The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-22
SPEAKS
IN DRIVE TO GET
FREIHEIT HOME
Jewish c Communist Daily
Seeks DUN Plant

our Jewish Communist daily,
THE Freiheit," Is carrying on a
nationwide drive to purchase
the building they are at present
located in at 153 East Broad
way, New York City.
"This drive must lift the ter
rife burden Of continuous def
cts off our shoulders and place
the paper on a solid basis
financially" Moissaye ]. Olgin
said in discussing the campaign.
Get Big Response.
Olgin is speaking at a series Of
meetings thruout the country on Soviet
Russia in 1924, the proceeds OF
which go to the Freiheit. Olgin says
the meetings he addressed so far in
Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Detroit were
very successful. The enthusiasm is
remarkable The audiences which are
composed chiefly Of Communists and
sympathizers also contain a large
number Of interested spectators who
want to learn something about Russia
first hand. Every meeting brings en-
thusiastie response and splendid col
lections.
Six Months in Russia.
Comrade Olgin has only very recent
ly returned from Russia, where he
spent six months as a representative
of the Workers Party Of America.
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to work in factories and among the
peasants to gather information Of New
Russia.
He also was delegate to the fifth
congress of the Communist Interna-
tional and was very active in the third
congress of the Red International Of
Labor Unions.
Soviet Structure Firm.
Great cheers and applause greeted
Comrade Olgin In Detroit when he said
that latter seven years Of struggle and
suffering and. starvation, of bleeding
to death on the various fronts and of
stern, stubborn reconstruction work
both in the fields Of industry and agri-
culture, the Soviet structure of the
present is as firm as a rock, which
no attacks and no Vaccinations OF the
imperialists Of the world, aided and
abetted by the socialist revolution
aries and the mensheviks Of the Sec
| ond international, can shake.
Russia isn't what is was four or
five years ago. Russia has recon
structed her industries. Russia has
improved her transport. Russia has
generally increased her resources.
And what is most important, Russia
has created Red army consisting of
the sons of workers and peasants,
differed by sons of workers and peas.
ants and imbued with the Communist
ideal.
Red Army Most Powerful Weapon.
1.-THE Red army understands the
tasks Of the Soviet republic. The
Red army is ready to defend the con.
quests of the revolution. The Red
army is the most powerful weapon
in the hands Of the working class in
its struggle with all enemies. from
within and without. And should the
socialists Of the Second International
conspire with the capitalist govern
ments of the world to create new dis
turbances the way they attempted to
do in the recent bandit uprising of
Georgia.. which turned out to be a
ridiculous failure, admitted by its per-
petrators themselves, the Russian
army, backed by the peasants of Rus
STA, will hit and hit hard and merci-
lessly so as to wipe out the incentive
for further attempts"
He delighted his audience with anec.
dotes about the peasants and their re-
action to the new improvements put
J into the villages, as for instance the
lighting up Of the little village huts
by electricity.
Calls Socialists Btvtf.
In Pittsburgh, the Jewish Forward
socialists distributed leaflets SANDER.
ing the Soviet government and making
silly, petty attacks on Comrade Olgin.
But when Olgin replied to these at