The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-02
FAKE REPORT
ON RABCORS
IS SHOWN UP
Tribune Liar Fakes
Bukharin' S Report
By M. A. sKRoMNY

readers that the worker correspond
ents of the Soviet Union are agents
of the Cheka, and that 1000 of them
have been assassinated by "anary
Russians"
AS usual, the correspondent from
Riga is unable to state plain fact
without adding few lies to it. AIS
While it is quite possible that two
thousand worker correspondents had
been killed, it is not true that the
worker correspondents are agents of
the Cheka, nor that they have been
killed simply by angry Russians"
The Riga lier states: According to
M. Bukharin, the Soviet government
has $4,000 of these correspondents on
the payroll" We challenge the Tribune
and it's Riga her to produce proof of
such statement by Com. Bukharin.
1t is one of those lies that are being
manufactured in Riga, Vienna, Berlin,
ETC., by the agents of the counter
revolutionary remnants, the social
democrats, social-revolutionari an
archists and monarchists, and sold to
the correspondents Of the bourgeois
press.
Not Agents of the Government.
The worker and peasant correspond
ents of the Soviet Union never had,
nor have they now anything officially
to do with the Soviet government.
With the liquidation Of illiteracy, the
Russian workers and peasants are not
only eager to read but also to write.
This is one of the main reasons for
the tremendous growth of the press
and the worker correspondents move
ment. The workers are eager to tell
the world about the injustice prac-
tised by the remnants of the czarist
government, who will live and do their
dirty work in many instances when
not watched carefully. They also bat
tie against inefficiency, neglect Of
duty, waste, etc. The workers and
peasants consider it their sacred duty
to defend their country from the graft
ers, criminals, bootleggers, etc. In the
Soviet Union one will not find states
attorneys at banquets with gangsters,
nor running around in automobiles
with gunner and bootleggers, nor can
a member of the government be found
do deal in government property, as for
instance in the famous Teapot Dome
case in this country and get away with,
it, Even the lesser lights than the
Daughertys in this country find their
way quickly in the Soviet Union to
the cell thanks to the exposures by
the worker and peasant correspond
ents. The worker and peasant cor
respondents of the Soviet Union are
not the agents of the Cheka, nor of
the government. They are the eyes
and conscience of the nation. Any
wrong done to the country whether
political or economic, they will expose
in the press, from which the proper in
stitutions, political, economic, sani-
tary, ETC., take their tips.
How They Do It.
To illustrate how this works, we
will give here the report of Gudok,
CWhistle), the daily paper of the rail-
road workers union.
For the last year Gudok received
from its worker correspondents S4,973
letters. Among them there were 1858
complaints against the conditions Of
labor; 1881 on wages; 1859 on
housing conditions; 2,549 on trade
union work, etc. After investigation
by the proper institutions, conditions
have been remedied on railroad
lines, % local sections, 50 railroad
stations and adjustments have been
made in the cases of 144 individuals
Thanks to these letters better equip
ment was installed in electric sta
tions, Is railroad depots, 141 stations,
10 local sections and 10 railroad lines.
In the struggle against the criminal
elements thanks to these letters in
the Gudok, SO people have been dis
missed from their jobs and indicted.
For neglect of duty and misdemeanors
500 have been fined or received light
punishments.
Gudok has 10000 worker correspond
ents dong the same work. They are
not on any payroll. They do not write
for the money that is in it, as the
capitalists reporters do, but for the in
terest of their class and their country,
the country Of the workers and peas
ants Sowiets. Nor are they all Com
munists. According to statement by
Comrade M. Ulianova (the editor Of
the Worker Peasant Correspondent,
in the Moscow Pravda of May s, 1926,
among the 25O,OOO worker correspond
ents, there are between 800 to $3.50
non-party people. Among the peasant
correspondents the percentage is even
higher. Ell
Very often the criminal elements
get even with these brave workers.
The bootleggers, village kulaks lex
ploiters), white guards, bandits and
similar types, attack and even kill the
worker correspondents. These murder
ers are called by the Tribune angry
Russians"
The worker correspondents of the
govlat Union are not agents of the