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January 17, 1936

Bo 4

B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS

Page Three

In Commemoration Of Lenin

October Revolution And
The Middle Class

By J. STALIN

Undoubtedly the question of the
middie strata is one of the chief
questions of the workers’ revolution,
The middle strata—that is, the peas-
antry and the non-proletarian toil-
ing elements in the towns. The op-
pressed nationalities must also be
reckoned under this heading, for
nine-tenths of them consists of these
middel strata. As you see, it is just
a question of those strata which in
accordance with their economic situ-
ation stand between the proletariat
and the class of the capitalists.

The specific gravity of these strata
is determined by two circumstances;
first of all these strata represent the
majority, or at least a very large
minority, of the population of the
existing states; and secondly, they
form a yery serious reserve from
which the class of the capitalists is
able to recruit its army against the
proletariat.

Win or Neutralize

The proletariat cannot maintain
power without winning the sym-
pathy, without winning the support
of these middle strata, and, above
all, of the peasantry; and this is par
ticularly true of a country like our
Union of Republics.

The proletariat cannot even dream
seriously of seizing power without at
least neutralizing these strata, unless
these strata have been torn away
from the class of the capitalists and
if they still form in their majority an
army in the service of capitalism.

From this results the struggle for
the winnings of the middle strata, the
strugele for the winning of the peas-
antry, which runs like a red thread
through the course of our whole
revolution from 1905 te 1917, a strug-
gle which has by no means ended
and which will have to be conducted
in the future also.

Why Other Revolutions Failed

The reyolution of 1848 in Prance
suffered a defeat, amongst other
reasons, beeause it failed to enlist
the sympathy of the French peas-
antry. The Paris Commune of 1871
eollapsed, amongst other reasons, be-
cause it met with the resistance of
the middle strata, and above all, the
peasantry. The same is true of the
Russian Revolution of 1905.

Taking this experience of the
European revolutions, a number of
vulgar Marxists, led by Kautsky,
came to the conclusion that the
middle strata and, above all, the
peasantry, were practically the dead-
ly enemies of the proletarian revo-

--Jution, and that therefore the per-

spective of devyolopment was a long
and tedious one in which the prole-
tariat would gradually become the
majority inside the various nations
and thus create the necessary con-
ditions for the victory of the prole-
tariat revolution.

Qn the basis of this conclusion
they left the middle strata to be the
complete prey of the capitalist class.
On the basis of this conclusion they
prophesied the collapse of the Rus-
sien October Revolution, pointing out
that the proletariat in Russia was in
the minority, that Russia was a
peasant country and that therefore
a victorious proletarian revolution in
Russia was a sheer impossibility.

Marx on Middle Class and
Peasantry

It is characteristic that Marx him-
self held a very different estimation
of these middle strata and, above all,
of the peasantry. Whilst the vulgar-
Marxists dispose of the peasantry
With a wave of the hand and leave
the middle strata to the untrammeled
political influence of the capitalist,
whilst loudly claiming credit for the
“Jogical principles,’ Marx himself,
the greatest Marxist amongst all
Marxists, urgently advised the Party
of the Communists not to lose sight
of the peasantry, to work to win
them for the proletariat and to se-
cure their support for the coming
proletarian revolution. In the ‘fifties,
following the defeat of the February
revolutions in France and Germany,
Marx wrote to Engels, and through

_him to the whole Communist Party

of Germany;—

“The whole situation in Ger-
many will depend on the possibility
of supporting the proletarian revo-
lution by what one might call a

second edition of the peasant war.”

That passage was written of Ger-
many in the ’fifties of the last cent-
ury, of a peasant country in which
the proletariat was less organized
than it was in 1917 in Russia, where
the peasantry was in a Situation
Which made it even less inclined to
support the proletarian revoiution
than was the case in Russia in 1917.

A Fortunate Combination

Undoubtedly the October Revolu-
tion represents that fortunate as-
sociation of the “peasant war’ with
the. proletarian revolution,” of which
Marx wrote in defiance of all bab-
blers about ‘“‘principles.””

