| Show REVOLT TO ENDi END i BOLSHEVIST DAY Z j SAY WITNESSES tl fT fTer er J I I IJ vennan Ilan Subcommittee n 1 V Hears Soviet Rule Is Proc Pro- Pro c r I Autocracy tl ii r i 1 t t nJ Dr er c Feb 13 13 Dissatisfaction It the toc of workmen antI and peasants with f J k A prest present t Bolshevist rule ruta In Russia Russi is s almost nIt al- al mot al-mot f most certain to lead to the o overthrow t 11 of oC the government go and establishment c ci cf 3 l a a. ne new and more democratic form of ot j government o according to witnesses the Overman O subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee sub- sub who ho were heard b by I committee today r. r These witnesses described the peas peas- r pants ants and antI worl workmen men as n 1 thoroughly dle- dle r rusted u with the present nt government Go and as ls certain to welcome a a. change and were quoted In de- de 4 of or the characterization C of or tho the Soy Sov- filet let government as ns democratic their t t appellation for tor it being n an autocracy a of ur tho the proletariat l. l f Those who testified were Ralph R Dennis Denil Den- Den il nis o of or Evanston E Ill III Robert 1 F. F Leonard oC of St St. Paul PUl MIr MIrand and II It M M. I Story Story of a o of Urbana v-Urbana Urbana All were Y M M. M C. C A A. work work- of oC Russia up UI to toa Por era ens In various parts a last S September Pe Pennant Peasants lInt UD Unable io to Unite Dennis in his testimony said tho the only I reason wh why tho the peasants pC and workmen Ido do not rise In rebellion against C th the tha Soviets so Is that the they are Ignorant of politics and antI do not know how ho hoto to get set together Ho Ile expressed the belief helleC that j if some strong Influence were set at rework O work ork In Russia either from the outside i for o oz from lh the Intelligent men vho oppose Bolshevist rule a real democracy might 3 bo be formed out of or the existing chaotic elements and Statements Issued b by to the effect that factories are arc Mall Hall running and that industry is tour flour were denied b by tho the lie IIo aid ald Industry tr was at a a. standstill and that the tho peasants were losing all their savings There Is food in abundance hie lIe said Bald but transportation and t bation are practically Impossible DenInis Den Den- Inis r declared that thero there were I j Idly edh persons In tho the llamas Kansas legislature 1 who were helping to spread Bol Bolshevist hc propaganda Ho Ile declared hero Is a no from strong organization reaching ew e York to San Francisco to carr carry carryon on this work n. n Too Ja J s Reds lied Cry CrT H When I left leCt Petro Petrograd ra Dennis said I some ome of or the he ic let leading Bolshevists told time me that In about ten years ears the they vc ro ai j coming over o to America to pull off oct the same show th there re r A mass meeting held In the Coliseum fIn In Chicago at which Victor Ictor Berger and Mothers others spoke was Instanced by Dennis ris n a Bolshevist meeting mealing Leonard told of a similar meeting meeting- hold held two wet weeks s ago Jo In Minneapolis at which Alexander Alexandor Alexan or Gregarious who wh been A d delegate delegato Jo 0 the soviet let congress in New York delIer delivered de de- lI er livered d a tirade a against capital and praised tho the Bol hc Leonard described his Ills experiences In Moscow and told of or his arrest lon on the charge chargo of or being being- a Bolshevik lie He said scores of or persons Including many former Cormer former for for- mer officers of the tho Russian arm army were taken out of or the jail and nd shot hot without trial Throe Three hundred officers In one oner r detachment were shot down he said Former U. U S. S nhi C Tho The presence of or a largo number of or former residents of ot the United States it In the Bolshevist following was Wag dwelt dwell upon by y Dennis He Ile said he found Cound that r the most Implacable and bloodthirsty of all tho the were those who had formerly lived JI In this country One was a the thc at It formerly a New ew York cob cob- bler A denial that the l leading spirits among Unon the Russian she Bo ki wore were iro troth h the tho Jewish section cLlon of or Now Sow Yorks York's 11 East Fast Side was tele telegraphed to Senator I Overman O this morning b by Joseph Shap- Shap len 11 of or Brooklyn who spent some time in Russia Russin as a a. correspondent of ot a ai i news newe association |
