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Updated: May 14, 2025
"But you can't tell things like that to the doughboys." "My God!" said Kalenkin. "Don't I know! I vas in America! Dey tink dey are de people vat de good God made! Dey know everyting you cannot teach dem. Dey are democracy; dey have no classes; vage-slaves dat iss just foreign vat you call it scum, hey? Dey vill shoot us I have seen how dey beat de vorkers ven dey strike on Grand Street."
And then came "Wild Bill". This wrangling over German and British gave him a pain in the guts. Couldn't they see, the big stiffs, that they were playing the masters' game? Quarrelling among themselves, when they ought to be waking up the workers, getting ready for the real fight. And wizened-up little Stankewitz broke in again that vas vy he hated var, it divided the vorkers.
"I've been through it all," said Jimmie. "What can we do?" "Propaganda!" cried Kalenkin. "For de first time we have plenty money for propaganda all de money in Russia for propaganda! Ever'vere in de vorld we reach de vorkers everyvere we cry to dem: Rise! Rise and break your chains! You tink dey vill not hear us, tovarish!
Vy do we fight for de Kaiser, vy do we not be free like de Russians? I know it, tovarish, I have talked vit many German soldiers. It goes like a fire in Germany. Maybe it take time a year two years but some day people see de Bolsheviki vere right, dey know de vorkers, de heart of de vorkers dey have de life, de fire dat cannot be put out in de heart!" "Sure," said Jimmie.
Here, under the Arctic Circle, in this wilderness of ice and desolation, even here the spirit of international fraternity was working its miracles! But then, shaking with excitement, the little Jew pawed at Jimmie with his bundled hands. "If you are Socialist, vy you fight de Russian vorkers?" "I'm not fighting them!" "You vear de uniform." "I'm only a motor-cycle man." "But you help!
"I have a right to speak here, and I mean to speak," she declared. "We don't want to have to arrest you, lady " "You either have to arrest me, or else allow me to speak." "I'm sorry, lady, but it's orders. You are arrested." Then came the turn of Comrade Stankewitz. "Vorking men, it is for the rights of the vorkers ve are here." And so they jerked him off.
"So live de vorkers," said the stranger, and he knocked on the door of one of the hovels. It was unbarred by a woman with several children about her skirts, and the men entered a cabin lighted by a feeble, smoky lamp. There was a huge oven at one side, with a kettle in which cabbage was cooking.
You kill de Russian people! You destroy de Soviets! Vy?" "I didn't know about it," pleaded Jimmie. "I wanted to fight the Kaiser, and they brought me here without telling me." "Ah! So it iss vit militarism, vit capitalism! Ve are slaves! But we vill be free! And you vill help, you vill not kill de Russian vorkers!" "I will not!" cried Jimmie, quickly.
Jimmie's heart bounded though he had guessed as much, of course. "We called our local in Ironton Bolshevik," said he. "Dey drive us out from here," continued the Jew, "but I stay behind for propaganda. I look for comrades among de Americans, de British. I say, 'Do not fight de vorkers, fight de masters, de capitalists. You understand?" "Sure!" said Jimmie. "If de masters find me, dey kill me.
De capitalists know dey vill hear us, dey tremble, so dey send armies to beat us. Dey tink de armies vill obey always is it not so?" "They think the Russian people will rise against you." At which the little man laughed, a wild hilarious laugh. "Ve have got our own government! For de first time in Russia, de first time in de vorld, de vorkers rule; and dey tink we rise against ourselves!
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