The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1930, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORK ER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1930 CAPITALIST PRESS DIVIDED OVER TRADE WITH U.S.S.R, 20 Per Cent Fall in Exports Is Critical Test;| Trade Or No Trade, Communism Grows By T. YAKOVLEFF MONG themselves, the capital-| came very much excited when it} They do} Tealized what They do not/ quences the Congressional investi-}much does the tailoring company ists are qu frank, r thoughts behind phras a spade a spade, TI talists of this counry Soviet Union. This question is of the utmost} portance at the present time, not} for the Soviet Union, and country; eral economic over a year. The figures submitted by States for the first three months of | this year dropped over 20%. The three countries — England, Canada and Germany, which were the larg- est importers of American products, have curtailed their imports con- siderably. The exports to England have dropped 17%; to Canada 23% and to Germany 26%. Other coun- tries have cut down their imports in about the same proportion:— Italy—25%; Brazil—35%; Argen- tina 38%, etc, There are only two countries in the world which have increased their imports for the first quarter of this year—Mexico by 12% and the U. S. S. R. by 228%. No wonder the capitalists became ex- rited. In bad times such as pre-| vails at present, a good customer should be taken care of; should be played up to; his every wish and whim should be fulfilled; he should certainly not be antagonized. And so we see that the capitalist press s opposed to any move or attack lirected against the Soviet Union which might deprive this country of the benefits of the Soviet Trade. This became very evident when the famous Whalen “revelations” were published, and the Congres- sional investigation of communist activity in this country, which is now being conducted, was decided upon. “Brooklyn Citizen” in its editorial of May 10th, says that: “Mr. Whalen sought to cover up his inability to prove the docu- ments authentic by handing out a list of strikes alleged by him to have been formented by Com- munists. This, however, is the familiar dodge of running a red herring across the trail.” The “Virginian Pilot” issued in Norfolk, Va., goes further and says: “Another thing that takes the wind out of these dreadful Com- munistic balloons is the regular- ity with which revelations of this type are produced by conserva- tives and reactionary govern- ments throughout the world. whenever there is a special need for a goat. The Virginian Pilot does not doubt that Russia has secret agents in the U. S. The U. S. too has secret agents all over the world. It is no doubt true that Moscow propaganda is from time to time transmitted to the malcontents in this country in much the same way as capitalist propaganda of various type is bootlegged into Socialist Russia. The point is that espionage and propaganda go on in every coun- try in Christendom and are par- ticipated in by the most upright i ite evident in connection | who | h easier to proceed with g out of the Five Year the assistance of indus-j} i equipment | as important for the capitalists of this country, in view of the gen-| sis which has been holding the U. S. A. in its grip for the | U. S. Chamber of Commerce show | that the export trade of the United | Quite frank. The same paper be: dangerous conse- Guardsmen Tell of Rotten ‘Food, Gratt Out of our lousy wages of one dollar per drill, every member of the 245th C. A. has to buy a uni- -|form costing $35. Add to this our hats, ornaments, etc., the cost for every buck private is $45 each. How gation might have as far as our|pay to our officers for this graft? concerned. s| “business with the U. S. S. R.” is| What do we get except a uniform Commenting on this |that will make us look good to the the question as to whether the | @ditorially, on May 24th, it advises|war mongering, strikebreaking in- should | “Congress, if it wanted to do some |specting officers? to do business with the| investigating this summer, to try|uniforms in order to fool us and They give us | to find out what is wrong with the| attract other young workers into | surpluses many go | without work.” mark of this editorial: “Maybe if we could discover how to eliminate these anomalies we would most expeditiously dis- pose of the unrest and dissatis- facton on which radicalism of every type feeds.” Thus the “Gazette,” issued the head,” when it says: “Soviet Russia is bound to be the chief target of such an in- vestigation. It happens that con- tinued good relations, particularly good commercial relations with Russia, are especially desirable just now. American export trade fell off 300 million dollars during the first quarter of this year. Russia is one of the few countries that have greatly increased their purchases of American goods and this investigation might spoil everything.” It would be wrong, however ,to assume that the whole capitalist press is adopting such an attitude. There are publications that are prompted by motives of class pres- ervatich and these papers cannot be easily bought with the increase of Soviet trade. This