Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
UN|ONLEADER
OPPOSES ANY
RECOGNITION.
Of BOLSHEV|K.
Gompers Denounces Lenine
AS Bandit Merchant
Ready To Barter Heri-
tage of People Crushed
IRepubIIean a. ?. Leased WIrel


CHICAGO. April 1s.-Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
Grafton, today issued d. statement de-
claring that recognition by the United
states of the bolsheyiki tyranny ''in
Russia would be needless and base
betrayal of civilization"
Declaring that American public life
was being flooded with propaganda
and that predatory international
finance has its appetite up and be-
Ieves 1t sees loot in Russia" he as
serted that nothing would be more
fraught with disaster to humanity
than American recognition of the
boIsheviki power in any form"
Mr.. Gompers denounced Lenine as
a bandit merchant" ready to take
what he can get in exchange for the
heritage of a people rendered help
less by him and his A fund of mill
ions of dollars, he asserted. was being
used in the United States for boil
shevism propaganda out of which
@bribes have been offered in places
where the American people can ILL
afford betrayal
President Gonpers' statement. in
part follows:
Developments at Genoa cannot
escape the notice of thinking Amer
leans, though the full significance Of
what is happening there seems to be
lost in most Of our newspapers.
"a number of persons have asked
me nether, in the event that Eng
land and other European nations rec
ognize belsheyiki government, the
United States should not follow the
example? I can think of nothing that
would constitute q more needless and
base betrayal to civilization than
American recognition of the boil
sheviM tyranny.
4 think of nothing that would be
more fraught with disaster to 1lu-
manity than American recognition of
the bolshevist power in any manner,
whether by entering into another
economic conference at which
America would sit cheek by jowl With
soviets, or in any other manner.
IN making these assertions, I am
mindful of the amazing propaganda
with which American public life is
being flooded: ] am mindful of the
intrigue which is everywhere about
US. and above all / am mindful of the
newly adopted policy of the Ameri-
can Anglo German banking group.
which perhaps constitutes the most
dangerous element in the whole chain
Of pro- -bolsheyiki effort in America
because it has its hands on the most
power.
The truth is that predatory inter-
national finance has its appetite up
and believes IL sees loot in Russia
I know of nothing more farcical
than the attitude of European states
men and financiers toward the Rus
sian ruddle. Essentially it is their
purpose. as laid down at Genoa. to
place Russia in economic yassalage,
and give political recognition in ex-
change. Recognition in exchange for
concessions. They know immediate
trade is not to be had, but they know
that eventually they can get at the
gold, the coal. the oil. the timber, and
future products OF the soil.
Russia shops on the bargain eoun-
ter behind which stands Lenine as
a bandit merchant, to take what he
can get and what will serve his pur-
pose in exchange for the heritage of
a people rendered helpless by him
and his. America, let us hope, will
continue to stand for Russian eco
nornic independence as well as poIiti-
cal freedom"