The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily ,QWorker ANTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY &LS.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) ‘America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 19% PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC. 5@ East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Ceble Address ‘Daiwork,” New York, ¥. Washington Bureau: Room 964, Natio Trews Buitding, ith ar F. St., Washington, D. C. Subscription Rates: By Mai except and Bronx) . peer $6.00; 6 months, $3.50; 3 ; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Onsnade: 1 yeas, $9.00, $ months, $5.00; 3 monthe, $3.00 By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1930 Comrade Stalin’s Speech IN THE HISTORIC speech of Stalin, printed in yes- terday’s Daily Worker, Stalin spoke not only to the proletariat and toiling masses of the Soviet Union. He was speaking to the proletariat and toiling masses of the world. And surely, there is no person to whom the toiling masees of the world are more eager to listen to than Stalin, co-worker of Lenin, great leader of the Party of Lenin and of the world proletarian revolution. Today, throughout the world, the proletariat of all countries, the millions of oppressed and exploited, are j digesting Stalin’s speech and making its substance | their own. It is in this way that the words of the world leader of Lenin’s Party become power. We cannot here discuss the richness of its de- tailed analysis of the present world situation, and its | wonderfully penetrating dissection, with the weapon of Marxism-Leninism, of the interweaving forces of the chronic world crisis of capitalism and the present world economic crisis. ‘What cannot, however, escape even a first reading of Stalin’s speech, is its ringing, powerful, triumphant proclamation of the steady advance of Socialism in the Soviet Union, the Workers Fatherland, in contrast to the hideoy: ruin and misery of the capitalist world, amid a world which dooms its toiling millions to the curse of unemployment and hunger, to the spreading menace of Fascist reaction, and the world-wide slaughter of imperialist war. World capitalism rots and plunges to its doom, | sawed by the cancer of its own contradictions. So- m, the new world system, the rule of the pro- together with the tolling masses, moves irre- ly upward to a new, better life. Thus proclaims = i, leader of Lenin’s Bolshevik Party. And toiling | iiions of the world know that it is true. From this, Stalin’s speech is permeated with the | vitable lesson—that the road of the suffering masses of the crisis is the road of the Soviet Union, the | voad of the revolutionary way out, the road of prole- n revolution. | every word, whether it is in the crushing irony | </ which he flays the imperialist-Fascist propagan- | i “higher race” crusade against the Soviet | , or Whether it is in the proud recital of the | ul advances in the well-being of the Soviet , Stalin’s speech rings with the call to the world | roletariat to take the road of the revolutionary way out the crisis, of proletarian revolution for the over- | vow of world capitalism, the sole obstacle which f the way of a solution of the capitalist crisis. (OM STALIN'S SPEECH an outstanding rich lesson eme that’ if the proletariat and the toiling | es of the world are to give capitalist exploitation | death-blow, they must build powerful Com- | Parties, steeled and tested in struggle. | organization is decisive.” Stalin said in his | And for the oppressed working class in the | es, this means that in the fight against apitalism the building of a strong Com- Party, a Party that will be able to give the oiling masses the same Bolshevik leader- vhich led to the setting up of the Proletar orship in the Soviet Union, is decisive. a peech. United s Wall § strained its resources to be able ders the full text of Stalin’s speech the was) delivered. It is the only newspaper o day afte! in the United States which was able to present its reader the text of this historic document. Let us master this speech of our great leader by giving it e: t udy. In it we get guidance and in- spiration for our revolutionary tasks in the home own coun’ Uader the ba of Lenin, led by Lenin’s co-worker pupil, Stalin, with the Weapon of Marxism-Leninism, let us gird ourselves for our great tasks here, for the mobilization of the major- ity of the toiling masses of America for the over- n, for the revolutionary way out of the crisis, for the setting up of a Soviet America Roosevelt Signs 40 Per Cent Wage Cut RESIDENT ROOSEVELT on Tuesday will sign the gold bill, more particularly described by one Senator | asa 40 per cent wage cut for the American working | population. | When the Roosevelt budget and inflationary measures were first proposed, the Daily Worker branded them as the most vicious and direct step yet taken towards inflation, hunger, fascism and war. In the Cor ional debates which followed on the bill, piece- | meal and indirectly, as well as directly in some in- siances, jous Congressmen and Senators confirmed analysis made