The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-19
speech Made at the 14th PIenum
of the Central Committee.)

I AM going to deal with the question that Com
Arade Weinstone reporter of the Polburo, did
not find time to deal with, /. e., the agrarian
work Of our Party. We must understand COM
radeS, that our Party will not be able to become
real Bolshevik Party unless it becomes the
leader Of all the toilers. Even i'll ordinary times,
this work from the point OF view of feminist
conceptions, is one of the most important phases
OF the work Of the Communist Parties But now
we have special situation from the point
OF view OF the struggle against the illperialist
war, from the point of view of approaching our
national election campaign and also from the
point Of view that there has been a continual
agrarian crisis which is deepening together with
the general economic crisis. This work assumes
very great Importance also from the point
of view of the Negro liberation struggle in the
South with which our agrarian work should
be linked up.
Although there are very great shortcomings of
the Party in this field of work and real turn
in this field of work is required there was some
attention given to this work during the last
Plenum and also Immediately after the Plenun
by the Polburo. And partly as the result of
this attention we have made some advances in
the work between the time of these two Plenums
We have now definitely a weekly agrarian
paper, Producers News The paper was taken
over by the United Farmers League. 1t is pub
nshed in Plentywood, Montana, and together
with this paper was amalgamated the mailing
lists Of the old United Farmer The paper has
continually improved and we now have between
5000 and 5000 circulation for the paper Al
though there are yet many shortcomings in the
paper, it is very much liked by the farmers and
there is considerable farmers correspondence in
the paper
The Militant Struggles of the Farmers.
We have also made the beginning of the for
mutation of an immediate fighting program for
the small farmers in the form of pamphlet
and other literature But the most important
Of all these activities is that we have led farm
ers into struggles against evctions sheriffs sales
against the burdens Of taxation, and also ar
ranged some hunger marchers. Immediately
after the last Plenum our comrades organized
the. st. Louis County farmers hunger march, of
$500 poor farmers. A similar number of unem-
ployed workers greeted them in Duluth. This
hunger march established the United Farmers
League and our leadership among the poor farm
ers in the Northwest. AS q result of this march
the organizational growth has begun and many
local struggles against eVictions and sheriffs'
sales occurred many of which were successful.
Thousands of farmers formerly under refornist
leadership and even religious farmers took part
in these struggles AS the result of these strug-
gles Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and Upper
Michigan in the Dakotas and Eastern Montana
there has been laid a mass basis of the, United
Farmers League In the Northwest
However, there is danger that the kulak
farmers are coming into the movement. Where
our movement is weak the kulaks are attempt
ing to lead struggles against taxes and this is
dangerous, as they will mislead the toiing farm
ers. There is also danger that the United
Farmers League will be developed by the mem