The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1929, Page 3

eRe ee ~ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1929 Socialist Rivalry Is a Mass Movement By Those Who Are Building New Society Socialist rivalry is a new method of Socialist labor, based on the enterprise and rivalry of free builders ,of a new, Socialist, society, who work, not for exploiters, but for themselves. At the same time rivalry shou 1d not be confused with competition. one side domination of the other. The basis of Socialist rivalry is the com- radely help of the backward by the advanced workers in order to at-| sian Trades Union Council passed | how great is the enthusiasm of the | tain’ a general advance. Competi- tion says ‘Smash the backward in order to maintain your domination,’ Socialist rivalry says ‘Some work badly, others still better: catch up with the best and attain a general advance.’” (Stalin). It is this very idea of the general advance in So- list construction in spite of all + difficulties and obstacles that is the impetus which caused that growth of mass productive powers ex- pressed in Socialist rivalry. That we have to do with a mass movement, a movement which sprang up on the initiative of the masses, is proved by the facts. The appeal of the Sixteenth Party Con- ference to the working class to or- ganize rivalry was issued on April 29, 1929. But as it has already been stated, the Tver Contract was con- cluded twenty-one days before: that, and the letter of the workers of the Kamensky and Red Elector factories was published still earlier. Rivalry began in many factories in March, while the “fighting” brigades had appeared even before that. In the Village. The most characteristic feature of the rivalry movement is that it has entered the village as well. There is a whole series of contracts between factories and peasants, in which the workers undertake cer- tain ndustrial obligations, and the peasants undertake trial obliga- tions, and the peasants’ undertake to improve the harvests, to use new methods in field cultivation, to go over to collective forms of agir- culture. Such contracts exist be- tween collective farms, Soviet farms, communes, and between vil- lages. Rivalry is fairly widespread now in the villages. The Red Army is not behindhand. There are innumerable contracts be- tween various army divisions, where each division rivals with the other on military and political studies, ete. The fact that even the unem- ployéd have considered it necessary to take part in rivalry may serve as an example of this veritably un- precedented Socialist enthusiasm. The unemployed metal and textile workers of Moscow and -Kharkov have appealed to all the workers of the U.S.S.R. to take part whole- N\neartedly. in the rivalry movement ‘and to realize within the appointed \ period the five-year plan. A | (i Tt is early as yet to calculate the practical results of rivalry. It will be’ possible to, ‘do this only at the end of the economic year. But shere are already a number of facts which point to the conclusion thate| the rivalry m ovement is giving big ‘esults. Here are a few examples shosen at random. In the Yaroslav ‘lax factory “The Dawn of Social- sm” cost prices, as the result of sivalry, have fallen 7.34 per cent, “n spite of the fact that the cost rf raw material has risen 25 per ‘ent. In the Prokopiev mine ‘Kouzbass” the productivity of the vorkers has risen 74 per cent. The yroductivity of labor in railway vansport has risen 21 per cent in nany districts. In the “Mikhelson” tactory the average cxpenses for varriage repair fell by 20 per cent n May as compared with the ex- yenses of the first quarter of this rear. In the painting section of his factory cost prices fell 35 per ‘ent in May. The miners of ‘Donougl” obtained 18 per cent nore anthracite and coal in June, hus exceeding the program by 6.5 yer cent. The amount of time spent n idleness has been decreased jin many _ enterprises. There are innumerable similar xamples. They all point to the ‘fact that rivalry is giving abso- utely real industrial effects, and hat the obligations undertaken by he workers are by no means empty vhrases. Tangible results are yy no means empty phrases. Tang- dle results are already seen in vil- |< ages where rivalry exists. The Trade Unions. What part do the Trade Unions lay in the organization and car- ying out of! Socialist rivalry? Here two stages must be noted. nthe first period, when rivalry ras only of @ local character and xisted only’ amongst the young rorkers,’ the trade unions went no arther than encow ie and aid- og the rivals. But when the novement began