The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
EASLEY AND
VOL QUIET
AS WHALEN
EasIey, Who Had the
Forgeries 6 Weeks
Ago, Won't Talk
Was Deterding In 1t?
"Patriots" Rea dy to
Aid British Trade

AlQ DEIUISIl Ii due
Ever thicker silence surrounds
the Whalen forgeries, or, as they
are likely to be known to history,
the Easley-W halen forgeries. But
though nobody wants to talk about
them, the attack on the Communist
Party, the Daily Worker and other
organizations built up and made
into a congressional investigation"
on the basis of these forgeries, goes
merrily on.
While Whalen, the most promi-
nent scoundrel in the case, is reli-
ably reported to be writing his
resignation, there turks in the back
ground the more sinister figure of
Ralph NJ. Easley of the National
Civic Federation whose silence is
even. more profound than Whalen's
and for good reason.
100 Per Center.
Easley is a patriot, an American,
100 percenter, so extraordinarily
patriotic that he froths at the mouth
at the mere mention of Communism.
1t was Easley, remember, who six
weeks before Whalen exposed his
Exposure" had these documents in
his pocket and was showing them
around Washington.
Undoubtedly it was Easley who,
being an affinity of Matthew Wolf,
worked with Vol IN making the
Exposures" Woll made before
March 6, Vol spreading the wild
tale bout Foster getting 1,000,-
coo from Moscow" etc. Easley and
We'll so together Just like Mutt and
Jeff.
Easlcy is also silent. In spite Of
the emphatic statement of Hugh
Kerwin, an official of the U. S. De-
partment of Labor, that Easley had
these forgeries six weeks before
Whalen published them, Easley re-
fuses either to confirm or to deny
Kerwin's statement.
"This whole matter will be gone
into by the Congressional Commit
tee," said Easley on Wednesday.
at will get to the bottom of all Of
it."
Easley Is the Guy.
Since Easley and Vol, according
to the statement of Chairman Smell
of the House Rules Committee, were
the ones who urged him to push
through an Investigation" of Com
munist activities, and since Easley
is, very clearly, the person who had
given or sold these forgeries to
Whalen, it is obvious that Easley
ought to know a lot about what is
"at the bottom of all of it."
These forgeries, as everyone
knows, are only one Of a long series
of such connections, from the ia
nous "Zinoviev letter" of England
to the rather recent "Chervonetz
forgeries" exposed in the trials at
Berlin.
In most of the European forgeries
against the Soviet Union there has
been found at the bottom of the
plotting, the British oil imperialist,
Sir Henry Deterding, who has tried
to mobilize every possible agency
in Europe against the Soviet Union.
Defending resents the Bolshevik
revolution taking away the Baku
oil fields just when, with the aid of
the Socialists" of the Caucasian
state of Georgia, his Royal Dutch
Shell company was promised this
loot.
In the Berlin trial of the forgers
of the Russian paper money unit,
the "Chervonetz," Deterding was
named by the Georgians who were
on trial as having organized and
financed the whole business of
money forgery and armed insurrec-
ton against the Soviet Union.
Strangely enough-or is it so
strange-Sir Henry Defending, the
chief anti-Soviet plotter of Europe
visited the United States last De-
cember, in fact he made a speech
in Chicago in favor of limiting oil
production, on December 2. Very
innocent business, no doubt, but it
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