The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Emma Goldman, Here to Make
Some Cash, Sneers at U.S.S.R.
Strike at Astor Is Minor Issue to Defamer of the
Soviet Union; Just Loves the Press!
BY SENDER GARLM


NEW YORK.-While pickets carry
ing 1--WE Are On Strike" signs pa
trolled the entrances of the Aston
Hotel at 10th st. and Broadway, yes
terday morning, Emma Goldman
anarchist and arch-defamer of the
Soviet Union, sat in a room on the
eighth floor and talked sagely about
voluntary cooperation and the state.
less society"
By her side sat Roger Baldwin, di-
rector of the American Civil Liberties
Unions, who fights for free speech for
Notwithstanding NaziS.
Her royalties from books attacking
the Soviet Union apparently being
exhausted, Emma Goldman is seek
ing to make a little cash by going
on a lecture tour under the auspices
Of regular" lecture agency: The
Pond Bureau, Room 1902, $50 Fifth
Ave, New York.
ASK Me Anything But"
In room crowded with reporters
and news photographers, Miss Gold
man answered questions with ANNA
tion-exeept those dealing with such
basic questions as her attitude to-
ward the Soviet Union, the N. r. A..
the war danger, etc.
Here she hedged and explained
that these problems she would ts .e
up in the course of her lecture tour
The proceeds from this tour will
enable her to return to the South OF
France where she. has Yegetated dur
ing the past few years, breaking into
the capitalist press headlines from
time to time with venomous attacks
against the Soviet Union.
She has grown stoclly, and as she
sat in the Aston Hotel room, dressed
in austere black with q black, red
and gold scarf about her shoulders
and wearing gold-rimmed spectacles
Emma Goldman spoke of her past
with the reminiscent braggadocio
Characteristic Of a retired prima
donna.
France Is Lovely
'How did you find France?" capt.
tslist press reporter asked her.
"a lovely country - tremendously
interesting" she replied with the air
Of a seasoned tourist.
What about the conditions of
the workers and peasants in this
lovely country?" asked Emma
Goldman. 81 don't mean in the
South of France, where you live
I added.
She raised an inquiring eyebrow
sob, yes, there is suffering, too, in
France.
"Of course there's a lot of suffering
in. France, but you must recall that
the crisis was late in reaching France.
Besides, the effects were less severe
because the French people are known
to be extremely economical" Having
thus profoundly dealth with the crisis
as it affected the French proletariat,
Emma passed on to another subject.
Emma borrowed heavily from the
arsenal of shopworn ISLANDERS against
the present Soviet leaders, thus
showing her comoleta intellectual af-
finity with the counter-revolutionary
TrotskyistS.
In reply to question from a re-
porter from one of the New York
evening paper, she said:
'Lenin? Oh, a very great man.
Stain, of course, can't be compared
with him-or even with Trotsky, for
that matter.
7 Emma proudly described herself as
an educator" and not an agitator
II don't believe in this business OF
making converts" she said smugly
Il don't believe in shouting and
screaming"
DO you see war in the offing,'
asked another reporter from the
capitalist press.
Yes, do" Emma replied.
what countries do you think il
will involve?
- "Since the last war;" she countered
with a superior air, tone can't af-
ford to make prophecies. For one
may wake up and find ones self a
fool instead of prophet"
''Are you opposed TO all wars?"
came another question.
yes, all wars"
How about revolutionary vars?
I interposed.
There is no such thing as revo-
IutiOna-y was," Emma replied.
"How about tie Russian Revolu-
tion?" she was asked.
(Which revo.ut;o--the one to
Gomez" She countered with a sheer.
IF Japan attacked the Soviet
Unton," asked, ION which side
would your sympathies be7"
ut would be on the side OF the
Russian people"
what concrete form would that
sympathy. take. since. the. Russian
people have had a government for
sixteen years which has represented
their INTEREST,""
Il would be on the side OF the
struggling Russian people" Emma
replied, italicizing the word "strug-
Cling TO indicate her counter -revo-