The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1931, Page 3

_DAILY W WORKER, NEW YORK, W’ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1931 eet eas, rage ihres = LIES AND LIARS AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION Yesterday’s article analyzed the propaganda about forced labor in the Soviet Union. The article shows that society cannot live without labor. So- elety is forced to work. The capitalists, however, organize this social necessity of labor in such a manner as to make profit out of it and as to exempt themselves from work. The Soviet Union organizes it to make available the fruits of labor to all those who perform labor. ee RS VI—The Red Trade Menace. By MAX BEDACHT. Lie and something is bound to stick; this is the foundation upon which the capitalists build the holy war myth against the Soviet Union. There cannot be enough lies. When Knickerbocker sends a nice assortment of them to the N. Y. Evening Post, the editor exclaims: What, only that many lies—that will never do. And fitting his actions to his words he proceeds to raise the ante of inven- tions, half-truths and wilful misinterpreta- tions of his European correspondent. The N. Y. Evening Graphic, after having lied and lied about the Soviet Union, began to feel that it might be advisable to fortify these lies with some little proof—even though the proof would have to be manufactured. So the editor proceeded forthwith to “secure” proofs. He secured a photo and published it in the issue of February 28 showing a prisoner stripped to the waist, tied to the iron bars of his cell and lashed fearfully. Here you have it, the editor barked, here you can see how the Reds in Russia treat the prisoners who work in the Soviet lumber camps. Looking at the upright capitalist editor shaking with righteous indignation, one would never recog- nize in him the sneaky liar who had just dug up a photo of lashings*administered to an in- mate of a capitalist prison in the capitalist state of Delaware and in the capitalist United States, and who now lyingly ascribes these atrocities to the USSR. Beware of the red trade menace, cry Woll and Knickerbocker, the Chambers of Com- merce and Hillquit, Hoover and Fish. Unitedly they call upon the American workers to de- fend their sacred right to be exploited by the American capitalists. They call upon the American workers to defend their right to send their children into American factories to have profits squeezed out of their childhood and to have their childhood squeezed out by \ profits for the benefit of the American capi- talists. Mr. Matthew Woll asserts as his ereed that “the Soviet regime in Russia is the most un- scrupulous, most anti-social, most menacing institution in the world today. With it there can be no compromise of any kind.” Matthew Woll’s soul is thoroughly aroused about the anti-social Soviets. That means a great deal because this gentleman’s soul is not so easily aroused. American capitalism has cut wages in a continuous and repeated performance since November, 1929. Yet it took a year and a half before this performance raised as much as a sound out of Mr. Woll’s soul. American capitalism is keeping Billings and Mooney in prison for nearly 16 years on an infamous frame-up. But that hasn’t yet aroused Mr. Woll’s soul. American capitalism has mur- dered Sacco and Vanzetti—still Mr. Woll’s soul remained unruffled. There are at this moment in California prison cells, eight work- ers because they committed the crime of lead- ing a strike against the miserable working conditions on the vegetable farms of Imperial Valley. These workers have been sentenced to 42 years imprisonment each; but Mr. Woll’s soul is still undisturbed. American capitalism has these days perpetrated a dastardly frame- up against nine Negroes in Alabama. These nine innocent boys are being railroaded to the electric chair. But Mr. Woll’s happy soul is still tranquil. American capitalism is op- pressing, asain outlawing and Sacre Ohio Miners Meet; Strike Being Spread (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) on the Executive Committee of 16 elected by the conference. A scale committee of sixteen elect- ed by the conference, after an houxs’ Negroes every day of the year; but Mr. Woll’s soul does not respond. But although this soul remains unmoved by the daily atrocities of capitalist exploitation against the workers, it cannot withstand the shock caused it by the abolition of capitalist profits through the So- viets. It becomes thoroughly aroused. It sends him on a crusade. Yet