The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-21

Similarly following the unsuccessful outcome of the
revolutionary uprising of 1906 in Russia fresh flood
Of the exes Of czarism poured the Atlantic.
The 1905 Revolution against czarism found Comrade
Ogin part of that struggle in South Russia. After
its defeat however instead of coming Immediately to
America, he went to Germany and Austria, there to
work and study The outbreak of the world war in
1914 found him in Vienna writing book on "The ORR
gins of MarXsm in Russia" With the beast raging
thru Europe Ogn could not return to Russia nor could
he remain in Austria. He to the United States.
1t was significant that among the speakers at the
Ogin Jubilee Louis Hyman, of the garment work
and Ben Cold OF the furrers who have become as
distinctly part of the American trade union movement
Ogin has Of the Communist leadership of the Amer
lean class struggle, the Workers Party
Upon his arrival in this country Ogin joined the staff
of the Forward, the Jewish socialist daily edited by
Abraham Cahan and he Immediately faced with the
alternative of going with the Cahans the Schesingers
the Hilquits, the Sigmans the Kaufmans, the Ship
acoffs and the other agents Of the Gompers Vol
reaction in the American Federation of Labor taking
his stand with the left wing and its Communist lead
ership.
Thus the hour of the founding of the Frehet the
organ of Communism, in the Jewish language, was an
historic for the whole American working class
marking it did the crystallization of the militant
forces of the workers important front.
Olgin the first editor of the Freiheit always
anxious link the efforts of the Jewish with
those of the working class generally, especially in the
DaSc he always TO TURN races OF
the Jewish workers. especially those of New York.
ward the struggles in the coal fields the steel mills the
railroads, the lumber camps the automobile industry,
and other great industries where few if any Jewish
workers are to be found.
Thus Ogin typifies in great part the effort the
side of the foregnbo workers to link up their efforts
with the native born especially in the hour when James
j. Davis the Coolidge secretary of labor,
ing that there millions of aliens illegally in this
try and therefore subject to deportation
Many of these immigrants come from such countries
Italy, under the heel of fascist tyrannies that
der and imprison thinking workers. They create new
trek of eXles the Atlantic but the United States
is open no longer haven for political outcasts. 1t
plans its system of registration fngerprntng and
photographng apng the methods of the fallen regimes
of czarism and kaserism 1t needs the whole strength
of American labor native and foreign born combat
this new attack against it.
On this anniversary, it is significant that exles do
not seek these shores from at least country-rom
the Union of Soviet Republics Workers and peasants
Workers Republic devoting their every energy to the
task of construction, freed of the weight of all task
masters and expoiters. There is migration from the
Soviet Union to the United States
On the other hand, however, many workers in this
country would like to leave these shores for the free
territory of the Workers Republic But the time de-
mands that every revolutionary worker remain in this
country Olgn is typical of this demand, that eve
must accomplish revolution in the United States"
On the anniversary of Ogns % years service in the
cause of the world revolution can all Join in the
declaration, Forward to the Victory of the American
Social Revolution"