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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17
PIANO DUO
 TO BROADCAST

Continuing their novelty ar- engagements of Yankee Doodle" Fray and Braggiotti, information al piano team, will offer the classic American tune in the style of Bee- thoven and Wagner, the latter a grin," ''Parsifal' and Die Wal kure," during their concert to be heard over the WABC-Columbia chain tomorrow from 8 to 3:15 p. m., EST.
 The complete program will in, clude: Festival, Debussy; Ciccior- mia Ozark Eyes); Yankee Doodle (variations by Marion BraggiottD (a) Theme; (b) Tn the style of Beethoven; Co In the style of Wagner.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
Share Choppers In
South Starving to
Death, Writer Finds

KNOXVILLE, Ky.-Share crop
pers of southern Alabama are
starving to death, reports Melvin
Levy, member of the Dresser
committee which recently investi-
gated terrorism in Harlan county,
KY. Levy motored down to At
lanta after the Harlan inspection.
"Why, those poor fellows are
bought and sold like slaves" said
Levy. "They recently went on
strike in the Camp Hill section,
southwest of Birmingham, and
during the past few weeks there
have been several killings. None
of the atrocities has, been made
public.
"The Negroes have been work
ing for almost nothing, must buy
their supplies from the plantation
owner, and until recently were mo-
even allowed to raise their owl
vegetables in the ground arounC
their little miserable huts."
Levy related that he had passed
a black form on the road. HI
stopped and Investigated. It wa
that of Negro, foodless for days
who later explained he had "jus
laid down to die" He was takel
to a hospital.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
Chang Govt Ousted By Chinese Mass Revolt
u. S. Workers Visit
Huge Tractor Plant
In Soviet Union

STALINGRAD, Dec. 8. After
tour of Stalingrad Tractorstroi
by the American workers delega-
ton now visiting the Soviet Union,
they found two shifts operating,
producing ITO tractors daily and
smashing the lies of the capital
lists who stated that the enter
prise was a failure. The Ameri-
can workers delegation met with
the presidium of the factory COM
mittee and presented the greet
ings of the American workers and
the statue of a worker by Adolpr
Wolf, as an expression of interna'
tional solidarity and revolutionary
greetings. Thanks were sent tx
the American workers and th'
American workers in this cit!
which has tripled its population il
the past ten years.
The delegation found a shortag
of labor in the new enterprise nov
being built. Over 100 America
workers recently elected delegate
to the local Soviet. The delega
ton was also greeted in the lum
Der mills on October 25th b
thousands of workers, but coul
! find no trace of forced labor.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
DECEMBER ISSUE
OF NEW PIONEER
OUT-READ II

NEW YORK.-The New Pho
neer gives Santa Claus a big
wallop on the front cover of its.
December issue and in a story
called "Santa Claus at Home"
destroys the myth of a kind old
man bearing gifts.
An article by Anna Rochester,
called "Buried Treasure" gives
the story of coal and the lives
of the workers who dig for it
so wildly that grown-ups as
well as children will want to
read it. No one will want to
miss the letter from Kentucky
miners little girl, either, who
says: "We are thankful to you
people for coming down here
and help us struggle for life. "
A good way to be sure of get
ting the December issue is to
subscribe. Then you'll be sure
to see the map of Manchuria
with an article by Robert Dunn
Address New Pioneer, Box %
Station D, New York, N. Y.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
Farmers Daughter In
Montana, Points to
Need for Struggle

