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of that power, its development
through a series of theological vicissi-
tudes in the course of the colossal
struggles, the defeats, and the vic
tories of the Russian workers and
peasants. Gorky the Bolshevik is the
logicl consequence of the aggressive,
pity-spurning outcast of the COS
charged with a dark revolutionary
will some day to be released. Across
the chaos and creation of three revo-
lutions he has cut his way with the
Bolshevik worker and peasant of to-
day, the heroic shock brigadier, the
collective willed proletarian and
peasant dangerous and rhythmic
with the construction of the Social
list positions on the fields and cities
of the new Russia.
:" Maxim Gorky. Writer and Rev
olutionist," by Moissaye j. Olgin, In
ternational Publishers, New York.
Paper edition. 25 cents; cloth, rs
cents.
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The US. Workers Delegation
to the Soviet Union

of the workers and farmers in the
U. S. S. r.? About the heroic build
ing of the Five Year Plan, to show
the difference in a country where the
workers and peasants rule and in the
countries where unemployment is
growing, ruled by the capitalists How
do they compare with conditions
here? What about unemployment?
How about Social Insurance? ETC.,
etc, etc.
In the course of such a campaign,
opportunity is given to expose the lies
and provocations of the enemies Of
the Soviet Union. We are calling
upon the workers, saying to them,
"See for yourselves; elect your own
trusted fellow worker to report back
what he finds"
The delegation will leave the
United States. about the middle of
October. They will remain in Rus
STA about ten weeks. They will see
factories, farms, rest homes, work
ers' dwellings, etc. They will travel
extensively in the Soviet Union. The
expenses Wine in the Soviet Union
will be paid by the Russian Trade
Unions. Only the round trip fare
must be paid by the workers who elect
their delegate. The campaign to raise
such funds is an important phase Of
the work. An example of how such
funds were raised is given by the
workers in the West Wales mines who
elected delegate and then voted to
assess each miner one penny.
Eighteen thousand miners are in the
trade unions in West Wales.
The delegates will be toured upon
their return, 10 speak to other sec
lions of workers and if possible in
many parts of the country.
Are there twenty factories In the
u, S. embracing the above in
dustries where we can get twenty
such delegates? OF course there are!
Are the workers in the United States
interested in the workers in the So
Wet Union? Most certainly.
The Friends of the Soviet Union
calls upon ALL friends of the Soviet
Union to get behind this campaign.
All branches Of the F.. S. u, all left
wing elements in the Trade Union,
all organizations friendly to the Rus
sian workers, liberals, sympathizers,
etc., should proceed at once with the
necessary steps to elect an American
Workers Delegation to the Soviet
Union.
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Workers on Boulder
Dam Fill Hospitals,

BOULDER CITY, Nev.-Be Care
full, the hospital is full is the wording
of signs all around the Boulder Dam
construction area. Men are showed
cut of the hospital just as soon as
they can crawl about, a worker
charges, because in the hospital his
living expenses are covered by the
deductions from wages for accidents
but as soon as he is pushed back
into the bunkhouses he must pay for
his keep. as. before. The Be Careful
signs don't mean anything, it is fur
Their charged, because those who take
time to be careful are fired for loaf
ing.
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By JACK SMITH


The Boulder Dam at Las Vegas,
Nevada, was built under capitalism,
Thirty years elasped between the time
the plan was formed until the dam
was finished.
The Dnieprostroy Dam was built
in the course Of Socialist construc-
ton, in the Soviet Union. 1t took
only three years to finish.
The Boulder Dam cost $l65, 0000 900.
Dnieprostroy cost $11000o,0O0.
Yet while the Boulder Dam supplies
5000 horse power of electricity,
Dnieprostroy supplies 10000 horse
power
There are other features that
sharply distinguish the building of a
dam under capitalism, and the build
ing of dam in the Soviet Union.
Thirty years ago, it was suggested
to name the dam in Nevada "Roose-
welt Dam in honor of Teddy. our
president at that time-but the thing
hung fire over states rights and who
would get the juicy contract until
much water ran down the Colorado
River Finally the work started.
The first thing they figured out
was how to gyp the workers out Of
every cent possible. They even sign
ed the contract two days before the
Federal Prevailing Wages law went
into effect, that permits the Six
Companies. Inc" to pay 25 to so per
cent less than is paid in that terri
tory.
In addition, the workers must live
in company houses and are charged
20 per- cent more than ether houses
near the dams site. Also gas is fur
nished by the Six Companies and
charged for at their own price.
1t takes II hours to go to the works
and return home and put in an eight
hour day The men are paid for 8
hours only. Schools for the Riddles
are not large enough, and workers
have to pay tuition to private schools.
