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133 THE WORKERS COUNCIL 132 NOVEMBER 15, 1921 NOVEMBER 15, 1921 THE WORKERS COUNCIL The Fourth Anniversary of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic Judge Anderson, of Indianapolis, has issued another injunction against the coal miners, in an effort to cripple the workers in West Virginia. After the Dedicated to the Memory of the blow that Lewis, president of the miners, handed to RAILROAD STRIKE Howatt, in jail in Kansas for the right to organize, the federal judge evidently got jealous and set out to vindicate himself as against the miners reactionary It Died October 28, 1921, executive.
Requiem by SHEPPARD, of the Conductors: FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI The department of justice announces that it is plan We cannot fight the government ning to institute a nation wide investigation in an effort to connect American influence with the Sacco Assisted by JOHN LEWIS, president of Vanzetti demonstrations abroad.
the coal miners, who used same words in killing No announcement has been made that there will mine strike of 1919.
be any probe of the legal lynching of the two Italian workmen now facing death on the gallows in MassaLoads of flowers from Wall Street, chusetts.
It will avail Attorney General Daugherty nothing to attempt to discredit the world wide demonstrations on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. He will only help War was again glorified as Foch addressed the Ameremphasize the international solidarity of labor behind ican Legionnaires at Kansas City and the conference this issue. From all the large cities of the world, for the limitation of armaments was forgotten.
from London to Buenos Aires, from Paris to Rome, to South Africa, to Australia, the story repeats itself, of demonstrations, mass meetings, 24 hour OUR FRONT COVER strikes and other forms of protest.
It is said that bombs have been exploded on the Our front cover this month is a reproduction of doorsteps of American consulates abroad. The de the front cover of The Communist International, partment of justice might get the facts about these the official organ of the Executive Committee of bombings if it would probe the doings of its own the Communist International.
secret service abroad. The Burns and the Thiel De This publication appears simultaneously in Engtectives Agencies, that have records for just such lish, Russian, French and German, being issued frame ups, might be called in to help. But of course from the Smolny Institute, at Petrograd, the headany danger of getting at the real truth will be care quarters of the Third International.
fully avoided.
The figure of the worker striking the chains of In the meantime the words of Nicola Sacco and wage slavery from the earth has been taken as the Bartolomeo Vanzetti continue to cut thru their prison emblem of THE WORKERS COUNCIL, and apwalls: pears upon all the dues stamps issued by the We have been wrongly convicted of an atrocious organization.
murder committed by persons other than ourselves. Our front cover is a special feature of this issue The crime was one entirely independent of the strug dedicated to the four years struggle of the Russian gle of the workers to better their conditions.
workers, a struggle that has become an inspiration We are not the type of men who steal and murder. to the workers of the world.
No man who is in a normal mental condition ever commits murder. We do not want to die uselessly. Let our death 2, 000 FOR RUSSIA if we must die usher in a world where there will be no master class to still the voices of those who would We know that all of our readers will be especially be free.
interested in the nature of this week appeal for Let the solidarity of the workers in other lands be the famine střicken of Soviet Russia.
an inspiration to the organized labor movement of At many mass meetings, during the past few America. The toilers of the United States, thru their weeks, more than 2, 000 has been raised for the united action, must win freedom for Sacco and Vanfamine fund.
zetti.
Thru the generosity and co operation, however, of our comrade, Bishop William Montgomery Brown, author of Communism and Christianism, Russia workers demonstrated for Tom Mooney we are enabled not only to send 2, 000 to Soviet before the American ambassy at Petrograd. And the Russia, but also put 2, 000 copies of a good book in capitalist press opened its columns to the news of this circulation in this country.
attempted assassination of a worker. Similarly, the The announcement on the inside of the front workers of the world are now notifying the toilers cover should be sufficient to bring the necessary of the United States, of the danger that threatens response immediately. We should be able in our Sacco and Vanzetti. What will America workers next issue to announce that this entire special edido about it?
tion has been disposed of.
By MOISSAYE OLGIN UFFERING. Hunger. Loneliness. shattered nationalities with various languages, and various economic machine. disorganized, disordered cultures.
agricultural system. Millions are stared in the The Russian revolution has permitted all the face by hunger death.
non Russian nationalities freely to develop their weary land. Empty, vacant faces. Starved, national life and culture. Not only is there national wasted bodies. Ruin, sorrow.
autonomy for the Ukraine, for White Russia, for And the petty bourgeois sits back comfortably in the Tartars, and the other peoples that occupy his cozy home, gleefully rubs his hands and gives definite territories.
thanks unto the fates that have spared him and his But there has also been established intra terricountry the unhappiness of Bolshevik experi torial autonomy, national autonomy for those mentation. And the calmer intellectual sits back people who do not happen to compose a majority in and asks Really, what was the idea of this whole a given stretch of land.
affair? Was it necessary?
Jews Obtain Free Conditions New Worlds Born in Pain The Jews in Russia, for example, have obtained We take leave of the petty bourgeois that can the freest conditions possible for developing their still feel themselves comfortable. Their kind have national language, their national teaching, and never yet heard the wild screech of historic winds.
every other phase of national culture.
The thundering storm of revolutionary epochs is For the first time in the history of modern peoples not for them, there has been created the possibility for free coWe turn to those who themselves know that new operation among different nationalities within the worlds are born only in suffering, pain, and fierce boundaries of one country.
struggling The Russian revolution has established an Let us turn together to examine briefly the gains armed power to protect the country.
and the losses of Russia working classes, and If, in 1917, the old army was in continual demoRussia masses, in the four years of revolutionary ralization, and in constant retreat from the slightest strife.
attack by the enemy; if, in 1918, Russia was totally Brief Review unprotected and it seemed as if a few thousand Czecho Slovaks would easily be able to overturn The Russian revolution has first of all guaran the new order; their new revolutionary army in teed the existence of the Russian state and the in 1919 and 1920 proved that the revolutionary tactness of Russian territory.
masses have the will and the courage to organize Not one enemy turned to Russia to tear the land themselves into a new military power, to sacrifice to shreds.
themselves and to die on the battlefields in the There was a time when Russia was so weak that struggle for their country.
it seemed sure that every one could come to tear Calls Red Army a Miracle part of Russia away and do with it as he willed.
That is now long past.
It looked like a miracle this building up of a Now, on the threshold of the fourth year of the new army on the ruins of the old.
November (1917) revolution, Russia is once more a It was possible only because a new hope shone strong, united power which for the workers of Russia, because a new ideal every other power must reckon with carefully.
roused their spirits to the rebirth the stirring of a Poland is on the outside, but Poland never was new life. If at present, after four years of imperialan organic part of the Russian state.
istic onslaught, there are but few contenders to attempt to overthrow the new order thru armed Finland is on the outside. But Finland never was force, it is because the young republic has proved an integral part of Russia.
that she can wield an iron fist. The Russian revolution has instituted a new Baltic Provinces to Join Republic political system where the old order had left only The Baltic provinces are economically bound up barrenness.
with Russia, and they are now outside of the Eight months after the fall of Nicholas II. the country, but sooner or later these provinces will coalition government attempts to establish law and have to become part of the Russian Federated order in Russia, but it was not successful.
Republic.
Its law was to be bourgeois law, and its order All the other divisions of Russia are consolidated, such as to protect the privileges of the ruling classes.
unified, and form one mighty power, notwithstanding the fact that they are composed of different Translated from the Naye Welt.