Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-02
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

A CABLE dispatch from Riga
"a says that the first contingen,
of I. w. w. miners have arrived al
that port in answer to the call OF
Big Bill Haywood, and that SIX
thousand members of the I. w. w
organization will leave fhe United
States soon to work the mining
concessions of the soviet govern.
ment granted to Haywood. This is
good news. We wish that all the
members Of that organization
would leave the country and 60 to
work under Bill Haywood in Rus.
STA. We can spare them from this
country nicely and they will have
a fine chance to work out their
theories under a sympathetic boss
like Big Bill Haywood. Riga, where
the first contingent Of Haywood's
workers have arrived, is the capital
of Livonia. 1t was formerly a Rus
sian seaport. 1t may be yet, for all
we know. for we have not kept
close track Of all the boundary
changes made by the revolutions
in that part of Russia. The Ger
mans captured Riga after the Rus
sian collapse, and after the Brest-
Litovsk treaty of peace it was
under German police protection and
practically cut off from Russia. AS
it is regarded as the gateway to
Petrograd, it may be assumed that
the I. w. w. workers who reached
that seaport. are practically in Rus
STA whether the Russian flag or
that Of a new republic floats over
Riga. Our impression is that it is
now a part of the Republic OF
Esthonia.
If there is any cure for the vic
Tins of I. w. w. propaganda, it
will be found by sending them to
Russia. Emma Goldman took a
dose of the Russian remedy with
fine effect. The hated government
of the United States looks good to
her ever since she escaped from
Russia. She would give a good deal
to get back to the United States,
we understand. Very likely she
may try to get here. As bearing
on that question, her consort, or
companion. or lover Emma does
not believe in marriage) has dis
appeared from Sweden and the
police can find nc trace OF him,
but believe that he has secretly
got back to the United States. and
the police in this country are on
The lookout for Alexander Berk-
man, who once tried to murder J..
Pierpont Morgan the elder. In any
other country in the world he would
have been executed for that crime,
but he got off with a few years in
Jail for it in New York.
Haywood himself, got a warm
welcome in Moscow. He got there
by jumping his bail bond in the
United States leaving the wealthy
socialist who went or his bond to
pay. From Moscow he SEN word
that he was coming back to this
country, but he made no move to
do so. Next, we heard that the
soviet government had given him
a concession to work valuable
mines in Russia on a royalty basis,
and that he had appealed to 1. w.
w. miners in the United States to
come to Russia and help him to get
rich. Nothing would please our
government and people better than
to have him succeed in drawing all
the I. w. w. members in this coun-
try to Russia. If we could only
devise some effective mea of
keeping them there, or preventing
their return to the United States,
we would be well pleased. How
ever, we have a strong conviction
that most Of them will be like
Emma Goldman and her crowd and
be crazy to get back here after
a short experience of the kind of
treatment they get in Russia.
1t is said that the concession
given Big Bill Haywood by the
Russian government covers metal
mines, coal mines, and forests, and
that he needs skilled miners and
lumber men to work them. Most
of those who have responded are
said to be coal miners. Russia
surely needs coal, but to get it
something more than coal miners
are needed. They need railroad
men and engineers and a yast
amount of money. Germany can
.oa M douhf will furnish scientific