The result is that the Riddles get no
schooling.
Workers boarding at the Six Co.'S
mess hall and lodging in the FIRMS
shacks pay $1.65 a day In mining
camps in Nevada the charge is $l.00
a day.
The workers are compelled to get
advances on wages, and this is not
redeerable at par. Failure of the firm
to obey Nevada safety laws has taken
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equal boots, pants and harmonicas
Boots, pants, harmonicas plus tractors
mean greater well-being and better
efforts of the million sof peasants in
the collective farms, and SO on.
The new chain of plants and fac
tories developing around Dniepros-
troy is thus more than an increase
in the number of industrial units. 1t
is a promise and an assurance of bet
ter living in the rural communities
as we'll In an immediate sense, the
lives of all the thirty-odd millions of
the Ukrainian population are affected
by the development o the industrial
center loosely named Dnieprostroy.
And with the free, unhampered inter-
course among the various Republics
and nationalities of the Soviet Union,
the industrial development in one sec
ton of the country has its reverbera-
tons throughout the U.S.S,R.
Change in Progress
In a very immediate way, Dniep-
rostroy is already beginning to alter
the face of the surrounding country
side. In some fthe nearby colhozes
and sovhozes, blowing is done by cleo
tricity, with a movable "sub-station"
tapping the nearby power-lines.
Electric Vegetables" raised in an ex-
perimental sovhoz near the power
plant are a thrilling demonstration of
the potentialities of the plant SO far
as agriculture is concerned, These
electric vegetables" derive their nick
name from the fact that the hot
houses are equipped with over
ground and underground electric
wires for the heating of the soil and
the air. The size and the quality of
these vegetables are the envy of the
best truck-farmers of the neighbor-
hood.
At IN e kolkhoz international"
about an hours ride by automobile
from Dnieprostroy. saw q cow-barn
equipped with electric devices for
milking COWS. The same collective
farm has its own electric driven flour
mill.
"Illyich's Lamps"
The electric bulb, or "Illyich's
lamp" as 1t Is called among the peas
ants, is making its way further and
further into the out-of- the-way rural
communities. Given the continued
development of metallurgy the in
creased production of wires and cleo
trical equipment-and the entire
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A MARKHAM MASTERPIECE

most complicated practical prolembs
of the transition from capitalism TO
socialism to communism.
NEARXISM IN PRACTICE
In his historic speech outlining his
famous six points" Stain showed
how Marx in his "Critique Of the
Gotha Program" had already given
the answers to the difficult problems
Of socialist construction.
For example on the question OF
equal wages for all workers. The So
cialist leaders denounced the pay
ment of unequal wages as capital
ism" Stain showed how Marx in
the "Critique" condemned SUI h
theories as being Utopian He quo
ted from Marks "Critique":
Right can by its very nature only
consist in the application Of an equal
standard but one worker is
married, another single, one has
more children than another, and so
on. Given an equal capacity of Ia
Dor and thence an equal share in
the funds for social consumption,
the one will in practice receive more
than the other, the one will be richer
than the other and so forth. To
avoid all these inconvenience, rights
must be unequal instead of being
equal.
But these dificienceS are unayoid-
able in the first phase of Commu
mist society when it is just emery
ing after prolonged birthpangs from
capitalist society Right can never
be higher than the economic struc-
ture and the cultural development
Of society conditioned by it."
Experience of the workers in the
Soviet Union in the building Of So
cialism has provided the historical
test of the correctness of MarXist
analysis in the "Critique" of the
questions Of the transition from ca
pitalism to communism. Marks ideas
as clearly and Enthusiastically ex-
pressed in the "Critique" have found
concrete realization in the practice
of the Communist Party and the
workers of the Soviet Union, A
study of the "Critique" reveals how
utterly rotten and anti-MarXian are
the theories of the Socialist leaders
all over the world.
The edition issued by the Interna-
tional Publishers is remarkable for
its thoroughness. 1t contains COM
plete appendices, giving Lenin's
notes on Marxist "Critique," the let
tiers which Marx and Engels sent to
one another and their friends, taking
up in great detail all the problems
raised by the Gotha Program. The
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a deadly toll. From April /, 1881, to
December 9, 1881, there were two ac-
cidental deaths, but the firm man.
aged to tie up enforcement of Nevada
statutes and since then Is deaths re-
suited from disregard Of the laws.
An eX-serviceman writes from Las
Vegas, New. When you read of the
Boulder Dam dead, you must not i'm
agine ordinary dead-whole corpses-
many are blown to bits, and they
sometimes can find only hank Of
hair, a few teeth, or a bit Of skull.
