The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
TheWorkers Delega-
ton to the Soviet
Union
BY william z. FOSTER

ONE of the most important movements now
taking place among the workers Of this coun-
try, is the organization Of the Workers Delega-
tion under the auspices Of the Friends Of the
Soviet Union, to go to the Soviet Union in the
middle of October 1t is the purpose Of this
delegation to examine at first hand the build
ing of Socialism by the workers Of the Soviet
Union and to report back their findings to the
workers in this country.
The capitalists intensity their attacks upon the
Soviet Union. They see in the Soviet Union the
handwriting upon the wall so far as the CAPT.
taist system of the world is concerned. The work
ers i'll the Soviet Union are not only. building
Socialism over one-SXth of the area of the globe
but they are also giving practical demonstra-
ton that will sooner than we imagine, be fol-
lowed by the workers in the rest Of the world
They live in mortal fear Of the successes Of the
Five Year Plan. Hence they multiply their war
preparations against the Soviet Union and In
tensify their campaign of lies to prevent the
masses of workers from understanding what Is
actually taking place in the Soviet Union and
its tremendous importance to the workers Of the
world. The current lies in the American cap
ltalist press, the Wales articles, etc., the So
called failures of the Five Year Plan in Mag
netogorsk, ETC., are but following up phases to
ing" the anti-relgious activities etc.
very powerful means of exposing these SLAM
derous Misrepresentation and the whole capt.
talist attack against the Soviet Union is for the
American workers themselves to see what Is &C.
tually taking place in the Soviet Union. Any
worker who visits the Soviet Union must be con-
Vinced of the falsity Of the capitalist Islander.
of Matthew Wol Hamilton Fish and Co. against
the Russian workers, and be enormously am
pressed by the unparalleled successes OF the
Russian worker.
The present delegation has been invited by the
Russian Trade Union. 1t consists Of represen-
tative workers from the mining, metal, marine
and chemical industries. These workers, norni-
mated by the TUUL unions, are elected by the
workers themselves in the industries. The del
egation will be representative Of the most baso
sections of the American working Class
The Importance of this delegation is especially
great at the present TINA The workers In this
country, aroused by the encroaching starvation
from unemployment and wage cuts, are rapidly
losing faith in capitalism and preparing them
selves for militant struggles against the en-
ployers. Seeing the capitalist system in this
country, in fact all over the world, lying pros
trate in the industrial crisis, large numbers are
inclined to question the whole existence OF this
system and to look for a revolutionary way out
of the encrcling hardships Many are becoming
keenly receptive to the revolutionary lessons
taught by the successes of the workers in the
Soviet Union. The delegation OF the Friends
Of the Soviet Union will be a powerful means
for bringing about the revolutionary enlighten
ment and organization Of the workers ef this
country, ~s-'s~ .