and remain free even
from the glare of public exposure ?
What influence is it that is pre-
venting Ralph M. Easley of the
lingo fascist organization known as
the National Civic Federation from
being forced to tell how it happens
that he, Easley, had the Whalen
forgeries six weeks before Whalen
published them? Who is protect
ing this scoundrel Easlep? And his
side-kick, Matthew Vol, as we'll?
In 1927, Norman Hapgood, the
bourgeois journalist, published a
book on professional Patriots"
which revealed Easley's professional
counter-revolutionary practices. In
part, it says:
"Soviet Russia is, of course, Mr..
Easley's chief abomination. He has
freely sponsored the cause of the
czarists, with Mr.. Boris Brasol as
his chief advisor. Mr.. Brasol, one
of the heads of the old Russian
Black Hundred, came to the United
States as a refugee from the revo-
luton, to enlist support for the res
toration of the car.
SIN the National Civic Federation
Review, in 1920, he advocated rec
ognizing the Omsk government of
Admiral Kolchak.' He supported
the claims of the Grand Duke Cyril,
whom he represented in the United
States, and officiated at a royalist
gathering in 1924 at the Hotel
Plaza, attended by the reigning
czarina, the Grand Duchess Cyril. "
| The Daily Worker asks any
worker if such characters as Easley
should not be brought into the light
of day and asked just what, pre-
cisely, he was doing with the forged
"Comintern letters" which Hugh
Kerwin of the United States labor
department says Easley had six
weeks before Whalen gave them
out?
And while the scoundrel Easley
is being dragged out of silence by
the nape of his worthless neck, why
Matthew Woll, also, should not be
asked what. he, too, knows about
these forgeries?
And why, with all this badly
smelling business, is the congress
Of the United States silently wait
ing until the forgeries are forgot
ten, to go on with the "investiga-
ton of Red activities" is
the attack on the Communist Party.
| Not only the Communists, but
millions of workers, 100000 of
them unemployed, who rallied round
the Unemployed Committee of Eos
ter, Minor, Amter, Raymond and
Lesten, demand to know if this out
rageous classification was given a
burst of publicity at the very mo-
ment when such "red hysteria''
was profitable to cover the railroad
ing to prison of Foster, Minor and
| the rest?
Are forgers of such documents to
be let go UNPUBLISHED because they
are anti Soviet7