The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
World Front

Hungary, the U.S.S.R.
and Elections in the US.
Recent Reports
THE self-entombment of the
1.200 miners in Hungary
was a terrible and dramaticl
symbol of the position of the
workers under capitalism in
the present crisis.
Starvation is the lot of the
proletariat in capitalist lands and
where faScism rules their situation
is desperate beyond all doubt.
Continued existence of capitalism
means endangering the lives Of mil.
lions of toilers through starvation.
through suicides, through fascist
terror. and through war.
We know that the American can.
italist press, in harmony with Hit
Ter, have striven hard to make II
workers believe that the conc
tons of the toilers in the Sow
Union are bad. This was a sort
defense to the undeniable miserab.
conditions Of the workers in all
capitalist lands.
HAROLD DENNY, a New Yorl
IA Times correspondent, has iusi
made trip to Soviet regions
which were badly affected BY the
drought They are comparable to
those states in the U. S. where the
cattle and the farmers this sum-
mer were gaunt and hungry. We
remember photographs and movies
Of these drought areas in the
United States. Farmers with their
cheeks sunken, cattle with every rib
showing. Starvation threatening
hundreds of thousands; the future
black and miserable.
Now let us see what this capital
ist correspondent has to report
about the drought areas n the So
Wet Union.
"0n this Journey" he writes.
"the correspondent deliberately
sought the sections where the
worst conditions had been re-
ported in the outside world
What did he find?
Nowhere was famine found.
Nowhere even fear of it.
There is food, including bread,
in the local open markets. The
peasants were smiling, too, and
generous with their foodstuffs."
IN TODAY'S Daily Worker we also
publish a radiogram from Mos
COW reporting the visit of two menu
bers Of the General Council of
British trade unions, Hicks and
MacLeen. We quote here only a
few lines from Hicks statement:
Il made long trip through the
Soviet Union but didn't see any
where the things which part of
the foreign press talks of. 1 didn't
see either poverty or famine, or
even signs of these. On the con-
trary, in the course of visits to
Soviet towns and industrial en-
terrrises, collective farms and
government institutions, no.
ticed all administrative bodies
and chiefs strive to place the in
terests of the workers and their
families first. Everywhere 1 saw
happy, laughing faces in the
streets, theatres, stadiums, where
thousands of young people en-
gage in all kinds of sport. The
Soviet youth looks to their fu-
ture confidently, firmly, fear,
lessly."
No member of the British Trade
Union Council can be called a So.
vie5 agent. These gentlemen are
primarily labor lieutenants of Brit
iSh imperialism and only with the
greatest reluctance talk of the
youth of the proletarian dictator
ship looking to the future conf
IDENTIFY, firmly, fearlessly.'
EVERY worker in the U. S. must
L ask himself what is the future
for him under capitalism? We are
at present faced with elections
throughout the country, with the
capitalists striving to win a vote
of confidence in their hunger sys-
tenn.
The capitalist world is on the
brink Of war. Every day reveals
new dangers. new crimes of the ex-
ploiters. New Sarajevos explode on
the world rapidly. Over l, 200 fell
low workers in Hungary inflict the
most horrible tortures on them
selves rather than continue to live
under their present conditions. Ir
the U. S. over 100000 unem
ployed, with starvation as the on
certainty in the future. The Ne
Deal has brought greater hung
to the toilers and farmers. The
conditions of the Southern textile
workers under the MIRA. are very
little better than those of the Hun
garian miners under capitalism.
The Communist Party in its cleo
ton program in this country puts
forward immediate demands for
struggle to fight against the work.
ers being forced into the position
Of their Hungarian brothers; but it
also points cut that these condi-
tons can be ended only by the
methods of the workers in the So
Wet I'm on. Capitalism must be
ended once and for all. Soviet
power, the establishment of work.
ors, rllle which is the main goal of