The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-23


excepting America, the leaders of the
A. F. of L. have been obliged to soft
pedal their vicious misrepresentation
of the worlds only working class gov
eminent. For ingenuity of twisting
facts and creating unwarranted infer
ences, take the following quotation
from this article, reprinted in every
labor paper of California:
Same Fairy Tale.
Take the situation in China to-
day and strip it down to bare facts.
Oil is the underlying cause. RUSSIA.
Capitals ours) is back of the press.
ure that ia being brot there at this
time.
( Russia must have an outlet and
the pressure from the interior is be-
ing manifested at three important
points. The Soviet republic needs
southern outlets; she needs to get
out to the world with her oil, and
those who hope to control that oil
want to help her in her efforts. The
great oil interests do not care about
the risk they are taking in aiding the
sovlets. After them, the deIuee."
Aiding Rockefeller by Pretending to
Oppose Him.
Rockefeller and his Standard Oil
gang, with the Dutch Shell Oil outfit.
moving heaven and earth to help Sow
let Russia market it's oil! Much of
the article read as if that Judas, VIM.
English Walling wrote it, but this is
too childish and crude for that pol
ished traitors hands. Yet the article
is unquestionably propaganda of the
Standard Oil interests which are fight
ing the government oil industry of
Soviet Russia.
The article goes on to state that
the outlet for Russia's production
from the Black Sea territory is block
ed by England's control of the Suez
Canal and of Gibraltar. Immediate
ly one sees the 'disaffection' in Egypt
and the Riffian uprising in Morocco"
The article then goes on I'm a SINH
lar manner the Soviets are seeking
to get thru Persia, India and China.
In the latter country they have made
use of every available pretext and
coined every phrase to catch the ear
of the Chinese: China for the Chin
esq.,. Every method of arousing the
populace and singing them into ac-
ton is being used by propagandists."
Self-Contradictions.
The article lamely winds up in the
conclusion that if this country can
bring in enough oil and locate and
reserve sufficiently vast fields, there
will be no need for this country to
be involved in an oil war and no
amount of propaganda can pull or
push her into it," The conclusion
itself is opposed to the writer's previ-
GUS statements in the same article to
the effect that the country has no
reserve and is unable to supply its
own needs. The optimism in the
wind-up sounds also suspiciously, like
that which exuded from the self
same labor skates prior to our en-
trance into the world war.
Just as the Union of Socialist Sow
let Republics is a constant menace to
the capitalist system and must be
fought in every possible way by the
ruling class, so also must the labor
lieutenants of that class, themselves
more ignorant than the representa-
tiyes of the class which they serve,
continually prostitute themselves and
the truth to misrepresent what is
going on in the Soviet Republic Re-
public and to deceive their follows
as to its policies.
Go To I'll
"A principal task before the T. U.
T.. L., it seems to me. should be the
exposure in the unions, at every pos.
sible opportunity, of such vicious and
lying articles as that sent out by
this labor news SERVICE" so-called.