The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18

implements Tor instance are pfOn1DlJlVe. IL
the poor farmer buys these implements he in
tensifies the strange hold of the mortgage
banker on his income. If he does not buy
them his products are kept back by his more
backward methods of production, and his in
come suffers from the lower prices inevitably
caused by the introduction of more efficient
methods.
For many years the American poor farmer
finds himself in the grip of this ever tighten
ing capitalist wise. But it needed the progress
of the Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union 60
supply the American capitalist with an excuse
Soviet dumping. The capitalist gentlemen
of the u. S Government are surely under
estimating the intelligence of the American
masses of farmers if they expect them to be-
lieve that the farmers went bankrupt in 1924
because the Soviet Union resumed grain ex-
ports in 1928.
The grain exports Of the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics in 1880 amounted to about
one-third of these exports of czarist Russia
before the war. Even the pinhead intelligence
of capitalist newspaper editor must be able
to figure out that if one-third Soviet grain
exports in 1880 bankrupts the farmers of the
world then three-thirds of czarist grain ex-
ports in 1918 should not have left any farmer
and the world to go bankrupt in 1880.
This dumping propaganda even irritates
some capitalist newspaper editors. The Louis
vile Post satirically remarked the other day
that when the Soviets find customer for
their goods, that is dumping; but when the
United States find customer that is eff
cient craftsmanship. This little joke was
graphically Illustrated by the antics of the
u. S. Department of Agriculture and of the
u. S. Farm Board When the Soviets carried
through financial transaction nominally con-
corning rs millions of bushels of wheat but in
reality not involving the delivery of even one
single kernel of Soviet grain in the United
States the Secretary of the u. S. Department
of Agriculture howled about Soviet dumping.
But when the u. S. Farm Board sold 500 mil
lions of bushels of real wheat on European
markets the u. S. Government spokesman pro-
tested with solemn dignity against this trans
action being called dumping.
Here we have again the game of catch
thief" The capitalist leeches suck the life
blood out of the poor American farmer To
prevent the farmers from Kidding themselves
of them. these leeches cry all together and
each one separately, 'stop Soviet dumping"
Protect us, cry the 1eeches, our right to suck
your blood is threatened.
The anti-Soviet dumping campaign among
the workers is on the same level. Your jobs
are in danger, the capitalists warn the work.
ers Must we heed their warnings? What
have the capitalists ever done to prove their
friendship to the workers? Do their past
services to them justify the workers to heed
the warnings of the capitalists? When the
workers have job the capitalists squeeze
profits out of them. When they have no job
the capitalists maintain the sacred principle of
American individualism and make the workers
starve. These capitalist services to the work
ers must make the workers suspicious every
time the capitalists speak of the interests of
the workers. They speak Of the interests of
the workers, but they mean the interests of
the capitalists.
The dignitaries of American capitalism were
once very anxious to see the productive forces
in Russia developed. ''It is only in the pro-
ductivity of Russia that there is any hope for
the Russian people," declared the Secretary of
State in Washington in 1921. Why now this
hue and cry about the progress of the develop
ment of productivity in the Soviet Union Mr.