The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-02

| trial production is Internationally OH
highly social basis. American agri.
cultural economy is still predominant
ly organized on an individual basis.
1 The dire conditions in which this
| farming masses have found them
selves are to be attributed to the fact
that they are compelled to sell their
products at low price and are forced
to buy the industrial commodities OF
the powerful trusts at exorbitant
prices.
(d) The disorganization Of the agri-
cultural economy in the United States
has been further aggravated by the
over-development Of agricultural pro.
duction thru stimulation by the tempo
rarily increased demands Of the world
war; the subsequent reduced post
war purchasing power of many coun-
tries and the loss of the markets of
other countries, particularly in Eu-
rope; and by the continuous strong
support rendered the monopolists
against the farming masses by the
United States government thru high
railroad rates and burdensome taxa
ton.
(e) The basic factors that produced
the agrarian crisis in the U. S. in
1908 have not been removed. The
temporary alienation of the crisis has
been achieved by American capital
ism at the cost of expropriating from
| their land hundreds Of thousands OF
farmers. The impoverishment of the
European population, resulting from
the decline of capitalism, the emer-
gence of Canada, Argentina and Aus
tralia as successful competitors Of the
U. S. on the agricultural world market
and the relative improvement of the
European agriculture are creating
permanent critical situation for the
agrarian population of the U. S. 4
new wave of agrarian discomfort is
now in the making and it is the real
ization of this fact that makes the
capitalists and the government of
America pay so much attention to the
agrarian problems in the U. S.
IN The burden of taxation is be-
AV' coming heavier and more unbear-
able for large sections of the farmers.
The American capitalists persist in
their policy of shifting the burden
ever more to the shoulders Of tbs
farmers and workers. Already there
is new campaign on foot to have
| rho n ofG
the taxation laws still more in the
interests of the big capitalists and
against the farmers and workers.
III Marx once daclared, THE
AA' changes in The relations be-
tween town and country are a sign
Of changes in the whole epoch"
(a) This truth is born out very
Tividly and intensely in the United
States. The results of the severe agri-
cultural depression are of the great
est significance. The migration of sew
eral million farmers from the rural
communities into the industrial cen.
ters; the appropriation of hundreds of
thousands of the exploited farming
masses; the proletarianizatio of hun
I dreds of thousands of poor farmers
are only amongst the outstanding
manifestations of deep going changes
IN the class composition of the United
States This process of agricultural
appropriation brought about by the
scissors" relationship hastens the
| tendency towards the concentration
Of ownership and Capitalization of op
GRAFTON in agricultural production
Thus, the bad economic conditions of
The farming masses are further aggra-
sated and their social composition is
further undermined and fundamental
~ changed.
| OBJ The influx of hundreds of thou
sands of native elements primarily un.
skilled into the big basic Industries
where previously the overwhelming
majority were foreign born, is a force
fastening the creation of a homo
geneous working class in America and
consequently aiding the development
of class-consciousness in the United
| States.
10 In the imperialist stage of CAPT
L. talism the agricultural question
is most pressing for the Communist
Party working for the establishment of
the proletarian dictatorship and the
Soviet Republic.
(a) The bourgeoisie at this time ara
working overtime to create as big and
| powerful reserve army against tllp
masses which are being steadily pro.
letarianized. The tactics of the CAPT
talists in this is to count on the con.
sentative character of the farming
masses, their individualistic attitude
arising out of the conditions and en-.
yironment of the productive system ir
which they find themselves
OBJ The bourgeoisie are actively
working to win over the broad farm
ing masses as their allies against the
proletarlat. They are relying on the
| wealthy conservative farmers to serve
as their advance guard to win the
farming mass for capitalist reaction.