Mr. Woll’s humanitarianism does not seem to be powerful enough to stop the more materialist endeavors of his hands. The holy crusader against the Soviet Union, Mr. Mat- thew Woll, wrote that he was “apprehensive that the commercial, financial and industrial instincts of our people may cause them to fall for the Soviet appeal for trade.” Mr. Woll’s apprehensions seem to have been only too jus- tified. At the very moment when Mr. Mat- thew Woll voiced his apprehensions, the presi- dent of the Union Life Insurance Company, a certain Mr. Matthew Woll, wrote a letter to the American-Russian Trading Corporation asking this terrible Soviet Red trade agency for their insurance business. We are still awaiting a report that the apprehensive Mr. Woll has written a letter reprimanding the business-hungry Mr. Woll for his faux pas. There is another saintly crusader against the red trade menace, Mr. Hamilton Fish. Mr. Fish wanted to trade with the USSR He was very anxious to get this trade. He went for it to the USSR. When he came back he didn’t have his contract yet; but he was more anx- ious than ever to get it. He made a speech té the Kiwanis Club assuring his listeners that Bolshevism was firmly entrenched in Russia and that it offered great business opportuni- ties. He was so convinced of these business opportunities and especially of his mission in life to profit by them that he introduced a resolution in Congress on March 24, 1926, demanding in part “to resume friendly trade relations with the people of Russia, our tra- ditional friends . for the development of mutually profitable trade relations.” But try as he may Mr. Fish could not sell his good will toward the Soviet Union for a nice, fat and profitable contract. So he de- cided to change his goods and to sell bad will instead. Business is business after all. If one cannot sell red shoestrings, one has to paint them yellow and try again. If one can- not turn good will toward the Soviet Union into profits, one has to try bad will. And thus there came forth a new Saint George from the head of Jupiter Capitalism td slay the Dragon of Bolshevism; only his name was not George but Hamilton Fish. The first thrust of this Saint George was another resolution in Congress—this time not demanding “friendly trade relations with our traditional friends” but antagonistic measures against the red trade menace. The propaganda of the red trade menace is designed to frighten everybody. The red ‘trade menace is supposed to rob the Amer- ican workers of their jobs and the American capitalists of their business. The ¥ive Year Plan is supposed to be an economic measure which will enable the Soviets to compete capi- talism out of existence. What are the facts concerning Soviet trade? The idea that the Soviets desire to over- come world capitalism by commercial compe- tition could be disposed of as a joke if it were not designed to support bloody war plans. It impugns socialism with the imperialist de- signs of present-day capitalism. Capitalism produces for profit. Profit as we know is the difference between the amount of products the worker produces and the amount he receives back in form of wages. Profit therefore can only grow with the growth of the portion of unpaid labor. But the growth of the portion of unpaid labor also increases the surplus of back. With this surplus which is reduced only by the consumption through capitalists and other non-productive elements, capitalism tries to conquer the world’s markets. Out of the sale of this surplus the capitalists accumulate new capital. The desire to conquer new worlds for the profitable investment of this new capi- tal drives world capitalism into new imperialist wars. The Soviet Union is a socialist country. It does not produce commodities. Though the exchange of products still takes place in the form of buying and selling, yet the social re- lationships under which this buying and sell- ing takes place have completely changed. Above all there exists a workers’ government in the Soviet Union. While the capitalist gov- talism’s supreme law, the right to make profit, the workers’ government in the Soviet Union enforces against the capitalists labor’s su- preme law—the right to live in accordance with the capacity of the productive forces and in accordance with the service rendered to society. Production in the Soviet Union is for use, not for profit. This production therefore aims to cover the needs of the urban and rural mas- ses. Surplus is only produced to facilitate further production, to build new factories, to erect new electric