attitude is summarized in an editorial which appeared in the magazine “Busi- ness Week of May 2Ist: “Our own view that it is prob- ably against their long-run inter- est for the U. S. or any other country to trade with Russia. We believe that the Soviet regime is likely to survive and grow stronger, that its plan for indus- trialization and socialization of | Russia can and will probably be realized . . . that the purpose of the Soviet regime and ultimate effect of its survival and develop- ment is the breakdown of the capitalistic system in the rest of the world. We believe that trade and other relations with Russia inevitably tend to hasten that process. They not only help strengthen the Soviet regime, but they lay the basis for destructive price competition and open the way to social and political dis- turbance by Communist Propa- ganda.’ ’ But the lure of “Russian Gold” is so great that even this magazine realizing clearly the danger that the strengthening of the Soviet Union holds fo rthe existing capitalist system, does not at present “see any reason why American business should not make all the hay it can in Russia while the sun shines.” It is the old policy of the ruling classes “after me the deluge.” We should be the last to deplore the fact that the capitalists prompted by selfish motives are assisting their potential grave-diggers to de- velop and become strong enough to assume a position where they can challenge the whole rotten, corrupt, of nations, including our own.” money-mad capitalist world. Get That Dangerous Guy! By K. A. SUVANTO wes time ago I bought from a second-hand bookstore ten large, ‘eautiful books, paying only 15 Ymmis each for them. I could not understand how those two inch} thick books with gilt edges and| backs, printed on such paper, and even containing pictures, were so cheap—only 15 cents, he price of three ice cream cones. “The con-} tents of the books must be very worthless,” I thought to myself, but bought them anyway to get a venerable ornament for my book- | case. At home I started to inspect the books. The name of the set was “A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the President, Pub- lished by Authority of Congress 1899.” This was the stuff thats market ‘value was so low—only three ice cream cones for every 700 to 800 pages of compilation! The sixth volume contains mes- sages and papers of Abraham Lin- coln, In the Prefatory Note, author James D,. Richardson says, “Much time and labor have been expended in the compilation of this volume— more than any one of the preceding —to the end that all papers of im- portance that could be found should be published.” Maybe the most important of them all is Lincoln’s First Inaugu- val Address where he speaks about the anion and the constitution and of things like that as a man who knows his onions, While reading page 10 of Lin- coln’s speech 1 was somewhat shocked! Certainly this great man, Lincoln, was not a Communist, but thing which smells of bolshevism type) could easily find out that he must have had direct connections with the Third Internationale. Think of it—this man, Lincoln, states as self-clear a fact as the following: “This country, with it’s insti- tutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they | shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their reyolution- ary right to dismember or over- throw it.” Isn’t this terrible! I think it is the duty of the con- gressional anti-Communist commit- tee to elect a sub—or snoop com- mittee of three (Father Walsh, Brother Green and Cousin Whalen) to investigate the Lincoln case. During the last few months many men, women, boys and girls have been dragged behind the bars even though they have not said that much. This man, Abraham Lin- coln, said a mouthful when speak- ing of the revolutionary rights of the people who inhabit this great country. It’s time to send some investigators on his tracks before it's late and before Lincoln’s teach- ings about revolutionary rights are spread too widely. Dear investigators! dangerous guy! Get that Forward to Mass Conference Against Unemployment, Chicago July 4th. | industrial and economic system of the country where, despite vast food hungry and | despite great improvements in the | machinery of production many are This almost revolutionary advice but it is|is prompted ‘n reality by motives of self-preservation as we can see from the following concluding re- in Little Rock, Ark. hits “the nail on anyhow his speech contains some- | |the National Guard. If we come late for drill or are absent from drill we are fined $5. |If we can’t pay the fine we are sent |to jail for from 15 to 21 days. How long are we going to stand for this? Let’s get together and demand that every fine be refunded and all time |spent in jail be paid for. What do we get out of the $3 as- sessment we pay each three months? If we have to pay for our food at camp why go to camp as a soldier? We could use that money for a real vacation. Last year in camp we saw what rotten food we got while we worked like horses. Refuse to pay all assessments! Let’s join together and refuse to give the officers and more graft money. Sincerely, A NATIONAL