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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25

ken from the stenographic report
of the joint meeting of the Politi.
cal Bureau and the Presidium Of
the Central Control Commission.
January 80, 1929, page 20.
That is the fourth prophecy. Now
that we have laid these four pro-
phecies one beside the other, they
correspond almost exactly.
Aren't we correct then in say.
ing to Trotsky, to Brutskus, to
Dalin, and to Bukharin, who lin
the words of Comrades Rykov and
Tomsky) "unconsciously" Joined
the other three: 'Please, now. ac.
count for your attitude toward
eollectivizatiOn not only to the
Communist party and the working
class but to that new support Of
the Soviet power, authentic. real
and firm, which grew up in the
spring of 19S0-the members OF
the collective farms"
Please, Comrade Bukharin. ex-
plain the strange coincidence be-
tween your opinion and that OF
the above-named gentlemen, ex-
plain it, not only to the party but
to the millions of members of col
lective farms, who have developed
as a firm and real support of the
Soviet power. And let Comrade
Bukharin take care lest, at such 3
meeting of collective farm mem.
bers, his only applause, if he get:
any at all, comes from a kuIak
who accidentally slipped into the
meeting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
Another Fake Labor
Bank Snashes;

Cleveland. o., Dec. 21.-The
Standard Trust bank, representing
one of organized labor's first ven
lures in banking, tonight, was
placed in the hands of the Ohio
banking department for liquida-
ton of its assets. The closing of
the institution, which listed assets
of $22,O47,O26 in its last public
financial statement a year ago,
marks the end of an experiment
which began in 1920 when the So
called labor bank was organized
by unions identified with the coun-
try's railroads.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25

This was the first prophecy:
twenty-five to fifty million acres
will not be cultivated" Against
this we put the fact that the col
lective farms have increased
their sown area by so per cent,
and that the total area under cul-
tivation has increased by more
than IT'S million acres.
The second prophecy, that of
Mr.. Dalin:
"The productive result, lie, the
amount of bread, meat, milk,
leather, ETC., produced by an equal
number of people viii certainly be
found much less after collectiviza-
ton than before"
AS you see, a complete coinci-
dence. That is the second fact.
Prophecy number three that of
a friend of Dalin and Brutskus.
Mr.. Trotsky:
"From peasant rags and wood
en- plows, however combined, you
cannot create large scale farming
any more than a combination of
fishermen's rowboats can make a
steamer. The socialist recon
struction of farming we view as a
matter of decades"
Prophecy number four: seThe
state and collective farms viii give
the required amount of grain in
five or ten years, but we must
find a way out today" l think
you all know the author of this
prophecy.
These are Bukharin's words, Ia
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
WORKERS DELEGATION TO THE SOVH
UNION REPORTS TREMENDOUS PROCRTS'

The following letter was receiv-
ed from Novorossisk, U. S. S. R.
from R. B. Hudson, chairman of
the F. S. U. Workers delegation:
"Our tour has taken US over
thousands of miles of Russia
Dnieperstroy, Don Basin, Kislov-
ask, Mabach Kala, Batun, and
everywhere we have seen with our
own eyes the tremendous progress
being made by the workers here.
"There is a crying need fOI
labor and they are overcoming this
through cooperation between the
workers and peasants. In Baku,
we accidentally met a peasant
from a collective farm on the Vol
ga, who had just arrived with a
group of fifty others that had
been organized to work in indus
try during the winter. During the
summer months, industrial work
ers will aid them.
"A day after arriving, they had
rooms and a job. A crying de-
mand for labor everywhere and
then we pick up a copy Of the
Daily Worker, telling of the strug'
giles of the unemployed in Ameri
cal
"In Mabach Kala, the delega
ton was given a tremendous vel
come and we were made honorary
International Shock Brigaders
Over 81 different nationalities art
in this Republican, living il
peace and harmony. Under thu
Czarist regime there was halAs>
and discrimination between the
various nationalities.
''Here the National problem hal
been solved and inspired by thil
example. The delegation IN &C
cepting credentials as Information
al Udarnicki, pledged themselvei
to fight against all discrimination
and White Chauvinism, upon on
return to the u. s.
1--WE visited some new apart
ment houses in Baku which wer
as modern as any in America. TIL
one we entered was that Of a sicl
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The Decay Of Farming
Under CapitaIism---the
Thos. Campbell Farm

