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

TT EN- YEARS AGO, on November Z, 1917 the work.
L ers and peasants of Russia, under the leadership
of the Communist Party overthrew the rule of the
capitalists and big landowners natonazed the land
the factories the mines and the banks, and established
a government of their This brought the dawn of
day for the oppressed and exploited throughout
the world. It put end to the imperialst world
1t ushered in period of the world proletarian
revolution, which will only end with the end of capital
ism itself
In spite of all the predictions of failure in spite of
all the msrepresentations and SANDERS in spite of
economic blockade and the financing of counterrevou
tons and actual invasion by all of the big mperalist
powers, the Soviet Unon has endured for ten years.
and developed that all the world see that the
workers can get along better without their BOSSES
Report of the Trade Union Delegation
c UGH success have the workers and peasants of the
~ Soviet Union made in the construction of socialism
during these ten years. that no lies, no campaigns OF
misrepresentation, Of slander, of calunny can any
longer hide the fact that the workers and peasants
now better off than they were under capitalism
Through delegations of trade unioniss, OF
poor farmers OF peasants from all parts of the globe
the toing are learning Of the tremendous work
of economic reconstruction in the Soviet Union of the
constant strengthening and growth of Socialist indus
try, of the steady Improvement in the working condl-
tions and the enrichment of the cultural and social life
of the toilers
During the past few months the first American
Grade union delegation visited the Soviet Union and
is making its report TO the American working class
The reactonary officials OF the American Federation
of Labor, feeling that the American workers would be
inspired to militant methods of struggle and to
imitation of the example of the workers of the Soviet
Union desperately tried to prevent the delegation from
going But refused to be errorzed and went to
with its eyes what is happening in the land of the
workers and peasants The delegation carried with it
preudices which prevented it from fully appreciatng
what it there But the essential superiority of the
new social order in the Soviet Union the old order
and the tremendous progress that the Russian workers
making in the building up of Socialism strongly
impressed the minds of the American trade union
lists They convinced by the evidence of their
own eyes, and they so report.
James Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania State
Federation Of Labor who headed the trade union dele
cation, had this to say about the Soviet Union
"The aOorkerS of the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics are building up that about a0hich the
aOorAing sections of mankind haze been dreaming
for GgeS-G socialist economic system aOhich er-
cludes exploitation of man By Socialist forms
of economy haze Sho20n their superiority oVer capt.
tGliSt economy. In spite of post-aOar destruction
blockade and backward technique the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics has been able to raise
the standard of hUing of the Oorkers to higher
leUel than that of the pre-aOGr period This means
that, under Favorable conditions, the U. s. S. r.
aOU astoud the a0orld By its and cultural
construction a0ork."