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Eight Years of Growth Brings Prosperity to Soviet Union

economic developments in Soviet Rus
STA is to be found in the article of N.
Bucharin, in International Press Cor
respondence, Aug. 81. 1925, Vol. 15,
No. SD
The Workers. Rule.
FIGURES are dull, dry things. They
4 give no adequate idea, of course,
of the tremendous changes wrought
by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
For the greatest achievement, and the
greatest change, was not the immedi-
ate material and organizational bene-
fits that came from the revolution
it was rather the reversal of the old
order of society, the transformation
Of the subject class into the ruling
class. Even the conservative British
Trade Union delegation to Russia I'M
derstood this, as was shown in their
report when they said:
"a report on labor conditions in
the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies must begin by pointing out that
In Russia the workers are the rul-
ing class. For unless the reader
bears this in mind thruout he will
be misled by much in the Russian
labor conditions that at first sight
seems very much the same as with
US. Really everything is quite dlf-
ferent; because in Russia we have
a regulation of the workers. rights
that they have put upon themselves
for their own weII-being. Else
where we have a restriction Of the
workers rights put upon them by
the wealthy. No ono who
grasps this will ever be mlsIed by
the lies he can read almost daily
that the worker in Russia lives a
live as limited as, and with even
less liberty than, with US. The Rus
sian workers are the ruling class
Of Russia. They enjoy the rights Of
a ruling class. They are beginning
to exercise its responsibilities. They
still have much to learn, but they
have made a start. In a village
school visited by one Of the dele
gates the children were learning to
write in copy books in which over
"God save the car" had been past
ed, "Once we were slaves, now we
are free"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07
NOVEMBER SEVENTH

world revolution.
In America for the past years No
vemDer seventh has meant all this
and something more :, something that
symbolizes the growth of the Ameri-
can party of the workers, that which
Us dear to the Workers Party above
any OF its other possessions.
November Z, 1923. Tens of
thousands Of workers in every part of
the country coming together to greet
Soviet Russia with a powerful new
weapon of the class struggle. The
inal effort being made to bring into
existence The DAILY WORKER.
From thousands of throats a greeting
to the world proletariat, to It's leader,
the Communist International, to its
front line troops, the Russian work
ing class. From thousands OF pockets
the funds which were to make pos
sible the first English Communist
daily paper in the world.
November z, 1924. Again
the thousands assembled. Again our
greetings, again our efforts for The
DAILY WORKER, to insure II for
1925, to make our paper stronger and
better for the fight in the year to
come.
THE year has come and now draws
l. to close. For The DAILY WORK
Err II has been a year Of great
achievement, but also a year Of des-
perate and bitter struggle. The
DAILY WORKER has passed thru try
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es with $4,000 students
at should also be pointed out that
the unions are taking an active part in
the selection Of students for the uni
versities, and that workers I'd men,
bers Of trade unions are given high
err education" (Trade Unions of u.
S. S. r., in 1924, Moscow, 1920
The unions themselves directly pub
lish "a newspapers and So magazines,
with circulation of about 7S5.OOO.
The biggest circulation is that of the
Gudok (The Whistle), organ of the
Railwaymen's Union, which has a
daily circulation of a. quarter-million
copies.
Conditions Of Living.
THE Russian workers are as yet
4 far from having achieved a com
Portable standard of living. Inherit
ing backward country, in which in
dustry was only beginning to develop;
with even the backward industry COM
pletely ruined by the war, the block
ade, and the civil war; being largely
cut off from access to the resources
of the rest of the world with all of
these tremendous handicaps, it will
take the Russian working class some
years to realize the full possibilities
of Communist development of eco
nomic life.
1t is absurd, however, to- compare
the material conditions of the Russian
workers with some ideal" The mea-
sure of the revolutionary achieve
ments must be measured by COMPARE
son with what the workers had before.
And from this standpoint, the prog
ress of the working class is great in
deed.
Production of the Russian indus
tries is rapidly approaching the pre-
war level And this production, in
stead of as formerly being largely for
the benefit of the exploiting class,
is now all for the benefit of the work
ers. Today, in spite of the shortage
of many necessary commodities, the
Russian workers are not only living
on a higher scale than ever before in
history-they are also, as a whole,
living on higher level than the work
ing class of Central Europe.
Can excellent summary of current
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Where else in the entire world has
the working class youth found such a
free and rich social life that would
result in such truly magnificent or
ganizational growth? Surely not in
the United States, where even the
bourgeois-endowed boy scouts, backed
by the untold wealth of the richest
country in the world gathers in lit
tie more than the children of the
middle class.
But if the growth of the youth or
ganization is remarkable, what then
shall we say of the Organizations of
the children (of II to Is years.,
called the Pioneers? This wonder
full body, of which there is nothing to
compare in other countries, increased
it's membership more than one mil
lion in less than year and half.
1t is training the children of Russia
to take their positions as responsible
members of the ruling class of Rus
sia-the working classic become the
administrators of the future socialist
state, and the builders of the Com
munist society.
The growth of the Pioneers is
shown in the following figures (from
The Communist Children's Movement
in Figures, Moscow, 1880:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07
BY C. voITINskY Moscow