by the Daily Worker. In the Senate discussions, the minority report of | Senate Coinage Committee frankly admitted: “The + *ilization fund in operation will be a gigantic strug- ale between the British and American fund.” But that je putting it very mildly. It will be a gigantic struggle besween the two powers, with the rapid forward thrust oi their war machinery. It will be war that will lead ‘© constant slashing of real wages. It is not only a Wer between “funds.” It is war between two gigantic staveholding powers trying to get out of the crisis at each others expense, and chiefly at the expense of the workingclass of each country. The very signing of the gold bill will result in an ipmiediate cut in real wages, in the purchasing power of ‘the workers’ pay. But the bill gives Roosevelt the gcded power to cut the gold value by another 16% per eent—down to 50 cents of its previous value. Underhandedly, viciously, brutally, Roosevelt by (iis means, is decreasing an indefinite and continuous period of progressively worsening conditions for the entire American working class. ‘The purpose of the gold bill and its Perspective of greater inflation was blankly and directly stated in the Senate by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. “No man here would dare introduce a bill for a 40 per cent wage cut,” he said, “but that is exactly what this bill is.” the | starvation levels By his promises, his demagogic speeches, his secret, underhanded maneuvers, Roosevelt hopes to hide the real significance of his deed from the workers. Rooseyelt’s deed on Tuesday will bring direct bene- fits to exploiters, to the rich coupon clippers, to the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1934 he war munitions manufacturers, to all the backs of the working class. It will bring misery and starvation to the toiling masses. All of Ss was admitted in parliamentary phrases by Senator Fess, who said of Roosevelt's gold bill: “This procedure of decreasing the value of the dol- in ord © pay a debt and enhance the price of the commodity might benefit some classes, but it is going to be a terrific injury to the vast majority of our people, because the great majority of Americans are engaged in gainful occupations.” The Senator overlooks the 17,000,000 unemployed who will suffer still more by the drastic cut in their re- lief through inflation ‘This deed of Roosevelt ordering a 40 per cent cut for the American workers, preparing the ground for & gigantic imperialist slaughter, must not go unan- swered. The N.R.A lar is rigidly fastening down wages to The A. F. of L. officialdom, part of the Roosevelt government strikebreaking machinery, while mouthing phrases against inflation, supports Roosevelt's objectives in action through striving and straining to ward off strikes for higher pay, while inflation undermines their living standards. Against the tremendous upward sweep of the cost | of living, we must rally the workers in all trade unions for struggle for higher wages, for an immediate upward revision of the code rates. We must demand increased unemployment relief, speeding the fight for unemployment insurance, con- centrating our forces more than ever for the success | of the National Convention Against Unemployment, which meets in Washington, D. C., February 3, 4 and 5. Militant workers in every factory, mine and mill should take the lead in arousing the workers against this huge wage cut. In all workers’ neighborhoods we shouki now begin the fight against the high cost of living. The whole A. F. of L. bureaucracy, backed by the | Roosevelt government, will try to act as a powerful brake against action to defeat Wall Street’s inflation and war program. Against these betrayers, the rank and file im the trade unions should build and strengthen their oppo- sition forces to drive through action in the interest of the workers. Only organization and struggle can stop this at- tack on the workers and defeat Roosevelt’s program of inflation, hunger, fascism and war, Unity in the Hotel Strike 'HE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT workers strike is noW at a decisive stage. What can guarantee the success of the strike? Only the most unified action | of all workers, regardless of their union affiliation, only the immediate spreading of the strike. The strik- ers can depend only on their own organized force, in @ united front of all workers. This means unity of all workers, whether belong- ing to the A. F. of L. union, the Amalgamated, or the Industrial Union, or whether unorganized. Long before the strike, and most particularly at its outbreak, the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Industrial Union proposed the unity of the rank and file workers in order to mobilize and unite the forces of all work- ers for a real strike victory. This the present leaders of the Amalgamated Union at the head of the strike rejected. Instead they are hobnobbing with the N.R.A, stirring up the most vicious “red scare,” deliberately calling for disunity, thereby injuring and endangering the strike. When the strike was called, the Trotzkyite and