The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1925, Page 9

fee seems ——— | | (Special Eighth Soviet Anniversary Edition) By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. the threshold of the ninth year of the Union of Soviet Republics, the United States alone of the so- called “great powers” withholds its recognition of the workers’ and peas- ants’ government. All the others have surrendered, as Wall Street's puppet power in Washington ultimate- ly will. During the eighth year of the Sov- fet Union, two more of the world’s leading imperialist nations were forc- ed to bend their knees and accord re- cognition to the workers’ republics. In western Europe, the Herriot ernment put France in line with the capitalist governments of Germany, Italy and Great Britain, so that not a major nation on the continent was left out of the procession that had re- cognized the everlasting stability of Soviet rule. In the far Pacific, the Mikado’s gov- érnmetit at Tokio also surrendered the hope of overthrowing the workers’ power; gave it recognition instead and opened extensive trade relations with it. s se. OVIEBT recognition by France and Japan clearly showed the turning of. the'tables in the conflicting rela- tions between workers’ rule over one- sixth of the world, and capitalist rule over the other five-sixths of the earth's land surface. Soviet rule was on the defensive when the Mikado’s armies were pene- trating the Far Hastern Republic, sup- porting the Kolchak white guard counter-revolutionaries. The strug- gle was difficult when the United States joined in the growing invasion of Soviet soil, with Vladivostok in the hands of the enemy, and the pir- ate flag of the bandit oppressor being carried to the borders of Soviet Rus- sia in Hurope. Soviet rule was on the defensive in Burope, with imperialist France, and Wngland, and the United States; with all the other capitalist foes of work- ers’ rule developing every possible op- portunity to place a dagger at the heart of the. youthful and vigorous proletarian power that called in its turn for their extermination. Soviet rule was on the defensive when Yudenitch was knocking at the gates of Leningrad and Baron Wrang- el, from the south, was pushing his way, with murder, and pillage and fire, towards Red Moscow. ef B™ the picture on this year’s |S yt fel anniversary of the Soviet Union is a different one. The work- ers’ republic is on the offensive. The capitalist world is on the defensive. In the Far East the oppressed na- tions, especially the Chinese republic, look to Soviet rule for inspiration and leadership. Facing an industrial de- pression at home, Japanese capital- ism feels its power. weakening on the continent. China and Korea prepare for greater liberating struggles, Gone are the days when Kolchak could THE ILY WORKER Page Three UNITED STATES ALONE AMONG POWERS DODGES SOVIET RECOGNITION The complete list of countries that have recognized the Union of Soviet Republics up to the present time follows: 1, Esthonia, Feb. 2, 1920. 2. Lithuania, July 12, 1920. 3. Latvia, Aug. 11, 1920, 4. Finland, Oct, 14, 1920. 5. Persia, Feb, 26, 1921. 6. Afghanistan, Feb. 28, 1921. 7, Turkey, March 16, 1921. Poland, March 18, 1921, Germany, April 16, 1923. Great Britain, Feb, 1, 19924. Italy, Feb. 7, 1924, Norway, Feb. 13, 1924, Austria, Feb. 20, 1924, Greece, March 8, 1924, Sweden, March 15, 1924. China, May 31, 1924, Denmark, June 18, 1924, Mexico, Aug. 24, 1924, Hungary, Sept. 18, 1924, France, Oct. 26. 1924. Japan, January 20, 1925, United | States? promise the Tipecses’ Mikado one-half of Siberia. The last soldier of Nippon has instead slowly treked his way out of the Isle of Sakhalin, rich in re- sources and commanding in location, a valuable but lost prize, to Japanese capitalism. The Soviet Union in the Orient hurls its challenge to the whole capitalist world. * * heart recognized Soviet rule. No promises made to pay the czarist debts. No surrender of any of the elemental tights of the workers and Peasants. Recognition came as the seventh anniversary was being cele- brated one year ago. There was the Franco-Russian alliance of the czar- ists with the great profiteers in Paris. There is now another Franco-Russian alliance, the unity of the liberated Russian workers and peasants with the revolutionary workers and peas- ants of France, not only struggling for their own emancipation, but also allying their battles with those of the colonial slaves in Morocco, in Syria and elsewhere that discontent may flame and challenge the foreign mas- ter. Altho the French imperialists, in their efforts to bulwark “the empire,” have almost emptied their treasure chests in Paris, nevertheless funds are still found to subsidize the mili- tary budgets of Poland, Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia, the Baltic states and other border. enemies of Soviet rule, Thus does bankrupt France seek to strengthen its military sway over cap- italist Europe, and to build for new and more ambitious attacks against the Soviet Union. All this in spite of the fact that the franc is falling in. price while capitalist America is