The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-09

DAVID SHUB, a writer for the New Leader
(organ of the Socialist Party of New York;
recently had some articles in the issues of Feb
ruary and 10 of that periodical, entitled, I'm
employment In Soviet Russia" These articles are
filled with the worst malice and viciousness
against the only Workers Republic
They deal not only with the alleged situation
of the unemployed workers of the Soviet Union,
but also with the function of the trade unions in
the Soviet Union. Stub paints a gruesome pic
ture of the situation of the workers and peasants
in the Soviet Union, seeing only hunger, misery
and slavery. He does not make any effort to
understand the life of the peasantry of the So
Wet Union; of the naturalization that has taken
place, as result of the introduction of trac-
tors and electric power; Of the freeing of mil
lions of peasants from the land for the use of
industry in the cities, and that in the passage
from the land to the city there is a temporary
unemployment. He does not believe that Social
ism is being built in the Soviet Union, and de-
clares that the Five-Year Plan is failure He
denies the need of two million men in the fac
tories of the Soviet Union He therefore comes
to conclusions that fit beautifully into the pro-
gram of the imperialists and counter-revolution-
airy Social-Democratic International and the
Socialist leaders the world over.
l. Stub declares Nowhere is the situation as
tragic as it was in Russia in the years 1872
1921, when more people succumbed to the Com
munSt experiment than to the World War ANY
novice in history knows that the years 1919
1921 were the years Of struggle against the
counter revolutionary invasion of the Soviet
Union, which was aided by the Social Democrats
all over the world and the mperialist governments
During these years, famine took place, and
the Soviet government had to struggle on two
frOntS-9D9inSt md ir11re oil infer
vention. Stub knows this or should know. and
lies about il.
@ Again, he says, cat the present time, the
position of the Russian people is much worse
than in all other countries. This is a lie as
even capitalists who have been in the Soviet
Union attest, since they recognize that the So
Wet Union has unlimited markets for capitalist
supplies, and that the Soviet Union is the only
government which meets its obligations prompt
ly. This, Shub, who pretends to be an expert on
Soviet matters, knows and lies about it to the
workers.
There are so million unemployed workers in
capitalist countries, who together with their
dependents represent mass of 200 million peo-
pie In every capitalist and colonial country
wages are being slashed, and the standard of liv-
ing is being brought down almost to the starva-
ton level, while in the Soviet Union, on the
other hand wages are continually increasing
3. "As poorly organized as was Russian CAPT
talism before the Revolution, it was better able
to assure the populace of the living necessities
than is the Soviet Government. This is another
deliberate lie Of Shub who knows of the starva-
ton and famines In the cities and on the land
under Czarist Russia, and that the peasants and
workers were shot down when they rebelled
There Is no hunger in the Soviet Union at the
present time, because on the basis Of collectivza-
ton and Of state planning of agriculture and in
dustry, food is not only produced, but is stored
up for any period of drought. Compare the stu
alton of unemployment in the u S. with IL mil
lion unemployed, and even in the period before
the crisis in the mining and textile centers-in
fact throughout the South, where families are
continually undernourished-wit that of the
Soviet Union where every worker and his family
is provided for.
a. ut is a mistake" says Shub, ITO believe that
with the completion of the Five-Year Plan, the
situation will improve. AS the Five-Year Plan
progresses, are treated to the spectacle of in
creasing hunger, and find in the country, while
the enslavement Of the popuace grows, the land
is becoming more impoverished daily The Five
Year Plan sucks the marrow from the bones of
the entire Russian people and transforms the
workers into virtual slaves"
Workers delegations have gone from all capt.
talist countries of the world to the Soviet Union
members of the sister-Parties of the Socialist
Party Of the U. S., from the Social Democratic
Parties of Germany, Sweden, CzechoSovakia
Austria, Hungary, ETC., have gone TO the Soviet
Union: have freely gone about from factory to
factory, from cohesive to collective. and have