The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
The FORWARD" Sbits
Hatred at the USSR

Duranty reports that the leading Bolshevik paper
on Heavy Industry has issued criticism of the
slownesS in building up the proper living conditions
for the two hundred thousand steel workers at the
Magnitogorsk steel plant He reports that Ordzhoni-
kidze called some Of the quarters "pigsty.'
And the Socialist Forward" unable any longer to
ignore the victory of Socialist construction
at MagnitogorSk asks cunningy, how is it that the
workers at Magnogorsk exceeded their quota by 1903
per cent How is it that enormous structure
could have been built under such miserable condi-
tons? And it gives the following answer an answer
that will rouse hatred and contempt in the heart
Of every class conscious worker who reads it:
''rhe answer is that the workers in MagnitogorSk
are not gods, but slaves emphasized by the For
wardD, slaves as in Egypt, as in all slave countries
where they grind the last ounce of energy out OF
the workers"
ONLY few weeks ago, the Forward was mounting
every rotten SANDER about famine" in the Ukraine
repeating every lie that coming out of the Vat-
can Popex and Bishops out of the publicity machines
of the Hitler government. The Forward was weeping
bitter tears for the victims of the Russian faines"
And the partial, alleged quotation from the leading
Bolshevk paper is its latest discovery It discovers
that the Soviet Government is not satisfied with the
living conditions Of the steel workers at Magntogorskl
Aside from the factors and circumstances in
voved, of the difficulties and problems of the Soviet
workers In building proper working conditions, let
every worker ask the Forward" where in the world
will you find Government that critcizes its execu
tives for not giving the workers the best possible
living conditions!
The editors of the Forward charge that the workers
in the Soviet Union have been able to accomplish
huge economic victories such as MagEtogorSk only
because they "are driven like slaves"
They try to blind their readers to the fact that
it is because the Soviet workers are building Social
ism, which is daily improving their conditions that
they have destroyed capitalism their capitalist
pIoiters and toiling for their own class for
themselves and their families, that they accom-
pishing wonders of heroism-
uAS the Socialist" Forward ever heard of the Roose-
IL welt government denouncing the United States
Steel Trust for not giving the workers Gary, at
Abridge, at Pittsburgh, the best possible living
ditions?
But the editor of the Socialist Forward Abraham
Cahan, finds Roosevelt the tool OF Wall Street SO
admirable that he has already invited him to join
the Socialist PartyI
For the Socialist construction at Magnitogorsk
where the workers building for. themselves, and
not for any capitalist explolters, monument Of In
dustrial achievement the Socialist Forward has only
poisonous hatred
But for Roosevelt for the N.R.A. program, for
the Roosevelt Government that has shot down the
steel workers on the picket lines in Ambridge, the
Forward already has the highest praise, calling it
something Socialistic"
Here, In the MIRA they see Socialism, In the
Soviet Union, where the workers and farmers rule
they Slavery"
Notice where they get their information- the
Bolshevik 1t is known to the wohle world that
the Soviet press is the frank the most critical
in the world on the developments Of the country.
But this is because 1t is workers country, be-
cause the Government is the expression of the work
ers and farmers will, because this most mercless
criticism is one Of the weapons by which the country
builds ever higher and better life for the
"Slaves" snarls the Socialist" Forward about the
udarnh shock brgaders the immortal worker-heroeS
whose prodgious labors whose wonderful achieve
ments OF endurance and construction give the first
glimpses of that new Socialist man who is grow
ing up out of the Socialist advances of tie q. S. s. r.
m another part Of this page the DAILY Worker"
correspondent tells of his meeting with these
Slaves"
Songs sung all Russia about the hero
ism and endurance Of the Udarnks, who put through
this Magnitogorsk dam single piece of shock
brigade work, rushing so as not to delay the mill
below it," he writes.
OF course, 1t is true that there are housing prob
lems living condition problems, food problems etc.
But these are the inevitable problems Of enormus
growth, of marvellous advance!
Two years ago. there practically scorchfng
desert at Magnitogorsk. Now, there looms the most
enormous, the greatest steel furnaces in the wcrld
new city has bloomed the Ur-. desert! And
the Forward" whines because they have not got
the State Cosacks of Pennsylvania the State Troop
ers Of Illinois there!
Overnight, with record-breaking speed new city
OF 100000 inhabitants, has sprung up where there
was nothing but desert! And the Forward" gloats
that the Bolsheviks are not afraid to make public
their difficulties! The Forward" gloats that the
Soviet Government is not satisfied with the living
conditions, and sharply calls for immediate i'm
provement for the steel workers!
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Party OF Marxism- Leninsrn, the Party led by the
leaders of the world proletariat Stalin the masses
of the Soviet Union going forward, over every
obstacle along the path of Socialism
And the Socialist" Forward spts poison the very
same poison that dripS from the poison pens of the
White Guards. from the ounter-revolutIonary in
terventionists.
This slave" talk is nothing but the preliminary
moral publicity for the coming imperiaIst nerven-
tion II there is Slavery in the Soviet Union why
not destroy it? Such is the poison propaganda Of the
Socialist Forward
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