The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
The Five-Year Plan Worries the
Socialists

the workers with than the vinegar of too open
attack on the Soviet Union, started discussion
which has deep significance for the American
. workers
Two Faces-One Head
There are apparently two faces in the socialist
,arty viewpoint toward the Soviet Union, but
hey are on the same head. Fundamentally
here is no division The facts of life have made
necessary change of phraseology in order to
larry out the same old wok of tying the yoke
Of capitalism more firmly the necks Of the
workers This is not always d smooth task, espe-
cially when the capitalist world shakes beneath
the worst crisis in its history, precisely at the
moment the Communists in the Soviet Union
take the lead in building up socialism at a
rapid pace under the advancing sweep Of the
Five-Year Plan. F2
When through the feverish speeding-up of the
American workers, American capitalism gave an
appearance of radiant health, the socialists the
world over pointed to the United States as an ex-
ample of the benefits of cooperation with the
bosses. They had measure of success along this
line in England and Germany. But this pro-
paganda was so flimsy that its base collapsed
with the stock market crash. Yet the socialists
task remains: Keep the workers from revolu-
ton by all means You cannot win the workers
trust by telling him that the. Soviet Union is
collapsing when even the capitalist press in off
moments, is forced to admit the advance of the
Five-Year Plan and the rapid building up of
socialism with all its tangible benefits to the
workers.
A discussion thereupon ensues in the socialist
press and in the ranks of the lawyers, doctors,
small bushes men and students who comprise
the leading strata of the patty on how best to
neutralize the unanswerable facts of socialist up
building in the Soviet Union. 1t is bitter pill
for Hillquit, ONeal, Gerber. Norman Thomas
and the other pillars that support not only the
socialist party but lend their strength to butres-
sing capitalism as well But they are good
sports" they joke with the younger set about
it and are willing to refurnish their too easily
smashed arguments against the Soviet Union
Barely had the ink dried on the resolution
against the Soviet Union passed by the national
executive committee of the socialist party pledg-
ing aid to the overthrow Of the Soviet govern
ment and protesting the latest acts of terror
in Soviet Russia" than the Socialist Party con-
vention in New York City, held the latter part
of December, got two revised resolutions on So
Wet Russia. The resolution of the national ex-
ecutive committee, which is fully supported by
other resolutions and actions of the socialist
party, endorses the. call for war against the So
Wet Union issued by the Second International
This vicious attack against the US.S.R was writ
ten and adopted under orders of the French
General Army Staff, in connection with its plans
for armed intervention in 1880. These facts
were brought out in the Moscow trial of the
wreckers.
The New Leader mail Bag" nearly bursts with
letters on the Soviet Union.
Put On Binders
The main resolution which has the imprimatur
of O'Neal repeats the adherence to the call for
counter revolution issued by Second Information
al of Macdonald who murders Indian workers
and Otto Bauer of Germany who helps Bruen-
ing cut wages and shoot down unemployed work.
ers demanding bread As to the Five-Year Plan
this resolution says: ca
Considering that this fundamental conflict Of
PHILOSOPHERS Communist AMI SOCIALISM, Is to some
extent being tested by the so-called Five-Year
Plan in Russia and further considering that the
full practical success or failure Of the Plan will
not be known for some years TO come, this con-
ference does not believe that the Plan calls for
expression for official opinion by the Party at
this time"
In another article which viii be printed on this
page tomorrow. Comrade Cannes viii deal with
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