The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-09

ously pushing forward the task of So
the day when Communism will compl'
Flags Macdonald.
Trotsky was in excellent speaking
form. For over two hours he spoke
on world affairs. He attacked Premier
Ramsay Macdonald and the conser
vative leadership of the British Labor
Party for their subserviency to the
bankers and capitalists of that coun
try. He attacked Poincare for his
plots against Soviet Russia, charging
the French premier with setting Pc.
land, Turkey and Roumania against
the Soviet Republic, and while doing
this, send an impudent telegram to
Moscow appealing for clemency for
the assassins on trial at Kiev.
Russia is charged with being
crafty" declared Trotsky, "but our
craftiness consists in freeing nations,
while the policy of our opponents is
just the reverse. We want to remake
the map of Europe and it will be re-
made as a result of the victorious
revolution Of the European and world
proletariat We shall not go into
lesser ventures for the enlargement
of our boundaries. Our policy strikes
deeper and goes further"
Freeing Small Nations.
Russia would never pay the Czarist
debts. he declared amidst deafening
applause and had no intention of at
lacking Poland. Soviet Russia would
help the eastern peoples to throw off
the yoke of foreign domination. He
said Japan was on the eve of a revo-
luton similar to the one Russia went
thru in 1905 and it was quite possible
that in order to create diversion the
Japanese militarists would rush into
a war against Russia. In that event
the War Minister said, the Red Army
would have something to say.
Applying the rod of castigation to
the political exterior of Ramsay Mac
Donald, the eloquent Soviet chief
figuratively tore the hide of the yell
low socialist who is now running the
British Empire for the pirate crew
that owns that big piece of stolen real
estate. Prime Minister MacDonald's
government is full of fear before its
master, the bourgeoisie," he said. eff
the British government were Drawer
it would sign treaty with us and
that treaty might change the course of
history. Our country is rich in ma
tural resources and that appeals to
the technical skill of the British work
ers. Their working classes would have
food supplies and raw materials and
Great Britain would become weather..
The union of working Britain with
Soviet Russia would create a great
world power and we should be able to
dictate to Europe. We tell the British
working class, You have not a gov
eminent worthy of YOU"
Marx and Lenin.
Platforms are being erected all over
Moscow for Communist orators and
photographers of Lenin and Karl
Marx can be seen everywhere.
Speaking of the May Day celebra-
ton, Trotsky said: 1.-THE principal pur-
pose Of May Day should be an unre-
hitting struggle against militarism
but the question of safeguarding the
Soviet republic is the vital one of the
hour. We must therefore regard this
day as the great holiday for the army
and navy"
The Franco-Roumanian agreement
is considered here as another link in
the bloc against Russia which France
is trying to create in Southeastern
Europe. While the Soviet government
has no intention of going to war over
Bessarabia, it nevertheless considers
recognition Of that territory as part
Of Roumania by other foreign powers
as an unfriendly act. Russia offers as
a solution of the Bessarabian question
a free plebiscite, giving the popula-
tion the right to decide which country,
Russia or Roumania. they should af-
filiate with.
There Is No Peace.
A state Of war exists between Po-
land and Lithuania over Wilma but
hostilities are not likely to break out
for an indefinite period. The League
OF Nations granted Wilma TO Poland.
but that decision only satisfied Poland.
Rumors that there is secret agree
ment between Lithuania, Russia and
Germany, are denied in Lithuania but
given considerable credence in War
saw.
Radio dispatches from the Orient
tell of preparations for monster May
Day parades in China and Japan. In
the latter country mammoth parade
is planned in Tokyo and Osaka. Ko-
reans are to take part IN the parades
and the police are planning arrests on
the slightest excuse. A ban has been
placed on radical songs and the dis
play Of red flag.