Roberts, Mont, Dec. 1.-THE
conditions of the farmers around
here are quite desperate.
The farmers are getting 45c a
bushel for wheat at the market,
SIC a pound for pork, S-1Oc a
pound for spring chickens. The
turkey raisers just shipped their
turkeys to market without know
ing what price they will get for
them.
How is it possible for the far
mers to make a living with such
prices for their products?
It's about time the farmers II
this vicinity as well as others be
gin to organize and fight for then
rights. The farmers should have
the right to set a price for hi
produce as we'll as the merchan
sets prices for the products the!
sell.
We, the farmers, must organic
and demand from the capitals
our rights.
On with the struggle of tn
toiling farmers for their immedi
ate demands.
FARMERS DAUGHTER
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
.DOAK PLANS MORE
DEPORTATTONS
LABOR DEFENSE WILL AID
FOREIGN BORN STRUGGLE.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Answer to
the demand of Secretary of Labor
William N. Doak that deportation
Of militant foreign-born workers
be speeded and aided by the
courts will be made at mass pro-
test meetings in large American
cities under the auspices of the In
ternational Labor Defense and the
Society for the Protection of the
Foreign-Born. The first of these
will be in New York, in the Man
haitian Lyceum on December goth,
Doak reported that the deporta-
ton of militant foreign-born work
ers requires greater effort thar
in the case of any other class,
because his deportation raids ar
'ehampered by every possible re
sort to the courts and by persist
ent propaganda on the part o
un-American organizations of Am
erican citizens"
In defiance of Doak, the Inter
national Labor Defense has Tough
the labor departments wholesal
deportation program. 1t has wo
by mass pressure and court actio
the unconditional right of worker
from fascist countries to go voluT
tarily to Russia, rather than b
delivered by Doak to prisons {
the execution block in their nativ
lands. The LID has also helpe
defeat the Michigan allen regis
tration' bill, whereby milital
workers would be fingerprinte
and checked for radical activiti'
by the police. The lid annou1
ces that it will continue to figl
all deportations, demanding Il
right of political asylum for g
workers regardless of their POI
teal opinions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
Workers Greet Hunger
March Delegates at
Huge Mass Meetings

eats were given to US before we
left the smoky city.
In Pittsburg, the column going
towards st. Louis parted with us.
The police do not pay so much
attention to US on our return trip.
We are left to find our own way
in and out of towns, which is not
always so easy.
We stop in a steel town and
hold meeting in the open to a
good crowd. Then go on to
Youngstown, where we had a
good supper, good meeting and
stayed over night. Some of us
even had mattresses to sleep on,
being one of the lucky ones.
Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, Dec. II
The rain is pouring down as we
walk back to our eating place in
Youngstown, where they even
treated US to pie for breakfast.
The rain stops and the SUI
comes out as we travel on the
slippery road towards Cleveland
where the city had treated us 81
well on our first visit. This time
we have to find our way through
the town as best we can.
i The local organization is taking
care of US. We arrived before ex
, pected, in the middle of the after
noon. Hot meal was not ready bu
we were given a couple SAND
! witches with coffee for a start.
i About 80 of us stay at the
Ukrainian Hall. These good peO-
pie are doing everything for us.
We are their guests to the full
|. est extent. They arranged for a
bath for us, cut our hair free of
charge, gave us a swell supper
and wanted us to eat and eat.
Now they are spreading matt
resses on the floor for us to
sleep on. Going to Washington
and face machine guns for peO'
: pie like these is worth while.
e There are several meetings
town tonight but the bunch he.
II is not going-that gives US
t chance to go early to bed for ono
k Toledo, Ohio, Saturday, Dec. ]
E. AT six we are up and soon aft
t. CONTINUED on Page TWo)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
HUNDREDS OF FARMERS HEAR GARLIN
TELL OF SOVIET FIVE YEAR PLAN

son Hall was filled. All the old
timers crept out of their shells
the railroad workers thrown out
of their jobs with their priority"
all shot to pieces, listened with
open minds and looked with eager
eyes, as the vivid contrast between
the living conditions of the work
ers and farmers under the Hoov-
er system and those of the happy
workers of the Soviet Union was
made.
The picture of the Hoover Plan
of Starvation are a smashing in
CONTINUED on Page F9ve)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
FARM PRODUCTS
DECLINE 50 PCT.
FARMERS MUST ORGANIZE
TO RESIST BANKERS
ATTACK.

Agricultural income in the Unit |
ed States this year is estimated |
at $6,50O,000,00O by the Standard |
statistics company of New York,
in a survey which reads in part:
"a continued downward trend
in prices of most farm products
during the early fall months, and
indicated lower crop yields in the
majority of cases, makes it appar-
ent that gross agricultural income
of the United States for the cur
rent year will be below even our
tentative estimate made last Aug
ust, despite the recent sharp adj
vance in crop prices. At the
earlier date, we expressed the be-
lief that total income would be
about $7,000,000,0O0.
Careful evaluation of subse-
quent developments leads US to
believe that $6,5O0,000,000 will
more nearly approximate the gross
amount which farmers will 1e-
ceive for their products. This
showing would represent a decline
of about 80 per cent from the re-
vised estimate of $9,434,O00,00O
for 1880, as given by the depart
ment of agriculture, and As pei
cent below the governments fig
ure for the preceding year. It is
apparent that aggregate gross N
come this year will be at the low
est level since before the war"
: Interest and Taxes Not Reduced
While there has been this de
cline of almost fifty per cent il
the value of the farm product
! turnout the country in the pas
two years, the interest and tn
i, taxes that the capitalist class de
S mands are the same or create
than two years ago. These take
and interest payments that tn
capitalist class demands are nov
greater than what the agraria
population has to live on.
The bankers and bloodsucke1
n demand that the lives of the fa1
mer and his family be coined int
v their interest and taxes. The TOT
! ing masses can only resist thes
outrageous demands thru organic
y ed resistance. The United Farm
& ers League is leading this strut
se gle of the toiling farmers again'
lie this inhuman exploitation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
Police Thugs Club;
Blind Negro Woman

