The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-11
RUSSIAN metal
TRADE unions
HOLD CONGRESS
Conference Stands for
Trade Union Unity

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r. (By Mail.)-
The seventh national congress of the
Metal Workers Union In the Union of
Socialist Soviet RepubIles opened in
the Trade Union House here with the
members Of the Norwegian, Swedish,
Finnish and Lettish metal workers.
unions present being enthusiastically
elected as honorary members of the
presidium.
comrade Tomsky, the chairman of
the Trade Union Council Of the Soviet
Union delivered speech Of greeting
in which he pointed to the unexam-
Piled development of Soviet industry
without outside assistance and to the
numerical, cultural and political
growth Of the working class in the
Soviet Union. The Soviet unions carry
on an immense cultural work and the
self-confidence of the working class
which takes an active part in the
work of socialist reconstruction has
developed strongly. The Soviet unions
are no longer isolated, the economic
blockade of the boureeoisie has suf-
fered the same fiasco as the attempt
to isolate the working class of the
Soviet Union.
Thru the fraternal delegations
which have visited the Soviet Union
the working class has come into direct
contact with the working class in al
most all the European countries The
idea of International unity has been
accepted by the majority of the inter
national working class.
Need Of World Unity.
Lepse, chairman of the Metal Work
ers' Union, greeted the metal workers
delegated to the congress from abroad.
His declaration that altho they were
affiliated to the Amsterdam Interna-
tional they were nevertheless prepar-
ed to fight together with the Russian
metal workers for international unity
met with loud applause.
Djerjinsky, chairman of the sup
rene economic council of the Soviet
Union, stressed the importance of the
army Of metal workers in Russia, 7OO,-
600 strong, as decisive for the whole
economy Of the Soviet Union, for the
level of industry, and in particular for
the level of agriculture.
The enemies of the Soviet Union
reckoned that it would not be able to
re-establish its heavy industries, but
the literally tumultuous advance of
the metal industry in the Soviet Union
in the years 1924-25 has proved the
contrary" declared Djerjinslzy. "This
advance created firm basis for the
work of socialist reconstruction. This
success is chiefly due to the firm will
of the working class which stands at
the helm in the Soviet Union. The
Industrial inheritance from the bour-
geoisie is as good as exhausted and a
program of Wholesale building, par
ticularly of factories, is now on the
agenda. The pre-war level must be
overtaken. 1t is true that without
credits from abroad the work of eco
nomic reconstruction will be slowed
down. but the working class of the
Soviet Union will nevertheless accom-
plish its aims The alliance Of work
ers and peasants remains the basis
for the work of reconstruction which
is being carried on by the non-party
workers unitedly with the Commu-
nists in all trade unions"
r. /. l. u. Greets Congress.
Comrade Losovsky greeted the con-
gress in the name Of the Red Inter
national of Labor Unions. He pointed
to the effects of the economic recov-
cry in the Soviet Republics, to the
growing influence of the Soviet Union
in world politics, to the attraction of
the Soviet Union for the international
working class, to the immense growth
OF the revolutionary movements in the
colonial and half-colonial countries,
etc.
Losovsky greeted the delegates
from abroad in particular and called
upon them to take an energetic part
in the struggle for international trade