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ton. This was possible only after
raising our demands sharply, with
threats to petition, which i'll turn
would be utilized for the mobili-
cation of protest meetings of all
farmers in Ashby, young and old.
And the Ashby young farmers
won their demandsl They were
promised the use of the hall for
one night a week.
From this Ashby incident we
see the general structure of the
Labor Sports Union. The L.S.U
fig h is against boss-controlleC
sports which always Discriminate
against young workers and farm
ers. The Labor Sports Union il
Heading the young workers anC
farmers in the fight for workers
sports.
To the Ashby comrades anC
young workers we have this t.
say. Keep up the fight for you,
own sports movement. Only thru
organized efforts can you win
Continue your struggle for NOR
basic demands by becoming
member club of the Labor Sport
Union.
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crease the area of state farms to
3.75 million acres and we already
have 8.5 million acres.
In conclusion we must recall
that this draft of general plan
proposed an increase in the num-
Der of individual farms to 81 mil
lion (for if everything else grows
why should they not as we'll p
And do not forget that all these
figures were projected for 1940l
If we are experiencing Difficult
ties in supplying urban communi-
ties with agricultural products at
the present tempo of development
of agriculture it would be diff
cult to guess what would have
been the condition if agricultural
development had been held strict
| ly to the above "fore-guesses" of
the Five-Year Plan and the "draft
of general plan"
| AS characteristic of the bour-
geois conception of the develop
ment of our agriculture, I must
offer one more example. No long
er ago than the summer of 1925
in a discussion between the repre-
sentatives of the Supreme Eco
nomic Council and the CommisSar
lat of Agriculture of the R.S.F.S
R., on the question of supplies o
agricultural machinery, the figur
: for these supplies for the las
year of the new, new Cd Five
Year Plan, which stood at Is
E million dollars, was contested b
the representative of the Commits
{. sariat of Agriculture as excessiv
0 and he proposed to cut it to IL
S million.
0 He reasoned thus: "The outla
0 of 10 of the total marketable vo
d ume of farm products mentione
S here is spent by the peasant ecol
y omy for implements only in ii
0 period Of restoration of agricu
e ture, which we may now consids
; completed; in the future this pc,
o centage cannot be maintained. "
a must take the percentage whiC
/ existed in pre-war times, with
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Red Villages * Ha so E7zH 4 SaA6 RH4H

slight increase, i.e., maximum of
five or six per cent. If we also
take into consideration the over
head charges added to the factory
prices, then the utmost expendi-
ture for farm machinery at the
end of the Five-Year Plan will be
115 to 120 million dollars, rather
than the $50 millions proposed by
the speaker"
Finally, last comparison-with
the Five-Year Plan officially a.
dopted. This as contrasted with
the drafts quoted, is a program
for the complete reconstruction of
economy yet the tasks set by it in
the field of reconstruction have al
ready been fulfilled or are on the
verge of fulfillment. The program
I it set for the organization Of col
lective farms has more than
been carried out in two years; its
program for the development of
state farms will be more than ac-
complished in the third year oil
the Five-Year Plan.
! From this we see clearly why
! the Central Committee of the par.
ty, in the theses on my report
proposes "a radical revision of tn,
Five Year Plan for the develop
ment of agriculture, on the basis
of the tempo of collectivizatiol
provided for in the decision Of tn
Central Committee of January
which has been completely JUST
fled in practice"
What are the basic tasks, whicl
! we must set for ourselves and full
fill in the remaining years of tn
Five-Year Plan period? The
: were formulated in the report 0
: Comrade Stain.
/ 1. The problem of consolidatin
: the position of industrial crops.
2 2. The problem of revivin
: stock breeding and solving til
meat problem.
3. The problem Of finally sett
e ing the question of grain produ,
/ ton.
a 2. The Tasks of Developing An
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YOUNG FARMERS SHOW Way TO
FIGHT FOR FREE GYMNASIUM

fore not good enough, as our
sports loving" Mr.. Allan has
been getting his players from
Cushing Academy.
There happened to be in Ashby
a group of these young farmers,
about 10 or IL of them, who I'M
derstand the role of the L.S.U. and
feeling rather hurt at not being
able to play basketball communi-
Gated with the industrial secretary
of the L.S.U. Immediately a fight
was initiated for the use of the
Town Hall, which up to this time
had been monopolized by the
''town team" Oranges, Lodges anC
what have you. The group of boys
elected delegation to visit the
town manager. AS a result o.
several visits the town selectsmel
were forced to consider the ques
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PUZZLE IN CURRENT EVENTS

