The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
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By JORGR

"He is Risen! 5.g
Easter has arrived early for the enemies Of
the Soviet Union. Riaboushinsky has risen from
the gravel! ae sBee,4s
When the Moscow trial Of the counter -teVoiu-
tionary industrial party took place, the COMES
sions of the prisoners Involved as one Of the
plotters in Paris. Russian monarchist refugee
named Riaboushinsky. slfa
The Infamous but anonymous Correspondent"
at Riga, always quick to produce a new lie about
the Soviet Union in fact rivaling Helsingfory IN
that respect, but perhaps better organized by the
American consul in Riga than those in Heising-
fors, trotted out the claim that the Moscow
accusation was false because Riaboushinsky was
deadl In fact the poor fellow was dead already
4 in 1924 and had been buried IN such and such
cemetery In Paris How, therefore; could he hays
participated in plot of 1928? The thing wAG
unanswerable! ~ ~
1t made little difference, Of course, that To
Soviet Prosecutor. Krylenko produced at the
trial copy of the Russian counter-revolution-
airy paper published in Paris, dated July, 1880 in
which the supposedly dead Riaboushinsky had
written long article calling for war a9Rinst
the Soviet Union No, that could make no diff
ference! The famous Riga correspondent" had
established the death of the gentleman and no
enemy of the Soviet Union would so much as
grunt at the proof to the contrary produced by
Krylenko. T. fss 3a1
Not being able to deny the fact obvious Do
all of plot to make war against the Soviet
Union, they had to base all their argument on
something, even small thing. And SO, by no
manner of means would they allow Riaboushin-
sky to live. He must stay deadi ~,
Some professor in Boston had TO discover
the death" of Riaboushinsky all over again, in
a letter to the N. Y. Times. before that sheet
took editorial notice Of 1t, although its own
Riga correspondent" had first informed II Of
the sad demise of Professor Riaboushinsky.
The Times used the Boston professors dis
covery as the opinion Of an unprecedented ex-
pert" and in its editorial summing up the Mos
COW trial, stated that this fatal discrepancy"
was enough to "discredit" the Moscow reveia-
tons of a plot against the Soviet Union /,
But matters did not stop there. Norman
Thomas, the socialist" leader, always ready 10
be sounding board for any capitalist lie against
the Soviet Union, seconded the motion OF the
N. Y. Times, accepting Gin the New Ieederl
the death Of his esteemed compatriot Risbosi.
sfinsky as a fact, occurring in 1924" which
cast shadow over the Moscow trial, because,
forsooth, how could Riaboushinsky be dead Ia
1924, yet plot against the Soviet Union after
that? ~
Not even regularly ordained minister Oh the
gospel such as Norman Thomas, could 60 50 far
along the lines of life after death, as to con-
tend such thing. Moreover. 1t was the best, lie
possible against the Soviet.
Like all the other capitalist liars the Rev. Nor
man Thomas, also was silent on the proof
offered by Krylenko in the Moscow trial, Of the
fact that Riaboushinsky was alive and very busy
indeed agitatng for war against tho Soviet.
Thomas could take no heed OF such matters,
even though the paper in which Riaboushirsky's
article of July, 1880 appeared was as fully ac-
cessible to him as to Krylenko In Moscow.
But it is hard to keep q good man down.
Riaboushinsky, killed in November by the Riga
correspondent Of the N. Y. Times, and buried
with full benefit Of clergy by Norman Thomas
and the N. Y. Times in December, 1880 had but
few weeks of rest in the grave, when he was
summoned by the counter-reyolutionary angels
at the doorway"
Riaboushinsky is risen! On Page 10 Of the
N. Y. Times Of Jan. 20, under the headline
"Exiles Ask America to Outlaw Soviet" Professor
D. P. Riaboushinsly is resurrected to denounce
Soviet dumping" and various other wickedness
of the Communist Tyrants"! His name appears
with 2O9 other cultural leaders" Of old R,lsxia,
Czarist Russia, appealing to the American
people" to oppose the Soviet!
The days of miracles are not pasti No. In
deed! The N. Y. Times with the prayerful as
sistance of the Rev. Norman Thomas, has raised
sthe dead! But they are modest n1agicians, and
fail to acknowledge that, II RiaboushinSly. rest
ing in the tomb last November, discredited the
Moscow trial. his existence in January, -
sgner of manifesto, is not only miracle, But
one which certifes and supports the trial
Anyhow, he is risen! 9s@.A d