The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-27
BY EARL BRowpER.

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a VERY interesting letter from
4 Moscow, written by Earl R. Brow
der, research director of the Workers
(Comniunist) Party of America, who
is in Russia making a study Of con-
ditions in the Workers Republic, is
printed below. The letter contains
Browder's impressions of great
workers meeting to which Kalenin,
the president of the Soviets, reported
on the state of the union.
Kalenln Reports to the Workers.
Moscow, March 81, 1926.
Dear Comrade:
Far away from the land that is ruled
by the workers you will find it diff
cult to picture to yourself just how
the dictatorship of the proletariat
really operates. When l came was
very curious myself, and l find food
of questions come here every week
from workers in other lands asking
such questions as: How do the work
ers control and influence the operation
OF such complex things as economic
policies?" What are the relations be-
tween the trade unions and the Com
munist Party?" What are the rela-
tions between the trade unions and
the government" etc. Everyone
wants. not the formal charts, but
picture of how the machinery really
works, how it responds to the workers
in the factories. Let me give you a
bit of the answer which | received
with my own eyes and ears.
T Asst Monday evening was invited
- to come at 6 o'clock to one Of the
downtown theaters. These institu-
tons are used on Mondays for work
ers' conferences and so forth, as this
is the day of rest for theatrical folk.
When l arrived with Boris Reinstein,
who acted as my translator the meet
ing was already opened. There were
about 1000 workers present. Listen
ing to the chairman, we learned that
they were elected from 200 Moscow
factories, and bad come to hear re-
port from Kalenin, president of the
Union Of Socialist Soviet Republics,
and then to discuss all this evening
and the next day the problems facing
their government, their own .griev-
ances, their ideas of what the govern
ment ought to do, what the trade
unions should do, and what the Com
munist Party should do. The compost
ton Of the gathering was SIS per cent
non-party, 80 per cent Communists. A
presidium of 20 members was elected
to conduct the conference; on this 10
were non-party, IL were Communists.
About 10 Of them were women from
the shops.
II ALENIN reported for about two
~ hours. will take 1t for granted
that you have read the substance of
his report in the press, and that you
know the problems and conditions ex-
isting in Russia today in their main
outlines. What we are concerned with
now is something else. First, here
was the president Of the biggest coun-
try on earth making his political and
economic report to delegates Of work
ers from the factories in much the
same way that Coolidge goes before
the chamber Of commerce in America.
Coolidge knows who his masters are
and reports to them; Kalenin knows
the same thing and acts likewise. The
difference is that in America II is the
chamber of commerce that unites the
masters. the capitalists. while in Rus
STA It Is the trade union that unites
the masters, the workers. This strikes
one from America with great force;
here they are so used TO IL that they
take It as a matter Of course.
MTHILE Kalenin spoke | noted little
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