The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17

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soul does not respond. But although this soul
remains unmoved by the daily atrocities of
capitalist exploitation against the workers. it
cannot withstand the shock caused it by the
abolition of capitalist profits through the So
viets. 1t becomes thoroughly aroused. 1t
sends him on a crusade.
Yet Mr. VOLTS humanitarianism does not
seem to be powerful enough to stop the more
materialist endeavors of his hands. The holy
crusader against the Soviet Union, Mr.. Mat
thew Woll, wrote that he was "apprehensive
that the commercial, financial and industrial
instincts of our people may cause them to fall
for the Soviet appeal for trade" Mr.. VOLTS
approximations seem to have been only too JUS
titled. At the very moment when Mr. Mat
thew VOL voiced his apprehensions, the presi-
dent of the Union Life Insurance Company, a
certain Mr.. Matthew Vol, wrote letter to
the American Russian Trading Corporation
asking this terrible Soviet Red trade agency
for their insurance business. We are still
awaiting report that the apprehensive Mr..
Woll has written letter reprimanding the
business hungry Mr., VOL for his faux pas.
There is another sanity crusader against
the red trade menace Mr. Hamilton Fish. Mr..
Fish wanted to trade with the USSR He was
very anxious to get this trade. He went for
it to the USSR. When he came back he didn't
have his contract yet; but he was more anx-
ous than ever to get it. He made speech to
the Kiwanis Club assuring his listeners that
Bolshevism was firmly entrenched in Russia
and that it offered great business opportuni-
ties. He was so convinced of these business
opportunities and especially of his mission in
life to profit by them that he introduced a
resolution in Congress on March "a, 1925,
demanding in part Ito resume friendly trade
relations with the people of Russia, our ira
ditional friends for the development of
mutually profitable trade relations
But try as he may Mr.. Fish could not sell
his good will toward the Soviet Union for a
nice fat and profitable contract. So he de-
cided to change his goods and to sell bad will
instead. Business is business after all If
one cannot sell red shoestrings, one has to
paint them yellow and try again. If one can.
not turn good will toward tbs Soviet Union
into profits, one has to try bad will And thus
there came forth new Saint George from
the head of Jupiter Capitalism to STAY the
Dragon of Bolshevism; only his name was not
George but Hamilton Fish. The first thrust
of this Saint George was another resolution in
Congress-ths time not demanding friendly
trade relations with our traditional friends
but antagonistic measures. against the rec
trade menace
The propaganda of the red trade menace Is
designed to frighten everybody The rec
trade menace is supposed to rob the Amer
lean workers of their jobs and the American
capitalists of their business. The Five Year
Plan is supposed to be an economic measure
which will enable the Soviets to compete CAPT.
talism out of existence.
What are the facts concerning Soviet trade!
The idea that the Soviets desire to over
come world capitalism by commercial compe-
tition could be disposed of as joke if it were
not designed to support bloody war plans II
impugns socialism with the imperialist de-
signs of present-day capitalism. Capitalism
produces for profit. Profit as we know is the
difference between the amount of products the
worker produces and the amount he receives
back in form of wages. Profit therefore car
only grow with the growth of the portion OF
unpaid labor. But the growth of the portion
of unpaid labor also increases the surplus OF
commodities which labor is unable to buy