spreading to all, he workers, the trade unions be- to play a more active role, lowever, the direction of the riv- movement lay in the hands of recial “staffs,” of three to five le, who organized themselves at factories, and into which the epresentatives of the factory com- tittees ‘Were admitted on the same voting as the representatives of ther: factory . orgahizations. But later on this was considered _be .incorrect,. The direction ing the rivalry movement was done by the industrial commissions and industrial conferences, ‘ie, by all those organs which ordinarily carry out all the mass economic work. |before the date appointed, but the | | Thus a unity of directino was ob- | tained, together with a close con- “The basis of com-/ nection of Socialist rivalry with that | sp petition is the defeat and death of | every-day economic work which the ; not developed. and the victory and/unions have carried out in the jcf Lougansk, appeal to you for aid.” | | factories and workshops (and in- | stitutions), for many years. | The Second Plenum of the Rus- the following resolution on Social- ist rivalry: —“Socialist rivalry must be looked upon in the light of an important task for the trade unions. The development of Socialist rivalry, which is the most striking manifestation of the revolutionary initiative of the masses during the period of Socialist reconstruction, must meet with the complete pre- tive of the trade union organiza- tions.” “The trade unions must movement of the working class—So- cialist rifalry;—they must give the fullest practical help to the lower organs in this work; and, in ac- cordance with this, they must strengthen their direction of the mass economic work ia the facto- ries and institutions.”. “Rivalry,” continues the ‘resolution of the Plenum, “must spread to the So- cialits section of agriculture—Soviet and collective holdings, machine- tractor stations.” The trade unions must “in every way aid rivalry crease of cultivated areas, and in- creased harvest, and development of collectivism in the village.” A School of Communism. The unions could have no other jattitude to Socialist rivalry . The |trade unions in the U.S.S.R. are the school of Communism. In the era of Socialist reconstruction the greatest task of the trade union movement is to mobilize the will jand activity of the working class | round the big tasks of Socialist construction for the overcoming of all the difficulties lying in the way of the realization of the economic plans. The fundamental watch- word of the unions is “A bond with the masses.” This implies that the unions must stand at the head of the masses. And therefore the trade union movement must stand at the head of that new mass move- ment which has taken the form of Socialist rivalry. At the end of July the presi- dium of the Russian Trades Union Council discussed at a special meet- ing, at which were present the Eco- nomic Soviet of the U.S.S.R., the Central Committee of the Y.C.L. (Komsomol) representatives of the Central Committee of Trade Unions, and of local trade unions, the ques- tion of Socialist rivalry once again. They passed a resolution which con- tained a wide program of practical measures to be taken in order to} assure the maximum success of the rivalry movement, and which said that the problems which evolved as rivalry developed, must come “fore- most in the attention of the trade union organizations.” The unions must “include Socialist rivalry in the program of their everyday wor —and, accordingly, change their methods if necessary, speed up their worl nd subject the whole | apparatus the tasks of Socialist) rivalry.” To lead and direct the rivalry movement—this is the task of the trade unions’ of the U.S.S.R., the} organizations which act as the con- necting link between the party and the working class. . In spite of all defects and defici- encies, the fact remains that So- cialist rivalry has now become a colossal mass movement in which millions of workers are taking part. At the same time the movement is continually rising. This is illus- trated, besides by other instances, by the following two facts: The Leningrad worker Slobod- chikoff sent a letter to the press in which he proposed that instead of celebrating the religious festival (Transfiguration), which takes place on August 6th, that date should be declared a day of in- dustralization, i. e., that all the workers should work on that day | and that their wages should go to the special fund for industrialize- tion of the country. This proposs! was accepted with tremendou: enthusiasm by the whole of thc working qlass. Industralization Day (not, it is true, on one special late, but on various dates, accord- ing to local conditions) will be cele- brated in the whole country and on the’ initiative of the workers them- | selves. And not only workingmen, | put all the hired workers in the land, who themselves c‘fered to do this, will work on that day. Five Years in Four. In the process of preparing for Industrialization Day, the working masses have thrown ott a new watchword: ‘The five-year plan must be accomplished in four 'yeaars.” This watchword has become extraordinarily popular amongst the working masses. At the time of writing’ (August 2nd), a dele- gation of workers from the Don ‘roih Lougansk), has just Basin .