The daily worker., 1925-09-30
Welcome to the Soviet
Port Commission that
Builds for Communism!
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, the New York Times. under unassumng head
line, "Sovet Port Officials Land" publishes on an OBJ
page short telling OF the arrival in
this country of hree officials of the Soviet government OF
Russia" They have come to attend conferences port
authorities be held this the Waldorf Astoria.
This marks tremendous change since the day when
government in the United States expelled from the
country with the resoundng crash Of tremendous broad
side of hostile capitalist publicity.
All American workers and poor farmers will hail the
arrival of these builders Of the workers. republics who rep
resent of course the Soviet of Russia
but the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics which includes
all the lands which the red flag of workers rule now
waves undisputed.
1t is not expected that the kept press will say much
about their visit to this country To do so would reveal to
the American working class the tremendous work OF recon-
ing the lie to the stream OF propaganda that tries to bte
the of the liberated who have freed
themselves from capitalist rule.
These engineers-buIders-in the service of
the Soviet marine transportation The commission consists
OF Serebrakopf assistant secretary OF the ways OF
communication in charge of the water transportation; "
Touchoka chief Of the division Of ports; andV v E. La<nsy
professor at the Leningrad Institute OF Engineers Very
significant indeed is the statement Of Laknisky that
Our port developments to be on the basis Of the
export of products and for that interest
ed in the ports at New Orleans Chicago Buffalo and ceve
land"
The Union of Soviet Republics is planning to become as
it already is to certain extent great exporter of
Thru New Orleans flows the great cotton crops of the
SOUTH Thru Chicago Cleveland and Buffalo, there flow the
tremendous streams of American foodstuffs, especially
grains and dressed meat the finished products of steel
mills and great manufacturing plants The Encyclopedia
Britannica declares that The grain elevators among the
sights of Chicago but the Soviet engineers will doubt
find ways Of improving American methods of handling
export grains and other products of the Soviet mnes fields
and pastures from the great Russian pos Lenngrad open
ing into the Bac Archange into the Arctic Ocean, Odessa
into the Black Sea- and Vadivostok into the far Pacific
Ocean, In the words of the commission itself I'VE in
gigantic plan to improve these ports"
1t is the stream of raw products pouring from all these
ports that will establish credits for the Soviet Union
nations, making possible to import the finished products
needed by the workers and peasants The presence
in this country of the Soviet port commission testimony
the fact that the construction process in the Soviet Union
is proceeding rapidly and successfully. 'e
Shapurj SakIatvaa the Communist member of the Bri-
tsh parliament barred from the United States
feared he might carry propaganda subversve of
American capitalist Institutions The Soviet engineers
fuse talk about political matters But the successful
establishment of Soviet industry agriculture and trade will
the greatest propaganda possible for the spread of the
Russian Soviet victory all lands Welcome to the Soviet