The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-20

OF the rise to power of the fascist
tyranny in Lithuania, made possible
by socialist treason to labor.
The Soviet Commissar of War,
Clement Voroshiloff, spoke no idle
words in addressing the Commun-
lists congress of the Moscow prov
ince, when he pointed out the steady
increase Of armament in capitalist
countries, especially warships and
airplanes; narrated the progress of
the British policy of anti-Soviet
"encirclement" and the growth of
the fascist movement in the bour-
geois states bordering the Soviet
Union. He said:
''The fascist forces in Poland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Esthonia and
Finland were 295,OOO in 1928 and
the regular armies 471,OOO, whereas
in 1926 the fascist troops especial
ly anti-revolutionary volunteers,
etc. reached 651,OOO and regulars
533,OOO."
Voroshiloff raises the warning
that the enemies of the Soviet I'm
ion, among whom Britain is ranked
first, have practically reached a
decision to strike blow this year.
These enemies are maddened at, the
sight of Soviet rule successfully
pushing economic construction in
the rapid building of the socialist
state. The Soviet success, acting
as an inspiration to workers every
where, menaces imperialist aims
and knocks increasingly at the
pillars of capitalist society.
1t can readily be seen, in this
situation, that the socialist canard
spawned in the editorial Offices of
the Berliner Forwaerts and the
Leipziger Volkszeitung, that have
their counterpart in the New York
Jewish Daily (socialist) Forward in
this country, can only help bolster
the anti-Soviet war plans of London
and Paris made to order for the
warmongers of Warsaw, Bucharest
Riga and Helsingfors.
The German socialist fairy tale"
about the alleged Soviet plot to arm
the German militarists is on a par
with the Coolidge-Kellogg nightmare
that Soviet Union inspired Bolshe-
viks not only feed but start the
fires of discomfort flaming in Mex
leo, Nicaragua and other Latin
American countries, not to forget
the Philippines and China. To all
this the Soviet foreign office at
Moscow declares:
''The Bolshevist peril is an old
cry in such cases. The world al
ready has heard it in connection
with the Syrian and the Rifian
struggle for independence. 1t was
no truer then than now in Nicar-
aqua"
These socialist frauds have just
/ received a very severe Jolt in the
reputation by the N. Y. official
dom of the American Federation Of
Labor of the Morris Kaufman
Matthew VOL tissue Of lies charg-
| ing that Moscow-inspired Com
munists had bribed the police dur
ing the recent furriers' strike in
New York City. The attack on the
Communists and the left wing in
the New York needle trades unions
is led by the socialists, supported
by the A. r. Of L. reaction. But
| just as the capitalist press couldn't
stomach the German socialist can
ard, so the Tammany Hall labor Of
ficialdom In New York City refuse
to bolster the lie against the left
wing furriers, especially since the
charge slapped back at the integrity
of their own Tammany Hall police
force.
A lie must be we'll told II 1t is
to pass successfully all the pitfalls
that await it. The lies that are
woven into socialist fairy tales"
against Communists collapse i'm
mediately the weight of truth
touches them. Let in the light.