The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1928, Page 5

WHEN TH SIEZED ALL POWER! Continued from Page One even to cook its own breakfast. Fac- tories did not work, fields did not produce, there was nothing to eat, nothing to wear. The workers and peasants had lived through seven years of war and civil war. Vibrating With Energy. But now! The Soviet Union is a fast developing indusfrial-agricul- tural country. Ail the technical ad- vantages of modern science are be- ing introduced. Even last year, when I was there, not a sign of de- structive havoc was to be seen. All traces of war had been wiped out. The land. vibrated with the energy of construction, Everything had been rebuilt and new things were in the stages of construction-—all from the point of view and on the con- crete basis of a socialist society. It is an accomplishment that will go down in history as one of the most wonderful achievemenis of all time, produced by the collective en- ergy and will of the masses. Masses with a unified goal, with but one ideal and one aim, shouting in one voice, “On with the construction of socialism! Down with all our ene- mies and traitors!” ST Growth of Production. In the short space of one year the achievements of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are great. At the same time they have been faced with a sharpening of the anti-Soviet campaign. The first achievements to be re- corded for the year are the grow- ing productivity of the socialized in- dustry, the growth of new industry and of special cultures in the vil- lages, and at the same time the growth of the co-operatives, During the last year productivity increased 17.6 per cent over 1926-27, while wages increased 11.2 per cent instead of the 7.2 per cent provided for in the plan. Especially to be noted is, the fact that the production of agricultural machinery increased to 42.3 per cent of last year, while industrial construction increased from 22 to 23 per cent. From the few figures given above the general impetuous development of Soviet industry, together with the increase in wages for the workers, part and parcel of a socialist so- ciety, can be seen. Among indi- vidual instances of development we can cite the unprecedented growth of the naphtha industry, the growth of the machine building industry, whose importance cannot be over- stressed, and which is virtually a new industry. Agricultural ma- chines have overstepped the pre- war level threefold. Strong founda- tions have been laid for the elec- trical and chemical industries, and pipe-lines have been laid in the Grozny oil fields. Electrification, both in city and village, has in- creased with astonishing pace, con- sidering the immense difficulties to be faced. Seven-Hour Day. While all this is going on the seven-hour day has been introduced into industry, and all the new plants are opened on the new schedule. Wages are going up. The same can be shown in agricul- ture. Thirty thousand tractors have been introduced to the broad steppes of the Soviet Union, ripping them up in one sweep and harvesting them | in another. The cultivation of the technical crops for industrial pur- poses, which had been especially hard hit by the war, is going on with renewed vigor and has achieved a level above pre-war. Such crops as cotton and sugar-beet, so important to the construction of agricultural industry, are now on a high produc- tive level. The failure of the winter crops in the Ukraine has been counteracted by excellent crops in Siberia and other wheat sections and by the fall - harvest in Ukraine. During the last month grain collections have been much higher than was originally ex- pected. And now the co-operative and collecting machinery has been improved to assure plenty of bread for the industrial eonieree * * The Shakhty Trial. These are only a few facts. Enough to demonstrate that the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union have pushed the throttle all the way and are express-bound to- wards the construction of socialist society, with a modernized and ef- ficient industry and agriculture, There have been barriers set on the tracks of the socialist express, but the watchfulness and determina- tion of the loyal track walkers have cleared the path all the way. The trial of the Donetz Basin INDIVIDUAL WORKERS GREET llth __ [Il H. Alterman Globus Louis Berger Golubowsky Burs Goldstein CR aoe Green le runer K. L. Bovos 0. Galateaman F. Genis BR taal B, Hoffner E. J. Blanchette 4 F. Ca Holland * immer Hantaluonia M. Dubrinsky =, Hyman M. Donaldson Pe Fred Douglas pl Pan ace Tonescu E, Edelman Shbavhics aie te Johnson, F. B. Freinstatt Kris Friend Kellam S. Fanaka Kazirian Gallant » Julius Klarin E SOVIETS Red Athletes of Many conspirators demonstrated clearly to the workers and peasants that there were still counter-revolutionary ele- ments within their own ranks, who by sabotage, espionage and even di- rect destruction, attempted to hin-| der the construction of Socialism. | Again we had the experience of see- ing the masses