The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-24
truth SOUNDS |
Different FROM
KEPT PRESS LIES
True and False About
SOUiet Russia
BY M. A. sKRoMNY.

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in the lying capitalist press the
world over.
A few days ago it was an
nounced that the French gov
eminent was getting ready to
recognize the Soviets. The same
day appeared special cables
about riots, strikes and famine
in Russia.
Tribune Beats Them All.
The murderous press is telling
about the bolsheviks shooting down
the peasants or peasants killing boil
sheyiks
The arch enemy of the workers re.
public. the Chicago Tribune has out
done many of its competitors in print
ing the biggest and most ridiculous
lies about Russia.
At the beginning of the revolution
we read in this paper that the bolshe-
viks were preparing to proclaim the
Prince Alexis Car of Russia. The
next day we read about them being
in the pay of Germany's late kaiser.
Today we read in the same sheet
what purports to be a quotation from
the Odessa Izvestia:
"Our Red Army last spring filed the
mouths of $4,000 peasants and work
ers In the Kharkoy district with earth
because they killed the local commits
cariats and robbed the grain houses
I. :"
At the same time, The Seaman, Of
hciai organ of the Seamen's Union of
that district published in odessa,
I reports that the grain for the aid of
the stricken districts was collected q
WEEK ahead of the scheduled
h the Moscow Tzvestia of October 5,
1924 (the last one to reach us), Com
rade ,Rykov, chairman of the Peoples
Comma and chairman Of the spe-
cial committee to combat the results
of the bad harvest. publicly thanks all
workers and peasants who were con-
nected with the collection, transporta-
ton and distribution of the grain for
sowing purposes In the stricken dis
tricts. for the prompt and vigorous
aid
Within a month il was necessary
to collect and transport over 5000 900
pools Of grain for sowing" says Com
RADIO Rykov.
with unparalleled energy and
swiftness the peasant committees pre-
pared the grain, the railroad and water
transport workers took mp their task
and about a week ahead of the sched-
ule the work was finished.
Grain Delivered on Time.
81 travelled all over the affected dis
ltricts and convinced myself that the
gain for sowing was delivered in
time. The peasants see in that a
great aid from their Soviet govern
ment. They have more self-confid-
ence. This timely delivery OF the
grain will not only save the sowing
area but Will increase it in compare
son with last year."
In the report to the All-Russian Cen.
trail Control Committee Qzvestia. Oct.
4. 1924, Comrade Kujbyshev touching
upon the harvest states:
THE general figures OF the harvest
are 2.642 million pools against 2,75g
million pools OF last year. To this
figure we have TO add 162 million
pools left over from former years.
Thus we will have 2.sO4 million pools.
THE needs of the rural population
arc 1886 million pools and Of the
cities--314 million, a total of 1900
million pools. Thus we have a sur
plus Of 2o4 million poods."
Does that look like a terrible fam.
inc with food riots and killings by
wholesaler
These Official figures given TO gov
eminent institutions OF Soviet Russia
for their guidance are also available
TO the brass check correspondents of
the prostituted press. But they don't
wait for authentic facts. What they
want is stories about rebels buried
alive. dogs feastirg on bodies of the
executed. disorders and riots. or bomb
plots OF the stool pigeon Daily News
kind.
And II is not only the enemy press
in the English language that is con-
Quoting this poison gas barrage
against Russia, but also the so-called
friendly press in the foreign Ian
guages.
Forward Still Busy.
The most notorious OF the yellow
sheets. the Jewish Daily Forward, is
competing with the Tribune, and the
local white guard Russian sheet Is re-
printing the lies OF both and adding
home made" stun to II. Thus the
Russian sheet had few days ago an
editorial bemoaning the acquisitions"
OF grain from the peasants. conducted
according to the Tribune by the boil
shevikl. And this dirty sheet is re-
ceiying the Moscow Izvestia and has
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