TN the eighth year of its existence
i the Importance of the Bolshevik
revolution for the oppressed peoples
of the East stands out with greater
elearness than ever. China with its
population of many millions, rent as
sunder by world imperialism more
than ten years ago, is now in the
eight year of the revolution expert
encing a great revival among her
population, who are uniting in order
to resist the intervention of the i'm
'perialists of America, England,
France, Japan and other countries.
With an unprecedented absence of
.concealment, the great capitalist pow.
ers have undertaken a grand attack
upon the toiling masses of China.
At this moment the only ally of the
Chinese masses and the Chinese peo.
pie as whole, the only defender of
their interests, is the Union Of Soviet
Republics. This fact is now known
to the population of Southern, North.
ern and Central China as well as to
the peoples of outer China-Thibet
Chinese Turkestan and outer Mon
golia.
The treaty concluded by the u. S
S. R. and the Chinese republic has
shown to the Chinese people that the
new state is inspired by the spirit OF
real national equality in its relations
to a people oppressed by Imperialism
The enslaving treaties which were
violently enforced upon China by. the
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ing times and into a period of crisis.
Danger threatens ominously. We may
lose our paper; it cannot last long
without immediate and substantial
support.
Save The DAILY WoRKERl
Like stream of fire the slogan
spreads thru the militant working
class. What we worked for and sac
rifced for in 1923 that We might es-
tablish our daily, what we have sup
ported with all our strength in 1924,
we will not give up in 1925.
November Z, 1925. meet
ings arranged everywhere. We will
celebrate the eighth anniversary of
the Russian revolution. We will, we
must utilize this day of greatest work
ing class celebration to bring the
campaign to save The DAILY WORK
Err to its height.
WHEREVER there Is organization
w OF militant wage workers there
will be meetings this next weekend.
II there are workers who willingly
stay away from these celebrations
they do not belong in the ranks of
the proletarian vanguard.
November Seventh, Nineteen-Twen-
ty-Fivel
Save The DAILY WoRKERl
Hail the Russian Revolutlonl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07
Hy Earl 3. RRoWpER.

