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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11

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guests and feel we are welcome.
We all march with song, and how
they can sing, to city hall where
Toledo man and I speak to crowd
In the open air. More marching
and songs back to Coliseum where
delegates speak 10 big crowd.
Comrade Kennel from Michigan
is now our Leaders, a born lead
er and brilliant speaker, very clear
and to the point. Crowd very at
tentive and applauding. Toledo del
egation joins. We are now about
$50.
We sleep on floor in Coliseum.
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1881.
Correction: Meeting before To-
ledo court house last night-not
city hall.
Imitation rooster Growing from
everywhere wake as before day
light. At daybreak marched back
to international Workers Order
hall. Singing before breakfast does
not go we'll but did the best we
could. Bacon and scrambled eggs
waiting for US. It's the poor peo-
pie feeding us-the poor we are
fighting for and representing.
Leave Toledo about eight. It's a
lovely day. The sun is shining, a
thin layer Of ice on water froze
during the night. The land is flat
with farmhouses not far between
Big house and big barns most Of
them in need of paint. We blow
our horns as we move along. Mer
with cameras take our pictures a.
we roll by.
In Sandusky, Ohio we stop, stoI
little too quickly for fun. Jim i;
at the wheel, lost his head anC
run into Duluth truck smashed
both lights on car-second time ht
run into somebody. Jim still thinks
he is only one who can drive {
car.
We march thru part of town
singing, hurrahing, shouting: "W,
want work or wages" eve wan
unemployment insurance" evil W,
get it? Yes!"
We are the guests of AT. o.
l. and are treated to sandwiches
buns and apples at their hall.
We are not a mob. There is or
Ger, discipline and not a sign o
liquor.
Along the shore of lake Erie W
go towards Cleveland. Summer re
sorts and amusement places ar
scattered along the shore. Re,
Iapples hang on trees and cover tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11

The American workers delega-
ton on arriving in Moscow for the
7th celebration reports
achievements in the
building of the five year plan.
The American workers coming
from basic industries where stag
nation has hit the capitalist fac
tories, were astounded at the great
industrial plants being built up in
the U. S. 5. R.
The following letter was received
from the delegation:
upon our arrival in Russia and
Moscow the delegation thought it
was entering a great construction
camp. On each side of the railroad
new factories going up and new
restaurants, apartment houses, etc.
Vast new enterprises being built
under socialist construction.
The day of our arrival in accord
with the decree of the central COM
mittee for reduced costs Of food,
there was announced a reduction Of
cost Of 800 in all necessities.
Our first visit was to the Stain
chemical factory which completed
its plan in 2 year and 10 months.
Since 1925 this factory has in
creased production 5000. During
the past year wages of workers in
creased 119o. ALI the machinery is
built In Russia and now they are
independent of foreign supplies.
Before the war Asiatic slave la
Dor was used and conditions were
intolerable. One of the first
things the Bolsheviks had to do t.
improve conditions was to cut sky
lights and add additional windows
to provide light. Then they install
ed a modern ventilating system *
eliminate the poisonous gases
which had formerly ruined th'
health Of the workers. All the ole
buildings were small, poorly light
ed and poor .ventilation-the new
ones that are now being erecteC
are large, better ventilated ant
provided with sufficient lighting
and all modern machinery.
We were first greeted by tn
management, shop committee an,
then by the communist party nu
clei. A breakfast was served, at
tended by shock brigaders, man
agement, engineers, workers an
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11

per dishes. / scalded my fingers
and had to drop soup and dish on
floor. The soup was no good and
the floor was dirty so there
wasn't much lost. Half a dozen
photographers are busy taking
pictures while we eat. Others fol-
lowed us all through town with
moving picture machines mounted
on top of cars.
Up stairs is our sleeping quar-
ters-a big hall with 400-500 ar
my cots, standing side by side,
nothing on them but the bare can
vas and one army blanket. Down
stairs is a toilet with one seat and
one wash bowl for 500 to use. We
are standing in line. If it takes
one man one minute, it takes 500
men 500 minutes, so you can fig
ure out for yourself. There is
an empty lot across the street.
On the wall in the hall is painted
in big gilded letters: Holy, holy,
Holy. Lord God Almighty"
Big meeting in auditorium: five
to six thousand people there.
was picked as one of the speak
ers, but the first ones were too
long winded-it was getting late
and we had to quit. Good speak
ers and good meeting.
Walked the Is blocks back to
our sleeping quarters. My feet
are getting sore.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11

