The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-15
Saturday Evening Post
Takes Up Arms Against
Recognition of Russia
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

BY j. LOUIS ENGDAt7Is
TODAY the Chicago Tribune vehementIy declares that
there must be weakening in policy under Pres-
This is onv na Of the tremendous outburst ocoasoned
by the fact that even the Baldwin tory in Great
every stripe has been forced announce that will not
change the policy OF the deposed Labor Government in
recognizing Soviet Russia.
There plenty Of the die-hards in Great Britain
pi the United ST States trying to ave of inevitable to
the tact that Soviet Rule tbs ed 4st. EhgaEd
Hughes, its HooVers and its Gomperses.
But while the Tribune walls that I'VE do contend
that they (the Russians) will make petty mischief
than recognition likely to be worth in trade another
POST bases It's opposition on sntey different grounds
1t up considerable space in the Nov IS issue of its
two and half million circulation raising cry against
"The War on Capital" in Soviet Russia; that claims
is beginning to permeate American institutions.
The article with an appeal for those pillars of
American capitaIism"fee endeavor" and Initiative It
pleads the style Of the Russian emgres those who
be restored in Russa The big cause OF the hyera is the
Policy Instituted under the leadership Nkoa Leni has
been driving hard against the private proteers in Russia
the Nepman tending towards their complete determination
Cyrus H. K. Curtis is president of the Curtis Publishing
Co., that publishes the Saturday Evening Post
the Borah committee investigating campaign funds Curtis
adm admitted he was %0pg U the s ooas g. and
pagn fund This the Curtis who fears Bolshevism in
Russia he ss that win + inspire tine ta to
mean the end OF capitalism
The Saturday Evening Post its strongest attack
against the Russian cooperatves especially the ARussan
Union Of Consumers socetes: signs because OF me
the little shopkeepers. Here are its own words:
Thruout Russia trains street walls and In windows
elimination private enterprises Here
S o choicest inluncons:
he cooperative you weight
1t sells without cheating
like this:
"suy everything the cooperative store and nothing private
shops
"A third capitalization propaganda
opportunity, follows:
pIundered cooperatves
sar Italy and Germany The revolutionary prOeaat establishes
the struggle with the world bour
geolse!
nsiI another reads:
"Au that we require NEP a cooperation
extent and depth comprises the Russian people,"
Therefore the Saturday Evening Post Iaments
Because the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia are
striving TO build their cooperative system.
Evidently this sheet wants to infer that is in favor
of robbery in and weights that it wants the workers
to do all their purchasing from bandit capitalists that
approves of the burning and destruction OF the workers CO.
operatives in countries still under capitalist rue that this
that objects to the of the Russian workers and
peasants determining their own destiny
The Saturday Evening copious
during the first six months Of 1924 the applications for pr-
proof conclusive that cooperation in the struggle towards
nS GS which ast t o
capitalism so proudly boast.
Intelligent workers and farmers the United States,
who struggling to build their cooperative movement
within capitalist SHE'LL in this country will not be
influenced by the capitalist class arguments of the Saturday
Evening Post
Neither will they be frightened by the Tribunes DOGGY
of "Boshevik Propaganda American workers and farmers
know the truth about what is going in Soviet
Russia In time they will not only be content to have the
United States recognize Soviet Russia but they will be join
ing the struggle in this country for Soviet Government
of their I.
Withhold Decision talk Of, o. secession
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