The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1927, Page 3

* would not be the fortunate minority More Light On -Amperialist Plots Against the USSR LONDON, July 6.—Further light | is thrown on the exploits of Sydney | Reilly, British spy and counter-revo- | lutionary agent of Churchill and) Loekhart who was recently executed | by the U. 8. S. R. for high treason, | in a pamphlet published by Rene | Marchand in 1919, entitled “Why I! support Bolshevism”. Marchand, a conservative journalist at that time, was the Moseow cor- respondent of one of the most re-| actionary Paris newspapers, — the “Figaro”. . There is *a descriptive | passage in this pamphlet, concerning | Reilly, which leaves no room. for | doubt as to the. character of this blackguard imperialist. agent who| would stop at nothing, murder, arson | or the deliberate starving of Russian | workers and their children, for the chance of strangling the proletarian | state ‘and reinstating the murderous} regime of imperialist capitalist ex-| ploitation in Russia. | Marchand| says: “At the end of August a meeting| Was held at the American Consulate- General, now flying the Swedish flag . . . No doubt the meeting of which I speak was not official. It rather resembled: a private conver- sation. But nothing can detract from the significance of the fact that in the presence of the offivial representatives of the United States and of France, in the presence of the Consuls-General Poole and Grenard, A British officer, without inter- ruption, and therefore without the smallest expression of disapproval from the’ consuls, talking loudly, though in a ‘sert of aside, with a French agent, gave a detailed exposi- tion of a plan for blowing up a bridge by which, just before the station of Zvanka, the railway crosses the river Volkhoff. The extraordinary com- mission subsequently identified the, officer in question as Lieutenant | Reilly. “A peculiar significant fact is that Reilly was far from attempting to conceal the gravity of the conse- quences that would result from the successful carrying out of his scheme. In the coolest possible way he ex- plained that the destruction of this bridge would cut off Petrograd from communication, not only from the} north, but also with the east by the Vologda-Viatka line. “By this line alone Petrograd re- ceived the greater part of its food, and the supply was already insuf- ficient for the population. “Reilly ended by pointing out that the blowing up of the bridge would immediately result in an absolute famine for Petrograd. To Starve Workers. “Those who would be starved of rich bourgeois, who would always be able to make their way southward. The sufferers would be, chiefly or exclusively, the manual workers, em- ployees in the lower grades, women, children and old men. But this ter- rible prospect caused no uneasiness to Reilly, who continued to elaborate the details of his scheme. Not for a@ moment, either, did it. disturb the} equanimity of Pool or Grenard, to whom the plan, it seemed, was no novelty, “The French agent to whom Lieu- tenant Reilly was speaking was M. de Vertamond. At an earlier date he had been introduced to me in the French consulate by Mr. Grenard, who informed. me that he waa a’ French naval officer engaged “destructive work” in the Ukraine. a, in} SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI! STRIKE TRURSDAY, JULY 77H. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, Tory War on USSR in ~ Afghan; Work to Drive Out Soviet Officials MOSCOW, July. 6—The. unoffi- cial tory ¢ against the. Soviet ng carried on in Af- istan as well as in Europe and the Far East. The USSR Military Attache in Afghanistan recently reported to the foreign department of the war council that the Afghan govern- ment was proposing to request the Soviet Union to recall from Kabul the Soviet aviation fleet and broad- casting station, and its members. The action of the Afghan gov- ernment is attributed by the Soviet Attaché to British influence. “At. the meeting in the American | Consulate-General M, de Vertamond | did not, in point of cynicism, allow | himself to be outdistaneced by Lieu- tenant Reilly. { “The French officer declared that he had already attempted to blow up! the Cherepovetz bridge. Had he been} successful, the consequences would) have been no less appalling than those | which would have followed the suc cessful carrying-out of Reilly’ scheme; for the Cherepovetz bridge | essential to the Zyanka-Vologda Viatka line. “Finally, M. de Vertamond refer-| red in considerable detail to his plans | for the destruction of rolling stock | and for the blocking of the main lines | of railway. . Let me reiterate that.