doubt whether a commission made
up of his own friends would SER
iously report that his farming OPP
erations were successful. We can
still see the looks of establishment
on the faces of large delegation
of Montana wheat growers who
visited his farm three or four
years ago with the expectation of
seeing a model grain farm. What
they actually found were fields
overrun with weeds, badly ne
elected summer fallow and many
other evidences of a farming en-
terprise that was rapidly going
down grade.
"Mr. Campbell is a most pleas
ing and convincing speaker and
we have no doubt that he has
sold this idea of gigantic wheat
farms operated as models of eff
cheney by bankers and engineers
to a great many people-people
who have had no practical expert
ence in growing wheat. But out
here in Montana we still smile a
little when we hear the Montana
wheat king on the air or when we
glance over one of his articles in
some national magazine, nicely il
lustrated with scenes showing
great fleets of tractors "on par
ade." We smile-but, frankly, il
does get just a little tiresome."
This is the estimate of Mr.,
Campbell's enterprise by his own
class.
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FARMER EXPOSES
TAX DECEPTION
OF MISLEADERSI
FARMERS OF UPPER MICH.
HOLD DEMONSTRATIONS
FOR TAX RELIEF NOW,
By a Farmer-WOrker Correspond

By a Farmer-Worker Correspond.
ent.
Toivola, Mich, Dec. Jewell
at last the Michigan Farmer, q
paper issued IN Michigan comes to
the rescue" Of the poor farmers
of Michigan, with a proposed tax
law that will tell the politicians
where to get off at. Oh yeah?
Well, its only natural for a peo-
pie to consider a paper the mouth
piece of a political party and when
such organs as the Farm Bu-
reau, Grange, and real estate
grafters okay such a move, then
its time for the poor farmers to
begin to consider how many times
they have been fooled in the past
as well as the present.
No doubt many farmers are
aware of this move but do not
grasp the motive behind it. The
year 1881 with all its Hunger
Marches, evictions and poor farm
ers tax and mortgage relief de.
monstration has convinced farm
ers that with another year of taz
title and mortgage sales and state
and real estate grafters, the far
mers will have the whole damn
load of taxes on their own backs
Hence the limitation tax move
Fellow farmers, get a hold of {
United Farmers League program
and look it over. It has a dandy
tax limitation program, namely
any farmer with a income of less
! than 1000 dollars would be ineligi
bic to taxation. How soon will the
farmers of this country take the
wool off their eyes and join {
organization, the United Farmers
League, that will present the far
mers problem in true form.
The farmers of the Upper Pen
insula of Michigan are beginning
to form committees of action t.
present their demands. Severa
such demonstrations have alread,
been held with many more to fol
low. These demonstrations prov
to the farmers who their rea
friends are. Has any one seen tn
County Agent around when a poo
farmer was having his or he
place or property auctioned off b,
your friend" the sheriff for take
or mortgage. Oh, no. Does h
plead for the farmer or even sug
gest a moratorium. No. Why not
Because the Department of Agri
culture does not issue such bulle
tins.
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N0N~~N@-@~%
That this is true may be seen
from the following figures. The
outstanding fact is that in the
autumn of 1929 and the spring of
1880 our tractors-of which we
had 100000 horsepower in the
autumn and 100000 horsepower
In the spring-increased our sown
area by 80 million acres.
In the United States, where
there are a million tractors ag-
gregating at least 20 million horse
power, with which it might be
possible to increase the sown area
by $50 million acres, four-fifths Of
the farmers have no tractors and
the average load per tractor on
most Of the farms where they are
used is not above 400 to 600 hours
per year. Only on the seven best;
largest and "model" capitalist
farms does the load per tractor
rise as high as 1,5O0 hours pei
year.
In our case, however, according
to the investigation Of the Com
missariat of Workers and Peas
ants Inspection, we were, as early
as IN 1923, working our tractors
1,4OO hours per year on our state
farms, 1900 hours in our COM
munes, 1,200 hours in our arteIs,
and 1,100 hours in the Associa-
tons for the Joint Cultivation Of
the Land. During the spring Of
1880 alone, we worked our trac-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25

