The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-11

see the growth OF socialism IN the Soviet Union.
They watch the revolts Of colonial masses.
They witness their Improvisation under CAPT
talism They cannot help seeing the evidences
of capitalist rule in America and of workers
rule in the Soviet Union. Their confidence in
capitalism begins to waver. Instead they
develop confidence in the powers of the work
ing class.
Thus the Soviet Union commits two crimes
against capitalism. First, by its very existence
and progress and socialist growth it impresses
the workers with the fact that socialism is a
better social order than capitalism Second,
by the fact that the success of the Soviet
Union is achieved by a workers government
confidence is created in the minds of the work
ers in the powers of their own class This
self-confdence inspires resistance to wage cuts,
struggle for unemployment relief, workers of
fensive against naturalization.
In addition to these two crimes the capital
lists cannot forgive the Soviet Government that
it prevents them from squeezing profits out
of the $50 million Russian people and that it
keeps them from exploiting the natural wealth
and resources of one-sixth of the globe
The situation therefore is that the workers
get more and more dissatisfied with capitalism
in America, while the American capitalists get
more and more hopeless about the collapse of
socialism in Russia The workers get ever
more ready to fight wage cuts, unemployment
and even capitalism itself and the capitalists
get ever more and more frantic about the neces-
sity of fighting and defeating the Soviet Union.
Hillquit and Fish Are DecOys for Capitalist
Robbers.
1t is in this connection that we can analyze
the hysteric rawlings of Hllquit and Fish, of
Hoover and VOL, of Knickerbocker and Easley
as coldly devised, dastardly policy of capital
ism. The American capitalists slash wages.
To prevent the workers from revolving against
these wage cuts and to prevent them from
fighting their capitalist eXploiters, Hillquit and
Woll try to arouse the workers to a holy capital
list crusade against the Soviets American
capitalists starve their workers in mass unenl-
ployment. To prevent the workers from fight
ing against this unemployment and to keep
them from revolving against their exploiters,
Knickerbocker and Hillquit try to arouse the
workers to holy crusade against the Soviet
Union. The American capitalists drive the
masses of poor farmers off their farms or turn
them into troopers. To prevent these masses
of poor farmers from revolving against their
capitalist tormentors, Hoover and Hillquit try
to arouse them to a holy crusade against the
Soviet Union. The American capitalists have
their hands in the pockets of the American
toilers. Hillquit and Fish, Woll and Knicker-
booker, perform the functions of decoys for
confidence-men. They try to draw the atten-
tion of the victims from the hands of the pro-
fit-picking capitalists by raising the cry of a
holy war against the Soviet Union. VOL and
Hillquit, Fish and Knickerbocker, are trying
to mobilize the American workers to fight for
their exploiters and against their Russian fell
low-workers in order to prevent them from do
ing what they must eventually do to solve
their problem, fighting on the side of their
Russian fellow workers against their common
exporters, the capitalists.
The third article in this series will appear in
tomorrow's paper. In this article, Comrade
Bedacht explains the basis of the Five-Year
Plan preliminary to discussion of the Plan
itself which will be contained in the following
article. Every worker will want to read Com
rade Bedachts clear and simple analysis of
what is behind the epoch-making Five-Year
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