The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-13
BY I. ANfTER


The city executive committee of the
socialist party under pressure of mass sentiment
mas passed resolution demanding that Hllquit
withdraw from the case.
MORRIS HILLQUIT leader of the American
40 socialist party, on the eve of his departure
Tor the congress of the Second International,
was announced as lawyer for the Russian white
guard concerns, formerly owners of the Baku
oil fields, This created sensation even in So
clallst circles, whereupon Hillquit issued a state
ment.
IL is purely money dispute between differ
emf capitalist concerns. If and when our N
government will recognize Soviet Russia there
Will no longer be any basis for these actions"
says Hillquit in his statement
The complaint filed by Hillouit declares that
IN and after November, 1917 a revolution oc
Cured IN Russia and the supporters of the said
revolution, acting together under the name or
designation OF the Federated Socialist Soviet
republics If Russia or Soviet Government of
Russia, thereafter wrongfully, unlawfuIy and by
force OF arms seized possession of all the plain
tHs OIL lands, wells, ETC., ETC.. and have ever
thereafter wrongfully and forcibly retained and
maintained possession of said lands wells etc
without the consent of the owners thereof
and OF the persons lawfully entitled to the pos
session of the same including the plaintiffs"
Hlllqult says lit is purely a money dispute"
Charging that the Russian workers and peas
ants in November, 1917, had no right to confis-
cate the land and property of their oppressors-
a right recognized even by the United States
lmperlallsts, when 1t does not concern their
oooty-but right demanded by the Working
Glass observation-disclosures turns the guns of the
h oPly p1oIr
rising Working Glass Republic of the Soviet
Union, side by side with those of the U. S.,
French, British, Italian imperialst governments
And at the same time, he has the nerve to call
it purely a money dispute"
Hillquit was on his way to the congress of the
Second International, which will put the stamp
Of approval on his act. The leaders of the Sec
ond International are meeting to complete their
war plans in league with the impc Hist powers
which have brought Germany into lie by help
ing the German bosses to keep off the coming
German Revolution, which has been caused by
the growing misery and starvation of the Ger
man masses and the growing prosperity in the
Soviet Union
EillqWt speaks of recognition of the Soviet
Union by "our government" If the government
is ours" which is preparing to sell out the min
ers to the coal operators; if the government is
"ours," which is breaking the strike of the tex
tile workers in Allentown; if the government is
ours" which uses police, tear gas shot guns
and machine guns against the Kentucky min
ers police, jails injunctions, gangsters and rack
eteers against needle, food and other strikers
who are fighting against hunger; if the gov
eminent is ours" which sends the unemployed
to jail and the chain gang on charges of va
grancy; if the government is ours" which clubs
a,1I Lobe H.,
ment is "ours" which hounds the foreign born
and lynches the Negroes-then TIillquit is well
come to it.
1t is the kind of government which Hillquit's
friends headed in Germany and murdered Leb-
kneicht and Luxembourg and tens of thousands
of courageous working class fighters 1t is the
kind of government which, with Hillquit's
friends at its head, today in England is MUIR
dering the workers and peasants in india It is
indeed "our" government, which is preparing for
war on the Soviet Union and has just concluded