| this astounding conversation aroused | absolutely no protest either from Mr. | Poole or M. Grenard, “At its close, Lieutenant Reilly, addressing M, de Vertamond, saic that there ought to be a division of labour between them. They must, said Reilly, keep constantly in touch, but communications between them, required caution. “Women would be the best inter- mediaries, ‘being much less open to) suspicion than men’. | “For his own part, added the Lieu- | tenant, he felt perfectly safe, for he) was working under an assumed name | ‘in a Soviet, instituton’.” | Anti-Soviet Plottings. : | Captain Jaeques Sadoul, a member, | at that same period, of the French} Military Mission in Moscow, who later | became a Communist, bequeathes an- | other illuminating item in an entry made in his diary on July 26, 1918: “In the interior of Russia, our! counter-revolutionary manoeuvres | multiply with unbelievable cynicism,! Not a White Guard taken prisoner, not a counter-revolutionary arrested, | no Anglo-French gold is found on! them, or documents establish his co-| operation with our agents.” | Capitalists Stop At Nothing. In its panic over the growing) peaceful development and internal} stability of the U. S. S. R., interna- tional imperialism, led by the arch- plunderers of Britain, has again had} recourse to the Russian White Guards: the parasite nobles, the bankers and factory owners, the mercenary officers, the prostitutes, criminals, and degenerates of Rus- sia whom the workers and peasants flung out of Russia in 1917. Rykoff quotes a report of Ukrainian ‘Whites’ which states that destructive work by the Whites themselves must pre- | cede any attack from the outside. Hence the assassination of Voikov, the murder of workers in a Leningrad club, the derailing of trains at the Soviet frontier, the burning of build- ings, oil stores, factories, etc. | The Soviet government has pursued | a consistent policy of peace; but it| will not tolerate the crimes of trait- ors sold to foreign imperialism. “Asea,” a Swedish pulp manufacturing firm, signs a contract with representatives of the government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, by which it will import machinery for lumbering and buy wood pulp igning of the contract in Moscow: left to righ sea” company; M. Heydenstam, Swedish minister in the U. S. S. R.; A. Serenbrowski, vice chairman of the Soviet Union Economie Council; Stepukovich, chief of the Bureau of Concessions; Nandorff, of Con- from a state forest. of the “/ ces: Counci By GEORGE GRIGORIEYV. For a long time past, from the times of the czarist and Pan (Pan- Polish noble) yoke, White Russia was ealled the country of Lapatsonu. A Lapatson is a White Russian peasant who for centuries worked for the Pan, wore lapti (shoes made from the bark of a tree) and lived under a straw roof, This name was given to the White. Russian peasant by the Polish magnates. The Lapatson has thrown off the Pan yoke, the Lapatson is already} |discarding the lapti and is beginning |§ to wear boots. The Lepatson is sub- stituting the roof made of straw by a thatched or iron roof. This is what the October Revolution has done for the Lapatson. Soviet White Russia has given the world wonderful examples of state, economic and national renaissance. The Republic of Many Languages. In Soviet White Russia there are four state languages, all of them with the same rights. There are over 50 national, village and local Soviets which are as many small autonomous brother “republics.” There are national—Laivian, Polish, Jewish—courts of justice, peoples’ palaces, and village reading rooms—to every nation its own—and no national antagonism whatever. In Seltsy, in the Moghilev district a Jewish national Soviet was elected,, Eighty per cent of the Seltsy popula- tion are Jewish peasants and 20 per cent White Russian peasants. The White Russians got alarmed and ex- cited: We will not form part of the Jewish village Soviet, we will join the adjoining White Russian soviet. But Photo above sho national | ye loutside world during several months. | Ut little settlements, from shops and| very The White Russian Socialist Soviet Republic a re ae are children of White Russian pea- sants. The White Russian pe: send their children to the Jewish school. The Lithuanian and Latvian villages