The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
TOR
the Recognition
of Soviet Union

A NATION WIDE campaign for the
n Recognition of the Soviet Gov
eminent by the United States Gov
eminent is announced by the
Friends Of the Soviet Union in the
February issue of Soviet Russia
Today. lust off the press The
plan calls for the organization Of
Campaign Committee in each city
Of the United States. a conference
of delegates elected by trade unions,
cultural clubs, fraternal and other
organizations whose synpathies can
be enlisted in the campaign, will
be called by each local committee.
Locals of the A. F. of L. and the
Socialist Party, branches of the In
ternational Workers Order, the In
ternational Labor Defense, the
Trade Union Unity League, and
other mass labor organizations are
urged to elect delegates to this con-
ference which will be held on or
about March Il in each city.
These conferences will start the
collection of signatures to a petit
ton for "the establishment of full
and unconditional diplomatic and
trade relations between Soviet Rus
STA and the United States The
minimum goal set is one million
signatures by May 1.
DEFORE the collection of sigma
~ lures begins the F. S. U. with
the cooperation of other mass Or
CARNATIONS will distribute 100000
leaflets, concentrating on distribu-
ton 1t factory gates. A sixteen
page pamphlet entitled "The So
Wet Union Must Be Recognized"
will be sold. This leaflet and PAM
phlet sets forth the arguments for
recognition, support and defense of
the Soviet Union, not from the
viewpoint Of capitalists, business
men and politicians, but from the
viewpoint of those who are really
friends Of the first Workers Re
public, because the Soviet workers
and peasants are building q new So
cial order, have abolished unem-
ployment, racial discrimination and
economic insecurity, have raised
wages and shortened hours, and
have succeeded in fulfilling the first
Five-Year Plan despite tremendous
difficulties.
The F. S. q. appeals to all friends
and Sympathizers to aid in this
campaign which should result in
strengthening organized opposition
to war and in mobilizing American
workers for the defense Of the first
Workers Republic against its en-
emies and in popularizing the
achievements OF Socialist conStrlc-
ton. Workers organizat tons should
pass resolutions favoring recogni-
ton on this basis. The F. S. U. has
printed a form Of resolution to be
used as a model.
nURING the campaign Scott
~ Nearing, Ella Winter, Maurice
Sugar, Norman Tallentire, Bonchi
- 41SNAAAeAAAS SJA4 anu OJIl-
erS will be sent on tour to speak at
mass meetings throughout the ma
ton.
In this campaign as In all of
our campaigns the building of our
organization is one of the most i'm
portant features" Cyril Lambkin,
National Secretary of the F. S. u.
stated today. Therefore we can
not consider the whole campaign a
success unless in the course of it
we have taken in at least 10000
new members and have increased
the circulation Of our magazine So
Wet Russia Today to $4,000 copies
per month"
Other articles in the February is
sue Of Soviet Russia Today are:
Soviet Trade Unions, by Pauline
Rogers; Shakespeare in Moscow.
by Ernest j, Simmons; a short
story by r. Ilienkov called Old
Naumich Keeps Up the Fight; an
article The Soviet Union Faces the
Future; American VS.. Japanese I'M
perialism, by Liston NJ. Oak: and
statements by Waldo Frank, Sher-
wood Anderson, John Calder and
Curtis Box.