The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-16

czar's general was found. Knowing
all these things the great mass of
the Russian toilers refuse to take
them at their face value. The econ
omic situation in Russia is hard and
any promise of immediate relief finds
ready listeners, but as soon as the
question is submitted to general dis
cussiop, the Communist argument al
ways proves to be the strongest and
most convincing, and the sailors and
soldiers turn against their mislead-
ing officers and throw them over
board or behead them"
In the "Petrograd Pravdap Of
March a, 1921, we find the following
news item from Kronstadt:
According to the information
reaching the Committee of Defence
the picture in Kronstadt today is as
follows: First of all began the di-
vision of butter and other supplies,
on the boats.
"The leaders-in chief are general
Kozlovsky, captain Burkser and Of
ficer Shirmanovsky. Besides this
there were occasions, when sailors
drew out officers from cabins and
occupied same themselves. The chief
tains of the insurection are encour-
aging the wavering sailors with pro-
misses that Finland is coming to
their assistance, and that in Petro-
grad, if not today, then tomorrow,
will be an insurrectiop."
An interesting and informing brief
article is published in the 'Petrograd
Pravda" of this same date. Trans
lated in full it reads:
"Provocation by the S. RS. comes
out in greater and greater clearness.
Before US lies an extra edition Of
the S. RS. newspaper "Narodnoje
Delo" (The National Affair." of the
% of February, 1921. This news
paper is published by the S. RS. in
Reval. 1t is the chief organ of the
s. Rs, in it are articles by the
chairman of the Constituent As
sembly'' Chernof, printed side by
side with the productions of smaller
and greater dignitaries.
"The "extra edition. is devoted to
the events in Petrograd. With yard
size type is announced, that in all
Russia there is now transpiring an in
surection of the toiling populace
against its oppressors, that the
workers of Petrograd and Moscow
are aroused against the Soviet rule.
That Vasilyev's Isle is in the hands
of the insurectionists, that Com
munist collectiyes in Petrograd are
mysteriously cut up; that Trotzky
flees from Moscow and 'on the
streets of Moscow and Petrograd be-
tween workers and soldiers on one
side and Communists on the other,
are raging pitched battles and ST.
milar nonsense.
"At the conclusion is printed ar
article under the title cat the OPP
perfume Moment" which begins with
, the words: Accomplished Before
our eyes commence to visualize in
all its glory and power the real Sec
ond of March national revolution, the
cry hail the Constituent Assembly
became the battle cry of the awaken
en- revolutionary toiling mass
"Notice: all this was written be-
fore the mutiny ip Kronstadt. Count
es-spies of the French "Okhrana"
RUSSIAN word for political police),
apparently, forestated their own pre-
! pared provocation.
1--WE can imagine, with what pleas
ure the merchants, bankers and pen
stoned generals and "Okhraniks" liv-
ing on the mercy of the French
bourse, accepted the announcement
of the S. RS, that the Communist
collectives in Petrograd are mystic
riously cut up Tears of joy mingled
with smiles of pleasure and content
run down the faces of the black
hundreds.
"Provocateurs of the S. Rs. built
themselves a nest under the roof of
the Esthonian bourgeoisie in Reval
and from there carry on bribery and
provocation.
workers, learn! Think. whose
affairs are promoted by the S. Rs!
"Who for the revolution, is with
us! Who is for counter-revolution,
goes with the s. RS. and the czar's
generals!"
Having these facts and explana-
tions before us, we can sum-up the
case Of the aborted revolt as follows:
Schemed and originated in Paris;
worked out in detail in Reval; car
ried into practice by Socialist -Revo-
lutionists and the generals Of the
ex-czar il met its just reward at the
hands Of the true Communist soldiers
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