The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-10
RULERS Wear
OvERAELS IN
SOVIET meet
Metal Workers Union
Meets in Palace
BY Clement Lamar.
Especial Moscow Correspondence to
The DAILY WORKER.

The DAILY WORKER.
MOSCOW, Nov. 1S,-t6y MaiI)-
Last night, in the Hall Of Columns Of
the House of the Unions, formerly
the House of the MOBILES, there OPEN
ed the seventh congress Of the All
Russian Union Of Metal Workers, with
47s delegates representing $4,000
members present and about a hum
dred more expected today. The huge
balcony was filled with guests, and
on the stage around a table decked
with red were seated the Swedish,
Norwegian and Finnish delegations
from the metal workers. unions.
Rulers in OveraIls.
Thousands of fancy bulbs encased
in sockets which were built into cost
ly crystal chandeliers cast their light
upon the hudreds Of delegates and
guests, almost all Of whom came dres-
sed in their working clothes. Many
of the delegates were bearded men
and there were not a few women. Two
women were among the 80 elected to
the presidium of the congress.
After a military band had played
the International, A Lepse greeted
the congress in the name of the ex-
ecutive committee of the All-Russian
Union Of Metal Workers, briefly
reviewed the period of almost two
and half years which interviewed
since the last congress, calling at
tention particularly to the great pro
gress made in the matter of produc-
ton which already in the fiscal year
1924 had passed the production
planned for the year 1926-27.
Production Increased 20 per Cent.
The year 1924-25 showed an in
crease in production Of 7096 over the
previous year and all signs pointed
to healthy increase during the com
ing year. sf s
When he remarked that since the
last congress the iRdrsIan workers
and peasants had lost their great
leader, Lenin, the huge audience stood
up as one and the band played the
funeral march. Such a rendering of
the funeral march no American who
has not been in Russia ever heard.
Review Errors and Accomplishment
After paying honor also to the me-
mory of Frunze and the metal work
ars who died sincef tie last congress
he delegates heardFthe greetings of
Tomski, the PRESIDENT of the All-Rus.
sian Federation of fo'Trade Unions,
Djerzinsky, the president of the Sup.
rene Council of National Economy,
and Losovsky, the general secretary
Of the Red International of Labor
Unions.
All of the speakers dealt not only
with the great accomplishments of
the last two years hut also with the
errors discovered I'M their course and
with the new problems confronting
the workers Of the U. S. S. r.
DJerzinsky ended his speech with
the remark that in the struggle for
Communism the metal worker stands
in the front linesL"Long live the
metal workers" Both of the other
speakers dealt at length with the in.
ternational situation.
Shows Who Rules Russia.
The remarks of Losovsky that the
workers of the capitalist countries
despite the capitalistic press assisted
by the social-democratic press looked
with sympathy and love upon the eff
forts and achievements of their Rus
sian brothers brought forth tremend-
GUS applause which rose to thunder
when the Swedish, Norwegian and
Finnish delegations were presented
to the congress.
The great number of workers in
their working clothes seated or walk
ing about in the great and beautiful
lobbies and in the smoking room of
the former House Of the Mobiles was
rather a strange sight to an Amer
lean; but it furnished vivid and incon-
troyertible proof that the ruler of
Russia is indeed the worker Of Rus
STA.