react to this threat against their society. The Shakhty trial was the center of all interest. There, in the conspirators, was im- personated the counter-revolution-} ary enemy, who had eaten his way; into one of the most industrial cen-! ters in the Soviet Union. { But the Workers’ and Peasants’ | government was equal to the occa- sion, The conspiracy had been dis- covered. The criminals were pun- ished. The workers heaved a sigh of relief, went back to their work- | | benches with renewed determination | and the consciousness that every | step must count, all energy must be | directed to the construction of So- cialism, just as before they had di- rected all their strength towards the destruction of invading armies and counter-revolutionary hordes. vik age 5 | Enemies Arm! | In the relation of the Soviet Union | to the capitalist world the three out- | standing developments in the last} year are: the strengthening of the \anti-USSR military bloc of aggres- |sion under the impetus of the Bri- |tish and French imperialists; the growth of the revolutionary work- |ing class movement and the heroic accomplishments of the Krassin and | Malygin expeditions. Six thousand wor at Moscow. clusion of the Spartakiade. st, Japan menacing through Si- beria, Nanking through Mongolia; the French and British navies to swoop down from the north. The United States, the most dan- gerous and powerfui imperialist We all know of the machinations | State in the world, its dominant lof the British imperialists, trem-| POSition gained at the expense of \bling for the safety of their colonial|the British empire, looms as the empire, against the Soviet Union.| most solid bulwark of the capital- Poland, financed by French gold and|ist reaction, which, without the whose army has been constructed by slightest doubt, will sooner or later French loans and French military men, has taken | blood in the effort ‘o exterminate every occasion to provoke the Soviet|the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- Union. Rumania, another center of| Publics. This is true even if its black reaction and aggression direct hand cannot so clearly be against the Soviet Union, has re-|Seen in some of the European ma- cently been allied to Poland, by ¢hinations against the Soviet Union. their kind parents, the British and| By its very nature the imperialist French. This marriage is a mili-) Wall Street power is the mortal tary pact of aggression, having as|enemy of the Union of Socialist its aim the invasion of the Soviet| Soviet Republics. It stands at the Union. According to the terms of other pole of social organization. It the compact, should this invasion be has not recognized the Soviet successful, then Soviet Ukrainia Union, and attempts to crush all would become a protectorate under) sentiment for such recognition at Polish rule and Odessa become Ru-|home. In China, where the United mania’s port on the Black Sea. | States has taken an open reaction- Western Bloc. jary role in supporting and financ- The Czechoslovakian government,|ing the reactionary Nanking re- until recently hesitant to join the Sime, the. United States militarists military bloc because of the power-|Te Preparing the war against the ful working class movement in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. main pasbred re induced by| The Reformist Betrayers. aldwin an rian oO sign an) ¥ . agreement with Rumania, by which! taiist avsten rlavme a wuhile os it agrees to provide ammunition and a. def, i Soe Af Heseaskiry tendce as defenders of capitalism and be- syed ea RE |trayers of the working class, stands There is also the tacit consent of|the second international. I G the French government to attack) . Se ees ngclass athletes of many countries took part in the Photo above shows the huge assemblage of athletes gathered in Red Square at the officered by Plunge the world into a sea of; ently concluded Spartakiade con- Countries at Huge Brcictarian Sports Meet SPORTS IN THE USSR By G. W. SI ELD. (Manager of the British Workers’ Sports Team in Russia) st Spartakiade~-the Work ports International—to be held in the Soviet Union will remain long in the memories of all those fortunate enough to be present. — | It is almost impossible adequat to deseribe the feelings and impres- sions so vividly created among the delegation by this wonderful spec- tacle. The Spartakiade games and con- | tests were preceded by a mass de- monstration through the streets of Moscow in which there participated, n to mony thousands of n workers all in their athletic mes, some 500 worker sports- from twenty-seven different men countries. Over 30,000 workers gathered in the Red Square to witness the march past. This scene will never be for- gotten, Our own British delegation, which de rail ne rs—there were (.s4 four- -ve a good ac- count of th 28, Were tan ously cheered by the Russian y cre. It became apparent as the jmany, where it plays a dominant |could e withstood the insinuat- jrole in the government, the “so-|ing provocation of the Pilsudski cialist” party