GUARDSMAN. . * * Heré is some more news of the 212th C. A, After ‘a lot of com- plaints about the old anti-aircraft guns, the 212th C. A. has been given some new ones. The old ones were just about ready to fall apart. On Monday, May 5, Captain Wes- ton talked to us about chemical gases. He dwelt mostly on tear gas and its use in breaking demonstra- tions of “reds.” Anyone who heard him could easily see that he meant workers when he said “reds” and that he wasn’t on our side, but on the side of the bosses. I have just found a new racket outside the many old ones that run rampant in this armory. When a soldier asks for a new article, such as shoes or leggings to replace the old ones that are worn, he is ap- proached by the supply sergeant who tries to sell him something a little better than the regulation ar- ticle for a few dollars. If he doesn’t buy it, he doesn’t get the regulation article either. Also if a soldier happens vo leave part of his uniform laying around, the top sergeant or the supply ser- geant hides or keeps the article so that the soldier is forced to buy a new article. This loss or theft of equipment is always blamed on the soldiers themselves, but I once caught the top sergeant trying to make away with my hat. He told me this was done to teach us not to leave our things around and that they were always given back. (Boloney!) : Yours truly, A NATIONAL GUARDSMAN. a ah we I was lucky enough to get a copy of the last issue of the Rebel Guard before those giving it out were chased away by some officers who don’t want us to learn the truth. Now I’m beginning to understand why the government is willing to spend so much money in training us to use the machine gun. In the 71st Infantry we are being taught to use the machine gun at various ranges and targets. We are being made ready to fight the next war that the bosses of this country are preparing. The bosses also want us to be ready to shoot at strikers when strikes take place. I am going to learn all about the machine gun so that I can use it not against the workers but for the workers, against the bosses, Yours truly, A GUARDSMAN OF THE 71ST INFANTRY. AMERICAN BOSSES TRAIN FOR- REGIMENT NATIONAL GUARD (By a Worker in the 9th Regiment.) In order to break down the mili- tant fighting spirit of the unem+ ployed and the employed workers the bosses are making use of all |black reactionary forces in the coun- jtry. This was proven to me re- cently when I found out that in my regiment there is a company which is composed only of former czarist officers. This scum of the czarist regime which has been driven out of Russia when the workers took over power in 1917, came vo the United States and are now prepar- ing under the direct supervision of the American bosses to shoot down the American workers in time of a strike the same way as they did in czarist Russia. Not only are they prepared to shoot down the Ameri- can workers, but they are also be- ing kept ready to be the “best” fighters in the bosses’ war against the only Workers’ and Peasants’ Government—the Soviet Union. We National Guardsmen, who are work- ers ourselves, must show to the bosses of America and their allies the czarist butchers that we will not let ourselves be fooled into a war against the workers of Russia. We must show to these scoundrelr that instead of shooting down the workers of America in time of a strike or demonstration we will turn against the bosses. ic Join the only youth organization that is leading the fight for the de- fense of the Soviet Union, the Young Communist League. This Scrap of Paper Can’t Hide the when. Armaments Race By BARD HE blood of more than workers, slaughtered by the Co- lombian government to keep the fa- vor of the United Fruit, that strang- ling tentacle of American imperial- Fruit Co. Brutality WERGER AND 25 PER CENT WAGE CUT {N HONDURAS FOLLOWED BY MURDER 5,000 |federation in the region, was taken fry,” to cover up the guilty general to the town of Yoro, where he is jagent of the company, who !ater on being tortured. On June 19, at Tela, the head- quarters of the United Fruit, the |th committed suicide. 'To suppress the organization of e banana workers by the Hon- following workers were a rested: | ism in the Caribbean area, is still fresh, when the United Fruit’s pup- | 2© wp, | Rivera. pet government of Honduras is pre- | Later, in the same city, paring a bloody massacre of the} workers. Jose Rendero: portant producing center, Sula, two militant lea In no country of Latin America is the United Fruit Co. stronger than in Honduras, where it holds about 35 per cent of its investments, bananas constituting 80 per cent of the country’s foreign commerce. arrested. to Yoro, an out-of-the: where they are being tor The wave of mergers manifested itself in Honduras in the acquisition by the United Fruit of the Cuyamel Fruit Co, last December, making the United the sole ruler of this rich last shown March, when some|govc-nment of Honduras, but also land. “higher-ups” amc the salaried |to help us materially in our strug- | The first step of the company |employers of the United Fruit Co.