The October Revolution in Russia
has proved conclusively that such an
association is quite possible and that
it can be achieved. The October
Revolution has proved that the pro-
letariat can seize power and hold it
if it at the same time succeeds in
wresting the middle strata, and
above all the peasantry, from sup-
port of the class of the capitalists, if
it suceeedS in transforming these
strata from the reserves of capital-
ism into the reserves of the prole-
tariat.

In brief, the Octaber Revolution,
as the first revolution in the world,
has put forward the question of the
middle strata, and above all the
peasantry, and it has solyed this
question successfully, despite all the
“theories” and all the lamentations
of the heroes of the Second Inter-
national.

KING SUPPORTS
NAZI OLYMPICS

Dominion Gov’t Grants
$10,000 Towards Ca-
nadian Participation;

Nothing for Jobless

MONTREAL, Jan. 14.—One of the
first gestures of friendship for the
Nazi regime of Hitler in a concrete
form made by the new Liberal gov-
ernment of Canada consisted in the
grant of $10,000 for the Canadian
Olympic team to participate in the
Wazi Olympics.

This move is more than a declara-
tion of friendship to the Nazi mur-
derers, but is made in defiance of
the progressive anti-fascist masses
of people of Canada who are ab-
solutely opposed to the regime of the
chopping block and torture chambers
of Hitler.

Every peace loving
every progressive organization of
people in B.C. should immediately
send protests against the King goy-
ernment rendering support to Ger-
man fascism by assisting Hitler to
disseminate his fascist propaganda.

Demand that the grant be rescind-
ed, and the money be devoted to pro-
moting sports for young Canadians.

citizen and

When life is joyous, work goes
well. Hence the high rates of in-
2ustrial production output in the
Soviet Union. Hence the heroes and

heroines of Labor.—stalin.

VOROSHILOVGRAD, U.S.S.R—
Over 15,000 worker sportsmen,
chiefly miners, are hunting in the
steppes of the WDonetz district.
Fox and hares are the chief

5CGVIET UNION WORKERS INDULGE IN
SPORT ONCE PRIVILEGE OF NOBILITY

jeame, but hunts for wolves are also

| organized. Hunting, once the priy-
jilege of the nobility and a handful
of capitalists, is now becoming a
sport which is increasing in popu-
larity among the workers.

SGVIETS PRODUCE
DIESEL TRACTORS

New
Cent Less Fuel

MOSCOW, U.S.S-R.—The Soviet
machine building industry has rec-
orded a fresh victory. A design
brought out by the scientific insti-
tute engaged on the technics of
motors tractors has enabled the
Chelyabinsk Tractor Works to build
mighty tractors with Diesel en-
gines, known as “Stalinetz-Diesel.”’
The engine is 75 h.p., and consumes
40 percent less fuel than the or-
dinary tractor motor.

Wext year the Chelybinsk Works

will be reorganized for the sole
manufacture of these Diesel en-
gines. The first rapid trasnport
tractors have already left the

works. Their horsepower is 110.

RADIO CAMPAIGN
FOR THAELMANN

By CARL HICHIN

WINNIPEG, Jan. 9. — Radio
broadcasts are to play a prominent
part in the campaign originally ini-
tiated by the Manitoba District
Ganadian Labor Defence League,
for the release of Ernst Thaelmann
and other European political pri-
soners.

Noteworthy dates
paign follow:

January 18, at 6:45, broadcast
over GJRC dealing with political
prisoners in Western Ukraine.
January 28, at 6:45 p.m., broad-
east over CJRG, by Mabel Mar-
lowe, district organizer €.L.D-L.,
on ‘Life and History of Ernst
Thaelmann.

January 30, at 6:45 p.m., broad-
cast over GJRC, in German, in
connection with the release of
Thaelmann.

February 1, at 6:45 p.m., broad-
cast over CRJC, by Mabel Mar-
lowe on “The Work of the Inter-
national Labor League.”

These will be followed by a confer-
ence to be held Feb. 4, at 8 p.m., in
the Eree Press Board Room, to
initiate a campaign to aid the vic-

in the cam-

tims of fascism.