A LII the world is interested in what
= is going on in Soviet Russia. And
especially all the worlds workers.
Every bit of news that comes, regis
tering the victories and the setbacks
of the first workers government, is
eagerly read by millions. Because
every one knows that a tremendous
and epoch-making step was taken
when the Russian workers and peas
ants under the leadership of the Boil
sheviki, took power in October, 1917,
and every development since that
time is either a step forward for the
whole working class Of the world
or a defeat for the whole working
class. For good or i'll, Russia has for
eight years stood as the vanguard Of
the proletarian revolution. The evil
dence that accumulates every day,
that the defeats and hardships have
been passing and temporary, while
the victories and material benefits
have been constantly growing great
er and more permanent, heartened the
toiling millions of every land for new
struggles against their exploiters.
The Organs Of Workers Rule.
TINE working class cannot rule un-
L less it is organized. Under czarism
the Russian workers were denied the
simplest rights of organization, and
could act only in secret, conspira-
torial, underground organizations.
How have they Jared in this respect
since they broke the power of the
bourgeoisie?
First, let us examine the growth of
the political party of the workers
the Bolshevik faction of the Russian
Social-Democratic Party which be-
9lme the Russian Communist Party.
In 1908, the Bolsheviks had 825 mem
bers; after the 1905 revolution it
rose to 46,146 members; then until
the 1917 revolution it lived an un-
derground existence during which it
could not even register its member
ship. Beginning with 1917, the party
increased its membership by leaps
and bounds, in spite of the severe OBJ
legations of membership, the rigid dis
cipline, and the most careful scrutiny
and examination of candidates. To
day the Russian Communist Party
numbers $4,000, every one of whom
is a picked man or woman, pledged
under the highest degree of discipline
to the cause Of the proletarian revo-
luton and the service Of the working
class.
The exact figures Of the growth Of
the Russian Communist Party are as
follows:
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TN the question of the organization
L of labor unions, the Russian work
ing class has been able, thanks to the
revolution, to rise from their COM
plete suppression under the car, in
the course of the eight years of work
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Journalists Institute:
Worker Village
Cor'spdts. cor'spdts Total
March, 1924 1880 24,SOO $3.50
August, 1924 ..-.4S,2OO $500 1OO,7OO
Dec, 1924 ...~63,2S0 1880 14S,O6O
Accompanying this development of
the regular press, with its hundreds
of thousands of worker-editors, there
has developed (due to the lack of
printing presses and paper to fill the
tremendous demand for ever more
publications) the so-called wall Pa
pers," newspapers which are written
out by hand and pasted on bulletin
boards, in the shops, mines, and viii
lagos. These "wall papers" are num-
bered at present in tens Of thou
Sands.
The part taken in this work, di-
rectly, by the trade unions, is grow
ing ever more important A short
section of the report of the All-Rus-
sian Central Council of Trade Unions
for 1924 (pages $3.50, is so much
to the point, and so brief, that it must
be reproduced here:
1.-THE educational work Of the
unions is based mainly upon the fac
tory club. OF the 1872 workers clubs
Tin 62 provinces), 1,049 are located in
factories, the others being local and
central clubs.
1.-THE unions pay special attention to
the workers libraries, which consti-
tute an important part of their educa-
tional activities. The results of an
examination of the educational activ-
tiles of the unions carried out in 81
provinces showed that in 1928 they
had 1908 union libraries, with $4,000
permanent subscribers, of whim so
per cent were manual workers, 30
per cent clerical workers, and Is per
cent members of their families. The
libraries had about 100000 volumes"
(This was more than two years ago,
and has been multiplied several times
since then.)
There are at present first part of
1924 in Soviet Russia a total of SS5
factory apprentice schools with $4,000
students, 301 technical courses with
10000 students, and 80 evening cours-
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A FTER the inauguration of the New
"A Economic Policy, the course of
development is described by N. Blu
charm Tin The International Bourgeo-
Isle and Kautsky its Apostle,) as fol-
lows:
"A long time ago we left the me-
-hod of automatically organizing the
working class in the trade unions; as
we did during the period of war Com
munism, and went over to the method
Of individual voluntary membership.
Nevertheless this did not result in a
decrease in the numbers of the union
membership, but on the contrary, it
resulted in an increase. On the LIST of
January, 1923, the percentage of the
entire working class organized in the
trade unions was 95.9 per cent.
AT the time of the Fifth Trade
Union Congress, the unions had to-
sal membership of four and half
millions. And the Fifth Trade Union
Congress was able to show an in
crease in the total membership of 30
per cent, the total membership then
being over six millions"
Surely there has never been before
4 working class which was so thoroly
md completely organized, that WELD
ed such enormous power in society,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07

