The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-06

ME communist Party OF the
L Union of Soviet Republics quick
ly met the recent situation that re-
suited from an intolerable condition
within it's political bureau, and then
again proceeded with its work Of
rapidly building Soviet economy on
a firm socialist basis.
1t is the success with which the
Soviet Union overcomes all Of its
difficulties, this last one especially,
that stirs the wrath of all its en-
emies.
Faxed reports of disturbances
within the Soviet Union, following
the removal Of Gregory Zinoviev
from his place in the political COM
mittee of the party, only reveal the
historical rage of Russian and
world labor's foes.
It is significant that the Riga pro-
paganda, sent out from the Latvian
white terrorist capital, finds well
come admission to the columns Of
the socialist press in the United
States, that fervently prays for
greater trials, and difficulties for the
Workers and Peasants Republic.
1t is we'll to publish a complete,
typical Riga dispatch as it appeared
recently in the Milwaukee Leader
edited by Victor L. Berger, socialist
congressman. This dispatch includes
in its small space practically all the
lies and determinations that are
peddled every time the opportunity
is afforded the enemy press. Here
it is:
Report Revolt In Russia.
''Riga dispatches from reliable
sources in Moscow state that a mil
itary revolt has broken out in the
Rula district, 100 miles south of
Moscow.
six divisions Of the newly formed
foreign legion have been sent to sup
press the outbreak.
Reports of disturbing conditions
in Russia continue to be circulated
here.
1.-THE most recent report is that
Trotsky, alarmed at a threatening
breakup of the Soviet ranks follow
ing the dismissal of Zinoviev from
the political bureau, planned to visit
one of the regiments where his in
fiuence is great to call upon them to
march on Moscow and seize the
Kremlin and the government offices.
''The Soviet bureau is said to have
frustrated the plan and to have con-
templated the arrest of Trotsky.
"Zinoviev is reported to be a
prisoner in his own home"
It may be said, without hesitation,
that not single one of these alleged
incidents has any basis in fact. The
same report, with a little change in
wording, has been repeatedly broad
casted to the world during the last
nine years. No one knows this bet
ter than the editor of the Milwaukee
Leader, Victor Berger himself. Now
that congress has adjourned 1t is
taken for granted that he is back in
Milwaukee directing the affairs of
his paper. If so, he must be held
directly responsible for the appear
ance in his paper of such malicious
falsehoods, which does not harmon
ize very we'll with the fact that he
has introduced a resolution in con-
gress demanding the recognition of
the Union of Soviet Republics"
Berger is credited with the dec
laration that since bankers and great
industrialists are doing business
with the Soviet Union, and urging
that it should be recognized by the
United States government, why
should he not demand the same
thing.
Reasoning in the same way per-
haps, Berger's editorial understudies
may feel that because the anti-Soviet
capitalist press publishes these news
fakes, therefore the anti-Soviet So
cialist press must travel in the same
footsteps. If the case is otherwise,
then the workers who read the Mil
waukee Leader are certainly entitled
to an explanation and apology from
the socialist congressman.
The case of the New Leader, the
socialist publication in New York
City is not much different. It uses
the Zinoviev incident in an effort to