the | | Tank opportunist leaders of the strike flirted only with | the A. F. of L, leaders, refusing to go the road of a unified rank and file in the strike, a unified massing | of the forces of all workers in the trade. Every worker involved in this strike can now see that the slogan of “unity of all workers” is the only correct one and should work to achieve this end. . . . GAINST this uniting of the workers’ forces in the strike, the leaders deliberately sought to split the | ranks of the workers. They themselves, without even | waiting for the bosses to do it, raised the dirty cry that every strikebreaking agency shouts in strikes led by the most militant working class fighters, the Com- munists. Benjamin Gitlow, renegade from the Communist Party, was brought in to spout his venom against “Com- munist leadership.” Gitlow’s main argument at this moment, when unity is the uppermost question, was that unity would “cause public opinion to go against us, and the N.R.A. would be against us, because the Industrial Union is led by Communists.” While directing his fire against the Communists, Gitlow, in the spirit of strikebreakers Green and Lewis, directed the worker's eyes hopefully to the N.R.A. Yesterday, the latest capitalist newspaper reporis showed that the N.R.A. Regional Labor Board was working hand-in-glove with the hotel owners to break the strike. By relying on negotiations only through the Regional Labor Board and rejecting the paramount issue of wnity of all workers, the Trotzkyite opportunist leaders and their Gitlow henchmen were playing directly into the hands of the strikebreakers. B. J. Field, secretary of the Amalgamated Union, heading the strike, in a letter to Mrs. Eleanor M, Her- rick, chairman of the Regional Labor Board, asks for “negotiations.” But Mrs. Herrick tells him she and the hotel owners want none of it, that they are “ob- serving” the strike. But Field and his associates reject the proposal for mass demonstrations at the Regional Labor Board to force negotiations with the bosses—negotiations with a broad rank and file strike committee. They carry on only the politest exchange of letters in order to merit N. R. A. recognition. “"HE board,” replies, Mrs, fterrick, “will take what- ever action is necessary. The board is watching the situation closely.” In other words, the board does not need to act now because they feel that Messers Field & Co. are acting for them through disuniting the workers. The New York Evening Post of yesterday, after printing Mrs. Herrick’s statement, in which she has the hearty support of the hotel owners, concludes: “The statements they have made (Mrs, Herrick and the hotel owners), however, indicate that they beliere they can break the strike.” For this part, Gitlow tells the workers there are three forces, the bosses, the workers and the N. R. A., deliberately hiding the long and vicious strikbreaking history of the N, R. A. one of the best and most powerful strikebreaking tool of the bosses. Negotiations can be forced with the bosses, and even through their Regional Labor Board, only by the most. unified and militant action of all workers through Spreading the strike, through increasing its militancy. Otherwise, “negotiations,” as Weirton, Budd, Philadel- phia Rapid Transit, the Philadelphia transport strike, the Edgewater and Chester Gord strikes show, means “strikebreaking.” Unity is the crying need of the strike. Regardless of union affiliation the workers should unite their ranks, broaden their strike committee, rally for the most militant action, They should spike as the dirtiest strikebreaking treachery the “red cry” of the Gitlows. This not only smacks of the vilest anti-workingclass deeds of Messers Woll and Easley but is deliberately brought in at this time to stop thé real feeling and demand of the strikers for unity, Instead of provocations and splitting of te ranks urged by Gitlow, unity is the watchword for the strike. Only by unity, only by the broadest spreading of the strike to all hotel workers, only by the strongest rank and file strike committee and the most militant action of the workers can the strike now be won. ‘Congress To Rush $25,000,000 More | For New Warships Roosevelt War Program Has Already Set a | | | | Record WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Follow- | ing on the expected passage of the | Roosevelt-sponsored Vinson Naval | Bill providing for an additional $380,- | | 000,000 for the Navy, in addition to the regular budget appropriation of $300,000,000, Congress will pass an- other Bill giving the Navy a special fund of $25,000,000 for work on 20 new ships, it was announced here today. It is expected there will be little | opposition in Congress to the Bill. The Roosevelt Naval building pro- @ram has already established a rec- ord for size and speed, Roosevelt hav- ing allocated or spent close to two | billion dollars since he took office | last April. | Gallagher Wins New Stay on Expulsion Bulgarian Defendants Sick in Prison BERLIN, Jan. 29.