Funeral expenses are very small in
such cases. If you are legionnaire
the Boulder Dam Post will blow a
bugle over the grave known in the
army as "taps") and they will shoot
few blanks as the dirt is thrown in,
Whenever us unemployed hear the
shots we know that another ex-ser-
viceman has been sacrificed to the
gods of capitalism"
At Elizabeth, N. j., where the Lid
gerwood Co. is making the heavy ma
chinery for the Boulder Dam, they
work their men seven days a week
and IL hours every day. The COM
pany takes its place in the ranks OF
low-wage payers, SO to 65 cents for
nigh grade machinists.
Now let us see what sthe workers
can do for themselves when they run
the government. First off they beat
the U. S. in time from the drawing
of the plans to the finished dam was
Just three years compared with 80
years in capitalist America.
Tackle Gigantic Problems
A leader Of the shock brigade tells
us how, in order to cut trough in
the granite of the river bed of the
dam, a false dam must be built across
the river, if you can imagine the third
largest river in Europe roaring thru
narrow granite channel in these
foothills Of the Carpathian Noun
tains, you may get some idea of the
difficulty and danger of these first
steps.
The winter of 1929 was nearing and
by 1880 the work of laying the con-
crete was to begin and the trough
must be as clean and dry as this desk
II frost set in and froze water in the
trough before it was cleared work
would be set back six months.
Some of the specialists lost heart
and said it couldn't be done. But the
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hastily built barracks.
What the Russians calls the plosh-
tshadka (platform) of the new in
dustrial center occupies an area of
40 square kilometers. Upon it some
of the largest plants in the Soviet
Union are being built and are nearing
completion. The aluminium plant
with an ultimate capacity of 10000
tons annually is in its final stages
of equipment.
Some of the shops of the giant
steel plant, Zaprozhstal, are already
functioning, and in the very near
future the first two blast furnaces will
be put in operation. In point of up
to-date equipment and potential out
put these furnaces challenge the
giants of Magnitostroy and Stalinsk.
This plant alone will soon be able
to produce a million and quarter
tons of steel.
Several alloy plants, chemical fac
tories and other industrial establish
ments are scheduled to start work
within the first half of the Second
Five-Ye Plan. All of these new
works will be fed current from the
Dnieper Hydro Electric Station The
Aluminium Combinat particularly will
consume much current, since the pro-
duction of aluminium involves the ex-
tensive use Of electricity
To Supply Wide Areas
But even these new customers of
Dnieprostroy power-plant will not be
able to consume all of its output, and
much of the power will eventually be
exported" to distant parts hundreds
of kilometers away. 1t is only ques-
ton of building the necessary trans
mission lines and sub-stations for the
stepping down. of the current that
is shipped out of the plant at ten
sion of 10000 volts. Truly, the
Dnieper Hydro Electric Station will
soon become the pulsating heart of
industrial Ukraine.
The Chief Consideration
In the Soviet Union, industry is
naturally translated in terms of the
welfare of the masses. The men
working in the steel mill are ever
aware Of the live, immediate connec-
ton between their blast furnace and
the potato patch Of their colhoz gar
den. Steel means tractors and trucks
and machines. Tractors, trucks and
machines mean grain, vegetables and
raw stuffs. Raw stuffs plus machines
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they were to realize in action at the
breaking out of the World War in
1914, and of the whole series of
treacheries to the present day.
With the sharp sword of his un-
matched critical weapons Marx
simply brushes all the theories and
doctrines which we hear today from
the leaders of the Socialist Party
such as Norman Thomas, etc.
MARX ON
DICTATORSHIP
The basic question which Marx
treats in the "Critique" is the seiz-
ure of political power by the .revo-
lutionary proletariat and the set
ting up of the dictatorship of the
proletariat as the fern of govern
ment which must supersede the rule
of the capitalist class.
In his pamphlet THE Socialist
Cure for Sick Society" Norman
Thomas states:
Socialists in contrast, believe
that the class conflict does not
rule out democracy, especially in
a country which, like America, has
tradition of democracy. Democ-
racy, as Ksutsky has pointed out,
has educational value for the work
ers that no dictatorship can have. .
And the leading Jewish Socialist
Newspaper, the Daily Forward, de-
clared that the purpose of the So
cialist Convention in Milwaukee was
the abolition of dictatorship and
Introduction CT democracy"
What did Marx believe on this
question: In his "Critique" he gives
his unnistakable answer:
Between capitalist and Com
munist society lies period of re-
voIutionary transformation from
one 10 the other. There CORES
ponds also to this a political tran
sition- period during which the
state can, be nothing else than the
revolutionary Dictatorship of the
proletariat.". page 45).
