The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
AMERICAN WORKER IS ENTHUSIASTIC in
HIS PRAISE OF THE SOVIET UNION

The following is a letter received from America
worker who is at present living in Soviet Russia. w
print it in full
To The DAILY WORKER;-I came over as a repre-
sentative of the American Committee for Relief of Rus
sian Children, Paxton Hibbens organization, to estah
ish connections between the AmCom and the Children
Committee Of the Btsk. I've talked with Lunacharsky
Kameneva and Lebedeva, and with members of tn
Children's Com, or DetKom. Lunacharsky and all tn
others think that workshops for the girls and boy
old enough to work are the chief need in Russia and
vast amount of work is being done to collect funds
establish shops. The price of liquor has been raise
to secure money for homeless children, specia
postage stamps have been issued for this too, Their
are lotteries by which they hope to get half millio
dollars and Lunacharsky, Semashkov and others ar
giving the money they receive for writings to the fund
Lunacharsky is going to France and Austria to rails
money, suppose by lectures chiefly.
Children Want Tools.
I'm out in Pushkin Chldrens City, about IL mile
from Moscow There about $500 children but tool
for only $50 to work with. Money is terribly neede
for the homeless the campaign at present is to
$4,000 homeless children into kind of place wher
they may be cared for Theses are half of 100000 home
less in Russia.
1t is a new life The government is working lik
mad to establish industry firmer basis and is doing
wonders, limited resources. The vast majority 0
the people want the Soviet government Indeed yer.
few don't and these latter have chance earth II
change it.
Russians are naturally social and collective and co
operatives of every kind are running all businesses
except of course the large industries which the gov
eminent manages 1t is impossible to compete with tn
government in these industries, but there are SOM
private businesses, which allowed to make only
certain profit, the government taxes them more
they find them getting too much profit Cooperative
the rule and there posters and ads all owe
urging everyone to join. This helps the government
and the people products sold cheaper which
what everyone wants, and what the government i
working for 1t is actually government of the workers
Coop members food cheaper in their own res
taurants and food stores and in whatever line co-ol
started its members get goods at lower prices thai
other customers. Union men, of course, have man.
privileges, to rents, railroad and carfares theatres
ETC.. for instance now when there is a shortage
butter, which they and the coop members can hav
but others cannot buy.
Workers Government Safe.
1t is a hard struggle getting the great industrie
ahead, and providing food, clothing and shelter AM
work for everyone. But Soviet Russia is safe now.
will be next to impossible to overthrow it. The Re-
Army is strong and with morale higher probab
than any army had that people smile at in
tervention or any word of change.
The Red Army we'll clothed fed and quar-
tered and help everywhere, while studying daily to
themselves for still more skilled work. They are quie
fellows seldom go about than two together, ofte
one with girl, strong and healthy and there i
no doubt they already much cultured set o
men than in any army in the world. Ammunition gun
and airplanes are increasing, but with the presen
OF Lne men, you can understand VIVA
they are just now, when you think of what they di
IA fronts, often barefooted often without guns an
often enough without much food Soviet Russia is safe
1t is really the GREAT BEGINNING OF THE EN-
OF CAPITALISM.
Moscow is like N Y, in crowds hustling but to wha
different ends! There is activity everywhere but it
all to establish government industry, social and cul
tural life for ALL the people.
Food is cheap You can get good dinner of tw
dishes, soup and meat-many different kinds, for 2
and rs cents and meal of three dishes for 80 to a
cents Food is plain but good and vegetables are usual
very good Borscht here is entirely different from wha
we get in N Y. 1t is very much better The Russian
dark brown bread is supplied free and may ca
all one wants In Leningrad restaurants they hav
huge plates of bread so and 60 pieces each table,
Books Much In Demand
All buildings have been made livabe, but a lot o
repairing is needed as nothing done for six o
eight years after 1914 All government offices an
business places we'll heated There is electricity
over Moscow, and powerhouses, you know are bein
contracted fast in all parts of Russia so that ever
village may have electric light. Very many village
have it already. Because of the great desire to lie
in electricity everywhere especially in the villages ia
from railroad communication, there is not very goo
power everywhere, yet vast amount of reading
going on. There are as many bookstores in Moscov
and Leningrad as gasoline supply stations in ~
People seem to be in them buying nearly all the tins
1t is mostly for Communist literature with every phas
Of culture, industry, politics and life.
The Meyerhod Theatre has the best dramatic talen
and the most developed form of dramatic art and tera
ture. The Theatre of the Revolution is going ahea
but its casts yet up to the standards of tn
Meyerhold house, but it is going ahead fairly fast an
is always crowded. Plays revolutionary here al
ways and mostly in the other payhouses There ar
many Japanese and Chinese students, girls and youn
fellows here and they go to the plays lot even whe
there plots characters of their coun
tries in the plays. They jealous students, and ar
multiplying in numbers
T. F. Meade. Pushkno
Moscow Gubernia, u. S. S. r.
lCnntin1nd from first nnl,1,,rA