The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
Appeal to the Lumbermen of
Soviet Northern Region
to the Working Class
of All Countries

VERY interesting meeting, participated in by
lumbermen. foreign workers from America,
Canada and Germany, and experts, took place
a few days ago in Vologda the center OF the
timber industry in the USSR, to express their
indignation and anger against the base capitalist
slanderers and their hrelings, the social fascists
who dare to talk about the employment of forced
labor in the USSR.
The meeting at which both the Russian and
foreign workers and engineers gave vivid pic
tlIre of their present working and living condi-
tons which are incomparaby better than condi-
lions under Czarism and in the capitalist coun-
tries concluded by adopting the following appeal
of the lumbermen to the workers of all countries:
Comrades and Brothers.
The capitalists and landlords of the whole
world, and their faithful servants, the social
fascists of the Second International, are once
more up in arms against the Soviet Union They
are carrying on a slanderous campaign about
alleged forced labor in our timber districts.
The bourgeoisie is raising hue and cry about
forced labor is shedding crocodile tears about
the hard" lot of the workers and peasants of
the Soviet country.
Comrades and brothers: We lumbermen of the
Soviet North and foreign workers and experts
employed in the timber districts Of the USSR.
tell you that all this hue and cry of the CAPT.
taliSts is nothing but a base lie, an aboninable
SANDER which serves as cloak for the prepare
tons for war against our Soviet country
In former days, during the capitalist and land
lord regime, it is true that labor here could be
called compulsory. From morning till night,
millions of hired workers of the former Russia
created by their sweat and blood untold wealth
for handful of opressors. But we put an end
N threw
landlord capitalist yoke.
During the Revolution years, we did much
under the able leadership OF the Communist
Party for the reorganization of our life and
labor. We have begun to build up a socialist
society, and are this year completing the founda-
ton of socialist economic system. In an i'm
poverished and ruined country we have put UP
gigantic socialist industrial enterprises and at a
gigantic rate we are fulfilling the task to catch
up to and outdistance the advanced capitalist
countries with regard to technique and eco
nomics. BY means of energetic Soviet farm and
collective farm construction, we created and are
creating new social relations in the country
SIDE we are leading the peasantry on the only
path which can free it from 'age-long poverty
onto the path of socialism On the basis of a
socialist organization of labor, and introduction
Of new technique in agriculture, we do away with
the contradictions between town and country.
Labor, from having been hard and cornpul-
sorry burden, such it still is in the capitalist
countries, is becoming with us a matter of
proves, honor and glory, because we are work
ing now for ourselves, because through our own
labor we are creating new socialist order be-
cause the Soviet Union is the country of the
proletarians and of the oppressed and enslaved
of the whole world
The capitalist world is in blind alley. In
~f- SAN
capitals of the wealthiest countries, where hand
fuls Of millionaires live in luxury millions of
unemployed ,proletarians tramp the streets in
search of work, bread and shelter. With the help
of capitalist naturalization, the last strength is
squeezed out of millions of workers $4,000 900
unempoyed-such is the achievement of capt.
talist society!
In all countries with the exception of the
uSSR, reign poverty, starvation and wage slav-
ery-the lot of the proletarians and workers.
Ours is the only country where unemployment
has been abolished
With the cry about forced labor in the USSR.
the brutal bourgeoisie tries to stfle the lust de-
mands of the millions of the unemployed in its
respective countries, and to prepare war against
the country of socialist construction
In this whole dscredtabe affair, the loyal
helpers Of the capitalists are the social demo-
Gratis Through the fundamentally of the