Lenin’s Name Beloved By

Oppressed Of Ali Nations

The October Revolution had laid
the basis for the struggle of the pro-
letariat to win the reserves of capi-
talism amongst the masses of the
oppressed nationalities. It was the
first to raise fhe banner of the strug-
gle to win these reserves.

The call for the struggle to free
the oppressed nationalities, a call
which was confirmed in action by
the emancipation of Finland, the
withdrawal of the troops from Per-
sia and China, the formation of the
Union of Republics, the open moral
support accorded to the peoples of
Turkey, China, Indonesia, and
Egypt, this call sounded for the first
time from the lips of those men and
women who had been victorious in
the October Revolution, 2

it is not accidental that Russia,
which was formerly the banner of
oppression for the national minori-
ties, has now become, as a socialist
country, the banner of emancipation
for the oppressed nationalities. It is
mot accidental that the name of the
leader of the October Revolution,
Comrade Lenin, is today one of the
most loved and respected names in

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r the mouths of the oppressed and in-
timidated peasants and revolutionary
intellectuals in the colonial and
semi-colonial countries. ,

Just as in former times Christian-
ity was the banner of the oppressed
and intimidated slaves in the great
Roman Empire, today the path of
development can make (and is al-
ready making) socialism the banner
of emancipation for the millions and
millions of people in the colonial
empires of imperialism,

It can hardly be doubted that this
circumstance considerably facilitates
the struggle to overcome the preju-
dices against socialism and opens up
the path for the penetration of so-
cialist ideas into the remotest cor-
ners of the oppressed countries.

Formerly it was difficult for a so
cCialist to go with an open visor into
the ranks of the non-proletarian
middle strata of the oppressed or the
oppressing: countries, but now he can
go openly amonegst these strata prop-
afating the ideas of socialism in the
hope that they will listen to him and
perhaps follow his words, for he has
on his side such a strong argument

as the October Revolution.

Machines Use 40 Per

VOROSHILOV

Leader of the Red Army

WILL CUT DOWN
SOCIAL SERVICES

WINNIPEG, Jan. 8.—Heavy re-
trenchments in expenditures on so-
cial services during the coming
year were hinted at by Mayor
Cater, of Brandon, Man., at the in-
augural meeting of the city coun-
cil, held Tuesday, Jan, 7. Im a
speech outlining his policy, the
mayor is reported as stating that
‘neither the assessment nor tax
rate can be raised, but expenditures

INFLUENCE OF
LENIN

(Continued from page 1)

having no connection with the every
day problems of the workers among
whom we lived. Such was the Social-
ist Party of Canada.

A Social Democratic Party (con-
sisting largely of foreign born work-
ers) with an unadulterated reformist
program came inte existence shortly
before the war and had secured some
following, particularly in Eastern
Canada. :

The Trades union movement was
dominated by the class-collabora-
tion policies of the A.F. of L. The
slogan of Gompers “‘Reward your
friends and punish your enemies”’
characterized the trades union move-
ment as a whole, but the B.C. unions
had, since the ‘90's constituted a sort
of left-wing in the Trades Congress.
This was due largely to the propa-
ganda of the SP. of C. and, the
TW .W., which before the war claim-
ed to have a membership of 10,000
in B.C.

Such was the labor movement here
in 1917, when Bolshevism ceased to
be a Russian term and took on world
significance.

Workers Eagerly Seized Upon
Lenin’s Writings

Of Lenin’s role, we learned im-
mediately after October 26th. The
capitalist press could not cover up
the leading and directing part of this
great genius in the social upheaval
that was shaking the whole struc-
ture of capitalist society. Has teach-
ings took longer to reach us.

