The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-07


Russian ReVoutiOn.
world under the leadership of British imperialism, is
planning a new attack against the Soviet Union
Capitalism, Is Plotting War Against USSR.
II VERY DAY, new steps are taken openly to bring
IL about intervention and actual The American
capitalist class is working hand in hand with British
and Japanese Imperialism in attacks upon the Chinese
revolution and in attempts to bring about war against
the workers and peasants republic We call upon the
American workers to defend the republic of the work
ers and peasants against mperialist attack.
Why Workers Should Defend the USSR
N the Soviet Union, they have just established the
i seven-hour day. The American capitalist papers
have not breathed word about this big piece of news
because they afraid that the American workers,
with their eight nine, ten and twelve hour day, will
want to initiate the example of their Russian brothers
In America, the land of the speed-up workers grow
old early Most industries will not employ worker
AS Old age means poverty, means dependence
In the Soviet Union, they have done away with the
economic terrors of old by their system of old
pensions.
Unemployment on a large scale is again beginning
to show its ugly head in America The government re-
ports that over million workers are marching the
streets in search of jobs and than three million
are working half time. In America, unemployment
means starvation In the Soviet Union there is sys-
In America, there is child labor inadequate educa-
ton for working class children ptless exploitation of
In the Sovet Union the child of the worker has
the first claim on the education system Child labor has
been abolished, receive equal economic oppor
unity protected from difficult work and get two
months leave of absence with pay before and after
childbirth.
In America bosses fighting bitterly to pre-
vent the organization of the unorganzed workers. and
persecution, backlists spy systems, company unions
and open shop drives They the government openly
to issue njunctons to break strikes to smash picket
lines and destroy unions. In the Soviet Union, the
workers are their own bosses and the government of
the workers and peasants does everything in its power
to aid in the organization of the trade unions.
In America, the unions are weak and divided. Their
leadership is corrupt and supports the capitalist sys
tenn, showing energy only in struggling against the
militant workers, in fighting the bosses. Eighty
live per cent more OF the American workers are
unorganzed In the Soviet Union over 80 cent of
the workers organized and the unions are powerful
well led well organized industrial unions, that play
important role in the administration of industry,
In America, the overwhelming majority of the work.
ing class still has political party of its The
reactionary officials OF the American Federation of
Labor try to keep the workers tied the bosses po-
tical parties and trade support for brbes and favors
There is powerful labor party including the entire
labor movement In the Soviet Union the workers rule
through the Communist Party.
In America, corrupt politicians and open grafters
elevated to high office the Soviet Union graft
ers are severely punished and even shot
In America the plight of the farmer goes from bad
to worse Mortgages and tenant farming grows. Poll
tics is played with farm relief The working
farmers leave the land by the hundreds of thousands
because they cannot continue in the face of the expo
aton of banker, railroad magnate and middleman In
the Soviet Union the land has been given to the users
1t has been nationazed system of electrical power
of reduction of the prices things that the farmer
needs of old age pensions for peasants of progressively
reduced taxes has been naugurated The banks the
railways are the servants and not the masters there
In America, the trusts own the government In the
Soviet Union, the government owns the trusts.
America is the land where militant workers are
framedup, where Mooney and Billings still lie in JAIL
where Sacco and Vanzetti murdered where picket
lines are broken and strike leaders arrested The Soviet
Union is the land where the workers rule and the gov
ernment is used not against the workers. but against
the bosses.
In America, the foregn-born workers are terrorzed
and the Negro suffers Discrimination persecution and