This is illustrated by many of the letters which came into the possession of this Committee through execution of the search warrant upon the Russian Soviet Bureau on June 12, 1919. The correspondence with one Charles Samolar, of Cleveland, may be taken as typical. We, therefore, reproduce these letters in full:

"SANTERI NUORTEVA:

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"MARCH 7, 1919.

"DEAR COMRADE: We understand the Scheidemann local here has arranged a meeting for you in Cleveland for March 28th. In the name of the Left Wing, we want you to cancel meeting and we will arrange meeting for you.

The E. S. S. P. Com. is the Soviet of ten Bolshevik organizations in Cleveland, and since the local is doing their damnedest to sabotage our John Reed meeting, we want to sabotage them as far as you are concerned. They have asked him to cancel same, explaining that we are anarchists, etc. You understand their dirty game. We are demanding Reed to stick to his agreement and if he don't stick with us we will of course have our own speaker.

The integrity of the Reds is concerned in this matter, for if they succeed in getting Reed away from us, they will have won a victory. We must balk them, and not only that, we must take you away from them.

They got Fraina here for three meetings and he was sabotaged by those who ran the meeting. They'll do the same to you. You must therefore cancel their meeting. E. S. S. P. COM.

"(Signed)

"CHAS. SAMOLAR, Sec'y.

"Special request for concurrence in above from:

"N. SHAFFER, S. No. 3, Y. P. S. L.

"KITCHIN, President, International Workers Council. "BILL DEMSON, Twelfth Ward Branch.

"BERNARD TAMARKIN, Proletarian University.

"PAUL POSCHENKO, Russian Branch.

"TONY TRUPPO, I. W. W.

"KARATH, Lettish Branch.

CASPAR, Lithuanian Y. P. S. L.

"P. S.- Address your answer to Chas. Samolar, 2200 E. 97th, Cleveland, O. Yours in haste."

"MARCH 12, 1919.

"Mr. CHARLES SAMOLAR, 2200 East 97th Street, Cleveland, Ohio:

"DEAR COMRADE SAMOLAR:-I have your letter of March 7th in which you say that you want me to cancel the meeting which Local Cleveland has arranged for me on March 24th. You state as a reason for this strange request that you want to 'sabotage the Scheidemann Local' because they have been sabotaging some of your meetings. Now, dear comrade, the arrangement for the meeting has been agreed upon by me and Comrade Ruthenberg. I have known Comrade Ruthenberg for years and I know he is a radical Socialist who certainly cannot have anything in common with 'Scheidemann's people.'

"As to the alleged sabotage perpetrated against you and as to your desire to retaliate by sabotage on your part, I do not think it is fair to ask me to be a party to your house quarrels, which I know nothing about and I think it is very unfair on your part to make such squabbles a hindrance to Socialist propaganda work.

"I am interested in presenting the case of the Russian Soviets and in nothing else. I must therefore decline to heed your request. If you would on some other date which we could agree on, arrange a meeting for the same purpose for which the meeting of March 24th is arranged, I shall be glad to speak there and I suggest that we should agree on some date when I come to Cleveland.

"Fraternally yours."

It is evident from this correspondence that serious difficulties had arisen in Socialist circles in Cleveland, and Mr. Nuorteva's attitude on such questions is plainly shown where he says: "I think it very unfair on your part to make such squabbles a hindrance to Socialist propaganda work."

With the fall of the revolutionary regime in Finland, Mr. Nuorteva began to turn his attention to propaganda for the Russian Soviet regime. According to his testimony, after consultation with Mr. Gregory Weinstein, at that time editor of the "Novy Mir," the official organ of the Russian Socialist Federation, he determined to open a Russian Information Bureau, to be operated in conjunction with his Finnish Bureau.

In his testimony before the Committee (p. 1538) Mr. Nuorteva said: "I gave out typewritten statements throughout the existence of the Bureau, and about February of this year (1919) I think I began to issue a printed bulletin." In answer to the question, what were the sources of his information, Mr. Nuorteva said: "Newspaper reports of Russian newspapers; reports of the activities of the Russian Soviet government, which reached me from time to time; verbal reports of people who had come from Russia; my deductions based on my knowledge of the situation in Russia in January, and news I received from time to time."

His typewritten bulletin, he said, was sent to a selected list of three or four hundred persons, while his printed bulletin was distributed widely throughout the United States. The propaganda thus disseminated has unquestionably had a marked effect, and in large measure made it possible for the Soviet regime to open the Russian Soviet Bureau in New York City in April, 1919. In the meantime all the agencies of radical revolutionary organizations had been engaged in spreading revolutionary doctrines, praising the Soviet regime, and utilizing the policy of the Allied governments and the United States toward Russia as a means for stirring up hatred of government institutions in general.

One of the fruits of this propaganda was to bring together various radical and revolutionary organizations, which had previously been antagonistic to one another, in the common purpose of aiding the Russian revolutionaries and in spreading the spirit of revolt in the United States.

This may best be illustrated by a series of cables which, being intercepted, have come into the hands of the Committee. They show anarchist, Socialists and intellectuals vieing with one another in the expression of solidarity with the Russian regime.

The attitude of the Russian Socialist Federation of this country toward the Russian Bolsheviki is evidenced by a cable which was sent from New York on March 2, 1918, addressed to the Council of People's Commissaires, Smolny Institute, Petrograd, signed by Novy Mir, A. Menshoy, as follows:

"You have our unqualified faith and support. The whole colony is with you. Are ready to organize Red Guard for Russia. Americans will help."

In a cable addressed on the 28th of February, 1918, to Boris Reinstein. Commissaire of International Propaganda, Russian