The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-11

ments" of 1919, which aimed to
popularize the impotent lie that
the leaders of the Bolshevik Revo-
luton were Sin the pay" of the
imperial German government.
And by a curious coincidence, it
was John Reed, who in pamphlet
published that year exposed Sis
sons documents-the first of the
long series of anti-Soviet forgeries,
the most recent example of which
are the discredited "Whalen docu-
ments."
And it is to this man Sisson, whom
Reed had exposed with his flaming
pen, that Mr.. Street goes "for in
formation concerning Reeds per-
formances in Russia"
WHERE in this article is the John
w Reed, who, at the height OF
his carer as one of the highest
paid and most sought-for journal
lists in America, repudiated his
class and threw himself into the
struggles of the workers? The
Streets, seeking to hide their own
corruption, find it necessary to dis
credit such men as Reed.
Where is the John Reed who
threw himself heart and soul into
the struggle of the Paterson silk
weavers in 1918; the Reed who
twas off like shot" to Russia the
moment the news flashed over the
cables that the Romanofis were nc
more? Where is the magnificent
revolutionary journalist of 1.-THE
Ten Days That Shook the World,
about which Lenin wrote: "Witf
the greatest interest and with
never slackening attention reac
this book. Unreservedly do I rec
ommend it to the workers of the
world. Here is a book which
should like to see published in mil
lions of copies and translated ir
all languages"
This book, significantly enough
STREET simply fails even to mention
Where, in this stupid, lying ar
ticle is the Reed who was one OF
the founders of the American Com
munist movement; who offered up
his life to the Bolshevik Revolu-
ton? Who, laid low by typhus
the disease of the war-front, lies
buried by the Kremlin wall in Mos
COW?
Streets cowardly article is link
in the ceaseless imperialist propa-
ganda campaign against the Soviet
Union. His method is well illu-
strated in the following bit of dem.
agogy:
From sources friendly to the
Bolsheviks l learned that Reed was
received with honors latter his re.
turn to Soviet Russia from America
where he came to stand trial fol
'sedition'-S. c.. From sources
unfriendly l gather that the mas.
tiers of the Soviets, disappointed al
his failure to kindle the revolution
in his homeland, treated him with
indifference, if not with contempt
Then, with unconscious irony
Street continues: THE truth mat
tiers little now" Emphasis mine
S. G. "If they treated him i'll, i
was not the first time that they
had turned on a faithful servan
of the cause; if, on the other hand
it is true that they placed him higf
in their councils, we are shown
once more of what the oviSet Gov
eminent is made"
MR. STREET, the author o.
iu "Our Next War;" sponsored b!
the American Legion and published
in 1915 by the American Defense
Society, concludes on a frenzied pa
triotic note-a note that would de
light the hearts of Hamilton Fish
Mr.. Carl Bachman local operate,
from West Virginia) and their col
leagues on the malodorous FISH
Committee.
"To glorify Reeds service to tn
Soviets," Street goes on record al
declaring, "is to glorify his disloy
atty to the land which gave him hi
education and hisopportunities, tn
land which--let grumblers sa!
what they will-offers its citizen
advantages greater than man ha
ever known before"
Maybe.
Just ask any one Of the S,000,-
900 workers now walking the
paved streets of this glorious
land, jobless and hungry! Per-
| haps he'll agree.