The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
On the
World Front
100000 900 Bushels Less
The u. S. S. r. and China
Communists in Austria
BY HARRY CANNES

~ AAOAOA Nv
" Union and China, there
will be 4OO,000,O0O bushels
less of wheat to eat after this
harvest than last year, ac-
cording to the United States
Department of Agriculture
reports. The greatest drop in world
wheat production, quite naturally,
is in the United States, where
Roosevelt's planning" so skillfully
aided the drought in destroying
foodstuffs when human beings are
starving. The next big reduction
is in the Danubian basin, that is,
in Middle Europe, affecting Ger-
many, Austrian, and the Balkans.
Wheat, the staff of life, is only
a portion of what has been de-
stroyed. Cattle have been killed
throughout the capitalist countries,
corn has withered or been de-
stroyed, and fruits and vegetables
especially potatoes in Germany
were burned up by the sun.
IN SHORT, toiling humanity in the
1 capitalist countries has Winter
of scarcity Tin some places actual
famine), high prices, along with low
wages, to look forward to.
Now the Soviet Union and China
are not reckoned in the Department.
of Agriculture's report for different
reasons. There are no accurate re-
ports of wheat crop in China-ths
usurers and the landlords not re-
porting how much they rob from
the peasants. Reports from China,
however, show that the unpre-
cedented heat and drought have in
many places entirely denuded the
fields; and this in China means
deaths for millions this Winter.
Just as the capitalist statisticians
leave the Soviet Union out of &C
count when discussing the world
crisis because the movement of
production in the Soviet Union has
been constantly and sharply upward
while in the capitalist countries it
has been steeply downward with
short depression zig-zags), they do
the same thing when talking OF
wheat.
THE drought hit some portions Of
1 the Soviet Union also. But in
stead of the A. A. A., the Soviet
Union has collective and state
farms. The Soviet Union has a
planned economy, with the whole
organized force of the proletarian
state modified to create food for
the masses. While Roosevelt aided
the. natural forces of destruction,
the proletarian dictatorship fought
them-and successfully.
The wheat crop in the Soviet
Union will be as large as last year
(Which was a bumper CROP, and
probably larger. The drought has
made it difficult at this time to give
accurate figures, except to point out
that while in some places, the
damage leSsened the crop, in others
it is the most bounteous in the his
tory of Russia.
The harvest is already on in the
Soviet Union, and the grain is pour
ing in faster than last year. New
c,~o;,, o1ouo+ore bod RI he h,Ii1t in
order to store the crop and protect
it. Just today we receive a wireless
dispatch from Moscow on the rapid
collection of the harvest. In this
report we read the following:
During the first Is days Of July
the grain delivered to the govern
ment was nine times as much as
the same period last year"
DUT as between the capitalist
ID world and the world of Social
ism, the sowing, cultivation, fight
ing the drought and the harvesting
is but half Of the story. There
comes the slip between cup and lip.
The grain of the American farm
ers has to run the gauntlet of this
bankers, the mortgagors, the in-
stallment collectors, the grain spec
ulators-in short, host of para
sites who feed on the harvested
crop as voraciously as the drought
and the pests.
In the Soviet Union there is no
grain exchange for gambling in hui
man necessities. The crop is gar
nered for human consumption, for
the greatest good and not for the
greatest profit.
DECENTLY we reported OFT o
~ Bauer's admission that thou
sands of former members of the
Austrian Socialist Party were join
ing the ranks of the Communist
Party. We just receive the re-
ports from the British Daily Worker
that the Austrian Communist Party,
under the most difficult illegal con-
ditions, held national conference.
We quote the report from the Lon
don Daily Worker as follows.
News has just been received from
Vienna of the first illegal congress
of the Communist Party held in
that city.
I'm spite of the police terror and
systematic spying, no less than "a
delegates, elected from factories and
Communist Party organizations, at
tended.
The congress was of special i'm
portance, apart from the fact of
its being held illegally so soon after
the February fighting, because Of
the fusion of the Red Front the
former Left Wing of the Social
Democrats, with the Communist