The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19

arbitration and no-strike legislation
is the order of the day. Behind it
all stand the grim outlines Of Fas-
cism, nurtured by Wall Street.
Economic Rise of U. S. S. R.
In contrast with these conditions
in the richest country in the world,
the Soviet Union under the dicta-
torship of the proletariat and guided
by the policies of LeniniSm as en-
bodied in the Communist Party,
has founded the basis for the steady
increase Of the economic well-being
and culture of the toiling masses.
Unemployment does not exist,
wages have been increased in the
last five years by 40 per cent, new
factories are opened, the seven-hour
day exists for all, with the six-hour
day for youth and dangerous work.
An all embracing system of social
insurance is administered by $4,000
delegates with a fund of over five
billion roubles at their disposal.
Illiteracy has been abolished
and new schools open yearly. The
Socialist reorganization of agricul-
ture has rooted out the last breeding
place of capitalism and has guaran-
teed the collective farmers an in
creased standard of living and cul-
ture Soviet Power has freed pre-
viously oppressed national minori-
ties and united $50 nationalities in
close fraternal bonds. On the in
ternational arena, the Soviet Union
is the most powerful force fighting
for peace in ths world today.
1t is the recognition that Soviet
Power-the state force of the die
tstorShip Of the proletariat liberates
the toiling masses from the oppres-
sion, exploitation, starvation, war
and fascism, Of capitalism that
mobilizes ever larger toiling masses
in defense Of their Workers Father
land-the Soviet Union.
Defend the Soviet Union
While leaving nothing unturned
in their struggle to delay imperial
list war against the Soviet Union,
the workers in the course Of this
present-day struggle must acquire
the full knowledge of what its tasks
will be in the event of such an i'm
perialist attack upon the Soviet
Union.
This is stated most explicitly in
the following quotations from the
Resolution of the Sixth Congress Of
the Communist International:
'Imperialist war against the
Soviet Union Is open, bourgeois,
counter revolutionary class war
against the prOletariat. Its prin-
cipal aim is to overthrow the pro-
Ietarian dictatorship and to intro
duee reign of white guard terror
against the working class and the
tOiIers of all countries. The basis
for the tactics of the prOletariat
in capitalist countries in the
struggle against such a war is
furnished by the Bolshevik pro-
gram of struggle against the inn
perialist war, !. e.. transform the
war into civil war. The methods
and tasks of this struggle, prior to
the outbreak of the war and
during the war must, however, be
adapted to the concrete conditions
under which it was prepared for,
and to its openly class character,
The fact that, in this case, the
enemy is not an imperiaIist
power, but the prOletarian dicta-
torship, introduces certain impor-
tant notifications in anti-war
tactics. 1898
"The International working
class, and the toilers generally,
look to the Soviet Union as their
champion, and their attitude to-
wards the Soviet Union Is one of
growing sympathy s**s
'The possibilities Of preventing
war against the Soviet Union by
intensifying class struggles to the
point of revolutionary, mass ac-
ton against the bourgeois govern
ments are much greater at the
present time than the possibilities
for such action were in 1914. An
example of revolutionary action
was given by the British workers
in 1920 when, by forming Councils
of Action, they forced their gov
eminent to abandon their inten-
ton of declaring war against the
/ Soviet Union.
1.-THE conditions favorable for
Transforming a war against the
Soviet Union into civil war against
the bourgeoisie will be much more
splendidly created for the prole-
tariat than in an ordinary i'm
perialist war.*s**
I'm the event of an attack upon
the Soviet Union the Communists
in oppressed nations, as well as
those imperiaIist countries, must
exert all their efforts to rouse
| rebellion or wars Of national
liberation among the national
minOrities in Europe and in the
colonial and semi colonial eOun-
tries against the imperiaIist enc
mics of the Soviet State.
In view of the fact that the
enemy in such war is the
Soviet Union, |. e., the fatherIand
of the international proIetariat,
! the following changes must be