The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-01
JAIL SOLDIERS
|. FOR DEFENSE OF
SOVIET RUSSIA
Wrote Views to Paper
Before Arrests


who are now being held by the United
States government in Schofleld Bar
racks on charges Of being members
of the Hawaiian Communist Leauge,"
are letters written to the newspapers
by the Communist soldiers defending
Soviet Russia against INSCRIPTIONS at
tacks.
Altho one Of the charges against
three Of the soldiers is that they "be-
longed to a secret organization" the
red soldiers expressed their views
openly in the columns of the news
papers.
Russia Has No Strikes.
''If this country were ruled by a
Communistic government there would
be need for such thing as a strike"
wrote Comrade Roderick Nadeau, 21st
infantry band, in the Feb. 10 issue Of
the Honolulu Advertiser. "The Hawaii
an laborer is practically slave. Thru
the Communist form of government
there will be no need for poorhouses
and mock charity balls"
Crouch Faces Life Term.
Paul r. Crouch, of the headquarters
Of the 21st infantry, Office of the sup
ply department, who faces a sentence
Of life Imprisonment, if the charges of
plotting to overthrow the govern
ment" are taken seriously by court
martial, wrote in the Feb. IA issue Of
the Advertiser:
Your position in regard to strikes
has been on the side of those who be-
lieve in the sacred CD rights of
private property. The workers have
much better right to the ownership of
the land upon which they work than
the parasites who live on the suffer
ings of other men,"
Comrade Crouch then replied to an
attack of the paper on Soviet Russia,
based on statements of Emma Gold
man.
las Communism is the real danger
to capitalism" he wrote, Capitalists
can join hands with anarchists in
their mutual opposition to the Red
flag.
"Out of the large number Of indi-
viduals deported to Russia, Emma
Goldman was one of the few who did
not like conditions there. The ma
jority are living in a prosperous col
ony in western Siberia known as Kuz-
bas. This colony is a success from
every viewpoint.
The editor says the ~gatchword of
bloody ID regime of the Soviet gov
eminent is murder and that Russia
has gone mad with slaughter. Mr.
editor, no well-informed man could
read such statements without laugh
ing were it not for the serious harm
that they may do. If the editor would
read an article by correspondent of
the San Francisco Examiner in Rus
STA he would learn that children car
ried several thousand dollars in gold
(for official purposes) as there were
practically no holdups in the Soviet
republic and a conservative writer in
the Saturday Evening Post admits life
is even more safe in Russia than in
other civilized countries.
Perhaps the Advertiser gets it's in
formation about Russia from the same
source as a writer about Communist
propaganda in the Saturday Evening
Post, who said that the Young Work.
err official publication Of the Commun-
list youth of America, is a daily. In
reality, it is semi-monthly and will
become a weekly on March l."
Replies to Anti-SoViet Lies.
Walter M. Trumbull, another soldier
stationed at Schoffield barracks,
wrote:
"As far as the stories of oppression,
imprisonment and brutal murders in
Soviet Russia, no one would believe
them if he had knowledge of the
fundamental principles of Commun-
ISM. Communistic principles do not
IN the least respect allow idleness. All
must do some sort of work and are
given their preference, when possible.
There is no possibility Of one man
owning millions and another being
destitute. There is no possibility of
the government going mad with
slaughter since the government is the
people (the working people, and their
wishes are carried out"
Crouch was arrested on Feb. 10,
charged with violation of the seth ar
ticle Of war. The last time he was
heard from he was being confined in
the prison hospital from digestive
troubles brought on by brutal treat
ment while in the guardhouse. Seven
other soldiers have been arrested on
similar charges. They are said to be
without legal aid.