be- EIGHT YEARS AFTER-AND PURCELL By..H...D.. WENDELL. IGHT years after the Russian rev- olution a man comes to America. Standing before a gathering of four hundred delegates of organized labor he spoke a few simple thruths about the workers’ and peasants’ govern- “ment. This was not all he said. He eaid much more and said it well. But it was what he said about the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics that frightened the greater part of the 400. It ¢rightened them so that they sat perfectly still and were not re- © lieved until their spokesman, Presi- dent William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, got up and did what the 400 wanted him to do and ‘which he. knew they wanted him to do. Green made a speech against the Soviet Union. It was a rabid, vicious speech. Secretary Kellogg, Sir Joyn- son-Hicks or Baron Wrangel could have done no better. The 400 were relieved. They could breath more easily. The icy sweat into which the speech of this man from Europe had plunged them gave way to the hot vapors of their leader outdoing Abramowitch at his best. FEO arth, A, Purcell, fraternal del- find of the British Trade Union’ Congress, it must have been at once a ludicrous and sad spectacle. Per- haps it wasn’t. Perhaps he had heard his own British Mr. Green, the Hon. J. H. Thomas M. P., make a ‘similar speech much more cleverly. But he must certainly have been sad to note that in that sea of faces there was no one to challenge the chauvinism, the social patriotism, the utter de- morilization of this labor convention «= of which Green’s speech was the ie. Purcell is not a Communist. He is a British labor leader of many y standing and much prominence. He has been chairman of the British Trades Union Congre: He is now vioechairman. He is President of the Furniture Workers’ Union of Great Britain. He is a labor mem- As the represent- ber of parliament. ative of the British unions to the In- ternational Federation of Trade Un- ions, the Amsterdam International, he oan made president of that body. poole soi ‘tands him in good stead and labor circles that an arch-dtke gets in Newport. But he is more than that. " URCELL headed the British trade union delegation to Soviet Russia. The delegation went to the forbdden land. It came back and made a lengthy report. This report was sym- Pathetic. It recommended the recog- nition of Soviet Russia. It broke down the tissue of lies about the U. 8. §, R. that had been laboriously built up by the London Times with the.able assistance of certain silk- breeched labor ministers working hand in hand with their tory oppo- ments. It blasted the myth of the “Zinoviev letter.” In a word, it told the truth. This earned Purcell a bad name among the elite, the silk-hatted gen- try, of his own labor movement. It made him a dangerous character at Atlantic City. But it didn’t prevent the rank and file of the British trade unions from endorsing the report and sending him as their fraternal delegate to the A. F, of L. conven- tion. More than that. The British trade unions entered into an agreement with the Russian unions. They both pledged themselves to work for the world unity of all trade unions. J. H, Thomas didn’t like this. He did all he could to prevent it but could not. The social-democratic leaders of the German trade unions didn’t like coming more niggardly with its loans. fearing for the billions already ad- vanced, while the wars in North Africa and Asia make continued de- mands upon the depleted French treasury, no matter what government is in power. O does capitalist Europe fear Sov- jet Russia. It is this capitalist fear of the Red Giant in the Hast that forced the Locarno conference; an ef fort of the capitalist nations to rally every ounce of strength for new at- tacks against the workers’ power, while at the same time maintaining its increasing oppression over their own workers and farmers at home. Yet the hysteria in the league of na- tions council, called to consider the hostilities between Greece and Bul- garia, shows how the capitalist struc- ture creaks in every timber. ee ‘HAT an inspiration for the work- ers and farmers of the United States to wage greater efforts de- manding the recognition of the Union of Soviet Republics by this nation, That should be a task to be accom- plished during “The Ninth Year,” Altho recognition has not yet been granted, nevertheless, the builders of the power of the workers and’ peas- ants are continually visiting this classic land of dapitalism, purchas- ing the things that they need, getting the information that will help them or offering facts to break down the wall of prejudice built up by the lies of a well-nigh all-powerful profit press. Soviet representatives purchase trac- tors and ploughs from the farm imple- ment industry in the north; cotton in the south; cattle, sheep and hogs of special breed in the west; spending tens of millions of dollars. Soviet Russia is building. But the workers and peasants want to build faster. They want to open up the lanes of commerce that will unleash the flow of goods that they need, that will put their products on the markets