The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1932, Page 4

6 = AS See — AS AN EQUAL AMONG MEN grows capitalists extreme On remity is the the and y I ple Cows breaking out the revolts| of 1917 twelfth century, | were the by and by Pugachey in| inaccuracies in periodically from; the March and October Besides omissions and Stenka Razin in| there are many misstater Duranty’s revglutions article SOMETHING NEW IN TADJIKISTAN: A WOMAN WORKER | \t Y | | | | Pa D YLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1932 n to claim lordship ove" yet Rurix lived i ir when there wa all the Russias,” which did ne 1 some seven hundrec Further, Duranty state sh things about Europea udalism, contrasting hich developed in Rus- rn Europe,” he claims ad been called into be- e weaker and poore: population from their bloody reign of feu- the European masses century idalism to protect a over uld not ask a better apologist. He ces Ivan the Fourth as the ander of the Russian state, al- ough the be: n back seve: innings of this state 1 centuries. ‘Throughout his article Duranty } a complete lack of under- ding of state as an instru- ment of class rule, and of that maxim es a key to all events, “All is a history of class strug- Instead, he trots forth the 1g class version of history, “the € heory.” ‘This is the ba- sis of his absurd, but vicious attempt t Ivan with Stalin. to 1917 the Russian masses aves, but not willing ones, In pect they suffered the com- Up | mon fate of the toiling masses of the rid. This slavedom, in old wled by a landowning class a young capitalist one compet- ith it for power, certainly had own characteristics. But in fun- the slavery under which ssian masses labored. was the me as that which still exists in ther countries. ‘Thru many decades the Russian s struggled to throw off their oppressors. In this they were lead their Bolshevik (Communist) which was organized before the 1905 revolution, and finally lead them to victory in the revolution of 1917. Since 1917, hole ¥ by the Russian masses s the honor ot | | A NEW BLOCK OF APARTMENT HOUSES FOR WORKERS in| ed on the widest | f the toiling masses | t Distorts | Ww ) that the| Ru ways been his to ae tof alism, the struggles of the | few. workers ings in the great revo-| Russian Prince by the name of 5, and culminating in| Rurik. He states that Rurik was | ¢ : } to witn \ FORMER SHEEP-TENDER, NOW A SKILLED MECHANIC | | is tra he eighteenth. After the rise of Rus~ , Here there is space to give only a} have been slaves no longer, but free. For example, this writer “mis- began, combining with | places” by about seven centuries a And this freedom which thousands of them gave their lives to achieve, this freedom which inspires all work- ers who come here from other lands s at first-hand, and which forming a formerly brooding, tortured people into a hargy, con- fident land of comrades, so that it is a pleasure to work and live here— this, Wall Street's hireling dares to spit upon. The Soviet masses are free. They labor under no dictator— Stalin or anyone else. Ivan the Terrible, with whom Duranty compares Stalin, was a ruthless tyrant, ruling in the interests of the landlord and devel- oping merchant classes. Many other ezars followed him, gilded symbols of the oppressing classes’ tyranny | over the people Who Rules The Soviets And How And who rules the Soviet Union today? (Notice we say not Russia, as Duranty does, but the Soviet Un- ion, for one of the many fundamen- tal changes which he fails to note about “unchanging Russia,” is that the 1917 revolution destroyed the old Russian Empire, creating in its stead a series of independent but voluntar- ily united Soviet Union of Socialist Republics.) Who are the dictators in the U.S.S.R.? Not Stalin, not the Communist Party, which together with the Comsomols (Young Com- munist League) embraces 814 million workers and peasants. Dictatorship in the /Seviet Union belongs to the working class. It is this class who shows the way to all the toilers of $vare aw Coucective Farms A GROUP O Sietiear aetna F YOUNG SHOCK BRIGADERS IN BAKU the villages and towns, and whose revolutionary vanguard, organized in the Communist Party, leads them in building socialism. So long as society is divided into classes, one class or the other must rule, In the United States, Eng- land, and Western Europe, the cap- italist class rules over the workers and all toilers. Its governments, headed by the millionaire Hoover or the traitor MacDonald, dictate in its interests. In the Soviet Union, for the first time in history a new class has come into power—labor. Rus- sian workers smashed the old gov- ernment and set up their own, which is a dictatorship of, by, and for the toilers over their former exploiting capitalist and landlord classes. But, as Stalin tells us; “for the proletarian revolution, the seizure of power is only a beginning.” The enemy must be completely destroyed, the alliance of workers and peasants strengthen- ed so that the transformation of the | old social order into a socialist one can be undertaken (the Five Year Plan is an important phase of this transformation) and the basis of the coming, Communist, classless society be laid. The Communist Party, as the van- guard of the working class, composed of its best members, guides and leads in the great work of socialist re- construction now going on in the Soviet Union. Stalin is the Party’s and the masses’ beloved and trusted | | leader. His ability and his devotion to the workers’ cause has caused them to place him at his present | post of Secretary of the Communist | Party. Like every other Party