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According to recent press reports the Kuzbas experiment is still very much alive. "Kuzbas" is a Utopian colony located at Kamerovo, Siberia, where American radical workers migrated to carry out their syndicalist and communist theories " in perfect freedom." It was originally under the leadership of "Big Bill" Haywood, the I. W. W. chief who jumped his bail while under a 20-year jail sentence, but he was ejected by the colonists for incompetence. Following this, disillusioned members of the colony returned to America bringing back gloomy tales of the failure of Kuzbas and charging certain radical promoters of the venture...
...women who have just sailed for Siberia, moving pictures of Kuzbas were shown in which the colony was represented in a most favorable light. The audience, composed of East Side workers and uptown " liberals " cheered the pictures of model houses, vegetable gardens and smiling colonists, even " Big Bill " Haywood himself. Speakers denounced the newspaper exposure of Kuzbas as a " tissue of bourgeois lies...
...near Americans" if he is incarcerated than if he is left at large. Admirable as Mr. Mason's scorn for those who, through the pardon of Gene Debs, might be encouraged to obstruct the prosecution of future wars; edifying is his stand in regard to the freeing of William Haywood...
...splendid example to those who will obstruct the prosecution of that war. "If Debs got free after the last war, I surely will after this one," will be their perfectly logical reasoning. Too many slackers and cowardly "conscientious objectors" have been freed in the last year to wit: William Haywood, the I. W. W. leader, who was freed last year and who is now doing his best to stir up trouble against the Government...
Lynn: g., F. Fletcher; r.b., McEwan; l.b., Dunn; r.h.b., Buttywood; l.h.b., Smith; c.h.b., Cundy; l.o.f., Johnson; l.i.f., Shepard; c.f., Haywood; r.i.f., J. Fletcher; r.o.f., Spence...