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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
RESERVE

The annual banquet of the Com
mercial Club was held in the
school building on Monday even
ing, December 29th, and promptly
at 7.30, about one hundred twenty
members and their friends sat
down to supper. During the sup
per hour very good program of
music was furnished by the Chris
tianson orchestra. After supper,
the quartet rendered two or three
songs. They were followed by the
Henderson Bros. with two or three
humorous sketches. The quartet
then returned, and were followed
by Jimmie Henderson with a cou-
pie of Scotch songs.
The POSTMASTER then called on
Mr.. Jack Bennett of Plentywood
for short talk. Mr.. Bennett was
followed by Carl Bull, who amused
the assemblage for a short time.
Mr.. Zeidler then spoke briefly, and
was followed by the Rev. Stowell
of Medicine Lake.
Mr.. Ferguson, the county agent,
then addressed the company for
about twenty minutes, and was
followed by Senator Angvick, who
spoke at some length. The toast
master then called for Frank
French and for Mr. Krost, but
neither of the gentlemen had at
tended it seemed.
The banquet hall was then clear
ed and dancing commenced to mu-
sic furnished by the Christensen
orchestra. At midnight a lunch
was served in the basement and
dancing was resumed and con-
tinued until two A. M.
The banquet was served by
members of the All Club. The
chef was Mrs. Ruth Estensen. The
entire affair was arranged, super
vised and put over by the Presi-
dent of the Commercial Club, Mr..
Hole, who also acted as toastmas-
ter.
Among the out-of-town guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Bennett,
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Bull, Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Zeidler, all of Plenty
wood; Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ander-
sen and daughter Erna of Froid;
Rev Sbowell of Medicine Lake; Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Petersen of An
telope and Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Bromberg of Scobey.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
"A BYSTANDER.

The above letter is interesting Johns sunshine
rs mostly moonshine He takes the cash and lets
the other fellow take the credit-n other words he
IS looking out for John, first, last and all the
time-even his sunshine is for Johns benefit
mostly.
And when man starts talking about reptiles,
look out for snakesl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

Agriculture Soviet-wheat-dumping
Hyde is to determine suitable
policies FOR CREDIT AGEN-
CIES (NOT FOR THE FARM
ERS-Ed.) in bringing about
farm reorganization and read.
justments in land utilization"
This Reorganization and read
justment in lana utilization" COM
mittee will be composed of bank
ers, agents of insurance compa-
MES, joint stock land bank and
similar agents of the class which
levies a tribute of hundreds of
millions each year on the exploit
ed farmers. This conference laid
the basis for further robbery Of
the farmers, driving many of them
from their land and milking the
remainder in greater degree thar
they have yet been robbed. Thi;
is the program of the capitalis
class. The capitalist class is or
ganized for its policy Of oppres
sion. The small and middle farm
ers must organize to repel thi
further misery that the capitals
class is attempting to force o
them. Organize for struggle.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
. II VsIIoooo wv The FIVE YEAR PLAN W. by Y
ANCU uldSCS ~ inSOVIET AGRICULTURE ~ 7n~I%d

sy" that in the coming weeks the
collective will send in reports of
tens of thousands of similar ex-
amples and we hope our papers
will print them. This will consti-
tute the best propaganda for the
collective farms.
Much land formerly considered
unsuitable for cultivation was
found this spring to be entirely
suitable. But the period of un-
earthing the possibilities of "Rus-
sian unsuitabilities" has only just
begun.
Despite all mistakes, despite the
fact that we have neither trained
workers nor persons capable of
rganizing agricultural production,
despite the absence of norms of
labor payment on almost half the
collective farms, despite the ex-
treme walness of our mechanical
basis, despite all this, the strength
of socialist large-scale production
in the form of state and cOllec
tive farms has revealed itself most
clearly; and that is the basi.
point.
a. INFLAMMATION of AgricuItur,
In the Soviet Union and In the
United States
Although the increase in tn
sown area of the collective farm
this year is in the main the re
suit of simple pooling of tn
implements of production belong
ing to the peasants themselves
we must not, even at the presen
stage of development, underestim
ate the role of mechanical power
Only a few years ago the numbe
: of our agricultural machines wa
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

