The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-10

commodities and the Industrial
workers are on the breadline he
cause they also have produced too
much. You say 1t is ridicuIoms
10 talk about OverprOductiOn when
there are millions going without
sufficient food, clothing and shell
ter. But it is Over-prOduction for
me reason that those who produce
uO not receive in wages the fill
social value of what they grind
cut Of the machinery of Ur0duc-
ton. p
Inc labor leaders have no soIu-
ton for unemployment except to
depOrt aliens and make propa gan
ia against Russia. The farm lead
ers are up in the air about the
agricultural problem. If you tell
them that Socialism is the an
swer they will say that YOU want
too much. Or that they want to
ge something here and now. Nav
be THEY get something but the
average farmer doesn't get anv.
thing. The workers support their
leaders IN grand style while the
ranks Of organized labor are get
ting thinner and the leaders make
common cause with the rabid cap
italists in flaying the radicals and
putting up embargOes against
Soviet goods.
According to a news dispatch,
the German government has
granted a credit of $72,OOO,OOO "a
gainst Soviet purchases i'm that
country. This means that Ger
many will receive large ORDER
that might have gone TO the
United States if the credit facili-
ties of this country were brought
into play to finance trade between
the United States and the Soviet
Union. Russia needs billions of
dollars worth of machinery to put
the five year plan thru and after
this plan is finished there will be
another plan. Russia is the great
, est potential market in the world
today for American goods. But
our plutes are afraid that a rising
standard of living in Russia un-
der a communist government
would be bad example for their
own wage slaves. So they resort
to credit strangulatiOn and en-
bargOes. What they have to fear
is a. revolt from within and not
propaganda from without or the
five year plan. When the mill
ions of workers who are not fol-
lowing the democratic and repub-
lean parties begin to follow the
teachings of Marx and Engels,
Lenim and TrOtsky, the capitalists
viii have cause for alarm. The
Russian workers and peasants
government is building the eco
nOmic foundation for socialism,
which means first of all adequate
food, clothing and shelter, bath
tubs and radios as well, for the
masses. This process will take
time and while there are lofty
thinkers WHO scOrn these material
needs as the necessary basis for
socialism the practical Russian
workers do not scOrn them. 1t is
true that man does not live on
bread alone. He will have steak
and onions when he can afford it.
| / doubt if the capitalists are
half as much worried about the
success of the five year plan as
they pretend to be. 1t is easy
enough to prove that there is
great scarcity of certain essen
tials in Russia and that the mass
countries. The scarcity that ex-
es are denying themselves in or
der to export things in exchange
for machinery from foreign
lists in Russia is due to the unde-
velOped state of productive ma
chinery and poor transportation,
This is partly a heritage from
czarism and partly the result of
an economic boycott. The capital
lists hope against hope that the
morale of the Russian masses will
he shattered because of the strain
the five year plan imposes on
them and that they will revolt
What the imperialists of the
world fear is the prOIetarian y:
tatOrship which stands as a chaI.
lenge to their rObber rule. II i
easy to boast that the Soviet I'M.
ION is out of danger but no intel.
'igent class-cOnsci0us worker viii
red hin'se'f or the people with
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Tom Mooney wha has spent II