have their own national schools which are, however, attended also by chil- dren of White Russian peasants. Is there in Kovno (capital of Fas cist Lithuania) an association o: Lithuanian proletarian poets and writ- ers? Certainly not. But in Minsk ch an association exists and—a| range coincidence—it sprung up {during the days when the Lithuania Fascists in Kovno were mercilessly | tshooting down the leaders of the Lith- | uanian proletariat. | | Such is Soviet White Russi | republic of “Lapatsons and Ser Soviet White Russia has 1 , jdessiatins of marsh land. This con- stitutes nearly 20 per cent of the total | territorial area of the country. Short- \age of land and agrarian over-popu- \lation, together with the marshes, are jthrottling peasant farming. The marshes make work v difficult, cutting off whole villages: from the In 1921, 13 peasant reclaiming as- | sociations began draining the 683 des- siatins of marsh land. In 1927, 600 reclaiming associations are draining over 50,000 dessiatins. |000 strong armed with spades, hatchets and buckets is digging ditches, making canals and is doing (drainage work. Considering that in [the course of six years the number of reclaiming associations increased THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1927 nts Ito of Dubrovna found it advisable to| mixed villages, of such shrouds now An army 25,-} the dispute was not of long duration. | nearly 50 times, ofle can feel assured An agreement was arrived at very | that the time is not far distant when quickly and voting proceeded in a/ the 1,650,000 dessiatins of marsh land friendly manner: Jews voted for White Russians and vice versa. Six Jews and five White Russians were elected to the Jewish village soviet. One of the White Russians speaks Jewish and he is sure to become vice- chairman of the Jewish village soviet. Jewish Schools. In Dubrovna, a Jewish settlement, there are two schools with seven years’ course, a White Russian and a Jew ish, side by side in aw adjoining par In the Jewish school ten of the pupils Where Will You Be On TILL ¥...L4th Some of your fellow-workers will be setting out that day for A SEX WEEKS’ TOUR to SOVIET RUSSIA to see all the sights of the new world there—the schools, factories, nurseries, clubs, museums, industrial developments of the first Workers’ Republic. Why not join th e party? The Tour Costs $575 for all expenses—including your Russian visé. Party limited. Time short, Apply immediately to WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. New York City . | dessiatin. | will become fertile land, and when; 300,000 new peasant farms will spring} up in White Russia possessing on an average eight hectares of land ‘each, Fuel Wealth. What can marsh land produce? | marsh land: In the “October” reclaim- trict the harvest was: Oats 170 poods, barley 110 poods, millet 120 poods per In Beresovaya Kladka, of |the Kalinin district the first plough- ing of the wild marsh land yielded 99 poods of oats and 190 poods of millet per dessiatin. Never before has White Russia experienced such harvests! Following in the footsteps of the re- claiming associations, there spring up like mushrooms machinery, seed, dairy, fire-proof building and peat as- sociations, There are huge deposits of peat in| the marshes, over 7 milliard cubic | metres, enormous fuel wealth guaran-! teeing to the White Ru cheap fuel for hundreds o: Strange Legends, The future of the White Russian| peasantry lies in the marshes, partial | salvation from landlessness and desti- an industry | years, | | tution, a sphere of work for an enor- | mous surplus of human energy. Strange legends were told about the marshes; they were supposed to be inhabited by devils, the marshes in- {fected the population with “marsh” fever. Now legends are told by the White Russian villages about the) marshes which are kept in subjection by the hand of man, on which steel) oxen march to and fro, which yield miraculous harvests. | Past and Present. White Russia has always been a} country of home industries. It had| very few factories and works and also | very few skilled workers. | At present this little Jewish local- | ity is gradually dying. The local Jews are looking for new sources of exis- tence, they go to the factories and are) on the land. At present 40,000 Jews) are working on the land, have become cultured peasants, for out of the 369) agricultural collective farms in White Russia, 125 are Jewish, provided with tractors, modern machinery and are model