The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
BY PAUL NOVICK

THROUGH the carelessness of the Russian
white guard paper in New York, Novoe
husskoe slovo October 22), it has been dis
closed shat the socialists" are calling an anti
Soviet conference for November at the Penn
sylvania Hotel. In this connection, and be-
cause the defense of the Soviet Union is one
of the major issues in the present election cam
paign, the attitude of the socialists" towards
the Soviet Union must be dealt with,
That the socialists" are the worst SANDER
ers of the Soviet Union hardly needs proving
to those following up the Socialist press The
second ("socialist') international which is the
Agitprop department of agitation and propa-
ganda) of capitalism is particularly active with
regard to the Soviet Union. Abramovich and
other leaders of the second international con-
tinually supply the capitalist world with all
kinds of news theories, predictions, fabrica-
lions, misrepresentation for the consumption
of all red-baiting newspapers. The Berlin Sot-
sialstitsheski Viestnik, published by Abramo-
witch and Dan, is one of the chief sources for
the capitalist correspondents cabling the fab
relations about "shootings," "riots," and peas
ant uprisings" in the Soviet Union occurring"
now and then.
The Berlin Vorwaerts, central organ of the
ocial-democratic party of Germany is always
louder in attacking the Soviet Union. While in
control of the government by Germany and OF
the municipality of Berlin the al-democrats
have always taken care that foreign" Commu-
nists, agents from Moscow conduct no prop
uganda in Germany, giving at the same time
the Russian monarchists free reign. The
tivity OF such blackguardds as Orlov and his
friends who were caught counterfeiting Soviet
money was protected by the socialist" rulers.
At one of Orlov's trials it was disclosed that
he was doing some work for the then Socialist"
minister of the interior of Prussia, Grzesinsky.
The Berlin Vorwaerts was not shocked. Neither
did the acquittal of Orlov shock that paper.
In the United States, there is division of
labor among the Socialists" The dirty work
is left to Algernon Lee, Abe Cahan and other
Soviet baiters. Lee, who is the candidate of
his party for state senate in the 14th district
down town, New York, has recently addressed
a meeting in that district, at the Church of All
Nations called by group of Russian counter
revolutonists and Socialists" in protest against
the execution of the scoundrels that were try
ing to bring about starvation in the Soviet
cities by derailing cattle-trains, by putting rot
ten intestins into canned food, etc. And Abe
Cahan through his Jewish Daily Forward, is
doing his damnest
The Jewish Daily Forward is the mainstny
of the SIP. in New York, Chicago Philadelphia
Boston ana many QUIET ClteS d SItdt liIidlCldl
source for the SP., substituting the New Lead
er, etc. The SIP. has never disassociated itself
from the Forward, has never passed any reso-
buttons voicing its disagreement with its New
York daily whether with regards to its abom-
nations concerning the Soviet Union or any
other matter. The attitude of that paper is the
attitude of the socialist" party CHillquit,
Panken and other such luminaries members
of the Forward publishing association, while
the editor and manager of the paper are lead
ers in the socialist" partly. If the New York
Call had continued to live it would have acted
the way the Forward is acting now. 1t will be
remembered that before it went down. the Call,
in 1922, printed the Infamous series of articles
on the Soviet Union by the British spy, Captain
McCullugh. The attitude of the Forward is
therefore, a criterion for judging the social
ist' party in many respects and particularly
with regards to the Soviet Union
Anybody specifically acquainted with that
filthy sheet knows that there is no paper in
the United States that could compare with the
Forward with regard to ISLANDERS, lubricants,
initiating of news including cables of the capi-
talist correspondents in order to paint the most
horrible picture of the land where the workers
rule The Forward has so far been the only
paper in the United States that has been re-
printing from the Russian monarchist press
in Europe the series of articles of the infa-
NOUS Bessedovsky who was found guilty by
a Soviet court for stealing $4,000 from the
funds of the Soviet embassy in Paris. Bes-
sedovsky's articles were presented to the Fish
committee by the Tammany police Inspector
Lyons in English translation and have since
become the Koran of that committee. Matthew
Wol is constantly in touch with his friends
of the Jewish Daily Forward. Whatever agree
ments advanced by Abramovitch on the pages
of that paper soon find expression in the
statements of Matthew Woll in the capitalist
press. Before appearing before the Fish COM
mttee Woll was the honorable guest at a
banquet dedicated to Abe Cahan, editor of the
Forward, side by side with Thomas and others.
As if by magic, the arguments advanced by
Woll at the Fish hearing were in line with
the arguments of Mr.. Abramovitch in the For
ward a few days previously.