The daily worker., 1934-08-16
On the
World Front
-Rn HARRY CANNES.

let that paragon of truth,
II Hitler, spread the most
vicious lies about starvation
in the Soviet Union, and the
New York Times plasters it
on the front page. But when
these lies are refuted by the
Times own, well-paid Moscow cor
respondent, the story is published
on page Is.
There is a special technique be-
ing developed in the famine stories
on the Soviet Union. With famine
threatening in every capitalist coun-
try of the world, due to the crisis
and the drought land especially in
Fascist Germany, the old style
fairy stories about the Soviet Union
are too crude to pass. Hence, the
old valve-handle wheeze type of
news" story is developed, wherein
an imaginary case is built UP for
some columns, and then at the very
end, there is a P. SIT isn't true!"
THE Times story spreading Hit
1 lers lies uses this method. Quite
prominently on the front page there
is displayed the following: Reich
press asserts Ukraine is gripped by
acute famine while Moscow bars
aid The average reader, the
Times editors know, gets about this
far and leaves with the impression
that there must be something to it,
Buried down below is the only quail
flied evidence, but not one in a
hundred of the Times readers ever
gets down far enough in a story
deliberately concocted to spread
fables about famine in the USER.
This reads:
Better harvest seen.
Indications are that this year
crop will be better than in 1888,
Soviet official here asserted.
Professor H. ]. Muller of the
University of Texas passed
through Berlin today after an ex-
tensive trip last month through
the Ukraine and the North Cau-
casus region. He said he had not
seen any evidence Of acute famine
conditions such as are reported in
the German press.
While the prevailing drought
also hit the Ukraine and other
sections of Russia, the outlook
favored better crop than that of
1885,"
THE evidence of the professor from
the drought state, Texas, where,
with the help of the A. A. A. and
the drought thousands of farmers
face ruin, is that though there was
drought trouble in the Soviet Union,
Bolshevik leadership and Socialist
economy was able to defeat it and
produce a crop better than in 1888,
when there were splendid natural
conditions. This outstanding, his
torical fact is buried by the Times
in preference to the vicious false
hoods of the Nazi butchers.
IN THE face of the Forthcoming
I referendum, the results of which
the Nazis have already tabulated in
their propaganda bureau, Hitler
signs for another Reichstag to burn.
Meanwhile, he burns up the Soviet
crops in the fascist press, and
starves" millions in the Ukraine.
We may be sure the desperate
hangmen will not let election day
come without some major criminal
deed such as the Nazis always in
augurate at a critical preiod. Be-
sides, the famine stories are timed
to coincide with the japanese inn
perialists' provocations against the
Soviet Union in Manchuria.
RRITISH imperialism is up against
u the stone wall of the general
crisis of world capitalism. The in
stimulation of the home
market is dying out, and the eco-
nomic doctors say that another shot
in the arm won't help much. They
must have more world markets.
Walter Runcirnan, president of
the Board of Trade, recently de-
clared:
We must rely on improvement
in world trade for Improvement in
figures"
That's why the air force and the
navy are being rushed, because the
question of markets and colonies
weighs heavy on the hearts of all
the lmperialist bandits. There isn't
hardly enough to go around, and
the only way to try to get them
is by war.
WHAT Runciman is telling the
!" British workers is to support ths
Labor Party program of aid to an
other imperialist war if they want
jobs. The last imperialist war
gained Mr.. Runcimans class a lot
OF colonies, but lost the British
workers millions Of lives and mil
lions of jobs.
More than 30 years ago Frederick
Engels pointed out that the world
markets were too small for the capi-
talist powers of England, Germany
and the United States. He also
added that while markets grow in
an arithmetical proportion, the
forces of production would grow in
geometric proportion, increasing the
gap between markets and the ability
to supply them under capitalism.
Under present-day imperialism,
the travelling Salesmen of the capi-
talist powers are more likely to
travel on bombing planes and bat
tleships with their wares, because
they are speedies and the sales talks,
the bosses feel, are likely to be
more convincing.