zone 1919, and in the third COW
1880.
Here we must acknowledge 0G
Indebtedness if not to the kuls-
then to the policy of "iquidsun'
the kulak as a class"
The actual sources Of the cap
tai with which our collective iaf~
went through the spring Wer"
First (basic sources) the mean
of the collective farms themseH~
obtained by combining the resOu.
es of the peasants who IO9S.
them; second-state aid IN
form of machines and credit 'nI'
the resources of the kulan w
had been liquidated as ca -,
Such were the resources OF ~
large scale farming which ID
first spring of mass cOnseI
farm sowing equaled in sOWn ~, =,
that of the former land OWL |,
and the kulaks and set q recon- ~.
the rapid organization OF ~
scale farming unprecendsnE'o
the history Of mankind.
It wouldn't be a bad idea j
German economists who are ~ y,
philosophizing upon the quess e.,
of the desirability Of Orgsn,i
producers co-operatives OF 10
German farmers in order 70 e. IT,,
land area large enough 70 IVES .s,a
a tractor, thought a bit aoOu. ' o.s
cannot doubt that, If the o' M
government should agree % a,. m
the small farmers by hqalOsM
the kulaks as a class and ID ~
ton to this should render !.
farmers aid in production I" -.
extent it is rendered in our y. -
try, there also the tractor u
be within the reach Of the
farmers.
| tcousanusd nszs wSsEs
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11
WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF
FUNDS OF COLLECTIVE
FARMS7

In order to characterize the
speed of organizing a large scale
agriculture capable of using mod
ern machinery, it might be enough
perhaps to limit oneself to the
data already given. But then we
hear the voices of the Rights out
spoken and In secret, claiming the
peasants came into the collectives
farm empty handed, that they have
sold off all their horses, butchered
their cows and pigs and joined
the collectives without any prop
erty, as if to say Give US the
means Of production and we are
ready to become members at state
expense;' and that they came in
to collective farms anxious for
government gifts, to use govern
ment tractors, money, etc.
Such a legend Is widely current.
However, the facts disprove it
completely. They show that this
is not merely q. Harmless" leg.
end but an actual SANDER caused
by a desire to discredit and injure
the collective farm movement.
Let US compare the number of
peasant households which have en-
tered the collective farms with the
number Of horses and cows which
they brought with them. If this
were to show that the peasants
who joined the collective farms
came into them without horses and
cows or even with only half the
number which they possessed be-
fore joining, then we would have
to recognize that the slandereru
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11
BUILDING SOCIALISM In SOVIET
KARELIA TOLD BY FARM BOY

work. And there are sacrifices to
be made also.
1 hope that you will get along
over the winter. 1t is too bad that
l am unable to send money from
here. hope that we can arrange
so that you can get over here next
summer.
Say hello TO Gust Will write
him as soon as / can. Could you
send me some newspapers? They
are difficult to subscribe to from
here.
Wishing you the best of health,
Your son,
E. A. Stensoos.
EDITORS Note: The reason that
this worker cannot send any mon
ey from the Soviet Union to his
mother in Belden is that the anti
soviet non-reeognition policy Of the
United States government has
made this impossible to the present
time.)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11
Copper Company Cut
Wages In Great Falls