(f1 arrived in Moscow. The workers which !iom—' which is directed towards an in-| jsiasm of the millions, their readi- eee to ask the Moscow proletariat |to aid them in this work. “We,” |stated the delegates, “are aiming at realizing the five-year plan | Donbass workers have not suffi- j cient technical knowledge, the ding of industrial knowledge is We, the workers foscow has promised, and will e, Ker aid. But this is not the point. The incident itself shows | masses, how unlimited is their read- jin to carry out a Socialist at- |tack, in spite of all difficulties. | We can quote further examples of the unprecedented development lof the Socialist initiative of the mas: Just now, for instance, a |new form of testing the results of |Socialist rivalry has become wide- |spread. Workers send delegates to | cesses attained, and, without fear, sharply criticize the defects. Not [tion from a small macaroni fac- |tory in Armavir arrived in Mos- of factory, and found that it was go- ing on very slowly, the delegation | their warnings: “Special care with | c s 1 nares ake ee to..the esas, | tha figures;” “Scientific honesty;” |of the collective undertakings nad many a field. Facts have shown us forced the Central Committee of | Conscientious calculation of all the of the Soviet undertakings, which |that the present Five-Year-Plan did the Food-Workers’ Union specially | factors of the economic situation, |considerably oyertakes the provi-|not sufficiently take into considera- to discuss the question of the Mos- cow factory, spoke to the workers lof this factory, and thus gave a decisive impulse to clearing away lall the defects found there. Work- ers send special brigades to the vil- | jlages, and these brigades give help {to the collective holdings, agitate |for the collectivisation of agricul- |ture, for the appliance of new methods to land cultivation, etc.,| thus strengthening the industrial | tie with the laboring peasantry. | There have been several attempts | jon the part of the class enemy to | bring about the failure of Socialist jrivalry. “Kulaks,” priests, ete., |managed to get into Soviet enter- | prises, and tried to raise the back- | ward workers against the advanced workers who were energetically carrying on Socialist rivalry. But the masses themselves stood up with such fierceness against these at- tempts that the plans of the kulaks hopelessly failed. There are the facts and this is the reality of the matter. It is suffi- | ciently convincing and instruc- tive. It shows, first of all, what enormous creative powers exist in the working class of the Soviet} Union. It confirms the absolute truth of Lenin’s words on those pos- sibilities that lie hidden in the work- ing class and which come to light only under the conditions of the proletarian , dictatorship. These facts are the best proof of the cor- rectness of the Communist Party’s policy and of the complete hopeless- ness of the ideas of the Rights and Conciliators. Socialist rivalry dealt the death-blow to those who, fright- ened by the difficulties, gave the signal for retreat and for capitula- tion to the resisting class enemy. Out of the ranks of the Right were heard voices advocating, instead of the speed-up of the five-year plan, the creation of a two-year plan, with a big peasant bias. The work- ing class, hand-in-hand with the party, not only voted for the five- year plan: it now demands that the term of its accomplishment should | be reduced. Can a bigger failure! of Right ideology and Right policy | be imagined? | Lenin wrote: “Communism be- gins when the rank and file work- ers evince a self-sacrificing desire to increase, in spite of the hard labor entailed, the productive pow- ers of labor.” Socialist rivalry is the greatest example of that desire which has filled the rank and file workers, the working class as a whole. And the tremendous enthu- ness, “self-sacrificingly to overcome hard labor,” is explained by the fact that they feel and