American Recognition of Soviet Union (Ends Seventeen Years' Official Duplicity
American Recognition of Soviet Union (Ends Seventeen Years' Official Duplicity Agreement Vindicates Policy of Socialist Party And Checks Communist International In This Country AMERICAN...
...It met in 1928 and no congress has been held sine*) that year and the executive has spoken in its name...
...The Communist Internatoinal was sow-1 ing civil war in the ranks of the working class parties not under its rule during this period...
...The message of President Wilson to Russia in May, 1917, was the beginning of the sloppy phase, but it was inspired mainly by the desire to get the Russian masses to contribute more of their bones to the imperialist war...
...Russia may also have to borrow in order to be able to buy, and American loans to Europe to enable Europe to purchase in this country postponed the arrival of the depression but did not prevent it...
...Socialist City Attorney, Max ¦•skin, his motion for the dismissal of the charges having been 'Hied, insists that he will not Prosecute when the cases come up...
...This new tie-up has enabled the college to broaden Its program to meet the increased needs...
...This agreement is the latest evidence of the slow scuttling of the Communist International in exchange for recognition and trade relations by the various governments...
...The agreement will tend to check the danger of war between Russia and Japan...
...Still the capitalist press insists J»t the demonstrators in the Hans ¦¦trier incident be prosecuted...
...The recognition of the Soviet Union carries with it terms that leave American Communists almost speechless...
...This change of policy has been going on for nine years...
...J* disapproval might, therefore, ¦* distinct help to the victims...
...The following comrades returned their checks as donations to the campaign fund: D. Wal-lach, Florence Gold, Charles Blackman, Alexander Schwartz, Patrick J. Murphy, Dr...
...To what extent the Russian market will help to stabilize American capitalism is a matter of conjecture...
...It ended in August, 1919, when steamers leaving Seattle and San Francisco for Vladivostok carried troops and arms for Major-Genera] Graves in Jtossia...
...These Devoted Socialists WHEN local New York de-" cided to hold a meeting in Madison Spuare Garden, a number of comrades loaned the local money to pay a deposit on the ront...
...Immediately after the meeting checks1 were sent to all of them...
...The classes will emphasize the history of the trade union movement for the benefit of many new recruits to the unions...
...For a while he was book review editor of The New Leader...
...HMtot express such disapproval the victims in that way if possible...
...Classes are being arranged in morning, afternoon and evening sections...
...Will Meet December IS Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the members of The New Leader Publishing Association will be held Friday evenings, December 15, at the Rand School of Social Science...
...Soma of the old slogans are repeated by the executive for foreign consumption, but slogans and action art in marked contrast with each other...
...The Soviet Union is pledged "to restrain all persons in government service and all organizations of the government or under its direct or indirect control, including organizations in receipt of any financial assistance from it, from any act overt or covert liable in any way whatsoever to injure the tranquility, prosperity, order or security of the whole or any part of the United States, its territories or possessions, and, in particular, from any act tending to incite or encourage armed intervention, or any agitation or propaganda having as an aim the violation of the territorial integrity of the United States, its territories or possessions, or the bringing about by force of a change in the political or social order of the whole or any part of the United States, its territories and possessions...
...He is a graduate of Columbia University and was a teacher there last year...
...The Leader says editorially in a wtsnt issue, under the caption, "Again, Why...
...Not only does it sweep the Communist International out of the picture in the United States...
...The Communist International proclaimed itself pur enemy and by its policy cultivated hates and divisions in working class ranks, but in the end it brought schisms in its own ranks so that today it is a shadow of what it once was and two rival Communist organizations are making war against it...
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...During this dark period the Socialist Party gathered food, cloth-tot and soap for the Russian ¦uses, protested against intervention, and urged recognition of and trade relations with Russia...
...When Moscow pledges itself not to permit any propaganda or organization here "under the direct or indirect control" of the government, "including organizations in receipt of any financial assistance from it," it is not surprising that the day following publication of the agreement a number of high functionaries of the Communist Party could not be found by tho reporters...
...W we can still see no reason why ¦•J should insist ttniess they are mi atu...