In spite of a rigid censorship of
the press, of police raids, banning
and seizure of papers and books,
articles and speeches by Lenin found
their way into the hands of Canadian
workers. Ihe liberal press in the
U.S. supplied us with some material
but particularly effective was the
“Class Strugegle,’’ published in New
Jersey. Everything of Lenin’s was
seized on with ayidity by the work-
ers. Revolution had ceased to be an
abstraction, a hope, an ideal, a
dream, and had taken on concrete
form in Russia and here in the writ-
ings of Lenin was explained how the
change had been accomplished,

Dogma began to give way to
understanding. A pamphlet by Lenin,
“Soviets at Work,’’ printed in Seattle
and smuggled-into Canada was re-
printed in 20,000 copies by the Van-
couver Trades and Labor Council.
The “Red Flag,’ published by the
S.P. of C. to replace their banned
official organ “The Western Clarion”
printed all the news of the Soviet
victories and every word of Lenin
that could be smuggled into the
country. In Alberta, “The Soviet,”’
published in Edmonton, served the
same purpose.

Lenin Enriched Marxism

Then came “The State and Reyo-
lution’”—“‘The  Proletarian Revolu-
tion and The Renegade Kautsky.”
These works laid the foundation for
a new orientation of the labor move-
ment in this country. With Lenin,

of windy phrase-mongering and be-
came a “guide to action.’”” The real
Marxians learned their Marx over
again with Lenin’s help—that “Phi-
losopher’s haye explained the world
long enough, the task is to change
it.”

Dissent from the policies of the
A..F. of L. in Western Canada came
to a head with the launching of the
0.B.U. at the Calgary conference in
1919 at which the influence of Lenin
was demonstrated by the passing of
resolutions declaring for full aecept-
ance of the principle of ‘‘Proletarian:
Dictatorship’’ and extending revolu-
tionary greetings to the Soviet Goy-
ernment and the Spartacans in Ger-
many.

Canadian Ruling Class Were
Terror Stricken

The Winnipeg General Strike

proved that Lenin had made his

must be reduced.”

mark on the bosses as well as the

Air Bill

By CARL HICHIN

WINNIPEG, Jan. $.—Intention
to commence in the early spring on
the. establishment of a huge air
base at Eastern Passage, near
Halifax, N.S., is revealed at Ot-
tawa following the awarding of a
large contract for building materials
to be used in the construction of
the project, according to reliable
press dispatches arriving here.

Preliminary work on the military
project has been under way for
some two years. The work has
been done in the past by “unem-
ployed” working for twenty cents
per day under the department of
National Defence. The advent of
spring will now see the hurried con-

struction of two mammoth steel
and concrete plane hangars, train-
ing quarters, radio station and a

concrete
front.
Presently the site serves as the
base for No. 5 squadron Royal
Canadian Air Force, but, it is
understood, it will soon be the
headquarters of several new squad-
rons of fighting and bombing
planes of the very latest type and
British design. Published official
record show many R.C.A.F.  of-
ficers and officials already trans-
ferred to the district.
Announcement of the plan, fol-
lowing close upon the fifty percent
augmentation of the staff at Shilo,

“apron” along the water-

Huge Military Air Base
Projects For Canada

Dominion’s Reply to U.S. |

Man., where a similar project is
underway, and upon the recently
increased tempo in military con-
struction throughout the Dominion,
is seen as the Canadian reply to the
passage last summer of the U-S.
Air Bill, This bill ordered the estab-
lishment by the U.S. of a number
of large air bases, some of which
are to be established immediately
south of the U.S.-Canada boundary.

Anglo-American Antagonisms
Intensify
Commentators point out that
British official circles were greatly
perturbed by the passage of that
bill as well as at the increasing
U.S. financial domination of Can-
ada. They note also that the in-
creased rush for near border mili-
tary projects followed closely upon
the visit to this country of Sankey,
the British imperial defence agent.
A brief survey of the U.S. pur-
chases of Canadian securities dur-
ing the first six months of 1935
offers striking grounds for the Brit-
ish discomfiture, and the rapidly
increasing antagonism between U.S.

and British financial interests.
During the first six months of
19385, U.S. investors bought some
$15,000,000 more of Canadian securi-
ties than they did in 1934. Sales of
Canadian securities to Great Britain

during the same period were less
than one sixth of the 1934 six
months period, recording a net
drop of more than $61,000,000 as

compared with the previous year.