understand that “Communism is beginning”; that, in spite of all the difficulties, the great plan of works created ac- cording to Lenin’s testament, will be realized and every day will bring us nearer to Communism, Vasily Bluechez » The son of @ poor peasant in the Ural mountains, Vasily Bluecher is | at present commander of the Red Army holding the Soviet frontier on the Manchurian border against Chinese militarists and White Guards. He became a Red Army Commander in the civil war and receiv ee decorations for hero- of the Red Banner tal Wei | | The picture shows a Red Army soldier captured by the imperialist invaders of the Soviet Union in | 1919, shot by them at the rail of onesof their boats then patrolling the northern coast off Archangel, | were forced to fight Russian workers | —until the mutined! where many American workers conscripted “to fight the Kaiser” Planned Economy Commission put |forward the idea of drafting the | Five-Year-Plaii in two forms: One, |a modest so-called “minimal vari- lant” and the other, the socalled Carrying Out the Five Year Plan-in 4 Years It is not so long ago that the|The coming economic year 1929-30 ,cent. This task can also be carried | ‘will see a further great growth of | out if all those levers are set in mo- the collective undertakings. They | tion whcih are at the disposal of the will till no less than 15 milion hec- | organizations for the production of tars of arable land and no less than 13 million hectars will be under seed. “optimal variant.” H will be re- paredness and unrestrained initia- | kindred factories, examine the suc- membered with what energy the The Five-Year-Plan provides for.a development of the tilled area of the collective undertakings to 20 milion hectars up to the end of the plan right-wing opportunist elements and | the bourgeois specialists opposed the stand at the head of this mass|long ago, for instance, a delega-|¢ptimal variant of the Five-Year | Plan. It is characteristic that these |clements regarded even the mini- | possible efforts. | period. If the development of the collective undertakings continues at | the same speed as at present, and there is no reason why it should not, lcow. Having studied the condition | mal variant as extremely strained then the Five-Year-Plan will be ivalry in a Moscow macaroni |#d only possible with the greatest carried out in considerably less than | We can still hear |five years upon this field also. When one considers this growth|the national economic system upon |cotton. It must be remmebered that the Five-Year-Plan did not take into consideration such a tremendous fac- tor for the development of cotton production as the Turkestan Si-/ berian Railway which will be com- | pleted next year. Without difficulty one could enu-} meratesmany such facts which prvoe with absolute clarity that the origin- al figures of our Five-Year-Plan can no longer serve us as the directors for the socialist reconstruction of j and all the Sthes apparently object- sions of the Five-Year-Plan, then |tion the great reserves of our social- ni live argume: 's with which a number |one may reckon that by the end of |ist economy. »f groups ih the State apparatus, |the Plan period not 40 per cent, but | in the economic organs, in the trade from 65 to 70 per cent of the total |lations and their opportunist fear of the generous program of the |stances the individual sector in grain | socialist offensive. first year of the Five-Year-Plan the economic life of the Soviet Union the optimal variant of the Five- Year-Plan were taken as the basis for the constructional program. The 16th Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the 5th Soviet Congress adopted the optimal variant of the Five-Year- Plan and it alone. Reality has completely refuted the Jeremiahs.* It must even be said very clearly -that reality has over- taken even the economic tempo of development projected in the op- timal variant of the Plan. The first year of the Five-Year Plan showed clearly that the figures set by the plan for the develpment of the vari- ous sections of the national econ- omic system, would have to be re- vised, but not in sthe sense that these figures were too high, but in the sense that they were too low. Let us examine the control figures for industry in the economic year 1929-30, Do they confirm the pro- phecies of the right-wingers accord- ing to which the speed of economic development decided upon by us, was impossible and exaggerated? Not in the least. According to the Plan of the Planned Economy Com- mission, the second year of the Five- Year-Plan should have seen a 10.6 per cent increase of