The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-24

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A'A WORKER write in requesting
that additional answer be made to
the malicious campaign of SANDER
that continues to stream thru the
capitalist press regarding the "vag-
rant children" of the Union Of Soviet
Republics. Clippings are enclosed
with notations like, "Step on this
SANDER" Let the truth be known
now is the time" among others.
The DAILY WORKER has al
ready published considerable mater
rial concerning this question. Articles
appearing in the March 18th issue
of the Chicago Tribune, and the
Literary Digest, of March 18th, de-
mand that new replies be made to
these inspired attacks based on the
grossest exaggerations.
The latest information received
on the question of the struggle with
the vagrancy of children in the So
Wet Union comes from "Tass," the
official Soviet Telegraph Agency,
dated Feb. 18th, of this year. 1t
nails the lie regarding the number
of the "vagrant children" While
the Literary Digest, with its millions
of readers, blatantly proclaims,
there are four millions of them,"
the Soviet news agency points out
that, "the number of such homeless
children reached after 1921 about
100000. Since then it has been de-
creasing.
The imperialists' propaganda de-
clares that the number of these
homeless children is on the increase.
Otherwise, If they did not make this
claim, there would be no object in
spreading their lies. When all their
other falsehoods have been explod-
ed, they must resort to this criminal
misrepresentation in an effort to
show that all in not we'll within the
borders of the Workers Republic.
Soviet information sources, how
ever, give detailed facts showing
that the problems is being success
fully solved, that the children are
being taken care of, that, according
to the March 1st Russian Review,
issued by the Russian Information
Bureau at Washington, D. C., 1.-THE
program of immediate future work
by the Moscow Soviet in this fed
consists in placing all the homeless
children of Moscow in these insti-
tutions." The problem has been the
most acute in Moscow.
Correspondents of the Chicago
Tribune, for instance, could get the
facts in Washington. But the
Tribune chooses rather to get the
falsehoods spread by it's correspond
ent, Donald Day, stationed at the
anti-Soviet propaganda center, Riga,
Latvia.
The facts show that the problem
of "vagrancy" among children in
Russia grew directly out of the
world war, into which czarism had
plunged the whole Russian people.
The Russian slain took toll in more
homes within the late cars do
mains than in any other nation en-
gagged in the great human slaughter.
The war inaugurated by the Roma
noffs made millions of children
fatherless. This was accompanied
by the invasion of vast stretches of
Russian soil by the German and
Austrian armies Of the now deposed
Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs, that
drove great sections of the Russian
population from their homes, scat
tering them everywhere, separating
children from their parents.
That was the beginning. The
whole capitalist press supported the
war that committed this crime
against Russia's children. They sup
ported later every armed interven-
ton and counter-revolutionary effort
that laid waste new Russian terri
tory and drove new masses from
their homes. Thus weakened the
Russian workers and peasants were
unable to cope with the new calam-
ity that came with the Russian
famine in 1921. But the Bolshevlk
revolution met this problem as It
has triumphantly overcome every
other obstacle to its successful pro-
gress.
BY the efforts OF the government
and public organizations, 100000 OF
the 100000 "vagrant children" have