The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-08-08
As We See 1t
~ Tom o'FIaherty

if the famous "Red"
i lDS, OES Il by the national house
j r SsR.ttss% Won : and minor
Of h n;SsOns has blown up. IL
90, p y click and once the poll.
failed - UeTe consigned to the lost
hdsnss suuS columns they lost M
md iG y saving the country from
is'i Purple Danger.
ri. ~ouiu" has been in the
lnls for a long time. About
hopper ,O rt ago The Producers
EIne n Sad a request for mfOrma-
News - H Senator Burton K. Wheel.
ton , o. a fink by the name Of
e., liU %Ho styled himself head of
Jung ,merican vigilantes in Chi
The A 4 fellow named Blair COan,
agC. . If ''The Red Web" was in
suIi Ots with him. They were out
: ga 's.hakedewn racket and their
loI , % that they would loosen
~ the old purse.
49,
r cov;af Russia were to
osi Il-0nIed Communists and a
% "a nicture of Red Terror was
iarI H. painted on the American
' y = The wives and prob
Tu tbe cOncubines of the big
s 10y and industrialists were
!" y "natiOnalized" unless the
Into, = came across with the ne
psssary means of defense.
s++
The publicity given the plot by
Tho Producers News and the Cen
,,sI Press, thru its Washington
RESPONDENT, Charles Stewart,
cancelled the stools TO lay low
a. a while. They then enlisted
Matthew VOL, a vice president
# the A. F. of L., whose ambl-
6on Is TO be the MussOlini OF the
United States. Vol is also act
mo president of the National
Civic Federation, an open shop
0ganizatiOn which was on the A.
Of L. blacklist until recently.
WOT is a glOrified scab.
Exs =
Since there was no likelihood
If success in getting "a senate In
ypstigatiOn of radical activities,
the fmks tried the house and put
i thru. In due time, under the
direction Of. Hamilton Fish, il.
the Congressional committee sat
IN New York, heard the testi'
mOny of a few policemen, Mat
thew Vol, Catholic priest, an6
few others, including the ridi
uIOus Grover Whalen, former
Police Commissioner. Whelan in
trOduced his forged documents
alleged to be Instructions from
Moscow to the Soviet Trading
Agency in New York to over
throw the United States govern
ment. A printer testified tina
he printed the letterheads OF
which the fake letters were writ
ten for the police, and that "plOt'
blew up.
&&&& &A&
While the sOlOns were sitting
and sweating the New York pc
lice pulled a good one. In thei
most SherlOckian manner the
came to the conclusion that tn
gay pay 90 must have a head
quarters in the United States. I
conclude was to act. Sneakin
] upon a drug store run by a cel
tam Mr.. Shafran, who happen
] % be Tammany Hall man, the
Falded the premises and annOun,
ed that they had the Cheka heaC
] quarters. 1t is reported that a
mdercOyer man had previOusl
& nled to purchase liquor there al
on being refused assumed tn
there must be something Il
natter with it. The raid fOlION
e. However, it was learned a
Ter the raid that Shafran SO
medical supplies to the AmtOl
hospital, which it maintains {
ITS employees.
sa4$ 80
But tho the quiz fizzled t
campaign against the Sow
Union is being carried on. RI
san commodities are being b;
ted nom the United States on
ground that Russian workers {
SSnvlcts The fact is that
russian workers are members
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