industrial pro- duction. The Five-Year-Plan con- firmed by the 5th Soviet Congress almost doubled this figure. And what does reality show? In reality, our politico-economie position and the opening up of great reserves of socialist reconstruction, permits an increase of production for the year 1929-30 not of 10 per cent, not of 20 per cent, but of an average of 28.7 per cent. The increase of pro- duction of the industry producing the means of productign, will not be 23 per cent as provided for the Plan, but 37.5 per cent. (Since the publication of this article in the “Ekonomitcheskaya Zhisn” a fur- ther increase has been decided upon. Ed. Imprecorr.) This means noth- ing more nor less than a 51 per cent increase of that program contained in the most daring, the optimal vari- ant draft of the Five-Year-Plan. This is the speed with which social- ist industry is advancing in the first stage of the reconstruction, at a time when the socialist competitive scheme is still in its beginnings. The perspective opens up, before us that we shall be able to carry out the Five-Year-Plan within four year: It must be pointed out in this con- industrialization, amongst the pessi- mists and opportunists of all shades, |were not long ago of the opinion the Soviet Power if the minimal | variant, i. e. that draft of the Plan ‘whose proposals for the coming year have been increased threefold by reality, were carried out in six years. Perhaps the right-wingers think of taking their revenge in agricul- ture. Perhaps the Party and the Government have made some mis- takes here. No, this is not the case. The tendencies of agricultural devel- opment offer the right-wingers no consolation. Let us take an ex- ample:* The collectivisation plan provided for the formation of 7,000 collectivé undertakings in the R. S. F. S. R. in the economic year 1928- 29. Up till the 1st June i, e. in the /? first eight months of the economic year, 11.340 collective undertaknigs | had been formed. It. may reason- ably be assumed that in the tota!|}) year the original plan will be carried out to a more than doubled extent. massa ion, that the “friends” of our | 7:30 Deeeee Ave, Speakers: 1. 0. Ford,’ Henderson, ‘Thursday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p m., "Hippodrome Hall. Speakers: ‘enderson. io, Sunday, November 3, ‘om Johnson, Andy Ohio, rece . Music Hail, » E, Speakers: J. L. Engdahl, | P: ‘that it would be a great victory of | 2 of agriculture. unions and also in the Party sought amount of commodity grain will be| |to hide their petty bourgeois vacil-|received from the socialized sector Under such circum- | |production would no longer be pre- | financial |tem affrod them. production, was set carrying out the which t+ the task The Party and the working class ‘dominant, but will have given place | did not permit themselves to be con- |to the socialized sector. We can also | | fused by these pessimist warnings | S¢¢ considerable progress on the in-| and fears. They did not believe the | dividual sector of agriculture, be-| prophecies of the right-wing ele- | cause the poor and middle peasants | ments who declared that in the yery |@re only now beginning to utilize |these technical, organizational and possibilities, would enter into a chronic crisis if social character of the Soviet Sys- the It is important to point out that | the production of raw, material cul- | tures, atid in particular the cotton} of | Five-Year-Plan with a surplus of from 30 to 35 per It also failed to take |into consideration stich facts as the introduction of the uninterrupted working week, the socialist competi- tive scheme, the increased training of technical forces, the speedy cul- tural progress which results in a more class conscious attitude to- wards the economic constructive work in town and country,.and the more and more active attitude of the broad masses towards the great and popular task of “catching up with and passing the advanced cap- italist countries.” It is therefore necessary to revise carefully the Five-Year-Plan upon the basis of our experience in this first year. The working masses must be drawn into this task on a much greater scale than hitherto. This will be the best antidote to all forms of opportunism in this most responsible and important work. District }10, 3 p. m., Juliet S. | Providence, R. I, 1715 Westminster, Nov. 10, 2 p. m. | Juliet 8. Poyntz, New York City Madison Square and 49th St. Newark, N. J., Sai 8 p. m, at 93 Mercer St. * * District Three. Philadelphia, Nov. ers: and others. Lackawanna Avenue. Johnstone, Allentown, Pa., WASHINGTO} M. Wicks. Speakers: nist. League