The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-21
The Issue Of Soviet Union Recognition Against
ImperiaEst Aggression

The wide publicity given and the sympathetic hearing
corded the telling argument for recognition contained IN the re-
port first American trade union delegation to the Soviet
Union together with the sharpening struggle for oil as one OF
points of the conflict between British and American
Imperialism coupled with the approach of presidential cam
pagn year. inevitably the attention of millions of peo
pie ranks the workers. middle class and capitalists upon
this issue.
The workers and defense Of the Soviet
Union and must be boadned and strengthened during this
period.
The coming celebration of the Anniversary the
November skaters the fiction of the instability
the government workers and peasants government
which pusues its revolutionary policy for decade and grows
stronger every year. cannot be eered out of existence
blockade and imperast inspired attempts to To-
successful against the Soviet have
only unsuitable foundation of the Soviet
mpeaist invasion the only threat to the safety
of the Soviet Union.
Production Union prewar level
and shows rapid and steady increase from to
Soviet Union purchases abroad extremely i'm
poan factor the world markets and Russian currency
established a firm basis.
The conditions of the Russian contrary the sua-
ton other European countries upward While
standard of living of the workers every other European
country the downgad the workers the Soviet Union
socialist construction by THEIR govern
ment being better fed clothed sheltered educated
every year.
The by the Soviet government of the eab
Eshment of 7hour workday crushing the cal
nes of the capitalist class and their agents relative to the
hopeless chaos of Soviet Union industry and the Oppression of
he Russian working class.
It is certain that no 10000 workers will jam Mad
Square Garden Sunday afternoon hear members of the
Trade Union Delegation and other weknown labor and
ympather give reasons why the Soviet Union should be
nzed and open the campaign for recognition which will be
brought into congress when it convenes
The opponents of recognition, including the the
American Federation of Labor the principal for their
opposition state that normal diplomatic relations with the Soviet
Union similar those had with every other government in the
world would that flood of Communist propaganda
would deuge and perhaps submerge this glorious land of the
We of would be heartily and
would be oveoyed if the nonrecognon of the Soviet Union
in
United States This however every knows not
the case.
Workers (Communist) Party the source all Com
munis propaganda in the United States Our task of revou
tionzng working class could only
by recognition of the Soviet Unonby the fact the
elimination of all legal barriers intercourse between the Soviet
Union and the of the United States would facilitate AMI
estimation of the supendous achievements of the Russian
and lead finally full appreciation of their meaning the
worlds working class.
struggle does not spring
from other than the exploitation and oppression oil
the American working class by the capitalist class and their
eminent retarded or intensified of course by the general status
of the international class struggle.
recognition of the Soviet Union first
of workers and which, because other
nations still ruled by capitalist has establish
and maintain relations with these instead of with
working class governments like itself.
Second for recognition because the abolition legal
restrictions will make the securing of credits and the pur
chase of the commodities the Soviet Union needs.
Third recognition Of the Soviet Union by the States
would tend to nomase the formal relations between the w
countries and make difficult sudden and arbitrary decision
by American Imperialism to take active part in the war
the Soviet Union which British imperialism trying
ganize
The struggle for the recognition Of the Soviet Union it's
phase will set currents in motion in the labor
ment 1t will stimulate the left by
recognition the Soviet Union
workers without raising the whole world class
struggle The American labor will be con
therefore Comparison social
omc and political status of the American and Russian
be wide circles of workers and this inevitably will
strengthen the bond between American labor the Soviet
Union
American workers and farmers will gain insight into
understanding relations the revolutionary
of the labor the struggle for the recognition of