farmer; with us it is the monopoly
of the state and the collective
farms representing the union of
small peasants.
The rich farmer works some $50
or 500 acres of land; our coIlec-
tive farm works $500 acres and
our state farms, tens of thous-
ands.
In the United States the over
whelming majority of the farm
ers cannot have tractors. They
are beyond the reach of at least
four-fifths of them. In our coun-
try the tractor can be obtained BY
the overwhelming majority of the
peasants, who have joined the col
lective farms: it is out of reach
only Of the kulak.
There, the tractors are scatter.
ed; well-tO-do farmers have one
apiece. In our country tractor;
are concentrated, dozens of them
on one-machine-tractor station. OF
one state farm.
In other words, in that countr,
the capitalists rule, in our cOun.
try the working class.
That is why, though our trac.
tors are driven by semi-illiterats
agricultural laborers, who but yes
terday bent their backs from IL
to Is hours a day for the kulak
these farmhands now get fou1
times the productivity from 3
tractor that is obtained by the
civilized American farmer.
That Is why our speed IN Che
development of large scale farm,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25

cropper. They discovered upon
their arrival that the Negro crop
per's wife had been shot, a charge
from shotgun had struck hel
causing critical injuries.
The authorities said since tbs
situation was quiet, they believed
there would be no further trouble.
In other words there will be no
effort to run down the boss muir
derers who stormed this Negro
workers home and attempted to
murder his wife.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
Qo1 NSIIoooc w The FIVE YEAR PLAN
MA AAO5NO IN inSOVIET AGRICULTURE

tors an average of from 75O to
1000 hours in the stations of the
Tractor Center. This fully guar
antees an annual tractor-load of
$500 hours, instead Of the 400 TO
600 hours prevalent in America.
Judging by this springs results.
the tractors of the State Grain
Trust and other organizations will
work Just as many hours. "a re-
cent decision of the Tractor Cen
ter and the Grain Trust states
that henceforth tractors are to be
used 1928 hours daily on the
state and collective farms.-Edr. }
| mention these facts, not SO
that any one shall become conceit-
ed about them: they are not the
result of any special merit and
ability of our managing Drganiza-
lions. They are a direct result. a
direct by-pr0duct Of our social or
der, different from that of the
United States. Nor do mention
them so that any one may think
that we can be satisfied with the
present quality of our tractor
work could make a special re-
port here about how we break
tractors. how we ruin them, how
many hours they stand crippled.
ETC., etc. At the same time, con-
trast our $500 hours of work with
the 100000 hours in Americal
We are now in a position TO
draw conclusions from the first
two parts of our report:
In the United States the tractor
rs the monopoly Of the well-to-do
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25

railway worker. He was 49,.
full pay while sick. Thu se'el
three rooms and a bath 70
rubles a month, light 50 koD :. .
month. pecns
Steady Increase In W..
"In nearly every factoe
have visited on our tom, n
wages have been increase :. .
to 2O90. And in many in5 r,%
for instance the marine
have had an increase of ~, s
1991-has already announ.sI
other raise of 149o effective !,
uary 1st. 81
"Never have we seen us
craving for knowledge. Il -,
everyone is studying. Sbo,I :.
gaders are attacking illiterarv ., !.
great tempo. Everywhere t.. :
groups, factory schools, univ..9
ties, technical schools and ~.
of higher learning. All, At -. -
tically no cost to the work., =,
In many cases he is paid vs..
studying-in a theater opa -.
we met a mechanic who va, !.
tending technical COLLEGE A.
time, and was receiving ii, -
wages-$175 a month.
zone cannot turn around u.
without discovering signs ., =
velopment, and Of revOlutio,',.
change. New buildings, raiIv,T
dams are all being built for 4.
purpose Of improving their H,..
We can see the progress tia. \,
been made so far, and things h,-
progressed greatly. But 4 !
merely a beginning and upA !,
amazed at what the country n
be in a few years if the same 4.
velopment continues.
at will CONTINGENCIES a,
capitalists intervene. But .,
working class must Learn 4,
truths as the Delegation has. -
then it will be prepared to dee
to the end, their FATHERLAN
RALLY TO DEFENSE m
THE U. S. S. RI"
"R. B. HUDSON
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ing has no precedents in the his
tory of mankind. 1t has literally
never before been seen IN the
world.
That is why large scale farming
IN conformity with varied degrees
of preparedness, is developing in
varying degrees in different parts
of our Union, but it is developing
throughout the whole U. S. s. R
1t is the law of development of
Soviet agriculture.
That is why we are Fastening
to Increase the supply of agricuI-
tural machinery. Our industry has
turned its face toward the reor.
ganizatiOn of agriculture. We
wish to change, and within the
next few years we shall change
fully the technical basis of aeri-
culture in the U. S. S. r.
Now we may Justly compare
that future with which our oppon-
ents from various camps threaten
ed Us a few months ago with the
actual facts Of today.
Prophecy number one: In the
spring of 1880, a professor in the
Russian Scientific Institute in
Berlin, former professor of the
Agricultural College in Petrograd
Boris Brutskus, wrote n 8 Ger
man paper:
Soviet Russia therefore faces
the danger that as a direct result
OF collecivizatiOn 25 to so million
acres viii not be cultivated at all
this year, because of the lack OF
draft animals and seed"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
CHAPTER III
New Tasks in the Development of
Agriculture IN the u. s. s. R.

