The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
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How the ImperiaLsts lncite the Farmers to War

These Progressves also capitalists they are not
representatives of the exploited farmers They are not
starving and hungry themselves these Progressves
Their speeches for the farmers" have only this result
it keeps the farmers back from organizing and waging
a real fight-a fight against the capitalist system, in
alliance with the revolutionary workers
Agriculture in the United States, in all capitalist
and colonial countries is In deep crisis In the Soviet
Union it is growing. Why? Because agriculture in the
Soviet Union, we'll industry is carried for the
benefit of the workers and Especially great
the achievements of the colectivzaon of the in
divduaI peasant economies On the list of June 1881,
one-ha SGT per cent of all the individual hold
ings of the poor and middle peasants had joined the
collective farm movement
This coectivization of agriculture frees the ndi-
vdua peasant from the worry and uncertainty of crop
failures it Eberates him from the life-destroying
drudgry of small peasant economy with primitive tools;
it raises tremendously the productivity of the soil and
of labor by utilizing modern machinery implements,
fertilizer supplied by the government the coectives
it gives the peasant leisure for social and cultural
life; it makes the peasant active conscious par
ticipant in the building of life social sys
tenn free from oppression and exploitation, free from
hunger and starvation, free from crisis and wars.
Farmers Must Fight Imperialist War and Military
Intervention.
The gamers of the war of 1914-1918 were the capt.
tasts The "defation" of agriculture engineered by
Big Capital and the profound agricultural crisis that
followed the had eaten up manifold the so-called
gains OF the farmers during Une war his 'laSJ
and the postwar crisis have ruined the oilng
farmers fastening still more the domination of rus
fled capital upon agriculture.
Instead of giving relief Capital is debating the
farmers still further To solve the crisis the expense
of the toiling Big Business is preparing for
spending billions of dollars ornaments and
the Navy for which the farmers and workers must pay
slaughter is being prepared especially against the
workers and farmers of the Soviet Union Stimson and
Mellon abroad trying to unite the capitalist
governments for military intervention in the Soviet
Union.
The toing farmers have nothing to gain and every
thing to lose by the imperiaLst The toing
farmers of the United States, the the indus
trial and agricultural wage workers. particularly
menaced by the imminent military Intervention against
the Soviet Union, which is the hope of the exploited
all over the world, which is laying the basis for
world of freedom and equality which is the greatest
factor making for and fraternity among nations
The toilng farmers must join hands with the
lutionary workers in the fight against imperalst
and military intervention in the Soviet Union. They
must join the common fight against hunger starva-
ton and capitalist terror under the leadership of the
Communist Party.
Against imperialist Against military inter
vention in the Soviet Union For Workers and Farm
ers' Government in the United States