New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
Radicals Hold
Hoover Seeks
Fall of Soviet
shor Alliance Meeting
Refuses ''Capitalisiic''
Aid for Russia Unless
the Reds Administer 1t
Allies Blamed for Famine
gose Pastor Stokes Chief
Orator; $4,000 Reported
10 Have Been Subscribed

4 concerted attack was directed at
-. Russian relief project of Herbert
{ Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, by
II the speakers at meeting under the
...r;eas of the American Labor AL
s.snrs in the Lexington Avenue Theater
,nsstsraay afternoon. He was accused
- making an open attempt to use the
s.;stortunes - OF the Russian Reds to-
msyd the destruction of their Soviet
sayernment, which was described as
sssrstituting the "only real republic in
the world
s. eeud help to Russia and was at
.snded by an enthusiastic audience
rh;ch Kissed the mention of the relief
~nrk Of the British and American
p;hle societies and the name of Samuel
campers. while it loudly applauded
,sferences to William B. Haywood.
pssolutions were adopted accepting
,sief from capitalistic sources only in
- lar rs it was administered solely
Nv the Russian Workers and Peasants
federated Soviet Republic"
Says Allies Caused Starvation
urs Rose Pastor Stokes, the chief
sDeaker. said that the blockade of Rus
s;a by the Allied powers was the cause
~ the widespread starvation now on
sha increase throughout the country.
II the proletariat dictatorship had
rsvar been established, Russia would
have received railroad stocks and loco
natives. The railways would have
been nut in proper condition from end
IN and of the country, said Mrs. Stokes.
Hoover admits in an interview that
the chief difficulty in the present stu
stion is railroads." she said. HE sug-
cests that his relief commission take
sontrol of the railroad situation. We
ca;, imagine what would happen If it
aid. In going from Siberia to Moscow
crane stated that the Russian railroads
Looked like matchboxes coupled with
bairpins and drawn by samovars. But
II Hoover took them over, armored cars
would take the place of the match
boxes, the hairpins would become Cat
ling guns, and instead of samovars the
powerful engines of the counter revolu-
tionists would draw the trains.
aRussia will never relinquish to
Hoover and the Supreme Council one
iota of power The Russian workers
and peasants will hold the power and
never relinquish one jot of it. The
Soviet government will hurl back at
the capitalist bourgeoisie the famous
phrase of their late imperialistic war:
They shall not pass
"Mr. Hoover never worried about the
100000 unemployed in the United
States. There is just as much hunger
here as nj Russia. He wants to get in
to the country not to relieve hunger,
out because he thinks he can relieve
the Bolsheviki of power and work the
counter-revolutionary game. Other
wise why does he pick Petrograd and
Moscow, where conditions are less
ute? But he and his satellites are
Il going to get even smell of these
aces"
pf Says War and Allies Caused Plague
Ludwig Lore, editor of the Volkszeit-
ung, said that the forces now "hypocri-
ticaly providing money to feed the Rus
slams" are the forces responsible for
conditions IS they now exist. The
cholera plague devastating Russia is
one Of the results of the World War
and the blockade of the Allied govern
ments, he said.
Other speakers were Caleb Harrison
Of Chicago; DR.. Jacob W. Hartman and
Harry Waton. Although it was specif-
ically stated by each one of them that
the relief fund they were raising must
take the place of the assistance offered
BY the United States government
through Herbert Hoover. great diff
Guilty was experienced in getting any
money from the audience. First beg
Eng for $1,000 to start the drive, Allan
B. Broms, the chairman, lowered his
appeal to $500, to $4OO, to $500 and
finally to 500 before there was any
response. In the end there was one
500 subscription and two $50 sub
scrlptions. About $4,000 was raised in
essn, checks and promises, and $1,000
- ]ewelry, it was said at the close of
the meatjn0