|gle against the: United Fruit Co. after the merger was the sending of | Stole thousands of dollars. a committee to discharge many workers and cut the cost of produc- tion 25 per cent, which meant a worsening of the already unbearable conditions of the workers. The deepening of the economic crisis, | which has diminished demand and hence production, has further inten- | sified the misery of the workers. | This terrible misery has zesulted | in a willingness of the workers to | Hermengildo Briceno, Miguel Ordo- nez, Gregorio Benitiz and Miguel on | |June 23, there were arrested Fer- nando Canas, Asuncion Arellana and while at another im- Hererra and J. P. Wainwright, were All these workers have been taken the most criminal of all the police agents of the United Fruit Co., Gus- tavo Pinel, chief of police of Tela. Pinel’s capacity for torturing w: duran Federation of Labor, the po- \lice have released murderers from the prisons when they promise to obey the United Fruit Co., and the company has armed them as white guards against the workers. The letter in which the above news is given ends as follows: “We appeal to you to notify the Communist Party of the United States of America, the Trade Union Unity League and the revolutionary ement of Latin America, telling em what is happening to us, ask- ing them to aid us, not only in mob- ilizing the workers against the United Fruit Co. and all the foreign ministers and consuls of the lackey as Pinel }and the native puppets of American tortured to death two of the “small imperialism.” MER CZARIST OFFICERS AS} | STRIKE BREAKERS IN THE 9TH | and I have no doubt that some| Smart detective (the Whalen-Fish fight, and in an organized manner. The Honduran Federation of Labor began to crystallize this movement in a big organization drive, which naturally met vicious persecution by the United Fruit Co. and the gov- ernment headed by Mejia Colindres Tosta. The preparation of a strike met with a terror campaign. On June 17, in Progreso, four workers were jailed, Jeremias Escobar, Carvajal, Tomas Flor and Jose Angel! Trujillo. The latter, who was organizer of the In Honduras; the character against the Red trade union workers. reso. The company office is seen in shown above are murderers released from prison by the police and armed by the United Fruit Company This photo was taken at Prog- the background. REVISING THE CHERRY TREE FABLE (es gall of Tammany grafters in New York is enough to make you swallow your Adams apple. The new Tammany Hall, by the way RED SPARKS By JORGE : A “CLOSE UNION WITH GOD” “Help Wanted” ads are slim] |enough these days, but for any ni |looking lady—but, we wont say any more, just quote from the following | over before making the arrests. But let a Communist meeting in _ Harlem gather and the “courteous | police” grab a gun in one hand ' and a blackjack in the other and go to it—with the enthusiastic ap- plause of the capitalist press. The Carroll cut-ups are only the froth on the scum of capitalist corrup- | tion. If there’s anything obscene is It “dances in the nude” in every edition to distract attention from wage slavery, misery and “Help Lady with ex sits darn near the Daily Worker on Wanted: Union Square. And while we’re by-|S ‘ bian Order” as it is known, was started by Aaron Burr, a traitor to the government in its early days, who tried to split the country and form an empire of part of it. Anyhow, the . Tammany-Walker regime today, which waves a flag with one hand while it grafts with the other, in “beautifying” Union Square, has put in a tall stick flag- pole slap-dab in front of the Daily Worker, and is making a collection of seven-ton moldy brass statues of patriots to stick here and there. close union with God. Give age, ences.” As remarked, lady wanting “close union God” at $25 a month is welcome the “opportunity.” experience and Solomons, reward in this world and next.” ing straight at the new plag-pole. “Father, I cannot tell a lie,” he seems to blurt out as we looked him over. “That flag-pole is not worth the $90,000 some Tammany crook | was paid for it!” * gether.” ad found in the “Catholic Visitor”: | | ‘utive 4 x ! » pra olic, willing to the-waying, you should know that) i ote’ best efforts to God’s cause the “Society of Tammany or Colum-|in Catholic Rectory. Opportunity offered for daily communion and Compensa- tion, $24 a month, room and board. refer- any nice looking with | God pays rotten wages, but “Rev. M. B. Alexander, Md.,” assures her at the} finish that she gets—“God’s special in the Earl Carroll's “Vanity” show and carried away eight lovely ladies for doing their stuff in the “alto- The capitalist press is full of praise at the “courtesy of | the police,” who kindly waited till ’ \ the supposedly obscene show was war. aide * LOVESTONE’S OWN LINE Speaking of vulgarity, there is a particular kind known to “reds” as “vulgar economy.” <A_ prize yulgar economist showed up in the capitalist press the other day. The wise guy who forecasts business conditions for what is known as the “Alexander Hamilton Insti- tute,” says “the best indication that times are going to improve is the extreme pessimism that pervades the entire business world.” From this we are led to helieve that Lovestone has a frac- tio in the