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Show EXTOLS IMS' OF BOpiSI Leader of Red Group in America Praises Rule in Russia. Says Compatriots in America Amer-ica Would Welcome the Chance to Go Back. Ry Lniver:;il Service. NKW YOKK, M;ir.:h 11. "There re in Anirrii'ii "iHO.UdO lini-siuns, mostly unskilli'it workers, who arc nnxioun to ( hack to thfiir native country. They know that, linger soviet ruin, they will rive an opportunity to cultivate the land ami lend a life of happiness not piiaratitreil by ftny otiier frovernnient under the sun. ' ' This desc-ription of liis countrymen's 'anxiety" to return to Kussiu waa jmvpii today by Alexander Iirailovski, said to he the leader of the Leninc-Trnt.kv Leninc-Trnt.kv f,'rou) in the. United States, lie is a little man of mild appearance, who is very earnest in his manner. "It' is not necessary to deport T!ns-sinus T!ns-sinus from America,'1 said he. "They onlv hc that opportunity he fjivun them to return home. The mystery of American politics is not open to me, tint I cannot understand why we are always placarded in the press as 'bloodthirsty 'blood-thirsty revolutioni.-t s, 1 oaner to overthrow over-throw American insl it utions. " I'ircumstnnces, not party principles, will determine this. A revolution, if it ever conies to America, will.be caused bv internal forces, not by any attempt hy outsiders to preach their doctrines here." Itolshevism lias secured n. firm foot- iiold rijjlit in New York an J in. many I otb(T cities of the United States, accord- I nj to an article published here today. The Ho.:!ievirn brought by propaganda propa-ganda to America, including Canada, is not of tin; parlor variety. It teaches ami preaches terrorism, violence, revo-I revo-I nt ion, the overthrow of all established j government, and that property and in- ' dustry must be given to the proletariat I through the simple process of wresting ' it from present owners. ' I n many states it is reported there are coteries of active workers Cor the red flag, while others are contributing money and services to the movement. Work Hand in Glove. Working hand in glove with the I. W. W. and the anarchists, the Bolshevists Bolshe-vists have established groups or Soviets in several parts of this city and in New . Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, Connecticut, Khode Island, Michigan, 1 ndiana, Ohio and Illinois. The last four states are said to be hotbeds hot-beds of Ilolshevik activities, especially Detroit, which has the largest group in America, and is regarded as the stronghold strong-hold in this country for the movement whose strings are pulled from Russia. Evidence that the three anti-government organ i zati on s work together was furnished when the two unarrected organizations or-ganizations hurried to raise funds to defend members of the third, each organization or-ganization benefiting in its turn. It is known that this plan was carried out in this city, Seattle and Akron, Ohio. Before Kerensky's Fall. The movement is said to have been started here before the overthrow of Keren sky in Russia. Russian consuls lent themselves readily enough to the scheme, it was said, because ''commissioners" ''commis-sioners" misrepresented to them that the men and money needed were to support sup-port Kerensky. A large number of men were sent from here, to Russia, their passage being paid and " expense " money being given them. Since early in 1918 the Bolsheviki in the -Uuited States have felt strong enough to hold two conventions, both in this city. Their secret slogan is said to be "down with the damnable trinity trin-ity religion, government, capitalism. ' ' Recently one of the agitators, addressing address-ing a gathering of wage-earners, said: ' ' lverv wage skive should carry a pistol in his pocket and have a rifle and ammunition at home yes, and a red flag, too. That rug (pointing his finger at an A merican flag) is a symbol of slavery. ' ' Perhaps he would have said more along the same line, but a wage-earner, who held high regard for the American flag, at that juncture planted his fist, with plenty of force behind it, squarely in the orator's mouth, and he became -,iieflv interested in spitting out teeth, lie had mistaken his audience. |