known not only by every Party
member and every collective farm
member, but by every individual
peasant-that as a result of the
organization of collective farms
the sOwn area of those peasants
who joined them increased by 45
per cent over the area sOwn.- the
previous year. lin 1880 the in
come of collectivized peasants in
creased so per cent as compared
with those of Individual peasants.
The former used their horses 90
100 per cent more effectively
Ed To be on the safe side, we
are taking a minimum figure. In
some districts the increase reach
ed 100 per cent. 1t may be con-
sidered as an established fact that
the 90 million acres sown on the
collective farms in 1880 represent
an increase of so per cent over the
area sown in 1929 $50 million
acres) by these peasants before
joining the collective farms. These
figures are the result of a direct
canvassing of collective farm mem
bers as to the extent of the area
sown by them last year.
These results were obtained II
spite of the fact that up to hall
of our collective farms worked
without any norms of work, anC
surely a collective without thes,
! is merely an embryo from which
! a collective farm viii develop. Il
any case, it is not a farm which
: has already fully revealed its pos
sibilities.
!, Yet, even under such conditions
!. in the first zone the collective
2 farms, embracing slightly less thar
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
LITTLE FALLS STARTS
OUT FOR SUBS

LITTLE FALLS, MIMI, Dec. z
Il have received the copies you
sent me and l am interested to
know there is such a militant
farm paper in the Northwest. I
can tell you the farmers have
changed hats in the past year.
One thousand farmers stormed
the court house in Little Falls and
demanded lower taxes from the
county commissioners. Many use
less county officials, such as coun-
ty agent, weed Inspector, greedy
road contractor, that wants 3
boulevard built around every Sec
ton of land for more profit, and
building bridges for military train
ing camps have added a heavy bur
den on the tax-paying people.
The farmers are ripe for {
change and l want to do all l cal
to get the Producers News fol
them to read. Please send me ;
subscription book containing q
subscription blanks and I'll SCI
what l can do.
Fraternally yours, B. K.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

CONTINUED from Front fagsl
Chapple Company by hiring law
yers.
Small ranchers. the only way n
which you will prevent the sale o.
this land, is not by actions in ne
capitalist courts but by ORGANIZED
action of all of the small rama
ers against this rObber cOrpOs
ton. By organized action you
can prevent the Chapple company
even if they have bought the lana
from ever using it. This land d,
longs to the small ranchers ana ~
they can keep it if they are Tnnl'
family organized for the purp0'S
Join the United Farmers beasW
which has already led many strus'
giles of the small and middle ia'
,mers against just such exprOpi1
ton by the rich farmers, Ilsu'
ance companies or banks. Vis'
nize for militant struggle asal'
this robbery.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

mittee is to aid in formulating
state, regional and national poll
cies and legislation and IN puild-
ing public sentiment for the pro-
gram.
'The secretary of agriculture
was also instructed to appoint
a separate committee of repre-
sentatives of credit agencies
such as insurance companies,
federal land banks, joint stock
land banks, federal intermedl-
ate credit banks, state and ma
tional banks, and other institu-
tons extending rural credits.
This committee is to determine
suitable policies for credit agen-
cies in bringing about farm re-
organization and readjustments
in land utilization"
The two permanent nationa
committees "to carry forward tn
development of the land polio,
and program" are to be compose
of the very exploiters, the YER
misleaders who have kept the far
mers enslaved to the capitals
class so long without active resist
ance. On these committees wi
be represented the Hoover hunge
government, the Federal Far
Board, the Federal Farm Loa
Board, the railroad capitalists, II
bankers, the United States Chan
Der of Commerce which contai,
the biggest capitalists Of the ccul
try. The committees will repr
sent the exploiters and the no
bers-NOT THE SMALL AN
MIDDLE FARMERS.
The special committee viii,
will be appointed by Secretary
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