Alexander Hamilton e-'6 to The other day, with the aid of a ee 6 Institute: derrick, darned it George Washing- POLICE AND * * * ton didn’t come riding on a brass * horse, right into Union Square, and OBSCENITY belong ed stopped, with hand upraised, point-| The Tammany police raided Here’s something the “socialists” ought to grab at. A professor of psychology says that there are 56 kinds of bad smells in industry, but \that he has invented a kind of stuff whieh, though itself smelling pow- erful bad, cor'bined with another 4 J Moscow, June 6, 1930. Dear Mark: Continue where I left off in my last letter. Now a few remarks about re- ligion and the church. When we left the States this question was in full swing; and so when we ar- rived here every one of us ran to the churthes. There are very many churches here, some very beautifully designed and well-constructed (there are 1600 churches in Moscow alone). They are very spacious, too, but we all found them empty. The priests still sell the anointed oil, but there are few to buy it. The churches are attended only by beggars, old women, and a few old men. Imagine Carnegie Hall at- tended by 50 people and you have a good idea of how the attendance in the churches is here. Any talk about not permitting prayers is plain humbug. I have seen old men and old wom- en stopping in front of ‘churches. crossing themselves and mumbling their prayers and then walking on.) I have seen priests at the head of funerals—true, not many, but I have seen them. I have seen priests in the streets and they sure do make an ugly sight. They are old, long haired and bearded; they wear big hats and long coats. They are tat- tered, unshorn and dirty. The work- ers don’t pay any attention to them, When one tries to talk to a work- er about religion, he just laughs. There is nothing to talk about. He does not believe and he refuses to be philosophical about it too. I can readily understand this attitude. Here the church and religion were still shrouded with the most back- ward superstitions and contrary to the most elementary principles of science. It did not take long for’ the worker to realize that. He there- fore logically had to abandon the church and religion. Church and religion were one to him, so he) dropped both. You can’t find here people who, like so many Americans, have aban- doned the church and still embrace! religion “as an ethic” or a “phil- oscphy.” To the Russians, religion was neither ethics nor philosophy. To those in America who yelp against the turning of churches into workers’ clubs and storehouses, let them come here and witness the empty churches and they will shut up—perhaps. The old life is thoroughly revo- lutionized. Old beliefs, habits, cus- toms, manners, laws, etc., are cast overboard. «nother example of this which also shows the potentialities of the proletariat after the revolu- tion is the five-day week. Here is a complete revolution in itself. Yet it works without a hitch. The work- ers have accepted it, adopted it and in a short period made it part and parcel of their life. In America, it is hard to conceive how all this works. I know that even ts wonder at it, and and it. This is no I was told that when the wonder, Party members here were first told of the plan, some of them went home wondering, too. And so they were called to another meeting and it was explained tc them again. k But to the workers it is simple. Russian literature tells us of the Russians as a people who complain much. Well, I heard various com- plaints, but I have not heard anyone complain about the four days of work and the fifth day rest. In fact, I venture to say that the work- ers like it so much that they would stubbornly oppose a return to the ol” seven-day week with the regular Sabbath day. Now the five-day week is being pushed rapidly into the villages. All collectives, communes and Soviet farms are on that basis. When you realize that millions of peasants are in these collectives, you can also | realize the stride the revolution is | making among the most backward _ sections of the peasantry. | Not long before I left the States, 1 remember how Abramovich the | “socialist” wroté to the New York | Times that there are ten million un- | employed in the Soviet Union. I | have made particular inquiry about in this world, the prostitute press | \bad smell “produces a sweet and pleasant one.” The “socialists” have been looking for that sont of | thing for a long time, to make ecapi- talism smell better. However, smell it bad or good, they are for capital- ism. A recent edition of an I. W. W. paper gave us another one. Some gink who figured that nightwork jcould be done under a violet ray light, inspired the Wobblies to say in a headline: “Violet Ray to Bring Four-Hour Day.” Hokum! * * |GREAT MEN, OR |GREAT MORONS? Ever see Hoover in the movies? Or both see and hear him in the talkies? Making a speech? Let us call to your attention that he doesn’t “make” a speech at all. He always reads them. Does he write them in advance? Oh, get out! About 95 per cent of the “great men” of capitalist politics would be utterly lost, stuttering morons—without their secretaries. All workers should get this straight, and