The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
ViVid Articles
In Oct. Soviet
Russia Today

NEW YORK.-Genersl Victor A.
Yakhontoff, Maxim Cork, Karl
Rsdek, Robert Morse Lovett, A. A.
Heller, Myra Page, Grace Hutchins
and DR., John A. Kingsbury are
among the contributors to the Oc-
tober issue Of Soviet Russia Today,
which has recently come off the
press, with a striking new cover
depicting socialist construction and
a display Of the latest Soviet
photos.
Writing under the title, "U.SSR.
and Peace" Loyett, Heller and
Yakhontoff discuss the significance
of the Soviet Unions unceasing
struggle for world peace, Japanese
provocations and the C. f. R, the
Soviet Unions entry into the
League of Nations, and the part
played by the American League
Against War and Fascism in sup
port Of the Soviet peace policy.
General Yakhontoff ridicules the
claims Of the japanese that they
have secured confessions" from
employees of the Chinese Eastern
Railway pointing to Soviet plots to
wreck the road. please note the
logic Of the seller wrecking what
he is trying to SELL" he writes,
giving a vivid example of the
third degree methods used by the
Japanese police in securing faxed
confession from their prisoners.
Telling of the aims of the ALI
Union Congress of Soviet Writers,
Maxim Cork and Karl Radek
describe the origin, achievements
and functions of the Union, the
role Of the Soviet author as an
engineer of the spirit" and the
triumphs of Socialist realism"
Into our literature, writes Ro6ek,
I'VE will pour the soul of the pro-
letariat. its passions and its love,
and this will be a literature of
great pictures, it will be a litera-
ture of the struggle for socialism,
literature of the victory Of in
ternationa1 socialism
There is no stretch-out in the
U. S. s. r., writes Grace Hutchins
of the Labor Research Association,
writing about Soviet Textile
Workers" To the Soviet textile
worker, Hutchins points out, the
demands made by textile strikers
in the United States, whose strike
was sold out by the A. F. Of L.
misleaders, seem the most ele-
mentary necessities in the indus
try. "All who are in the industry
belong to the Soviet Textile Union,
which has control over ali matters
affecting labor conditions and the
workers life and health. The
Union has built great clubs and
cultural institutions. 1t has pro-
vided, in cooperation with the
workers state, rest homes, free
medical assistance and insurance
against unemployment, accidents,
sickness and death"
Discussing Scientific Research
and the Five Year Plan" in the
U. S. s. R., Mark Land, fellow Of
the National Research Council in
the Biological Sciences. describes
the extraordinary achievements of
Soviet scientists, with particular
reference to biological work. Dr.
Kingsbury, co-author Of Red
Medicine" tells Of the great prog
ress made in the q. S. S. R. in the
conquest of tuberculosis and Alex
ander Fleisher, who is an author
ity on public health and social
work in the United States. writes
on Social Welfare in Soviet Rus
STA" In addition to Myra Pages
article on Free Minds in a Free
Land" which is in answer to
doubts that some intellectuals still
entertain with regard to the first
workers democracy, there are ar
ticles on Youth Leads in the U. S.
S. r." What's Holding Up U. S.
Credits" the Soviet scene and a
number of other topics with full
page photomontage on the Soviet
Theatre by John Gilmore.