The Archive · 1930

RED INVESTIGATION,|A PERMANENT FAIR FOR BY CONGRESS BRITAIN

Washington, D.C., Dee. 5.

London, Dec. 3.

William Z, Foster, head of the Communist Federation of Americ to-day was summoned as 2 by the congressional committee, headed by Representative Hamilton Fish, Republican of New York which is investigating alleged "red" activities in the United States, In response to questions Mu Foster denied that he receives a salary from the government of Soviet Russia in Moscow.

Only recently Mr, Foster was released from prison. He was sentenced to goal following his convietion on charges of inciting Communist demonstrators to riot in Jconnection with the last May Day jes in New York, Investigators to-day attempted to} show that the Communist organiza-ition in America is directly linked the Russian Communist Party.

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