Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-10
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east side has a new radical daily. Fret
heit, printed in Yiddish, and although
only week old, possesses a stabilized
daily circulation Of 10000. 1t is The
organ of the New Workers party Nerin
and Trotski in America), and is about
as red as revolutionary brains, printers
ink and presses can make 1t. The office
of the publication is at At Chrystie
street, but it is being printed at 1876
Canal street.
l have the first six issues of Freiheit
before me, also several versions Of trans
lated excerpts. singular thing about
translators is that no two like doctors
ever agree, which recalls that bit Of
dialogue in a Hoyt farce when the widow
asks one of the characters, Welland
Strong.
when doctors disagree, who shall de-
cide?" Usually, the coroner" answered
String.
Therefore. instead Of Offering the ex-
cerpts in the version of any translator,
we present the views of the editor and
publisher, whom we consulted in per
son. He is Moissaye Olgin, born forty
six years ago in View, Russia once a
writer on the Peoples Gazette of wilma,
Russia ana for the last fourteen years
a contributor to the Jewish Daily For
ward, seven years in dispatches from
Russia and seven years on the editorial
staff in New York.
In excellent English, Mr.. Olgin said
this morning: "Freiheit will conduct a
real educational campaign in the United
States. representing the true ideals Of
Karl Marx. 1t will be the voice to Jew
ish people Of left wing socialism rs ex-
emPlifed in the German majority party,
the socialist party Of America and other
brands Of socialists who have cOmpro-
missed with bourgeois capitalists
Then sou are communist interna-
uonalf' / suggested
Not quite" replied Mr.. Olgin. "Our
aim is to create a big mass party of
labor and take the lead in labor through
the publication Of straightforward
realistic paper We shall strike at our
foes whether they be in the labor union
movements, in the socialist movement, in
Congress or In the general political
field"
Moses Katz. also Of Kiev, is another
revolutionary writer on the staff of Fret
heit still another IS Morris WinCheysky.
Then there IS q man whose pen name IS
Zvion, who, IN q signed article In last
Mondays Issue, said that the Jewish
workers in America are revolutionary
and socialists enough, and that Il was
necessary the gentle workers should be
come a little more revolutionary and a
uttle more soc.auEtic. When that has
been accomplished. he says, we VIII be
able to begin to preach about revolu-
tonary sociallstic party I'm America
For the present Freiheit VIII worry
along IS the mouthpiece among Jewish
people for tie Jewish bureau Of the
workers party Il Will be represented at
the Genoa conference by Julia Stewart
Pointz. who is now on her way there
This lady Is intcreS ting as en- example
~ the progress Of radicalism in WON
ans mind. She began as q student at
Barnard College Her home was New
Jersey. She won an oxford extension
scholarship. bur when She returned from
London was a pronounced radical
For a short time she was an assistant
instructrcss at Barnard. next teacher
at the Rand school where she split OF
with the OK temlsts. After her marriage
to an Austrian she took mp writing and
developed into the journalist who VIII
explain Genoa not only TO the readers
OF the Freiheit, but for q string Of
foreign language newspapers for the
workers party. Her name at Barnard
was Points, but she changed &c 10 Poiut1
after guirI abroad.
The workers party maintains ma
uonaI headquarters at 80 East Eleventh
street, among its creators being Robert
Minor. James Cannon. Caleb Harrison
and J. l.. Engdahl.
1T IS the organ OF our Jewish bureau.
There IS the Nolkes Zeitung, daily Of
New York, that speaks our principles In
o. o In g.f N-r
that publishes in Hungarian; Leisye, a
daily in New York, in the Lithuanian
language; Iskra, a daily of New York,
in Russian and Spravlednost, a daily Of
Chicago. In the Bohemian language
There are also three Finnish dnilies,
one printed IN New York. one In Su-
perior. Wis. ard one In Astoria. Ore. In
the English language the national organ
izati,n itself prints three wcaklies, the
Worker, Now York Voice Of Labor, in
Chicago. and Truth, in Duluth. We have
been greatly surprised as we'll as pleased
by the success attending The launching
Of Froihcit, which was substituted as
medium for TWO weeklics, Truth and the
New World, both discontinued now
Curiously enough the editors Of Fret
heit have not yet decided upon their Mos
COW correspondent one OF them recalled
TrotsA when he was working on an
east side paper for Sl2 a week under his
right mama OF Leo Barnstein. The sug-
gestion that the soviet war minister
might mako q good correspondent was
met by the reply his duties were so
great as to prevent such an ideal ar
rangement
In one Of the articles in Freiheit,
Americans are told they must not believe
that the soviet has surrendered to
"capitalism," which is always indicated
as something possessing horns and
cloven hoofs.
The Workers party disclaims any d.
rect connection with the Communist party
Of America. which has distributed hun
dreds of thousands Of dodgers through
the mining districts Of Pennsylvania,
which contain this bit Of in1aming coun-
sci:
THE Communist party Of America tells
you that no worker can be guilty Of
treason against the capitalist government
and the capitalist class which it serves.
There is only one treason a worker can
commit. and that is treason against his
own class"
The circular further advises the use
Of force.
In contrast to the starting Of a for
eign language daily with Russian ideas
editors and writer's, we have this April
the starting OF an our-language monthly
with American ideas, editors and writer's
the Elks Magazine, official organ Of
"The best people on earth" It has pub
LEGATION headquarters at so East Forty
Second street and had first run issue
Of $4,000 copies. Among the writer's