Evening star., 1930-11-30

munists under 81 years of age, and
among whom there has been the great
est effort to build up an active Com
munist youth movement. There are a
half dozen Summer camps in the vi
cinity of New York City that turn out
at least 10000 young Communists a
year, trained to hate our institutions,
our Government and the American flag.
I believe a conservative estimate of the
number Of Communist Sympathizers in
New York City alone, including the
Young Communists League and Young
Pioneers, would not be far from 100000,
as the percentage of alien Communists
is higher in New York City than else
where.
On the same basis, there are in ex-
cess OF 100000 Communist sympathiZers
OF voting age, and probably altogether,
| including women and children, about
half million in the United States.
In the farming State of Minnesota
the Communists polled this year an
average of approximately 10000 votes
for their State ticket, which is a big
number in such predominantly agri-
cultural State.
Have Led Strikes.
The growth, propaganda and activi-
ties OF the Communists in the United
States has been steadily increasing
since 1925, when the Department of
Justice was deprived of its powers to
deal with the revolutionary activities of
the Communists. Since then the Com
muniSts have taken the leadership in
three big textile strikes-at Passaic,
New Bedford and Gastonia-involving
about 10000 workers, not for the pur-
pose Of helping secure increased wages
for the employees, but to incite revolu-
tionary spirit through a continuation
OF the strike. The same tactics were
followed in other Communist strikes in
various industrial centers of the coun-
try. This method is in line with the
advice given by Joseph Stain, secre-
tary general of the Communist party in
Russia and dictator of the Soviet gov
ernment, when he said to delegation
OF American Communists about year
ago: Il think, comrades, that the Com
muniSt party of America is one of the
few Communist parties in the world
upon which history has placed tasks of
decisive Importance from the point of
movement. I think that the
moment Is not far off when a revolu-
tionary crisis will be unleashed in
America. When that revolutionary
crisis comes in the United States it will
mark the beginning of the end of world
capitalism. The Communist party of
the United States must be armed to be
able to meet that historical moment
and to head the forthcoming class COM
bat. Preparation is necessary for this,
comradeS-a preparation of all forces.
For this it is necessary to establish
unity in the American party. For this
1t is necessary to forge out real revolu-
tionary cadreS and genuine revolution
ary leaders of the proletariat who
would be capable of leading the many
millions Of the American working class
toward their class revolutionary battles.
For this 1t is necessary to throw aside
all and Sundry personal feelings and
factional considerations, making the
revolutionary education of the working
class OF America the foremost issue"
1t must be self evident to all intelli-
gent people that we in the United
States will be unable to compete with
Soviet Russia for the wheat, lumber,
manganese and oil markets of the
world, provided we continue to uphold
the American standard of wages and
of living.
The Soviet government of Russia has
seized without cost all the lands and
natural resources of the country, and
through the use Of convict, forced or
labor paid on gold scale of between
10 and 20 cents per day, will be able
to produce vast exportable Surpluses in
wheat, timber, oil and manganese, and
underSel our commodities produced by
free labor at the American wage scale.
Il Immediate Menace.
1t may be many years before the So
called five year plan develops a serious
competition to our markets, for manu-
factured goods; that depends on the
future strength of the Soviet govern
ment. AT the present moment, the
economic system In Russia, based upon
, confscated lands and almost inexhaust-
able natural resources, and developed
by labor approaching Serfdom, Is an
immediate menace to the prosperity of
our American wheat and grain farmers,
TO our entire lumber industry, and to
our oil and manganese industries, the
latter having already been demoralized
II not destroyed by dumping into the
United States at cost far below our
cost OF production. Other industries
that will soon feel the competition from
the Soviet economic system will be the
American cotton producers and the
textile industry, already In the midst
OF world wide depression. Minor in
dustries in the United States, such as
glue, glucose, sausage casing, matches,
etc, are facing kind Of competition
that they will be unable to meet.
A number Of European countries. m
Guiding France, Belgium, Hungary and
Rumania, have already taken direct
measures to protect their industries
from Soviet dumping, through high
duties and system of licensing We
have, in the United States, already
practically excluded Russian matches,
and there is a strong and growing de-
mand that the free labor Of the United
States be protected from exports from
Russia, produced through the virtual
enslavement of the peasants and the
workers and the imitation Of the cur
rency.
There is every indication that there