For these non-members / wish
to add a few additional facts. The
agricultural artel "Answer-to-the-
Kulaks," in the Rossoshansky dis
trict, worked 21.75 acres per
horse, while the Individual peas
ants nearby worked 9 acres per
horses. In the artels of the Ka-
mensky township of the Penza dis
trict the sowing program was ex-
ceeded by 80 per cent. There was
unused land adjoining the artels;
it also was sown. AS a result in
the collectives Is acres were sown
per family, while the average in
dividual family in the same town
ship sowed 5 acres. The collec-
tive of the village of Nikol-
avev in the Akmonlinsk district
sowed 42.5 acres per household,
rwhile in 1929 each family averag,
ed 5 or rs acres. In the village
Oh O6YLeu III IDC SdIue ulSIIlct
most of the members of the collec-
tive were farm laborers, who in
their own words were picking III
crumbs from the kulaks' table last
gear" This year they sowed 27.E
acres per household. The collec
tive farms of Suvorovsk, in Nizh
ni-C hirsk township, sowed 81
acres per family last year ant
this year 81 acres. The "Storm
bird" collective in Dubrovsk town
ship sowed 27.5 acres per house
hold last year and this year 1877
acres. In the same township tn
members of the Beacon" collec
tive .sowed 1875 acres as individu
al farmers, and this year as
collective they sowed 1925 acre
per household. We may "prophe
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
POPE DEFENDS
CAPITALISM
DEMANDS TOILING MASSES
PAY FOR CRISIS

The Pope has come out with
another line of defense for the
capitalist system The present
terrible crisis whoch has shatter-
ed the living standards Of the
masses thruout the world is not
the fault of the capitalist class
but OF God.
The capitalist press repOets that
'"The international crisis b too
general to have been the work Of
men, the pontiff declared. cit is
evident that the Hand Of God lie
being felt and that the things of
the world are ObeyiAg the Hand of
Cod"
The pope goes so IA: a. to shift
the responsibility FOL the present
misery from HIS ca2lta.isC class
to His God.
He walls that liz all IF the con-
ferences that have taken place be-
tween the capitalist statesmen
the name of God has not been
mentioned.
"To settle the crisis the pom
tiff declared, linen come and GO
cross seas, cross mountains, meet
and discuss, but in all that talk
ing, comforting and debating VIM
has mentioned GJd? Who ha.
spoken of His Providence >"
He hides from tae masses how
ever what were the subjects o.
these conferences. He hides from
them that the statesmen have me
to prepare the attack on the Ger
man working masses, to prepar
! the attack on the Soviet Union
{ He hides from the masses tina
the statesmen have made thei
plans for driving the tot'ing mass
es into another slaughter so tina
their markets may be extende
4 and their profits maintained.
e He has a very practical conclu
sion from the fact that the pre-
ont crisis is an act Of Providenc,
> THE CAPITALIST CLASS, NO
t BEING RESPONSIBLE FO
: THE CRISIS, SHOULD NO
3 PAY FOR IT. THE TOILIN
:, MASSES MUST PAY THE BU1
; DEN.
'FPOpe Plus asked aid for Il
So suffering mot only from Il
m rich survivors Of the gener
shipwreck, but also from Il
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ures, one against the other. The
result was always the same-the
collective farms recorded an in
crease of from 40 to so per cent
in the effective utilization of la
Dor power and of the means of
production as compared with the
individual peasant farm. And this
in the first year of widespread col
lectivizatiOn! From this we can
estimate what reserves we have
for the improvement of farming.
These reserves will be brought in
to action at once in the extension
of collectivization and by the
further development of the state
farms. The essence of these re-
serves consists in the qualitative
improvement of peasant labor by
40 to so per cent as a result Of
the transition from individual to
collective farming. This proves
that we can set before ourselves
aims of which no capitalist land
can dream and of which we our
selves could not have thought yes.
terday when we had a basicaIIy
different system of farming.
With these facts, we as a Par
ty appeal to the poor and middle
peasants still carrying on 1ndivid
ual farming. We regard them
moreover, no longer simply as in
iividual farmers, but as nekol
khozniki (no-members of collectiv,
farms) "who do not yet wish t,
join them, but who will, in a com
lparatively short period of time
undoubtedly be convinced by tn,
mass experience of the collective
of the necessity of entering upol
the path of collectivization."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
CONTINUED from last w-eek)
3. Productivity of Labor on Col
Iective Farms