power stations, to open new mines, ete. The building of new factories, the erection of new power stations, the opening of new mines of course does lead to an increase of production. This increase however is not turned into profit but goes back to the work- ers in form of raised living and working stan- dards. The new factories, etc., therefore rep- resenta fundamentally different phenomenon from capitalist accumulation of private wealth. They represent socialist accumulation. They are not turned into new instruments of ex- ploitation but into new and welcome'tools for easier and more abundant production of ne- cessities. Under socialism in the Soviet Union the actual surplus production is limited to the needs of the maintenance and of the expan- sion of the means of production. Some of these necessary means of produc- tion, machinery, raw materials, etc., are se- cured from other countries until home pro- duction is developed enough to make the so- cialist economy of the Soviets more self-suffi- cient. The industrialization plan contained in the Five Year Plan serves this aim. To buy in foreign countries the Soviets must also. sell. The value of all imports must be covered in exchange by exports of similar value; in plain words the imports must be paid for in.exports. Soviet exports therefore are not designed to compete capitalism out of ex- istence, but to pay for Soviet imports. This is especially important because the industrial- ization of the Soviet Union takes place under entirely different conditions than the indus- trial development of capitalism. Capitalist industrialization had access to an extensive system of loans. Socialist construction in the USSR on the other hand depends entirely on its immediate socialist accumulation. Soviet exports in the main serve the pur- pose of paying for their necessary imports. The propaganda of the Five Year Plan being a preparation to compete capitalism out of ex- istence is therefore just another contribution to the holy war myth. The Soviet Union in fact is endeavoring constantly to increase its economic independence from capitalist coun- tries. It does not want to depend for its ne- cessary machinery and raw material upon the capitalists. The Five Year Plan therefore lays special emphasis on industrialization. As the building of socialism advances its needs for imports will decrease. With the decrease of sary to spread the strike and build the National Miners Union. issue a special call to all miners in Ohio and West Virginia. 3) To send souaacty greetings to tne siios’ © ANT) TERROR AGAINST JOBLESS; To send greetings to the Harlan, Kq., | strikers and prisoners. statement on conference to press. 6) To send demands to coal operators and state that the District Scale Committee will enter info collective agreements on the basis of these de- commodities which labor is unable to buy'its imports its Seer likewise will decrease. 5) To issue 9 | “WILL STRUGGLE, NOT STAR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Staunton, Casey, etc. John Williamson spoke for the ernments enforce against the workers capi- | “:/FRANKELD PICTURES MISERY [Sqp,Peoer [HOOVER FORCED ioe 2 fee Betrayal of 9) (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | whose dollars have kept the segre- gation racket moving along for many years, demands to know what the association is actually doing in this case and why it ‘permitted “Drie Nearly Two-Third Oveh But Most Districts Far Behind The red trade menace will never be born ex- | cept in the form in which it exists now—that | of poisoned gas produced out of the imagina-| Byild Crrenlition W itl h Tease U tion of the manufacturers of the holy war myth. \Start ‘ Daily” Clubs In Shops, N SSR Articles, ghborhoods! Capitalist economy proceeds on completely } different principles than Soviet economy. | First of all capitalist economy is not planned. Capitalist individualism and competition can d with increa districts show decreases tn their figures, over the past weelts only produce chaotic economy, just as social- highest of which is District 2, Ne : . » Tepres ai e tables with ism must of necessity produce planned econo- oe rere the teaen tee ae . sine rans rary is that previously the N, Y. figure my. Although capitalism answers every com- | PUG eUALt copies. ala Gea plaint of workers concerning working condi- ts copies not being holds Clevelanrd ix next with ures for Philadelphia of 62 on a cut of own plus small gains Kulpmont and Port Carbon, tions with arguments about the law of supply and demand, yet its economy is unable