The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-22
Friday, April y, 1882
May I, 1882


During the past fourteen years, May
first has been celebrated by the toiling
masses of two different worlds-in the
capitalist world and in the world of the Pro
letarian Dictatorship. Never before has
the difference of these two worlds stood
out as glaringly as on this May first Never
before has the contrast been more magni
ficent or more horrible. This May first
brings with it the magnificent strides of
the workers and peasants of the Soviet
Union, brings with it also the horrors of
decaying capitalism in crisis.
The demonstrations on this May first in
the Soviet Union will be demonstrations of
mass enthusiasm and determination such
as the capitalist world has been unable TO
approach during its entire history. All of
the fanfare, the blare, the din, and the
tawdry magnificence of the demonstrations
arranged by the capitalist class for its cele-
brations of murder and war, crash and
smear like hardware and paint beside the
demonstrations of the marching millions
thruout the One-siXth of the world that is
ruled by the workers and peasants.
The workers and peasants of the Soviet
Union will on this May first celebrate mag
nificent victories, the triumphant compile
ton of the First Socialist Five Year Plan in
four years. They viii mobilize on this May
first to make of the Second Five Year Plan
conquest of yet greater tasks, the
achievements of goals which had seemed
fantastic five years ago.
On this May first the masses of the So
Wet Union will celebrate the Punishment of
unemployment, the continued decrease of
working hours, the steady increases in
wages, the enjoyment of new social SER
vices, sanitaria, rest homes, sport facilities,
such as the working class has never known
under capitalism. They will celebrate the
technical achievements Nishni Novgorod.
Stalingrad, Dneprostroi, Magnetostroi, a
hundred other new giant plants and cities.
They will celebrate the fact that the tech
nical progress is developing at more rap
Id rate than the capitalist world dared ever
hope for in the days of its glory, that this
progress is founded in the creative initia-
tive OF the MATES of toilers, and that it has
been possible only under the victorious die
tatorship of the proletariat.
Out of millions of Individual peasant
holdings, they have built great collective
farms. Where but few years ago mil
lions of peasants scratched a miserable ex-
istence out of the land with the most print
tive tools, great squadrons of tractors
sweep hundreds of thousands of acres with
the most modern agricultural machinery.
The Large scale" farms of the most ad-
Vanced country with capitalist agriculture,
the United States are comparable only to
the back yards of the giant Soviet collec
tives.
The Specialization of agriculture has not
nfo1 -
tasks still await completion. But these are
tasks which have never been considered in
the United States, because such tasks and
their accomplishment are impossible under
the chaos that is capitalism. The COLLECTIVE
zatlon OF the Soviet land is Transforming
the wretched isolation of Individual peas
ant drudgery into cooperative labor on
great agricultural enterprises. This collec-
tlVlzatlon means not only raising the ma
terlal standards of life for the peasantrv
put means bringing cultural standards into
their lives approaching the levels of the
cities.
1t is these victories that the massed mil
lions viii celebrate in the Soviet Union
These victories will be celebrated too hv
the tolllng masses thruout the rest of the
world as achievements of our brother work
erS and farmers.
Inns world In which we will celebrate
May first, the world of capitalism. of i'm
perlalism, is world of decay and chaos. of
CRISIS and misery. This May first sees The
capitalist world struggling in a crisis far
worse IMAM IL mas yet known in its history
winch has been history of crises. of the
why, how, and whether of this crisis the
capitalist class knows ia, less than If knew
d any OF its previous crises. What it does
Know is that if it is to get out of this crisis
Will get out of it thru untold misery on
me part of the toiling masses of city and
arm. Turnout the capitalist world the
present crisis has been such a burden of
Untold misery to the toiling masses
Twelve million unemployed, millions more
having Tor starvation wages one, two and
nree days a week. unrelenting wage slash
! LoI tnose wholly or partly employed.
Vretched Stops as relief for the unennlov,
d. elimination of even these slops as the
:oal, brute terror and murder against the
Militant s. eggles and demonstrations Of