The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-19
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lr oJllt.l-L party 0l tie A-ttV States being committed 10 aa anti war policy fund themselves when they looN about them upon the horns of dilemma. 2I Zamntkin 4 Russian and d member of the party points out this awkward sl- tuatIon and does not venture to say how 1t can be overcome.
 The party passed an anti-war re- solution with irilIs at their St. Louis convention. Comes now the Rus sian revolution. IL may not be a socialist revolution: indeed it Is almost certain that it is just a bourgeois revolution. Zametnn then rropoands the question Is the Socialist party for that revolution?"
 Then hr wants to kao" Whg the socialists joiued with the Test, if tAer are against this bourgeois re voIutiou. in receiving Bakmeteh aud the other comrades from Rus sia. The Russians did not come here for applause and s9eaca'- only Their crying need is not spineless, meaningless. moneyless passive sym pathy of the looker-om. We are not Guitters. We are socialists. We know that the Russian revolution in in danger of being crushed by Czar Wilhelm of Prussia from over the border and the Black Hundreds at home, We know that Russia must have peace If the new born freedom is to endure. And there are but two ways of obtaining peace. The first way is to leave the trenches, hands up and refuse 70 fight. They Wont Fight was the recent headline announcing a recent condition on the Galician front.
 Unfortunately the they here mentioned comprised only one side of the fighting farmers. And, if it is true that you must have two to pick a quarrel, so it is true that YOU must have two to keep the peace. One side did not fight. But the other side did, and obedient to the command of the Kaiser, shot the retreating revolutionary troops in the back, killing thousand on thou sands of our Comrades who be- lieyed that to obtain peace one had but to lay down ones arms. The pacifcist advice to be too reyolu- tionary to fight has been excellent Hindenberg congratulated His Ma jesty and His Majesty aJ@gratu- lated Hindenberg. Both were happy But revolutionary Russia was not Pacifcism has al ready helped the Kaiser Do we. the organized socialists of the United States hear the cry for help? Or are we satisfied that the Kaiser and Hindenberg have be- come pacifcists of their own sweet will? In still clinging to the reso- lution and against war on general principles, do we give succor and help to the nearly-strangled revo- lution or to his majesty the Kaiser and cousin of the dethroned Czar? In opposing the war do we uphold the aspirations of the Russian pro- lot Hyin hy n thnnSandC to obtain some crumb of bourgeois freedom of assembly and of the pres or do we help to hold up the up-lifted arm with the mailed ifs. of the autocracy of the Czar, the Kaiser and the Black Eundreds?' . We know very well that the an swer that will be made bv the Mil waukee Socialist that it is the na- tionalism not the socialism of N. Zametkin that is speaking. But that does not answer his question
 There is no getting over the fact that this war is. It is here with us now as an accomplished fact. Wil' it add to the liberty of the world that the socialists still persist in their anti-war attitude ana convert their party into an incoherent mass of all sorts and conditions of men whose minds are attra :tnh to the party because they are purely and simply pacifcists and not necessarily because they are sociahsts'
 Take the wide endorsements of the Peoples Council 1oi Peace and Democracy. II has secured wonder ful support all over the country But il is controlled in the main by