The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-12
The Whalen Forgery Trail Leads
to Chas Wood and BaChman

This is the sort of character that the Fish
committee took to its bosom. Bernadsky sat
right behind Representative Bachman, of the
Fish committee, all through the sessions in
New York, translating what was said in Rus
sian by witnesses, and prompting Bachman
what to ask. He clearly either Bachman's
protege, or Bachman was his-and much can
yet be said about that partnership. Bernad-
sky boasts to the Telegram that he told the
Fish committee what witnesses to call and
what to ask them.
Interpreting
On the final day, Bernadsky was sworn in
by Chairman Fish to act as the committees
official interpreter, and as such he was three
times caught lying AMI exposed by the AM
torg Interpreter there, receiving mild repri-
mands by Fish on one occasion, but not being
ousted from the interpreters chair. &
During the course of the testimony by Max
Wagner, who actually printed the forged letter.
heads of institutions in Moscow on which the
"Whalen documents" were typed Wagner
poin ed dramatically to Bernadsky and identi-
fled him who came to his shop with
Yasowa, the employee of Novoye Russkoye
Slovo who ordered Wagner to do the forgery
job.
But even this did not dislodge him from his
post back of Bachman-Bernadsky seems to
have much of a key position in the anti
Soviet Union war plot as even Djamgaroff, the
paid darling of Mrs. Loomis, sister-n-law of
Secretary of State Stmson. Undoubtedly both
of them are high III the ranks of the Russian
monarchist espionage service and organization
of gunner, "The Union of the Sovereign's
People" What's little thing like running
gambling joint if you are a useful forger and
false witness relied on by the war mongers?
melting Murder of Workers.
Bernadsky took open action against the work.
ers of America, he was not content merely to
plot against the workers of the Soviet Union.
In a full-page advertisement in Novoye
Russkoye Slovo April 81, he called on all
white guard assassins (of whom some are en-
rolled in the Russian monarchist battalion in
the Ninth Regiment of the N. Y. National
Guard, with another large contingent manu-
featuring daggers to use on the workers at the
machine shop of the Sikorsky airplane factory
to get their badges from the Philinn Club and
to march with the Veterans of Foreign Wars
on May /
Bernadsky, like many in the war plot, talks
too much, To the Telegram reporters he boasts
that he is starting a weekly magazine, to be
called "The American Observer" sheet to
ncite attacks on Communists and all militant
workers. And Commissioner of Labor Charles
Wood. he who as an United States official
ofoefed the breaking OF the contract with the
Independent Shoe Workers Union in Brooklyn
and started lockout in 81 shops last year,
has, says Bernadsky, taken full page adver-
tisement in the American Observer. Further
more, Wood says Bernadsky, is frequent Wis
itor at Bernadsky's office
Bernadsky also boasts that he ordered the
police raid recently an East Side drug store
alleged to be the headquarters of the Cheka!
To be sure that was rather shot in the dark,
for the proprietor of the store turned out to be
member of a Tammany club instead Of
Communist, and the Cheka was not found there.
but it does show the confidence of the police
in this somewhat mysterious and wholly I'M
savory figure, Bernadsky.
Bernadsky boasts, like Djamgaroff, that he
operates spy service in Amtorg. Like Diam
garoff, with his state department connections
and his "a. b. c. News Service" clear trail
runs up and down. through the underworld,
connecting the forger AMI gambling joint pro-
pretor with the police, with the U. s. govern