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Wisconsin Has
Programme to
Stem A na re h v
JJ^po't 0< Senate Commit?
tee PI h "* for Improving
Conditions of Workers
\\to Aid for Farmers
\\oi\{\ Hiiiliiini? at Cost of
$50,000,000 is Proposed
to Solve Labor Problem
Special Correspondence
MADISON, Wis., Feb. If,. Senator
Roy P. Wi 'ox yesterday presented to
'the Senate the report of a committee
: nstruct ion legislation
The programme
com? ttec is intended
to count ? rch I and revolution
i.-v propaganda by allaying discontent
and impre ng the conditions of the
working people and farmers.
Bolshevism, according to the report
of thi ttec, is a menace in that
iridie i( i essei tially a revolutionary
movement "its methods are those of
terrorism ' 1*0 obviate the dangers of
the mov? neni the committee suggests
the follow ???.: constructive programme
it ion:
Repn ' of labor on boards
of directoi of industries.
A ba- ? i ' hour day.
A dismissal wage, to enable the
worker to live through the period of
read j u
Equal pay for women.
Exten; i ' th? minimum wage
law ' ?
i real on f a t?te marketing com
missi
!.. tions to provide aid
to farm? i ?' cooperative organizations
by aud ? g and bookkeeping experts.
For Farmers and Producers
\r; ntment of a special assist an1
?Attorney general to investigate un
fair practises and discriminations
igainst farmers and producers by
' ? both within and without the
stati .
Protect on of the interests of the
leman. .
Agri? iltural representation on the
normal, university and cen?
tral boa rd of educal on.
Protection for any person who
?pave- ict with non-co?pera
? r?as, cheesemakers and
' ? bonding of the con?
cern * prevent loss through mis?
management.
(Guarantees by law to employers
and empioye.-, of the right to organize
and bargain collectively.
Authorization of all cities to raise
funds by taxation or bond issues to
proviilc for city planning and suitable
? g ? , ties.
Rehabilitation of victims of indus?
trial accidents by the State Board of
Vocational Education.
Organized labor to be represented
on the educational boards of the
state.
Compulsory industrial courses in
continuation schools during periods
of enforced idleness and non-employ?
ment.
Exter-ion of vocational education
to ?perso?-s front seventeen to eigh?
teen year1! of age.
Appoint i? ' of a committee to
work out a programme for the estab
?ishrr.e: ?. of social insurance.
One day of rest in seven.
Occupational Diseases
: oh of occupational diseases
under the irkmen's compensation
act.
Increased maximum basis of com?
pensation from $2.50 to ?4 a day.
High? - for school teachers.
Medical pection of school chil?
dren.
Sehe r workings boys and
pirh ?? ntii lation schools and
retun ers.
In the non and univer?
sities t : , ! from voca
l be rec ignized.
? foi onstitut ronal
?' ' eral ion I o
?. il v. :. ri are follow the
c ? arly demon
war that labor and
? ' " rly n presented can
?
Th?-; report proposes a $50,000,0001
wad ; - ? maintaining that
highwa . be built as fast as
I tl at " i iconsin should not
-ag bel ois and Minnesota.
"The building of highways will fur
? ?'?'r. a large t eld of employment," says
the report.
It uuggi iti I * ?/ the work be under
the direct on <?' the State Highway
' omrr. : ;
Elkm Asserts 5,000
Jews Killed in War
Exit ne rale the Race
,000 Jews, many of them from !
^ Ea^ o died in the service ?
of this country, are ample refutation
or the . arge sometimes made that
Jews were recalcitrant in the matter
tary service, according to
Abrarn I. Elkus, who ?spoke yesterday at ;
'???'? Young Woman's Hebrew Associa?
tion, 31 We t 110th Street.
Those young raen have made the
? try as well as of the
?Jewish race brighter because of their.
'
was part of the oxer- j
t;K-B ? icteenth annual mect
nif o? th? ;? ociation. Report? were
r*M of the year's work.
Elkua and Mrs. Israel 1,'n
tn*?rg> president of the v. W. II. A.,
'' tbe importance of the Amer
Ion ? the Jcwlah districts,, ?f
'' ' UOtij Street section is one
I .:?;'?
?a.
are ? ??? unaware of tbe cxist
- of unrest, a spirit
? Is not confined to
- to any group," Mr- .
cd ;.'. the cfoae of h?-r
m*?A r,'iv'""- "Thig spirit ia wide
''*rn i''1 ' " r??ul* "f tne
rough which w<;
??? ? than to any funda
'nw change of thought or ideas.
