Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-04-28
WORLD REVOLT IS
HAYWOOD'S PLAN
big Blll' Sent to Russia by the
Communists.
CALLED A TRUSTED ADVISER
Red Chief in Statement Says /. w. w.
Organizer is in Moscow to Head
the Soviets' World Propa-
ganda Bureau.

New York, April 25.-In confirma-
ton, of reports reaching federal au-
thorlties in Chicago that William D.
cBig BilP) Haywood had gone to
Russia to become head of the prOpa-
ganda department of the soviet govern
ment, a statement was issued by
Charles Edward Scott, signing himself
as secretary of the Pan-American
agency of the Communist Interna-
tlonale, explaining in detail. the work
which the fugitive l. w. w. chieftain
is to do when he joins Lenin
SCOTS statement calls Haywood a
trusted advisor Of the general staff
of the world revolution" and says that
in bis new position in the Red regime
he will continue to work to destroy
the capitalist dictatorship"
Denies Haywood Deserted.
Scott says Haywood "did not desert
his fellow workers." as was at first in
timated, but went ''openly and undis-
guised." He adds that he will return.
Scott's statement follows:
"COmrade Haywood did not leave
the United States of his own account,
but at the direct command of the Com
munist InternatiOnale, of which he is
a disciplined member and whose au-
thority he recognizes as the highest in
the world. He will be present at the
third congress of the Communist In
ternational on June TO- He will also
attend the first international congress
of trade and industrial unions on July
1 at Moscow as one of the true leaders
and spokesman of the revolutionary
workers of America. His advice and
assistance are required by the Com
munist International and it was his
revolutionary duty to obey it's sum-
mons to go to Moscow and to disre-
gard the court order to go to prison,
where too many of our best men are
already buried alive.
'The Communist International de-
nounces in the strongest terms those
lawyers and liberals and sentimental
lists who criticize this soldier of the
revolution for breaking faith with the
capitalist courts; who worry more
about one man who escapes than about
the scores who 90 to prison. We trust
that no members of the I. w. w. will
share this silly, bourgeois prejudice.
Comrade Haywood is no coward
"Liebknecht Case Similar"
"Kar Liebknecht was called cow
ard by the German capitalists during
the weeks he was in hiding before they
murdered him. Lenin was accused of
cOWardice when he secluded himself
after the uprising in Petrograd in
July, Notwithstanding the taunts of
Kerensky, but working night and day
for the overthrow of the Kerensky
government.
$50, too, will William D. Haywood
workAas a trusted adviser Of the gen
eral staff of the world revolution and
subject to it's command. He will con-
tinue to work to destroy the barbarous
capitalist dictatorship which enslaves
the working class and holds it's best
leaders in prison. In the place Of the
ulCIdUOISIllD y
to bring about the dictatorship of the
workers that will smash open all the
prison doors, release the working class
prisoners and Jail the jailers of to-
day.
"Comrade Haywood did not desert
his fellow workers, as he is falsely
accused by the capitalists and their
hirelings and apOlOgists. COmrade Hay
wood went to soviet Russia on revOu-
tionary duties openly and uf3disguised.
And openly and undisguised he will re-
turn to America but the time ana
manner of his coming will be deter
mined by the requirements of the
revolutionary class struggle and not
by the DEGREES of capitalists courts.
Make Pledge to Workers.
"To the members of the /. w. w.
and the other true defenders of the
cause Of labor who suffer today in the
prison cells of America, the Com
munist Internationale sends its most
affectionate greetings and it's solemn
pledge to strive by every means to
rouse the tolling masses to action in
their behalf.
"Fellow workers, do not be deluded
into the childish belief that the ruling
class will listen to appeals for elem
ency. Put no faith in petitions-those
scraps of paper which our oppressors
only laugh at and throw into the waste
basket. Revolutionary mass action of
the workers is our weapon. Revolution
mass action is the way to force open
the pirson doors. Revolution mass ac-