The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-12
CAPITALIST PRESS DIVIDED
over TRADE With U.S.SR.
20 Per Cent Fall in Exports Is Critical Test
Trade Or No Trade, Communism Grows

, Quite frank. The same paper be-
came very much excited when il
realized what dangerous conse-
quences the Congressional investi-
cation might have as far as our
business with the U. S. S. R." is
concerned. Commenting on this
editorially, on May oath, it advises
Congress, if it wanted to do some
investigating this summer, to try
to find out what is wrong with the
industrial and economic system of
the country where, despite vast food
SURPRISES many go hungry and
despite great improvements in the
machinery of production many are
without work"
This almost revolutionary advice
is prompted IN reality by motives
of self-preservation as we can see
from the following concluding re-
mark of this editorial:
Maybe if we could discover
how to eliminate these anomalies
we would most expeditiously dis
pose of the unrest and dissatis-
faction on which radicalism of
every type feeds"
Thus the Gazette" issued in
Little Rock, Ark. hits "the nail on
the head" when it says:
Soviet Russia is bound to be
the chief target of such an in.
vestigation. 1t happens that con-
tinued good relations, particularly
good commercial relations with
Russia, are especially desirable
just now. American export trade
fell off 800 million dollars during
the first quarter of this year.
Russia is one of the few countries
that have greatly increased their
purchases of American goods and
this investigation might spoil
everything"
It would be wrong, however to
assume that the whole capitalist
press is adopting such an attitude.
There are publications that are
prompted by motives of class pres
ervatioh and these papers cannot
be easily bought with the increase
of Soviet trade. This attitude is
summarized in an editorial which
appeared in the magazine "Busi-
ness Week of May 21st:
sour own view that it is prob.
ably against their long-run inter-
est for the U. s. or any other
country to trade with Russia. We
believe that the Soviet regime is
likely to survive and grow
stronger, that its plan for indus
trialization and socialization of
Russia can and will probably be
realized . that the purpose of
the Soviet regime and ultimate
effect of it's survival and develop
ment is the breakdown of the
capitalistic system in the rest of
the world. We believe that trade
and other relations with Russia
inevitably tend to hasten that
process. They not only help
strengthen the Soviet regime, but
they lay the basis for destructive
price competition and open the
way to social and political dis
turbance by Communist Propa-
ganda.'
But the lure of Russian Gold"
is so great that even this magazine
realizing clearly the danger that the
strengthening of the Soviet Union
holds 70 rthe existing capitalist
system, does not at present
"see any reason why American
business should not make all the
hay it can in Russia while the
sun Shines"
It is the old policy of the ruling
classes "after me the deluge." We
should be the last to deplore the
fact that the capitalists prompted
by selfish motives are assisting
their potential grave-diggers to de-
velop and become strong enough to
assume position where they can
challenge the whole rotten, corrupt,
money-mad capitalist world.