? eling of uncer
? ' ion among our
*"*'"'-?? ? o- but shortlived if
tablish those educa
- ?? . agencies which
''?r youth the ideal? of American
(?t?, | ' '" '?' i'1-'"' "' ,v"' ?'' '?' '"
blishment of
:? ? ' - :.? our if.i.oi at ion
? ?
njl ?' "? '-? Arm rican
/.<? ??ociation io th?
mL?*, ' Knglfnh which i a now
'??i ? ".??', adult*, rnoatly
iff ?? ,,"' ''''?'''< ''?*" *o .-i-'-, -/t-tt.ru
?i??l '''ovation ,?, mad? ft,, their
?/I'tL*'!'1'' ,b*y f",""'i ''"? ''1h???s.
-alan?*? t.fe^iii, ihn wftMinri arc
Men of All Creeds Defend
Jews Attacked by Simons
"Cradle of Radicalism" Charge Refuted; Trotzky
Deridrd by East Siders; Louis Marshall, Hughes,
Smith and Hylan Point to Patriotism Record
Gentiles and .lews hastened yester?
day to the defence of the East Side,
characterized by Dr. George Albert
Simons recently in Washington as the
eradle of Bolshevism.
A statement from Louis3 Marshal,
who sailed for Europe Friday, was
mad?' made public and cordial re?
sponses were received by the "Jew?
ish Morning Journal'' to telegrams
-sent to Governor Smith, Mayor Hylan,
Charles K. Hughes and others.
The Rev. James M. Byrnes, rector
of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church,
in the heart of the Kast Side, defend
ed his Jewish neighbors vigorously.
A list of Jews who happened to he
Bolshevists meant nothing, Mr. Mar?
shall pointed out; it was as valueless
as would he a !i.-t. of Englishmen,
Italians, Baptists or Catholics com
piled from th" prison roster at Sing
Sing. Any suggestion that the East
Side helped finance the Bolshevist
usurpation of power in Russia was "a
ridiculous fabrication," he said. Jew?
ish traditions wedded the Jew? to law,
he declare?!. The statements of Mr.
Marshall and others follow:
LOUIS MARSHALL, New York At
lurnes : "1 do in?; know I'r. Simons, but
the fact that he seems to love the Rus da
o? L907, when Czarism was at its height,
would indicate that his association
with the Jews has been bul limited.
He is ? ntirely correct in one statement,
that the so-called Bolshevist Jews of
Russia are apostates. They are more.
Like all Bolshevists, they bitterly hate
all religion and ail that is compre?
hended in the abhorred word bourge
o i si c.
"Th?? statements made by Dr. Sim?
ons in other respects are inaccurate,
unreliable and unfair. The Jews et'
Russia, as a mass, are the opponents
of Bolshevism, both because they be?
long to the bourgeoisie and because
they cherish their religion. The Bun
liists are an organization of Jewish
workingmen, whom the Bolshevists are
seeking to exterminate. The .lew-; are
also largely represented in the Social
Democratic and the Constitutional
Democratic parties, who are the sworn
lees of Bolshevism.
"When Prince Lvoff, who became the
premier of Russia at th" outbreak of
the revolution in March, lf'17, was here
recently, he- stated that in his opinion
id per cent of Cr:?- .lews of Russia were
anti-Bolshevik, that there were some
men, however, who were born Jews,
like Trotzky, who had become promi?
nent members of the Bolshevik party
and who?-.' sins were seized upon by
tin' anti-Semites for their own illegi?
timate purposes.
"The fact that Dr. Simons may he
able to prepare a list of Jews who are
Bolshevists means nothing. I could go
to Ossining to-morrow and prepare a
list of criminals, who may happen to
be of English, French, Italian or Slav
onik parentage, or-who may belong to
the Episcopalian, Methodist, Baptist or
Catholic churches, and seek to deduce
from such lists conclusions derogatory
to the nationality or to the church to
which they belong, with as much rea?
son as Dr. Simons has to deduce from
his list the conclusion which he is ap?
parently seeking to inculcate.
"There is an intimation that there
are Jewish Bolshevists in this country.
The term 'Bolshevist,' as now used,
means anything or everything to which
the speaker may for the moment be
opposed. I deny tha4t there is on th"
lia:-' Side any considerable number of
those who are opposed to government
and who adhere to or sympathize with
the anarchistic conception ?? of L?nine
and Trotzky. In fact, several of the
leading Socialists who knew Trotzky
when ho was in this country looked
upon him as a lunatic and are unable
to conceive how it was possible for a
man of his character to occupy the sta?
tion that he now does. They deride
him to-day, as they did when he was a
Bronx penny-a-liner.
