Soviets Grap ple With Hunger
Cable desk from Moscow reports famine relief efforts in drought devastated Volga provinces. Public economy council to boost petty trade and industry and prioritize raw materials as famine deepens. Izvestia urges world workers and Communists to aid famine relief, while Pravda calls for full food tax collection. Lenin’s letter to cooperatives urges coordinated commodity exchange and production revival amid reconstruction. Trotsky praises youth contributions at the International Congress in Moscow.
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Federated Press
New York
Russian Telegraph Agency
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Volga
Supreme Council of Public Economy
Izvestia
Workers of the World
All- Russian
Trades Union Council
Terestia
Europe
Pravda
Ean
Ee Ae
Lenin
Special Famine Commission
All-Russian Central Executive Committee
Centrosoyouz
Khintchuk
Troteky
International Congress of Young Communinte
Kronstadt
Red Army
Relief Shipments Direct to Petrograd
The Soviet Russia Medical Relief Committee announces direct shipments of medicines and relief supplies from New York to Petrograd. Steamers Florida Storaker, Starlander, and Otter Jarl are scheduled to depart from Pier 4 Bush Terminal Brooklyn carrying 3750 lbs of dry milk and 300 clothing pieces, with funding urged to expand humanitarian aid.
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Soviet Russia
New York
Petrograd
Pier 4
Bush Terminal
Brooklyn
Storaker
S. Starlander
United States
Peoples Commissariat of Public Health
Dryco” Co
Park Row
N. Y
Workmen's Circle
San Diego
Cal
Soviet Order Totals Two Million Dollars To Canadian Car Company
Montreal July 1 The Russian Soviet Government awarded Canadian Car and Foundry Ltd a 2 million dollar order for 500 cars. Work has begun and is to be completed by the end of November.
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Montreal
Canadian Car and Foundry Company, Ltd
Europe
Butler
Legion Drives Out Workers in Harvest Deportation
Federated Press reports in Tulare that organized bands of American Legion members herded 44 workers 11 miles to Redfield South Dakota under guard and ordered them to move on. Two missing men feared to have suffered foul play. authorities offered no arrests for mob members. Local citizens urged low wages and forced labor.
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Tulare
American Legion
Redfield
S. D
Legion
John Matson
Riot in Rochester as police quell marching strikers
Revolver fire greeted clashes in Rochester as police fought off a mob attempting to drive laborers from a paying job. Automobiles charged tanks, clubs and missiles flew, one of several outbursts tied to police labor tensions and anti-union actions.
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Rochester
N. Y
Necessity of Communist Activity in Conservative Trade Unions
The text debates whether communists should work within reformist unions or form separate organizations. It traces prewar and wartime splits in France’s General Confederation of Labor, noting defections and debates over dual unionism, and concludes revolutionary syndicalist groups gained by remaining inside unions to push revolutionary goals. It links tactics to the Communist International guidance and reports minimal chance of formal splits, with ongoing pressure in American conditions.
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France
General Confederation of Labor
Miners Federation
Federation of Metal Workers
Merrheim
Jouhaux
Department of the Seine
Revolutionista
Federation
Vie Ouvriere
Jouhaux and Co
Confederation of Labor
Avid
Traitor. By A. Rebel. In Praise of a False Comrade
A 1921 column attacks Morris Zucher, once labeled a Communist leader, arguing he never truly belonged to the movement. The piece accuses him of being an agent provocateur and urges vigilance among American revolutionaries against traitors and disinformation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Zucher
Philadelphia Inquirer
Communist Party of America
Zucher
Martens
Soviet Republic
Lingoln
America
No Refund On Bail For Haywood Bonds, Officials Say
In Chicago Roy Brown I W W chairman says bondsmen will not get bail money back if Big Bill Haywood returns to the United States to surrender to federal authorities. Attorney Otto Christensen asked federal commissioners who replied there would be no refund. Haywood had planned to attend a red trade union congress in Moscow and failed to report at Leavenworth when the government ordered I W W members out to serve sentences. He remained in Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Haywood
United States
Roy Brown
The
Otto Christensen
Hillquit's Party of Reformists in Socialist History
THURBER LEWIS surveys the Socialist Party from a Communist International warning to radicals, arguing the Detroit convention exposed reformist traits. He targets Hillquit as a reformist leader, contrasts IWW activism with S P reformism, and criticizes municipal advice and party tactics.
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Hillquit’s Party of Reformists
Thurber Lewis
Socialist Party
Communist International
S. P
Detroit
American Legion
Willy Nilly
C. I
8. P
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Labor Victims' Appeal Supports Sacco and Vanzetti
Boston dispatch reports volunteers from labor, politics and other groups rally to aid in the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Two thousand dollars is needed immediately to cover transcript typing for the defense, which argues the verdict was unjust and the trial atmosphere biased and unfair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Oune Iandred
Nigola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vangetti
Dedham
Mooney
Billings
Fred H. Moore
British Appeal for Debs Release
London labor, via telegram from Arthur Henderson, appeals to President Harding for clemency and Debs release. The telegram cites 1000 delegates and 4.5 million British workers urging immediate release as a friend of the people of the United States. Bela Kun, ex-Hungarian premier, is arrested in Galicia on charges of planning a communist revolt after returning from Moscow.
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London
Eugene Debs
Harding
Arthur Henderson
The
Labor Party
United States of America
Yelena
Bela Kun
Galicia
Communist International Congrema mi
Moscow
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Ae Uea
Canadian Car Company
A. Rosmer
Bulletin Communiste
Mary Reed
Volhynian
A. Rebel
Meyer London
Hillquit
Hill
Labor Victims’ Appeal
Sacco
Vanzetti
John Nicholas Beffel
Federated Press Staff
Parmenter
Berardelli
Plymouth
Supreme Court
Vanxetti
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