The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-07-30
S0viets Crap
pie With
Hunger.
APPEAL TO WORLD COM.
MUNISTS FOR AID MAY
BE TAKEN.
(By The Federated Press.)

(By The Federated Press.)
New York.-The following cable |
grams from the Russian Telegraph
Agency at Moscow were received to-
day at the office Of Soviet Russia:
Moscow, July 17.-Public attention
here is focused upon the problem Of
helping the starving peasants in the
drought-stricken Volga provinces. All
the political, industrial and peasants
organizations are straining every ef-
fort to provide quick relief. The su-
preme council of public economy has
resolved to help the sufferers by the
development of petty trade and indus
try in the famine provinces, giving
them preference in the supply Of raw
materials, etc.
May Appeal to Communists.
The Izvestia suggests an appeal to
the workers of the world by the ALI
Russian Trades Union Council and to
the Communists of the world through
party channels to help the famine slf-
ferers. "There need not be any hesita-
tion in making such an appeal" says
Izvestia, because it is not asking
common charity. Soviet Russia means
so much to the proletariat of the
world. Even if the European prole-
tariat, which is suffering from an
acute economic crisis, the moral and
political benefit will be incalculable.
If the capitalist governments should
block the efforts of the International
proletariat to help the starving Rus
sian brothers it would greatly enlight-
en- the proletariat Of Europe and re-
suit in further cementing Of inter
national solidarity"
The Pravda appeals to Communists
and soviet workers throughout the
country to redouble their efforts to
make the food tax collections COM
plete in view of the crop failure in the
food producing Volga provinces. This
newspaper also appeals to the workers
to give the maximum production, pro.
-vminentIy dfsplayihg the following
dictum by Lenin:
1--WE are in such difficulties o1
economic impoverishment and dilapi
dation and exhaustion Of the main
productive forces of the peasants ant
workers that everything else must bt
subordinated to the fui damental pur
pose of increasing the Volume of pro
duction to the utmost"
The special famine commission o.
the All-Russian central executive com
mittee has appealed to the executives
of all the provincial soviets imme
diately to collect data and report OF
the amount of seeds which the res
pective provinces can spare for tn
famine provinces for the coming plow
ing and also to report upon the op
portunities for employment offere
to the Volga peasants in the NOR
prosperous provinces.
Cooperatives Take up Problems.
The All-Russian conference of cer
trosoyouz (cooperative) agents oper
ed in Moscow yesterday. Chairma
Khintchuk read to the delegates tn
following letter from Lenin: "Gree'
ing your conference on behalf Of tn
council Of peoples commissars an
the Communist party, I regret my il
ability to attend in person and to at
dress you on the task of the co-opers
tors. am confident that your past e,
perience will help you to solve yor
problems in accordance with the gel
eral plan for the reconstruction Of Il
country.
"The success Of our impendir
practical work will largely depend {
correcgly defined relations in comm
dity exchange between the urban i
dustries and agriculture, on the abili'
Of the co-operators, by consiste
and firm campaign, to develop cor
modify exchange and occupy the fir
place therein and on your ability
collect the scattered products al
promote production. The practical s
luton Of these problems is the be
means for achieving our ultimate al
the reconstruction Of agricultu
and, upon its foundation, the rel
vigoration Of large industry"
Trotzky, addressing the intern
tional Congress Of Young Commu
lists at Moscow, emphasized the 4
portant part played by the young r,
sian workers and peasants in the /
volution and It's defense, alluding p'
F, ticularly to the heroic young wairit
from Kronstadt. Saluting the Int
national Young Communists on beh
Of the Red Army. Trotzky express
confidence that the more developed
volutionary youth Of Europe "a
America will prove eqrIal to the Il
which future history will impose ~