The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-04
THE ELEPHANT AND THE DONKEY OR
THE HAMMER AND SICKLE

which we BolshevikS can not take
AS you watch him here and elsewhere among
his comrades mingling with the toiling millions
from whom he has sprung, hear the stories they
tell OF him, you know that warm heart beats
beneath the steel surface guiding the sure hand
and great mind Of the worlds outstanding leader.
When Communists Give an Accounting
What have the delegates to say?
The Conference deals first with the economic
program for 1882, the last year of the Five Year
Plan in -Four" The undisputed successes, have
brought genuine prosperity and unparalleled
economic and cultural development throughout
the Soviet Union.
Think what loud braying the elephants and
donkeys would make, If they could give evidence
Of one-tenth the results in the countries under
their control.
Here, however, there is marked absence of
flowery oratory. The speakers waste no words,
yet what they say is charged with power. Be-
cause of the will behind it, and the clear Com
mur1ist perspective. They deal, like economic ex-
pertS, with problems of cost of production, waste,
labor productivity fertility of agriculture, NUM-
cipal housing plans, extensive development of
natural resources, raising the masses standards
of living.
While capitalist politicians try to hide their
failures, these Communist leaders expose them
boldly. For they know that only through the
practice of thorough self-criticism can short
conings be corrected, and the most rapid tempo
of socialist development be assured
And where has Communist leadership brought
the Soviet Union? To the complete liquidation of
unemployment, an industrial expansion at rate
that the word has never seen before, to increas-
inc
development of science and agriculture; and
widespread cultural revolution far greater than
that which Western Europe witnessed during the
Renaissance.
When Republicans, FasciStS, Democrats and
Socialist Officials Give an Accounting
What accounting can the Fascists, Social
Democrats, Democrats and Republicans give of
their leadership?
In the countries states and cities under their
guidance, devasting misery. tens of millions
standing before closed factory gates and farmers
driven off the land. Children too hungry and
poorly clothed to go to school, but forced into
hard labor instead. Workingman, half-crazed by
starvation and worry, jumping from New York's
statue OF Liberty unemployed throwing them
selves into the Danube and Thames.
And when workers strike or demand bread,
they find Socialist Fascist, Democrat and Re
publican-it makes no difference which admin
istration-ready to greet them with billies ma
chine guns, and tear-gas. Also they find the
one Party fighting side by side with them leading
their struggle, is the Communist brother Party
to the one which led the Russian workers to
freedom, and the workers and peasants state.
The Party that will lead American, German,
italian, Japanese workers to their freedom, and
their own Five Year Plan.
Conference Adopts Second Five-Year Plan
How Soviet workers feel toward their Party has
been daily demonstrated during the Conference
kilograms come from all parts of the country,