of the world. They are not begging, but de- manding credits from capitalist indus- try and getting it. But they want more. Russia was backward under czarism. The Russia of the workers and peasants strides forward, regis- tering new achievements with each passing month, an invitation to labor thruout the world to follow in its footsteps. oe 8 T should be enough for this short article to call the attention of America’s toiling millions to the find- ings of Colonel William N. Haskell, of the United States army, director of the American relief administration in Soviet Russia during the famine of 1921-22, who has just returned to this country after another tour of investi- gation of the Soviet Union. Colonel Haskell is an imperialist soldier, graduate of West Point Mili- tary Academy in 1901; director for several years in Wall Street's armed forces in the subjugated Philippines; commander of a regiment along the it, Jouhaux of France didn’t like it, it got under Oudegeest’s skin and drove President Green to make the frantic speech loudly applauded by the New York Times and the Bankers Associa- tion. Purcell had a lot to do with the agreement. He was in favor of it. He worked for it. He is working for world trade union unity now. That’s the second reason why Purcell is feared. HE prejudice of Atlantic City could not help but spread thruout the movement. But the farther down it goes the less virus there is in it. Thousands of trade unionists want to hear Purcell talk. They want to know what his message is. Purcell is talking to them now. In eight of the biggest cities of the country trade unionists have arranged mass meet- ings at which Purcell is speaking. He is telling them the truth about Soviet Russia. He is telling them why American labor should also send a delegation to Soviet Russia. He is telling them what world trade union unity means. And they are listening. Columbla-Ecuador Break BALBOA, Pananta, Nov, 4—An im- pending rupture between Ecuador and Columbia is indicated in a dispatch re- ceived here from Bogota stating that the Ecuadorian minister has been withdrawn from Columbia as a protest to Columbia's approval of the recent boundary treaty with Peru. Ecuador holds, it is said, that the treaty was approved without proper regard for Ecuador's {nterests. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Mexican border in 1916-17; who went to France in the great war to help make the: world safe for’ Morgan’s millions, then to superintend “relief” in Roumania and Armenia, to help save these nations for capitalism af- ter the war. Armenia went Soviet and remained so Roumania just manages to hang onto the end of Wall Street’s bread line. ** 8 (oe HASKELL own words how he jet Russia Herbert highly philanthropic impulse moved humanity to the relief of Rus- sia.” It is not necessary here to argue again that Hoov every impulse grows out of the profit hunger of the American dollar. This was proven tells his in was sent to § “when Hooy poor conclusively by the story of the part played by his “relief forces” in the overthrow of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. It is merely necessa to Haskell has no point out that Color eause to be prejudiced on the side of Soviet rule. He is merely point- ing out indisputable facts when he says: “Today there is food for every- body in Russia. In fact, | believe there is more food there than in the United States, and the prices are much lower. The population that was standing in line waiting for bread in 1921 and 1922, is now well fed. The destitution and suf- fering of those black years is now only a bitter memory.” That gives the He to the stories re: ently circulated by the Chicago T fune that famine is again devaste ng Soviet Russia Again Haskell says: “Today the Russian rouble is quoted at 51 cents and is on a par ity with the English pound and the American dollar. Moreover, it has been there more than two years and is backed by a gold reserve. All the old money has been wiped out and there is plenty of silver and copper money around. The stores and markets, except for a few ar- ticles, are plentifully supplied with goods.” All this while the franc and Belgium, and the lire with the moneys of other capitalist so drop in value, while the return in Italy, A Cradle Chorus (Schools for baby “Blackshirts” are the iatest Fascist innovation im Britain—Daily Herald.) OCK-A-BYE, Baby, Shirt, You must begin early your creed to assert; We'll read you no longer mere nur- sery-rhymes But Morning Post leaders and pars from The Times; We'll teach you to lisp, in a shrill treble clef, The new A. B. C. of the little B. F. in your Black No bright B. F. babies are safe in their beds While all propaganda is left to the Reds: So pick up your rattles, while all the world harks, And drown with their thunder the doctrines of Marx; Their echo a mightier babel shall be Than the gospel put forth by the Cc. P. G. B. So battle your babel, one andall; Till the Bolshy battalions of Muscovy fal. Grow up to be girls, or alternately boys Who know that the world can be conquered by noise— Continue your, antics till everyone's deaf, And the Earth's Pandemonium brand: ed “B. Fy” . —The Infant. » brave babes Gary Workers to Celebrate Russian Revolution, Nov. 8 (Special to The Dally Worker) GARY, Ind., Nov. 4.