Chicago, Ill. = Temporal ly
blinded when she was beaten and
arrested by police because she
demanded pay for her Homework,
Elinor Brimm, of 1872 S. State
St.. has asked for defense by the
International Labor Defense. Miss
Brimm called the police when
white housewives for whom she
had been working refused to pay
her $42 in back pay.
When the police arrived, now,
ever, they dubbed her. hand-cu11'
ed her, and broke a jar OF pre-
serves over her head. She was
SO badly bruised that she had e
be taken to a hospital, where sn'
was found to be temporarll pllnd
ed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
COMMUNITY XMAS
TREE AT OUTLOOK

A community Christmas tree
will be held in the streets of Out
look Thursday evening, Dec. oath,
sponsored by the Outlook business
men. Candy and apples will be
given free to all who come.
All the children of the commu-
nifty are especially invited to come.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
SMALL RANCH
OW NERS STOP
LAND SALES
RICH CATTLE COMPANY AT
TEMPTS TO DRIVE SMALL
RANCHERS OUT.

Wolf Point, Montana, Dec. 10.
"A number of ranchers from the
Prairie Elk country in northeast
ern McCone county met with the
county commissioners at Circle to
protest a proposed sale of ap-
proximately $4,000 acres of land.
Tax title to this land has been
acquired by the county and a sale
twas advertised for Dec. 10, when
it was proposed to sell the severa
parcels of land in a lump, a price
of so cents an acre being mention
ed as a fair value for the land
20 per cent to be in cash and the
balance to be spread over a perioC
of five years.
The committee, w. H. Jacobs, D
| D. Garoutte and II. F. Prall, VIII,
were spokesman for the small
ranchers protested that selling o
the entire amount of land in on
parcel would make it impossible
: for individuals to redeem thei
land or for a group of Individual
: to redeem land in any certai
neighborhood, since the land j
spread over IA townships.
The selling of the land in thi
p manner is a scheme of the Char
D pell Bros. Horse company to oil
n tain possession of a large amour
S Of land of small ranchers at
: nominal cost.
e McCone commissioner professt
7 not to know to whom the Lar
e would be sold, but admitted that Z
d offer had been made by a "M
: Hunt" of Miles City.
It Many smaller farms and ranch
d would be almost valueless by a
IS QUESTION by Chappell Bros.
L tracts surrounding them. T.
1t transaction is a movement to for
lie the small ranchers from the
II holdings. 1t is not likely al
l. other concern would want the la
for grazing cattle since Chapp
Bros. own nearly all water hol
in that section.
Some of the land is good /
farming and worth much me
than 80 cents an acre and 9th
l land is rough and only suitable
grazing.
When asked whether the Ia
D had been appraised within the Ii
: three months, as required by !
y preceding a sale, replies of co
|" missioners indicated that such
4 appraisal had not been made.
The sale advertised for Dec.
, has been vacated as result of
: ranchers' protest and it is und
e stood that the matter will be
4 layed for go days.
3 The Anaconda Copper Comp;
y press reports that these sn
n ranchers are attempting to I
" vent the sale of this land to
10 Continued on last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
ALL OUT TO THE YOUNG COMMUNIST
TRAINING SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT

selections, athletic numbers pan
TONNES and play.
The main feature will De the
rwo-act play made up by the SUI
dents themselves called "Condl-
tions and Charity" This pictures
the actual conditions among tne
novertv stricken farmers and con,
cIudes in a mock trial of the Keo
Cross and Federal relief.
A dance will be held after the
program to the refrains OF gOoc
music.
Everybody welcome!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
The Army Of Hunger
Is Marching