A wage reduction was announced
last week in Great Falls by the
Anaconda Copper Mining Com
pany. The wages of all the COM
pany were reduced so cents a shift,
starting Dec. 1, according to no
tees posted at all plants and mines
of the company. This will bring
the basic daily scale at the Great
Falls plant from s4.25 to $3.75 a
day.
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where we are to spend the night.
The door is guarded by police
nobody allowed to leave. More
coffee and was served and not any
too much of it.
Now they are singing. They
tried to dance but it did not go
well.
Tomorrow we expect to be IN
Washington. Just how our lead
ers expect TO present the demands
we do not know. Immediate re-
lief for unemployed and unemploy-
ment insurance are the most i'm
portant demands.
Most of these marchers are will
ing to face gas and machine guns
in order to better the conditions
among the working class. A life
of starvation is not worth much
to any of US
Washington, d. c., Sunday, Dec.
I6.-One more tainted last night
and had to be brought to by our
nurse.
/ The door guarded by police, we
were prisoners over night in the
lbig skating rink in Cumberland.
They did not want US to mix with
the respectable people Of their
town. These same "respectables"
took a Negro ont Of their hospital
last night and lynched him
, It was cold-only one stove In
, the big hall Many stood around
: the stove all night to keep warm
Others laid on the floor. At $3.50
! we are called. In about 80 min
. utes most of US were singing;
, Solidarity foreverI" Not because
: overly happy bat for demonstra'
[ ton. After standing in line fol
: an hour we got coffee and one
sandwich.
: We are climbing up and down
mountains. Trucks run hot anC
out of water, ROSTERS are Growing
3 while we hunt for water IN TIT
9 dark.
J, Thousands Of pamphlets ar
s scattered in towns as we go. Re
e porters and photographers hav
i been with US for days.
Peach and apple orchards alonl
s the road. Nice red apples cove
e the ground. We stop and he'll
e ourselves to some, disregardini
the "No Trespassing" sign-direc
d from producer to consumer-th
g apples are good.
Truck has brought sandwiche:
a We stop some twenty miles out
h side of Washington and eat. Dair
II farms, some of them great bi
r ones, we see from the road. No1
It it is not mountainous but hills ev
a erywhere.
&c Motor cops are keeping trac
ID of our moves. In the city the
10 know we are coming. On the wa
ot in, cars galore come to take
ot look at US. We meet some of tn
is bosses in most expensive car
W Some of them have a kind Of wol
ried look on their face. Jim too
ed the horn at two swell jane
- and how they sneered at US. Mos
u of US have not been washed fc
!, the last two days and we reach til
a capitol dirty and more hungr
looking than we really are.
sc Reach Washington
le And what lot of cars and pei
Sc pie lined up to see US when "
re reached town. Motor cops no
ae take the command. Stop all ira.
fic as we go and escort US to OF
~ stopping place. We get off al
ne march for a couple miles or S
ne but people are not greeting l
DIS here like they did in some otht
or towns. Other marchers have com
es We can tell by the banners {
It. some of the trucks.
At an old marine building OF
division is to stay. We line I
We and have soup, coffee and brea
ey We eat sitting on the floor. II
'rt soup is served scalding hot in p
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lf. "AIlVG IL 70 nOOVeri
Upon the table jumped a city
''full belly" and hollered: 1--WE are
not feeding you as an organization
we feed you as an individual. If
you don't like it get outl" And
out we went. The 500 marched
back to where we had come from,
stopping all traffic as we went
and hollering "Down with slop
houses!" and "We want food!"
WORKERS SOLIDARITY
At Ukranian hall they had pre-
pared 1000 sandwiches for us to
take along tomorrow. Some we
now eat for supper together with
coffee. We feel fine. We had a
chance to show the city of Pitts
burgh they could not feed their
sloppy soup to delegates from all
over the United States and get
away with it.
Three big meetings are held In
town this evening
Cumberland, Maryland, Satur-
day, Dec. 6.-At 4:30 we are up.
Hot coffee and slices of bread are
waiting for as. Nobody is kick
ing. This is not the City Of Pitts
burg feeding as.
It takes time 30 get started. II
is still dark when We pass thru
town and out through q tunnel
which seemed to be miles long.
By and by It is daylight. We
travel on winding roads among
big hills. We are in the coal dis
trict whore the miners carry load
ed guns In bottom of trucks wher
going 10 meetings. Here is where
they have real war. How many
miners have been killed, I do no
know, but the miners are proud Of
the fact that they killed II Of TIT
company dicks in the hard-fough
battles. The dicks wear bullet
proof vests, so the miners shoe
them in the face with buckshots.
| At Finleyville, a small mining
town where the men are working
one day a week and getting SITE
the people were waiting for q
with several boilers of hot eoffe
, and with sandwiches for all. Goa
for sale, $1.50 per ton.
Big smelters and steel worker
with smoke from only few Of tn
many smoke stacks, is what W
: notice as we go by.
In Brownsville we stop and hol
another open air meeting to bi
: crowd of idle workers.
, Next stop is Union Town,
? good-sized town. March throug
town singing: Hold the fort fo
. we are coming" Solidarity fol
ever" and three cheers for almos
D anything. We can sure make
e lot Of noise. Outside Of the moi;
e we are orderly. Just what woul
e happen if anybody stopped we
h not know, but the result would NJ
a be very peaceful. There is a Il
S of fight in the 500, but nobody
anxious to find out just no
n much.
Refreshments By Workers
Coffee and sandwiches wei
served to all in the open by loo;
people from trucks. More marcl
ing and off we go again. SOM
: body stuck his head out too fl
from a truck and smashed his nos
!, against a telephone pole. TT
nurse is patching it up. A no!
more or less don't count when v
are going to Washington to 81
Hoover.
n We are now in the Allegher
y mountains. It is hard for son
p of the old trucks making Il
it grades. Hunters with red cal
le and rifles are out hunting f,
S. deer. At the summit the ire
# ARE covered with ice and slee
n There is no snow.
d Surrounded By Police
ct 1t is after dark when we arri'
y in Cumberland, Maryland. TIL
It are waiting for US. Police esco
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11
AMERICAN WORKERS DELEGATION SEVS
VICTORIES OF THE FIVE YEAR PLAN

