The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1924, Page 10

ant Pent Peet Youth Day Sunday was International Youth day, and Moscow seemed all youth from my window overlooking the Theater Place or “Ploshchad.” Every day, almost in Moscow seems a day of demonstrations, with the “Young Leninists” and othér groups and com- panies of Red soldiers marching by to the Red Square around the corner. But looking down from my red cushion on the high, broad window- sill, I became aware that this was nothing ordinary, and I then recalled from my sub-consciousness the word “molodyosh” that had been staring me in the face from the billboards for several days past. Such words make no impression at the moment, holding no meaning for me until I spell them out; and now I spelled out with a retro- spective eye, “Internatzionalni Molo- dyosh,” and I knew what it signified that*for four hours those solid ranks of youth and childhood with their red banners and drums_ and_ bands, marched past my window, by the gay flower-beds of the plaza, where two years ago were dusty heaps of stones and trash, around to the tomb of Ilych in the Krasni Ploshchad. And in my mail the same day, came clippings from the home papers,— denunciations of the Youth movement as subversive of the political teachings of our country,—as an insidious effort of traitors to introduce bolshevism into the ranks of our youth. At this distance,—in this place,—it all sounds so blatant and silly and futile. Here, we take it all for granted—the for- ward march of youth over the dead traditions of the capitalistic past. A young woman friend here is eager to visit America “to see what a capital- ist country is like” before it passes away. At twenty-four, capitalism to her is ancient history, and the U. S. of A. an anachronism and a curio. So let the reactionaries rave, as the solid ranks of youth march by to pay hom- age to Lenin. Anothr clipping was from an inter- view with Dr. Clampett. This well- meaning liberal has-some authentic in- formation to give on several subjects, but when he speaks of a man “fortun- ate enough to enter and leave (Rus- sia) in safety,” he betrays a childish ignorance, a wilful desire to mislead, or a guilty conscience. Everyone is safe who enters with proper creden- tials. Without such, he may not enter at all. If he abuses the confidence placed in him, he will not be safer than in other countries. His statement that after August 1, letters addressed to Petrograd will not be forwarded to Leningrad, the new name of the city, is unworthy of an intelligent person. Dr. Clampett refers to and quotes from the “Educational Principles of the Soviet Government,” but without comment. There is much complaint against this policy,—and especially in its immediate application by dropping out a large group of bourgeois stud- ents, by visitors who do not under- stand the vital necessity to the gov- ernment, of training up an _ expert proletariat to carry on the reconstruc- tion of Russia. One sad lesson the revolution taught — a lesson that Marx impressed;—that even the sym- pathising elements of the former bour- geoisie’ cannot be trusted completely in face of the realities of the revolu- tion and its class alignment, except here and there individually, and that counter-revolution and sabotage must be met by a proletariat thoroughly equipped to carry on the work. The revolution is not established in a day—a long and still dangerous period lies ahead; when the inten- sification, of the class struggle in all countries will reflect back to Russia, » and Russia must be 100 per cent pre- pared, with its proletarian army and its proletarian experts, to meet the situation of the future. Hence in this year of small export crops, and a con- sequently diminished budget, the necessity of dropping out of the uni- versities even those bourgeois stud- ents who has already made a few years’ progress. The hardship of this nena tte a i ee cr policy, so much criticized even by sympathetic liberals, is to be amelior- ated in a measure, by distributing these students so far as may be pos- sible, in the technical schools. It must of the students as well. RUSSIA’S YOUTH IN CAMP Bah F8 THE SEVENTH VICTORIOUS YEAR AND THE TASK OF EVERY COMRADE EDNESDAY, November 7, 1917. noon cannon boomed from Peter-Paul The as he walked down the John Reed arose very late. Nevsky. It was a raw and chilly day. On the corner of the Morskaya Reed ran into Captain Gomberg, Menshevik oboronetz, secretary of the military section of his party. When he asked him if the Bolsheviki insurrection had really happened he shrugged his shoulders in a tired manner and replied, “Tchort znayet! (The devil knows!) Well, perhaps the Bolsheviki can seize-the power, but they won’t be able to hold it more than three days. They haven’t the men to run the government. Perhaps it’s a good thing to let them try. That will finish them.” A whole crop of new appeals against insurrection had blossomed out on the walis during the night—to the peasants, to the soldiers, to the workmen of Petrograd. One was from the Petrograd Duma and in- formed the citizens that at an extraordinary meeting on November 6 the Duma had formed a Committee of Public Safety. This was actually a declaration of war against the Bolsheviki. Further down the Nevsky Reed bought a second-hand copy of Dien from a soldier for fifty kopeks. The Bolshevik paper, printed on ftarge sized sheets, in the conquered office of the