The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
An American Woman Is
Worrying About Jewels
of Russia's Late Cars
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

D. A.. president
wi that parads under the hghsoundng title Of the Women
Builders of America has launched complaint with Secre-
tay of the Treasury Andy Cump Mellon against the sale IN
this country Of what is known as The Russian Crown
Jewels"
for the yellow since the fall Of the czardo IN 1917
when the their imperial jobs. The loss of the
jewels went with the Jobs
Mrs. Story now advances the interesting theory that
the jewels stolen by the Soviet government and that
they ought excluded from entry the United States
It is known that the jewels" have been display in
Moscow There repeated stories in the sensation
mongeng press that they would be offered for sale IN this
country So far is known, of these jewels have
actually been sold in the United States they ever reach
these shores offered for sae would be interesting
Mrs. Story press her claims 1t would rouse con-
siderable discussion of the rights of private property
Of course if all the Jewels of the fallen crowned heads
Of Europe find their way into the United States the
parasites of rich citadel Of greed who purchase the
must have some that the American workers will
seize this form of wealth when they come INTO power
Every kopek expended for Jewels by the Russian czarst
families during the centuries they in power came
way other out of the myrads OF toll agones OF
stolen originally The Workers Government merely took
back what belonged workers. If American parasites
thew have stolen from American workers and farmers The
theft therefore the head Of Mrs Story and her
class The consolation that the Stolen wealth used TO
buy Russian Jewels will go the hands of the Soviet
eminent strengthen abors power in the Soviet Unon the
ally American working class Thus the thieves must
gradually return the loot to the rightfu owners
1t Mrs. Storys ancestors, she Is 1UV per cent
American she claims to be, who really brought the rich
Yields of their wholesale this country its early
Years was deVout churchgong, god-fearing New
Engandes with their ships who originated the traffic in
human beings stolen in Africa to be sold tothe plantation
owners of the South This really stolen property but
not remembered that any Of Mrs. Stoys ancestors ever
raised their against it, They made money by it. Those
fought the bringing of the stolen slaves to the United
the 18th and 18th centuries were prosecuted and
outIawed just Mrs. Story would make war on the Com
munsts today ,o9
Mrs. Story believes private property today The Negro
slaves were private property before they freed by the
Civil War If Mrs. Story had lived before the Civil War took
place would have believed in chate slavery and fought
its abolition.
Story would have gIored in the shpoads of agon-
ling humanity and children, brought to the
United States from Africa under the pirate flag of business,
emblem of private ownership That would have symbol
lied to the achievement of the greatest cV-
zaton EARTH just she gories today in the slavery
of labor the result Of private Al'eM
the workers who toed in heat and cold in deep mines
under water find rich jewels adorn the crowns OF the
Russian cars had kept those jewels for themselves that
would been wrong in the OF Mrs. Story and her
kind wrong for the workers and peasants OF the
Soviet Union today Keep the products land and industry
for their own
Labor for many centuries put jewels in the crowns Of
Russian In the goth century they not only took
with their Jewels but all the territories over
which the czars had protested to rule.
Mrs. Story certainly does not object so much to the m
portaon of 'the jewels" to this country She would nc
doubt like purchase and of Them What she
objects TO- class objects the idea back
change of ownership in those jewels in the Sove
Union that this dea the abolition OF private
ey may spread this country with equal disaster to thu
present American ruling class.