BOLSHEVIK PAY FOR AGITATORS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 64, 10 December 1918, Page 6

BOLSHEVIK PAY FOR AGITATORS

« HOW .610,000 AVAS SPENT BY , LITVINOFF. During the last month of his stay in England, Litvinoff, Lenin's revolutionary anarchist envoy, had two banking accounts. One was opened after his appointment as "Ambassador" with an old-established London joint-slock bank. The olher was opened this year with tho London branch of the only Russian bank recognised by Lenin and Trotsky. Litvinoff's payments through tire jointstock bank were made by cheque. He gave cheques to his international Socialist friends in this country, including the notorious John Maclean, Bolshevik "Consul" iu Glasgow, now undergoing penal servitude for inciting Socialists to' begin revolution by seizing Ihe town hall, post office, and banks. He also paid money openly to a strike leader and international Socialists agitator in Scotland, and a considerable sum to an American agitator in England. Several Bolshevik agitators, including one notorious in South .Wales, were in his weekly pay. No cheques were drawn on the Russian bank. Litvinoff withdrew this money in British notes and was thus able to dispose of it without leaving a trace. The total sum drawn by Litvinoff from his Russian bank during the period between his internment and final deportation exceeded ',£IO,OOO. Before he left he individual members of the British 'Socialist Party. Attempts to spread Soviet doctrines in England are being made openly and secretly. The open work has been begun by an organisation calling itself "The People's Russian Information Bureau," with two addresses in London. This body is governed by a committee consisting of six persons, who advertise themselves as members of the National Union of Railwaymen, Socialist Labour Part}', AV»men's Suffrage Federation, British Socialist Party, London AVoi'kers Council, and the Independent Labour Party. It advertises its intention to publish pamphlets and leaflets, supply speakers with a knowledge of the subject, and arrange "lecture concerts." Its first circular recently issued makes no mention of the blood-lust fury of Bolshevism as racing in Russia with its countless executions and assassinations. Tho secret propaganda is-being worked by other hands, hidden agents, who are distributing throughout the country a pamphlet signed '.by Lenin, Chioberin, and Trotsky, in which tho Allies are denounced as "men whose hands reek,with blood/.of working people." It is believed that this pamphlet, copies of which have been sent to the "Daily Mail," was printed in Holland and imported by agents of Litvinoff before his departure.