—The workers of Gary, Indiana and Lake county are going to celebrate the eighth anniver. e Uni Social: Soviet | sary of the Union of Socialist Soviet | (inose nationalist leader learned at Republics at the Croatian Hall at 28rd and Washington Ave. on Sunday, Nov. 8th by a mass meeting in the aiter- noon and concert and dance at night. The following comrades wil] speak: J. W. Johnstone, secretary of Trade | Union Educational League and Albert Gallatzky, ten years old, junior, will speak in English, Comrade Devetkin in Russian and Comrade Loyin in South Slav, Admission to the mass meeting is free. Admission to the concert and dance is 25 cents for Jadies and 50 cents for men. Meeting will open at 2:30 P. M. Concert and dance will open at 7:30 P. M. RUSSIAN BRANCH T0 GELEBRATE 8TH YEAR IN CHICAGO, NOV. 8TH A mass meeting and concert in honor of the eighth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution is arranged by the Russian Branch of the Work- ers Party for Sunday, Nov. 8, at 6 p. m,, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W, Division St. Admission free. Come and bring your friends. Russian speakers, a musical pro- gram, in France | | believes in ard in England only for wid quoting to: the old seed increases the cost of liv But a masses of labor. ain from Haskell “Today the Russians are suffi- ciently if not fashionably clothed. The streets of Moscow and other cities hum with traffic.” Then this contrast “The working man is no longer hungry or oppressed. His is the preferred class. “Contrast this with the popular conception of the old, old Russia— the Russia of the fabled opulence and magnificence of the upper class, of religious oppression and cruel class distinctions, the Russia of the knout and the crue! landlord “All that, of course, has faded in- to the past. The once proud nobles of Russia are scattered over the world, some serving as butlers and waiters. “The working man, who was once less to them than the dust beneath their haughty feet, now has the first | consideration.” | . EMEMBER confession of a man who not landle that the above is only the rd, the rule of the banker and the great exploiter in this country, but has joined’ th military arm of the profiteers’ social plun He workers system in order to protect the ler of. these business bandits. joes not yet realize that the and peasants of the Soviet Union are ; so he striving to abolish all class' still talks of clas: Thus he admits that children are having their first real chance in Russia under Soviet rule when he says: “The wotkitg man’s children, who never had a chance in the old days, are now also in the preferred class. The government owns everything, and everything is conducted with srecial reference to the working man.” And again: “| believe that the men who are running Russia are working earnest- ly for the common good of their country, without thot of graft.” This shatters another whole bar- rage of kept press propaganda, as joes the following: “The government fosters no relig- ion, but every man may worship his own god in his own way. There are no longer any restrictions on the Jews. Many of them are mem- bers of the government.” Once more: “A light of hope indubitably gleams ahead for the country they used to call the land of the white czars.” Some more of Haskell’s ¢onclustons are as follows: “| was particularly interested in seeing the hospitals of today in Russia, because in 1922 they were stuffing’ wounds with newspapers and sewing them with thread pick- ed from old cloth. They had no < Task for Ninth Year: Demand Soviet Recognition by U. S: anaesthetic: “Now the hosp clean and san [ | in Russia are | and fairly well | equipped with modern appliances. | “The streets of the big cities, | which were in filthy condition ‘in | | 1922, are now as clean as New York and considerable attention is paid to muncipal sanitation.” eee Peseta es tote | futil HASKELL, that of course, it was the world capitalism that produced and misery of the rule, an attack United States gov- does not attack admit of nst Soviet Russia untold omy viet with its Soviet tried to over- that Colonel ell now Fre | fers as a “land full of hope and vigor ous activity, politically tranquil, but badly in need of capital and equip- ment.” difficult to pin great this report by Col’ 2 representative Hoover, ary of com- ige’s cabinet, which a business getter capitalist industry, does not talk of the that Soviet Rus- to be in the days Harding, Hughes and Soviet recog- gnificance lL He is ] onel Haskel He | of bert secret for American Hoover’s agent ‘economic yacuum” when the Hoover, supposed trio, nition Secre Kellogg has tak- and Coolidge has ed to Harding’s seat in the white house, but still the diple- matic wing of the government con- tinues to attack the workers’ and peas- ar’ en Hugh become accusto ants’ republic, giving little hint of any change in policy, not even to its labor ‘wing, the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor, that