The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-23
Soviet Congress Marches FOrward

Soviet government was doing every
thing to keep this army in such con-
dition as would tender it capable Of
repelling every attack. The morale Of
the red army is unattainable by the
armies Of the capitalist countries
The Soviet Union however, cannot
conflne itself to this final means Of
defense. The most important means
for the defense Of the achievements
Of the revolution and of the revolu-
tionary development, one could say,
the most important foreign political
weapon of the Soviet Union is its
home policy.
Since the last congress the econo-
mic reconstruction of the Soviet IN
ion has made the greatest progress.
At the last Soviet congress the CEN
trail point of economic interest was
the financial policy and the creation
Of possible basis for the develop
ment of production and the exchange
Of goods in general 1t was stated
at the time that the next step in
the work Of reconstruction, after the
financial sterilization, must be the
improvement of the metal industry.
At the present congress Comrade
Dzerschinsky was able TO report an
amazing increase in the output Of
the metal industry, which had suffer
ed most from the devastation caused
by the war. The metal production
Of the present economic year amounts
to almost double that Of the previous
year (180 per cent?. At the confer
ence of the Russian Communist Party
Comrade Stain rightly compared the
present rate of development of Rus
sian industry with that of American
industry after the American civil war
The financial report Of Comrade
Sokolnikov, which called attention to
the yearly increasing amount of the
budget and the complete cessation of
the issue Of notes, shows the increas-
ing prosperity of the population.
Comrade Kamenev reported on the
measures which the Soviet govern
ment had adopted in order to promote
agriculture, and thereby strengthen
the alliance between the workers and
the peasantry. The furthering of the
alliance between the workers and the
peasantry is likewise served by the
measures Of the Soviet governmnt re-
garding the building up of the Soviet
apparatus, revolutionary legislation,
the attraction of ever greater masses
Of the peasantry into the work Of
the Soviets, regarding which Comrade
Kalinin reported to the congress.
The uninterrupted economic growth
of the Soviet Union shows to the
workers, that the proletariat, under
the leadership of the Bolsheviki. is
really capable Of creating a flourish
ing economic life out of g completely
shattered economic system which it
took over from the old regime and
all this alone. without a Dawes plan,
without foreign help to the contrary,
in spite of all the obstacles which the
capitalist world has placed in its
path.
And the foreign proletarians who
WlbHcsS lhtS uCfSlupIuCutg WIN oCO
how each economic achievement re-
suits in raising the standard of life
of the working population, will not
be ready to support a war against
the Soviet Union. Thus the domestic
and foreign policy of the Soviet Union
are closely connected.
The speakers in the discussion on
the report of Comrade Rykov demand
ed the most energetic defensive mea-
sures against every attack and an &C
tive policy in the interest of securing
the right of self-determination of the
suppressed nationalities in the west
ern states bordering on Russia. They
pointed out that the policy of Poland
towards it's subject nationalities con-
stitutes a breach of the treaty Of
Riga.
The congress used very sharp Ian
guage regarding the reactionary cam
paign against the Soviet Union. This
sharp language will be appreciated by
the international proletariat which is
proud of the results achieved by the
first socialist state.