Evening star., 1923-12-19
j. S. FARM SOVIET
AIM OF MOSCOW
Nebraska Man Helps to Form
'Peasant InternationaIe"
to Overthrow Capitalism.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


Detailed information has reached
Washington concerning the organiza-
toin at Moscow, with American aid, of
an international Peasant Soviet"
W. II. Green of Omaha, Neb., vice
president OF the federated farmer
labor party" formed at Chicago last
June. participated in the organiza-
ton. and was elected a member of
the executive council.
The purpose of the peasant inter
rationale" is TO league farm workers
OF the world with workingmen for
communist objects and convert all
governments into soviets, with a
grand central capital as Moscow. The
international Peasant Soviet" was
born during the third week of Oc-
tober. The principal communist
leader took part in launching it,
Fiery speeches summoning farm
work ers to the soviet banner were
delivered by Trotsky, the red minis
ter OF war, and by Zinovieff. the
president of the communist interna-
tionale.
PlEn L. =. Propaganda.
The openly avowed plan of the
soviet autocrats to carry their cru
sade against "capitalistic govern
meut." as set forth at the peasant
conference in Moscow. into the
United States throws timely light on
the Coolidge administrator refusal
TO negotiate" with Moscow for rec
ognition. 1t is categorical evidence
of this sort which Secretary Hughes
has in mind when he notifies NJ
TChitcherin that most serious is the
continued propaganda to overthrow
tho institutions of this country"
Professions of mon n-interference"
in American internal affairs emanat-
ing from Moscow carry little convic-
ton to the White House or State
Department in the presence of chap
ter-andverse proof Of soviet in
trigue such as the United States gov
ernment possesses to voluminous
degree.
". H. Green. the Nebraska fed
Grated farm la Dor party leader. who
co-operated in the formation of the
peasant internationale" at Moscow,
is we'll known in western radical
circles. He turned UP in Washington
in September and announced that he
had been invited to go to Moscow.
with two other Representatives of
American agriculture TO attend an
international agricultural exhibit
tion" there.
Told His Plans Freely.
He called at the Department OF
State and made clean breast of
his travelling plans. even admitting
that the expenses of himself and his
companions were being paid by Mos
COW. Green said nothing about help
ing to organize an international
peasant soviet" and may not have
known. that he was expected to do so
when he left the United States.
He told State Department officials
retary Hughes Russian policy and.
as an American citizen, considered he
had right to do so. No difficulties
were placed in the way of his secur-
ing passports
The conference for foundation Of
the international peasant soviet open
ed at Moscow on October 10. The So
called American delegation consisted
of Green. certain Charles H Smith.
and two other persons named Wer
and Welker. Smith is known to
American officials as Concession
hunter" in Siberia. The identity of
Wer and Welker has not been fixed
Moscow to BE Center.
The underlying scheme of the peas
ant conference was to link up farm
labor with communism as effectually
as the soviet thinks it has linked up
industrial labor. A Moscow COM
muniQue put it thus: Under the walls
of the Kremlin is about to be born
a movement to force agricultural
workers of the world into the ranks
of communism; to ally them with the
industrial workers of the world in
the struggle for the overthrow of
all existing non-communist govern
ments, and to unite the whole world
in a communistic federation with
Moscow as its capital"
Various European communist lead
ers addressed the conference along
such lines, among them Zinovieff and
Clara Zetkin. Zinovieff said the OBJ
ject was mot to organize a nasty
yellow internationale, but real red
peasant internationale." The proc
lamation of the new organizations
purposes made prominent reference
to American railway rates.
AS reported by Pravda, one Of the
offlcial soviet newspapers, Green,
speaking for America, declared the
first peasant conference was appoint
ed to play an important role. The
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