The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
THE WORST SLANDERERS OF
THE SOVIET UNION

The calumnleS and fabllcatlonS OF the or
ward with regards to the Soviet Union could
fill volumes. There is hardly an issue of
that paper without any fake detective story
about the OG.P.U. or the Soviet Government,
fake cables, or editorial attacks on the So
Wet Union. Recently the Forward began re-
printing from the monarchist press a series
of articles of another scoundrel of the Bes-
sedovsky type, Agabekov After the Jewish
religious holiday Yom Kippur. the Forward
on October ! had story most prominently
displayed on the front page that the O.G,P.U.
had shot two Jews in the city of Berditchev,
Gin a fight between the religious Jews and
Communists" The same story was repeated
the next day. with the shooting" taking place
in different city, Borissov. October 3-a
story of "mass arrests October 4-Moscow
is ready to pay the old (czarist) debts, Oct.
6-"Cheka" shoots II peasants. Oct. 9-bread
riots in Leningrad ETC., etc. Every day some
thing different If not news story on the
front page, it is an article by some provoca-
teur like Bessedovsky or Agabekov or an ed
itorial.
During the "wheat-attack" on the Soviet
Union the Forward gave Hoover's secretary,
Hyde, a helping hand. No capitalist paper
was yelling so loudly about "Soviet gambling"
as the Forward did. One day the Forward
splashed the news across the front page that
lars on the wheat market.
These are but few recent examples of the
ISLANDERS and fabrications of the disgusting
Socialist" paper. After screaming for years
about Unemployment in the Soviet Union, the
Forward recently developed quite an interest
ing counter-revolutionary line of explaining the
shortage of labor in the Soviet Union at the
present moment ION account of the fright
full terror" the Forward said editorally on
August 80, many workers have begun running
away from their jobs. The remaining engin-
GERS and other specialists live in continual
fear of arrest any day. The result is that the
work suffers immensely. In Moscow there
was a saying: 'As long there are enough
revolvers everything will be a success Now
this belief is losing ground every day. The /
failure of the Five Year Plan is being real
lied even by the fanatic adherents of the Plan.
The editors of the Communist papers and
magazines have already been ordered to grad
ually prepare the public for that"
We have chosen the above excerpt from the
mountains of similar material of the For
ward because it reveals some of the char
acteristics of that sheet. You have here a
Saying" which was fabricated in the offices
of that paper and offered as Importation
from Moscow. You have here the failure"
of the Five Year Plan which is realized
ETC., and that "the editors have been instruct
ed" to prepare the public, ETC. This sneaking
kind of caumnies is characteristic of that
socialist" paper. The Forward, to prove that
its stand is the stand of the socialists" all
over, has printed last Sunday, O.sencr rs, an
article introducing new book by Karl Kaut-
sky, theoretician of the second international.
proving" that the counter-revolutionist sab
otaging and plotting against the Soviet Union
are really "revoutionsts!" In addition to be-
ing the worst slanderers of the Soviet Union
and the AgitpI ops of capt. ti;sIn the socialists,
working hand in glove with Fish, Matthew
Woll and the czarsts, cover themselves with
fancy names
The defense of the Soviet Union is one
of the major issues confronting the working
class all over, whether during an election cam
paign, or after. war on the Soviet Union
is in the making. The Geneva correspondent
of the New York Times last Sunday openly
stated that blockade against the Soviet Union
is on the order of business at the League of
Nations headquarters. France and other coun-
tries have declared an economic war on the
Soviet Union In the United States the Hoo
yer Government is openly engaged in creating
a war atmosphere against Moscow" whether
in connection with Soviet timber, or Soviet
wheat. The party of Hoover and Mellon, as
we'll as the party of Smith and Roosevelt are
spreading anti-Soviet propaganda. The $50
cialists" are calling anti-Soviet conference
November 9. All this is part of one front of
attack against the Five-Year Plan, against the
land where the workers and farmers rule abol-
ishing capitalism with all its. evils, including
unemployment and establishing the Commu-
mist Society.
On election day the parties of Hoover and
Fish, and Cahan, Woll and Lee, must get
smashing answer. tremendous vote for the
Hammer and Sickle will be a warning to the
Soviet-baiters and all kinds that the workers
of the United States are ready to defend the
Soviet Union. A tremendous vote for the Ham
mer and sickle will force to loosen up on the
economic blockade against the land of workers
rule. A tremendous vote for the Hammer
and Sickle will be helping hand to the work
ers and peasants of the Soviet Republics. Vote
Communist