—Leo Gallagher, American attorney for Georgi Dimi- troff, again forced the Nazi govern- ment to make another extension of the decree ordering his expulsion, this time to Jan. 31. The Nazi authorities at the same time reject- ed his appeal for a withdrawal of the expulsion order. Gallagher to- day announced his intention of ap- Mrs. William Ellis, British novel- ist, was refused permission to see Dimitroff in his cell at Leipzig yes- terday. The authorities allow only Dimitroff’s aged mother and his sis- ter to see him, and merely for 15 minutes twice a week. His mother that Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff, the two other Bulgarian defendants, of fresh eggs and fruit. The three Bulgarians, with Ernst Torgler, are still held in prison despite their ac- quittal by the Nazi high court as a result of the world-wide protest movement against their frame-up in connection with the Reichstag fire. TO PROTEST NAZI ACTIVITY PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Jan. 29.— The Philadelphia League Against War and Fascism will hold an open air protest meeting, corner Lehigh and Germantown Sts., on Tuesday, Jan. | 30th, at 7:30 P.M,, to protest against Nazi activities in that neighborhood. Support the National Convention Against Unemployment, Feb. 3, in Washington, D. C. pealing to the U. S. Consulate here. | saw him Friday and reported later | are in ill health and are deprived | a ae THE BANKERS | PARIS, Jan. 29.—President Lebrun | attempted to solve the governmental crisis today by calling on Eduoard Daladier to form a new Cabinet to succeed that of Camille Chautemps. The Chautemps Cabinet was swept out of office last Satuday by |the mass indignation and disgust | evoked by the bourg plicity in the Stavisky looting of the | public, corresponding with the at- |tempt of the state to balance its budget at the expense of the toiling masses, through new wage cuts of civil employees and slashing of un- employment relief. Mass demonstrations, under the leadership of the French Communist Party, are continuing against the whole state apparatus of French democracy, which is revealed to be eaten away with corruption. The choice of Daladier, who was War Minister in the discredited Chautemps Cabinet and, moreover, was involved as premier in the three- year-old Oustric Bank scandal, fol- | lowed a vain hunt for a bourgeois poli- | ticlan whose skirts were clean of | Tecent financial scandals and could | still count on a remnant of public ‘ confidence. In this connection even Daladicé Seeks Chtinet As French Gov't Crisis Grows ois state’s com- | PURSE-SNATCHER —By Burck the decrepit 71-year-old former Pres- ident Gaston Doumerge was invoked to return from his political grave to shed a degree of respectability on the government. Daladier is expected to attempt a coalition government of the Center parties, although there is a growing fascist demand for a national con- centration government. Because of | his war-preparations activities as War Minister, he is looked on by certain circles of French imperialism as the “strong man” being sought by fascist elements in the various bour- | geois parties. The fascist elements, supported by Nazi funds, are at- tempting to exploit the situation and are screaming for a strong-arm gov- ernment. Already there is a French National-Socialist Party, modeled on the Hitler example. Communists Fight Fascist Reaction “It has become a race between us and Fascism,” declares “L’Humanite,” organ of the French Communist Party, today. The Communist paper carried an article by Andre Marte, leader of the revolt tn the French Black Sea Squadron, in which Marte States: “Never until this day has the nau- seating, the parasitic nature of the| republican regime appeared before us | in so clear a light. The serious thing is the rapid progress of fascist agita- tion, especially in Paris, The pro-| cess of fascizing the regime is mak- | ing long strides. It is now a question | of speed as between the Fascists and | ourselves.” Socialist Leaders Discredited this situation, In whose leadership supported the cor- rupt Chautemps regime at all stages of its attacks on the masses, and de- |fended it in the Stavisky scandal, hints in today’s “Le Populaire” that “sooner than most people think” the Socialist Party “will be required to take up the fight against all forms of corruption, all forms of fascism, all} forms of economic misery.” That it will not be required to take up the fight by the masses is all tco clearly evident, even to the bour- geoisie, as shown by the following excerpt from a dispatch by the corre- | spondent of the New York Tribune to his paper: “The Socialists, however, are han- dicapped in the eyes of the working masses by the fact that it was their support which made it possible for M. Chautempts to obtain the last} two votes of confidence which the Chamber gave his Cabinet in connec- tion with the Stavisky case.” Ys} Filipino Bosses Attack Fight for Free Philippines Express Fear at Meeting That Masses Want a Soviet Gov’t A sharp clash be-' geois reactionaries among » and workers and their Fy NEW YOR: ween bour; Filipin ty the representatives, marked a meetingon the Filipino terror, held Sunday at the