peaker, Chester, Pa., | Speakers? * * J. Williamson, Buffalo, N. corner Walnut. Mamson. we * Lyceum, 35 Miller St., ™M Wicks, P. Devine vine. Umbria. Moose Hall, Loui Youngstéwn, Pa,, 30 pm. Workers ‘arren, Ohio. I. O. Ford, ‘on, away 8 Andy Parks. ‘Toledo, m., Work Speakers: tyshal 1 E. Liverpool, Ohio, 7:30, Speakers: I. Am Ww. V: ng, Oh p.m. Speakers: 1. :30 p.m. Speaker: drews. Yorkville, Ohfo, Speaker! p.m. St. Speaker: ixon, Ashtabula, 7:30 p.m, 233 8, Van Veen, L. Baltimore, Nov. 8, 8 Hall, North and Pennsylvania, speak- Mike Harrison, Nov. and place to be announced. D.C. Thursday, November 12, 8 p.m. Speakers, Hari ‘Sunday, Arnold, Pa., Friday, Sunday, I Plan Anniversary Meets for Country | One. Poyntz. |. New Bedford, Mass., Sunday, Nov.| Workers Hall, turday, * 8, 8 p.m, Speakers: J: Wilmington, Del., Thursday, Nov. Lawrence, Young Gommu- * District Four. Rochester, N. Y., Sunday, Noy. 24, 2p. m., Labor Lyceum, 580 St. Paul, Y., Sunday, Nov. 24, 8 p. m., Schwables’ Hall, 301 Broadway, Speaker: John Wil- District Five. Pittsburgh, Noy. 10, 8 p. m., Labor Harry ‘speaker: ‘and othe! E. Pittsburgh, Nov, 3, 8 p. Workers Home,’ Electric ’and_ Ni Aves., EB. Pittsburgh, speaker, Pat De- Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 3, 2 p. 9 1,000 Walnut St., speak- Engdahl, I.’ Amter and Sunday, November Herbert Benjamin, Young |Communist League speaker. District speaker, | West Concord, N, H., Sunday, Nov.| 10, 2 p. m. District speaker. Worcester, Mass., Sunday, Nov. 10, 8 p. m., Belmont Hall, 54 Belmont St., Boston, Mass. Nov. 7, at Scenic Auditorium, 8 p. m. Speaker: Juliet |S. Poyntz. . 4 . . Pp. m., Mer-/ optimal variant of the Five-Year-|cantile Hall, Broad and'Haster, Speak- Jack Stachel, Herber Benjamin Schanze er, Harry M. Wicks, local speakeres. Trenton, N. J., Nov. .10.—Speaker and place to be announced. Scranton, Pa., Nov. 16, 7 P.M., 508 ack 16.—Speaker m., forth Nov. 1, 8 p. m, Hall, local speakers. | > Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 7, Liberty Hall, 2620. Market St. Speakers: I. Amter, Kamer and others, * o® District Six. m. Nov, 3, Hall, i20 Wick Ohio, Sunday, Noy. 3, November 3, 810 Tuscar- 3, 2p. 011 Canton St. Kostyshak. D. Martin Springfield, Ohio. Saturday, No 7:30 p.m. Speakers: D, Martin, K hak. *Eincinattl, Ohio, Sunday, November 7:30 p. m., Labor t, Speakers: S, Van Veen, ‘emple, 1318 Tuesday, Nov. 5, iter, L. Andrews. Thursday, Amter, L. I, Amter, L. Nov. Amter, Friday, Nov. 8 7: . Amter, L. Andrews. Powhattan, cree Saturday, Nov. 9, An- 10, L, An- a |7th, Croatian Hall, Nov. 2, District Seven. Detroit, Mich, Nov. 3, 2 p. m. Danceland Auditorium, |.Woodward and Forest Ave, speaker, Wm. Z. Foster. + eo District Eight. Chicago, Il, Nov. 7, 2:30 p.m. | Ashland Auditorium, speakers, Robert Minor, C. Hathaway and others. Davenport, Iowa, Nov. 10, 2:30 p. m. Central Turner Hall, Scott and Third Ave., Davenport, Iowa. Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday, Nov. 10, Workers Center, 367 6th St., 2 p, m. St. Louis, Mo., Thursday, Nov. 7, 8 m., Hibernian Hall, 3619 Finney ve. Whiting, Ind.—Nov. 3rd, Sunday, at Slovak Home, on 119th. Hammond,, Ind.—Sunday, Nov. 3rd, Ind.—Thursday, N. Turner Hall, 14th and Washington. South Chicago, Tll.—Thursday, Nov. 96th and ‘Com- Hegewish, vee 6 Nov. 9th, Workers Hall, 13351 Baltimore. South Bend, Ind.—Sunday, Nov. 10, mercial. Workers, 1246 Colfax Ave. Roseland, Ill—Sunday, Nov. 10, Lithuanian Hall, 10413 Michigan Ave. * * * District Nine. Duluth, Minn. Nov. 7, speakers, Carl Reeve, Pat Toohe: Superior, Minn., Nov. 8, speakers, Carl Reeve and Pat Toohey. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 9, speakers, Carl Reeve and Pat Toohey. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 10, speak- ers, Carl Reeve and’ Pat Toohey. * * * District Ten. Iowa, at 5081-2 5th St., Nov. 8th, at 8 p.m. Speak- rs: Roy Stephens and thei Stevens, Denver, Colorado, at Denver Ly- ceum, 1645 Julian ‘St, Sunday, Nov. 10th, 'at 8 p.m, Speaker: Roy Steph- ens, Houston, Texas, at Prince Theatre Bldg., 312 Fannin’St., Room 400, Sun- day, Nov. 17th, at 8'p. m. Speaker: Roy Stephens, Kansas City, Kansas, Thursday, Nov. 7, 8 p. m., Croatian Hall, 5th and Elizabeth’, Speakers: ' Roy Stephens and _otiers. Oklahoma City, Okla., November 12 at 8 p.m. at Bohemian Hall, West Frisco St, and South Walker. Speaker Roy Stephens. San Antonio, Tex., November 14, at Labor Temple, 126 North St., Stephens speaker. aa eee District Twelve, Seattle, Wash. Saturday, Nov. 9. Speakers: gid. Levit, A. Stein. CARR ane District Thirteen. Los Angeles, Cal., Sunday, Nov. 10, BERS ip ‘ jan Francisco, Cal. Nov. 