the delegation. A BuIpar;.
gineer working one year n e.
placed his application to ~ i'sa
communist party, at this mn MN ID
A foreman "a former wo,tsE1
vented a formula which saw q
factory hundreds of thonsorss o
year and makes it indeuend...
foreign capitalists for sunnI;a' u
An old worker Sc wears Fr !.
asked about the fate of tba C sgs
boro Boys and told US NOT
afraid but to do as the Ru..S
did. We also met a Korean ss.S
brigader who discarded slav. .-0:a
his own country.
The enthusiasm, enerev a..
tally Of the workers is i iDS -
able. Nowhere did we firS
plants. All of them were . ''S
terested in hearing of the 80
tons in America as thew vs~. VIC
telling Us of the improvAn0s-.
their conditions and the bu;Is.'N
of socialism of which th.v =
very proud. ~
A meeting of all worker,
held In one Of the shona
building was packed with v.,a...
who came straight from u. ~
Included In the meeting wen. =. =,
diers of the Red Army. N
greetings from the Amerie,o - =
legation and resolution from =
Friends Of the Soviet Union ~.
greeted with tremendous .h....
and at the conclusion the wort
pledged themselves to iner.s.
production and go ahead at svs
greater tempo. After the mass;.-
workers, soldiers, management ~
delegation headed by a work.,
band marched out into the St,...
singing the international.
From the Stain factory va =.
tell the American workers tbi,.
Production has increased, was.
, have been increased and wOrkp,
conditions improved. The worker
have demonstrated their ability b
direct and control industry. No
where did we find dissatisfactOa
: The workers there will fight apV
! attempt to crush the society the,
are building. With such condition.
prevailing, with no unemployment
: is it any wonder that Moscow Ia,
! been busy the last week preparing
for the November 7th demOnshs.
ton. Everywhere banners, signs
; placards depicting progress Of tie
! five year plan and slogans calling
for greater effort. And is It sy
E wonder that on Nov. 7th thuuS
ands Of the best soldiers in Il.
3 world Of the Red Army demon
strated their strength - SHOWING
4 their teeth to the capitalists.
O Thousands Of workers from thl
factories marched with guns, and
sea of workers with banners AM
placards moved continually thn
. the Red Square occupying ever
inch. The demonstrations begr
at 10 in the morning and at 81
I at night they were still marching
{ into the square from three differ
: ent pointsl They marched direcHl
U from the factories and the street
: had to be roped off to preven
; spontaneous groups from jOininl
:. the march in an unorganized nan
u ner.
. Yes, they had a right to mart
: to demonstrate, to show thsI
7 strength and to celebrate becaus
the five year plan is a success an
Socialism is being established. ID
: American working class must figh
any attempt to crush the SOTs
Union"
n Long live the Soviet Union!
Il American Workers Delegstpl
r. B. Hudson, Chsirmn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11

