The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-24

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ices behind dense smoke screen of
the finest, Of the thinnest juridical
sophistries.
There is Senator Swanson, Of Vir-
ginia, who personihes that hybrid
combination of the dying Southern
land baron and the rising anti-union
Southern coal magnate.
In Lenroot, of Wisconsin, there is
crystallized that renegade type of
petty bourgeois progressive spokes-
man, who prefers the whole cake of
the big capitalists with all its filth to
the stray crumbs of the small fry
owners struggling to hold their own
between the rising capitalist industri-
alism and atrophying small scale agri-
culture.
Finally Senator Borah, of Idaho,
the Chairman of the Committee,
speaks, and in rather effective, clear
cut voice, for the small owners, for
the middle class vised in between the
deyouring jaw of big capitalism and
the ever-more threatening jaw of the
exploited, dispossessed working and
farming masses.
Private Property the Issue
Property, capitalist private prop
erty, is the central point of the whole
investigation. Whatever information
or misinformation that is given about
Soviet Russia which, in the opinion
of the senators, is conducive to the
perpetuation of our present capitalist
system of the exploitation of the
workers, is judged by all the COM
mittee members to be a point in
favor of the Soviet Republic.
The only defender of the Soviet
Government on the Committee, Sena-
tor Borah, plays as his trump card
the facts arising out of the conditions
which have compelled Soviet Russia
to adopt policies which he can show
as not hostile to the system of capt.
talist private property.
Hence, the difficult position in
which Senator Borah finds himself
surrounded by the spokesman of the
biggest capitalist interests.
United States L. On Trial
Under these circumstances it is
obvious that the decisions Of this
Committee and the disposition of
these decisions by the Senate. will be
largely determined by the economic
class interests of the capitalist i. DOM
mating the Government.
The United States Government is
on trial in the whole Russian ques-
ton. 1t is openly appearing as the
centralized defense agency of the
capitalist private property interests
the world over. The workers and
farmers of America will judge it in
its true role.
Kelly Not So Selfish
Robert E. Kelly, of the eastern
European division Of the state de-
partment, who is representing Secre-
tary Hughes in the fight against rec
ognition of Soviet Russia before the
senate foreign relations subcommit-
tee, had a peculiar theory as to why
England had resumed trade relations
with Russia, when quizzed by Sena-
tor Borah.
England recognized Russia be-
cause she was selfish and wanted
trade" elucidated the state depart
ment's expert.
Nine Countries Recognize Russia
Nine countries have recognized
the Russian government and six
others have established trade rela-
tions, Kelly admitted. But, the anti
soviet pinch hitter pleaded, in re-
spouse to leading question by Sem
ator Pepper, five of the nine recog-
nized Russia only to save their own
Independence and Germany, because
Of the Brest-Litovsk treaty. Borah
forced Kelly to concede that no
country had withdrawn recognition,
once granted.
Kelly opened his argument by
reading from Trotsky's speech to the
Tenth Congress Of the All-Russian
Soviets the statement that:
Soviet boundary is front line be-
yond which no counter-revolution
can 60"
What this attempted to prove was
not made clear He also read let
ter to Claude Mckay, regarding
work among negroes. Senator Borah
countered by proving that Mckay
ndQ never uSeu Int itbttf mere.
Kelly then read portions Of speeches
by Zinovief, Radek, Bu1arin, Steklov
and the Red international of Labor
Unions greeting the industrial Work
ers of the World and the California
Seamen's strike and the Comintern
proclamation on the Vorovsky muir
der.
Shuddsrs at Worker Hopes
Russian hopes for world soviet re-
publics were voiced in extracts which
Kelly read from the Federated Soviet
constitution regarding the division Of
the world into imperialistic and pro-
letarian camps. This was empha-
sized by the state departments rep
resentative as showing a policy from
which the American government
should shrink.
In another reading he showed that
Russia is a country whose supreme