The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-10


more or less. In the village we have
not even accomplished this.
Recall, for instance, the Demovko
trial. Malinovsky was killed near
Nicolaev, only so versts from the big
labor center. The incident may appear
to be only of a local nature, but it
reflected very sad fact. We cannot
pass by it with an easy heart. Re-
member. comrades, we are still lack
ing a safe transmission belt, an
inexpensive, sober, honest Soviet ma
chinery in the villages.
Can the Trade Union Congress help
this? Very much so, just as during
the first trade union congresses,
along with the current work, along
with the trade union work there
stood such serious questions as the
organization of the civil war, just so
must we here, together with the ques-
tons of current trade union interests,
remember the fundamental question
which is of general political import
ance; how to help the village to set
up an honest, sober, cultural mex
pensive Soviet apparatus for which
one would not have to blush.
The Trade Unions In the Village Must
Strengthen Their Work.
We spoke about this at the Thir-
teenth Congress of our party. We
were all surprised to hear that we
have more than a million trade I'M
ionists in the village, and l even think
that this will be just as new to you
as it was to us at the Thirteenth Con-
gress. The educational workers have
211,0 900 workers in the village, the
land and forest workers 10000, the
sugar workers. 177,000; the miners.
100000, ETC., ETC., altogether, in excess
of million trade union members in
the village. Comrades, let us confess,
do these village trade unionists work
as they should? Have you thought
seriously about this, as party and
trade union members. No, we have
not. But this was in the past. Now
with the new development in the vii
Iage, this million trade union mem
bers should move from the realm of
shadows, papers and diagrams into
the realm Of realities.
Most serious attention to this cues
ien! The Thirteenth Congress adopt
ed a well thought out decision on this
matter. We must consider it as a
problem, such as It is-it is the key
to every position.
The Baldwins In themselves do not
worry Us very much. When we speak
of the phase of world reaction. we
know that the q. S. S. R. is not direct
ly threatened by this world reaction
that it freatens the workers in those
countr IS where it is beginning to
reign. The world reaction cannot af
ford us very powerfully. And this
question of which | spoke, the ques.
tion of jealousy Of the discomfort OF
the peasants with the workers, is a
| serious matter which the trade union
congress should consider precisely
because we are not sectionalists
Here is trade union congress of Boil
sheviks, of Comrade Lenin's pupils,
there are no narrow sectionalists
here. but men who know how to fight
effectively for the needs of the work
ing class, who know how to be revolu-
tionary Bolsheviks, who are worthy
members of the class enforcing the
hegemony of the working class, thus
far only one-sixth part of the globe
but let us hope that the borders will
shortly extend.
Productivity Of Labor the Pivot Of
Our Policy.
The question of the relationship be
tween labor and the peasantry leads
us to the question Of labor productiv
ity. This is most important prob
lem. with political aspect. We con
slider a raise Of the productivity Of
labor as most important question
Of international, economic and intern
al significance. The workers can say
without exaggeration that the pro
ductivity of labor in any particular