A letter sent by Axel Stenroos
from Soviet Karelia, one of the
Soviet republics, to his mother,
Mrs. Sarah Stenroos at Belden, N.
D. has been translated from the
Finnish language and sent to US
for publication. As Comrade STEM
roos has lived in North Dakota
nearly all his life and has acquain-
tances in different part of the
state, who have been anxious 10
hear from him, we are sure that
his letter will be of interest to
them. 1t will also be Of great in
terest to the farming masses thru
out the northwest who will find in
it a picture of the building of So
eialism in the Soviet Union.
His letter is as follows:
PetrogOOdsk, U.S.S.R-,
Oct. %, 1881
Dear Mother:
Thanks for your letter, which
just arrived l want to state that
I am well and wish the same 10
you
We are having winter weather,
snow falling yesterday and all day
today. Otherwise the weather is
mild.
Pete, Vilho and Maijala alsv
came here. Waino Kuffal is ct
the lumber camp, about 20 miles
away from here. parties named
above are other Mountrail county,
North Dakota, men.-Translator's
note. have seen him but once In
Petrogoodsk. We became separated
m Sweden. Our bunch was split up
there as our ship was too small to
handle US all at one time.
We have a Russian language
evening school here. We study the
ABC's. This school is held every
fifth night. There are various
kinds Of meetings every night.
Sometimes entertainments and
dances. Life here is enjoyable. We
hear no quarrels here.
The inhabitants of this farm are
mostly arrivals from America,
some from Finland and some Rus
SLAMS.
There is lots of work to be done
before this farm will be in shape.
Lots of pioneer work, as this is
swamp land. Lots of building to be
done. Lots of work on all sides.
Next year, we surely will begin
to have some stuff, as new factor
les are being completed every day
and more are coming. I am thor
oily satisfied for coming over here
and have no desire to return there
UNLESS the system changes.
There is more freedom here thar
over there, although they think ov.
er there that fov ed labor exist:
ere. When you do your share, NJ
one grumbles. But, those who ex,
pect to find everything built tt
completion here, becomes disap-
pointed. That has happened tc
some of them.
You must take part in the con,
struction work until everything j.
gotten in shape. And that requires
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11

Such are the factors which char
acterize the speed of organization
of large-scale progressive farming
capable of using complex machin-
cry, in our country and in the
United States.
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CAPITALIST Stops FOR
WORKERS

And what a place to eat when
we finally got there. A big dirty
basement with bugs running up
and down the walls and how it
smelled. Long tables where people
could stand up and eat-no seats.
1t was the place where the city of
Pittsburgh fed their soup line in
old rusty tins. Soup and dry bread
was what they offered US. To get
it we had to stand in line. Only
a few got it. They refused to eat
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11

serve as point of departure for
the further development of the
collectivization movement in the
coming years. 1t is one thing
when the peasant in the grain
consuming zone knows that some
where in the southern Ukraine the
collective farms have justified
themselves In the eyes of peasant
~. It is quite another thing when
he has the opportunity to investi.
gate the collective farm in his
own village or district. The pe-
culiarity of the consuming zone
does not lie in our renouncing COL
lectivization here nor in the pro-
cess Of collectivization dragging
out for ten to tweny years, but in
the need for a special approach,
special methods, and specially ex-
tensive preparation 1.-THE organiza-
ton Of state farms and machine
and tractor stations), for a more
powerful attack upon the kulak. a
careful attitude toward the collec-
tive farms-all of which ought in
the near future to give the same
results as have already been at
tanned IN the grain producing
zones.
Machine-tractor stations are
state owned depOts with tractors
and other farm machinery.
whose function it is to plow
the collectives' fields on con-
tract. Two hundred such sta
tons were established during
1880, greatly assisting the COL
Iective farms. In the spring of
1881 over 1100 were 10 be I'm
operation, BY the end of 1891
over 14O0 were to be organized
and soon thereafter 5000. The
original five year plan set an
area of ~ million acres for
the. stations for. 1888. This
spring they are to pIow 81 mill
ion and by 1888 ia to 1877 MILL
ion acres.