The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-03
THE SOVIET UNION AND
AMERICAN WORKERS

with living and working conditions constantly
worsening in the United States, make them all
the more responsive to the growth of socialism
in the Soviet Union. Anyone in real contact
with the workers must, if he be at all awake,
be struck by the growing sympathy and under
standing of American industrial workers for
the developing Russian revolution.
U. S. Farmers Enmeshed in Crisis.
The agricultural workers and poor farmers
must be similarly affected. Enmeshed in the
chronic agricultural crisis and confronted with
ruin, they must take note of and be enormous
ly stirred by the great revolutionary changes
in Russian agriculture, The immense COLLECTIVE
cation movement, the building of 100000
acre farms, etc. They must see its vast super
iority over the bankrupt capitalist farming sys-
tenn and act accordingly.
In all this, the thing that we must realize
most is that as the toilers understand and
indorse the developing Russian revolution they
will at the same time tend to accept the whole
Communist program for this country. The
great success in the Soviet Union, they will
rightly understand as decisive proof Of the cor
rectness of the Communist line generally.
They will become much more receptive to all
our propaganda. By the light of the great
torch of the Russian revolution they will begin
to see the way out of the capitalist jungle.
Achievements Must Be Popularized
Too much stress cannot be laid on the revo-
lutionarizing effect of the Soviet Union upon
the workers. Popularization of the revolution
airy achievements of the Russian workers is
an effective way of winning the masses.
We must use it to the utmost without, of
course. slackening in our general propaganda.
The living realities of the Soviet Union give
us crushing arguments against the social fas-
cists-and such tangible object lessons are al
the workers sympathetic to our Party and
more responsive to effort at mobiizing them
with the T.U.UL. against war, against unenl-
poyment, against wage cuts, for the rights Of
Negroes and especially for the defense of the
Soviet Union,
For these undeniable facts we must draw the
conclusion that it is absolutely necessary to
acquaint American workers with the progress
of socialism in the Soviet Union. We must
saturate every one of our mass movements with
this propaganda-our unemployment work,
election campaign, T.U.U.L. $4,000 membership
drive, etc. 1t must be linked up with every
struggle of the workers
We must flood the country with concise
clear-cut reading matter on the Soviet Union
that the workers can understand And in this
period no mass speech of a revolutionist is COM
pkte without reference in this sense % the
Soviet Union.
Build Friends of Soviet Union.
Let us build the Friends of the Soviet Union
into a mass organization. Rut we must not
assign to it alone the task of ponularizing the
success of the Russian revolution That is also
great central task of the Party, the TU. H.,
the LID. and every other revolutionary argan-
ization.
Let make the greatest possible use of this
splendid revolutionary weapon for the inspira-
ton of the workers and for the decentralization
of our class enemies.