The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-16
'EXILESy DUMA' OF
RUSSIAN EMICRES
ENDS IN NOTHING
Convention Groups I'm
able to Form Committee
Especial to Tho Daily Worker,


PARIS, April 1.-THE hodgepodge
mixture of ex-Russian grand dukes.
former counts and countesses, ex-mil-
lionaires and ex-industrialists, czarist
generals and duma members, including
both men and women, who have been
holding forth here at one of the most
aristocratic and high-priced hotels,
blew up over their inability to agree
upon committee Of action to direct
their common fight against the Soviet
government.
After the right wing of the conven-
tion-for even the most reactionary
groups have differences over the cues
ton of immediate tactics as we'll as
final detectives and are thus split
into opposing groups-had succeeded
in securing unanimous agreement on
the choice of former grand duke Mich
olas Nicholaievitch as successor to the
car and therefore the supreme mill
tary leader of the anti-Soviet Russians.
, the left group in the congress, with
the aid of Professor Strive, its chair.
man. voted against the selection of a
permanent committee for the projected
war on the Soviets.
Out of the 457 delegates present.
297 voted for the formation of this
body and 146 against Fourteen re-
fused to vote, thus preventing the
rights from getting the two-thirds re-
CURED for the committees election.
The result is that the various groups
of emigres will continue to lack a
directing head for long time to come,
if, in fact, they ever are able to reach
such an agreement.
Extreme czarists Furious.
The rights, who formed a clear ma
jority in the convention, are furious
over the destruction of their plans for
military offensive this spring against
the Soviets. The leaders of this ex.
IRENE reactionary group included men
like Trepoff, former premier under
the car and notorious oppressor of
the peasants and workers; Count
Michael Grabbeaiormer Hetman of the
Don Cossacks, who ordered many a
slaughter of the' revolutionary work
ers Of Russia, and Markoff, former
member of the Dana.
Center andsLeft Divisions.
The center and left divisions Of the
convention-so named from their at
titude to the proposals Of Trepoff and
his group-were composed of the
wealthy big merchants, the large in.
dustrialists, and the financiers. These
! delegates did not want to commit
/ themselves to an open war at this
time on the Soviets. They believe
that there is still some possibility that
the Soviet government will propose
some kind of at least partial restitu-
ton of their properties or compensa-
ton therefor, and realize that this
chance would be lost completely by
any overt action now. They also feel
that an open war against the Soviets
now is lost cause from the start.
Emlgres Remained Away.
A large grouplpf emigres boycotted
the gathering from the start. These
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lister Miliukoff, the social revolution
lists under Kerensky and Tchernov,
and the followers of Grand Duke
Cyril, who wants the throne himself
in place of his rival, Grand Duke Mich
olas Nicholaevitch.
illustrates Soviet's Power.
The results Of the congress are a
striking testimony to the stability and
power of the Soviet government.
While the heterogeneous crowd of ex-
lies were disputing how they we're
going to arouse the peasant masses of
Russia to rebellion against their gov
eminent, these same peasants were
busily engaged in preparing lands for
another record-breaking crop and
many a peasant lad was drilling in
the Red army to destroy forever any
of these emigres or their agents who
should dare to stir up trouble In the
Workers Republic.