The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
CROP FAILURE IS MORE ID BE FEARED THAN CAPITALISM
Lenine Says "In Case of Bad Harvest, There Can Be No Diminishing In Crisis of
 Working Classes"
By Associated Press

Reval, Esthonia, September :. Famine, resulting from crop failure. is far from feared by the commu- nlst dictators of Russia than any de :. Nelopment of capitalism that might { come from recent concessions toward free trade, according to speeches l made by Lenine and other commu- mist leaders, editorials in bolshevil 1 newspapers and other information from Moscow reaching the Baltic states.
 Lenine, writing for the Baku Com. munist, as reported by the official bolshevik telegraph agency, Rostn few days ago, said: There IS nothing to fear in the rise and fall o1 small farming and small industry It cannot be dangerous to our pig industry. Something else is to be feared. In case of a bad harvest, there can be no diminishing in the crisis of the working classes. Not the growth of petty bourgeoi- Sic and capital is dangerous, but the state of need and lack of foodstuffs that is continuing too long. That is why the proletariat becomes weak and cannot stand against the ele- ments Of petty bourgeoise." In this, as in other articles wido- " distributed throughout Russia in support of the new economic polic.' Lenine points out that, by holding firmly to the reins of big industry, the dictatorship of the proletariat can always control any situation that might develop with regard to smaller capitalistic advancement.
 In a SDeech befora fha supply conference recently held at Moscow, Lenine, as reported in the official newspapers, Pravda and Iz vestia, was extremely pessimist,c about the famine possibilities.
 Circumstances Unforeseen
 There has come to pass he is re. ported as saying, an unforeseen cir oumstance, which now, in the sec ond year. subjects the country to eX- treme hardships Whether we are in for a series of arid years, as has been prophesied for these two years we do not know. But it has become perfectly clear that this Is the sec ond year in which we will again, owe. large areas, experience a fail ure of crops and this pictures in our minds the imminency of a great dan ger.
 T will not now dwell on the ex- tent or the area dIIecIeQ Dy tDJS Cd lamity, but the area is certainly ve.y great. It is already quite clear that there will be large arrears in the payment of taxes in kind in many districts; that in many districts the population, apart from this. will be doomed to unheard of sufferings; a ld that the supply organizations, in stead of obtaining in those districts a surplus of products for the man tenance of the army, the labor classes and the industry, will have to sup port the starving population"
 Points Out HardshipS
 Further, Lenine pointed out that the hardships entailed by the crop failures will be aggravated by the fact that in the few districts where the crops probably will be good. the soviet supply apparatus Is working worse than elsewhere.
 "If we look at the map illustrat- Ing the prospects of the harvest" ho said. i've find that in those district. of soviet Russia and the allied sls- ter republics, where the harvest promises to be good, or above the average, the supply institutions are certainly not above medium. but fre- ouently below normal, We shall have to occupy ourselves with ths question of changing the person. al of the supply organizations, but we have few suitable and experienced candidates who might soon adap- themselves to their new tasks an successfully push the work.