THE COMMUNISTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 January 1926, Page 5

THE COMMUNISTS

PROPAGANDA IN UNITED STATES

IN SOVIET DOCTRINES

EDUCATING THE WORKERS''

lily ISlcotrta Tplecra.pri.-~Copyright.) Australian * N./.. Cable A»«oelai.l<m.l

NEW YORK. dan. IS,

John Slachel. Secretary of the Communism party in America stated thai Communists spent almost a million dollars last year on propaganra, the aim of which is' Ibe eventual establishment ■ I ;t Soviet- government ill the United States. The money was raised by pub lie meetings and "private subscriptions, and is being used to educate workers in Soviet doctrines. Thev spent 700.000 dnillars in 1925 with the object of destroying the American form of government. The patriotic organisation with which he and Hooker was connected had (lillicully iu raising 70.000 dollars for patriotic' purposes. Stachcl said Hooker's figures of 700,000 was an under statement.

PROSECUTIONS AT CAIRO

CAIRO, Jan. 19

Of eighteen Communists arrested in .lune following on police observation of their activities, three—Weiss, Polak and Anton—were sentenced to three years imprisonment, four others to imprisonment varying from a year to six months and the balance, including the woman Rosenthal, were acquitted. 'J he case was heard in camera. It is alleged ihut Weiss*s real name is Kossoy. anil that be received instructions from Moscow. He had been active in Palestine and Egvpt. A letter from Moscow, intercepted, complained of the little headway ho was making among the Fellaheen (peasantry)