The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-28
Chicago Tribune's Riga
Liar 2Invents Famine
Stories About Russia
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the Chicago Trbunes Riga liar gets the cable
again with another fake His story gets the headline,
"Sovets Fight Famine Grain Myth Explodes."
1t will be remembered that the Tribune withdrew its
correspondent it claimed he could get better
stories Soviet rule outside of rather than inside the
workers republic This present piece otfction sample
isn't safe talk about crop failures along toward the
closing days October when the crops all in and the
snow already on the ground If the crops have failed
along toward the middle of the But this
doesn't trouble the Trbunes correspondent who makes his
a. Rioa atva TWO months Of favorable re-
ports the of the Soviet grain yield dismissed
with few clicks Of his portable typewriter as "a myth and
the Tribune publishes honest-to goodness for
sumption by American Henry Dubbs.
American workers and farmers may quickly dismiss this
latest burst of antSoVet propaganda by this edbaItng
sheet.
1t is true that efforts have been made by the
capitalist press discount of the Soviet harvest
Thus the Wall Street Journal in its issue Of Oct IA, less
than weeks ago. in reporting IAN independent nvestga
ton by the department of admitted that the
Russian wheat crop will probably yield export surplus OF
from 100000 to 100000 bushels" 1t holds this up
against the Soviet claim of exportabe surplus of 3oo
100000 bushels.
faIsehood paints picture of famine and desoaton again
sweeping Russia.
1t significant that the reports by Wall Street
Journal and Broomhas (Btish) that give only 100000
only export surplus of 100000 bushels and prob
able shipments Of only 100000 bushels to the United
States In other words, the British and American lex
pets" place the United States far ahead of Soviet
Russia. Yet famine stories published about condi-
country
To be there may be bumper crops" in Tambov
Kazan TuIa, Simbsk and Saraov. But these only
few of the many grain producing provinces of the Union of
Soviet Republics and the smaller at that In the United
States crops be bad in North Dakota and Montana and
excellent in the remainder of the county vice But
that proves nothing.
The big fact however, and this may be cleaned
from the Tribune report is that the Soviet governments
committee to fight famine headed by the chairman of the
peoples commssars Rykov is meeting in Moscow planning
loan seed grain those districts that have been
fortunate the remainder of the country.
Who heard of the officials of the United States
capitalist meeting in Washington and carefully
going the agricultural situation, at the close of the
years harvest and making plans to aid the districts yielding
poor crops get good start for better yields year. The
Tribune has its cards mixed The committee to combat fam
inc has famine its hands at the present time. BeeV
ing in preventive however, taking steps
to foesta threatening shortages with their
hunger and misery, at all times in the future.
In the United States crop of mortgage foreclosures
against wholesale evctions of bankrupt farmers just
welcome to the bankers and landlords whose only thought
is how to plumber the farmer to his last and then drive
him penness out the hghoad. Against that condition
the American farmers have yet rallied in sufficient
bers to make their united strength felt But they will