The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
THE SOVIET UNION AND THE
SCHOLARSHIPS

world is full of wonderment at the tremendous
progress.
The social fascsts, to delude the workers
paint picture of the Soviet Union as scene
of hunger, j. tense exploitation and terrorism.
They outdo even the capitalists themselves with
such SANDERS.
How aggressvely the socialist parties fol-
lowing the lead of the Second International,
carry on this attack against the Soviet Union,
is we'll exemplified by the fact that the Fish
Committee, whose role is to violently stir up
sentiment against the Soviet Union and
to make the Communist Party illegal, takes
it principal propaganda material from the
columns of the DAILY Forward the lies of
the nter-revolutionary Bessedowsky, And no
less significantly, the Fish Committee, clearly
recognizes its blood relationship with the So
cial fasclsts, categorically refuses in its hear
ings, to permit any criticism whatever, to be
made against the socialist party. 70
An open attack upon the Soviet Union is
the main line of the policy of the social fas-
cists everywhere But the so-called "lefts'
among the socialists are still more insidious.
While pretending to be supporters of the So
Wet Union they play the game of the capital
lists by denying the existence of the war danger,
by msconstruing the lessons of the Russian
Revolution, and by giving practical support,
under cover of radical phraseology, to every
hostile step of the Second International against
the Soviet Union They are the most danger
Gus elements among the social fascists.
Discredted.
The rise of the Soviet Union enormously dis
credits the social fascists. Nor can the latter
with all their lies and all their war maneuver-
ings, escape the logic of its revolutionary les
sons The growth of the great socialized in
dustries, the collectivization of the land the
rapid rise in the cultural level of the working
masses, cannot long be hidden from the toilers
of other countries. And as this knowledge
spreads among the workers it renders the posi-
ton of the social fascists more and more I'M
tenabe and loosens their hold upon the work.
ing class.
Hiding the Truth.
The bosses, like their lackey social-fascists,
fully understand the great Importance of de-
ceiving the workers regarding real develop
ments in the Soviet Union. Thus the Fish Com
mittee poured out flood of lying statistics
and statements, misrepresenting the working
and living conditions of the Russian workers.
In this way they hope not only to make war
propaganda against the Soviet Union, but what
is equally important for them, to discredit our
wi '" program in this country.
Popularze the Successes.
From all this it should be clear to us the
imperative necessity to carry on the widest
possible popularlzatlon among the masses ~ot
the successes of the Five-Year Plan. This is
a powerful means for defeating the social-fas-
eists. 1t also arouses the workers and makes
them more receptive to our entire program.
But most important of all, it is fundamentally
necessary to offset the war propaganda of the
bosses and the socialists and A. F. of L. tools
and to rally the workers in defense of the So
Wet Union. Above all we must make the
August First anti-war demonstration gigantic
success
To bring to the masses the true lessons of
what is now happening in the Soviet Union is
our most elementary revolutionary task. All
our mass campaigns-the coming elections, our
strikes against wage-cuts, our work among the
unemployed, the Negroes, cts, must be satu-
rated with this. III