The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-07
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.


the Chicago Tribune during the in
tervals between its camIhigns for an
invasion of Mexico and the featur-
ing of salacious clerical scandals,
features yarns about Soviet Russia
furnished by one of its paid liars
stationed at Riga. This prevarica-
tor is particularly angry these days
because Of the refusal of the Soviet
embassy at Berlin to wise the pass
port of the Tribune correspondent
unless he gave a guarantee that he
would not act the part Of stool
pigeon as his predecessor had done.
Unwilling to give such a written
statement he was refused admittance.
The Tribune in a great spasm Of
frankness declared that the Tribune
correspondent refused to 60 to Rus
STA unless he was granted freedom
to write the truth. AS a matter
OF fact the correspondent of the
chicago Daily News in a statement
to his paper when another Tribune
correspondent was kicked out Of
Russia declared that the Soviet au-
thorities allowed him the fullest
freedom in writing and sending his
dispatches, privilege he used to
the fullest extent. The Tribune
correspondent was expelled because
ne acted as paid liar of the enemies
of Soviet Russia.
In connection with this Il is par
tlnent to call attention to the fact
that France was and is conducting
anti-Soviet propaganda and also has
formed ring of enemies around
the Russian republic. The French
government pays its agents with
money and honors and Paul vii
Hams, one of the European corres-
pondents of the Tribune, was given
the much coveted decoration Of the
Legion of Honor in return for his
French propaganda.
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In yesterdays issue the Chicago
Tribune carried a six column head
entitled Russian Army in Revolt:
Moscow Threatened" The dispatch
carries London date line in order
to give it more authority and Is
signed by John Steele. But the yarn
emanated from Riga and was con-
ceived in the mental cess pool of
the London Daily Mails Riga cor
respondent. That city has been ex-
posed so often as a rendezvous for
journalistic prostitutes that the
Tribune changed the date line to
London.
Now about the "revolt!" The
Red Army that is planning to seize
Moscow is biding its time until the
spring thaw sets in and will march
on the city early in April, perhaps
on April Fools day. The Soviet
government is rushing "Tartar and
Monaghan" hordes toward Moscow
in preparation for the grand revolt.
Czarist officers have almost gained
control of the Red Army. The re-
bellious troops are preparing for =
campaign of slaughtering Jews, ris-
ings are planned in Kronstad. And
so on ad nauseum.
The Tribune does not expect any
intelligent person to believe this
bunk. 1t is published for the benefit
of these readers who never dig
below the headline and also as balm
for the wounded feelings Of the
rabid anti-Soviet elements who are
grinding their teeth with rage over
the recognition of Russia by the
British government. Let them lie
and rage. The product Of the super
heated imaginations of underworld
characters and unemployed stool
pigeons will not convince the work
ing class that the Soviet Republic
of Russia which has successfully
battled against the capitalist class
of the world and beat them to a
standstill will now surrender their
liberties into the hands of the de-
generate human wreckage which has
escaped the fate of the Car and
now floats on the troubled political
waters of Europe like sewage from
a sunken ship.
"Organized labor in America ia
getting WISER" says Scrutator in
the February 6, issue of the Chi
cago Tribune, "when an organization
containing such untamed and unas-
simulated elements as the miners
union can come 10 TedilldliOH JItdb
labor's pay is limited by what the
traffic will bear" John L. Lewis
endeared himself to every enemy Of
the working class when at the In
dianapolis convention he crusaded \
against the militant elements in the
miners union who thought more of
the welfare of the union members
than of the employers. So long as
our labor leaders think of the in
terests Of the employers first and
those Of the workers last they will
receive the plaudits Of the press
agents of capitalism. Is not the sup
port of Lewis by the capitalist press
the best possible evidence in sup
port Of the charges made against him
by the communists? Daniel O'Con-
mel, the great Irish orator, once
said that when he was complimented
by the British government he went
home that evening and examined
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