The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-25

achieved in the Soviet Union, the only
freely in the interests of the victory O
to say that in the Soviet Union for eve
members of the IRA, while in the VII
sand and in the whole world except
the Red Aid are in one million lnhabit
great significance the congress of the
the whole of our international move
ment.
This congress of the representatives
of four and half million members of
the |. r. A. organization in the Soviet
Union was the object of great atten-
ton and expectation of many million
victims of capitalist suppression in
Western Europe. The work of the
congress was influenced by the news
Of the unheard of terror in Bulgaria.
This unfortunate little Balkan coun-
try, which formerly groaned under the
yoke of Turkish despotism and is now
strangled by reactionary of Bulgar-
ian origin.
Britain Aids Zankov Terror
Crucified Bulgaria is under the iron
heel of the imperialist dragon because
the Bulgarian spectators, supported
/ by the Wrangel bandits and their own
military, do not carry on their
bloody occupation quite on their own,
but with the permission, or better,
with direct support of the people of
the London stock exchange.
The congress settled its work with
the full consciousness of the import
ance of its task. 1t utilized the oc-
casion to throw glance backwards
and to prepare the tasks for the fu-
ture.
Work Among Peasants.
One of the most important problems
of the congress was the carrying on
Of the work in the villages. If we
consider that the whole revolutionary
movement on a world scale relies on
the solution of the problem of draw
ing the millions of the peasants into
the revolutionary clarifying storms, we
will understand how important and
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the l. R. A., is the penetration of it's
organization into the Russian viii
lagos. e
The |. R. A. is a political organiza-
ton which gives itself the task of
gathering the broadcast masses of the
population under the banner of class
solidarity. The fact, that the I. R. A.
is not simply a philanthropic society,
can be seen by the following figures;
So per cent of its officials are Com
munists and IL per cent are non-parti-
sans.
\ On the whole the organization COM
pfises the non-partisan masses for of
the Az million members in the Soviet
Union only 16 per cent are members
of the c. P. r. and the remaining 81
per cent non-partisans. This is quite
clear when one takes into considera
ton that the direct task of the |. R. A
is just to draw the non-partisaI
masses into the movement and lead
them to such a level of class consci
BUSINESS that guarantees the success o
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establishment of a red ambulance.
Composition of !. r. A.
Unfortunately the 1. r. A. in tn,
Soviet Union, with regard to its so
cial composition, is still far from be
ing a representative of the socia
structure of the main groups of thu
population. According to approximate
calculations of Az million members o
the /. R. A. 1,75O,OOO /. e. 80 per cen
are workers, 1,35O,O0O /. e. 30 pc
cent are employees while there ar
only 99O,000-22 per cent-peasant
and 225,OOO, i. e. 5 per cent-are REL
soldiers of whom actually most ar
peasants.
Thus there are less peasants thai
employees in the |. r. A. in a countr
where nine-tenths of the population
are peasants. 1t is quite clear tina
the l. R. A. must concentrate now OF
the winning of the peasantry, becaus
it is only quite in the beginnings o
this work This not for the reaso
that the peasants might have no SYN
: pathy for its aims and tasks, actual
| the peasants not only look at the
r. A. with confidence but are read
even to support it,
Numerous observers OF the village
have stated that the |. r. A. is one {
the most popular public organization
and that the poor peasantry contin,
D ously approaches it. The congress ha
a therefore the task to define in deta
the concrete possibilities Off the pent
/ tration of the |. r. A. into the village
!. SO that next year the results of thi
e work will show themselves by the il
! clusion of the millions of the Russia
e peasants into the organizations of tn
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