Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-10-29
THE RED PERIL

orch a country whose liberation from the
czarist regime was marked by deeds OF vol
ence scarcely equaled by the French Kew
olution. is an unholy influence that has
found its insidious way in many countries
of the world.
In the United States we have seen a
snecter of world brotherhood taking ma
terial form in the soapbox orator, the misled
man and woman fired with ~fanatical frenzy
and. in turn, firing their auditors with un-
American doctrines.
The Young Workers League IS
TAUGHT a formula, accompanied by a mii''ah,
oesture-the appraised, clenched fist-ano
;ntersnersed with revolutionary terms. lhis
;uven;le branch of the Third Information
al tbrives in our country and IS especially
.ct;ve IN New York City, proving a serious
nroblem to the police department OF that
GREAT metropolis, where, incidentally, many
of these alien "isms are spawned.
On Red Day. recently celebrated by
Sovietism eighteen of these young work
ers' were arrested in the Bronx and charg-
ed with disorderly conduct. 1t seems that
they attempted to cary out one OF the insPir,
inc lines of their ode, to rid this earth OF
Capitalists" but, unfortunately tor them the
police authorities could not see it that way.
Again, on the occasion of the depar-
ture of those boy scouts who had been sell
ected to visit England and participate in the
GIGANTIC Scout |amboree, these young
workers seeped out from their question
able dives and gathered at the docks, where
Il -..laJ - ,ao~ and ridIcllle those
fine American boys whose organization
stands firmly for loyalty to the flag of our
country.
That the old Russia of autocratic roy
altv often presented a sad picture OF human
slavery, of afflicted tortures and exile to the
barren wastes of Siberia, is too we'll known
to be enlarged upon in this comment.
That the new Russia-the land of the
proletariat-with it's alluring promises to
the working masses is no improvement on
the czarist regime may be judged by the fol
lowing enlightening instance, which appear
ed in the Belfast Telegraph of September 70
last. 1t appears that the employees OF a large
colliery near Dover, England, became i'm
cupied by miners. We saw what they old US
disruption of the plant was threatened there
by. Feeling that something drastic should be
done in the matter, the proprietor, Mr.. lii
den Smith, appointed two of his miners to
make a. trip to Russia, where they might de-
termine for themselves actual conditions in
the land of the Soviet. MIR. Smith paid all ex-
penses Of the journey, but made two stipu-
lations: CD that, on returning, these two
men should address a public gathering of mi
- +ho ~acnJt oF +bo,r visit and ~ that
if they should report that conditions were
better in Russia than in Kent, they should
move to Russia with their families or leave
the colliery, the expenses of the removal to
Russia to be borne by the colliery company.
The miners forthwith departed and made
their investigation. w. Roome, one of the
party, said that on arrival in Moscow, altho
they were ravenously hungry, they could
not eat the food, which comprised chunks Of
beef through which a steel skewer was pass
ed to roast it, black bread and water.
We saw a sight that made us turn cold,"
he continued. so revolving was it in fact,
that it was indescribable. Cripples and aged
beggars of both sexes were standing, sitting
or lying on the pavements or in the gutter.
We commented on the fact that a govern
ment which preached the Brotherhood of
Man and spent enormous sums of money
on spreading propaganda abroad would do
much better with that money in looking af-
ter its aged %cripples and infirm."
Everything was very dear, he added:
and, as they pass from one street to another,
they saw bread queues, where thousands
stood from morning to night to obtain their