farms. They come from the! adjoining villages to the Jewish pea-| sants, White Russian peasanis, who, as of old, keep to the three-crop sys- tem, They come to see and learn, to adopt what is useful. In the Borisov! distaict the young peasants have de- |Here are the harvests on the drained| more and mo ling association of the Bobruisk dis-| schools. Page Three WAR With Cartoons FRED ELLIS, the world famous labor cartoonist, has just been added to The DAILY WORKER forces, as a daily contributor to the paper. Readers of The DAILY WORKER will remember Comrade Ellis’ powerful cartoons. LIBERALS HIT AT U.S. IMPERIALISM: ASK FREE SPEECH Nicaraguan Liberal to Address Conference SHINGTON, July 6.—Secret 2 Navy Curtis D. Wilbur the ire of was calle | the Amer A let retary to sj < and Wilbur’s rey hout comme cident later. Civie Rights Suppressed. The two- for its | general , 2 been ican Linden, director civil right to further W use of mar nerican lives ked to spe abroad to protect | property. In repl he said: that the purpose of to promote ho: 0 the United States Govern )I have no it would be a good thing} Such a confe establish White-Russian-Jewish Vaca to the is obvious jcided that Speakers on Jewish Center. beer: L. Dubrovno is a pecul patriarchal] @nd Arthur Garfield oye . Jewish labor center. For decades| York; Miss or The addition of this Jewish workers bent their backs over| Women’s Pe primitive looms, manufacturing “tal-| Thomas, eisim” (special garments which Jews | Industr put on when they pr. Two rubles Putney, a week were the earnings on which| School, the workers did not live but vegetated | ™Presentative in se arvation, losing their eye-| © Boye sight at the loom on which the thin| '"¥ of the Me silk thread was transformed into a ; holy shroud. Out of hundreds of workers thus employed, only a few have remained, Who stands. in need noted artist to the staff of The DAILY WORKER gives us a weapon of the most formidable character. 1 Democra National rs of n Chamber of Com- m Ask Investigation of Imperialism. Jett Lauck, League tr siding at the opening ation by the Re Committee n concessions d. Asur' for an investig Foreign Textile Workers. gut there is in Dubrovno, side by The Reds rely toa cultural, |Zormer slaves of Akg Polish magnates | side with the dying out taliesim in- Nie Mea I ee con and czarist generals. }dustry, a big textile fac The! eek Ah Ait A | ee [dustry, a big textile factory. The clared that “censorship of the press|@ large extent upon | evolution In Marsh, jfounder of it was Baron Hirsch. At/to the extent of the present censor- present it is the Soviet Dubroyno tes tile factory which produces material! pejjion,” for the peasants. The Jewish textile) Rrnst charged that liberal speak- workers are experienced skilled work-| ers cannot get time on the progra ers, model Jewish proletarian In! of high-powered stations. Soviet White Russia industry is de- Radio Restrictions. veloping, new factories are being built “Control of the air means control and the old factories are again put} of thought,” he asserted: “The pc into working order. From the dying) cal significance of this censorship is great as the party in office will) primitive looms there stream to the | have greater power to perpetuate it- new enterprises “non-working” ele-| self. The present commission doe ments who enter upon a new life of| pretty well with a hard job under = labor. | rotten law which full of joke Towards Light and Culture. The law needs revision as to non-d A curious phenomenon is witnessed | ¢Timination against minority par at present at the Soviet elections in|C"tYol over assignments of licens the villages: Peasant men and women | iragiog in. licenses and! trist fea: bring forward the demand for schools | ‘'€S- : with a seven-years’ course. Thirst | for knowledge and study has taken! Wavering Wuhan Heads such a stronghold of the rural popu- |! Scored for Treason lation that schools with a four years course no longer satisfy it. | More Schools. jship of the air would create a re propaganda, to destroy the morale of the enemy and to win new recruits for the revolutionary cause. This holds true for Soviet Russia and China as well as capitalist America. More powerful than any (Continued from Page One) There are at present in White Rus- (flow the path pointed out by thei@Y other propaganda {sia 264 schools with a seven year Chinese Communists and the Com- munist International. is the appeal of the course and 8,773 schools with a four