The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
YOUNG PLAN SLAVERY
~ SCOTT NEARING Of the reiterated Pre-

Preparations payments under the Young Plan
are being made by the workers of Germany. They
are paying in longer hours and speed-up, wage
cuts, unemployment, and sharply lowered stand
ard of living.
The world economic crisis has struck German
capitalism tremendous blow. Foreign trade is
falling, the domestic market has shrunk, profits
have decreased. Despite the severity of the eco
ncmic pressure the system of German national
economy, high dividends are being paid and the
interest rate remains unchanged.
AS in other big business centers, the small
tradesmen and the small producers (including
farmers) up to their ears in debt, but the big
ov rers of capital have felt the pressure only
slightly. Actual economic hardship is gripping
oily the working masses
Economic and political leaders are very frank in
their analysis of the German Situation. If Ger
many is to pay, she must sell. If she is to sell in
a shrinking market, she must cut her costs below
those of her principal capitalist rivals Britain,
France, Japan and the United States.
Hence the policy of consolidating industrial
control and of reorganizing industry on a more
efficient basis hence the policy of speed-up, wage
cuts, and part time employment. If German bust
LESS is to show profit, stone must be left
rnturned that will reduce German costs of produc
ton and the German business class is slashing
recklessly.
Before the war, German business men had made
beginning in naturalization. They were at that
time leading all their European rivals in the pro-
ction and marketing of the principal items in
capitalist economy During the Notwithstanding
of the present economic crisis, German bus
mess interests have again come to the fore, with
a program that promises return to their former
supreme position in European economy.
Two economic forces stand in the way of their
ambitions: on the one hand is the growing deter
mination of German workers to link Soviet Ger
many with Soviet Russia; on the other hand Il
the well organized and bitter competition of riva
capitalists in France, Britain Japan and the Unit
ed States.
A victory for the German workers and the or
ganization of a Soviet Germany would put al
end once for all TO the ambitions of the presen
German ruling class. Barring such revolution
airy development, German business interests mus
fight out their competitive struggles with thei
great imperial rivals.
The costs of this struggle for imperial worl
81 premacy will be paid in Germany and elsewher
by the working masses Already German worker
are using the phrase, "Young Plan Slavery" t
describe their worsening conditions.
In the course of international competition, tn
industrial workers in France, Belgium, Great Brit
ain Japan and the United States will be forced t
accept substantially the same worsening that
now pressing upon the German workers. Throug
the memorable laws of competitive capitalism, IL
workers in rival countries will be dragged dow
to the standards existing in the least organize
and most degraded. Thus Young Plan Shaver
will extend from Germany across the capitali
V orld.
Capitalist business leaders and economics wei
unable to prevent the present economic world cri
is. They equally impOtent before the threi
which comes from German naturalization. Ju
as they have passed on the hardships of the &c
nomic crisis to the working masses in the form
unemployment and wage cuts, so they will pass
the costs of international competition in like guis
"The workers must pay" is an axiom of capital
exploitation
To this the masses can make only one effecti
answer: "The workers must rule" Under no 9th
slogan can the workers of the world ESCAPE {
curse of the Young Plan Slavery