to adapt itself to this law and to adjust supply and demand td each other. Capitalism must} leave this adustment to economic and social | convulsions. The convulsion of an economic | crisis must temporarily and from time to time adjust production to the market (adjust the} supply to the demand). The convulsion of an} imperialist war is supposed to adjust the growth of the productive capacity of capital- ism to the growth of its markets. But no mat-| ter how serious these convulsions are they | cannot solve the contradictions of capitalism. | They merely become the starting point of new) and more serious crises. Under socialism the limit of production is the limit of the needs and of the capacity to| supply these needs under any given stage of | r development of production. Both the needs | ‘ and the capacity to supply them develop s | multaneously and stimulate each other. Under capitalism the needs are limited by the social capacity to buy; but the production | | is theoretically unlimited. As a matter of fact | the urge for ever more profits most energeti-| cally tends toward an ever-extending produc- | tion. At the same time it also tends just as| energetically toward a simultaneous relative narrowing of the social capacity to buy, be- | cause the increase of production is not de- | signed to serve a simultaneous and equal in-| : crease of the earnings of the workers; it only | FINANCIAL—CIRCULATION P UP CIRCULATION OF DAILY Districts responsible for de# ses should make every effort to push sales of the Daily Worker t ning most ty) with with has published. It should be mediately involved in the cam for funds a Daily Worker €lu RIES POSSIBLE! The Novy Mir Workers’ Manhatta months ag on behalf of t quota of 850 was set fo at the opening of the This “Daily ord of the to be proud of and should be em- ulated by other organisations A a tempo! trict th in , to’ take for Dail e area | etended | Worker. | Make your Tag Day preparations wa | now! Remember the dates—June | 26, 27 and 28! ° serves an increase of profits. Profit-making, however, does not depend on the securing of unpaid labor. It depends also} z © 38 on the chance to sell; it depends on markets } : ai ele for the commodities produced. The capitalist | & 35 as market is not an expression of the needs of |! Boston 8 1,000 395 (B17 I =a. Y. | 8. Phila. 4. Buffalo 5. Pitts. 6 Cleveland 7 Detroit 8 Chicago 9 Mnpls. 10 Kans.Cty 11 Agric. society. It is only an expression of its capac- ity to buy. Capitalism cannot extend its mar- ket beyond this social, capacity to buy. How- ever, though capitalism as a whole is bound by this limitation of its world inarket, individual} capitalists, groups of capitalists or capitalist | nations can extend their markets within this | general limitation at the expense of each other. | 12 Seattle Therefore we witness the continuous violent | | aut. struggle for markets between the capitalist na-| 16 sown, tions. When mere economic war measures | 17 Birming become ineffective in this struggle, military HH cake measures are taken. Then the economic war Cnorg. turns inte a military war | Economy of the Soviet: Union is not subject to these laws of capitalism. Fi it does not | produce commodities but necessities. Second | it plans its production and will therefore never be burdened with over-production or with a too-highly developed productive apparatus. Soviet increase of production and dev elopment | DANGER! of productive forces cannot lead to economic} This is what Saturday's crises and wars but will lead to more leisure | oe up nay Pee aerated eametalead: acwbetacie ie a he situation is grave, Every district has slowed down badly. District and greater abundance for the workers, |2 (New York) is showing a tendency to rest on its laurels. Only $176.38 from this district Saturday—a far cry from the more than $1,000 of Thurs- | day. | Only $89.22 from District 6 (Cleveland), which on Friday was not heard | from at all; while the second and third largest districts, 8 (Chicago) and | | } Bi S118 23017 DANGER! RECEIPTS DROP ON | SATURDAY TO ONLY $478.60 totals spell in large letters. Only $478.60 re- The whole propaganda about the insidious | Soviet intensions of competing capitalism out of existence is contrary to the fundamental economic principles of socialism. Only capi- 7 (Detroit). lag badly with $27.60 and $41.50, respectively. The district with talism can think of competing its opponents } the fourth largest quota, District 3 (Philadelphia), sends in a mere $10. All the other districts are badly off, while 1 (Boston), 