The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-03-19

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Congress of the International. (Applause)
Comrades, Keynes says: If the situation
has become absolutely impossible it means
that the victors themselves have become the
weapons of complete disintegration.'
'We> see the growth of the unconquerable
revolution. Masses of oppressed, exploited
and robbed see clearly that the truth, from
which the bourgeoisie must perish, has been
deceitfully concealed from them.
League of Nations.
fHaving revealed this truth, we now
realize the significance of this dependence
of a billion and quarter people, who have
been placed in impossible conditions of ex-
iStence. The peace of the League Of Nations
is presented to them, according to which the
League of Nations is proclaimed as the be-
ginning of a new period i'm the history of
mankind, which will put an end to var as
soon as this treaty becomes. operative.
Until it becomes operative they have.
continued to deceive the workmen and peas
ants by saying: Wait just a lhtle every
thing can not be done at once; but when
peace is concluded then you will see how
it will be- And everyone waited, and when
the peace was published, then the most bit
ter opponents of Boshevism were obliged
to renounce it. When they began to apply
the peace and start the machine in motion,
then 1t Immediately became clear that the
machine had fallen to pieces.
Wars of Entente Against Russia.
I'VE see this in the case of the wars
against Russia, because these wars were
against weak ruined, oppressed Russia,
backward Russia, carried ON by the league
of rich nations, whose fleet alone rules over
us. But we proved victorious Why? Not
because we became stronger in the military
sense-that of course is absurd-but because
there was no shade of unity among them,
because one power acted despite another.
France wished strong Russia, while Eng
land wished Russia divided up England
tried to seize the Baku oil, but you know
how that ended.
England strYye to establish relations
with the border States Of Russia. Six months
ago English minister, Churchill, counted up
a dozen States ait war with Russia, which
were TO capture Petrograd and Moscow by
December, 1919 We know what these States
were worth, but throughout the world they
were considered real States. England based
her policy on this fact England and America
gave them hundreds of millions, which went
to the bottom of the sea.
League of Nations-The Best Agitator.
'This is the situation that has now de-
velGSed in the League of Nations. Every day
of the existence of this treaty is the best
kind of agitation imaginable. We, revolu-
tionaries, would have been worse agitators
because it is supposed to be our habit to
prophesy trouble.
"On every question the powers of the
Entente held the knife at each others
throats Conflicts developed between Eng
land and France over Syria, Mesopotanlia
and the division of China. The most. solid
conservative press of one country is filled
with attacks and unprecedented bitter state
ments against its own colleagues of another
country because the latter are carrying away
part of the booty. Complete disintegration
above, complete disintegration in that small
handful Of the richest countries, first of all,
because it is impossible for billion and
quarter people to live under the system
which advanced civilized capital wishes to
establish; and, in the second place, because
a mere handful of the richest powers eng
land, America, and perhaps Japan, which
because Of geographic conditions can rob the
eastern Asiatic countries, but which has no
strength, either financial or
military, without the support of other coun-
tries) cam not harmonic their economic re-
lations and can not direct their policy along
the line indicated by the League of Nations.
Thence the World Crisis.
These economic factors represent the
main reason why the Communist Irteina-
tional has attained such brilliant success,
why ruined Soviet Russia receives the