"Everything that the real Bolshe
vism stand- for is to the Jew de
4 stable. His traditions wed him to
law and order, make of him a legal?
ist. The Bolshevists are th" enemies
of law arid ?idor. The Jew makes 'in1
very centre of his life and his exist?
ence the home and the family. The
Bolshevists decry marriage and eon
temn morality. The Jew is charged
with being thrifty and economical and
with holding in respect the institution
of property. The Bolshevist is seek?
ing the destruction of every concept
of property. The icreat mass of the
Jews are faithful to their ancient re?
ligion, are prepared to help their
brethren in distress. The club of the
Bolshevist knows no brother.
"The innuendo is also thrown out
thai ?he Jews are not patriotic. Let
their record during this war speak for
them.
JACOB H. SCHIFF, Philanthropist
and Banker: "The unwarranted at?
tack of this Dr. Simon, whoever he
may be, and his charge that Jews
from the United States, and. especial?
ly from New York, are undermining
government are libellous.
"I am sure that among the million
reading English instead of foreign
newspaper?.
Other1 branche- of activity reported
upon were war work, social, education?
al, dormitory and religious work and
the employment bureau.
An average of 1,760 persons visited
the building daily during the last year,
many of thern soldiers and sailors, for
whom special rest rooms, and recrea?
tional facilities had been prepared.
Bourgeois Drafted the
U. S. Constitution, Says
Will J. Durant in Forum
The Constitution Of the I'nitef
States was declared by V.'111 J. Durant
to have been the work of a "hour
, geoift" clement of th" *>op'ilation
i "c;treru!lv designed to prevent the ? co
pie from having any real political
power," at the open forum at the Tern
pie of Labor, Second Avenu? am
Fourteenth Street, last night.
'I he speaker drew a parallel belweei
the French Revolution and the present
Russian Revolution, comparing Maral
and Robespierre to Trotzky and Lenin;
aid Mirabf'iiu to Kcrcnsky. lie de
clared that, when tie- political centn
ol the stati' and tin- economic eentn
became too rar removed revolution ??
; ?ll '? I i, r<??'!! It,
"Can the political and economic ccn
Ire? be brought back together without
revolution?" he was asked at the con
Ion if his addr?BB.
"Under a nyt?tem .by which all th<
?delegate? to the governing bod-, an
elected by economic group? cognizant
of their powei the situation can b?
iem< died," I"4 replied, "but nol undei
....? like thai now prevailing li
Ihn United State?, unie?? the men at >h?
top ??come frightened and Kraut. ie
forms, voluntan ii'. ?"
"Ho you think the Brill h Laboi
, party h sa b?d a r?*l influan?fl h bring
fng ?boot reform* In England?" wai
] another quo-tlon,
1 ?'?, Arthur Hfnd?f on. the .??der o.
and a quarter .lews in N>w York
whether living bn the Past, Side West
: ide, uptown or downtown, the charge
is most bitterly resented I am also sure
that .lews anywhere and everywhere
are among the stanchest supporters
of( conservative government.
"What if there are a few black
sheep among us? The percentage is
smaller, even including conscientious
objectors, than is true among any other
section of the community. In every
citation that has com?' from (?"lierai
Pershing of nun who lave won im?
perishable honor on the held of battle
appears to be Jewish names. Our .lew
ish boys have gone willingly and glad?
ly to fight and-die in the great cause
of t he Republic and ou r Jewis h cil i
zens, no matter from what land Ihey
have come, are good Americans and can
stand up and be counted with our
native born. The slanders of such
men as Dr, Simon will fail of their
own exaggeration and falsity."
THE REV. JAMES M. BYRNES.
Rector ol St. Mary's Church, Grand and
Ridge Streets: "As a Catholic clergy.
man, rector of an East Sid ? church, I
wish to state that it is a shame and
an outrage to have to read so often
the uncalled for remarks in regard
to the Jewish people living on the East
Si?i". \ s a rule, I rim cert?.in that the
< e'- who make th? -??? assei lions are
highbrows, red scarcely know, or
rat her ne\ n I n ?? b i n on, t he East
Side, It sec' to be- the proper thing,
in t hen- o.? ; ' ion, to condemn the
Jewish people II a murder or robbery !
is ci mmitted in Oskosh, Skaneateles or
some outlying town, immediately those
holier-than-tnou people cry out, 'It .
was done by a Jewish East Side thug.'
"Living as I ?h. on the bias; Side and
among the Jewish people, I have found
them, as a rule, moral, honest and
patriotic During the drive one year
ago to raise money for the war fund.
my church was taxed $6,000, We
called a meeting in our church hall
ami raised $7,750. Of that amount
the Jewish people gave to my church
$4,775.
