The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-10
RUSSIAN EMICRES'
"DUMA" PLOTS To
RESTORE CARBON
NicoIai Nicolaievitch
Heads the Outfit
tspeeIaI to rhe DaIIy WOrkerl

Especial TO ne lazy WVTNSfJ
PARIS, April S.-The congress Of
Russian emigres who hope to re-estab-
lish the czardom in their country has
adjourned with the selection of Grand
Duke Nicolaievitch as their choice
for the throne. The announcement
sent him from the gathering terms
him "the foreordained representative
of the nationalist idea as well as the
glorious supreme chief of the army
and the defender of the fatherland
since the first days of our Calvary" 1t
declares the emigres have the utmost
confidence in the wisdom of his states
manship and the ability of his mill
tary leadership. 1--WE are firmly con-
vinced," is its conclusion, "that upon
the issuance of your appeal all Rus
slams, without exception, will take up
unhesitatingly the glorious task of
Iliberating the fatherland.1
Nicholas Nicolaievitch, ct cetera, is
now living in a handsome chateau,
with all his wants attended to, near
the city. The valiant duke did not
dare to attend the meeting for fear
that some Communist might recognize
him and end any hopes he has Of be-
coming second car. a1 y8
Middle Glass Mostly.
/ The Russian Emigres' Duma," as
} 1T has been dubbed, was officially COM
} posed of 500 delegates representing
: the former Russian ruling class and
, its hirelings. The call for the gather
ing was sent out year ago by tenn
porary organization committee.
The majority of those in attendance
were middle-class Russians, tho there
were members of Kerensky's govern
ment and a number of former Duma
representatives. Many Of the dele
/. gates were doing some useful work
for the first time in their lives. Among
this group were tailors, writers, scien-
lists, bartenders, clerks, taxi-drivers
! and dancers.
t Bum Prophet Is Chairman.
1 Professor P. Strive, the chairman
of the gathering, is a former liberal.
: He used to have rather name in
} Russia for his liberalism and had
3 some influence during the period when
? he was an exile abroad. Several
: months before the 1905 outbreak,
: however, he discredited himself by
running a series of articles proving
= that a revolt in Russia was impossi.
BILE under the existing conditions.
He came back to Russia during the
! revolt and after 1t had been crushed
!. took part in the political life of the
:. country, becoming a leader in the con
stitutional democratic party, the
cadets" as they were properly
!. dubbed. He never got beyond that
: point, tho the capitalist press often
refers to him as MARKHAM.
q Exile Did Some Good.
e In his opening address Struve re
minded the assembled ex-princes, ex
/. capitalists, ex-landholders, and ex
|. generally good-for-nothings that they
!. had all learned to work" during theil
exile, tho he did not give the Com
|, munists credit for this change. Wher
|. he declared they would return poor
to Russia there was no applause.
Some EmIsres Back Out.
The congress was dominated 81
{ much by the extreme reactionaries o
$ the former cars court that men lik'
a the former Foreign Minister Miliou
q koff, Alexander Kerensky, Victo
II Tchernof and their followers have 10
the most part refused to take part.