Suntise Restaurant, Brooklyn, es of the Filipino League. wealthy Filipino im- I ked by Manahas, head of the Philippinean, a conservative democratic organization, and Mr, Lopez, editor of the Philippine “Out- look,” 2 reactionary Brooklyn weekly, got up on the floor and attacked the speakers who called for militant ac- ion om behalf of the national libera- tion struggles of the Filipinos. Mr. port They were shouted down by the audience when they stated that they would ner have the Philippines under Wall Street domination. than free. e revolt in the Philip- Minion said; “how far sants go? We have now @ peaceful government, and if we | allow what happened in 1897 to be repeated, the peasants will want a | Soviet government!” The audience cheered again and | again when Joseph Tauber, Interna- | tional Labor Defense lawyer, spoke jon the fight against the terror in | the Philippines by the workers and peasants, calling for support from American toilers to this fight. The meeting was one of several be- ing held in preparation for the mass meeting at Irving Plaza, Feb. 4, at 2:30 p.m., called by the Action Com- | mittee on Pilipino Cases and Terror in the Philippines. Japan Imperialism | Wants Bigger Navy TOKIO, Jan, 28—It is boldly an- | nounced in the leading Japanese | newspaper that the Navy Minister, | Admiral Mineo Osumi, has already | informed a Diet committee that Ja- | pan will nullify the Washington ang | London Naval Treaties before the | end of this year. This treaty establishes the present | naval strength of the three leading | imperialist powers, Britain, Japan, and the United States at 5-5-3. Now that the fight between these three imperialist powers for the lion’s share of the loot that comes from the exploitation of the Chi- nese masses is sharpening, Japanese imperialism feels that it can no longer adhere to the present naval ratio. This aggravates the war danger. The Roosevelt government is als. straining its treasury in a record.® breaking naval construction proc” gram, building a navy “second to , none,” which has already consumed Over one billion dollars, (q U.S.S. (Continued from Page 1) role, particularly in the Ukraine, The essence of change in the Ukraine, he declared, consists in the collective farmers, who themselves fight today for collectivism. The essence of change lies in the tremendous pro- duction and political advance of the broad masses and collective farmers. This enables the Dniepropetrovsk Province to promise this year an even greater harvest under normal clima- tic conditions than last year’s bum- per crop, he declared, amid tremen- dous applause. The evening session ended with a brilliant speech by the Uzbekistan delegate, Comrade Ikramov, who spoke of the stormy industrial de- velopment of Uzbekistan, which in- creased industry in recent years by four and a half times. Ikramovy fur- ther spoke of the extraordinary suc- cess in agriculture in the struggle for a high yield and superior quality of cotton. “This we accomplished only on the basis of Socialist reconstruc- tion of agriculture and thanks to the concrete guidance of the Central Committee and particularly of Stalin, Molotov and Kaganovich,” he de- clared. , Rank Seay MOSCOW, Jan. 29.—Saturday’s ses- sion of the 17th Party Congress opened with a report by the Central Auditing Commission, following which Chairman Kalinin opened the dis- cussion on the Central Committee report. The renovated Kremlin Hall, where the Congress is meeting, is still filled with the echoes of yesterday's stormy ovations and applause for Comrade Stalin and the Leninist Central Com- mittee, Ovations Brought From Shops and Fields “These ovations and applause,” said one of the first speakers on Saturday, Comrade Pozern of Leningrad, “we brought from shops, factories, mills, collective and State farms, The opin- ion expressed in these ovations is the opinion, not only of the 2,000 people present here, but of tens of millions of workers, peasants, office employees, specialists and scientists of our great country, This universal opinion is that the Leninist Central Commitice, that the world proletariat’s leader, Comrade Stalin, is leading with in- genuity the Socialist construction which has brought victories unprece- dented in history.” All delegates speaking mentioned the colossal role and direct partici- pation and concrete aid of Comrade vision penetrates even the remotest corners of the land and everywhere his pointed instructions are deciding the outcome of the struggle in So- cialism’s favor. Comrade Stalin demanded concrete leadership from the whole Party in his report. And the Party of mil- MSE lesdership. fromm, asthe vik from as the closest disciple of Lenin. Comrade Eiche, Secretary of the R. Party Stalin, All pointed out that his keen! Congress Shows Socialist Advance West Siberian Province Party Com- mittee at the 16th Congress, declared that Comrade Stalin had raised be- fore the West Siberian Bolsheviks the task of creating the Ural-Kuznetsk combine, Now Eiche tells of the stormy progress in that part of the country, which but recently was un- der the sway of Talga, but