The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-26
By v. KNOX.


MAY DAY, the day which tile revolutionary
Iva working class has set aside as the day in
which to demonstrate working class solidarity
throughout the world, the day on which the
determination Of the working class to overthrow
the capitalist system Of exploitation and misery
ID expressed, comes this year In q period of
snsrpened struggles, in year when the beacon
Of socialism burns ever more brightly and stead
ilys inspiring the working class in capitalist
countries TO further and decisive battles.
In the Soviet Union the battle for socialism
has been won. The workers have overthrown
their exploiters and taken into their own hands
the building OF society for the benefit OF all
the toiling masses society without classes
society where all factories, mills, workshops
where all the means Of production belong to the
proletarian, socialist government.
On this May Day, only ten years since the
beginning Of economic construction, what has
this proletarian government to record?
Given the heritage Of the damned czarist rule
with its backwardness, its misery its unspeakable
reign Of ignorance and filth in the village coun-
try riddled, worn and torn by seven years Of
mpertalist war, civil war and counter revolution
by desperate attempts at intervention and under
mining by bourgeois counter revolutionary forces
from within and from without, the proletarian
government, with the Communist Party in its
vanguad, set itself the task of mighty trans
formation - the transformation Of backward
agrarian Russia, which it was under the czar.
into one OF the foremost industrial countries
into the leading country Of socialist large-scale
agriculture OF socialist construction under the
Soviets
And the workers and peasants may well be
proud OF their achievements, for the foundation
for socialism has already been laid-large scale
Socialist %ha aTvy Fau
building Of socialist society, has been attained
Dneiprostroy, Magnitogorsk, Kusnetstroy, Shari-
koshipnik (bau bearings, Anno-these are but a
few OF the many names Of epoch-making signifi-
canoe: these are but few of the outposts Of
socialist construction; these are but few OF the
banner carriers on the road to socialism. While
in the rest Of the world the decay of capitalism
Is expressed by the shutting down OF factories.
by the sitting Of new, progressive forms Of pro-
duction-in the Soviet Union socialist constrllc-
ton not only encourages ever new forms OF ap-
plication of technique, ETC., but it creates new
forms of socialist industry new forms of socialist
labor.
The great enthusiasm Of the workers to build
up their own country has resulted in the forma-
ton of shock brigades, has resulted in socialist
competition between workers, between depart
mentsp and between factories It has resulted
In the peasants in the collective farms forming
shock brigadeS, in which the Young Communist
League usually takes the lead It is the fun
consciousness and knowledge that the industries,
that agriculture is run for the tolng masses, that
It Is government Of the toilers which inspires
this enthusiasm, enabling them to overcome
almost insurmountabe difficulties This Is one
Of the important features OF socialist construc-
ton
For the broad development Of socialist indus
Try u fs necessary TO have the very widest appli-
cacao@ OF electric power-this in itself being an
indication generally Of the progress in industry
Powerful hydroelectric dams, producers Of white
heat dot the Soviet Union in the north, in the
Caucasus, in the Ural mountain ranges. in the
Near East in the Far East This May Day. in
the Ukraine, the most powerful electric dam in
the world Is to commence operation And plans
have already been made for an ever greater
giant undertaking in Siberia
In the United States we see a decided Tendency
towards decrease in electric power stations-com-
petition between other fuel companies retard
the progress Of electrifcation, and in order to
gain profits for the monopolists, fuel is trans
ported Tor hundreds of miles rather than shoot
electricity through wires. Capitalism now retards
progress
Magnitogorsk, In the heart Of the UraIs that
giant steel plant built upon the most modern
lines, and on many points exceeding ANYTHING
yet done, has already been able to surpass the
$4,000 ton output Of pig iron originally planned.
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