Put a copy of the DAILY
WORKER in your pocket when
you 60 to your union meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07

ers' rule, to the position of the most
completely and scientifically organic
ed working class in the entire world.
In the first years of the revolution,
every worker automatically became a
member of the union. This fact was
seized upon by the enemies of Rus
STA and of the working class, in order
to claim that the union membership
did not mean anything. But since
1921, membership is purely voluntary,
and requires the continuous and con-
scious action of each member to main
tain, membership fees being paid in
dividually. And still the union mem
bership continues to grow.
The first period of this growth is
shown by Foster lin The Russian
Revolution. Chicago, 1921:
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development is registered in the fol-
lowing (from The Young Communist
League Of Russia in Figures, Moscow,
1925, page %:
Young Communist League Member
ship
1922 Oct. 18th Congress) 100000
1928 January 303,944
1924 January 5OO,700
1925 January 1,140,706
1925 April 1,432,60
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02
BUILDING CONTRACTS
IN STATE SHOW GAIN

July building contracts in Mime
sofa, amounting to s6.661 400, showed
an increase of Ia per cent over July
of last year, according to construction
figures.
June was the peak month in this
years building records so far with
40 per cent more contracts awarded
than in July.
New construction started in Min
nesota during the past seven months
has amounted to $49,096, 300, an in
crease Of 10 per cent over the same
period in 1924.
OF the July record, So per cent was
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02

Limburger cheese laid away in cub
boards and refrigerators will drive
away ants, says a well posted news
paper man. No doubt of it; it will
drive hogs out of tan yard; it will
drive spike thru brick wall; it will
drive mule thru barbed wire fence;
it will drive a herd of cattle over a
precipice; it will drive tramp away
from a meal of victuals; it will drive
a negro away from chicken roost or
a man into insanity who stays five
minutes within ten feet of it's savory
presence; yes sir, it will drive away
ants and also uncles, and if ! had any
cousins that it would not drive away,
I would be tempted to disown them.
and yet some men would sit and eat
the stuff and profess to like Tx.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02
Good Roads Re-
duCe 1rdnspOrtd-
ton to Owner
SMOOTH HIGHWAYS SAVINGS OF
THIRD ON TIRES AND GASO-
LINE SHOWN ON TESTS BY
WASHINGTON COLLEGE.

Redwood county automobile owners
are learning by experience says a
highway bulletin this week, that tire
wear and gasoline consumption on
their cars is much smaller on smooth
The question Immediately follows,
the bulletin adds, whether it is cheap
er for the motorists to build better
roads and save on tires and gasoline
and wear and ar on the car, to say
nothing of the riding comfort. The
answer was sought by the State Col
lege of Washington in careful tests
with results just reported.
The tests showed that for an av-
rag 4-cylinder car weighing $500
pounds loaded and driven at a speed
of 33 miles an hour in a temperature
of 81 degrees; the cost in gasoline and
tires for each 1000 miles is $3.50
on a macadam road and $3.50 on a
concr tie pavement. The difference
of nearly 2A cents mile, the report
says, represents the cost to the mo-
torist for the privilege of riding on
poorer roads"
Other tests hav established the
fact that the road cost alone is less
on concrete pavement than on gravel
surfacing where used by 500 cars
daily.
The Washington college SITS place
the difference in annual cost between
gravel and concrete highways at
$501.29. So that It will require a
traffic of at least 22,479 cars Y ar,
or daily average of only 62 cars,
to justify the building of concrete
highways where gasoline and tire
costs are considered.
Applied to Minnesota, the tests
show that the average motorist is
paying less than one-half cent a
mile in gasoline and motor vehicle
taxes towards better trunk highways
which return upwards of 2 cents
mile in savings on items of car run
ming expense to him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02
Gopher Gang Set
to Capture Omaha
At Convention
PLANS BEING MADE FOR BANDS
AND CARAVANS TO ATTEND;
ALL SET TO SWAMP ANNUAL
CONVENTION.