"That they are. unfortunately, some
who are a disgrace to their race we
will admit, but why condemn all on
account of the few? The same can h?
said of other localities in tins greal
cosmopolitan city of Mew York. We
have. 1 am sorry to have to say, some
fakirs wb?? by their remarks on plat
\ form and streit corners are causing
great harm to our East Side, and the
sooner a law is i.assed forbidding their
seditious talk the les we will hear
of the poor Jewish people of the East
Side.
"Did the Jewish boys of the East
; Side ?o 'over there' in hundreds?
I Did tlu' Jewish fathers and mothers
of the East Side buy Liberty bonds?
! We are proud to say they did, and
! were glad and happy to' do so.
"As a Catholic clergyman, 1 say, do
r.ot believe everything you hear about
the Jewish people on the East Sieh.
lor most of what you hear and read
about them arc damnable lies."
ALFRED E. SMITH, Governor of New
York: "The man or men who doubt
? tir?- loyalty, patriotism or devotion to
our cause of the Jewish people of tbe
East Side speak without knowledge. In
every way they have done their full
part. It is not necessary to say this,
as it is well known. Uninformed peo?
ple may attempt to delude the public,
; perhaps not wilfully, but. surely with
? out knowledge of the facts."
CHARLES E. HUGHES, ex-Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United
States: "1 greatly regret the broadest
aspersions which put in an unfavorable
light the -lews of the East Side. The
record of savings bank deposits dis?
closes their thrift, and their patriotism
is attested by the boys who went to
the front from the East Side, forming
such a large proportion of the divi?
sion from New York. They performed
splendid service for their country and
neither they nor the district from
which they came should be put under
a ban by wholesale or indiscriminate
charges of denunciation. Justice must
begin at home, and while we must con?
demn all those who are seeking the
doctrine of disorder and anarchy, we
must al the same time pay just tribute
to the hosts of our fellow citizens on
the East Side who love their country
and respect its institutions."
JOHN F. HYLAN, Mayor of New York:
"The Rev. Simons's testimony before
the Senate committee in Washington on
February 1t!, placing the great mass of
law-abiding and America-loving Jews of
the East Side in the City of New York
I in a most unfavorable light is most re
j grettable and discouraging. The East
? Side Jews oversubscribed their Liberty
: Loan allotments and freely gave their
'sons to the war and did their part
nobly well in the great, world war. The
Jews of New York liberally subscribed
to every activity which had for its pur
1 pose the successful conclusion of the
war."
FRANCIS M. HUGO, Secretary of
Stale in New York: "The great mass of
East Side Jews are law-abiding and pa?
triotic Americans. Their subscriptions
to th?1 Liberty Loans were, most com?
mendable. Their sons formed a large
part of the famous Metropolitan Divi?
sion, which served abroad with the
greatest gallantry."
the British Labor party, has daily moved
more and more in the direction of Mr.
Samuel Gompers," was the answer,
"and has stood still while his parly
was moving ahead. An indication of
this is found in the fact that his von
stituentS refused to reeled him."
At this point he was asked if, as a
matter of fact, the defeat of Henderson
in the recent elections was not due to
the fact that he was regarded as a
pacifiBt?
"I stick to my guns," he replied.
"More than half the people of England
who had enrolled as voters did not
vote. You may say that they did not
vote because they were busy, but I say
? v did not vote because they were
' sick and fired of the property system.
Most of those who formerly voted for
Henderson stayed al home because they
considered him 'wishy-washy' in his
' i policies."
I "Is it not. true that political power
always represents economic power'.'" he
I ! was aski ?1.
"I do not believe il." he answered.
' "Economic power ir constantly chang
ing, while political power has a way of
? , lingering behind economic development.
i The chief function of a governmenl if
to remain the government. Those m
t whom political power is placed arc
more concerned in retaining thai powci
'than they an- in keeping Up with the
progress of economic power, ami it ?8
t for this very reason thai the two bi?
corne separated nnd the danger of rev
| ohition is brought about."
j Prospects T?m Strong
The Prospect, E. c. soccer loam
- proved too much for the Macomb's
i A. C. eleven in the New York Combi
? nation League match nt Tuft's Oval
m Brooklyn, yesterday, nnd won out
by the scon- of :\ goals to I. MeGIn
r nls of the Prospects ?hoi both of the
? goal? III th.- Ins! half, while Noil of
Macomb's and Smollcn ?>f |,ho I'm.
peels shared the honors in the second
ili>ej:.i"d._
BoSsheviki
Feed Lies to
Schoolboys
t'onllminl from page 1
ar they are. It. was not. for'the Amer?
ican workingman of to-day that Dr.
