The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-10
By Burek

oOlCAlIIAlS oO1uGlO1Ao VI GLlc vulgar
economists. Legge advises the I'M
employed, pauperized workers to
eat more. Capitalist agriculture
finds itself tangled in all kinds of
theoretical contradictions. Thus
the movement to cut the surplus
and the ballyhoo of augmenting
the purchasing power of the work
ers (while the same finance cap
ital which Expresses agriculture de-
creeS wage cuts in the cities is
confused by the propaganda of
back-to-t land bunkcombe.
Comrade Stain in February 1880,
in his famous speech, Dizzy with
Success" could boast to the toll
ing masses of the U.S.S.R. that
the Grain Trust alone will have
by the end of the Five-Year Plan
as much area under grain as the
whole Of Argentine has today. The
Soviet Farms, taken together, will
have by the end Of the Five-Year
Plan 100000 hectares more I'M
der grain than the whole of Can
ada has today" The panic stricken
capitalist politicians were and still
are frantically seeking to restrict
production. In the U.S.A. the sight
Of a good harvest is an evil omen;
in the world of Socialism, a fine
standing crop of grain is a pleas
ing sight. The Domestic Allotment
plan is Roosevelt's Five-Year Plan
for American agriculture.
WHILE on the collective farm,
W the workers and peasants are
building up new, socialized, hap
py life, in the U.S.A. the agrarian
and industrial crisis creates
troubled fluX of population from
farm to city, from city to farm,
creates steady stream Of the rem
nants Of disintegrated families
seeking solutions for their troubles.
Here in the world of capitalism,
we are Mortified at the forward
march Of technical improvement.
Technical reaction reigns. DR.. Os-
trolenk, an agrarian economist"
in the New York Times, lauds the
increased use of the horse instead
Of the rusting tractor as a return
to the good old days." to prirn-
tive self sufficient farming. In the
U.S.S.R. the collectives have their
inventor brigades.
SHARP CONTRASTS
In the U.S.A. taxes rose 1860
since 1913, while farm prices drop
ped over 500 and freight rates
were 1880 over that year. The
selling prices of farm products, be-
low their cost-of production, do not
allow the small farmer to meet
out the cost-of production Of life
itself. While in the U.SSR., the
money income Of the rural popu-
lation increased to 24,000,000 rubles
in 1882. as compared with 13,200,-
600 in 1890, and 100000 in 1881,
the receipts from the agricultural
tax for 1882 will remain the same
as last year. Excessive taxation
Except for the kulak), eviction
Except for the kulak), mortgage,
and starvation, are the ghosts of
a dead past for the farmers In the
US.S.R.
The two fundamental prerequi-
sites of decisive Importance to the
progress Of the production In the
Soviet village are:
l. The event which we cele-
brate today. the November Revo-
luton which nationalized the
land and appropriated the land
owners.
2. Complete collectivization.
THESE were and are being ac-
l complished in the U.S.S.R. un-
der the leadership of the prole-
tariat and its vanguard, the Com
munist Party, and the ally of the
proletariat, the small peasantry, by
relentless struggle against the big
farmer, and the winning over of
the middle farmer.
The awakening struggles Of the
American farmers, together with
the correct attitude Of the Amer
lean workers and their Communist
Party toward these struggles, will
provide the first applications of
cement to the strengthening alli-
ance of the workers and small
farmers Of the US,A.
The American Proletarian Re-
volution - its November 1917" is
the only event that will provide
bread and freedom for tho fasua-
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