The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
RICH AMERICANS
PAY ASSASSINS
7 0 KILL R E D S
Chicago Tribune Agents
Head Plotters
Especial to The Daily Worker

NSpeclai 10 me Daily Worker)
LONDON, April 29.-Deluded Rus
SLAMS who we're led to believe by CAPT
talist anti-Soviet plotters in New
York, London and Paris, that the
Soviet government was about to
crash and that the good old days of
Czarism were to return soon, are now
pining behind the walls Of Soviet
prisons awaiting trial charged with
planning the assassination Of Leon
Trotsky, G. Zinoviev, I. Stain. Karl
Radek and other prominent leaders of
the Soviet government. The hirelings
are now cursing their paymasters who
bask in the security Of the Bohemian
cafes in the capitol cities Of Europe
and occasionally deluge the American
press with weird tales of the adven-
lures Of Trotsky, Zinoviev, ct al.
Rich Americans are known to be
the most generous contributors to the
assassination plots. 1t is freely stated
here that the reporters Of the Chi
cago Tribune, are agents Of the an
archists and social revolutionaries of
Russia who are now the principal
tools of those capitalists who have
not given up hope Of bringing Czarism
back to the Russian workers and
peasants.
1t is also rumored that some OF the
money appropriated by congress for
the relief Of the ADMINISTRATION ueo-
pie Of Russia is yet doing the same
kind Of work that Hocver's man Gre
CORY did in Hungary. Whether the
Chicago Tribune correspondents are
disbursing this fund is not known.
but the kind Of twaddle that is pub
lished by that paper would be con-
sidered fit only for the waste basket
of even the most venal journal in
Paris, the world center of journalistic
venality.
It is significant to note that among
those under arrest in Moscow are
thirty-seven former members of the
Russian staff of the American Relief
Association. This was Hoover's or
ganization.
The exposure by the Federated
Press Of Hoover's million-dollar con-
tribution of the American Relief al.
ministration's funds to the bandit
Yudenich created a sensation here.
For over two years Russian Commun-
lists have claimed that Hoover was
aiding the enemies Of the Soviet I'm
ion but it was put down as propa-
ganda. The documentary evidence
produced by the Federated Press ex-
pose leaves no room for doubt.
John Steele, London correspondent
for the Chicago Tribune is using ev-
cry effort to create break in the
conference between representatives
of Soviet Russia and England. In
spite Of this the negotiations are pro-
ceeding normally. The Bolshevik en-
voys are more than holding their own,
and British labor is becoming increas-
ingly sympathetic to them. They are
not strangers by any means to the
English working class and hundreds
Of thousands of British workers open
ly side with the Soviet representatives
against their own capitalist masters.
The organizations in America that
are financing the plots against Soviet
Russia are reported to be The Ma
tional Security League, The American
Defense Society, The American Lee
gion and the National Civic Fedora
ton. These organizations do not on
cially raise funds, but inside each or
ganization is a nucleus of bourgeois
plotters who hire assassins to go
across to Europe as the American
Legion thug Critic was sent after the
war director Bergdoll. Theq have the
unwritten sanction of the American
government, which places It consuls
and representatives in foreign coun-
tries at the conspirators disposal.