We have examined two sets of
facts, those characterizing the
growth of large-scale farming in
the form of state and collective
farms and those determining ire
origin Of their basic capital. We
must now see how this capital was
used in the first spring of Bolshe-
vik sowing. We're the collective
farms able this first spring to
make the most Of the advantages
of large-scale farming?
1t is clear that, if the collective
farms were unable to use their re-
sources to greater advantage thar
the small-scale farms and the ku
laks, all the conclusions towards
which my report is leading will b,
built upon sand.
We shall find an answer to this
problem, partly from the data con
tanned in the current report If tn
Commissariat of Agriculture o
the U.S.S.R. and partly from tina
obtained in reply to the specia
QUESTIONABLE sent out to all tn
collective farms by this Commits
sariat, the Statistical Bureau 0
the State Planning Commission
and the Collective Farm Lentel
These show-and this shoulu b
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
bv Y. A. YakOvleV
Peoples Commissar of Agriculture
Translated by Anna Louise Strong
, Conmissar of Agriculture

so small that it would have been
absurd to have attempted to make
a comparison between ourselves
and the United States in the field
of the mechanization of agricul-
ture.
Although the value of our ag-
ricultural machinery output am
ounted to so million dollars in
1913, it had dropped to 6 million
dollars in 1922. That was the
lowest point. From that time
there has been a steady rise. From
year to year we have doubled the
supply Of agricultural machinery
in 1924, in 1925-26, in 1929
30, and finally in 1930-3l when,
according to the program approx
ed by the Central Committee of
J the Party, it will reach the sum of
400 million dollars without trac-
tors) as against the 200 million
dollars in 1880.
In the United States the value
of the annual supply of machine
ry, starting at very high figure
has become more or less stabiliz
led at about 200 million dollar,
without tractors). Only in 1925
did it rise to $50 million dollars.
If we take the value of agricul
tural machinery including tractors
we find that in America in 1922
it reached 400 million dollars; il
our country in 1929 it was 25
million, and next year, according
, to the program, it viii be owe
500 million dollars. In other words
IN the coming year we shall no
. only equal America but alread
surpass her in this respect. Ur
) fortunately, so far this refers onl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

to quantity but not to quan''
assortment. ,n
Corresponding to the increas' !.
the supply of farm machinery \
amount of such machinery uss ~.
agricultural production has ~, ~
wise increased. While in i'l 10,
amounted to 7 rubles per new. s5
in 1929-SO it had already rea ~,
to about Is rubles (includlng :.
tors) and in 19SO-S1, if the -, y
preme Council of Economy -
not fail us, it will be, again NJ :
GLIDING tractors, 10 dollars .,lIse
acre. This shows how the ; !. A.
tive farm movement, which j , y
veloping from below, cOops at.t.
with the active role OF tns n ,rI
but that role expresses ifssli IN. h
how this movement IS
strengthened. r,4 b5
And finally, last in our u. II
not least in Importance COM, .. a.
extent to which our trac : .ss Re
fused. An examination Of aS
Ispective figures will reveal ,ourtr
"tractorizatiOn" in our 'g .Tsrr
and in capitalist states 1Oi totsIl
pie the United States a.. u. W@
different things. In ln' .svirg
thew used to laugh at US, : o.
that for us the tractor was ,'s 3 rvhfl
iect of prayer and WORSHIP Z rsai
seem 70 be an ordinary h ; y tssp
necessity it Is this SO? L Lev. b
rather laugh at thense a,,tnrt d
view of the fact that the 01 couptrll
work per tractor IN Oui .ban ths'
lis several times higne,r. - eOunt1'
lin the foremost capitalsns
- ITO be continued
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

