Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02

Information Of the New York Police De-
partment.
Documents Translated.
The documents seized by the police
are In the Russian language, but Eng
llsh TRANSACTIONS were furnished by
commissioner Whalen. He said the
documents reached this country by
courier from the Soviet embassies at
One document dated from Moscow
January 3, 1880, and addressed to
"Comrade @. Grafpen" informs him
mat the executive committee of the
Comintern and Profintern has directed
he be again dispatched to the United
states as general representative Of the
He is directed to establish temporary
neadquarters at Seattle as manager Of
the Seattle branch Of the Amtorg Trad
ing Corporation and that archives
from illegal work must be sent to MOS
COW by freight boat"
Between the 18th and 26fh Of
March" the instructions continue, "you
VIII have to call in Seattle a reunion of
ali our general representatives, which
must receive instructions, literature for
organization of the LIST May outbreaks
rom you and sums Of money from
Comfade Sversky, who continues to be
in charge Of the financial Department"
Agents Distributed.
Attached to the letter is a list of as
persons being sent from Russia to be
distributed by Grafpen as follows: New
A XorK, massachusetts,, g. Illinois, 3;
NORM Carolina, 3: South Carolina, /;
pennsylvania, 8; Connecticut. /: Mich.
igan, 2; Georgia, 2.
Grafpen is told to use all efforts to
hnlSh the work at Seattle in six months
ant Wnen the organization work of n
solid base, with connections, apart
mentS, warehouses and printing sllops
York. N's"
The letter on the Amtorg letterhead
about ~ man and women in New YORK
pelng ma to replace, was sent bv
Gsratpen to an Amtorg representative
tern International"
document dated December I6, 1929.
from the executive committee, Komin-
tern, Moscow, to Dear Comrade SAUL
reads in part:
Use Of Money.
I'm connection with the APPROACHING
economic crisis in the United States. If
is requested that all funds in your pos
session be turned over to Comrade Liza
ior the enforcement of the proletarian
ctAS @AkS AAA40o IbAAt NC CAQenQeO DIV
the american committee of K. p. Ia
branches mostly affected by the crisis
!. e., textile, mining, fur and other in
duStries; and the money should be given
Tor the support Of strikers with the ap-
proval OF the Communistic calls of each
striking group"
Another document is a copy Of an
article in Pravda, Official Communist
newspaper OF Moscow, on Communistic
activities in the United States which
one "polpred" in New York is directed
by Moscow to distribute among workers
and IN the Army and Navy. Whalen
said the author o. the article is VIII
liam z. Foster, who Is now serving a
prison sentence in connection with q
Communist riot in Union Square on un-
employment day last March.
Peter A. Bogdanov, chairman of the
Amtorg Trading Corporation, issued
statement today declaring the letters
alleged to have been written by an ON
cial of the Amtorg Corporation were
forgeries. He referred to such letters
from Commissioner Whalen's exhibit as
were reproduced in afternoon news
papers.
Documents Called Forgeries.
The documents also were called
forgeries by Boris e. Skvirsky, director
of the Soviet information bureau at
Washington.
Skvirsky expressed hope that the
documents would be thoroughly investi-
gated by Federal authorities.
He denied all assertions in the pa
pers that his organization was handling
funds for a Russian secret service in
this country.
described to me-" Skvirsky said, seem
to me to be another link in the chain
Of forgeries concocted by certain czarist
emigres.
zone of these, Druzhelovsky, con-
fessed and was convicted in Moscow
three years ago and members of the
Orion group were caught by the Berlin
police and convicted q year ago. The
purpose of these forgeries Is always the
same-to disrupt Soviet relations with
other countries"
No Direct Evidence.
Department of Labor oficials said
that while they had participated In the
settlement of a number of strikes in
New York and New Jersey of apparent
Communistic sponsorship, the depart
ment had no information Is to these
strikes being inspired directly by ennis
saries of the Soviet government. It
was said that no information of this
kind had been transmitted to Commits
sioner Whalen.
The strikes attributed to Communis-
tic influences IL was said, occurred
mostly last year In the fur, shoe and
textile industries.
Although American Federation of
Labor officials have charged at various
times that strikes In this country were
being fomented directly by representa-
tives Of the Soviet government, it was
said today at the federation that
they had no knowledge of the present
documents produced by Commissioner
Whalen and had taken no part in the
which the commissioner
said had led to uncovering Of the
papers.