The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

by HARRY CANNES -
Two Congresses
MOlOtOv's Speech
Anti-SOviet War Plans
WEEPING in mind the hypo-
IA critical hooey of Roose-
velt's message to the current
U. S. Congress, we urge all
readers not to miss reading
every word of today's ex-
elusive and full report on
Comrsde Molotov's keynote speech
ITO the 7th Soviet Congress which
S'pened in Moscow Monday.
p Among the 1874 Soviet represent
tatives, coming from every factory
in the land of Socialism and the
collective farms there were no Con-
gressmen such as you find in Wash
ington representing the duPonts.
the Morgans, Raskobs, Melons.
In the Soviet Union the class for
which the Hearsts and the Roose-
velt's speak have been driven out
and every drop of fetid economic
soil that could possibly produce
them is being destroyed forever.
In other words, the proletarian
dictatorship against which Mr..
Hearst rants so furiously declares
that only the toilers of hand or
brain, those who build society and
provide the necessities of life and
culture, shall have the right to vote
and rule.
AND the contrast of the two Com
n crosses is shown in every phase
of life. While production in the
United States, the most advanced
capitalist country in the world, is
IS per cent below the 1929 figure,
in the Soviet Union, the country Of
the proletaran dictatorship, produc-
ton is 139 per cent above 1929.
Nor is that all. The United States
has been in crisis over five years.
Recently there has been rise in
production in the United States But
what was the effect? Profits in
some instances doubled and tripled.
But unemployment in some instan-
ces doubled and tripled. On the
whole the wages and standards Of
living of the workers were driven
down. In the US.S.R. every adj
vance in production means an adj
vance in living standards, security
and cultural advance for the masses.
I'VE cannot speak too much
about the crisis in the capitalist
world" declared Molotov. Never in
the history of capitalism has there
been such devastating crisis, he
pointed out. No matter If produce
ton in some countries does move
above the lowest level-that Is the
lowest level in all their history
still it does not proceed along the
path to prosperity In fact, the
course of capitalist economy creates
so many new contradictions that
it's path leads only to fascism and
war.
IN the Soviet Union, Molotov re-
1 ported, all capitalist elements
have been eliminated entirely in
industry, and nine-tenths of agri-
culture has been collectivized.
Socialist construction in the So
Wet Union is bringing to 170,000,000
people not only greatly improved
material life, and the perspectives
for the quickest development to the
highest standard of living the world
has ever known, but it has in
creased the cultural outlook far
beyond anything that can be seen
on the black horizon of capitalist
decay.
Molotov's speech is too rich in
content, in facts, in political signi-
ficance to be dealt with adequately
in this short column. Even the
Daily Worker lengthy cable is only
a resume of this speech, the full
text of which will be published
later.
yyJE want to deal now only with
|
W two more issues brought up by
Comrade Molotov. First, is the
warning to the capitalists of the
whole world, particularly to Japan
csc imperialism and German fas-
cism, that the Soviet Union has
built up it's mighty arm of defense
to an extent which, with the help
of the proletariat in the capitalist
lands, will hurl any invader from
the strong borders of the workers
fatherland
The Soviet Union ceaselessly
strives for peace-as ceaSelessly as
Hitler drives to war and the jap
anese imperialists openly declare
their intentions of slicing up parts
Of the Soviet Union.
But no worker should for a
moment forget the fact that the
capitalist world can never rest con-
tent, can never for a moment stop
its active preparations for an at
tempted destruction of the Soviet
Union, The very advance of So
cialism counterposed to the deeper
decay of capitalism is the motivat-
ing force which drives the capitalist
rulers to undertake plans for this
major and what they consider de-
cisive war of all human history.
And out of this grows the fervid
defense of the capitalists for every
counter-revolutionary clique that
even by a hairs -breadth tries to
weaken the proletarian dictatorship
and its stalwart leadership, the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, and its general staff headed
by Joseph Stain.