...Louis Sadoff, James Oneal, Harry W. Laldler, Joseph Mueller, B. 0. Vladeck, Joseph Baskln, J. Belsky, B. Botwinlck, Al Meyers, Meyer Gillis, Adolph Held, Morris Felnstone, and Berths Mallly...
...Lawrence Rogln, who assisted in the extension department of Brook-wood Labor College this fall, takes charge of this expanded program...
...it will make it mora easy for Russia to obtain materials of which the Russian masses are in need...
...Its action weakened the working class before the class enemy in all nations, and yet the Socialist Party did not swerve from its international duty...
...Pttre can be no other reason, fcy say...
...The campaign committee wishes to express its appreciation to the comrades for their contribution and help In wiping out the deficit of the campalgm...
...The only reason for seeking to M the demonstrators into jail, the Socialists insist, is sympathy with Persecution of Socialists, trade Bionists, Communists, Jews, paci-l«U and liberals in Nazi Germany...
...All this is to the good...
...Reading Labor College Expands OEADING, Pa.—After five years' ** service to the trade union movement, the Reading Labor College will open on Monday with a new teacher and a revised program...
...The agreement practically outlaws the Third International in the United States...
...The Communist International mat only once since 1924...
...American Recognition of Soviet Union (Ends Seventeen Years' Official Duplicity Agreement Vindicates Policy of Socialist Party And Checks Communist International In This Country AMERICAN recognition of Rus A lis late last week brought ar El it an official policy towards jsMia that has ranged from ar pvritten alliance with Czarism ir ||l World War, through expression d aloppy friendship for the Rus-|L| masses when Czarism was IHrthrown, then military inter-ywtion in support of Kolchak, and aiding in refusal to recognize the |olshevik regime...
...All these phases of policy were observed by President Wilson and the last one was continued by Harding, Coolidge and Hoover and ]• now abandoned by Roosevelt...
...The Socialists "•of this city are waging a I battle against the combined re ¦ttionaries to drop the prosecution of the Communists arrested at a recent demonstration against Hans Lother, Hitler ambassador to the United States...
...jy—pproval of the persecution Jj»t have some effect In causing *• persecution to be abandoned, fjt least to be eased up a little...
...It will help some, but it should be remembered that international trade is the exchange of commodities with balances settled with a universal commodity, gold...
...anxious to have the Jewt, |P» Trade Unionists, the Socialists jP otheri persecuted by the Hit-•its regime of Germany...
...Peace pacts have been agreed to with other capitalist governments by the Soviet Union, but we doubt whether any of them is as drastic and sweeping as this one...
...The wavo of organization last summer has made the Federated Trades Council realize the importance of labor education, and for the first time the college is under the direction of the organized labor movement...
...it is difficult to see how the Communist Party itself can function without materially altering its program to such an extent that the heir will be unable to recognize the parent...
...These facts, however, do not prevent the Communists from broadcasting throughout the country the "information" that Socialist officials in Milwaukee arrested and are prosecuting opponents of Hitlerism...
...Russian recognition vindicates another policy of the Socialist I Party, but the thunder on our left lis hardly a faint rumble...
...All members are urged to attend...
...The third and fourth sections of the agreement expand and clinch the above second section...
...New Leader Publ...
...Mayor Hoan, Socialist, recently tatoed a local measure passed over solid Socialist opposition, to appoint a special prosecutor, after the Socialist City Attorney had repeatedly called for the dismissal •1 the charges and had stated he •raid not prosecute...
...Socialists Refuse to Prosecute MILWAUKEE...
...i All the newspapers in the city, iMth the exception of the Socialist tily, the Leader, are insisting that toe demonstrators be punished...
...it will transfer much of German trade with Russia to the United States and will contribute something to the further economic decline of Fascist Germany...
...Kolchak was already in retreat hundreds of miles and the civil war was prolonged by President Wilson's action...
...If they *"« not glad, why would they not Black of the demonstrators, seek P causes of the demonstration try to lay the blame where it ffiMs...
...Aside from weekly classes, educational work will be carried to union meetings by lectures, study classes, labor dramatics, and song...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 22
