The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-12
BY YERN SMITH.

FURTHER and more complete evidence of the
"hook-up" between the Fish committee, the
forgers of the Whalen documents, Commits
sioner Wood of the U. S. department of labor,
the New York police force and the Russian
monarch:st espionage service and forgery mill
in the U. S. has been provided by the incautous
statements of one Gregory Bernadsky and two
police officials. Together they make some
startling revelations, printed Saturday in the
New York Telegram "a Scripps- Howard paper)
of the devious methods employed and degen-
crate elements used to try and start a COM
bined imperialist war on the Soviet Union.
The war plan has not been abandoned. One
of the most significant things admitted by
New York Police Deputy Inspector Edward j.
Lennon of the Sixth Inspection District is that
Bernadsky is "decphering secret Soviet codes
for the department of justice" Since there are
no secret Soviet Codes in America, and since
Bernadsky has not so far even posed as a code
expert this statement only mean that
either Bernadsky has been commissioned by
those in America who want trade embargo and
war on the U. S. S. r. to cut some more for
geries "out of the whole cloth, or that he has
been given the commercial codes of Amtorg
subpoenaed from Western Union by the Fish
committee, to be mistranslated as he sees fit.
He's That Kind of Expert.
Bernadsky is an expert both at mstransa-
ton and forgery. Coupling what he told the
Telegram, and what is otherwise known of him,
his career is as follows:
He is a Russian monarchist and underworld
character who came into America about 1920
or 1921. He went to work in a bakery, which
he left by being arrested for stealing sugar.
When he got out of that mess, he opened
gambling joint, known as the Phinn Club, at
1873 W. 10th st. He was raided and arrested
by the New York police on March 20, 1880,
and he and 81 others, monarchists and other
sorts of white guards, pleaded guilty and were
sentenced He had been arrested at other
times. But this time, knowing the war move
against the Soviet Union was coming, Ber-
nadsky appeared before Police Inspector Archi-
bald Mcneil and Deputy Inspector Lennon, ac-
cording to their own story to the Telegram,
with documents showing that he was an adj
visor for the U. s. department of justice, work
ing against Communists.
That Makes Him All Right.
"When Mr.. Bernadsky showed me his work
with the department of justice" said Lennon
to the Telegram man, II saw he was all right"
Of course he was all right! During the Fish
committee stay in New York. every kind Of
underworld characters and smUggers and lille
gal entrants got clean bill of health from
the police if they would testify to some kind of
lie against the Communists or the Soviet
Unon
Bernadsky. feeling his immunity advertses
his club in the Russian monarchist paper in
New York, in an open and fragrant manner.
He printed on December s, 1929 in Novaye
Russkaye Slovo full-page advertisement illus
trated with drawing. showing himself presiding
over monarchist meetings, handing drinks to
those who pay. running Commercial
games" (gamblng) and (fine emotional APP
peaD, giving carfare home to those who lost
all their money in his gambling hell. Under a
cartoon showing Bernadsly handing a dollar
TO patron whose pocket is turned inside out,
Bernadsky says: 'And finally, if you intend to
go home, and perchance have no money, the
management Of the Phillin Club will gladly
pay for the trip" The cid Monte Carlo ethics:
Don't shoot yourself on the premises" Even
TIE mare "Philrn." is Russian word. the
rap'e of I'D of an owl bird of prey that
files by nis.