Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-12

Edited Paper in Gotham
Was Arrested in July
n by Kerensky.
By Frederick NJ. Kcrby.

ronae from the cellar at II st. Marks
Place. in the heart of New forks
East Side, where Leon Trotzky, the
man who has overthrown the Kerens-
ky government in Petrograd, tor
three months edited the little RUSSIAN
revolutionary Socialist paper, NoVy
Mir. the organ of the Russian branch
OF the Socialist party in America.
Surrounded by three Of the men
who have shared exile with Trotzky
In Siberia, and later were his associ-
ates In Vienna, Berne, and Paris, l sat
at the desk in the dingy hole at the
rear Of the cellar that Trotzky used. !
s In the intervals between, the clank
of the presses behind the wooden par
tition that separated the pressroom
from the editorial sanctum. / got MS
comrades' story of the man who is now
The leader OF the Bolsheviki in Petro-
tQrad. on whom the future of Russia
may depend.
IA wonderful man." said
der Menshoy. now editor Of Novy Mir.
Tall, commanding, about 40 years
i old, with a wonderful personality ana
"a winning smile, Trotzky is not a
driver, but a leader.
.He is one of the very best speak
.ers in Russia. l have heard him
speak many times and he is eloquent.
IA, writer, too, he is. and so powerful
A., one that the German government
( passed a sentence of six months I'M
] prisonment against him, although he
Y was not in Germany at the time. be-
4 PAUSE Of his book attacking Prussian-
I ism and kaiserism.
/ you must not say that Trotzky Is
1 spro-German; he hates kaiserism and
smtlitarism with an. enduring hatred"
NJ N SrNA.~1~&~ n1yrv md than hv hic two
4 assistants, who seemed anxious that l
\ should get all the facts, Menshoy con-
h ainued:
4 ''Trotzky was born in southern Rus
Il STA, In the province of Kherson; his
D father a poor farmer. We do not
q know6how he got his education, but
n when he was 10 ear old he was al
N ready connected with the revolution
4 lry movement-the Socialist-Demo-
VI cratic party. During the first Russian
N revolution in 1905. he was in Petro-
II trad, as chairman of the Council of
n Workmen's delegates. When the
IL revolution was crushed. all members
Of that council were arrested-Trotz-
q ky with them. He was sent to Siberia
VI already been deported there when 70
SEN years old because he was a Socialist.
III He escaped from Siberia to Switzer-
M land. G
Ri When the present war brokek out
20 waA in Vienna, publishing a Rus
L, sian Socialist newspaper, and con-
II tributtng to the German paper New
Il zeit. and the French paper Human
lite.
"He8was expelled from Austria be-
L cause he had written a book against
III kaiserism, and went back to Switzer-
MIand, and from there to Paris. where
he became editor Of the Russian
@newspaper, Dur Cause.
That paper was suppressed by the
NNsFrench censorship, and Trotzky or
Mdered to leave France. He went to
d spain, but on request of the French
Tho was again deported, so he sailed
Sssior New York, arriving last January
"InggNew York he helped organize
1.-THE Socialist propaganda league, be
htscame q member of the Russian
ssbranch of the American Socialist par
lily and temporarily. while u editor
Twas away on a lecture tour, he ed1tee
1.-The paper here. for three months,
April q. after the Russian revo'
hutton cleft rPetre'
grad by way of Canada and Norway
but was arrested at Halifax, with
5Hew others of his comrades. On tn
Hntercession of Milukkoff, he was re
leased. and arrived in Petrograd il
May. He was almost immediatel!
sSelecteds a member of the Council o
sgWorkmen and Soldiers Delegates.
HE is identified with the Boil
Ahevfkf group, and was elected chair
man of the Bolsheviki convention
recently held in Petrograd.
"He was arrested in July by tn
Kerensky government, after the up
rising in Petrograd. but was released
I'll shnd took a prominent part in the SO
fa1led Democratic convention about
4 snOnth ago. He was the leader of tn
#s ggeft wing in that convention.
ssTrotzky. as leader of the Boil
kneviki, stands for three things
First, peace; but not a separat
Sbeace:: a general peace under the ia
miliar formula Of no annexations an
40 indennities. All these men ar