(Song of the National Hun
ger March,
We march on starvation,
we march against death;
We're ragged; we've moth
ing but body and breath.
Chorus:
From North and from South
From East and from West.
The Army of Hunger is
marching!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

government had issued. Chi
ang Kai Shek and his entire
government have been fore
ed to resign by the mass re-
volt.
The remaining forces of the
government under the leadership
of General Chen are attempting to
crush the revolt by the bloody
slaughter methods that have made
the Kuomintang government a
symbol of blood and terror.
The present actions of the stu
dents began Monday when thous-
ands of them paraded in the
streets of Marking in defiance of
the machine guns which the Nan
king government had planted
there. The students demonstrated,
singing communist songs and wav-
ing red flags. The students de-
handed that the Japanese invad-
ers of. Manchuria be cleaned out
of the country.
The capitalist press calls this a
"bloodless revolution" This re-
, volt has already been paid for by
the blood of thousands and thOus-
] ands of the militant peasant,
worker and student revolutionists
J. in the past five years. Because it
0 is only the blood of the Chinese
i toiling masses that has been shed
+ and not that of the imperialist
e generals and officials it is "blood-
e less" as far as the exploiters are
r concerned.
. The government which has been
II ousted has been the agent of the
Is foreign imperialists in their ex-
ploitation of the Chinese people
Is 1t has been the direct agent Of
? the United States capitalist class
D. in its struggles with the British
nr and japanese imperialists. Whit
the masses have demanded thai
the Japanese imperialists b
"a thrown out of Manchuria thi
ID Marking Kuomintang government
IN under the direct orders of U. S
r. Secretary of State Stimson, ha
refused to lead the struggle. The,
eS knew that the struggle the Chimes
C. masses demanded was not onl
OF the struggle against the Japanes
ne imperialists but against all of tn
&c imperialists.
- In central China over sixty mi
~ lion workers and peasants are liz
IL ing under Chinese Soviet govern
- ment. In Manchuria the Japanes
invaders had been defeated
.ov battle after battle by the pOorl
20 armed partisan detachments of Il
,or Chinese masses.
for Japanese Off Gold Standard
The suspension of the go
nd standard by Japan on Dec. IL i
asst Dictates clearly the rapid crumt
aw ing of the entire financial stru
M ture of world Imperialism. II
an japanese imperialists attempt
after the suspension of the Bri
is ish gold standard in September
the maintain their own standard as
Ier- means for winning from the Bri
de- ish the markets in the Far Eai
In attempting to maintain t
any gold standard the japanese ha
lall been shipping gold to the Unit
,re- States in large quantities duril
the the past two months. So serio
CONTINUED on Page two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

Inc Young Communist League
framing School which is being
usld at Plentywood, Montana will
SlOSe with bang on Saturday,
december 10Th, 8 p. m. sharpl
Our Commencement Program
WI consist of a variety of attrac-
vons' Speakers representing the
.Ouns Communist League, Com
u'us' Party, United Farmers
g0e and the Students, musical
jumpers, vocal and instrumental
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
By ELLA REEVE BLOOR
Estate Organizer, United Farmers
oorraN

League)
Minot, North Dakota, Dec. A.
The Sender Garlin meetings
speaking and showing pictures of
the "Soviet 5-Year Plan, the Hoov-
er Plan and the Farmers") and
held under the auspices of the
United Farmers League and the
International Labor Defense in
North Dakota are stirring the
minds of the workers and farm
ers to a large degree.
J In Bismarck the large Patter-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
War on Imperiahsts
Demanded by $4,000
Students In Marking
Remaining Agents of Wall Street Government Attempt
to Crush TOiling Masses By Bloody Slaughter

The revolt of the has forced the resignation of
the Chang Kai Shek government the agents of the inn
peast expoters in expressing the Chinese The
government offices cleaned by $4,000 students
who defed the decree of martial law which the National
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

