The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Employe of NY. Times
Describes Recent Visit
To U. S. S. R.
BY SENDER GARLIN.

NEW YORK.-A 71-year
old printer who, during the
course of a lifetime, has visited
almost a score of countries in
the hope of finding one in
which "the worker is not an under
dog" recently returned from the So
Wet Union with the announcement
that life in Russia is much happier
than it is in any other place I have
been"
John A. Dean, printer for more
than a half-century, is now employed
in the proof-room of The New York
Times" Born in Norfolk, Va, in 1862
while the Civil War was raging
Dean went to work in printing Of
fees when he was 10. Seven years
later he began working for the New
Orleans "TimeS-Picayune" and re-
manned there for almost 80 years.
He has held a paid-up union card
in the international Typographical
Union for 81 years.
Dean has returned to New York
bearing with him an invitation
from the head of the Soviet Print
ing Industry, Podelsky, to the rank
and-fiIe workers of the Typogra-
phical Union of New York ("Big
Six') to send a delegation to visit
the U. S. S. r.
ST was told by him that if we
would send delegation-elected at
an open meeting to represent the
Typographical Union of New York
they would be taken care of when
they arrived in Russia, no matter
how big the delegation was. OF
course, they would have to pay their
own passage across, but their ex-
penses while in Russia would be
taken care of by the Soviet printing
unions"
Has Seen Many Countries
Before the crisis called the "de-
preston" by the capitalist and lib
eral press Dean worked eight
months out Of every year and was
able to save enough to travel. II
have been almost around the world,"
Dean ysports. Il first started travel
ing to Europe just before the war
broke out; I was in Germany early
in 1914. Besides Germany I have
also visited France, Italy, Austria,
Rumania, Sweden, Finland, Norway,
Greece, Switzerland, Holland, Den
mark, Belgium and England"
NEAN says that he went to the
" Soviet Union ito find out what
was doing there" Previously, he
says, he couldn't make head or tail
of what 1 read about Russia, be-
cause in some books and magazines
they said it was like a paradise, and
others said it was a hell"
Il stayed in Russia only II days,
but in that time I vas able to get
quite a little of information and i'm
pressions, particularly about the
printing business and the life of the
printers and other workers. I spent
all my time in Moscow and Lenin-
grad.
Happier in Russia Than Elsewhere
"Of course, I was mainly inter-
ested in printing, but I was also in
terested in seeing how people were
living, how this Communistic scheme
was working out. My impression of
life in Russia generally Is that 1t
is much happier than it is In almost
any other place 1 have been in
In every other country in The
world, Dean told me, the conditions
are just about the Same-some are
a little more prosperous than others,
"but there is no remedy for any,
thing" That, he said, is the Diff
ference between the Soviet Union
and the capitalist world.
Some Differences
"All the other countries are mud
ding along and not getting any
where. The conditions of the work.
erS are bad. They have no protec-
ton against the man who employs
them. If work Stacks down, they
are discharged. The employer must
work for his profits that is the
main idea. And when he begins to
lose the profits he has been making,
he Immediately cuts off the labor,
and that creates, more poverty, and
this happens periodically.
You have people contributing to
this and that charity to save people
from starving to death. Lamont, at
the head of the Child's Saving Soci-
ETY., is one of the men bringing
about this very condition II child |
misery. Now he says that we must |
save the children. He has millions. |
"The beautiful thing is that NO.