Comrades: Emigrating to the country where a heroic giant of labor is standing, in the one hand a dreadful sword with which he has beaten numerous enemies and will beat enemies in the future; and in the other hand a trowel with which he is creating, unknown before in the history of mankind, heroism and energy, a new and happier society, a society in which each and everyone feels that he is a human being among people. Side by side with them we all promise that we will give our best to this glorious cause …

“A Battle Greeting of the Comrades Who Are Emigrating to Soviet Karelia to the Workers of America,” Työmies, 26 January 1931, quoted in Peter Kivisto, Immigrant Socialists in the United States: The Case of Finns and the Left (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairieigh Dickinson University Press, 1984), 173-74.