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...canary interlude began at the close of 1925 when the All-Russian Congress of the Communist Party voted through Joseph Stalin's program for 1926 by 559 to 65, thus signalizing the eclipse of Gregory Zinoviev and his adherents who had violently opposed it. Later M. Zinoviev was dropped from the Political Bureau of the Communist Party: the dictature over which Joseph Stalin now presides, ruling all Russia. Last week M. Zinoviev molted the last feather of his prestige when he was forced to resign as President of the Third International, the Communist world bureau for subversion, espionage...
...Strikers. The sensation of the week was the rejection by the British Trade Union Council of a "strike fund" check for 250,000 gold rubles ($125,000) despatched to it by the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. At Amsterdam, however, the Netherlands Trade Union Congress voted 60,000 gulden ($24,250) for the same purpose, with every prospect of its being most gratefully accepted, and in France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Mexico, labor organizations manifested their sympathy for the British strikers by commendatory votes, scattered strikes, monetary contributions, or by taking steps to hamper essential exports to Britain...
Reports promulgated by the Russian Information Bureau declared that, on Feb. 1, the All-Russian Union of Professional Hunting Cooperatives had enrolled 230,000 families. Although this figure (if correct) is but a small part of the 9,000,000 individuals who are more or less dependent upon hunting, it was estimated to represent nearly a third of the several million Russians whose lives are spent in the chase. Russian fur-getting thus takes its place as one of the organized occupations in the world. The organization is less than two years...
...Upon my arrival in Tokyo . . . I am determined to give my support to all labor disputes and other events which may develop. In discharging my duties as Ambassador of the Soviet Government, I will put into execution the resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee that Japan is regarded merely as a medium for Russia to make a rapprochement with America...
...FOOTNOTE †A Soviet is a territorial and political division roughly equivalent to a county. Each Soviet has a Congress which meets once a year to elect an executive council for the conduct of local government and to choose representatives for the All-Russian Congress of Soviets which, when in session, is the sovereign authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S. R.-Russia...