The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-27


demonstration was held at the Lex
ington Theatre here today by the
American Labor Alliance, which is
cooperating with the Friends of So
Wet Russia in relief work for the
workers of Russia.
Fully 5000 people were present
and responded to an appeal for funds
by donations amounting to more than
N$4, 900 in cash, checks and,pledges and
about $1,000 in jewelry. The entire
sum was turned over to the Friends
of Soviet Russia.
The meeting was a continuous de-
monstration from beginning to end.
In opening the meeting, Caleb Har-
rison stated that it was the begin
ming Of campaign all over the coun-
try to help the suffering workers
of Soviet Russia. He called on all
progressive and radical workers to
respond to the call of the famine
stricken people Of Russia. He showed
that Hoover made his relief offer to
aid and create counter revolutionary
movements in Russia.
"lf Russia is not helped, she will
be helpless and at the mercy of the
atrocious White Terror. But if we can
provide the food that is so. necessary,
Russia, self-sufficient, independent,
can lay down the terms of her relief
and need not fear the counter-revolu-
tionary intentions of capitalist ma
tions."
Hoover Called Russian Workers
"Rabid Bolshevists."
DR.. ]. w. Hartmann, editor of So
Wet Russia, remarked that it was very
strange that Hoover, the man who
now wants to help the Russian work.
ers, was the man who always called
them "rabid Bolshevists." Has he
changed his mind, or has his opin-
ions been changed by "higher inspira-
tion?" Reading from an article in a
recent issue of the Worlds Work he
showed how one Of Hooyer's agents
used his power as head of the relief
work N Hungary to Nbfeak TIE GSaa4
munist regime in Hungary. y
Faminss Have Occurred in Russia
Before.
Ludwig Lore, editor Of the Volks-
zeitung, refuted the accusation that
the famine was caused by the incom-
potency or treachery of the Soviet
government. He pointed out that
there was terrible famine in Rus
sia in 1891, which caused deaths Of
hundreds of thousands of men, women
and children. The present famine is
due to the after-effects of the war,
the blockade and the low stage of
Russian agriculture. The transporta-
tion facilities completely broke down
during the war, and there was fear
full scarcity of farming machinery
and implements, which other countries
managed to get, but which were
denied to Soviet Russia because it
was a Workers Republic.
"Why does not Mr.. Hoover think
Of providing relief for the 100000
unemployed in this country?" asked
Rose Pastor Stokes.
Achievements of Revolution Not Sur
rendered.
The Relief Commissioners of Rus
sia have refused to accept the harsh
conditions imposed by Hoover. They
are intent upon not giving up the
achievements of the Revolution and
will hold high the principles of Com
munism, even though, at the moment,
they are compelled to make temporary
concessions.
"If the government of the prole-
tariat had not been established, she
would have been supplied with rail-
road equipment and locomotives and
every capitalist government would
have rushed to her relief long ago."
Mrs. Stokes declared.
"You may imagine what would hap
pen If Hoover had his way" she con-
tinued. "He would have armored cars,
gatling guns and White Guards. The
Russian workers will hold the power
and never relinquish a jot of it. They
will hurl them back with the great
slogan of the last imperialist war;
They shall not passv"
Resolution Unanimously Adopted.
Mrs. Stokes proposed the following
resolution, which was adopted with
stormy applause: -
whereas, millions Of Russian
workers and peasants are starving
(, through atmospheric causes beyond
human control and through the block
ade deliberately inflicted upon them
by the bourgeois enemy governments
Of the world, and
aWhereas. these enemy governments