The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
BIG ANT|-WAR
MEETINGS IN
KIEv, RUSSIA
Demonstrate Against
Imperialism
BY ISRAEL AMTER
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

a mighty week of propaganda
and demonstration turnout
Soviet Russia against imperial
ist war.
Hardly a worker or a peasant
in the villages but was reached
by the big army of propaganda
lists who went out to tell the
Russian workers and peasants
the oft-told and by historical
events clearly proven cause of
lmperialist wars.
Russias workers and peasants have
felt the horror of imperialist war on
their own bodies; they have ex-
perienced the horror Of imperialist in
PREVENTION, the ravages of counter
revolutionary plotting and demolition
at the behest Of imperialist masters.
But Soviet Russia's workers and
peasants have the power now and
fear no imperialist. The workers Of
the western part OF the world, Of
Europe, America, and of the East,
face a new imperialist confagration,
which, in its glaring circle, is bound
to draw in the state of the workers
and peasants. So Soviet Russia's
mighty voice was raised against the
coming disaster-the approaching i'm
perialist war coming out of the west.
Gathering of Workers.
Kiev was the center of a mighty
demonstration on August Bird. All Kiev
was on it's feet: workers and peasants
men and women-young workers,
children and the Red Army. 1t was
a splendid demonstration, the factory
workers gathering in their districts
and waiting till the Communist speak
ers came to greet them, and then
marching thru the city to the City
Soviet, where also the headquarters
of the Communist Party are located.
Passing the stand in front of the
Soviet, they filed the air with shouts
of Long live the Communist Party"
Down with imperialist war;" Long
live the Communist international"
Long live the proletariat of the
world" 1t was splendid day. The
streets were lined with people to wit
ness the procession of 100000 workers
and peasants, out to pledge their all
to put down another imperaIist war!
Praying for Rain.
Kiev is one Of the Oldest cities in
Russia. 1t contains the famous opera
house where Stolypin was shot. 1t
also contains the famous convent
"Lavra," to which good Christians
journey thousands of versts to pray,
cross themselves and ask of their
saviour the good things of life-in
that heathenish castle Of splendor and
wealth.
A girl walked to Kiev a distance Of
1000 versts. barefoot, with some straw
fastened under her foot, to be al
lowed to pray on the steps of the
cathedral. And only few days before,
the peasants gave their last grain to
the priest to bring the rain, of which
not much has fallen this season in
the district. The faker promised them
much, just as the church promises a
whole heaven-but no rain fell. This
story is centuries old, but now the
Communist Party is carrying on a
campaign Of education, and little by
little, this stout pillar supporting the
ignorance of the peasants is crum-
bling-of which Americans should
take note.
Kiev was the home of pogroms, the
frenzied slaughter of the Jews by the
Black Cossacks, by Denikin, Petlura,
Hetman and the other White generals
who carried out the tasks assigned
them by England, America and France.
On the way to Kiev | met a young
Jewish worker who told me another
story of the destruction of life and
property these hordes were guilty of,
at the order Of their imperialist EN-.
ployers. Seventeen times the govern
ment changed hands in Kiev, until
finally the Soviet power was firmly
established and capitalist rule was for
ever banished from the soil of the
Ukraine-and imperialist hopes were
blasted.
Fought Against semenon.
also heard the story of young
Communist whom Denikin was going
to shoot, but had to leave hastily, be.
cause the Red Army entered and took
possession Of Kiev. No other state OF
Soviet Russia was so bitterly fought
over as the Ukraine; none suffered
the ravages Of the war as did the
Ukraine. There are Communists head
Ing the Kiev government who led the
fight against Semenoff, the Czecho-
slovaks and other counter-revolution
aries in Siberia, until the red flag was
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