The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-07
With the Young
Workers
DEFEND THE U. S. S. r. DE-
CLARES THE GERMAN YOUTH
DELEGATION

MOOCOW, " o. D. " H0 1hiiN
German Young Workers Delegation
which studied for six weeks the life
in the Soviet Union, has issued an en-
thusiastic report of conditions here.
"The economic situation of the
working class" the report declares,
(which was bad enough in Czarist
Russia and which became intokerable
through war and civil war, has been
improved and consolidated in every re-
spect by the Soviet government. This
is shown by the wages, the six to
eight hour day (for young workers it
is four to six hours), the two to four
weeks holiday (for young workers it
is four to six weeks, as well as by
the possibilities for cultural develop
ment which the workers have now"
Whereas in capitalist countries the
youth is forced into industry as un-
skilled labor, in the Soviet Union it
is the reverse. ''In the factory
Schools" says the delegation, "young
workers are given a training which
enables them to take their place sub
sequently in the process of production
as highly qualified labor forces and
to occupy leading economic posts. All
this we have seen with our own eyes,"
Regarding the minorities the re-
port states:
eve ascertained that the Soviet
government protects in every possible
way the national minorities and the
freedom and liberty of the Federated
Soviet Republics, for instance Georgia
that it gives every encouragement to
their national culture and full free
dom to religious societies within their
own religious sphere"
Speaking of the Red Army, the re-
port states:
st has the sympathy of the people
and particularly of the working
youth"
Moreover, in view of the fact that
the U. S. S. R. is the only and first
country which genuinely represents
the interests of the working people
and is the fatherland of all workers,
we declare that we are determined to
defend the Soviet Union with all the
strength and means at our disposal"
LIEBKNECHT ON MILITARISM.
, FrOm a series of lectures given
in 1906 before section of the
Young Socialist League on Militar-
ism and Anti-Militarism and later
published in book form.)
There is nothing specifically CAPT
talistic about militarism. Moreover,
1T is proper and essential to all sys-
TENS of class society, of which the
capitalist system is the last.
Capitalism, like any other system
of class society, develops its own spe
clal variety of militarism: for mill
tarism, by its very essence, is a means
to an end, or to several ends, which
vary in accordance with this variance.
This is brought to light not only by
the military organizations, but also
by the other attributes of militarism
which manifest themselves when mill
taflsm carries out its tasks.
"Militarism is not only means of
defense against the external enemy;
1t has a second task which comes more
to the fore as class contradictions be-
come more marked and as proletarian
class consciousness keeps growing.
thus the outer form of militarism and
ITS inner character take a mere def
mite shape; its task is to uphold the
prevailing order of society, to prop up
capitalism and all reaction against
the struggle of the working class for
freedom. Mote the militia in the Col
orado strike.)
"Mllltarism manifests itself here
as mere tool in the class struggle
as tool in the hands of the ruling
class. 1t is destined to retard the
development of class consciousness bv
working together with the police and
the courts of justice. Mote the in
functions in the Pennsylvania Ohio
coal strike) the school and the church.
The task of militarism is, above
all, to secure for a minority at what
ever cost, even against the enlight-
ened will of the majority of the peo-
pie, domination in the state and free
dom to exploit"