Marxism ceased to be a “philosophy” §

workers. The strike committee was
labelled “‘a Soviet’? and the strike
as an attempt to overthrow the Can-
adian government. Just as hope and
militancy grew in the hearts of the
workers, fear and terror were in-
spire@ in the Canadian ruling class.
To them Lenin’s name had become
a symbol of the end of their system
as it had become a battle ery to the
enslaved masses,
But the Canadian revolutionary
workers had not yet mastered the
teachings of Lenin. They still knew
nothing of revolutionary stratezy
and tactics, They were still swayed
by revolutionary-sounding phrases
and flag-waving. They had to learn
that revolutionary progress is the
result of every day tasks carried out
so as to draw into the struggle the
masses of the workers and others
suffering from capitalist oppression.
An Infantile Disorder
The “Reds” who pulled out of the
organized labor movement to form
the ©.B.U. soon found themselves
on the “outside” with the mass of
the workers left under the influence
of the reactionaries, and the O-B.U.
developed into a racket.
At this period ‘‘Left Wing Com-
munism’’ came to show us the path
to follow. It was published by the
B.C. Federationist and resulted in
the prosecution of the editor by the
Mounted Police though the charge
was later dropped.

This pamphlet and those that pre-
ceeded it made it clear to us that our
tasks in the struggle against im-
perialism demanded a party of a
new type. Lenin, the most consistent
Marxist since the death of Engels,
founded that Party, a world prole-
tarian party; a party of iron disci-
pline and singleness of purpose with-
out which revolutionary successes
are impossible; a party in which
theory and practice are linked up,
for ‘‘without revolutionary theory
there can be no revolutionary prac-
tice;’” such a party as will lead the
masses, but not get so far in ad-
ance of them as to be separated
from them and not so far back as to
lose itself in them.

Lenin Taught Us Revolutionary

Theory and Practice

Theoretical confusion, social pacif-
ism, anarcho-syndicalist tendencies
had to be explained by clarity, mili-
tancy, political understanding. Lenin
taught us this in the strategy and
tactics of the revolutionary struggle
against imperialism; in drawing in
as allies the oppressed farmers and
colonial subject peoples; in testing
in the crucible of revolution the dog-
mas of pre-war reformism; in sub-
jecting our own activity to the most
pitiless self-criticism.

Thus, through the influence of
Lenin, came into being the Com-
munist Party of Canada, the leader
of the struggles of the Canadian
workers, still far from perfect, but
feared even in its infancy by our
ruthless jackboot rulers.

Lenin not only put Marxism into
practice, he enriched Marxism by de-
veloping the theories of Marx and
Engels to fit conditions unknown to
them, conditions of capitalism in the
Stage of imperialism and world revo-
lution.

The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

He drew from its hiding place
where it had been buried by the re-
visionists and distorters of Marx,
Marx's conception of the proletarian
state during the transition period
from capitalism to communism—the
Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the
correctness of which is demonstrated
in the Soviet Union which stands as
a monument today to Lenin and his
work,

We still have our October ahead of
us. We have many barriers to over-
come before that objective is
achieved. To meet the threat of revo-
lution from the victims of their greed
the finance-capital monopolists in
their fear have devised a new ter-
roristic state weapon—fascism. The
mask has fallen from the face of
democracy and we are confronted
by the most open brutal form of
class rule.

United Front in Actual Life

We can defeat this latest move of
capitalism only by following the
revolutionary tactics of Lenin. Only
by drawing into the struggle against
fascism and war, under the guidance
of Lenin’s world party, the Com-
munist International, will it be pos-
sible ta smash this monstrous capi-
talist machine. The United Front
must cease to be a slogan and hbe-
come a fact. This is what the influ-
ence of Lenin has taught us in Brit-
ish Columbia.

WELSH STRIKERS
WON’T PAY FINE

Fined two shillings per week for
calling a strike and “violating their
contract,’’ 163 miners in the Swan-
sea district (South Wales), have
started a “‘stay down” strike as a
protest against the court order and
subsequent deductions from pay.

the U.S. purchased $118,991,511 of
Canadian securities, while Britain’s
purchases amounted to a mere
$11,518,593.

