The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-07
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

CONTINUING Yesterdays discussion with John Cham
Y barain on this matter of Soviet prisons;
To repeat let us not be led off the main track Of
the discussion by any of these typical wild antSoviet
yarns, such this new one, that there are million
prisoners in the Soviet Union.
If Nj Durany gave you this figure quite
There 8295 prisoners the Soviet Union Where do
get this strange figure?
that offered you by
Duranty out Of my own consciousness.
YOU Durantys reporting while
form far from splendid often, content.
Any man. at this Duranty
Revolution and write spenglere hash
Interpretation the effect that this revolution only another
ASsc episode in the history Of land with peculiarly Oriental and
might expected that there
million prisoners in the Soviet Union
where why? this just another
and spenglerte intuition of Mr. Durantys
A Lesson From Moscow
THERE is crime in the Soviet land prisons prison.
this oualitatvy the
committed and how are they handled?
Sherwood Eddy of the oca breaucats of Jesus Amer
lea pah of the Newton Baker type and far from being Com
say book Challenge Russia"
personal
handling under the G. o. Of political and religious prisoners which
he
whole probably the most modern rational and humane of
the world.
plan the vindctive but
redempive principles
of the disgrace American prisons and
their crying for reform it hypoccs
labor in Russia
however be we'll worth while could eventually lead to
pontmen commission which, after making thorough study
prisons of
comparative study of the penal the United States with
to the introduction of sweeping and much needed reforms
in this country"
other words Eddy capitalism
tgerclaws clipped and reformed Ut
Brother lessons humanity
reason from Russia in this matter of prisons.
Two Kinds of Criminal
IN AMERICA than of committed
private property. Crime" ndivduslisc
chaotic Of the poor against the rich.
capitalist justice capitalist
state applied defense of the property Of the
rich against the ceaseless of the poor.
On some planes such booeggng the recent of kid
mapping crime becomes of which
mot yet gaized It is the principle of private property and
petition its primitive form
the Soviet Union the
socialsm-in other words, against the working class
is the that which in the United States
only that the
intellectual allies and those who hate
world possible criminals
The workers rule the state and dispense the
who saboteus the graf kuks C7aris
SPECTATORS and other opposed
they also political religious prison.
ers whom Sherwood Eddy mentions people who have repeatedly
correspondent with those who for
abroad
have painfully built
is no utopia 1t merely happens to be the
place chosen by history for the peous and glorious
pioneering new world The old nduastic geeds still survive
there period It is slowly
being ended and mankind having suffered the
animal origin establishing the Soviet
humane classics society.
meanwhile surrounded by world of feroou capitalist
armies who seek its blood how shall the Soviet working
It's enemies v1hn7 many been
outsider This would suicide, o course
Medals for Prisoners
WHEN caught are these enemies of Socialism treated the
~ Scotporo boys and labor leaders
No they aren't tortured whipped starved
dark solitary for years
You have seen the moving picture The Road to Life" which
shows how criminal boys of the reformatoy type
ganzed into free working
by the ethics of
Perhaps have heard of the building White
Sea Canal Here some 10000 hardened criminals were shipped under
the leadership Of handful of brilliant leaders from
The criminals could if they cared They
thieves muderers saboteur
society but they learned to work to
compshed remarkable job of construction
engineers artists
restored full citizenship many of these ex
criminals have received the the and-he
Order of
Think OF a prisoner in Sing Sing being of
his term with Congressional