7, l= fornia Hall. Pe * se eq wa Cal, Nov, 9, Odd Fellow ° * . District Fifteen, Hartford, Conn., Nov. 8, 7: . ™., District. speakers. ove, 8, oe a Portchester, Nov, 9, 7:30 p. m. Dis- trict speaker. Waterbury, Conn., Nov. 10, 7:30 p. ai eye [a amford, Conn., Nov. 10, 7:30 p. m., A. Wagenknecht, Se New Haven, Conn., Nov. 10, 7:30 p. m, L, Platt, Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 10, 7:30, p. a ge c io. Norwalk, Conn., Nov. , 8: a District ker, ee ae GREETINGS! UNIT 18F, SEC. 3. Revolutionary Greetings from the Following Comrades: M. LEVINE B. LEWIS J. STILLMAN I. BORENSTIN Z, LEVINE SAM COVIN L. LEVINE , -1. FINICE )| M. LEVINE UEIMAN J. HALPER? RAY, eucltor ans, Grand Ave. and| ‘USSR On the 6th of August everybody was working in Soviet Russia, every factory was open, every shop was as busy as ever, All this took place in spite of the fact that the official calender stated clearly that the “6th is an official holiday.” What hap- pened then? One of the workers in the Lenin- grad railroad car factory—‘“Prole- tarsky Zavod”—comrade called Svo- obdchikov, proposed that we work on that day o intensify industrial- ization of U. S, S. R. His proposi- tion was published in th edaily “Len- ingradskaja Pravda.” The editor received hundreds of resolutions from various factories of Leningrad and throughout the land, approving he suggestion. Everybody was will- ing to work on this day for indus- trialization. A few weeks later all syndicates accepted the proposition and in| every facory were held meetings which decided on work without pay on Aug. 6th, the money to be col- ‘lected by the savings banks for in- dustrialization of the U. S. S. R. Next morning we were met with music in the factories, and were be- wildered. Some started to dance, but when the whistle blew everybody went to work. Over 2,000 workers of our factory (Zavod “Electric”) worked much faster that day and produced more than ever. Every- where more work was done and en- thusiasm ran high. The sick.became well on that day; those who were out NOVEMBER 7TH GREETINGS! Section 2, District 6. %& GREETINGS! ay from Br. 1, Sec. 5, Bronx. On the 12th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Unit 2F, Sec. 6 Sends Greetings to the Proletariat of the U.S.S.R. On comrades with your work. We will d oour share! Springfield, Mass., Sunday, Nov. 10, 7:3 p.m. . 85 ws * Southern District. leetings will be arranged in the following places (dates and halls to be given later): ‘Atlanta, Ga.; Greenville, $. C.; Asheville, N. C.; Charlotte, N. C3 Winston-Salem, N. C.; Bessemer City, N. C,; Richmond, Va.} Norfolk, Vi — Totlers Work Holidav to Speed Five Year Plan on vacations came back to help; the old workers who live on the pensions also came to help. This day served to show that workers not only un- derstand the purpose of our govern- ment but actively participate in the rapid social construction. You can see that workers under- stand in spite of all the difficulties, in spite of the fact that things are still not so well as we would like to see them; that freedom can be won only with their own hands. There fore, we always help to do away with bureaucracy. Now we have a “cleaning” throughout Russia of all the officials in every institution; every one who is interfering with our work or who is an active op- positionist is expelled. The more dangerous elements are forbidden to hold offices in our en- terprises; others are suspended tem- porarily, “ Write to us about your activities, your functions and your actions. Send us your publications; news- papers, magazines, wallpapers, ete, Wake up, correspondents of “Daily Worker,” we want to hear from you. As far as you are concerned write us more often and write us a lot. Tell us what you want to know about our life. Comradely yours, MICHAEL ABRAMSON, Prospect K, Libknechta, No. 100, kv. No. 3, Leningrad, No. 22, U.S. S. VERY GOOD VALUES at most moderate prices, WOMEN’S COATS Reduced prices for readers of the Daily Worker. Bring this advertisement. J. SIEGEL H 75 Manhattan Ave., Bklyn, N. Y. Unit 3F, Sec. 6. Hail the Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union. ES ee - Revolutionary GREETINGS to the Daily Worker. Organ of class struggle. On the occasion of the 12TH ANNIVERSARY . of the Russian Revolution. Unit 4F, See. 3. GREETINGS to the Daily Worker on the occasion of the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Russian-Polish Branch | IL. D. Bridgeport, Conn. SHAAN GASTONIA \ GREETINGS to the FIGHTERS from. New York Workers on the occasion of the 12TH ANNIVERSARY of the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Fs ulllis wal