The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
WHERE is RUSSIA GOING?

wages have increased % per cent.
Real wages have increased II per
cent. Compared with the pre-war
level, real wages of Moscow workers
amount to 1928 per cent"
IF one doesn't wish to acknowledge
L facts, one may say that the above
is only what Communists say" But
how can even the anarchists disregard
the reports Of scores of workers or
CARNATIONS from countries outside the
Soviet Union, delegations whose men,
berships total several hundreds, for
i the most part rank and file workers
, from the shops and a great majority
not Communists? Some of these were
socialist workmen who were holly Cd
posed 10 Communists in their home
country, yet coming from Soviet Rus
STA unanimously acclaiming that the
Russian workers are the freest on
earth, have full control of the ma
tional economy, are rapidly improving
their material and cultural life and
have a bright future ahead.
1
l.. w. W., even tho they be workers
and believe what they say, to spread
their nonsense about the betrayal of
the Russian workers, In view of the
general knowledge among American
workers of the real situation, has two
direct results: (a) To workers who
know better, the l. w. w. officially
vouching for such fairy tales appears
either ridiculous or anti-labor, in both
Eases no organization for sensible
workers to join. (b) To workers who
] 10 not know the truth and who be-
| ieve what the anarchists say, their
| statement appears solely as a discour-
agement flor those who have none too
much of this quality against any
struggle whatever against capitalism
and particularly against any attempt
to overthrow it. If this is not aiding
the bourgeoisie we would like to know
what is.
THERE is large body of opinion in
L the |. w. w. that resents any at
tack on the Soviet Unions; a great
number, perhaps a majority, feels that
there should be no attacks of this
nature and are increasingly convinced
that the /. w. w. should send over a
delegation of its own representative
of the more important industrial
unions to investigate and report i'm
partially on the situation of workers
in the Soviet Union. This attack will
undoubtedly increase this sentiment
We emphasized that the member
ship Of the /. w. w. is not responsible
for the present anarchist attack on
Soviet Russia. We must add, how.
ever, that they will be responsible II
they permit It to go on unchecked. II
speaks of a political bureaucracy" as
existing in Soviet Russia, supposed
to suppress the will of the workers
Did the anarchist bureaucrats in the
H. w. w. ask the consent of the mem
bership TO launch this attack on So
Wet Russia? They did not! DO they
dare to take the question to a refer
lendum vote of the I. w. w. members
on the proposal, shall the /. w. w
adopt a policy OF hostility toward the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics?'
and allow equal space to members In
the press for and against during three
months before voting?
As long as the anarchists in Of
fetal positions use such positions Il
attack the Soviet Union, shutting of
members from reply and ignoring
even the fair and reasonable proposal
to send a delegation OF rank and nj,
workers, we fail to see any difference
between POLITICAL and "industrial'
bureaucrats. In fact anarchism, even
in the I. w. W., is politics, and CAPT
talist politics. at that. hfn
ITO be contlnued)