It must be remembered in con-
nection with these figures that as
early as 1933 the U.S. had twice the
yolume of invested capital in Can-
ada that Brifain had, and .during
1935 U.S. capital continued to pour
into Canada at the rate of ten U.S.
dollars for every one British dollar.
Furthermore, Canada during the
first six months of 1935 was invest-
ing four dollars in U.S.A. for every
dollar she placed in Britain.

It is from these facts that com-
mentators see British and U.S. fi-
nancial interests fast approaching
that same state as existed between
Germany and Britain in 1914, and
they presage the early doom of the

By J. STEVENSON

The writings of Lenin cover every,

conceivable angle of human activ-
ity as far as the efforts of the
working class in the struggle for
power and the building of Socialism
is concerned. Lenin, with his clear,
concise and analytical mind, was}
able to discern and separate the
tares from the wheat; no phase of
the working class movement es-
eaped his scrutiny, and his conclu-
sions are-clear and exact. The
Trade Unions and their relationship
to the class struggle, the part to be
played by the class conscious work-
er in the Trade Union, the mistaken
and incorrect approach of the “left-
ist” factions to the Trade Unions,
were all appraised by Lenin.

A Proletarian Apparatus

In the early days of the Soviet
Union, when the proletariat of
Russia was. struggling heroically
against the capitalist reaction of
Burope, Lenin showed that the
Trade Unions, although formally a
non-Gommunist body, were of in-
estimable value, a powerful prole-
farian apparatus by means of
which, the party of the workers was
closely linked up with the masses,
and thus made class dictatorship
realizable. We see the tremendous
growth of Socialism in the Soviet
Union; and when we consider
that the numerical strength of the
Trade Union movement in 1920 in
Russia was four million members,
and today according to figures giv-
en at the Seventh Congress that
strength is 19,600,000, then we know

MOLOTOV

Lenin ¢ On Trade Unions

develop into broader industrial
tather than craft organizations
(embracing whole industries and
not merely crafts, trades and pro-
fessions).”

Unmistakable Trends

We in British Columbia are moy-
ing to a realization of these pro-

phetic words. The A.F.of L. for half

a century or more the stalwart of
“Hure and simple” craft unionism,
is being shaken to its foundations,
and organizations within the A.H.of
lL. are moving towards industrial
unionism. :
Qn the Pacific Coast a great or-
ganization has grown in the saw-
mills and lumber camps in the
U.S.A. that is reaching up towards
Canada and definitely aligning it-
self with and takes shape in the in-
‘dustrial form, even while under the
wing of an international craft un-
ion, viz: the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America.
Childish “Pure” Unionists

Lenin castigates severely those
who in their recolutionary zeal can
only see the dictatorship of the
proletariat, who contrive spick and
span ‘Workers’ Unions’? that are
free fromthe taint of narrow craft—
ism, and all and any who by such
tactics—characterized by Lenin as
childish and nonsensical — would
isolate themselves and set up a bar-
rier against work in the midst of
the masses and thereby rendering
the greatest service to the bour-
geoisie, are in fact the labor Jieu-
tenants of the capitalist class.

The Canadian Labor movement is
divided in such a way that at pres-
ent real Trade Union unity looks
difficult to achieve.

Weed for Unity
We have in Ganada two organiza-

Chairman of the Council of
People’s Commissars

that Lenin visualized this growth
and was able to give a clear line of
action as to the work to be done,
the methods to be used, the propa-
ganda, the conferences, in fact,
definite instructions through the
references to Trade Unionists which
again and again appear in his
works.

Towards Industrial Unionism
Ihenin placed great dependence
upon the Trade Unions of Russia.
To quote an extract from “Left
Wing Communism’ written in 1920,
Lenin said, “Without the closest
connection with the Trade Unions,
without their hearty support and
self-sacrificing work, not only in
economic but in military organiza-
tion, it would haye been of course
impossible to govern the country
and maintain the dictatorship for
two and a half years or even for
two and a half months.”