Campbell feared, it was for the man
of to-morrow, who was the schoolboy
to-day.
This bonis, the speaker said, bore the
imprint, of the Socialist Publication
Society, 4'U Pulaski Street, Brooklyn.
1' circulates at Socialist meetings on
the East Side.
Says Boys Like Big Word?,
Socialists of the Cast Side and of
the West . ?de roll such words as
"proletariat," "plutocrat" and "bour?
geoisie" nimbly from their tongues.
FC.it such words are a real treat to a
schoolboj who, by their mastery, feels
he has achieved something his fellows '
have no!.
It is !'i" lure of such awesome words
and o\' the new thoughts which they
int reduce into the children's minds
?Inch Dr. Campbell and his fellow
teachers have to offset.
I o have a l'"\ who apparently has
been engrossed in "'The Lady ?)r the
Lake" or "Jvanhoe" wind up an Eng?
lish lesson with a query based on the
assumption that Russia is the only
nation whose people are free is some?
thing of a shock. Dr. Campbell ad?
mitted.
The excerpts from the pamphlets
which he read 'showed that the impres?
sion r hie minds o\' the children were
absorbing nol only the jargon of the
rad 'ais bul were being fed with bohl
misstatcment? of fact. It has never
been a pari ri' the publie school cur
riculum t" instruct pupils that mill?
ionaires arc tint necessarily brutal;
to pi rsuade them that America is not
a land filled with starving, desperate
men and women from whom the unholy
rich extort still more money; to con- i
vince them that no date has yet been
set for the revolution.
Labor Protests Closing
Of Halls to Socialists
if Police Discretion
By unanimous vote, labor, through
the ('entrai Federated Union, yester?
day adopted resolutions protesting
against Mi" closing of meeting halls to
any organization or political party at
the discretion of the Police Depart?
ment. Copies of the "resolutions we're
forwarded to Mayor Hylan, Police
Commissioner Enright and to the
Board of Aldermen.
Taken at the instance of the Social?
ist party, this action. Secretary Ernest,
B?hm explained, is a protective step
??n iho part of the Central Union.
Since the present Police Commissioner
decided to put up the bars against
tin .n. lie said, tlie Socialists have been
practically powerless to hold meetings
of anv size or consequence. If this
precedent can be successfully estab?
lished against th" Socialist party here,
workers generally, Mr. B?hm declared.
f.rl Cat ;h" next move may be to ap
plj it to the recently formed American
Labor parly. Tins contingency, he
said, th" (entrai Federated Union,
which fathered the American Labor
party in this city, is anxious to avert
before it comes to a definite issue.
At yesterday's meeting of the union
a letter was read from Julius Gerber,
secretary of the Socialist party in
this city, asking support in the Social?
ists' present crusade to have the halls
opened up to them again.
In th-' resolutions subsequently
adopted, the action of the Police De?
partment in the case o? the Socialists
was referred to as ''unconstitutional
and illegal." Demand was made that
"the Police Commissioner immediately
inform all owners of halls that the So-,
ciali t. party has the same right to
semble und meet in this city as any
other party, and that such owners are'
in no way endangered by allowing such j
meetings on the premises."
Immediate passage of legislation to
"prevent the Police Commissioner
from dictating who shall and who shall
not enjoy the rights of American cit?
izens" was also called for by the Con?
trai Federated Union,
I . S. Official Believes
All Danger of Radical
Outbreaks Is Removal
Henry J. Skeffington, Commissioner
of Immigration for the New England
States, with headquarters at Boston,
stated to a representative of The Trib?
une yesterday that in his belief the
dangerous Bolshevik and anarchistic
outbreaks in this country have been
crushed for all time.
All the leaders and teachers of the
extremely radical elements, he declared,
are now in the custody of government
! authorities, a large proportion of them
awaiting deportation. He admitted hav?
ing arrested fifty of the most danger
: ous anarchists within the last six
, months.
Their attorney in Boston, he assert?
ed, frankly told him that he was going
to carry their cases to the Supreme
Court of the United States in an effort
to keep them in this country for at
least another five years, but Sir. Skef?
fington announced with emphasis that
they are going back, and very soon.
"From my knowledge of the clean
sweep that has been made' of these
wild elements that, have attempted to
' arouse our population," lie said, "you
can say there need be no fear of any
alarming spread of their progeny in
this country. Wo have captured their
chiefs, and their schools have been
virtually viped out. We have got Gal
ieaiii, the father of fhom all, whom we
arrested in Lynn, Mass., itnd who is
now out on $10,000 bail.
