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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...
...Americanizer is a Syndicalist or a Sovietist, the cure may be worse than the disease. No greater mistake could be made than to imagine that the Syndicalists and Sovietists of America are all foreigners. There is a large body of Americans--if by the term American is meant one born and bred in this country--who support the Russian revolution; and that does not make them Russians. When such a radical Americanizer approaches an immigrant, there is often no Conservative Americanizer present to compete with him. To take a single example: in a recent meeting of steel strikers...
When questioned on his view of Harvard's attempt to have the Massachusetts legislature pass a law permitting the University full use of its crimson banner in all public demonstrations, Arthur Giovannitti, syndicalist leader, stated that the I. W. W. would fight such a privilege to the University. Giovannitti declared that such legislation would be for a class only and not fair...
...Socialist Club. Mr. Giovannitti has been prominent in many great strikes, having taken active part in the Lawrence and Paterson troubles. He has also made many contributions to radical literature, his most recent book being "Arrows in the Gale." He is at the present time editor of a syndicalist newspaper in New York City...
...lecture this afternoon, Mr. Giovannitti will discuss the I. W. W. movement in this country, and the development in this country, and the development in the syndicalist movement in Europe. He will explain the theories of Sorel which are the basis of the present French labor organizations, and outline the parallel organizations in Italy and England...