11 (Agricultural) out of existence. aria Yate . hi } an utte) were not heard from at all. mo # Ligne ae trade sees | Comrades, get out of this slump before it is too late! The Daily Worker reatens .the jobs 0 e American OR €YS | is seriously threatened! We must receive a minimum of $1,200 every day. will be analyzed under the subject of “Soviet | Everybody back on the job! Dumping.” DISTRICT 2 Two Bksies 8 M. Machata G ae Jerne! S Zucker, Buffalo Joe Vanzo Total TO SPEAK ABOUT | Mais, Bx | ‘Tremont Wkrs Cl. DISTRICT 6 1.00 | Cleveland Col. R. McFall, / FIVE-YEAR PI AN| Bronx Co-0n, ed. Wkrs. Club 1.2! Milwaukee 1.50 Ja 4. | 5 So, Slay, Edu, | | _ Club, W. Allis 7.50 | P. Krillova ‘Total INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 16.~ | In another of his usual lying | ES DISTRICT 9 Irma Martin, J. Rubinoft J. Bonn deliberation, accepted the Pennsyl- feds. Se denied Whi tendent Moody closed the doors of | Communist Party, receiving a big re- | other organizations to beat it to | speeches about the economic crisis, | has wipeolenatan ent? vania Rank and File Strike Commit- of al ave ey Soppea Hom the ‘eivike the state convention hall, not al-|sponse. A local woman worker with | Scottsboro by several weeks. Hoover yesterday, speaking Sod 2 | Minn. Minn. +25, tee demands as the basic demands|¢. os ts g) ‘To demand immediate |!WiNS anyone to leave or enter|two children broke through the state) “Neatly typewritten and multi- |the Indiana Republican Editorial Chava aa tei [ORS Sesehemer | Suey for this district. pe unconditional release of all work- | Util the conference took a recess} troopers’ line bringing food to the graphed ‘releases’ issued each week | Association here, made a special at- | Iwo Br. 148 ‘Total $17.00 The Executive Committee elected | ers arrested and jailed for strike and at which time the delegates were | marchers stating that she had heard) from 69 Fifth Avenue have been | tack on the Five Year Plan of the. Pecusks conaabignmncr cs is the following: organization activity. 9) To issue herded into their trucks and autos| speeches the day before in the Re-| taken as fact so long by the Negro | Soviet Union. | Sarah Holzman K. C., Mo. 1.00 Whitney Nelson, John Shimbel, | strike bulletins if possible, and under police guard were taken |servoir Park demonstration and read) press of America that some have | tHe said there had been a lot at | Ei Ciconna, Astoria Weta a weueeetgTRicn oS John Woods, A. Shatter, Bob Sivert,|° a1, a scutive Committ, cay..| tthe Park which had already been|in the papers of the captureof the| come to believe it is a hish crime | talk about “planning” in the United rat enti Coe. W. Korchack Unemployed Br, Andy Blahovei, B. Bitka, Tony Min-| 14°45 ae a He ee the | Tented by local workers’ organiza-|hunger marchers. She greeted the| and misdemeanor to question these | states, borrowed from the Soviet) Riftin, Jeaving eee | "Seattle ou erich, Paul Bohus, John Rollin, Alec meet at 8 p.m. following the | tions for the use of the hunger mat-|delegation and received a tremen-| releases. But any experienced |tmnion’ tn seply, Hoover afford cg) Bauhiae iach Ni plenrin | Yanson, Son Johnson, Joe Penusa, | Cmference. ; chers when the state refused to pro- | dous ovation. newspaperman is well aware how | ridiculous chariesture of « hee %| Work. Club ee | Frank Sepic, Katy Stempleski, Roste| A meeting in Moundsville, W. Va.,| videaccomodations, tasat workers Keep iupeivtng: the|” SMM eTuehine sootuted a t560) lation “means the continmton ne] SRO Zeman eo Lenoff. | Was prohibited by the authorities to- Upon the arival of the march value, can fool the public into be- ‘ R. Melnyk farinos G Holmes, L, A. 3.00 Fk cain. omtaittes abitha, tole night and the crowd dispersed by gud’ Giudpathal they fone: tnt ones delegation with food and water. lieving almost anything. The Ne- cores and misery for the mas- Ch. Maankt oviek 'Tanabert, L. A. 1.50 eine» the police and American Legion-| that they were surrounded by state Me alr were adopted demand- ea Press of America supports the re ae Np gpa sheng pare pe CLT RS 5 icabert BS ikerber, LA. x naires, ’ ‘a $ Mickey Suregers, Steve Rompa,| 7), ; troopers and could not leave the es ee ee hay bit a abou erage) tho organs to continue the “progress” of the ai: aavataaky Mt. Millatetn | Kiser: Glends Steve Perlick, John Zontin, John 'To- e prohibiting of the strike com-| grounds, nor could anyone enter, al- P. " Af ipport 0! ‘al releases not question © | past. “We plan more leisure for men | K, Szymansky | Stark, Cin, 10.00 | Kiser, kar, Bolak