The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
"PRAVDA" SHOWS
WAR PLOT BEHIND
THE FISH REPORT
American Capitalism in
Throes of Big Crisis

notwithstanding the Fish
Committee report Pravda writes:
ut would be difficult to find
amongst the mass of anti-Soyiet
documents one which is more cyni-
cal and more dishonest than the re-
port just submitted by the Fish
congressional committee on its in
designations. The committee was
appointed as result of the pubIi-
cation of the Whalen forgeries. AL
though even the Fish committee has
been compelled to admit that the
Whalen documents were forgeries.
Further, the committee has been
compelled to admit that, there are
no definite and valid proofs that
the AmtOrg Soviet Trade Mission
in the United States) had any con-
nection with the destructive activity
conducted in the United States
"Thus, all the accusations as a
result of which the Fish committee
was appointed have collapsed. How
ever, the Fish committee seeks to
provide the international anti-Soviet
campaign with "a documentary
basis and thus assist the prepara-
tons for war against the Soviet
Union. In its report and in its pro-
pOsals the Fish committee follows
in the first place political aims.
Prosperity in the United States is
a thing of the past; unemployment
is growing; wages are falling; the
farmers are being ruined; the class
struggle is intensifying. AS result,
the rehabilitation of the masses is
proceeding swiftly and their conf
dence in the Communist Party is
growing. The Fish committee would,
therefore, like to see the Communist
Party made Illegal.
american and Canadian circles
interested in maintaining anthra-
cite and manganese ore prices have
repeatedly attacked the modest i'm
ports from the Soviet Union. Up to
the present they have been unsuc-
ccSSful. The Fish committee has,
therefore, made another attempt.
1t also seeks to win the farmers by
rehashing the old soviet dumping
charge. The insOlent and ridiculous
suggestion that working conditions
in the Soviet Union should be made
the subject of an inquiry is a graf
uitOus insult. Would not the Fish
committee prefer to conduct an in
vestigatiOn into the frightful work
ing conditions of the Negroes in the
southern States, or even in the
northern States? Would it Ike TO
take a closer look at the conditions
of The unemployed workers in the
United States? Would it like to
conduct an investigation into the
working and living conditions of
the workers on the plantations in
Latin America belonging TO North
American capitalism? Or perhaps
an injury into the conditions in the
Philippines.
American capitalism is in the
thrOes of a severe economic crisis.
Last year American exports fell by
u per cent. American exports to
the Soviet Union, however, are on
the increase. The balance of trade
between the Soviet Union and the
United States is very much in favor
of the latter. The American bour-
geOisie is very much interested in
the extension of commercial rela-
tons between the two countries.
Only individual groups of the
American bourgeOisie have contrary
interests. The workers of the
United States must realize that the
Fish committees report means the
beginning of new anti-red cam
paign against the Communist Party
and the revolutionary working class
movement"