MOSCOW ORDERS AGITATION IN U.S. TO BE CONTINUED

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From the Chicago Tribune
MOSCOW ORDER;
AGITATION IN U, S
TO BE CONTINUE!
Agents Are Instructed tc
Go "Underground."
BY DONALD DAY.
[Chicago Tribune Pre.. Service.]
RIGA, Latvia, Nov. 29.-Evidenc.
of an important change in the tactia
of the third communist International,
as a result of agreements achieved b!
President Roosevelt and Maxim Lit
vinov, soviet commissar of foreigi
affairs, is contained in the latest issue
of the Kommuniatiecheski Interne
tional arriving in Riga today.
This official publication of the Krem
lin's organization to promote work
revolution does not mention the mu
tual promises made by Litvinov anc
President Roosevelt concerning the
prohibition of propaganda, but 11
categorically orders the comintern't
agents in the United States Immedi?
ately to get underground and continue
their agitation for class warfare with
redoubled vigor.
Text of Instructions.
The American communists must
organize groups of professional revol-
utionists," the organ says. " These
men must be highly qualified agita.
tors and propagandists, whose pri-
mary occupation is to further the
Comintern's subversive work in Ameri.
ca. They must be organized along
lines successfully utilized by the bol-
sheviks under the czarist regime and
should operate with utmost secrecy.
in"Their names should not be con-
taed on the part pay roll and in
order better to hide their activities
they should obtain positions. If
threatened with arrest, the Comintern
agrees to permit them to escape
abroad, from where they will con-
tinue to direct the revolutionary move.
ment, but the moment open class war-
fare begins they must reappear to
take command."
Forced to Alter Program.
The journal says recent interna.
tional events have compelled the I. K.
K. I.-executive committee of the
eomintern-completely to change its
program for its agents' abroad. Recog.
nition by the United States, prospects
of Czechoslovakian recognition, and
important trade agreements at pres.
ent under negotiations with Great
Britain and France have made open
revolutionary activities by its foreign
branches inconvenient at present, the
article said.
Cites Germany and Austria.
The communist party in America
s.,a the other countries mentioned
must disappear underground," the
journal repeats. "However, the ques.
tion of maintaining secret groups
which will be directly responsible to
Moscow is of the greatest importance.
The fact that communist parties in
Germany and Austria are also suc-
cessfully working underground should
be studied and followed by other
parties."
The Comintern's concession permit.
ting these underground agents to
escape abroad to avoid arrest reveals
a remarkable change in the Kremlin
policy. Heretofore such escapes, ex-
cept in unusual cases, were strictly
forbidden since every red jailed has
been viewed by the Comintern as a
martyr to the cause of revolution.
Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Polish,
and German Reds who have fled to
Russia have been imprisoned as
slackers.
Continues Attacks on Roosevelt.
in blackfaced type the statement that
" the Roosevelt program is a program
of slavery for American workers." It
also stated that " the United States
and Britain are the greatest beasts
of prey of the entire capitalist men-
agerie."
Litvinov's speech at the banquet in
his honor in New York, which was
published fully in the Moscow press,
was widely commented on by the Bal-
tic press, which labels it as a piece of
" arch-hypocrisy."
The Baltic editors think the Ameri
cans are naive to listen to Litvinov's
remarks that there is no persecution
of religion in Russia and his bemoan.
ing the fact that world youth is being
educated in war psychology. There
is plenty of evidence, the editors say,
that bolshevism has developed the
most militaristic system of education,
known to the world and that they
Christian religion faces extermination
in Russia.
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