The Daily Worker

Capitalism in America Fears Growing Numbers of the Communist Party

By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

On the Ninth Anniversary of the Union of Soviet Republics, the United States government thru its secretary of state, Frank B. Kellogg, denies Alexandra Kollontay admission to this country.

Thus the political agents of Wall Street in Washington display their fear of the growing power of Workers' and Peasants' Rule. They have cause for their fears.

Yet the ghosts of the czars that are gone might stalk thru the state department's building, across the street from the White House in Washington, and tip off the dollar diplomats on the futility of this method of fighting the people. For the czars, especially the last one, Nicholas, learned too well that such measures as Kellogg invokes now against Kollontay will not avail.

The czardom in power exiled Kollontay. She was not permitted to live in czarist Russia. She spent her years before the revolution of 1917 in Germany. But she never for a moment hesitated in her support of the revolutionary cause. Before the war she was a familiar figure, with Clara Zetkin, at the congresses of the Second (socialist) International. Not only in the congress itself, but also in separate gatherings of the women delegates, where the development of the revolutionary struggle among working women received special attention, Kollontay was ever active. Her voice was raised against czars and kaisers everywhere. Kollontay in Berlin, was just as much a threat to the czardom as Kollontay, in Moscow or St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). This the czardom found out.

Internal conditions within Russia, the struggle of the workers and peasants against oppressive czarism, did not lessen in intensity because Kollontay along with thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, were exiled, imprisoned or put to death.

So the internal conditions in the United States today, the bitter exploitation of workingmen, women and children in mills, mines and factories, do not change for the better, they are not rendered less oppressive and bearable because the Coolidge-Kellogg state department forbids Kollontay the right to enter this country.

Kollontay was among the first of the exiles to re-enter Russia following the March revolution, in 1917, that ended czarism, and she was one of those who struggled valiantly to crown that revolutionary effort with the Bolshevik triumph that came in the following November, the anniversary that we now celebrate.

On this anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, the workers and farmers of this country may well give some thought to this condition. As they scan the news columns reading of the comical antics of Queen Marie, of Roumania, welcomed to this country by the Coolidge-Kellogg government, let them consider why the queen of Roumania's terror government is permitted entrance to this country, with the whole government grovelling at her feet, while Kollontay, coming from a land where labor for the first time in all human history has finally succeeded in striking off its chains, is barred. If labor considers this problem rightly, it will have made an advance step toward the day when it, too, will rid itself of its czardom, shaking off its kaisers, and make it possible to welcome with open arms as honored guests the spokesmen of the Union of Soviet Republics, and the spokesmen of the workers of other countries who may rid themselves of their capitalist oppressors from time to time until all the world is freed from the profit tyranny.

Kollontay doesn't want to stay in the United States. She merely wanted to pass thru this dollar land on her way to Mexico City, where she will act as the Soviet ambassador to Mexico. She was formerly the Soviet representative to Norway. Kollontay applied for a visa at Berlin to go thru Wall Street's domains, but was denied this by the American consul general at the German capital, "with the full approval of the state department at Washington."

Let the American workingclass stand in humble respect before labor in Norway and Germany, and especially in Mexico, with all other countries where spokesmen of the Soviet Union may come and go because the capitalist ruling class fears to deny them admission.

The news reports state openly that the United States government denied the visa to Kollontay because she is "one of the outstanding members of the Russian (All-Union) Communist Party"

This furnishes an excellent suggestion to revolutionary workers in the United States who are not yet members of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, the American Section of the Communist International,

Dollar rule fears the powerful Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Republics, It will also fear a growing Communist Party in the United States, that will lead American labor to its Bolshevik triumph.

Join the Workers (Communist) Party and help give American capitalism something to fear.