The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
VI.-The Red Trade Menace.
Rv MAX REDACHT.

Lie and something is bound to stick; this
is the foundation upon which the capitalists
build the holy war myth against the Soviet
Union. There cannot be enough lies. When
Knickerbocker sends nice assortment of
them to the N. Y. Evening Post, the editor
exclaims: What, only that many ies-that
will never do. And fitting his actions to his
words he proceeds to raise the ante of inven-
tions, half-truths and wilful misinterpreta-
tons of his European correspondent.
The N. Y. Evening Graphic, after having
lied and lied about the Soviet Union, began to
feel that it might be advisable to fortify these
lies with some little proof-even though the
proof would have to be manufactured. So the
editor proceeded forthwith to Secure" proofs.
He secured a photo and published it in the
issue of February % showing a prisoner
stripped to the waist, tied to the iron bars of
his cell and lashed fearfully. Here you have
it, the editor barked, here you can see how
the Reds in Russia treat the prisoners who
work in the Soviet lumber camps Looking at
the upright capitalist editor shaking with
righteous Indignation one would never recog-
nize in him the sneaky liar who had just dug
up a photo of lashings administered to an in
mate of a capitalist prison in the capitalist
state of Delaware and in the capitalist United
States, and who now yingly ascribes these
atrocities to the USSR.
Beware of the red trade menace cry Woll
and Knickerbocker the Chambers of Com
merce and Hllquit, Hoover and Fish Unitedly
they call upon the American workers to de-
fend their sacred right to be exploited by the
American capitalists. They call upon the
American workers to defend their right to
send their children into American factories to
have profits squeezed out of their childhood
and to have their childhood squeezed out by
profits for the benefit of the American capt.
talists.
Mr. Matthew Woll asserts as his creed that
"the Soviet regime in Russia is the most UNI
scrupulous, most anti-social, most menaclng
institution in the world today. With it there
can be no compromise of any kind" Matthew
VOLTS soul is thoroughly aroused about the
ant-social Soviets. That means a great dea
because this gentlemans soul is not so easily
aroused. American capitalism has cut wages
in a continuous and repeated performance
since November, 1929. Yet it took year anc
half before this performance raised as much
as a sound out of Mr.. VOLTS soul. American
capitalism is keeping Billings and Mooney II
prison for nearly Is years on an Infamous
frame-up. But that hasn't yet aroused Mr.
VOLTS soul. American capitalism has muir
dered Sacco and Vanzetti-still Mr.. VOLTS
soul remained unruffled. There are at this
moment in California prison cells, eight work
ers because they committed the crime of lead
ing strike against the miserable working
conditions on the vegetable farms of lmperia
Valley These workers have been sentenced
to AZ years Imprisonment each; but Mr.. VOLTS
soul is still undisturbed. American capitalism
has these days perpetrated dastardly frame
up against nine Negroes in Alabama These
nine innocent boys are being railroaded to the
electric chair But Mr.. VOLTS happy soul is
still tranquil American capitalism is OPP
pressing, segregating, outlawing and iynchina