New Tasks In the Development of
Agriculture in the u. s. s. r.
In connection with the tremen-
dous possibilities for the further
development of our agriculture.
which have been. disclosed to us
IN the course of the spring of 1880
this question arises: What new
tasks IN the domain of agricultur-
al development may we set our
selves on the basis of the extern
sion of state and collective farm
ing and the introduction of the
new technique in farm produc-
ton?
l. Need of Radical Revision Of
Our Plan of Agricultural
Development.
In answering this question the
Flve-Year Plan is of very little
help, because, as has been seen
from Comrade Stains report, we
have already more than carried
out its program for collectiviza-
ton.
And all the other plans we had
before such as a previous plan
Tor five years, and the original
draft of the general plan, cannot
be used as material, because they
did not In any way set the aim of
reconstructing agricultural econo-
my.
Here are a few examples from
these former plans for agricultur-
al development.
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CONTINUED from last week)
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
THRIFT MEASURES FOR FALL
Home Demonstration to Be Held in
Smyrna on Garment Remodeling

A careful looking over of last
falls clothing to find out what is
worth fixing over is recommended
by Miss Louise Whitcomb, Home
Demonstration Agent of Kent
County. This is right in line with
other thrift measures that these
clubs are practicing this year in
foods and home management. Gar
ments that perhaps might be dis
carded can often, with a little new
material or proper cleaning, be
used another year. Or a larger
garment will oftentimes make an
excellent smaller garment if cut
down. The money saved in this
way can be used in other necessary
things. To assist the women with
this particular problem three all
day district meetings are being
planned. The first meeting will be
at Smyrna, Thursday, october p,
at Mrs. Walter Hynson's. Ches-
void and Smyrna groups will at
tend and other interested people
are invited to come. Camden and
Harrington classes viii be held on
4th and 5th. the place
of meeting to be announced next
week. Mrs. Helen Mckinley, State
Leader of Extension Work, from
Newark, will be the instructor al
these meetings and help with all
the problems. Suits, coats and
dresses of all kinds may be
brought in, each woman being Civ
en- at least a half hour to person
ally discuss her problems with Mrs.
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
KENT PLEAD GUILTY COURT
Judge Harrington Imposes Sent
ences on Chicken Thieves

Before Resident Judge w. w.
Harrington in plead guilty court
at Dover, several pleas Of guilty
were made and sentences imposed
including those of Paris Stevens
and Robert Mason who pleaded
guilty to the larceny of chickens
from a West Dover farmer Stew
ems was given a sentence of one
year in the New Castle County
Workhouse and five lashes, while
Mason, having previous record,
was given 18 months Imprisonment
and 10 lashes. Both were commit
ted to the workhouse, where the
Iashes will be imposed Saturday.
Robert Gross who pleaded guilty
of breaking and entering a chicken
house near Clayton and who is
still suffering from load of buck
shot fired at him by Bedford Roe,
was given two years Imprisonment
in the workhouse. Harvey Baker,
Dover, who had been in the meshes
of the law on another occasion, but
which case was retired against
him some weeks back, pleaded
guilty to driving off motor We
hicle without the consent of the
owner, John Buckson. And he had
been in prison for several weeks
or since the offense occurred, he
was given two days imprisonmnt
in Kent county jail. The attorney
for Baker stated that Baker had
been accustomed to driving the
Buckson car with the owners con-
sent.
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
NJ. e. EyANGELISTIC MEETING
Starts at Odessa, Townsend, Cecil.
ton, GaIena and MiddIetown

