The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-10

collecting their forces Tor another attempt to crush
the Workers Republic the fatherland of the workers
of the world.
At the head of this conspiracy stands Great
Britain, the oldest and most far-fung of modern i'm
periast powers tho second in power to the
imperiast giant of the western hemisphere, the
United States of America.
Since the Russian workers and peasants under
the leadership of the Communist Party seized power
in November, 1917 and topped the rotten capitalist
feudal regime of Czarism into the dust the imperial
lists have let up for moment in their efforts
to affect the destruction of the Soviet regime.
Since the signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with
Germany in the early part of 1918, until the defeat
of the last formidable Czarst counterrevoution in
1921, there world concert of powers engaged
in active military campaigns against Russia. But
the heroic defense of the workers and peasants of
Russia threw back the foreign invader and crushed
the counter-revoutionary white guardiss who sought
to strangle the economic life of the country by
sabotage and to rob the government of it's best
leaders thru assassination.
Left with an inheritance of graft and nefficiency
from Czarist days and faced with an economic and
financial boycott by the capitalist powers the Soviet
administration faced with task more difficult
than confronted revolutionary government in
the known history Of man.
Feeble tho the assistance rendered the new Work
ers' Republic by the working class of other
tries was it nevertheless shaekled the efforts of the
inperialist conspirators and the sympathy aroused
among broad sections of the populations of all
tries bolstered up the morale of the hard-pressed
revolutionary masses of the Soviet Republic. For
several years after the heaviest part of the fighting
ended the new government faced an even
difficult task in the beginning of the construction
of socialism from the wreckage caused by the civil
war. Expecting that disaster would crown their
efforts, the imperialists stacked their guns for
time. They believed it only question of time
when the Soviet regime would crack and the bour
geosie would return to power opening up to the
financiers and industrial capitalists of the world
Vistas of profitable exploitation great
brought the dew of greed from the teeth of the
profit-mongering class. But the miracle happened,
the Soviet regime arose from the ashes Of Czarism
with the vigor of young giant until today it is so
strong that the imperiasts feel another offensive
must be started against it if their ruin is to
be averted.
Having failed to smash the Soviet Union by
frontal attack, more subtle methods were employed
Several big capitalist powers recognized the
Russia. The war left them shaky in the economic
region unemployment was rife and the possibility
of making profit out of trade with the Workers
Republic too glittering to be resisted by the
business men of Great Britain, Italy, Germany
France and other countries whose trade seri-
ousy affected by the ravages of the World War
'When the devil is SICK the devil saint will be;
when the devil is well, the devil saint is he" When
the capitalist powers crutches convalescing
from the world blood debauch they confined their
public manifestations of hostility to the Workers
Republic to the peevish rawlings of irritable pa
tients. But when they began to recover and noted
the giant strides being made by the young proe-
tartan republic that stretched its giant limbs
one-sxth of the earths surface they began to grow
fearful lest the young giant might crush them if
allowed to develop. They look on the Soviet Union
as poisonous weed in the capitalist garden. To
pluck it up by the roots would be the most desir-
able and effective way to dispose of the peril, but
this was game that two could play at. And it
is not game for the sick.
Tho all the capitalist powers<of the world look
upon the Soviet Union with a jaundiced eye Great
Britain at this moment is the leader in the agrees
sion Great Britain stands to lose than any
other power from revolution among Oriental peo-
pies that would snap the imperialist chain and the
sympathy and encouragement given to subject peo-
pies as we'll as to exploited workers by tho Soviet
Union has increased the revolutionary ferment
among the peoples of China, India and other sec