The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07
Workers. Letters Tell of Great Achievements in L. S. S,
What Soviet Workers Haze
Achieved In Fifteen Years

and manganese producers Of this
country have brought forth, ana
exposes their rottenness.
1.-THE duty to perform some useful
work is universal in the Soviet
Union" he says, because the So
Wet system is based on the absence
of social classes whose needs art
provided for by others"
Any worker in the soviet Union
can accept or refuse any specified
job. In no case can worker be
forced to accept any job which he
does not desire. The Labor Code
guarantees all workers against dis
missal without cause A worker can
break an agreement made for an
indefinite period whether he has
cause or not. If the management
of particular enterprise violates
any section of the Labor Code per-
tanning to working conditions, a
worker has the right to leave with
out giving notice. Forced labor"
is a SANDER invented by reactionary
capitalists fighting Soviet trade and
by the equally reactionary labor
bureaucracy.
The cry of forced" labor must
have hooking sound to the hun
dreds of thousands of American
workers breaking rocks and digging
on the highways in order TO receive
81 or So week in groceries from
the so-called Relief Boards.
1t is made clear in Flreeman's
book that the Socialist planning
of the Five Year Plan is separated
by millions of miles from the mis-
cradle economic planning" schemes
Matched by slick liberals" like STU
art Chase, or by socialist" dema-
gogues like Norman Thomas.
These Notwithstanding schemes
are silent on the life-and-death
question, what class will control the
government and the industries? By
whom, and in whose interest will
these plans be made? All these
"plans" in which the workers will
be partners for the common
good are nothing but DISCUSSES for
fascism, the open military dictator
ship of the bourgeoisie.
Freeman never lets the read
er forget what most books on the
Soviet Union try to pass over very
quietly, that the epoch-making
meaning of the victorious Five
Year Plan lies not only in it's heroic
economic and cultural victories, but
in the lesson that to escape from
capitalist robbery the workers must
themselves take control of the gov
eminent and the industries.
Although the book is written
with GOODNESS and objectiyity of a
scientific report, there beats be-
meath it powerful excitement be.
cause the author is aware that he
is describing the most significant
event in modern history, the build
ing of Socialism. He knows that
the capitalist wolves will not let
this workers government develop
without an attempt to chush it by
force. BY making the truth about
the Soviet worker available to A1n-
erican workers, Freeman has con-
tributed ammunition for the de-
Tense of the Soviet Union.
Right here in this book is what
the American workers and small
farmers must fight for if they do
not wish to be driven down to coolie
standards of living by the attacks
of the capitalist class. To accept
the program Of the Communist
Party and to struggle for its real
iSation, to vote for Foster and Ford,
is to give notice to the capitalist
masters Of America that we are
determined to get for ourselves the
economic security, the real work.
ing class democracy and the stead
lily rising living standards, which
Freeman has SO masterfully put
down for all to see in The Soviet
Worker.