The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Enemies Of U.S.S.R.
Played at Rally
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Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker and the main speaker of
the evening, declared. Their pres
ent terrorist campaign against the
lives of the leaders of the Soviet
Union is an admission that they
recognize they cannot accomplish
their policies through any other
means. But the Soviet Power will
not fail before assassins' bullets,
Hathaway declared, amid tremen-
dous applause.
Kirov's assassination is the be-
ginning of an offensive by all enc
mics Of the Soviet Union, he warned.
The capitalist press and the Hearst
press, in particular, are trying to
whip up anti-Soviet sentiment and
to turn the situation following this
cowardly assassination against the
Soviet Union. Not only known
white guards, but leading officials
of the Socialist Party are aligning
themselves with the Isaac Don Le-
vines against the Soviet Union.
The Algernon Lees, he continued,
were silent when the Spanish So
cialist and Communist workers we're
being shot down, but when the So
Wet Union replied with proletarian
determination to the terrorist at
tacks against its leaders, these gem
tlemen have shown themselves
ready to align themselves with its
white guard enemies. Under the
pressure of the Socialist rank and
file they were forced to pass a reso-
luton at the last Socialist Party
national convention pledging sup
port of the Soviet Union, but al
ready now they betray the Soviet
Union and the Socialist rank and
file.
The Soviet Government is a class
dictatorship, just as the American
government Is a class dictatorship,
Hathaway pointed out. The diff
ference is that in the Soviet Union
the dictatorship is exercised by the
toiling majority of the population
in their interests, while in the
United States and other capitalist
countries, the dictatorship, whether
open or concealed under democratic
formulas, is exercised in the interests
of small majority Of exploiters, as
the working class and the Negro
people have cause to know. The
fellow -conspirators of the executed
White Guards and the Hitter Nazis
and japanese impsrialists, Hatha-
way declared, have had occasion to
again discover that there is a pro-
letarian dictatorship in the Soviet
/ Union. His statement was greeted
with stormy applause.
DR.. Reuben Young, treasurer Of
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, paid a glowing tribute to
Kirov as firm champion OF the
national minorities. He told of his
trip, several years ago, to Africa
and the Orient, and reported the
greatest interest on the part of the
colonial masses in the Soviet Union
and its successful solution of the
National Question, with the COM
plete emancipation Of the nation
alities formerly oppressed under
Tsarism. He visited the Soviet
Union before returning to this
country.
Herbtr Goldfrank, National Sec
rotary of the Friends Of the
Soviet Union with a trade union
delegation sponsored by the F.S.U.
Goldfrank, who was in Leningtad
at the time of Kirov's assassination
and later attended the huge mass
funeral in Moscow, told of the deep
grief and anger of the Soviet masses
over the assassination of one OF
their most outstanding leaders, and
Of the pledges by workers in the
factories and peasants on the col
lective farms to overfulfill their
quotas for the coming year as an
answer to the enemies of the Soviet
Union.
The meeting received telegram
Of greetings from 1000 members OF
the New York Icor branches, ex-
pressing their anger and sorrow
over the assassination of Kirov, ano
pledging to mobilize new sections OF
the American masses to the defense
of the Soviet Union.
In stormy unanimity, the audi
ence voted by reclamation to seno
the following cablegram to Mikhai
Kalinin, president of the Soviet
Union:
give thousand American friend!
of the Soviet Union in New Yorf
City, meeting in memorial OF Serge
Kirov, express their anger at thu
dastardly act of the enemies of ths
Soviet Union in assassinating one o.
the leaders of the U.S.S.R. ant
pledge their answering determine
ton to defend the Soviet Union ant
to stand behind the Soviet Union IL
their present efforts to smash thu
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