The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-03
SIDE-LIGHTS ON THE
MOSCOW TRIAL

. plans and shouting Long Live the Revolution"
Long Live the Five-Year Plan" What mass
Joy! What spontaneity! 1t clutched ones heart,
brought tears to ones eyes to see this human
Niagara of youthful faith and solidarity.
Glaesser and I specialized as to why the dem
onstraton took such an exuberant form. We
agreed that a deep psychological motive was
behind this joy. Soviet masses SO confident of
own power, inspired by successes scored by the
Five-Year Plan that they no longer fear any
thing the imperialists might do They know they
will win. This trial seems to them another
reason why they will win for plot reveals what
deep laid sabotage and wrecking has been car
ried on by engineers who have been among the
chief leaders in Soviet industry. Yet despite
enormous treachery, the workers see the Five
Year Plan going forward with miraculous speed
Therefore the rejoicing. All over the Soviet
Union these spontaneous demonstrations took
place. Inspiring to be in Soviet Russia today.
All the passion that went into winning mill
tary revolution in 1917 has been turned into
construction of new life. The air tingles with
creative feeling New factory workers homes and
clubs rising on every hand. L have visited the
Dnieprstroi project. Two years ago there was
nothing here but Squalid dusty peasant village.
Today it is a huge fantastic industrial theatre
where $4,000 proletarianS are actors. Saw men
and women at work Hard work. dirty work,
dangerous work. but all could stop moment to
tell about the glorious Five-year Plan.
Everyone is now a part of the great plan:
lumberjacks engineers, walters poets Red Army
Soldiers students. No unemployment in Soviet
Russia Rather shortage of workers for the
Plan. Minor hardShips depress nobody; all real
ize necessity of the Plan. One begins to under
stand what life means; for there is Great Plan.
Had brief interview with Comrade Krupskaya
yesterday Her serene face grew youthful as
consomol's as she told about new cultural victor
les of the Revolution. She said every year new
millions OF peasants and workers grow into con-
seriousness. Before the Revolution more than
eighty per cent in Russia were iliterate But
now they are moving forward so rapidly that by
end of the Five Year Plan am certain every
trace of illiteracy will be wiped out Soviet Rus
STA will be the only country in the world where
no illiteracy exists"
She spoke of the thousands of new schools
being built, of the great epidemic of seIf-educa-
ton that has seized the Soviet masses of millions
of books being published to satisfy the eager
masses. All are manifold expressions that nation
is in creative ferrnent. She said IF only Lenin
were alive to see all this and your own John
Reed whom Vladimir Ilyitch loved so much! How
happy and proud they would bel"
Strange, hard beautiful times, with Soviet
Russia in Five Year Plan justifying itself The
Five Year Plan is now the hope of the worlds
working
Capitalist plotters who seek to destroy the Plan
would drown world anew in blood and must be
constantly exposed and defeated The first duty
OF every honest worker or intellectual in the
world today is to defend the Soviet Unions Five
Year Plan. Today, it IS the plain duty of the
world proletariat to stay the interventionists
hand and strike the sword of war from the raised
hands OF Poincare, BRAND and their blood
thirsty fellow conspirators in all capitalist coun-
tries.