Lenin showed that the trend of
Trade Unionism was slowly but
surely in the direction of Industrial
Unions—"Capitalism leaves as an
inheritance to Socialism Trade Un-
ions which only very slowly and in

tions (one national, the other inter-
national) with a craft union view-
point; two organizations with in=
dustrial unionism as their aim; one
organization (national) with a re-
ligious complex,
pendent unions and company uD-
jons—such is the make up of the
Trade Union movement in Canada,
a movement which, taken as a

of the Canadian workers.

To overcome this condition in the
Ganadian Labor Movement the need
for Trade Union unity, for consoli-
dation, for centralization of the dif-
ferent sections of the existing labor
unions is greater than ever. Lenin
constantly pointed to organization
as a means to this end; “The power
of the working class lies in its or-
ganizations.”

: Role of the Unions

“Tet every worker who under-
stands the necessity for organiza-
dion in order to carry on the
struggle against the employers
and the government join the

Trade Unions,” and further:

“Trade Union organization may
_not only be of tremendous value
in developing and consolidating
the economic struggle, but may
also become a very useful auxili-
ary to the political agitational and
revolutionary organization.”

He leaves no doubt as to the dif-
ficulties that lie ahead, but which
must be surmounted in order to
reach and win the working class.

Be With the Masses

The opposition of the opportunist,
the social chauvinist, the labor aris-
tocracy, will have te be met and
Overcome, sacrifices must be made,
hindrances overcome, “insistently
and patiently,” in all organizations
where proletarian or semi-proletari-
ans gather and ‘As for Trade Un-
ions and co-operatives (this applies
at least sometimes to the latter)
they are just the organizations
where the mass is to be found.”

Iuenin clearly defined the position
of every thinking worker in respect
to the union membership and ac-
tivity—into the Trade Unions, stay
in the Trade Unions, work in the
Trade Unions, because “organized

the course of years, can and will

the proletariat is everything, un-
organized it is nothing.”

LENIN SAID:

“There is not a single

anteeings the bourgeoisie the

state, however democratic,

which does not contain loopholes in its Constitution guar-

legal possibility of despatch-

ing troops against the workers, in case the exploited
class “disturbs” its position of slayery and tries to be-
have in a non-slavish manner.”—(The Proletarian Reyvo-
lution and the Renegade Kautzky, P. 27).

BANK BALANCES
TRIPLE IN YEAR

Collective farms had a current
account balance of 931 million
rubles in the State Bank on Dec. 1,
tripling last year’s figure. The total
amount on deposit for collective
farms in the state and agricultural
banks at present amount to 1,120
million rubles.

REGULAR TRAFFIC
ON POLAR AIRLINES

Regular year-round traffie over
polar air-lines has been organized
this year by the Central Admini-
stration of the Northern Sea Route.
On December 9 Pilot Buzayey of
the Yenisei air-line made the third
flight of the season, bringing mail
and passengers from Igarka to
Krasnoyarsk,

INDUST

Soviet Heavy Industry.
At the beginning of the First
404.9 million rubles.

In 1929 it rose to 515.8 million
Development in the years that
1930) 2 eee 732.6
19802 Se eee 947.3
1982 oe eee 1,139.6
qOSSi eer eee 1,257.9
AOS AE oe ee eer 1,603.2

From 404.9 million rubles to 2,1

much boosted of unfortified U.S

During January to June, 1935,

Canada boundary.

FIGURES TELL TALE OF SOVIET

RIAL DEVELOPMENT

The average monthly value of commodities produced by the Peoples
Commissariat of Heavy Industry is a brilliant example of strength of

Five Year Plan in 1928 it averaged

rubles.

followed is illustrated below:
million rubles per month
million rubles per month
million rubles per month
million rubles per month
rubles month

80.6 million rubles worth of monthly.

output, such is the triumphant path followed by Soviet industry since
the adoption of the First Five Year Plan.

and many inde-~

whole, comprises only 10.per cent

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