"Do you know that the United States
immigration -.-.ni\ Department of Justice
i fficials have swept in about 7,(100 per?
sons, dangerous and semi-dangerous,
since the outbreak of the war? A large
number of these are violent extremists
and would have been shot out of the
country long ago except for the lack
: of shipping facilities and reasons hing?
ing on wartime conditions.
"A large number of thc<-e people
pose as martyrs and go about the de?
tention pens in Eastern ports, and i if
they happen to be out, on bail) the
streets of cities with a chip on their
shoulders. Many of their cases will
come up this morning in the Boston
.ni . and their attorney tells me that
he '.?.ill carry them along to the Su
preme Court, and so make an effort to
keep them here I've years longer. But
they are lioing, and going soon.4'
Trouble With Madame Nix
Commissioner Skeffington. who came
to New York at the behest of the De?
partment ?f Labor to mediate the
'rouble between employers and em?
ployes in the building trades, then re?
marked upon the difficulties he is hav
?nif with Madame Charlotte Nix.
Mme, Nix, who i. the wife of a Cer?
n?an intelligence officer, was the brains
of a Gcrmaj? spy ring rounded up in
\'ew York City lasl April. She had
),,. .... (?etuinod for deportation to Italy
for u long time at Kills Island, but for
nom? reason the officials here saw til
to transfer her recentlv to Boston
under the wing of Commissioner Skef
flngton.
nissioner, "she became so troublesome
:o tee that I ha'-e made application
;o have her sent back to Ellis Island,
ind back she is coming in a few days.
"As -oon as she arrived at my head?
quarters she demanded a private rooi
"or herself and her fourteen-year-old
on. I told her we didn't have r.nj
irivate rooms there, and that she
vould have to occupy a pen with other!
prisoners marked for deportation.
"When she saw the strange Catherine
if prisoners in the dining room she re-'
narked. 'Must I si* down with these
icople ?' I said, 'yes.' "
Skips Only Three Meals
"T will rather starve,' " she replied,
ind rushed back to the detention room.
"I informed her that, no meals would
ie served to her by any attendant
vorking under me. and that if she
canted things to eat, she would have
o send her boy for them to the table :
it the regular time. She missed the
:rst three meals, and then her boy
?ame to the table at meal times for
"oofl.
"She always ?ants this or that ami
s a general pest. I simply can't stand
his so-called member of a noble fam
ly in Prussia, and I have asked for,
ransfer. I believe she. will be shortly
?cnt across with others of her kind."
Simons Asserts Only
Infidel Jews Here
Are "Red" Supporters
The Kev. George A. Simon?, former
lead of the Methodist Episcopal mi<=
lion in Russia, who, before the Over
nan propaganda investigating commit-1
ce in Washington last Wednesday,
er.tilie?! that the East Side in New
i'ork was a breeding place for Russian
Bolshevism, repeated his assertions ?n
i new form last night.
Speaking at St. James'-; Moth
xi is t Episcopal Church, 126th St ret
ind Madison Avenue, he ?iescribed
tosher restaurants as meeting places
if red tlag propagandists. About one- I
hird of the ",000 persons who heard;
iim were Jews. Many of them, after
us address, gathered around Dr, ?
Simons and began to ply him with I
juestions.
"What do you mean by saying that
the kosher restaurants are places,
where Jews meet to talk favorably
of the r?'d flag?" asked one.
Blames "Infidel Jews"
"I mean to say that only the un?
orthodox- Jews favor Bolshevism. The
orthodox Jews don't," replied Dr.
Simons.
"Hul only Ihe orthodox Jews patro?
nize the kosher restaurants," said an?
other.
"No: many infidel Jews go tlvro. It
is the infidel Jews who sympathize with
Bolshevism. We have had investiga?
tors out, an?', they have reported tc us
what goes on in these Kosher restau
rants. There is a lot of red ting talk
there."
A reporter ?"or The Tribune asked Dr.
Simons whether he said before the
Overman committee that the East Side
war- "the erad!" of Bolshevism."
"Thai was in the headlines of the
newspapers," he replied. "I said some
of th'1 Bolshevik leaders had come from
the East Side- some L'liO of them, I
think."
"But did you not say, in effect, that
Bolshevism was bred on the East Side?"
Does Not Recall Saying It
"I said so many things that day
I was on the stand so long I don't
remember saying just that."
Dr. Simons, in his lecture, attacked
the Land School of Social Science, 7
East Fifteenth Street, and denounced
a pamphlet published by the school and
written by Arthur Rhys Williams.