today Possesses the world metallurgical giant plant named after Stalin, Be- tween the 16th and 17th Congresses, the Kuzbas coal output has been trebled, Eiche declared: New mines have been opened, new technique in- troduced, Contrast With Slow Pace of Capl- talism Comrade Eiche, to the accompani- ment of thunderous applause, de- clared that while the capitalists took 150 years to develop the Don Basin, the Bolsheviks have transformed the once backward Kuz Basin into a powerful mechanized combine in four years. Simulteneously with the stormy growth of Socialist industry in Si- beria, Socialist agriculture has grown and strengthened. West Siberia, Eiche declared, has not in vain received the order of Lenin as an advanced prov- ince in agriculture. The wheat flelds have been expanded immeasurably in recent years in Siberia. The in- come of the collective farmers in 1932 and 1933 in West Siberia is among the highest in the US.S.R. In concluding, Comrade Eiche’ spoke of the former Right Wing opposition leaders, Comrades Rykov, Bukharin, Tomsky and others, declaring that at the last Congress they promised to atone for their crimes before the Party by practical work. It seems, however, that they have failed to carry out their promise, he declared. | Some of them have kept silent, there- by giving counter - revolutionary groups an opportunity to work under their cover. Transformed Formerly Backward Colonial Country ‘ The Bashkirian delegate, Comrade Bikin, described the changes in Bash- kiria, formerly a backward colonial country. Bashkiria has now become an industrial-agrarian country, he said. Comrade Bikin excited great interest and enthusiasm in the audi- ence when comparing old Bashkiria with new Soviet Bashkiria. Suffice it to mention that Bashkiria had but j few literates in the past, while now nearly 80 per cent of the population is literate. Illiteracy among the youth no longer exists in any part of the republic, he declared, Comrade Vodovozenko of Dniepro- petrovsk Province, Soviet Ukraine, spoke of the Socialist success in ag- riculture. Comrade Stalin's speeches at the January Plenum of the Cen- tral Committee and the Collective Farmers Congress have, according to Vodovozenko, become the program of struggle of the collective farm masses, having equipped the Party organiza- tion for work along new lines. All the speeches of the delegates are pervaded by the confidence that the Soviet workers, led by the Com- munist Party, can overtake and sur- pass the industry of the capitalist countries. Your correspondent, how- ever, finds an entire absence of any suggestion that this is preparation for foreign adventures, as charged by Isaac Don Levine, President Green of the A. F. of L., and Hamilton Fish in the United States. Exactly the Contrary is stressed and repeated in the statements of Stalin and all the delegates. These statements show that the Communist Party knows that a powerful Soviet industry is the first prerequisite for peace. Thus, Stalin, in explaining the improve- ment of the world position of the Soviet Union in its relations with certain coutries, declared that the first reason for this, was the growth of the power and might of the Soviet Union, This was hailed by stormy applause by the entire Congress. Five Year Plans A Factor for Peace It is an indubitable fact that with- out the Five Year Plans, armed in- tervention against the Soviet Union would now be an actuality, as re- peatedly pointed out in the speeches not only at this Congress, but at the preliminary region conferences, par-/ ticularly that of the Moscow region. The opportunists who desired to slow up the tempo of Soviet industrializa- tion and development of heavy in- dustry would have left the country with weak defense, and the imperi- alist powers would not, as now, have hesitated to attack the Soviet Union to solve their own economic difficul- tes at the expense of the U.S.S.R. Naturally, other factors maintaining peace so far are not disregarded, but the rise of Soviet industry and science with corresponding increase of the Soviet military strength, correspond- ing with the affection and admira- tion of the western proletariat, is the main reason for the hesitation in attacking the Soviet Union. Improved World Position of U.S.S.R. The delegates showed extreme grat- ification at every reference to the improved world position of the U. S. S. R., which is based on such solid facts as the following: the Soviet Union in 1928 produced less than 5 per cent of the world’s industrial out- (Continued from Page 1) masses in the wise leadership of the Party and its ability to carry out the plan, is based, “Prayda” declares, on the concrete achievements of the So- viet system precisely at the time when the capitalist system is simul- taneously displaying acute contradic- tions, producing 50,000,000 unem- ployed and cutting by more than half the living standards of the masses in the capitalist countries. The Congress, it points out, is not exulting over the misery of the masses in the capitalist countries, but on the contrary the picture painted in the statistics backing the