The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-11-08

] COUNCIL 6IuTTS, Iowa
P. o. Box "a
Mr.. Chas. E. Taylor
Editor Producers News
Plentywood, Mont.
Dear SIR
wish to answer for publication
your note appended below the ar
ticle written by myself entitled
Roosevelt Sells Ethiopia to Fas-
clst Butchers. In your note you
say " They apply not only to
the U. S. government, but to every
capitalist government in the world
and with thousand times the for
ce 20 Stain and the Soviet govern
ment of Russia, which is and has
been selling more war material to
Italy for use in the rape of Ethio-
pia, than all the capitalists COM
bined etc, etc."
This statement is so obviously
untrue that even a novice can see
1T. While we know that the Sow
let's have forged rapidly ahead in
their production capacity, they
have noe yet succeeded in Stealing
the markets from their capitalistic
competitors that much!
Of course every one who has
been following the course of the
Soviet Union in its struggle to
build socialism in Russia knows
that it has contaminated trade a
greements with those capitalist
countries who would agree to such
agreements, not for the purpose
of building capitalism but, for the
purpose of building socialism in
the Soviet Union. These agree
ments were very necessary for in
surfing the success of planned econ
omy in the Soviet Union. Since
the Soviet Union is surrounded by
a capitalist economy it is natural
that they must contend with the
contradictions and anagonisms
that arise from capitalist economy
from time to time.
International trade agreements
are not so easily broken as are the
words of some individuals, such
an act would certainly cause in
ternational complications, compli-
cations that could very easily re-
suit at the present time in new
world war. Therefore for the Sow
let Union to- sever its trade rela-
lions with another nation who is
at the same time signatory of the
League of Nations the same as the
Soviet Union is, and who has, as
the Soviet Union has, agreed to
lay all disputes before the league
for peaceable settlement, would be
an act of international provoca-
ton. There are those who would
say, "The Soviet Union has no bus
mess to join a league of capitals
tic nations even for the purpose
of preserving International peace.
They are the people who are so
naive that they do not know that
compelling the capitalistic countri-
es, who because of their inherent
contradictions of economy, must
go to war, is increasing those con-
tradictions and antagonists be-
tween the capitalists themselves,
and at the same time aiding the
international working class in it's
struggle for emancipation. That
is they are either naive or DELHI
erately against the working class
and for the capitalists! There are
people who say that socialism can
not be built in one country, people |
who use every means to prove what
they say, even to urder while at |
the same time they vigorously pro-
claim themselves to be information |
alists and believers in permanent
revolution. These people are pro-
vocatuerS Because socialism is.
unhappily for them, being built in i
one countryl
The Soviet Union thru its repre-
sentative to the League of Nations,
Litvinoff, notified the league that
the Soviet Union disapproved of
italy's invasion of Ethiopia, that
it did not believe the way to civil
llze a backward people was with
guntire and bloodshed, and that the
Soviet Union would support the
League of Nations decisions ON
sanctions to the very limit. Later
when it seemed that the league
would try to evade its responsible
lty, the Soviet Union notified it
tnat If the league did not take
some action against italy that the
SoWets would consider themselves
duty bound to take individual steps
outside of the league. No other
nation has done this, yet the critics
OF the Soviet Union do not criticize
them for not having done so. II
OF course every capitalist or tool
Oh capitalism tries to twist their
STATEMENTS to prove that the Soviet (
= Gnlon and Stain are enemies of
me cause of the working class. :
.iney try to discourage and confuse {
Ine workers, who will saw to them :
serves, IF the Soviet Union, if |
otaIln has betrayed us, what hope /;
s their for the working class ?"
However, every worker who is
al-class conscious knows that who s
sver the capitalists SANDER must {
e 1 friends of the working elias, OF {
ney would not be slandered! They |
NOW that the role of capitalism Z
ND its tools have been to divide
ne working class.
The most insidious. danuaro,s
nd despicable enemies of the worl- 8
lg class, are the people who pro- !
ialn themselves to be friends IF
ne workers, who bewail the brutal