Shaking his clenched lists at his
auditors and walking dramatically
across the pulpit platform, Dr. Simons
exclaimed: "I am not what is called a
militant minister, but if any one ever
flaunts the red flag before me I will
tak.i advantage of the opportunity. If
1 ever hear any one talk the red tlag
in this country I will not lose any time
in getting the authorities after him.
There ought not to be a ?dace in New
York?in The Bronx, Greenwich Vil?
lage or the East Side -where, by talk?
ing the red flag, men talk in disrespect
of the Stars and Stripes."
The speaker said the I. W. W. is
using songs "to fan discontent." "We
don't want such songs," he said. "I'd
like to take the Bolshevik sympathizers
in this country and send them in the
steerage to Russia, so that they could
learn the horrors of Bolshevism. It is
hell let loose on earth. It is a snake
whose head is in Germany and whose
rattlers are in Russia, and it. is trying
to rattle here, too. I say we ought to
kill the rattle as well as the head.
Williams says the Bolshevik i are
giving religion the same freedom as
In America. Don't you believe it. He
says they have separated the church
from the state. Don't you believe it.
It would have been true if he had said
Sermon to Bolsheviki
Heard by Bomb Squad
1
;K;I1T HUNDRED ra - h ionably
attired women and mon and
nine detectives of the bomb squad
gathered last night in the Madison
Avenue Baptist Church in re?
sponse to Dr. ("narles A. Eaton's
cordial invitation to Bolsheviki to
come and hear some truths about
themselves. Members of the audi?
ence stared suspiciously at one an?
other an?i many glances centred
upon a man who snored in radical
tones.
"Are you a Bolshevik?" demand?
ed one of his neighbors at last,
shaking him into semi-conscious?
ness.
"Naw," was the response; "I'm
not a Baptist. I was never in a
Baptist church in my life before."
fie turned out to be one of the
bomb squad.
all religions are put under the same t
iron heel. The Bolsheviki hold up
Jesus as the greatest imposter of his
tory. They hold mo the Christian
church as the greatest enemy of t!;?1
proletariat. They are preparing a
catechism of atheism. Perhaps Boi
shevism is the anti-Christ. And I '
say to my Jewish friends that this is I
a Christian republic. You can put
your shoulders together and work with ,
us, but this is a Christ ian republic,
and ( ii rist ?an .1, will ? cmain.''
Mme.Breshkovsky Assails
i
Bolsheviki in Forum, and <
Excited D?bales Foliote \
After Catherine Breshkovsky,"grand- ?
mother of the Russian Revolution,"
had declared that the Bolsheviki were '
traitors who had sold their country
and had made an appeal Tor aid to '
educate the people of Russia, the Pub?
lic Forum of the Church of the Aseen- .
si'.i'i. Tenth Street and Fifth Avenue, ,
was turned into a Bolsheviki meeting
last night. ,
Speakers who derided American lib- ,
erty and institutions and demanded the
withdrawal of every American sol?
dier from Russian soil, were cheered
and applauded wildly and those who .
attacked Bolshevist doctrines were
h irse d and booed.
Th?- church, crowded to the doors,
was closed long before the time for
the meeting to open and at least 500
persons stood outside for hours, eager
ly squeezing in as those in the au?
dience straggled oui. Long after the
church was emptied, groups hung
about the entrance voicing their opin?
ions excitedly while a sergeant of po
lice and a couple of patrolmen strolled
among them.
Mme. Breshkovsky declared education
was the solution of Russia's problem.
After outlining the causes which led to
the revolution, she said:
"For years the peasants, soldiers and
prisoners have been uneducated men
who never were allowed to know or
take part in government yet they are
religious, honest and good hearted. Tbe
Ru><*an peopie were divided into two
camps tri?se who were without knowl?
edge of what was going on and were
unable to work out their ideas, and
those who selfishly refused to permit
them to share education. These selfish
people are those who suffered in the
revolution.
"Criminals tried to check the revolu?
tion and make profit of our beautiful
struggle to create a new Russia and
have a happy remedy. Here you have
education. It is necessary for you to
show tokens of friendship to Russia.
That is the only way to gain the con?
fidence of the Russian people. They,
?who have been deceived so often, must
be shown there are good people in the
; world. Education, friendship and aid
j are necessary to clean up Russia and
| check the traitors who are trying to
overthrow our good beginnings.
"Aid us. In future we can aid our
! selves and can repay, but these are
very hard days, and if none aid us for
many years there will be struggle,
bloodshed and woo in Russia."
Mme. Breshkovsky announced she
could not answer questions which in?
volved political differences of opinion.
but when asked, "Are the Bolsheviki
traitors?" she replied: "Any man who
sells his country i-< a traitor. They
sold Russia to Germany. They perse?
cuted me because I was against Ger?
many and because I thought Bolshe?
vism would hurt Russia." Asked if
! L?nine and Trotsky took money from ;
Germany, she replied that it was a fact
v.-1 in Russia.