Dolkasky, Dick Zelesky, | Mitte meeting in Bellaire and the| though scoresof local workers tried vcpeiy ashen mine strike. ‘Tele-| papers which did question them, | o4.4 women and better opport ifiae| sigue tee Py hitok I edmond ves alr Aig re 19.00 ; 5 ; te grams demanding amnesty for all| Courfer, Afro, Whip and others, portunities | Jersey City 1.00) Ss Pytlick, |S Vodopia, $ Pedro 3.50 Bill Pichaty, John Rollin, Earl Sloan, breaking up of the Moundsville meet-| to reach the imprisoned delegation. tank | ha for its enjoyment,” Hoover told the| Ukr. Work. Wom, Belmont 1.00 | Dunatoy, § Pedro 50 Albert Shafter, Frank Nady, Joe| M8 ate the first results of the reso-| Local workers’ organizations sup- | ss War prisoners and release of the | have changed polities. Their editors | 10,999,009 unemployed who are now| 8°" Hicksville 1100) seg, Boaz | Vodopia, 8 Pedro ‘30 Skatet, Joe Chalky, Bill Culferd, Joe| lution of the local county commis-| plied sufficient food and water. ‘The| Scottsboro boys were sent to the| are on the magic ‘national board.’ | aoioving “teisure” on the breadlines,| ‘Total sivaas DISTRICT | Sacramento Dist, 2.28 Li N08) sioners calling upon ‘ all good citi-| delegates organized their own sen-|Tespective Governors, A Pennsyl-| | “Bat all organizations must be ae DISTRICTS |_| Detralt Col.t Unt a, Tei As 1h |po. zens” to aid the authorities in “pre-| tries to protect themselves a vania Negro striker spoke at the| auestioned at times. At the same time the imperialist) SE Adams, Easton 2.00 | Unit (rd . — ‘The Strike Committee which 1s to| serving law and order.” ‘The head-|any attacks by state troopers who | Conference receiving a big ovation, | SCOTTSBORO CASE A TEST oF|P"sident made a bitter attack f° Sanna" ale ae MyrsTRicT 19 meet weekly from now on voted to] line in the Bellaire press last night | were threatening and intimidating ‘The morale of the marchers al- N.AA.C.P. LEADERS against unemployment insurance. He Talehuk Unit A-4 | Omitted prey. —§ 10,00 instruct its Executive Committee as} was “County Declares War on Mine| the marchers, On Monday morning|*hough under arrest and intimi-/ “This fact was never braught out insisted that the unemployed continue | 4, We7ewods ‘Total Sine | wether Sues follows: 1) To do everything neces- | Strike Leaders.” the state conference continued in| “ted, is excellent, it was particu-| to better effect than in the Scotts- to starve as the federal government,| fF. Charney _ , DISTRICTS "Naa ake ———————————————— | the park while detegates were held| flv good on Monday when the| boro case. This case is a test of |Comtrolied by the leading imperial-| Wy Agena GeWie D ee ene Cut out and mail at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York || under virtual arrest and held a dis- | Comvention re-opened, NAACP sincerity, Now brave Bag- | ‘St: did not propose to give the mil- ak io nel ay Total 12.50 cussion on the Frankfeld report, en- nal is, we do not question. Neither |!0nS of jobless any form of relief. mee 4 PPL Es head Ml SAVE THE DAILY dobding’'ths ‘Okiokgo demandal wiich do we question how courageous | H00ver said all unemployment in- DISTRICT 4 paral Dies Enclosed find » dollars .. by July 1. NAME oo. ies ceese ease PEO RA ene aeons enaeneeneaenene $35,000 Save-The-Daily Worker Fund We pledge te do all in our power to save our Datly by ralsing § $35,000 FIRE WORKERS; SLASH WAGES SALEM, Ore—The State Indus- trial Accident Commission is out to save money, by firing workers and slashing payrolls. The amount set out to save was $200,000, One hun- dred and twenty thousand dollars in payroll alone ra two years) was were to be presented by the delega- tion to the State Legislature. Workers came from all partsof the state, many coming in contact with the movement for the first time fesse preparations for the hunger gentleman. -cents White ts, or Pickens or any other “But we do question the neces- sity of trying to fool the public and take its dollars on the basis of do- ing things in Scottsboro or else- where that 2 thorough examination of the preted owm releases in- Womens Connett surance schemes should be left to the capitalist corporations. In the face of this, Hoover advised they do away with pessimism and vanto, Buffalo Sherman S. Zucha . Mirdin get behind the system which starves oe vote ay Canadn so " amton: Pot ‘ millions, prepares for new world . Frederick A Pies, ks Clie. Re 478.60 wars, and cuts the wages and F. Jaydarion ©, Hanry +25 | Preptcousty re= PB. Bokliac 25 | ceived John 20 i‘ ‘ standard ot lujgs of those set Si