Russkaya Volia, had huge head-lines: “ALL POWER TO THE SOVIET OF WORKERS, SOLDIERS AND PEASANTS! PEACE! BREAD! LAND!” The leading article was signed “Zinoviev,”—Lenin’s companion in hiding, It was 10:40 p. m. On the platform at Smolny sat the leaders of the old Tsay-ee-kah—for the last time dominating the turbulent Soviets, which had now risen against them. The election of the presidium had given the Bolsheviki 14 as against 7 for the Social Revolutionaries, 3 Mensheviki, and 1 Internationalist (Gorky’s group). The “right” shouted that it would refuse to participate. The Tsay-ee-kah stepped down and . in their places appeared Trotsky, Kamenev, Lunacharsky, Kollontai, Nogin.... The hall rose, thundering. How far they had soared, these Bolshe- viki, from a despised and hunted organization less than four months . ago, to this supreme place, the helm of great Russia in full tide of in- surrection. Outside the methodical boom of cannon sounding the revolution. The Winter Palace was being attacked. Inside the delegates screaming, the lefts assuming authority, the rights being shouted down as traitors and counter-revolutionists. So, with daring and the crash of artillery, a new Russia was born! Since this hour, nearly seven years have passed, seven victorious years for the proletariat of Soviet Russia. And there again comes from the victors in Russia to the proletariat of all lands a call to hold world- wide demonstrations on November 7th in celebration of proletarian rule over one hundred and fifty millions of people. How will the Workers Party and its supporters respond? Have we built during the year? Are we stronger today than we were last Novem- ber 7th? Has our Communist understanding grown and has discipline increased? The number of demonstrations we hold this November 7th will tell. Every organized point in the land ought celebrate this seventh anni- versary of the birth of Soviet Russia. in 400 cities there are Workers Party branches and locals. No less than 400 demonstrations in honor of the deeds and accomplishments of our Russian comrades should be held. Every loyal comrade and disciplined Communist will begin this min- ute to help in the details to make the celebration of the SEVENTH VICTORIOUS YEAR FOR SOVIET RUSSIA in his city. a huge success. SPEAKERS READY TO ADDRESS NOV. 7TH MEETINGS ERE is a partial list of speakers ready to take the field to address meetings on November 7th, 8th and 9th. Speakers not here listed are requested to send in their names and addresses. Di: organizers are asked to send to the national office a full list of speakers residing in their districts. Can be routed from Buffalo: oS ao Franklin P. Brill. Tom Lewis. Rudolph Katz. Cc. R. Hedlund. James Campbell. Jack Bradon. Jos. Siminoff. ‘| Emil S; Youndahi. T. R. Silivan, Thurber Lewis, Can be routed from Minneapolis: ‘(Walter Frank. in Moscow - be remembered that the eost of ed- ucation is not alone its equipment}of the destruction by the Government and staff, but largely the maintenance} Committee (headed by Lenin’s widow, Perhaps the most amusing of my By Anna Porter clippings is the solemn announcement Krupskaya,) of all the works of Tol- stoi, and the banning from Russia of the works of Plato, Kant, Maeterlinck, Spencer, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Nordau, and “even of Kropotkin.” I read this aloud amid shouts of de rision to a group of a dozen at a friendly intellectual evening gathering at the house of a Russian professor, The article added to these works*all such as “deal with liberalism,” and God with a capital letter—could ab- surdity go ‘further?— as well as fairy- tales of kings and princesses. Most of us had been, the evening before, to an elaborate ballet in the gorgeons Grand Opera house, stafing prin- cesses et all, in all the most alluring phases of their pampered lives. Well, let these propagandists against Rus- sia amuse themselves with their twaddle. We should worry! And Soviet Russia goes straight for- ward, and its solid ranks of youth march by for hours to do honor to its founder, and the echo of their tramp across the water fires our own Youth and confounds the “patriots.” 0. H. Wangerin. C. A. Hathaway. Leslie Hurt. Carl Cowl. C. Forsen. Can be routed from Cleveland: W. J. White. Lotta Burke. J. Kobylak. A. V. Severino. John Brahtin. Max Lerner, Scott Wilkins. Cc. Buehler. Rebecca Sacharow. Carl Hacker. Can be routed from New York City: Ben Gitlow. Ludwig Lore. Wm. Weinstone. Rose Pastor Stokes. Alex. Trachtenberg. Harry Winitsky. H. M. Wicks. Juliet Stuart Poyntz. Julius Codkind. Benjamin Lifshitz. Jack Stachel. ~ Pascal P. Cosgrove. Emanuel Elston. Otto Huiswood. Rebocca Grecht. Charles Krumbein. Carl Brodsky. M. J. Olgin, Solon DeLeon. Jos. Brahdy. Morris Pasternak. I. Glass. Can be routed from Seattle: Norman H. Tallentire. Can be routed from San Francisco: J. H. Dolson. Jack Carney. Ella Reeve Bloor. Can be routed in North Dakota: Chas. H. Heck. H. R. Martinson. Alfred Knutson. . Can be routed frem Chicago: Jd. W. Johnstone. Martin Abern. Manuel Gomez. D. E. Early. Harrison George. George Maurer. Arne Swabeck. A. Overgaard. Peter Herd. Cc. E. Ruthenberg. Wm. Z. Foster Alexander Bittelman. Jas. P. Cannon. Wm. F. Dunne. Max Bedacht. J. Louis Engdahi. Jay Lovestone. } Earl Browder. : Jos. Manley. T. J. O'Flaherty. : Robert Minor. — William F. Kruse. Max Schachtman. John Williamson, (Additional names will be listed in Monday's issue.) 1 ha ales