The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-29

is the specific cause why the official
leadership of the American Fedora
ton of Labor fights so bitterly
again Soviet recognition and why it
struggles so desperately against any
attempt to bring to the American
workers the fact about the situation
in the Soviet Republic.
Under these conditions the visit of
an American labor delegation COM
posed of bona fide conservative trade
unionists, assumes paramount impor-
lance. Soviet Russia, as seen thru
the eyes of American trade unionists,
is portrayed in the Report of the
First American Labor Delegation.
"Questions and Answers to American
Trade Unionists" completes the study
very thoroughly and gives the inside
into the problems of the working class
of the United States as well as Soviet
Russia. This is true despite the fact
,, that the labor delegation did not rep
resent in a narrow form all the preju-
dices and misconceptions of most of
the trade union bureaucracy now dom
mating the labor movement.
Stain Analyses.
The gap between the developments
of RESPONSIVENESS among the
American workers and the class-con-
seriousness of the workers in the Soviet
Union, is clearly evidenced in the
questions and answers herewith given.
Equipped with a tremendous capacity
for feminist analysis, Comrade Stain
shows a remarkable understanding not
only of the tasks and problems con-
fronting the Russian proletariat, but
also of the difficulties and tasks the
American working class is facing. In
his concise and lucid manner, Com
rade Stain explains very effectively
the positive contributions of Leninism
to Marxism, the development of the
science of proletarian revolution, the
role of the Communist Party, the
proletarian dictatorship, the forms
and methods of building up socialism
and the effects of imperialism on the
working class.
Problems Loom.
The discussion between Comrade
Stain and the American trade union
1 lists also focuses attention on certain
basic tasks and problems that our
working class must meet and meet
soon. Why are the American work
ers so poorly organized? Why is so
small proportion of American work
ers in the trade unions while so large
a proportion of the Russian workers
is-over 80 per cent-in the trade
unions? What are the relations be-
tween the skilled and the unskilled
workers in the United States? What
lessons can we draw from these re-
lations? How does it come that the
reactionary labor bureaucracy is often
far more black in its conservative at
titude than even some of the leaders
of the bourgeoisie? Social insurance,
the labor party, recognition of the
Soviet Union, the Communist society,
the role of the peasantry, incentive
under Socialist production, the struc-
ture of the Soviet system and the de-
velopment of genuine working class
democracy in the Soviet Union, are
among the many questions briefly but
thoroughly analysed and explained in
this third volume Of the Workers Lii
brary series.
And why is it that the American
Federation of Labor Executive Coun-
Gil has not uttered one word of pro-
test against the recognition of the
fascist government of Italy and Pc
land by the United States but has
worked overtime to prevent the recog-
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