continues its bitter onslaught. But there is a different breeze blowing in the department of commerce, if any value is to be placed at all upon Has- kell’s declaratio: a) MERICAN workers and farmers can speed the day of Soviet recog- nition by bringing their power to bear upon the capitalist government at Washington. They can help develop those rela- tions between Soviet Russia and the United States that will help flood the Soviet Union with the equipment that he Russian workers and peasants 1eed to build mightier their new s80- ial order. American workers and farmers can win a great victory during the ninth year of Soviet rule by forcing recog: nition by the United States of the first workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment, the hope of the workers and m thruout the whole world. t Union by demand- on. nd by the Sov: ing Soviet recogni | CHINA AND THE SOVIET UNION | By JAMES H. DOLSEN, 1 was in Shanghai in 1923 that pr.| Adolph Joffe, So- What the Sun Yat Sen met viet ambassador to China. first hand from this representative of Bolshevik Russia made a deep impres- sion on him. He discovered that the} natural bond of interest which unites | the oppressed peoples of subject and colonial countries with the workers ism was recognized by the Russian revolutionists and formed an import- anf tactic in the work of the Third International. Thereafter-Dr. Sun came increas- ingly under the influence of Commun- ist theories, strengthened by his visit to Moscow where he met Lenin. When he died at Canton March 11th of this year his last wish was to be} buried “beside his great friend Lenin.” | HE treaty negotiated between the} marked | latter | Soviet Union and China the first recognition of the country as a nation of equal rank with the great powers. Its’ conclusion had a tremendous effect upon the Chinese inclining them to broaden their friendly relationships with the work- ers’ republic to the north and west, and creating grave problemg for the grasping statesmen of Europe and America to face, It was a realization of the unity of interest between the workers and peasants of the two nations that led the Kuomintang, carrying on the struggle against foreign imperialism in China, to make a historic declara- tion of their attitude towards the So- viet Union thru a public manifesto of their national executive committee, is- sued May 21st this year. In speaking of the way, China has been treated by other countries, this statement thus refers to the Russian attitude: “As to the nations which treat us on a footing of equality, we declare, as we have stated in our manifesto on the Sino-Russian agree- ment, that only Soviet Russia de- serves the name of an equal partner.” And farther on, it virtually binds the party to an alliance with the Soviets: “This party (Kuomintang) should, therefore, continue, hand in hand with the Soviet Republics to strug- gle against imperialism for the realization of the national revolution- ary movement.” Canton to Commemorate Eighth Anniversary. HILE ‘countless celebrations of the eighth anniversary of the So- viet Republic will be held in China, the greatest outpouring will doubtless “Red” j be witnessed in ton, the capital of the Southern republic and the former home of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. | Since the more radical elements in |}the Kuomintang got control Iast spring, the tendency has been increas- }ingly to the left with the result that Chinese Communists are in virtual lcommand of the today. A correspondent of the North China Daily News, Shanghai, writing in the |Kolnische Zeitung, of Cologne, Ger- the Communist city }many, characterizes | domination of Canton as “an experi- ment which the whole of Asia is watching.” Its international aspect, he goes on to explain, “is crystallized in an embittered struggle between England and Russia, the outcome of which cannot be foreseen.” He boasts however, that ything is being |done by the Bri with intellectual and material means to starve out Bol- shevik ideas in Canton.” 2 gard commemoration of the Soviet anniversary in Canton will not be merely by enthusiastic speeches of eloquent orators at mass meetings. An army of Chinese mercenaries, with the financial and moral backing of Great Britain in particular and of the other powers as well—including, we may be sure, this country—is marching on the city. Perhaps the booming of cannon: and the sharp staccato of rifle fire, with the groans of the wounded, will mark the day, Whatever happens our heroic com- rades of the Red Corps of China can be counted on to carry the working ec banners to eventual victory. The grasping ambitions of the capi- talist nations cannot permanently be reconciled, any more than a crowd of thieves can live in security, More and more ‘the masses of Chi- hese workers and peasants will come to realize their unity of interest with the workers and peasants of the Un- ion of Soviet Republics ag it is and the worl# union it is destined to be- come. Therefore they greet with re- newed hope and courage their Rus- sian comrades at this eighth anni versary of the Communist revolution,