Max Deutsch, former head of the Soviet secret police in Odessa, was today appointed chairman of the All-Russian Commission of the Coal Trust. Deutsch has been an active revolutionist since he was fourteen when he joined the Jewish Socialist party, the Bund. In 1905 he was sentenced to death on a charge of having murdered two police officers but he succeeded in escaping from prison.
After the October Revolution, Deutsch joined the Bolsheviks being appointed chairman of the Odessa Cheka. Lately he has been active in economic affairs.
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