The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-05
AMERICAN WORKERS LOOK
AT WORKERS RUSSIA

OF the proletarlat In the city Of Berlin.
While we have observed the difficult condi-
tons and arduous tasks of the proletariat in
the Soviet Union, nevertheless there is no starv-
alton, there is no despair on the workers faces
only the resoute determination Of the work
ers to conserve the results of the proetarian
revolution and to create, in the face of the op-
position of the entire capitalist world, Social
ist society in the Soviet Union. The Russian
workers and peasants achieving the obec-
tives OF the Five Year Plan, which will be com
pleted in four years.
One example in particular TO which we will
refer in our report and speeches throughout the
country is the example of Tractorstroy at Stain
grad the first tractor plant completed in the
Soviet Union. We have read in the columns Of
the capitalist press in America that this plant
was erected by American engineers, equipped
with American machinery, but that the unskilled
and unframed Russian workers had smashed all
the splendid American machinery, with the re-
suit that it would be impossible to produce trac-
tors in the plant. The renegade Trotsky writ
ing in the bourgeois Saturday Evening Post, has
posed the question: ''Well, they have q tractor
factory at Stalingrad, but what are they going
to do with it now they have it?" When he viewed
the tractor factory, we found around the fac
tory on all sides, hundreds of tractors ready for
ing at the foundry and finishing at the con-
veyor belt where we STOPPED until we saw trac-
tors coming off the belt-one every 10 minutes,
running off the belt under their own power The
plant now produces, for the past 80 days, 10
tractors per day. The workers IN Tractorstroy
nave guaranteed TO reach the maximum pro-
duction OF the first unit Of the plant, Of LA
tractors per day by the first OF January, 1882.
Already in anticipation OF reaching the maxi
mum in the first unit, the second unit OF the
plant is in process Of erection. This second unit
when completed and running a maximum ca
pacity, will produce 28S tractors per day.
The innumerable lies and ISLANDERS against the
Soviet Union are emphatically answered by this
and a hundred other instances OF the success
of the workers in carrying through the Five
Year Plan. Another Of the most slanderous
lies of the capitalist class against the Russian
working class is that they do not support the
present Soviet Government of Russia and are
only cowed into submission by ruthless Dictator
ship imposed upon them by force. This lie Of
the capitalist class, and particularly the lick
spittles of capitaisrn-the social democracy
was blasted when ne saw, after q military par
ade Of four hours III the Red Square OF MOSCOW
on November 7th, g parade Of workers estimated
at q minimum OF million, two hundred fifty
thousand workers, pouring in, flooding the full
width OF Red Square, from l p. m. till 8 p. m
in the evening-workers, men, women and youth,
with arms In their hands; with rifles, with
bayonets, ready II need be to defend the work
ers fatherland from attack from any quarter.
Well, we can state with absolute conviction, In
the words OF Marx, that g proletariat armed
cannot be suppressed An armed proletariat is
a free proletariat IN capitalist countries 1t Is
q crime Tor the workers TO possess arms. Gang
sters, gunner, dopesters, nurderers, agents and
adjuncts OF the capitalist system, are permitted
TO carry arms But not the workers. The one
country in the world where the workers are
armed by the government OF that country, is
the country OF the proletarian dictatorship,
which it Is precisely because the proletariat is
armed to defend the revolution and the con-
quests OF the workers.
These ard nunlberless othe, vital facts about
the Soviet Union will be told by the returned
delegation to thousands of meetings In the COM
ing two-months reporting campaign, which will
commence on January End. Through the COL
umns Of the workers press, the Delegation ap-
peals to the workers everywhere, black and
white, men, women and youth, to hear through
the Delegation the call OF the Russian working
class--lot an appeal TO capitalists, not an ap-
peal to bankers or NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to the
workers OF the capitalist world asking support
for the shock troops Of the world proietariat,
the heroic workers and peasants OF the Soviet
Union in their fight TO build socialism in their
country and TO usher In the proletaSian revniu-
don I'm all eapitalist countries ~, s,rst