Montana labor news., 1938-05-19
The Road 10 Recovery,
Security. Democracy
and Peace
Radio Broadcast by William f.
Dunno, Communist Party of
the United States, Over Sta
ton KGIR, Butte.

Our country is in a crisis. Some
call it a recession. Others more out
spoken, call it a depression. But it
is a crisis-an economic, political
and social crisis. It is a crisis of
capitalism, part of a world crisis, a
crisis of some rs years duration
whose first catastrophe vas the
World War.
On the whole what one may call
the health chart of the world CAPT
talist system shows a decidedly de-
clining curve. World trade lin spite
of vast expenditures for armaments)
dropped IL per cent since last June
and in January Of this year stood at
only 43 per cent of the 1929 level.
The world since 1914-18 has been
in constant turmoil. Social and
political changes have alterted it
b~asically. In the great country ruled
formerly by the czarist system,
Russia, a country twice the size of
the United States with IT'S, 000, 900
people, the crisis was solved in favor
of the majority Of the ~people-wage-
earners, farmers, the sciences, pro-
LESSONS and arts-by a social revo-
luton placing all political power
the government and the natural re-
sources-in the hands of the people.
In Germany and Italy, after years
of internal strife, the fascist state
came to power-and fascism is the
government of monopoly capital
stripped of all democratic restric-
tons and pretenses, ruling by open
terror and military force against the
interests of the great majority of
the population.
Economic crisis and mass employ
ment ravaged Great Britain. Some
sterilization was obtained by launch
ing the greatest armament program
in history but Great Britain now
heads straight for another crisis.
Spain is torn by a war of invasion
by Italian and German fascism, aid
ed by traitrous Spanish fascist gen.
erals, industrialists and feudal land
lords who in turn + helped by the
Tory British government-the joint
aim being to crush the peoples gov
eminent, destroy the labor unions
and farmers organizations, seize the
rich natural resources and bolster up
Hitler and Mussolini. They will not
succeed
In Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria,
Hungary, Jugoslavia, the mass of
the pepole live in a horrible twi-
light of unemployment, hunger and
terror. Czechoslovakia, the last
democratic country left in south
eastern Europe, is threatened openly
with invasion by Hitler's fascist
hordes, following his seizure of Aus
tria. Democratic France is menaced
by fascist Germany and Italy, and
by British Tory intrigue from with
Cut, and by her own 200 multi-mil-
lionaire families and their subsidized
fascist groups.
The Chinese people, at last united,
defend their country against Japa-
nese feudal militarist conquest, are
resisting heroically, VIGOROUSLY, but
at indescribable sacrifice, invasion
by undeclared war. In Latin Amer
lea, with the exception of democratic
Mexico, almost every country is
ruled by a dictator in fascist style.
On the basis of the above facts,
was not Lenin, the great teacher,
organizer and leader of the revolu-
tionary Russian people and of the
Communist International, a hundred
times correct when in 1915 he wrote
that the present period was imper-
ialism, "the final stage of capitalism,
the period of wars and revolutions?"
What is the cause of the crisis in
America and throughout the CAPT
talist world?
Capitalism and its boosted leaders
al find no way Of solving the con-
tradiction bewteen the concentration
of wealth, the private and corporate
ownership of natural resources and
wealth producing machinery, and
the necessary social operation of
them by a constantly decreasing
number of the working population.
The world crisis is not a crisis of
scarcity-as were crises in p~re-capi-
talist society. The crisis of today is
a crisis of abundance. Capitalists
themselves can consume but little.
Mankind has more control over the
forces Of nature than ever before.
Improved methods based on vast
a~ccumulations of knowledge can
turn out all necessities far faster
than they can be bought by an i'm
poverished wage earning and farm
ing population-the majority of
wage earners living at or below a
subsistence level demanded and en-
forced by the commodity-profit sys-
tenn. This is the cause of the crisis
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