is now the sponsor dictatorship? jfor the building of 10,000-ton ar The Soviet Union signed the Kel- mored cruisers for the capitalist |logg pact to “outlaw” war. But | state. The social-democrats have|at the same time it explained to |expressed their enmity to the Soviet |the workers of the world that such Union in more blatant tones than/a pact could never outlaw war as |the imperialists. The “socialists”|long as the capitalist system con- |support the anti-Soviet League of |tinues; that the specific reserva. {Nations, MacDonald and his fol-|tions in the pact made by the Bri- lowers in England are now con. tish and French imperialists in re- cerned with preserving the British | gards to certain areas was only a empire and the continuation of an further proof that the Kellogg pact aggressive policy towards the|is, from the side of the capitalist Workers’ and Peasants’ Govern- powers, but a maneuver for im- ment. |perialist war. The workers and peasants of the aioe | Soviet Union know these things and | The “Krassin.” | lin spite of the social-democratic| Cutting its way thru the ice of | | parties the revolutionary workers in |capitalist enmity, the “Krassin” bore to the workers of the world an extreme proof of the bravery. the endurance, the nerve and de termination of Soviet worker: Where the machinery of the capi- talist nations was inadequate, the the workers all over the world aré sturdy ice-breaker Krassin, manned | too ready to join hands and extend | by a brave crew, broke its way thru| the chain of Soviets, in unbreak-|the Polar ice and accomplished the jable links, around the world! task. All enmities were cast aside | | F ; by the Soviet expedition. And it | yeu recace: Here rescued its arch-enemies, members| Thus far war between Poland and|of an expedition sent by a fascist \the Soviet Union and a consequent | dictatorship on an imperialist ven- world war have only been avoided | ture. by the strong desire for peace in| The Krassin expedition stands as the Soviet Union, and by its care-|an additional proof of the internal ful handling of Poland’s provoca ‘development of the Soviet Union, as | tive action. What other. govern- |another token of the strength of an ment, but one pledged to peace, industry and technical development the capitalist countries must be made to understand them. The im- perialists have not dared to attack The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are all too ready to fight for the socialist fatherland. ‘sian revolution but also of the Ger- | ye gressed Russin ath | were to be reckoned with. Their speed and sta. ina were | amazing. This is all the more re- | markable when we remember that sport and 4:_ ‘cal culture among the workers were practically un 1 1 bilure the revoly | Teddy is, light-weight, and Harry Brown, bantam, the two cum- *_s ¢...cerned, gave a splendid ex hibition and they were very well re, ee sole, light-weiz!', nd Dai Thomas, feather, were also suc- | cessful. | °°: finished third on the [it of| competing ccuntries. Russia was first, Finland second, and Germany | a good fourth. As a result of our four weeks | experience in Soyiet Russia w learned much which will be to us in our task of develoying a mass workers’ sports movement in, § Great Britain. sponsored by workers and peasants with the ideal of Socialism as their main support. All these points we must keep in mind as we celebrate the elev- enth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The difficulties as well as the achievements, the dan- ger of war, the need for a strong working class revolutionary move- ment to assure more anniversary celebrations, not only of the Rus-| man, the French, the British, the American’ revolutions. the Soviet Union from the north. 1 | Danube Waves Waltz—Waltz .... 59047F Victor Herbe Waltz Med ( s | while the band is playing; ; 59039F Love and Spring—Waltz n pring, Beautiful Spring—Wal while the Polish and Rumanian armies attack on the west. And |||\) == then there is the Franco-British na-| val pact, “naval” only in name, for! it contains provisions for joint ac-) tion on all frontiers. Briand’s speech at Geneva, a direct threat at the Soviet Union, and the breathless | manufacture of war materials, the || building of armaments, all enhance ||) the danger from the west. To Bomb Moscow. | Il Baldwin’s government has now be-| / gun to build long-distance planes, | by which can remain in the air for | | three days. They began to develop | these planes when England received | 5 the message from the Soviet work- ers and peasants entitled, “(An an-| swer to Chamberlain”—in * which | Chamberlain’s war talk was an- swered by the construction of more planes by the workers and peas- ants. These long-distance planes of Baldwin—to bomb Moscow from | |///) the air, using Warsaw as a base! And then there is the threat of the British imperialists from the East, where they have united the governments of Afghanistan, Egypt, Persia and Turkey in another anti- USSR bloc. 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