The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
On the
World Front
L. BY HARRY CANNES
Where Famine Has Hit
A. A. A. and Planning
News From Japan

News From Japan
THE more famine actually
4 rides over capitalist
countries, the greater the eff
forts of the capitalist press
to create famine in the Soviet
Union through their imagin-
alive writing.
Yesterday we printed the fact
that the crops in Czechoslovakia.
for instance, are so per cent below
last year. Actual famine is spread
ing throughout Germany. In the
United States, 100000 farm families
face famine. The Roosevelt govern
ment through the AA.A. deliber-
ately planned curtailment in food
production, and now with cattle and
crops dying Of drought throughout
the United States, the starvation
caused by capitalist crisis is to be
augmented by actual shortage of
foodstuffs. The American workers
are already paying in higher prices
for the criminal policy of the Roose-
welt government OF forcibly reducing,
wheat, corn, fruits, cattle and other
foodstuffs.
WITH these facts in mind, the
W motives of the New York Times
in one of its most vicious editorials
against the Soviet Union can b
understood. Under the title Eat
ing Under Capitalism" the Times
re-hashes the fable of famine in
Russia emanating from that para
gon of truth, the Hitler press in
Berlin.
The Times declares that "well-
informed circles in Moscow" main.
tain that the Soviet crop will be
only 70 per cent of the 1888 bumper
crop, and that this means famine"
What the Times does not say is
that the crop in the Soviet Union
in 1884, despite some reduction due
to drought, will be greater than al
any time under the Gar, and that
there will be no parasites to hoardI
it for speculation; that it is moreI
than ample not only to supply thai
needs of the population, but also
to raise their standards higher than
ever before in the history of the
country. Furthermore, while the
Wall Street government of Roose-
welt wantonly destroyed crops, help-
ing the drought in its havoc, in the
Soviet Union, the proletarian die
tatorship has increased acreage,
striving with might and main (and
with tremendous success) to increase
everything necessary to advance the
well-being Of the whole population.
THE japanese press gloats over the
fact that Chang Kai Shek, die
tator of the Marking government,
is showing open signs of coopera-
ton with japanese imperialism.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Osaka Mainichi, organ of the big
industrialists, on the occasion of re-
establishing railroad communication
between Manchukuo and North
China on July 1st, wrote:
1.-THE solution of the problem,
when viewed from another angle,
is interpreted as meaning that the !;
power of General Chang Kai-shek.
the actual head of the Marking gov-I
eminent, has been enormously en-
HANGED, and that the moderate
Japan policy advocated by Wang
Chao-ming and Huang Flu is now
being upheld by General Chang in
its entirety.
"At the same time, the so-called
pro- Europe and American faction
headed by T. v. Soong and Sun Fo
will, it is expected, have to be
rather quiet, at least for the time
being"
The Osaka Mainichi then points
out that in the war against the
Chinese Soviets Chang Kai Shek
will need the support of Japanese
Imperialism.
CPEAKING of starvation, new
- symptoms of rice riots are break
ing out in Japan. Reports from
Fukushima and Akita procedures
state that the farmers there, with
out government permission, have
broken open the warehouses sealed
by the government, in order to
stave off hunger. More than 80 per
cent of the farmers do not have a
grain of rice left to eat. Under the
Rice Control Law, certain portion
OF the rice is taken off the market :,
in order to keep prices up. These
stores were confiscated by the hum
cry peasants. /
Another report, published by the
Bank of Japan in the latter part of
June, on wages, shows that since
1927 money wages in Japan have
been constantly forced downward.
For example, textile workers have
had their wages slashed 1865 per
cent. When it is remembered that
initiation at one fell swoop slashed
wages so per cent, the constant drop
in money wages over a period Of
seven years, shows to what lengths
Japanese exploiters have gone to
support their war policy in Man.
churia and against the Soviet
Union.
NEWS of the Western Union CEN
~ sorship of Daily Worker dis
patches from Alabama has gone
around the world. We read the
following editorial in the British