Clever Girls Spread Germs of Red Doctrine in Canada

1920

Bolshevist Missionaries Preach Sedition in Unions While Special Classes in the Construction of Bombs Are Being Held — Agitators Work to Overthrow Government of Dominion.

MONTREAL, Que., Canada, Jan. 1. — Bolshevists from the United States are crossing into Canada, but not, as they may imagine, without the knowledge of the authorities. The Red exodus is being closely watched by officials on both sides the line and new arrivals in Montreal have been carefully cataloged.

The Red army here is freely predicting the overthrow of what it calls the bourgeois regime, encouraged perhaps by the partial success in Winnipeg a few months ago, when for a time it seemed as tho Soviet rule had been introduced into Canada.

Red meetings are held nightly in Montreal in secret, and tons of Bolshevist literature have been imported.

Much money is coming into the Bolshevist coffers. Close cooperation between Canadian and American authorities in securing the evidence against the radicals makes the local leaders anxious to avoid the limelight.

Much of the information used in the United States against Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman and others was secured in Montreal and furnished to the United States authorities, it is declared. Lists of agitators are prepared on each side of the line and exchanged.

So confining themselves to talking, the Reds are trying to undermine the labor unions. Many unions, it is claimed, have Bolshevists in them endeavoring to spread their beliefs. In the biggest railway shops in Montreal a number of Red missionaries are at work, it is said.

The organization boasts of several extremely clever girls, and these are from time to time "planted" in certain factories. They go and secure work, and in time infect a number of their fellow workers with the Red microbe. Then they leave and go to another factory. In certain sections so-called "economic classes" have been opened. These are in reality schools for turning out Red agitators and speakers. There are tales told also of the Russian technical aid body, which specializes, it is said, on the construction of bombs.

The Government has kept a close watch on the activities of the local Reds, but has not adopted a rigorous policy to deal with them.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 5.

Music and Bombs

1920

Music and the making of bombs do not go together, and the man who is radically against his government has no music in his soul, asserts the New York Mail. These facts are both evident, say reports of those who have investigated the homes of "suspects" for the Government.

"No musical instrument, not so much as a harmonica, has ever been found in a home that was raided by Government authorities in connection with Bolshevism," says M. M. Roemer, member of a music goods sales corporation.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 6.

Lone Baby Ends Trip Covering 7,000 Miles

3-year-old Boy Again is Safe in His Mother's Arms.

HAYDEN, Colo., May 20. -- After traveling approximately 7,000 miles alone, 3-year-old Sbiro Chakirido arrived here from Vladivostok and is safely in his mother's arms, while the lad's stepfather, Louis Charos, ex-soldier, is tilling the soil on a 320-acre plot upon which the little family of three expect to spend their remaining days.

Two years ago Mrs. Chakirido and her husband kept a restaurant in a Siberian town. Then came the uprisings and turmoil incident to the "Red terror" that has spelled finis for so many happy homes. One day the Bolshevists entered the little restaurant and killed Mrs. Chakirido's husband. By a miracle the wife and baby escaped to her home, near the town of Chita.

When the American Army forces entered Siberia, Louis Charos, a member of Company H, 175th Infantry, met the pretty widow, and they were married. Mrs. Charos returned to America with her soldier husband upon the evacuation of Siberia by Uncle Sam's men, but was obliged to leave her little son behind.

After months of frenzied search and thru the aid of the American Red Cross, the Charos were able to get in touch with the boy, and little Sbiro was started upon the long journey that has ended in the happy reunion with his mother.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, May 22, 1920, page 1.

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Baby Travels 7,000 Miles.

Spiro Chakiridio, aged 3, recently was delivered safely to his parents in Hayden, Colo., by the Red Cross after 7,000 miles' travel from Siberia. Spiro is the step-child of Louis Charos, a bugler with the American forces, who returned from Chita, Siberia, with his new wife a few weeks ago.

When the couple sailed the baby was left with the mother's family. The child's father was killed in a riot two years ago during the revolution outbreak.

The baby was well and seemed to have enjoyed the long voyage and cross country trip. He was cared for during the long trip by a Red Cross nurse.

--The Ada Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, May 13, 1920, page 8.

Comment: The baby's name is different on the second article, Sbiro Chakirido or Spiro Chakiridio. I searched on both last names and didn't find anything. As far as Louis Charos, he's apparently the Louis Charos born May 7, 1894 in Kansas City, Missouri. At a website getting information from the Monte Vista Journal (Colorado) of 4/29/1976, going along with the Social Security Death Index on the date of birth and death, he died April 19, 1976. He is described as a WWI veteran and rancher/farmer. Died at Veterans Hospital in Grand Junction, assuming that has to be Colorado. At Social Security Death Index, his last residence was Alamosa, Colorado. At the website referred to, with info from the Monte Vista paper, they also mention another child of the Charos family, Floyd M. Charos, whose death is mentioned in the 8/30/1940 Monte Vista Journal, "Two year old son of Mr. & Mrs. Louis Charos. Died on Wednesday. Buried in Spanish Cemetery. Born on Dec 9, 1938 in Lariet." No other mentions of Spiro I can see. There's another Louis Charos at Social Security born about the same time, but no apparent connection to this one.