report of Stalin of the oppression and hun- ger abroad makes more significant the tone running through all the speeches, reiterating Lenin’s declara- tion that the Communist Party here never forgets its class brothers abroad. Soviet Victories a Service to World ‘i Proletariat it Particularly impressive, the paper declares, is the constant reference to this theme, coupled with expressions of satisfaction and certainly by the delegates that continuation of the dustrial construction are a great ser- yice not only to the Soviet workers but to all workers. The last Party vet peace policy, and energetic in-| tell Congress set the task to fight to ex- tend the Socialist sector of industry here. At that time, the struggle was still critical, though progressing in favor of Socialism. At the end of 1933, the Socialist sector of industry occupied 99.93 per cent of industry. “Party Congress Is Best Proof of Vitality of Our System” Furthermore, the capitalist jibe that the workers of the Soviet Union could not master industry and new tech- nique, based on imported machinery, is being rapidly answered. Stormy Advance On All Fronts For example, “Pravda” declares, the coal mines are being mechanized rapidly. Coal production passed 250,- 000 tons daily by Jan, 21, whereas only last August it averaged 220,000 tons. Similarly, iron production which was around 18,000 tons daily Jast Summer, passed 25,000 tons on Jan. 23. With this goes a steady avalanche of news of the construc- tion of new workers’ dwellings, new conveniences, and practically uni- versal education for children this year, while schools in the capitalist countries are being closed down for lack of funds. New theatres, club houses, electrification of villages, rapid multiplying of the quantity and quality of all consumed goods—obvi- ous to this correspondent in even his tive-months stay here. Soviet Successes Repudiate Trotsky’s Theories These things are practical results of the correct Party leadership, “Pravda” continues, causing such con- fidence that delegates to the Congress of workers’ surprise and scorn when they are reminded that Trot- sky said it was impossible to build Socialism in one country. There is not one doubt at the Congress that the Soviet system has demonstrated its overwhelming superiority and that without the October Revolution, plus the plan of Socialist construction, conditions here would be as bad as those in the capitalist world put, but in 1932 produced 13.1 per cent; Jast year the Soviet Union ad- vanced to the position of the first industrial country in Europe, and the second in the whole world; the ma~ chine building output increased f; 4 per cent of the world’s output it 1928, to 21.4 per cent last year, nearly double that of Germany and ex< ceeded only by the U.S.; the produc- tivity of labor increased about 9 per cent, whereas the best American rate was between 4 and 5 per cent; pig~ iron output in 1928 was 4 per cent of the Wate total, but in 1932, it Was nearly 19 per cent; correspond} figures for steel are 4 per cent ra 13:4 per cent; for coal 2.9 per cent and 7.2 per cent; for oil 6.9 cent and 14 per cent, Calculations based on 1933 averages would show that the position is maintained as increased production continued at a rapid rate in the Soviet Union, whereas the in- crease in the capitalist countries was Spotted and fluctuating. Leads World in Many Industries ‘The delegates applauded every in- dication that certain lines of Soviet industry and science now lead the World, and are breaking new paths. The latest example is that, while hitherto no ball-bearing was possible in the crank-shaft of tractors, Kaga- novich, Moscow Communist Party leader, laid the task on inventors and laboratories of the first State ball- bearing plant to develop demountable ball bearings for crank-shafts and the inventors produced one just be- fore the Congress met. This is the World's first halved ball be: This | incident is typical of the spirit of Soviet industry, but not of greater importance, naturally, than the pro- duction of synthetic rubber, the strat~ osphere flight, and the salvaging of ‘recent models of tractors, autos and locomotives, Workers, Scientists, Hail Communist Leadership x A trivial incident illustrates the situation; the delegates entering the Congress on the first day » hundred-seat auto-bus stan ‘be- fore the Kremlin. These already in operation. tions and industrial are making the Soviet Union independent ‘of importation of essential enormously strengthening its de- fensive capicity and therefore, also strengthening the chances for peace, since the Soviet Union, as the delee gates pointed out, is never the age Tue Commuist ie Commi , on the of its 17th obarta weontven peel ous declarations signed py leading... scientists, inventors and factory work= ers, declaring the Communist Party leadership provision of facilities has stimulated all their activities and successes, The delegates applauded every sug- ‘ gestion that these gains are not miracles, but just the results of the Revolution: and the Communist | eer of the working class to constructive nem i! = >