The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-16

tools, but little accustomed to the
art of writing.
Nevertheless, they are the anthem
tic voice of the proletarian masses.
In these resolutions, passed unani-
mously and with great enthusiasm,
we find the genuine sentiments Of the
toilers. They tell us eloquently and
clearly, what the Russian workers ex-
perienced during the general strike
and the coal stoppage in Britain, and
low our people reacted to these
events. We consider that such art
less documents of proletarian solidai-
ty have just as much right to be col
lected and published as have the di-
plomatic epistles that are printed in
Blue Books" and white Books" for
the edification Of posterity and for
the organization of public opinion.
We venture to hope that contempt
rary working class readers, no less
than future historians of the work
ing class movement, will find the rec
ord both interesting and instructive.
The resolutions passed at the meet
ings summoned to consider the Brit
ish labor troubles were not couched
in traditional forms, any more than
they were consistent with the de-
mands of etiquette or the customary
claims of International politeness. The
workers sense of unity, of class soli
darby, found natural vent. The feel
ing was too active, too strong, to be
satisfied by the voting of material aid
1t had also to secure expression in
words
Newspapers Inundated.
NUT off from their, struggling class
~ brothers by immense distances, in
capable of direct participation in the
titanic struggle between labor and
capital in Britain, the workers of the
U. S. S. R. were too much engrossed
in what was going, on in England,
Scotland, and Wales to be satisfied
with the role of idle .onlookers, how
ever sympathetic. There arose an
Elemental urge towards community
owards fellowship with the British
)roletariat The Russian workers
wanted to make their, sympathies vo-
;al, to announce their. readiness to
help the comrades in remote land
and to back them up in the fight
10 give both reinforcement and COM
fort. The irresistiblys expansive SEN
timent of proletarian unity found is
sue in these naive and unadorned re-
solutions. 1t was not a chance i'm
pulse that led the meetings to send
their resolutions in the first instance,
not las is customary to trade union
headquarters, but to the public press.
That is why, for many weeks, the
newspaper offices were inundated by
the torrent that poured in by post,
telegraph, and wireless. The press
was the aptest medium. 1t was thru
the press that the Russian workers
could best and most promptly get in
to touch with their blvthers across
the sea.
When considering the numerous
resolutions, we have to distinguish be-
tweeh two sharply contrasted phases,
the one prior to the calling off of the
general strike, and the subsequent
period.
During the general strike, the main
object of the Russian workers was to
express their delight at the strength
and the solidarity of the British work
ers, their sympathy with the strikers.
and their readiness to give material
and moral aid.
The prevailing desire was to fur
nish support, and to declare that the
strike had an international and not
merely a national significance.
Martial Greetings.
The workers and employees at the
Amo works in Moscow. sending mar
tial greetings" write: "The British
comrades are not alone in their strug-
gle Their cause is ours. their
victory will be our victory"
At the glass works in Novogorod
province, the workers declare: 1--WE
shall always be with you The
British strike must be victorious"
A meeting of workers and employees
at the Rykoff works tEnakievo. in the
Don basin), sends ';cordial fraternal
greetings" and adds. 1--WE are eager
ly watching the progress of your
fight" At this meeting It was decid-
ed to make per cent levy on wages
for the duration of the lockout.
AT the Vorovsky wall paper mills
in Vitebsk, the workers acclaim the
heroic struggle" of their British COM
rades. and declare their readiness 10
help.
The railwaymen at Chusovsk juno
ton express heartfelt sympathy In
the struggle now being, carried on by
the British workers against their
sworn enemies, the capitalists" and
'adjure the workers of all lands to
support the heroic activities OF the
British workers"
The workers and employees at the
skorohod works "sefd ardent greet