The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-09
Fighting American Miners, Steel Work
ers and Seamen go to Greet the l4th
Anniversary in the Soviet Union
BY BURCK

THE delegation of American workers from the
basic industries has been elected to go to the
14th Anniversary celebration of the Russian
Revolution--15 delegates elected from the coal
regions, the steel mills and the harbors of the
USA All of these workers are active in the
struggles now raging against the new wage cuts
and the Hoover program of starvation.
These workers have been invited by the Rus
sian trade unions to visit the Soviet Union to
participate in the 14th celebration of the sue
cessfuI overthrow of czarism and exploitation
to examine at close range the tremendous ad-
vance of the Five-Year Plan, the Giant factories
the Giant farms which mean increase in the
standard of living for the workers and peasants
These delegates will report to the masses in the
Soviet Union of the hunger and death that is
widespread in the mighty land of imperialism
and prosperity"
This occasion is a very important one. Many
delegations of workers have gone across before.
But at the present time when the war prepare
tons are being feverishly prepared to attack the
Soviet Union, workers coming from the basic in
dustries, from the very heart of American CAPT
talism, come to the Soviet Union to build strong
er the ties of solidarity.
The lies and ISLANDERS of the capitalist writer's
against the Soviet Union still continue. Only
few weeks ago Wales the star reporter of the
Chicago Tribune, told of "the failure Of the
Magnitogorsk and the loss of 125 million dol
lars" WALES Is LIAR. Magnitogorsk opened
two blast furnaces on october in spite of diff
culties and because of the tremendous enthus-
iasm and ability of the Soviet workers to build
their Socialist state.
The Five Year Plan has smashed the lies OF
capitalist reports-is considered on all sides
success and will be completed in the period OF
four years. The workers and peasants Of the
Soviet Union are preparing their second five
year plan to make even mightier strides of pro-
gress in the industialization and the socializa-
ton of the farms Already the defenders OF the
capitalist states are beginning their attacks on
the second five-year plan. Last week the Herald
Tribune, speaking the sentiments of the Hoover
administration wrote as follows: 1.-THE second
Five-Year Plan will have to be seriously modi-
fled, If not ultimately abandoned"
In the eyes of the capitalist press the Five
Year Plan the second Fiye-Year Plan all the
plans of the Soviet workers are failures. They
deliberately make these reports in mad efforts to
hide the facts from the workers But the workers
are seeing the sharp contrast between the dol
lar" land of unemployment and hunger, and the
Soviet land of Socialist upbuilding and workers
freedom. :
At this time the delegates from the basic in
dustres will be able to visit the basic industries
of the Soviet Union and then go back to report
to the American workers. Their trip and all Of
the meetings held will mean the mobilization OF
greater masses Of workers and farmers in the
United States for mighty army of Friends OF
the Soviet Union
The Friends of the Soviet Union delegates win
carry the greetings Of the militant fighters OF
America to the 14th celebration and the pledge
of thousands and tens of thousands of friends
of the Soviet Union to carry on the struggle for
the advance of the Workers Fatherland
Workers. Organize the Friends Of the Soviet
Union Build stronger ties of International Soil
darity.
Defend the Soviet Union