The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14


great relative increase in the in
fluence of the Soviet Union as COM
pared to the capitalist world. 1t
is the job of the capitalist press,
and the socialist press to try to
conceal from the toiling masses
this, the central fact in the align
ment of world forces today. To
the socialist press is assigned the
job of trying to prejudice the work
ers against the Soviet Union by
trying to make it appear that the
lot of the Soviet masses is as bad
as that of the capitalist world
or even worse. For example, take
the current issue of the New Leader
December 81. That vile sheet in
the face of all the facts to the con-
trary deliberately lies saying:
Conditions in the Soviet Union
do not improve and next week
the Communist Party and the
government will hold sessions to
consider the crisis"
Continuing, the article pictures
as "the most rigorous extension of
iron rule yet known to the So
Wet Union" the passport regulations
calculated to weed out criminal and
parasitic elements who prey upon
the workers in the cities. This vici-
Gus attack is re-echoed in the Mil
Waukee Leader of Tuesday, January
3, which says of the Soviet Union:
"They believe in maintaining
the dictatorship of the proIetar-
lat by means of terror; that is,
by killing those who oppose them
and thereby terrorizing the rest
of the popuiace into obedience"
Similar quotations appear in the
columns. of every socialist paper in
the world. Such attacks are not
only directed against the Soviet
Union, to try to defeat the mass
movement in defense of the strong
hold of the world revolution, but
are a direct aid to the capitalist
police, armies and courts that are
carrying on more violent suppress
sion of the movement of the toiling
masses, under the leadership of the
Communist Party, against the at
tempts of the capitalists to find a
way out of the crisis through in
creased hunger and imperialist war.
Thus the increased fascisation of
social democracy. AS Comrade Ma
nuilsky at the 18th Plenum of the
EC.CI. said regarding the social
democracy at the end OF capitalist
sterilization: "a party which sup
ports capitalism even in the period
of the end of capitalist sterilization
cannot help becoming more fascist"
S. P. DEFENDS
CAPITALISM
A reading of the socialist press
proves that that Party defends cap
italism in every one of its cam
paigns against the toiling masses.
1t helps prepare for war and in
tervention against the Soviet
Union. 1t tries to conceal imper-
ialist war preparations behind a
pacifist smoke-screen of praise for
the League of Nations. It tries to
split the growing unity of Negro
and white workers by denying that
the Negroes are specially victimized
and denying that in the Black Belt
of the South they are an oppressed
nation. 1t tries to disintegrate the
mass fight for unemployment and
social insurance by supporting such
maneuverS as the LaF'ollette- Cos
tigan Bill and by putting forth fake
unemployment insurance proposals
of its own.
To the degree that capitalism
increases its furious drive against
the working class and especially
against its vanguard, the Commu-
mist Party, to that degree do the,
socialist leaders search for new
ISLANDERS, new calumnies, new provo
cations all with the object of saw
ing capitalism from the sledge-
hammer blows of the aroused toll
ing masses. In waging the fight
against capitalism in the tenth
year of its existence the DAILY
WORKER will relentlessly and in
detail concentrate heavier fire
against the socialist agents OF CAPT.
talism in the ranks of the working
class.