The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-19
How the Socialist Party Fought
Lenin to Betray Mooney

alarmed over nothing. Mooney will not be
hanged" Almost simultaneously with The APP
pearance of this editorial attempting to quiet
the alarm aroused by the Petrograd workers
who carried through their demonstration in
the face of Kerenskys and Francis machine
guns, there took place in the Petrograd Duma
building touching scene of love between the
imperialist ambassador and the Russian $50
cialist" shaky government The news dis
patch on the Mooney story in the New York
Call of the 26th also informs us that two
days after the Mooney demonstration:
"A public exhibition of the cordial rela-
tions existing between Russia and the United
Stat was given Monday night when AM
bassaGor Francis and Prof. Paul N. Miliu-
koff, Minister of Foreign Affairs, shook
hands in the city Duma before an immense
throng."
These disgusting fluctuations between the
Socialist" Kerensky government, with the aid
of the American socialist" party and the open
impericlists, did not succeed in defeating the
heroic work of our Russian comrades. The
New York Globe, one of the leading New York
paper of the time now out of existence, re-
flectel the aroused sentiment among the
masses. In commenting on the demonstration,
it s:..'c:
Remarkable is it that no inconsderable
number of Americans will learn of Thomas
J. Mooney because radicals in far-off Petro-
grad attempted demonstration in front of
the American embassy in protest against his
execution which the Petrograd agitators mis-
takenly assumed had occurred
r'his comment forced from the editorial lips
of bourgeois paper lights up the whole scene
and reveals the socialist party's miserable de-
sertion of Mooney and Billings. The socialist
party had at this moment about 100000 men,
ber5, yet Americans learned of the Mooney
case because Comrade Lenin showed its Il, 4
portance. And even after this demonstration
these shameless traitors had the temerity to,
throw their poisonous socialist" party torch
into the face of heroic revolutionary workers
in or r to blind the masses to the bloody deed
which was to be performed by their masters!
But this comment only tells part of the story.
The United States government, headed by that
famous peacemaker," Wilson, was desperately
trying to keep Russia from making separate
peace with Germany. The masses of the Soviet
Unioa demanded peace. Kerensky promised
peace to the masses, but continued to fight on
the side of the allies. Following the demon
strait in front of the American embassy in
Petrograd, Ambassa Ior Francis sent panicky
cableg am to Wilson informing him of the
GROWN hostility of the Russian revolutionary
masse to the reactionary American govern
ment. The opportunist Wilson was shrewd
enou to see that the United States govern
ment ould lose face even more with the Rus
sian masses if the executions were carried
through. 1t was too dear price to pay. Eff
forts have them executed were then dropped
entirely and their sentence definitely COM
muted to life imprisonment.
Following these events, one looks in vain
thro the socialist" pre's and activities for
any word in defense Of Mooney and Billings.
That is, until its recent efforts to appear as
the Messiah to the two victims of the most
atrccious frame-up in history. In fact, every
effort was made by the socialist party, Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and other similar
friends of Mooney and Billings to send them
to their death as possible. But this
is for another telling in the near future.