lions go ragged because the cotton |
"overproduction" lies rotting in
the warehouses. Capitalist agri-
culture produces too much because
the capitalist class has doomed
millions to starvation and to
misery.
''To curb present over-produc-
tion," the conference proposed a
Gland utilization policy and pro-
gram" This policy of Gland utili-
cation" is the policy of blowing
under one-third of the cotton crop
which was proposed by the Farm
Board some months ago. This
policy is for the purpose of fore
ing the farmers to bear the bur
den of Solving" the crisis for the
capitalist class.
Organizing the Attack
The organizational steps made
t to put these hypocritical policies
e aimed at the farmers into effect
e were as follows:
"a committee of q with Gull
ly A. Cobb, associate editor of
Progressive Farming, as chair
man framed recommendations
embodying the outlines of a
land policy which were adopted
;, as the majority sentiment of the
!. conference. Two permanent ma
= tional committees to carry for
2 ward development of the land
:. policy and program were Gre
:" ated.
!, "The national land use plan
y ming committee is to be made up
- of five representatives from the
- United States department of as
riculture, three from the de-
partment of the interior, five
from the land grant college as
n, ISOLATION, and one each from
~ the federal farm board and the
federal farm loan board, ap-
pointments to be made by the
= heads of these organizations.
e "The national advisory and
f legislative committee on land
V use is to include four represen-
tatives from each of the ma
n tional farm organizations, name.
: ly, the American Farm Bureau
4 National Grange, Farmers UniOr
. and National Cooperative coun
d Gil, three from the Agriculture
; Editors association, and on
r each from the National Associ
70 alton of Commissioners and Sec
q retaries of Agriculture, the Am
erican Forestry association, Am
erican Railway Development as
to ISOLATION, United States cham
:" Der of commerce, and America
nil Bankers association. This CON
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

half the peasant households, SOW
ed more than two-thirds of the to-
tai area of spring crops; in the
second zone the collectives, con-
stituting one-fourth of all the
peasant households, sowed more
than one-third the total spring
crop area; while in the third zone,
in which they comprised a twelfth
of the peasant households, they
sowed an eighth of the spring
crop area.
In the United States nearly a
million tractors, used on capitalist
farms, resulted in an increase in
sOwn area amounting to 10 million
acres in the course of 10 years.
Only 10 million acresl In our
country, with an infinitely smaller
number of these steel horses. and,
indeed, chiefly by simply bringing
together the antiquated peasant
means of production. our collective
farmers have increased their sown
area 5 million acres over what they
had sOwn as individual peasants
This has enabled US not only to
cover the decrease in the sown
area caused by the liquidation Of
the kulak but even to increase the
total area sown in a single year
by about 1876 million acresl
In order to verify these data fol
all the collective farms of the U
S.S.R., we, together with the Sta
tistical Bureau of the State Plan
ming Commission and the Collec
tive Farm Center, analysed fol
the same zones the sown area pc
worker, per power unit, per unit o
population, and per farm, an,
checked the different set of fig
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
Ironwood Comes Thru
With Order for Ten
Subscription Books

KIMBALL, WIS, Dec. IL was
appointed correspondent and liter
ature agent for the Ironwood Sec
ton committee of the United Far.
mers League at Ironwood, Mich.
Please send me at least 10 sub
scription books so can send them
to the units here.
received our first bundle order
today and we will try and raise
the money to continue these bun
die orders.
1 read the copy of the Producers
News and I am very we'll salts
! fled that it is paper that all the
farmers should read. Enclosed fine
report of last meeting we held.
u. KRONHOLM.