The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
Moscow and Chicago
City of Communist Dawn,
City of Capitalist Decay
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL


population Of Red Moscow capital city OF Soviet Russia
and at present the city of the Communist International
will reach the two million mark:
On July is, 1924, the population of Moscow numbered
1772ooo inhabitants Its rapid growth will place
par. far population Is concerned, with Berlin
Thus another fable of the propa-
gandsts is shattered They have been trying to tell the
world these past years. that BosheV had destroyed Rus
sas great cities is true that in the early years Of the
revolution workers returned to the land due to the
temporary collapse of industry But they quickly
with the revival Of industry following the liquidation Of civil
war, counter-revoluton and Intervention.
These facts pointed out by the antSoviet-
lists They always pictured the populations OF the cities
especially OF Moscow decimated by plaques and famine
Utter nonsense.
The influx of new inhabitants into Moscow from the
provinces has practically ceased The increase in
population almost exclusively due to the birth rate
O LET ETH The World KNOW THAT AT THE PRESENT
TIVE TIE 6 0M1n1 Rate M1sE9W . k1WER d
TIE 2tL OF ne Ea1 BATE As 9EEM A
SAND. BUT N TIE PAST TWO YEARS IT Has BEEN
49, N IAE PRoyNcg or MOSCOW WITH ITS a2so-
600 . PoPuLAToM The PEAIH Rate Has ALSO De
OF EVERY 10000 THERE DIED 3o1 PERSONS I'M 1923
THIS HAD FALLEN TO 1z2 ALMOST oNE-HALE UNDER
S ISM. NO-1 " vital = 0NO BEEN ONOsR YAK
But this is only the beginning Soviet Russia has only
begun fight disease Soviet Rule has only been abe very
recently to begin graphing with the problems of its great
municipalities But progress will be rapid henceforth
Contrast Moscow with Chicago. -.
Moscow is doing everything it to solve the housing
problem for its workers. Chicago perpetuates its Sums
Chicago looks first to the gded palaces of its "0od Coast"
Its least the housing of the poor Moscow has taken
the palaces of the rich and Is using them for the bene-
fit of the many; usually for the children Chicago great
mansions built for the parasite few and then permits them
to be boarded most of the year while the away
in Florida California the fashionable watering places
Of Europe In the meantime Chicagos workers continue
hudde in their shacks and tenements. ss'
Moscow is solving its transportation problem. Il plans
its transit system to benefit its population Chcagos
and elevated railways and its bus lines operate for the
fit of the bank of the transportation proeers
Moscow is being rebuilt The czarism will dis
appear. city beautiful will arise. 1t will develop an
ideal municipality under Communism.
Chicago will continue to grow with the object in
view of making money for its capitalist overords It will
always be the botch that is the shores of Lake Mc-
gan until profit rule is wiped out by Workers Rule.
These of the things for the workers of Chicago
to think about they study the issues In present
municipal political struggle.
Only support of the Workers (comrnunst) Party and
its candidates in this campaign will aid in Fastening the day
when workers will dominate and rebuild their interests the
city of Chicago, labor Is doing in Red Moscow