Pittsburg, Pa, Wednesday, Dec.
S.-In Cumberland some stood
around the stove all night, others
laid on the floor and tried in vain
to keep warm.
1t has showed during the night,
now it is raining-cold, sloppy and
wet After coffee and buns we
finally got started, climbing the
mountains goes slow. The road
is slippery and curves and steep
hills are many. There is no more
snow after we get thorugh the
mountains.
In UniOntown we stop for
sandwich and coffee which some
one had waiting for us.
1t is getting dark. A truck rar
INTO our car, smashing our real
light and fender. Just how much
will have left of the car by thu
time we get back is hard to tell
out l will try to save the key TO
a souvenir.
After repairing up the best w
could, we finally reached our des
unatiOn, Ukrainian Hall, in Pitts
Ourg, where it is warm and wher
agoOd meal was waiting for us.
The hall is packed and delegate
are speaking from the platform
telling about our experience /
Washington to an intereste
crowd.
Youngstown, Ohio, Thursda,
Dec 1O.-It felt good to sleep ]
a warm place last night in Pitts
Ourg. Sleeping on the floor
something we are getting kind I
used to. Plenty of coffee ar
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
D, HANS RASMUSSEN

Washington, D. c., Tuesday,
noe 8-The big day is over and
SO CITY of Washington is breath
~ easier. Trouble was what they
expected and did not get it.
The demands to the House and
corote were a case of leave or
tote it. When the report came
hsck that our committees had not
been admitted, they expected us to
rsuture the capitol, although moth
mo of the kind was intended. All
motor cops started their motors
readv for action or ready to beat
II.
Some might think we lost out,
Init il was the best planned and
most effective demonstration ever
made BY the labOring class.
Orders were issued for us to
leave the city today. To order us
out was not hard when they know
We are not going to stay another
day.
Before we left the dump il
which we have slept we had 10 op
en- our bundles to show them W.
had not stolen any of the arm!
blankets. We left without an!
breakfast. Had to go and buy j
as best we could-coffee and, SC
Mission Discriminates Agains
Negroes
In a Mission where some aske
Il they could wash themselves, the
would not let any Negro in. Mos
Of us left our great capitol NOR
dirty than we came.
It was about noon before we &c
ready to leave. Some one gave U
whole bunch of bananas. ]
Baltimore they throw them ]
the sea by the shipload.
A few motor cops escorted us I
the city limits. We are now G
the way home, over the san
roads we came. We stopped al
picked up some more apples. Stol
ped and built a bonfire, boilt
coffee and had lunch from Il
supply trucks.
Arrived in Cumberland aft
dark, motor cops meeting us OF
side of town, lined US all up al
took us to the same skating ri
where we spent one cold night h
fore. Stew and coffee was wa
ing for us. Now all are singin
Solidarity forever" and someo
playing an old accordion. In Il
town they do not allow US to he
meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-11-11
AUTO INDUSTRY
SHOWING SIGNS
OF IMPROVEMENT

DETROIT, Nov. Il. UR)-1ncreas-
ed production estimates for the fl
nal three months of 1881 reported
by all plants and addition of 1000
men daily by the Ford plant indi-
cate the automotive industry eX-
poets an early business revival.
The industry, probably hit by the
depression more than any other,
produced an estimated 10000 cars
in October. About 100000 are eX-
pected this month with the De-
cember production probably 125,000
or more.
Other bright spots included:
Packard - President Alva Mac
Auley said there was reason to be
very hopeful" sales this winter
would exceed last winters marks.
| Ford-will continue rehiring from
1000 to 1,200 men day until re-
ports from dealers all over the coun-
! Try call a halt.
Hudson-reports it noted the first
definite upturn in business in sew
eral months during week Of Oct
"a I'VE feel optimistic" said an
executive.
Buick-dealers report in widely
scattered areas business is picking
up in other lines. Factory on 512
day week. IF there is any money
in the country to be spent on auto
mobiles we will know, it soon." an
executive said. I'VE feel encourag-
ed"
Chrysler - reported survey ot
purchasers revealed an increase in
number of purchases made in July
by 35 out of the so important oc-
cupational groups.
Plymouth-plant operating at full
time for several months.
Chevrolet report on October
sales unofficially said to show in
crease over September, an unusua
seasonal showing Plant operating
at half speed during inventory pro.
bablye will go on full capacity il
December.
Oakland-Reopened foundry de
partment and will be fully started
by Dec. l. Its reports were all op.
timistic.
Executives of practically every
other automobile company in Mich.
igan, including Oldsmobile, REQ
Hupmobile, Cadillac and Graham.
Paige also were optimistic, declin.
ing, however, to speak officially be.
fore further confirmation of tht
change in trend.
Two other encouraging signs were
announcement of a new car to b(
known as the 'Rockne Six" and al
increase of Az per cent in gasoline
consumption during first six month.
of the year in the United States.