The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-03-07
BELATED SNOW
ASSURES RUSSIA'S
WHEAT CROF

Moscow, Jan. 3O.-(FP)-The
big news of the day is that the
snow has come. Outside my win
dow it has drifted foot deep on
the veranda. In the streets the
tram lines are clogged; everyone
is late to work this morning. But
everyone arrives happy; everyone
mentions the snow.
This is child like joy in the
pleasure of a snow fall; it has nc
reference to sleds and skiing. No,
it is much more serious. 1t is
perhaps, the biggest news in the
world on this day. Certainly it is
the biggest news in Russia. The
snow has come; the collective har-
vests are safe; the moving of tim
Der starts.
A Nation As One.
In capitalist papers the real
news of the world is often dis
guised. For in capitalist lands
there rarely occurs such a COM
mon interest that makes whole
nation feel as one for a moment.
Here the sense of real news is
quite simple. Everyone knows
what the harvest means this year.
Everyone knows what the snow
means.
My household maid arrives at
$3.50. half an hour late. "The
trans are delayed and l walked .
she says. "Can you give me adj
vance wages to buy a new pair of
shoes Z" She thrusts out a foot
and shows great hole in her
soc which was unregarded till
now the snow forces her to feel it.
All the same she is beaming. "My
relatives are up from the village
she says. '"They say the grain
goes under the snow in 1000 con.
dition."
My next door neighbor has also
her personal troubles. 81 am put
out of my room in three days.
she says, "for the man who lives
there comes back. Where shall
discover a room in Moscow?
am totally discouraged, for | hav,
been forced to change rooms 1;
times in less than year. All tn.
same, | cannot feel sad today. TIL,
snow has come; We shall all o,
rich this year."
The coming of snow make
many changes at once in the fac,
OF the land. No doubt the train
will be arriving late. The train
from the south will come in hal
a day late; the Siberian Expires
may even be delayed more than
day. Many appointments will b
missed; many important confer
ences postponed.
Ground Is Blanketed
But what of that! Conference
can be held the next day; time
elastic. If the hundred most i'm
portant people i'm Russia miss Il
day their appointments, the revc
luton will not stop for that. TIL
important thing is hat the harves
which till now was exposed to til
threatening blasts of winter,
Il covered at last. And the harve:
this year is all important.
q The harvest this year is in yer
] many regions a collective harves
u When spring arrives and the sno'
q now falling melts from the Ian
q 100000 acres of land will lie
a collective fields. One quarter
8 the land will be either in cole
s tive farms or state farms. Fro,
4 most of such districts the kulal
Z have been thrown out. Yet it W,
q the kulaks, the rich peasant, WI
i in the past controlled much of Il
surplus marketable grain.
u A Big Gamble
& Now that the kulak is beir
% 'liquidated,' will not the grain SUI
q plus suffer? May not the gra
! export, possible this year, sink
\ a grain import next year? M;
N not cities, already rationed, a
tually go hungry? And the
IA dustrial towns. where new ia
tories and mills and plan
now go up-may they not be
short periods?
A serious question, and ever
body knows it. My house ma
knows it; the workers in eve
factory know it. They know tn
the coming harvest is tremendol
Nv important for the revolutit
They know that its extent Deepen
= on two things. the seed sowi
campaign which is even now bel