And Marx contemptuously attacks
the Gotha program of the German
Social Democratic Party because at
had nothing to say about this latter
nor yet about the future forms of
the state in Communist society"
Thus 1.-The fundamental teachings
of Marx about the necessity of the
revolutionary dictatorship OF the
proletariat after the seizure of power
by the working class are in violent
contradiction to the official theories
of the present Socialist leaders all
over the world. The theories of the
Socialist leaders are an obvious be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10
BY NATHANIEL BUCHWALD
DAILY Worker Correspondent

The WHOLE. world knows of Dniep-
rostroy, but in Moscow clerk in the
telegraph office refused to accept a
telegraph addressed to Dnieprostroy
stating that there was no such place
on mis- list. At the railway station
you would find equal difficulty in
buying a. ticket to Dnieprostroy, and
the local .pestman would be at loss
where to deliver a letter marked
"Dnieprostroy."
In a loose sort of way the Dnieper
Hydro Electric Station, the dam and
the newly built town in the neighbor-
hood of the power-plant are referred
to as Dnieprostroy. Actually this
word does not denote geographical
point So.-much as stupendous pro-
gram Of Industrial, rural, and COM
munal development. Much of this
program. has already been accom-
pliShed.
3 More Turbines to Be Installed
The power plant gave its first cur
rent a year ago and was officially
put in operation last october. In
few months, when the remaining
three of the nine turbines and gen.
orators will have been installed, the
plant will have capacity of $4,000
kilowatts with an annual output Of
nearly five billion kilowatt hours.
With it's present six units in opera
ton the plant could develop $4,000
kilowatts or an annual output of
about three billion kilowatt hours.
But only a small portion Of the
capacity ofsthe plant is being utilized
at present. 1t supplies current to the
huge iron and steel works at Dniep-
ropetrovsk, including the Petrovsky
plant, Dnieprostal and others. Its
current Is also used by the Dzherz-
hinsky stcel and iron works, its feed
ers go out to a dozen or so sub-sta-
lions furnishing power to many fac
tories and light to many communities.
But onlysa fraction of the possible
total output is thus tapped. The
Dnieprostroy3 station can easily take
care of ten times the load it carries
nov, and In year or two 1t will
probably carry its peak load
Many Big Factories
IA trip through the area OF the
Dnieprocombinat impresses one with
the many. large factories, towering
lmoke- stacks and rows upon rows of
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The CRIT1QUE OF The GOTTA
PROGRAM-KARL MARX, IN
ternational Publishers, New York
IS Cents.
by MILTON HOWARD
1t is not too much to say that the
publishing of this magnificent edi-
ton of one of Marks masterpieces
is an historic day in the develop
ment of MARKHAM revolutionary the
DRY and practice in this country.
1t is an astounding fact that this
mastery analysis of some of the ba-
sic questions of revolutionary theory
has been up to now practically un-
available.
For the truth is that Marks "cri-
tique" is on a par with the Commu-
mist Manifesto as a fundamental
document in the arsenal of revolu-
tionary theory.
CONCEALED BY
SOCIALIST LEADERS
1t was first written in 1875 by
Marx as scorehing criticism OF the
political program adopted by the
German Social Democratic Party at
the Gotha Unity Congress. At this
Congress the German workers led
by Bebel and Lieblnecht followers OF
Marx, united with the LasalAeans
into the German Social Democratic
Party. However, this masterpiece
tho written in 1875 did not see the
light of day until 1891.
1t was first printed by Engels over
the protest and opposition of all the
leading German Socialists, including
Kautsky, socialist who calls for
intervention against the Soviet IN
ion, and the leading theoretician OF
the Second International. From 1891
to the present day it has been al
most impossible to get, particularly
in English.
When Engels published it, it was
received with unconcealed hostility
by the "Socialistic big-wigs" eng
els phrase in his letter to Serge
February II, 189D. The Socialists
in the Reichstag declared publicly
that that they would have nothing
to do with Marks views. And the
Central Committee of the German
Socialist Party declared that it dis
approved of Marks "Critique" and
would never have given its consent
to have it published.
And no wonder that the Socialist
LEADERS were afraid of Marks pam
phlet. For it contains a blasting ex-
posture of all the opportunism which
lay at the basis of all the betrayals
of revolutionary Socialism, which
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edition is well bound, and takes its
place in our revolutionary literature
by the side of the Communist Man
ifesto, as one of our main weapons
in the fight for the overthrow OF
capitalism.
The revolutionary movement in
America owes the International Pub
fishers a debt of gratitude for its
edition of the "Critique Of the Gotha
Program" 1t is a masterpiece whose
riches we cannot exhaust.