The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-05-28
CONDITIONS RIPENING FOR
WORLD REVOLUTION

WASHINGTON -Anothcr red wave
that may put the working class in
mower from Warsa" TO Gibraltar the
next few months is forecast by official
adv:ces now accumula.mg at Washing
ton.
Censorship is the only agency that
! still functions at the command OF
Western european governments. Behind
the temporary screen the dissolution
of the old order proceeds az gallop.
Outstanding items in the budget of
official information gathered here are
these:
Soldiers and diplomats look for Po-
land to burst "like hubble Ger
blown" after the great drive in which
her armies have penetrated the war
wastes of Ukralnia Tlti0ut landing a
single serious blow on the Red Army
of Russia. Behind the Polish army
food riots are developing rapidly and
the known breed supply is less than
enough for two weeks
American commissioners report that
the four little ''republics' lying in
! the Caucasus Mountains between Turk
|cy.Porsia and Russia are saturated with
rro.Soviet sentiment and bitterly host
| lie to Allied interference.
Asiatic Turkey is three fourths in
: the hands of anti Euteute nationaiists
who are negotiating defensive agree
ment with Soviet Russia, supported
enthusiastically by the Mohammcdan
masses. whose .rGisionists enjoy
complete religious and economic freed
lom in modern Russia.
Syrian chicftains have denounced
he French mandate over their country
and nave summoned the trlh"s to arms.
The las. straw of oppression was laid
ON when by official decree the Pa
| ris Government established an exact
equality between the deprecated
French franc and the much more valu.
able native currency. Syrian couriers
were at once dispatched to Russia to
solicit support in the war against
France. "'Do you know what Bolshe'
wism would mean to your peopleY'
Allied agents asked the Syrian chiefs
"'Wc prefer anything to French in
fluence," the Syrians replied.
Famine and class wars are prevalent
throughout Bulgaria, Yugo-Slav;a
Chacho- -Slovakia and Hungary. Condi
tons vary from open revolt to pas
sive acquiescence by peasants and
workmen who have no faith left in
the competence or permanence Of
existing governments.
1t is in Germany, however, that the
most sinister threat to the old politica
and economic order has arisen. Offic;a
reports and isolated press dispatches
from Berlin unite upon an analysis OF
conditions there which confirmed in ,
striking manner predictions made las
winter by Col. Roustam Bek, militar,
adviser to the Russian Soviet Burea,
in this country.
| Col. Bek predicted that German mil
itary men would eventually max,
common cause with their soldiers am
the working classes to restore German
independence by means of a proletar
ian government and communist army
In a word, that the Soviet prin
ciple would be adopted because il, soS
fered the only escape from the un
employment and bankruptcy of labor
ling and professional classes alike.
4 1t is interesting, then, to hear Vor
waerts, organ of the Social Democrats
saying in recent issue:
"The failure of the Kapp cOul
brought many new converts to nationa
IBolshevism, many of them the SAM
officers who supported the coup. TIL
Kapp coup hammered into the brain
Of our militarists that there is no us
trying to govern when working class
5 es are against them. Hence thei
| sndden yearning for and understand
= ing with the workers and their attemp
TO obtain the support of the workers
"'These Officers" continues VOr
waerts, "argue that Russian has prov
ed the vitality of Bolshevism. Militar
. Officers who lost their positions be
cause of the Versailles treaty.. see al
so tfat Trotzky has college mates an,
! professional colleagues in Russia, al
of whom have given their class mate
| and relatives fine places in the Re
Army
And Professor Otto Hostach write
! in the reactionary Kreuzyeitung:
D Despite the fairest promises Mos,
ow's propaganda in Germany is IN
0 necessary. 1t is aided and abetted b
n the dangerous phantom of nations
= Bolshevism which now stalks in Ge,
many, not only in Communist circle
: but also in the younger military cir,
l. les, and is finding support anon
= the youth of the country generally. "
: The Berlin correspondent of tn
J, New York Sun finds the same sen
L. iment among financiers who have 10.
$ hope OF ever making private fortun,
c again unless Germany shall brea
free from encircling enemies "Whe
it becomes clear that Bolshevism
J the only way out 1 shall give nj
l. service to the BolsLevists, &" one G
l. them asserts.
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