The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-03
A Review

IF wishes to know just a part of what
is going on in the Soviet Union one must
visualize whole cities being built at the top
speed in all parts of that enormous land cover
ing one-sixth the land area of the world. Cities
like Pittsburgh Detroit and Chicago are spring
ing from the ground while the old industrial
centers are expanding and rebuilding so COM
pletely that they are entirely different.
Such is one part of the picture brought back
from the Soviet Union by William z. Foster,
and depicted by him in the pamphlet of 4s
pages published by the Trade Union Unity
League at 2 West 18th Street, New York City
1t is the story of "Victorious Socialist Con-
struction in the Soviet Union" and from start
to finish is worthy of the closest study and
interest For not only do buildings and cities
spring like magic from the ground, but sys-
tenn of social relations, socialist system built
by the workers is arising on the basis of the
working class rule that is called "proletarian
dictatorship" s7
More than all the marvels of physical con-
struction of factories, more even than the ire
mendous fact that the great peasant mass VINO
under proletarian dictatorship come with the
1917 revolution led by the Communist Party
with Lenin at its head have shed the clark
ness of centuries of superstition and ignorance,
are establishing socialism in agriculture and
are pouring whole provinces into collective and
government farms-more than all these and
above all these miracles is the fact that the
working class revolution has brought benefits
of material and unlimited nature to the work
ers, benefits of which workers in capitalist
countries such as the United States cannot
even dare to dream.
. Under the Five-Year Plan which is the pro-
gram for these new cities and industries, the
-. -, tie ho xra0o
of the workers, contrary to wages in United
States. are being increased Foster shows also
how different it is from the U.S.A, where
workers are Shaving long hours at inhuman
speed, in the Soviet Union the 7-hour day and
the five-day week is being established. and I'M
employment, now holding 100000 American
workers and their families in the clutch of
hunger is being wiped out where the Boil
sheviks rule
Foster describes social insurance, a thing
of which the American workers know nothing
because their bosses refuse even penny to the
starving and sick slaves who create all the
wealth of rich America.
In the Soviet Union, how different: the un-
employed. now disappearing with the enormous
growth of industry. pay no rent. Furthermore.
rent is paid according to the salary and not
according to the quarters occupied. The I'M
lnent and the 100000 trade union members
get additional relief.
If worker is sick, or his family. medical
attention from the simplest to hospital and
sanitarium treatment is free. And he receives
his pay while sick just as if he were working.
The Bolsheviks don't punish worker for be-
ing sick, but keep his job for him unless he is
permanently invalided AM the old palaces
and summer resorts at beaches and in the
mountains are filled with workers regaining
their health free of cost to them---it is their
country and their government! And their gov
eminent takes care of the workers!
How upside down" from the misery and
starvation and anxiety that pursues the work
ers in the United States!
Security Of life! Assurance for tomorrow
for the worker and his family!
What is that worth to American workers?
II you read the pamphlet by Foster-and it