The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-17
Ice Is No Obstacle to the
Existence and Growth of
the Workers Republics
BY J, LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY workers and farmers in the United States should
be very much amused the latest brand of attempt
to dscred the Union Soviet Republics. Reports are
pouring in to the American kept press and they being
prominently displayed to the effect that workers. and
peasants rule responsible for ships being ice
bound in the Gulf of Finland
1t is the ambition of Soviet rule to maintain Lenngad
open port thru the winter For this purpose the great
est cebeakes in the world have been butthe Lenn and
This desire is viewed with alarm by the Let's Esthon-
ans and Fnns who have reaped rich profits thru the trans
of Libau, Riga Abo, Hango and Reva It significant that
the first wall from the Chicago Trbunes emgre
respondent at Reva, Esthonia
When it published its hair raising yarn the Chicago
Tribune did not add note about the numerous ships rush
ed down Chicago from the head of the lakes in the early
winter, with their cargoes of wheat and iron that are
often caught in the hazardous ice of Lake Superior and
Lake Michigan frequently going to the bottom in terrific
storms But that would spoil the story about Soviet Russia
1t is no more unusual for ships to be caught in the
ice in the Gulf of Finland the way to Leningrad than
is for them to be caught in the and ice of the upper
American great lakes The business of LatVia Finland
and Esthona pay the American press correspondents
we'll for their fairy tales cabed to this country for America
is the origin of many shipments going into the Soviet Union
1t worth while in dollars and cents to brighten American
shippers and insurance companies into demanding that all
these shipments go thru Baltic port that still flies
the pirate flag of capitalist government Nothing
show clearer the whole profit motive of the attack against
the workers republic.
One Of the editorial oversghts of the Chicago Daily
News however, directly contradctng the claims of its
morning s. IA. av a: fo s..I unfair the
ordinary conditions sufficient explain the difficulty
that Of the Russian eebreakers
doing everything possible"
Those who have studied the truth in the news that
ckng thru cite the fact that the Firms have three strong
cebeakers stationed at Hango Abo and near Hesngors
but single of these assisting the Russians in
their attempts to clear the Finnish Gulf for traffic.
This effort to build new form of blockade against
the Union Of Soviet Republics will not get far
It is ptfu echo of the desperate effort of world
capitalism to strange the Soviet Union dozen battle
fronts 1t will meet with nothing but derson from intel
lgent workers and farmers everywhere.
While the sailors the cebound ships, waiting for the
ice break be broken, "amuse themselves with the
RADIO receiving Stockholm and Copenhagen programs the
shippers every land will prepare to send cagoes to
the Soviet Union with the coming of the spring and sum-
mer The Soviet Union buys the things it needs in the
worlds markets cebergs rising is feet above the
water line the least of its difficulties has gone for
again in the future.