At the suggestion, and under the
guidance of Rev. John L. Johnson,
superintendent of Middletown Dis
trict, the Middletown group of
Methodist Episcopal Churches, con-
sisting of Odessa, Townsend, Ce-
clifton, Galena and Middletown.
will engage in an intensive Evan
gelistic campaign beginning Octo-
Der 18th and continuing until jan
uary 31st. Two weeks will be Civ
en- to one church on each charge
for the first week, the five minis
ters present and working together;
the last week the local pastor hav-
ing charge. The schedule is as fol-
lows: Blackbird, Townsend charge,
local pastor Rev. G. N. Jones. in
charge; Cecilton, November End,
Melvin e. Wheatley; November 3,
w. L. Hess; November 4, S. T.
Hamblin; November 5th, C. N.
Jones; November 6, Rev. j. T.Rich-
ardson. The following week the
service to be in charge of Rev Roy
T. Thawley the local pastor.
Galena November Both, Melvin E.
Wheatley; December 1st, Rev. Roy
T. Thawley; December 2, Rev. C.
N. Jones: December 3, Rev. S. T.
Hamblin; December 4th, Rev. John
L. Johnson. Services the last week
will be in charge of the local pas
tor, Rev w L. Hess. Odessa
January 4, Rev. c. n. Jones; jan
uary 5, Rev. w. L. Hess; January
6, Rev. Roy T. Thawley; January
Z, Rev. j. T. Richardson; January
8, Rev Melvin E. Wheatley. The
services during the last week will
be in charge of the local pastor,
Rev. S. T. Hamblin. Middletown
January 18th, Rev. w. L. Hess;
January 10, Rev. C. N. Jones; jan
uary 20, Rev. S. T. Hamblin; jan
uary 81, Rev. Roy T. Thawley;
January %, Rev. John L. Johnson.
Services during the last week will
be in charge of the local pastor,
Rev. Melvin E. Wheatley. Some
one has said that the object of
Evangelism is to get men and
women-to get folks-into right
relation to God That of course
means more than to give them a
comfortable feeling now, and a
sense of future security. 1t is the
redemption of the whole life to its
highest uses. That is a task great
enough to challenge the best eff
fort of God and man working to-
gether. Great good is expected
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
FEDERAL AID OF S500,000
AVAILABLE FOR STATE ROADS
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICTI-
TURE MAKES ALElOTNIENTS
This Sum Made Two Months in
Advance of Regular Time to Aid
in the EMPLOYMENT Relief

The Z. S. Department of Agri-
culture at Washington announces
that there has been made available
by the Federal government S529,-
375 Immediately as Delaware's
share of the $125, 100000 Federal
air road fund. It was pointed out
that the allotments made to the
states are more than two months
in advance of the usual date so
that the states might get as early
a start as possible on plans for the
forthcoming seasons construction.
The total fund for the State was
5000, ,375 but $4,000 advanced last
December was deducted. It was
explained in making the allocations
that 2 1-2 per cent was first de-
Quoted for administration. The re-
mainder was then apportioned on
the basis of area, population and
mileage of rural roads of each
state. From the apportionment
to each state there was then de-
Quoted one-fifth of the emergency
advance funds apportioned last De-
cember," it was pointed out. The
Bureau Of Public Roads, through
which federaI-aid funds are admin
istered, has indicated a desire to
accept policies designed to increase
employment and to protect labor
Among the acceptable policies are
the fixing of fair minimum scale
for unskilled labor and restrictions
giving preference to local unskilled
labor and to citizens of the state
in which work is being done. If
legal, the use of federal-aid will be
allowed where labor is employed
direct and where such projects can
be carried on economically to pro-
vide local employment Restric-
tions as to hours per day and days
per week in order that workers
may be continuously employed are
also acceptable. The Bureau of
Public Roads will not accept the
disbarment of a contractor from
the award of a contract because he
is a nonresident Of the state, pro-
vided he is the lowest responsible
bidder Nor Will it accept the linn
itation of materials to those pro
duced within the state