The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-14
new ANTI-SOvIET
TACK FIzzLES
IN new YORK CITY
Liberals, Socialists and
Anarchists T'iresome

arranged by the new International
Committee for Political Prisoners
snded in the singing Of the Interna-
tionale by large number Of Com
munists at Town Hall.
B. Charney vladeck, the yellow So
cialist, who had been speaking on
the same platform as his counter
revolutionary-in-arm Raphael Abram-
ovitch, was not allowed to speak,
even tho he pulled and stormed and
drank cold water to cool his spleen
and anger.
Meeting Draws Along
The meeting was one Of the most
tiresome affairs that even liberals
could arrange. Norman Hapgood, who
was in the chair, acted like all liber-
ais: this was a matter that interest"
the liberals and social-democrats, but
not a matter that goes to the heart.
His was the role of jovial man bent
upon fairness, without consideration
of the fact that the Imprisonment,
torture and death of revolutionary
workers and peasants are diabolical
crime against the whole working
class.
The meeting drawled along, with
one speaker after the other telling of
The terrors Of prison life in their own
country and appealing sentimentally
to the crowd to awaken public opin
ion in the United States" to cause d
change-in Spain. Hungary, Esthonia,
Germany, Jugo-Slavia. An elderly rev.
erend told about the laws that are
being pressed upon the people OF
India without their consent. He had
to be stopped by the chairman, be-
cause the audience was falling asleep.
A young Irish doctor produced the
first spark Of enthusiasm when he de-
clared that the Irish people showed
how men could fight and die for their
rights"
Baldwin Reads Paper
Roger Baldwin, head Of the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Bureau, read from
a type-written statement so that he
might not be misquoted." He enumer-
ated the enterprises that he support
ed in Soviet Russia and his restraint
from participating in any political
discussion on Soviet Russia But now
he demands that liberty of press,
speech and thought be restored in
Soviet Russia. Cries of Three Cheers
for Soviet Russia" filed the hall
Long Live the Soviet government
interrupted him.
Then Vladeck, the Sinking, oily
agent of the capitalist class was given
the floor. He Immediately was booed.
Between the Kisses and boos, he man
aged to say Friends and Comrades"
and that was the end Of his speech.
Each time he opened his mouth, the
hall was filed with cries OF contempt
and cheers for Soviet Russia. This
continued for ten or fifteen minutes,
while Vladeck walked up and down
the platform and drank cold water
swallowing his chagrin and anger at
the same time. The Communists do
minated the meeting. The liberals,
anarchists and socialists left the hall,
while cries of "Join the Workers
(Communist) Party" and cheers for
the Soviet government sounded in the
hall and balcony.
Cops There in Plenty
Cops were there in plenty. But the
cops did not know what to do. Town
hall is in a section Of the city in
which the police are not yet accustom-
ed to meet with such demonstrations.
They Quieted the comrades who were
attacked by socialists who can only
use their mouths halfheartedly when
speakers attempt to put proletarian
prisoners in Hungary, Spain and Ger
many on a par with active counter
revoIutionaries in the prisons of So
Wet Russia, who are incarcerated for
attempting and organizing to over
throw the first workers state.
In this meeting, with its lethargy
and sleepiness, is manifestation OF
what the liberals, anarchists and so
cialist traitors can do to enlighten the
people" of this country on the brutal
tiles and atrocities Of the capitalist
governments against the revolution
airy movement and on the torture in
flicted upon the Communists; and II
this meeting is a specimen Of their
dastardly attempt to assail Soviet
Russia and line up with the counter
revolutionary movement Of the world
then Soviet Russia need not worry
The Communists will be present at
all the meetings OF these full and
half-baked counterrevolutionar and
will demonstrate that the workers OF
he United States are with Soviet
Russia.
Plan Meeting March 10
The Workers Party, the lnterna-
tional Workers Aid and the Labor
Defense Council will hold a meeting
In Central Opera House on Thursday,
March 10, and will tell the workers
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