with your under cover informants to have meetings of the Communist Party and Communist Labor Party held on the night set.  I have been informed by some of the bureau officers that such arrangements will be made.”  So much evidence of the activity of the provocateur was produced before Federal Judge G. W. Anderson that he declared as follows:  “What does appear beyond reasonable dispute is that the Government owns and operates some part of the Communist Party.”

It appears that Judge Anderson does not share the high opinion of the “under cover” operative set forth by the writer of “100%.”  Says Judge Anderson:  “I cannot adopt the contention that Government spies are any more trustworthy, or less disposed to make trouble in order to profit therefrom, than are spies in private industry.  Except in time of war, when a Nathan Hale may be a spy, spies are always necessarily drawn from the unwholesome and untrustworthy classes.  A right-minded man refuses such a job.  The evil wrought by the spy system in industry has, for decades, been incalculable.  Until it is eliminated, decent human relations cannot exist between employers and employees, or even among employees.  It destroys trust and confidence; it kills human kindliness; it propagates hate.”

To what extent have the governmental authorities of America been forced to deny to the Reds the civil rights guaranteed to good Americans by the laws and the constitution?  The reader who is curious on this point may send the sum of twenty-five cents to the American Civil Liberties Union, 138 West 13th Street, New York, for the pamphlet entitled, “Report upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice,” signed by twelve eminent lawyers in the country, including a dean of the Harvard Law school, and a United States attorney who resigned because of his old-fashioned ideas of law.  This pamphlet contains sixty-seven pages, with numerous exhibits and photographs.  The practices set forth are listed under six heads:  Cruel and unusual punishments; arrests without warrant; unreasonable searches and seizures; provocative agents; compelling persons to be witnesses against themselves; propaganda by the Department of Justice.  The reader may also ask for the pamphlet entitled “Memorandum Regarding the Persecution of the Radical Labor Movement in the United States;” also for the pamphlet entitled “War Time Prosecution and Mob Violence,” dated March, 1919, giving a list of cases which occupies forty pages of closely printed type.  Also he might read “The Case of the Rand School,” published by the Rand School of Social Science, 7 East Fifteenth Street, New York, and the pamphlets published by the National Office of the Socialist Party, 220 South Ashland Blvd., Chicago, dealing with the prosecutions of that organization.