New Britain herald., 1929-11-08
TERROR AND ARSON
 MAR WHEAT BUYING
Soviet Grain Price Fixing Re-
 suits in BIOOdShe1

Moscow, Nov 8. TP)-Blood- shed. arson and terror in hundreds of villages throughout the Soviet Union are the accompaniment of the intensive campaign for the pur- chase Of grain at official prices.
 Scarcely day passes without new list of atrocities committed bv peasants, in resisting the drive for grain collection. aganst agents of the Grain Trust. Communists sent into the villages to stimulate tha sale Of grain. or local peasants ac- tive in the governments favor. For every murder or fire or wrecked machine recorded in the press, it is safe to assume that there are soy eral which have not vet reached The newspapers.
 At the beginning of the cant paign," an article in fhs official government organ Izvcsta de clares, i've had cases when viii lages were put on fire, collective farms were wrecked poor peasants who actively helped the state in it's grain purchasing drive were murdered. machinery was spoiled
 Rich Peasants Resist
 Those cases have by no means ceased. Feeling runs h.gh in the grain centers. and violence is d natural form Of expression for thousands of those affected The poorer peasants. favored by the government policies in matters of credits, machinery. seeds, etc, are generally willing to sell their grain. Often enough they bring organized pressure to bear against the richer or "kulak" class which refuses to give up it's grain; and their meth . ods are not always gentle.
 The richer peasants resist to the extent that their courage or shrewdness dictates. They ire quently hide their own stocks of grain and seek 10 induce their | ncighbors to do likewise In scores of instances they use terror agains. 1. the officials entrusted with the task | of buying up the grain and against | peasants who assist those officials. |
 
 described in portion Of the press l abroad, between the government ! and the peasant. but between diff | ferent groups of the peasantry it. self. It is indeed, as the Soviet | press calls it, class warfare in | the village One class, favored |. by the Communist policies. is pit t,,f-s I,, l termined 10 resist not only the |. grain collection but every step to- wards introducing collective or so- i cialist methods.
 Examples of Terrorism
 The nature of this resistance can | best be indicated by a few Of the | dozens of incidents reported in the | press. The following are all drawn | from two days reports
 1. In the Ulianovsk district of | Samara, an active peasant woman, | a member of her local Soviet, Anas- tasia sSemkina, was bruially mur- dered by rich peasants whom she attempted to separate from their | grain. They burned her corpse. The culprits were arrested
 ?. An agent of the grain collec- 1 ton, a poor peasant named Rabkin, | was murdered in the village Ka- Zankova, near Novosibirsk. The | murderers, said to be rich peas- ants, are under arrest, charged | with counter-reyolution.
 3. While the poor peasants in | the village Of Bamatiurt near Ma hatch -kala. were discussing the . grain situation at q general meet ! ing, an unknown person shot . through the Window and killed the Communist Magomayev, n charge ! Of the grain campaign.
 4 Armed men attacked an artel | Of poor peasants in Nikolayevska, i near Alma Ata, spelling machn- i cry and scattering grain.
 To such incidents could be added | long list during the same days | of official action by district courts condemning peasants to death and | 10 long terms of Imprisonment for ! acts Of terror or Obstructing the | purchasing campaigns,