The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-20
Socialist Fairy Tales
Attacking Communists
Suffer Quick Collapse
BY j. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

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L against the Union of Soviet Re-
publics has found its way into the
columns of the socialist press of
this country, including the Amer
lean Appeal, the official organ of the
socialist party.
No capitalist sheet has yet pub
lished the fraud. 1t is evidently not
appetizing enough for the kept press
of the profteers. But the socialist
press, hungry for every bit of
malice, for every lie against the
Soviet Union, voraciously feeds on
the fiction invented by the German
social-democracy that there was a
secret military deal between Ger
man monarchists in the war depart
ment of the German republic and
Soviet government for the creation
of a German war industry on Rus
sian soil, to be financed by the Ger
man war department with an initial
capital of 100000 gold marks.
This malicious falsehood, as cir
culated by German socialists who
get their inspiration from the Yer
sailles peace bandits, was answered
in detail in the article entitled,
stop Thief" republished in The
DAILY WORKER, Friday, Jan. IA,
from the Pravda, of Moscow, the Of
fetal publication of the Communist
Party of the Union of Soviet Re-
publics. This article, in exposing
the socialist fairy tale" pointed out
that the carefully manufactured
sensation had already given up
the ghost. But this did not stop the
socialists on this side of the
Atlantic Ocean from continuing to
parade this ghost in another frantic
effort to brighten American work
ers and farmers with this latest
anti-Communist DOGGY.
1t is therefore necessary to give
some additional reply, especially
since the American Appeal, in an
editors note, naively declares that
this story is vouched for "by the
leading German socialist papers"
1t is nothing new to say that
Kellogg's department of state, at
Washington, has a successful COM
petitor in the German socialist
press, in the spreading of anti-Bol-
shevik fakes. Both of these agencies
long ago eclipsed the British foreign
Office with its fake "2,inoviev let
ters," forged copies of the Pravda
and other coarse methods of spread
ing and developing anti-Soviet pre-
JUDGE.
Anything should be possible for
the German socialist heroes of the
Barmat scandal, for the assassins
of Liebknecht and Luxembourg, for
the Noskes and Severings who,
more than anyone else, helped rear
the Hindenburg capitalist republic
in place of German Soviet rule
The German socialists, who are and
were the best allies of the Swastika-
emblemed monarchists, now try
to hide their own crimes behind a
barrage of lies directed against the
First Workers Republic.
1t is no accident that the attack
should come at this time, when the
British lion is sharpening its claws
for a new attack against the Soviet
Union. The socialists, not only in
Germany but their anti-Soyiet col
laborators in all countries, become
the best spreaders of propaganda
for the London foreign Office. What
better attack against the workers
and peasants of the Soviet Union
than to claim that their government
is the ally of Germany in breaking
the Versailles peace. 1t is a bastard
ly attack, but socialists stop at
nothing in their insane efforts to
undo If they can the workers vic
tory.
This attack comes at the moment
when the socialist, Pilsudski, tries
to strengthen his fascist tyranny in
Poland thru the wholesale imprison-
ment, torture and death OF more