The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-15
RUSSIA TO THE RESCUE
By Scott Nearing. Federated Press

Dy OCOtI wearing, FEDERATED Press
Berlin-Never was the ruling class of a great
industrial country more in need of help than that
of Germany in 1881. Five millions of industrial
workers are unemplOyed;' German agriculture is
bankrupt; exports are falling off; the purchasing
power OF money is declining, yet the huge repara-
tons burden must be paid in this dearer money.
The German ruling class is at its wits end to
save itself from economic disaster
Where should it turn for help?
To Austria? The recent customs-union agree
ment will be only drop in the bucket of Ger
many's need.
To France? German business men have already
gone there for loan-but loans mean more ex-
pense, not less.
To the United States? Can German goods climb
the formidable tariff wall that keeps America for
the Americans?
To Britain? To the Britain that is being buffet.
ed by the most severe economic storm that she
has ever experienced? To the Britain whose goods
are being driven out of the world market by those
OF her great rival, Germany? The question answers
itself
To the smaller nations of Europe? Thew too
have been 50 hard hit by the economic crisis that
they must buy less rather than more of the goods
that German business men have to sell.
One nation and one alone in all the world. can
help capitalist Germany out of the economic
swamp In which she is laundering That one ma
uon IS the Soviet Union. There is no other na-
non that is in position to make substantial in
ereases IN its purchase of German manufactures
And 1t IS by selling its goods, and by that means
alone, that the German exploiters can hone to re-
gain their economic equilibrium
Two months ago delegation of leading Ca
man business men went to Moscow looking por
contracts. Today a delegation of 20 representa.
tlves of the principal Soviet economic orraniza-
tons are in Berlin, making final arrangements for
the Russian purchases. The German steel indus
Try, electrical industry and machine building in
dustry will secure contracts worth at least 800
million marks. Additional millions will 90 in or
ders to the chemical industry, to makers of farm
machinery and to other industries.
HOW significant that the only ray of light to
penetrate the darkness of German economic de-
preston should come from the Soviet Union
western European capitalism has done everything
IN its power to prevent the rise of Soviet economy,
and yet today it is Soviet economy that is BRING
ing orders, hope and profits to western Euronean
capitalism
Equally significant is it that the Soviet Union
through its orders, should help to bolster nm CAM.
tallsm IN its strongest continental center Ger
many But Soviet spokesman answer the roir.
by observing that a little machinery provided inn
mediately will set Soviet economy firmly ON ;+s
feet, while the payments for this machinery cannot
possibly save German capitalism from evant,,ol
collapse.
80 the representatives of socialist construction
are spending their hundreds of millions in Rerl;n
ard taking back with them to the Soviet T1n;o,
the equipment with which socialism will bs .bIo
to Danish capitalism from the earth.