The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-08
Czarism Must Be Rooted
Up, Both Plant and Seed,
By Workers of America
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, while is being that Communists will
be driven of the capitalist nations of Western Europe
by the hundreds of thousands the American pItocracy
ceves to its BOSOM the grand Victoria Feodorov
na wife Of the grand duke" Cyril VIadimirovltch who
Gently proclaimed himself Cyril czar Of all the Russians
Thus the American colony of czarst emgres with the
glad consent of the American inpeat government finds
its ranks increased by the of Queen Marie Of
MANIA the lives of workers and peasants have been
botted out by under Of the endsh
white terrors Europe has yet seen.
It is we'll known that the "grand duke" Is extreme
eccentric Under ordinary circumstances he would be
fined unatic. Even his family frowns on its pre-
tensions It has other candidate for the job But
harborng this ambition is just insane the grandiose
announcements of the duke" himself
All these titles grandoquently proclaimed are the
bunk since Russia under Soviet Rule recognizes dukes
duchesses there any left in Russia they have lost
their titles and been put to work.
But the American subsidized press recognizes them the
social circles Of the parasites bow before the and the
American capitalist dictatorship gives them what standing
they can.
by special force of police and detectives just like
any other capitalist Somebody and the royal suite the
WadoAstora turned over to her free OF charge She
was honored with Threatening letters that the eff
repoora stats Of the yellow press always furnish the
iustrOus manikns that they parade thru their columns
The visit Of the fake duchess should much
mask the fraudulent character of American democracy In
With the "admrals" the generals" and the what-nots,
from the Russian czaist emges that waited on the
r
of Colonial of America aggregation of snobs
claiming ancestry among those who made victory possible
IS into this atmosphere that LaFoete would have the
American workers and poor farmers plunge with his Back
to TO- slogan.
But the workers and poor farmers i they wish to find
the countepats of the Russian czarsts in this country
only look the list Of hosts to the wandering
duchess whose family in Russia oppressed the great
of workers and poor peasants for centuries.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt the widow of the American
railroad czar heads the list with Mrs Joseph Pulitzer OF
organ democratic wing of Wall Streets bipartisan
politics. She will enter the official political family in Wash
ngton guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lansing. This
is the Lansing who secretary Of state under Wilson,
He did his part in Pungng this country into the European
blood bath in 1917 The duchess will also be received by
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, wife Of one Of the unofficial
family of the republican party Hammond the mult-n-
lonae NINE owner mas neen acve as an a.
schemes of the National Civic Federation that claims the
whole Compers regime in the American Federation of Labor
as of its greatest mainstays.
The duchess" will thus have good democratic and
publican connections n washington IN pnladepha she
cracy that stood by Coolidge with its millions in the recent
campaign under the direction Of Mrs. Alexander Van Rens
seIaer and Mrs. Gardner Cassett.
The strke-breaking, unon-crushing vicepresident Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad William Wallace AtterDury has
decided to give the duchess free ride on his railroad
thru turning her one Of the roads best private cars
The duchess will get comfort in the fact that
will find her memories of czarist rule in Russia irrored
in the brutal conditions inflicted upon workers and poor
Perhaps Mr. Atterbuy will let her take thru the
anthracite coal fields owned by Pennsylvania railroads
labor hating coal and mine barons join with the
labor bureaucracy to keep the workers in submission.
Perhaps the duchess" will shake hands with John l..
Lewis president Of the United Mine Workers Union
reward for revokng the charters Of miners locals in the
hard coal fields and breaking their resistance to the mine
Perhaps she will give smile to Lewis agent in the
anthracite fields President Rnado Cappein, of District
One
czarist rule has fallen in Russia But it has deep roots
in the United States in American captasms fertile SOIL
Workers and farmers here must unite under the same
Communist leadership that Soviet Rule in Russia
torous to root out and destroy it, plant and seed