Her denunciation of the Bolsheviki
vas received quietly, but when she had
eft 4%-' church speakers swarmed to
he plat
4 \ .. clan d there was no
: 1 ; - attacl th? e who now w ere
? > ' ??: ir.g ' ? in Russia. "If
hey are wi ??:..." ' ? said, "thi y '?? ill
'ade. If they are right ir would be a
riganti to r.terfere w
)avid 1!. Kaufman declared ignorance
vas being implanted in American stu
lents by American capitalists. "What.
'reedom ; ':' re in this country"" he
iputterc-d. "Why do you stay"'' a
vornan asked. "What about the way
hey have treated the !. W. W. here*?"
to continued. "How about Debs? All
? ou have to lose is your chains."
George Bintzer said. "The Bolsheviki
ue the emancipators of the human
"ace. If Lincoln were here he would
ake every American soldier oi,4. of
?tussia." He said he loved America, but
vanted America to give him what was
toming to him. "It's a good thing for
.?ou America don't," shouted a man in
he gallery.
J. II. Lane, who attacked the Bolshe
iki as a menace to the world and dc
lar d the settlement of the land que
ion would solve the Russian prol
l'as booed and hissed.
Former Govi mor William Super and
?eorge Gordon Battle paid tributes to
he work of Mm.'. Breskovsky, but ?lid
lot touch (?n the Bolshevik problem.
'Kaiser a Cood One." Says
Speaker at Radical Forum
Bernhardi, Emma Goldman, Federal
udge Julius M. Mayer, Eugene V.
)ebs, Scott Wearing and Catherine
ireshkov.sk v. v. ere discussed at a
'oruni on "The Kaiser-made Soul,"
leid yesterday in the Williamsburg
(ibrary Assembly Hall, under the
luspices of the Brooklyn Philosoph!
al Association.
Harry Weinberger, a fermer presi?
dent of the associa*ion, was the prin
ipal speaker. All people, he said, who
et any government influence their
houghts, have Kaiser-made souls.
)ebs, Goldman and Nearing were
?ited as examples of "souls untraiu
nelled."
"This Christian government," said
he speaker, "may send Scott Nearing
o jail if twelve jurymen decide he
s guilty. And the judge may sell?
enco him to twenty years,"
The meeting was thrown open I ?>
-?n m ?nute speeches when Mr. Wein
icrger's ,.ddr -.s was concluded. One
peaker declared that Catherine Bresh
?ovsky's judgmert had been dimmed
iy age, or she would not condemn the
bolsheviki. Another declared that
Weinberger and the other speakers
?vero examples of why radicalism is
-et arded.
'"Bernhardi was correct," the and?
onee was tob!. ''Might, is right. The
Kaiser was a good Kaiser. The Con?
gressman and other officials are good
conservatives. The radicals must
iuit liii- idle talking and do some
Lhinj?. People don't go to jail for b -
ing wrong: they go to jail for being
?veak, the only crime. Wc must grow
strong."
A third speaker (Iceland that there
were plenty of ways in which the
government of the United States could
be modified by peaceful means. Con?
servatives were needed in a country,
he said, as well as radicals. He was
the only speaker unapplauded.
liourk White Advocates
"League of Free Cities"
A world league of free cities, in?
stead o? nations, as the panacea for
social evils, was advocated last night
by Bouck White, in a speech before
members of the Ferrer Modern School,
at Pythian Hall. 1941 Madison Avenue.
Mr. White was asked many questions
bearing on the social revolution, the
league of nations and internationalism.
He said: "There is no use of radicals
doing anything in violation of law and
order; there are three storms about to
break which will disrupt the present
scheme of things in the United State?4."
The first o ' these, Mr. White said.
will be the result of the prohibition
amendment; the second, the conflict
between President Wilson and the "re?
actionaries," and the third, between
capital and labor. "The greatest of
these storms started when President
Wilson lined himself up with "inter?
nationalism." the speaker said, "for
President Wilson will go down in his?
tory with L?nine and Trotzkv as one ol
the three men who brought about in?
ternationalism. President Wilson is
an anti-nationalist. IL? will make it
mighty unpopular in this, country foi
? ? ? '.'? to praise the Stars and Stripe:
; nd rave about Old Glory."
"Would you have the Jews stay ii
tin-; country for the social revolutioi
instead of going back to Zion?" Mr
White was asked.
"The Jews are instinctive interna
t.ionalists. I would have them remain
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