ears’ course. But this does not saiis-. “Their acticns have heen directed s : i e rure i emands | not to loosening + avravian rev. ‘ the rural ROD Tesi ‘It denrende ae te ei ae ee vi arian Bait cartoon, with its simple, » schools with a seven | !Ution, but it upy ion. Such ars’ course, including agricultural conditions m be cons 1 wrong.” ™ Hit At Tang -Pin-h direct message, the sound basis for the development the responsibility for directing the of scientific thought in White Russia; | peasant movement in the correct man- An overwhelming majority of the! ner.” White Russian intelligentsia has rec-| According to certain information ognized the October Revolution, has | Tang’s statement was made with the returned from the countries whither agreement of the Central Committee it had emigrated, and promotes now] of the Chinese Communist Party. culture and education in Soviet White | * * Russia. | And all this taken together consti- | tute the White Russian S. S. R. | Grocery Grafter Caught. DETROIT, Mich. July 6-—John Grafino, 52, said to be the last of 13 men sought in connection with the collapse of the International Whole- sale Grocery Company two years ago was held by the department of jus- tiee agents today. Grafino is alleged to have concealed assets of the bank- rupt Economy Wholesale Grocery Company in 1919, Chang Plans Soviet Raid. PEKING, July 6.—Chang 'so-lin, Manchurias war lord, who raided the | Soviet emb compound at Peking {several months ago, is planning the| confiscation of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, whiéh is owned jointly by China and the Soviet Union, The proposed seizure of the Chinese Eastern is regarded both as a move} on the part of Great Britain to goad) There are at present four universi Referring to the diploma ave 4° . in White Russia—the University | of absence” to which Tang Pin ng | The addition of this jin Minsk, the Agricultural Academy |Communist Minister of Agriculture in Korki, the Veterinary Institute in | resorted when he found himself un-| new werful wea) yn - ? Vitebsk, and the Communist Univer-jable to cope with the wavering Wu-| sity in Minsk, with 4,866 students, in-|han leaders, the Pravda s: that it} nal i cluding 42 per cent peasants and 20/is impossible to make the leaders of to our arse will per cent working class elements who|the Nationalist Government modify | are preparing themselves for work/their, policy, Tang should not have| make The DAILY among the toilers of White Russia.|recourse to “diplomatic leaves, but | The 688 pedagogues, lawyers, econo-|should openly put the question of a | WORKER even more eine and Saag practitioners, who | Communist ion from the wav d t th graduated from White Russian uni-|ing Nationalist Government and Tous to the escent a already ae, d thru-| course to other means of struggle. aaee ow ite Russia. ree workers’| “The pressure of millions of people italy vgs ed ue A Sei i iit and beyond Wuhan is powerful,”/ capitalist class of rade schools provide cadves of ful 'Yisays the Pravda. The counter-revo- . . Lipa i lution cannot rid itself of a hostile America, than ever No Illiteracy, |vear, Neither the agrarian move- 270 village reading rooms, 95 peo-|ment nor the labor movement has before. ple’s palaces, 50 clubs, 400 centres for | yet said its last word.” “ae the liquidation of illiteracy, 12 pea- | es hari ee Realizing the strength sant homes, 8 educational institutes, | Tang Gets Leave. 35 schools for adult and adolescent! (Special To DAILY WORKER). | workers, three White Russian thea-| HANKOW, July 6.—Tang Ping-| and power now tres and one Jewish—such are the cul-|hsiang, Communist Minister of Agri-| : $ tural and educational centres of White|culture in the Wuhan Government behind it, The DAILY Russia, | was granted leave of absence that he co The institute of White Russian cul-|equested for reasons of “health.” WORKER Army will step ture, the “Lenin” scientific research| In his request for a leave of ab- e agricultural institute, the state li-/ sence, Tang says “The political situa- forward with new brary, a book repository, constitute |tion is so serious that I cannot bear h . ee vigor in its mare \° toward the goal of Five Thousand New Readers. The modern methods of warfare 5 . . will be carried far into ’ * the enemy’s territory. . On with the War the Soviet Union into war and a move —WITH CARTOONS. en the yart cf Japan, which owns the | South Manchurian railroad, the Chi-| ‘ nese Eastepn's chief competitor. | Ay pa ( (