The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11

Meetings called by the nucleus are
being frequented by all the workers
of the plant. The life of the Com
munist party is of absorbing interest
to large masses of workers. When
ever the party calls, whenever a dem.
onstration of readiness to fight or ac-
tual sacrifices are required, the bulk
of the working class responds.
ProIetarian Dictatorship.
This major part of the working
class is the rock-bottom foundation of
the Soviet Republic. This mass of
workers is carrying thru the proIetar-
ian dictatorship.
The white guards with their social
list satellites would make the world
believe that the Russian worker is
boob, stupid beast Of burden,
stunned, ignorant creature on whose
back the Zinovievs and Kamenevs do
their roughriding, hammering its
head with the mallet of dictatorial
power. The white guards with their
socialist Abramovitch crew appeal to
world capitalism to free the Russian
working class from the Communist
bandits. The fact is that the white
guards would have long been victori-
GUS if the Russian working class were
the dupe they depict it. Proletarian
dictatorship would not last a day if
the rank and file workers of the Soviet
Republic would not understand the
meaning and the significance of the
| proletarian revolution, if they would
not see the road that leads to bright
| future.
The rank and file workers of the
Soviet Republic understand a lot
more than all the professional friends
of labor" all radical" bourgeois edi-
tors and even those honest philan.
thropists who deplore the "lamentable
fate" of the Russian workers. The
rank and file worker is fully alive to
the fact that he has made a revolu.
ton, that it has been a victorious
revolution, that the revolution broke
the backbone of capitalism, that he
has seized the entire economic appara-
tus so that enuf may be produced for
the welfare of all, and that only this
froad will lead him to ultimate liberia
ton.
| The rank and file worker is no an
gelic creature, no bloodless dreamer.
The rank and file worker is human
being with all human weaknesses and
passions. He would certainly like to
lead peaceful, comfortable existence.
He understands no less than his So
cialist, well-wishers that clean clothes
and large rooms are preferred to rags
and crammed quarters. But he I'M
derstands also that were he to follow
the lead of the menshevik counter
revolutionaries he would not only
have no hope of clean clothes and de-
cent quarters, but he would be merci-
lessly shackled by the bourgeois, his
lifeblood would be so thoroly squeez-
ed out Of his body that the very idea
of a secure future for him and his
kind would appear utterly preposter-
Gus.
Down with the capitalistsl
The rank and file Russian worker
does not want the capitalists. He has
driven them out of his land, and he
will never permit them to get into
power. In times of stress, under the
pressure Of severe economic crisis,
the private trader was in 1921 allowed
to do business. The nepman came
into being. But he is looked upon by
the worker as temporary evil. The
Russian worker has not admitted the
nepman either into the big industrial
establishments. nor into the Mines
nor into the oil fields, nor into the rail
road business, nor into the business
of foreign trade. The Russian worker
tolerates the private businessman in
the retail more than in the wholesale
trade because the state economic ap-