The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06


ened with Imprisonment because they
fought for the working class.
"In order to help and defend these
class war prisoners, it is necessary to
support a united-non-partisan organi-
cation which has as its aim and pur-
pose the defense of victims of CAPT
talist class injustice. International
Labor Defense, by its record of ac-
tivity, has shown that it is such an
organization The National Confer
ence of the Trade Union Educational
League therefore endorses the Inter
national Labor Defense and its work,
and calls upon it's members to aid it
in the work which it is carrying on
for the working class"
T. U. f. L. Resolution on Ten Years
OF the Workers Republic.
"The Third National Conference of
the Trade Union Educational League
greets enthusiastically the Tenth
Anniversary of the Workers Republic
of Russia, of the proletarian revolu-
vember 7, 1927, In spite of the most
terrible obstacles (war, civil war,
blockade, famine, sabotage, interna-
tional boycott, slander), the Workers
Republic has not only broken the
powers of reaction and freed the $780,
/ 100000 population of Russia from OPP
preston, it has successfully consoli-
dated the workers power, and has
T proceeded to the construction of So
cialism.
During the first five years of its
existence the Soviet Union had to
prove It's right to existence by defeat
ing in struggle a world of enemies.
It's victory in this series Of wars was
decisive. During the last five years
the struggle was primarily on the
economic front, and there the victory
has been as definite. Banking, trans
portation, and heavy industry have
been concentrated entirely in the
hands Of the Workers State; small
industry and trading is predominantly
under control of State or the CO.
operatives; production has been in
/ creased shove the pre-war level,
technique is being modernized, and
the first great units of the program
Of electri1lcation are already in opera
ton.
For the toiling masses, the gains
secured by the Workers Republic
have been immediate; AFTER removing
the former intolerable oppression Il
the cid regime, the Soviec Union has
brought incalculable social, cultural,
and economic gains TO the workers
and peasants. 1t gave land to the
peasants, improved the standard ~
living ara working conditions of the
WorN> Is; installed comprehensive SO
| cial insurance; established the equal
Ilty OF women, and protection of
mothers and children; enormously e1-
tended educational facilities, and gave
the workers the first opportunities for
them, and has drawn millions OF
workers and peasants into direct ad-
ministratlon of political and economic
| power. 1T has freed all the former
! subject natlonalitles, and united ali
upon the basis Of free autonomous
from. an aggressive imperialist power,
the gendarme OF Power which was
constant threat against the peace
of the world, into rover, the only
one in the world consciously striving
for peace and fighting against i'm
! nd FCr br ,f, n
oppressed peoples. Under the Soviet
! Power the Russian working class has
built up the most powerful trade union
movement the world has ever seen.
Facts, historically established
have given the lie to all the ISLANDERS
of the enemies Of the Russian Revolu-
ton. While the leaders of the A. F.
of l.. denounce the despotism' OF the
Workers Republic, the autocracy of
American capitalism, praised by
Green and Vol, is engaged in smash
ing the miners union, breaking down
the 8-hour day, cutting wages, and
corrupting the trade union movement
tsAt the same time that capitalism
is attempting to stabilize itself by in
.ereasing hours and reducing wages,
THE Soviet Union celebrates its Tenth
Anniversary by proclaiming the Seven
Hour Day as the basic workday
These contrasting facts are the COM
plete answer to the slanderers of the
Workers Republic
1--WE take especial note of the
danger of war against the Soviet
Union, being organized by the British
government. We call upon all work
ers to fight against this war, to
mobilize the workers in support of
the Soviet Union, and to demand of
the U. S. Government complete and
unconditional recognition of the So
Wet Union.
eve greet with pleasure the recent
trade union delegations from America
to the Soviet Union. Their reports
are rapidly dispelling the fog of
SANDER and misrepresentation created
by the capitalist press about the So