The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-17
STATEMENT OF THE TRADE
UNION DELEGATION TO USSR

On Leaving the Soviet Union, the American
Workers Delegation issued letter to the So
viet 1Vorkers oppression their 2U1Tm SYM
pathy acith the Five-Year Plan and the ire
mendouS strides to1Oards socialism IN The
U.S.S.R. The declaration IN full folIO'os:
Dear Comrades:
On the eve of our departure from the U. S.
S. R., we wish to say a few words Of fare
we'll and about interesting experiences.
We have travelled many thousands of miles
inside the Soviet Union since we arrived and
shall never forget as long as we live, what
we have seen and learned. We saw the great
Soviet industries, such as Stalingrad, Trak-
torstroy, Semashstroy and huge electric pow
er station Around these institutions we saw
the modern apartment houses, already up and
in process of construction, to be used only by
the workers. 1t is true we also saw obsolete
workshops and huts that you inherited from
the hated czarist capitalist regime We Wis
tied the enormous Soviet farm "Gigant," one
of the most stupendous undertakings ever at
tempted by man. A 100000 acre farm in one
unit, which evokes the admiration of the
greatest American experts. We viewed hun
dreds of miles of collective farms and we Wis
tied many of these. The peasants in every
case came in large numbers to greet us. We
strong for coectivization and for the Five
Year Plan as their comrades in the cities.
Comrades, the task of arousing the
thusiasm and intelligent support of backward
peasantry for collective farming and to such
high ideals is an achievement that can only
be accomplished in proletarian country. In
the Ukraine we visited salt and coal mines.
The "Amerikanka" coal mine is as modern as
the best American mines but nowhere under
capitalism are the welfare and lives of the
miners so protected. Six hours day under
ground and one month vacation with pay with
doctors expenses paid-a thing unheard of in
America. Mines in America work to 10
hours day with 8 to months forced vaca-
ton without pay. The Soviet Union has solved
the problem of unemployment, while 100000
American workers are without work and starv-
ing in the richest country on earth.
We visited workers sanatoria in the eau
casus. These we learned were used by the
parasitic bourgeoisie before the revolution, but
now are enjoyed by the workers and peasants.
We rested there and bathed in the healthful
mineral water springs. In bidding the Soviet
Union farewell are reminded of the anti
quated structures of the conquered bourgeoisie
and saw the priceless relics of barbarism of
the cars which are now in your museums.
Alongside all these we see new, modern office
buildings, factories and workers homes going
up anywhere. With these material manifesto
tons of a new economic order we see the
tremendous strides made in education, art and
culture for the working class, and above all
we feel the warm heart beats of real COM
radeship all working in unison for higher
civilization, for the building of Socialism.
Comrades, we see the dawn of classics
society, the Communist society, the goal of
Marx and Lenin. Yes, comrades, we believe
the Five Year Plan is the stepping stone to
Communism.
The building up of the socialist economy in