mem- ber, he acts not “on his own” but in cooperation with his comrades in carrying out the decisions of the Par- ty which are collectively arrived at, and express the will of the working class who lead 160 million toiling people. The Soviets (Councils), composed of workers and peasants, are the main organs of this dictatorship, In these the Communist Party plays the leading réle. It is important that every Moree | in the States should understand the relation between the Party and the} toiling masses. The dictatorship in the Soviet Union is that of the work- ing class, while the leadership of the Party is maintained by the confidence of this class in it. This confidence is not won by force (the use of force is reserved for the enemy), but by the close linking of the Party with the daily needs of the masses, and the correctness of the program and slogans of action which it advances for their adoption. ‘Wherever Party members or units fail to deserve the confidence and leadership entrusted. to them, the working masses both Party and non- Party, are quick to take action. It does not matter what is the mem- ber’s position. For, as the Soviet workers tell us, “We have no gods.” Here are a few examples. Recent~- ly, in the Krassny Proletaire (Red it £4) TA 1 ein Worker) Metal Factory in Moscow, the workers, both Party ané non- Party members, became dissatisfied with the way things were being man- aged. Production in several depart- ments were lagging, they weren't getting as much opportunity in the way of study and technical classes as they wanted, the food at the fac- tory dining room needed to improve, and so forth. So, what did these “willing slaves” do? In their factory leaders, they recognized that every man and woman at the machine must do his part in order to achieve their goal. Today, three months after these changes, the Krassny Proletaire has made great advance. Here is another example. When we were in Batum, a small port on the Black Sea some three thousands miles from Moscow, the local workers gave us a banquet. Among them was the President of WHO RULES THE SOVIET UNivcr and believe me, he listens tool!” the Orders in the U.S.4 ‘s the orders—bangs 0% the table—to the Jimmy Walkers ang ‘Thompsons in the States? The Mor. gans and Rockefellers. Here, in the wiet Union, the workers know that it’s they who do the banging. How many times I’ve seen them saying what's—what to those they've chosen to some post. In Tiflis, for instance, we came upon a factory woman, with her child in her arms, laying low the manager of her own plant be- cause that day the nursery where her child stayed hadn’t been as warm as she though it should be! “How can I stand by the looms, weaving 5 she demanded, “and be satis- fied in my mind, if my Misha gets cold hands?” (every plant must maintain a free nursery for working mothers’ children). Carefully the manager listened, and explained the particular difficulties of that day, when the new steam heating system was being connected up. Satisfied at last that her Misha would not be cold tomorrow, she took her leave. In the recent conference of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Union Congress of Soviets, which I attended, we saw the same thing. This highest body of the government is composed of workers from the shops, peasants from the farms, Red Army soldiers, Red Navy sailors. Its president Kalinin, is a fo:mer metal worker of Leningrad Slaves—In Moscow or New York? Slay These are the only free workers in the world. ‘The real slaves, the convict laborers are not in Moscow, but in New York, Chie ° cago, the south’s black belt.. Mr. Duranty, ask the men and women lashed to Ford’s speed-belt. Ask them what they have to say about the freedom in the capitalist-run states, The New York Times, one of Wall Street’s leading organs, advances Duranty as “a veteran observer in Moscow,” an authority on Soviet matters. It obviously plans to make even greater use of his writing, as the imperialist war plans against the Soviet Union near completion. In spite of all the lying propaganda A DONBAS MINER WITH HIS PNEUMATIC DRILL wall-papers and d 8 papers they made their at factory meetings of the Union and Party they voiced their demand for change. Both the Union Factory Committee and the Communist Fac- tory Committee held special elections, where the former members were frankly discussed and only those who had fulfilled -well the tasks given them were re-chosen. Both the Di- rector and Assistant Director of the factory, members of the Communist Party, were replaced. The workers, however, did not confine their criti- cisms and change to their former the local Soviet (Council). We were | Joking him about being a mayor, and | our never getting the chance at home to sit alongside such a notable. “From what I read,” he answered, workers in your country are clubbed and gassed when they attempt to reach the city hall, demanding food and relief. Well, this is how it is here. Day after day workers come into my office, and say what’s what. How about it? He asks a factory worker sitting nearby. “You bet,” the other answers. “We go down there, and bang our fists on the table, “the radio, schools, and labor the success of the Soviet world stands forth increasingly clear, in opposition to the decaying world of capitalism. ‘There is nothing “peculiarly Ras» sian” about the successes of the Five Year Plan., The workers and poor farmers of America, like those of Germany, China and Australia will follow the road that the Soviet Un- ion has opened up. The road of the workers’ rule, of socialist construc- tion. THE PALACE OF LABOR IN MOSCOW r