in doing so develop a lot of respect for the Communist “soap-boxers” whom the boss press try to belittle as making “harangues” to “the | there. CHURCHES OPEN IN USSR, BUT NOBODY GOES; NO JOBLESS Four Day Work Week Tremendously Popular; Workers Have Many Excursions ; unemployment, and I can see with absolute certainty that there are no unemployed here. There is no use arguing with the Abramovich type. ‘They are merely counter-revolution- ary liars. Any capitalist representative— and there are undoubtedly many— knows Abramovich’s statement to be untrue. In fact, what the Soviet Union is facing is a labor shortage —not in skilled and semi-skilled workers only, but also in unskilled workers, A few days ago I attended a labor court. One of the cases that I wit- nessed was the complaint of eighty- three unskilled workers against a certain trust in Moscow. The par- ticular complaint is not important, but what is important is that the trust in Moscow could not obtain unskilled workers here and it here- fore appealed to a union about forty miles away to obtain workers from the villages around that section. These eighty-three workers were peasants brought here by special re- quest because there were none to be obtained here. The other day I spoke to a person who is actively engaged in the or- ganization of building two of the largest steel factories in the world, and he said that one of the major problems is the lack of unskilled workers. The reasons are as fol- jOWS : In the first place, the Five-Year Plan has set into motion unpreced- ented activities. One need be in Moscow only one day to convince himself of that. In the last six months close to a half million work: ers have been added to the manu- facturing industry alone. The fac- tories work three shifts daily. In very few instances do they operate only two shifts, and in some in- stances there are even four shifts, Secondly, the collectivization of the villages is cutting off the sea- sonal supply of part-time peasant workers. Heretofore many peasants | would come to the cities when the jseasonal weather did not permit them to work on the farms or when they did- not have sufficient work Now the collectives—with the help of government loans, are starting enormous improvements and construction programs— new homes, schools, warehouses, face tories, clubs, ete., etc., out in the country, so that these peasant work- ers are absorbed by the collective. Thirdly, more and more workers from the bench are being drawn into work in the Soviets and the Party. This is a general policy now —to train proletarians for the po- sitions of leadership. Fourthly, many workers are taken from the factories and sent to col- leges to study engineering and tech- nology and also economics and effi- ciency in production. The last two categories may seem inconsequential, but tens of thou- sands of workers are thus with- drawn from the factories and they have to be replaced. This shortage of laborers is al- ready absorbing the old bourgeoisie and petty trader as well as declassed groups (police under the Czar, all such people) who are not permitted to register on the Labor Exchange until they have workerfor five years as common laborers. Here- tofore, these elements could not find work very readily; but now they have no excuses, There is plenty of work. Of course, it may not be so pleas- ant for them to do ordinary menial labor, but that is the only way out for them. In Moscow this group of declassed is very insignificant, but in the provinces there are still quite a few. Even considering this last group of declassed it is correct to say with certainty that right now there is no unemployed problem in the Soviet Union. Anyone who wants to work can do so. Another thing that attracts the foreignér immediately is what is called excursions. This is a pecu- liarity of the Soviet Union. Wher- ever one goes—whether it is to the art galleries, or to the church, or to the Kremlin, or some former old jail, or to the cultural park, or to a workers’ institution, he meets groups of workers, students, Red Army men or peasant excursionists. One meets them in every public place of any interest. At the head of each excursion is a guide who explains things. Very often one can see such groups in the middle of the strvet with the guide explaining the importance of this or that building; the difference between one type of architecture and another, etc. Such excursions are made not only locally but to other cities. In the summer ovarticularly—even now— such excursions are on a grand scale. There are one-day up to one month excursions and at very reasonable prices. Every factory worker or peasant or Red Army club, trade union section, etc, has a cultural commitiee | These committecs arrange these | excursions. On their day off, the | workers usualiy have an opportunity | to go to some excursion. Then again there is the Sovtourist organization | a special organization for the en- tire country ,wh+h arranges ¢7- | cursions in various cities at exc: | tionally reasonable rrices. This ‘s a most powerfu form of cultural development. Shall write again in the near fu- | ture. | Sincerely and ¢-1 radely yours, * WAVENS