With the department conventions
of the Legion and Auxiliary over, the
Gopher Gang has turned its full at
tention to the National convention
at Omaha, October to 9 inclusive,
with the avowed purpose of being
represented by one of the largest and
outstanding delegations at the meet.
Minnesota Legionnaires will be
spotted on the streets of Omaha in
stantly because of the regulation
Gopher Gang cap, with insignia of
department and post on it and by the
Gopher Badge with maroon and gold
ribbon streamers that will be worn
by all representative of the depart
ment.
The Omaha pre-convention COM
mittee is urging all Minnesota bands,
drum corps, rifle teams, trap-shooters
and other organizations such as Glee
Clubs and Quartette teams to enter
national competition at Omahai
Bearcat Post Band of Minneapolis
and St. Paul, Post Eight Legion
Drum Corps are the first to request
contest application blanks. The Of
fetal department band from Coler-
aine will be there. The Winona Drum
Corps declares it's intention of at
tending. Fergus Falls, Red Wing,
Mortified, Mankato, Hibbing and
other musical outfits are arranging
to finance the trip.
The Omaha plans committee, head
ed by Lloyd Lilygren of ST. Paul, De-
partment Treasurer, is also sponsor
ing a motor caravan of Minnesota
Legionnaires to Omaha This cara
van will assemble at Fairmont, 300
miles from Omaha, and will leave in
time to be at the convention on Mon
day, October 5, for the first days
event. Fairmont has offered to
house and adequately entertain those
who will make up the caravan while
it is in the process of formation.
Commander o. M. Merry of Lee C.
Prentice Post No. Sc, Fairmont, is
making the caravan arrangements.
While the majority of Gophers will
travel to Omaha by special trains and
will live in the parked sleepers while
at Omaha, there will be many who
wish to stay in hotels and at private
houses. These should ask Minnesota
Legion Department Headquarters,
Old Capitol, St. Paul, for a regula-
ton application form, on which to ask
the Omaha Housing Committee for
the desired billets. Inasmuch as
Omaha will see the largest influx
of visitors in it's history, there should
be no delay in getting housing ap-
plications to the convention city.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02
State u Offers New
Engineering Course

Beginning with the college year
1925-26 the University of Minnesota
will offer four-year technical
course in agricultural engineering.
As approved by the board Of regents,
the course will be administered by
the College of Engineering and Ar
chitecture in cooperation with the
College of Agriculture, Forestry and
Home Economies. Students who fin
ish the course will receive the degree
of Bachelor of Science in Agricul-
tural Engineering.
To turn out engineers qualified to
work with and for the farmers is the
object of the new course, instruction
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02

in specialized lines of which will be
given at University Farm, says Will
liam Boss, chief of the agricultural
engineerin, division. While the-course
will deal with the entire field of
agricultural engineering, upper class
men will have opportunity to special
ize in farm structures, farm mechan-
les, and land reclamation.
"The new course will follow lines
quite like those of courses given at
several other colleges, including Iowa,
Kansas, and Nebraska" says Mr..
Boss. "But profiting by their exper-
fence we feel that we have arranged
one that will be the equal of any yet
offered"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02

1t will be hard winter. Empires
seem unusually thick-skinned this
season. Children developed their
personality" in the old days, but it
was called impudence.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02

Doubtless the faith healer figures
that little "apple sauce" every day
will keep the doctor away.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02

Correct this sentence: THANK you,
DEAR" said the husband; ct helps so
much when you call directions from
the back seat"
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We are rather glad the things be-
came obsolete before anybody tried
to design a sport nightshirt.
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Following our usual custom, we ex
pect to save all that we make be.
tween September and October.
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A sucker by any other name would
still expect 20 per cent dividends.
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for residential buildings. II per
cent educational, per cent public
works and utilities. per cent COM
mercial buildings, and 2 per cent So
cial and recreational projects.