The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03

ONE OF the many books written
~ about the Bolshevik revolution
in Russia is entitled, 1.-THE First
Time in History" 1t is an apt title,
full of meaning, wildly flashing the
fact that upward thru all the ages
that mankind has struggled, this
thing had never happened before,
that an oppressed class should sue
coed in throwing off all its chains
and completely win all power, estab-
fishing its own rule.
The Bolshevik victory and the
creation of the Soviet power have
brought in their wake a whole series
of events, "for the first time in his
tory" The launching of the Union
of Soviet Republics made possible
the building of the Communist In
ternational, that effectively organ
ICES and develops the social-revolu-
ton on worldwide scale "for the
first time in history"
Few readers OF The DAILY
WORKER hardly realize, for in
stance, what it means to receive
daily detailed reports, cabled direct
ly from Moscow, of the sessions of
the enlarged executive committee of
the Communist International. Not
only brief bulletins, but an account
in full of the discussions, in thous-
ands Of words, taking up columns
of space, reviewing the development
and outlining the strategy Of the
workers world struggle for power.
This has never happened before
in all the history of the international
labor movement. Only today, after
thousands of years effort on the
part Of the worlds oppressed to or
ganize their forces, do we find the
gathering of the revolutionists in
the Great Palace Of the Kremlin, in
Moscow, U. S. S. R., within few
hours of the editorial Office Of The
DAILY WORKER, in Chicago.
Hardly have the sessions Of the
Communist International in the
capital city of the Union of Soviet
Republics closed before the news.
of the proceedings finds its way into
type 5000 miles away, in this great
industrial center of world capital
ism. Quickly the information is
spread to the nations working class.
First came the detailed account
of the opening of the seventh en-
larged plenum of the executive COM
mittee of the Communist Interna-
tional, with the Introductory address
of Nikolai Bukharin, greeting the
struggles Of the Chinese people, the
British coal miners and the lndo-
nesian workers and peasants. Most
workers had never heard Of Indo-
nesia. Even editors of foreign
language Communist dailies asked
about it, little realizing that 1t en-
braced the imperialist hopes Of the
Dutch oppressors of the 100000 in
habitants of the island Of Java in
the East Indies, where Commun-
list Party and militant trade unions
struggle to develop the unity Of Ia
Dor in the orient. Here is a huge
mass of humanity in Java nearly
equal to that in France, and exceed
ing that of many other countries Of
Europe. The Communist Interna-
tional draws it into the stream Of
the world revolutionary struggle,
just as the representative OF the
Kuomintang party of China, Shau
Ii TIE, pledges cooperation with
the Communist Party of China and
declares the Chinese national revo-
luton part of the world revolution.
Then Bukharin opens the discus
sion of the international situation
as it confronts world labor, review
ing the important tasks facing the
Communist Parties in many coun-
tries. Delegates from different lands
upon every continent take up the
debate, giving from the wealth OF
experiences OF the various parties
they represent. Such a discussion
continues inevitably for several
days. 1t takes up the struggle be-
tween the imperialisms of the Unit
cd States and Great Britain, and
living symbol of the disintegration
of the British Empire is the fact