Although the capitalist press
tries to suppress all news about
the working class, am certain
you comrades know enough about
working-class activities to be able
to match the answers below with
the names above. We will print
the names of all the Comrades
who get them all correct. Send
your answer to Pioneer Comrades,
Box %, Station D, N. Y. G.
Names
1. Hunger March
z. "New Russia's Primer"
8. 5 Year Plan
A. A. F. of L.
s. w. 1. R.
6. Tom Mooney
z. Lieblnecht
8. Dictatorship of ths prole'
tariat
8. Young Pioneers
10. Pittsburgh
Answers
1. An organization of worker
all over the world which gives re
lief to striking workers.
2. A fake labor union whicl
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NAL Breeding on the Basis
of State and Collective
Farms.

y "a HIS
l shall begin with animal breed
ing, because we have in it the
least favorable initial position and
the most difficult problem to
solve.
Between March of 1929 and
1880, there was considerable de-
crease in the number of livestock
estimated by the statistical section
of the State Planning Commission
as follows: beef cattle decreased
by one-fifth, dairy cows by one
eighth, sheep by one-third and
hogs by two-fifths.
The fundamental method of
solving the problem of animal
breeding is determined by the fact
that its unsatisfactory condition is
as Comrade Stain says in his re-
port, caused by the instability
and economic unreliability of pet
ty animal breeding" with low
production for the market. This
was also the cause of the back
wardness in grain farming in the
past. The principal method for
solving the problem of stockbreed-
| ing, as stated in the theses of the
Central Committee on my report,
is first of all Gin the organization
of special state stock breeding
farms analogous to the state grain
farms, and also in the widespread
creation of collective stock breed
ing farms with high marketable
surplus" However, it is clear thai
in order to get down to practica
work we owe it to the state anC
collective farms and to the entir'
country to answer the following
questions:
1. Upon what kinds of livestocl
must we concentrate in order t,
get the maximum immediate re
suits, even during this year, an
at the same time settle the mea
problem finally by the end of tn
period covered by the Five-Yea
: Plan?
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BY WALTER ANNELIN

Ashby is a typical New Eng
land village and as such contains
only few hundred inhabitants,
and like all other New England
villages the young farmers who
are naturally eager for sports ac-
tivity, find that the facilities and
opportunities for entering sports
are denied them.
Of course, sports are carried on
in Ashby but in the following way:
they have in Ashby what is known
as the "Town Team," a basketball
club sponsored by a Mr.. Allan
Zone of the leading "citizens")
However, to be eligible for this
outfit you must be considered g
"star" so we see that this has al
the earmarks of bosses sports. The
young farmers of Ashby are there
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carry them out in the struggle
against the causes of this Unequal
ity, THEREFORE, WE RESOLVE
1. To fight in the schools as
workers children in the campaign
for free hot lunches, free clothes.
and for free speech.
2. To help our parents in their
fight against the bosses and bank
ers and their starvation wages
8. To bring other workers kids
into the struggle by getting them
to join the YOUNG PIONEERS.
4. To read the PIONEER mag.
azine, to sell it TO other children
and to write articles for the mag
azine and the PIONEER CORN
ERS.
5. TO JOIN THE YOUNG
PIONEERS.
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the care of such hogs as are rails
ed on the collective farms.
This indicates the size of the
factory" which tie Central Com
mittee has decided TO build. This
shows that it is matter of set
ting up a new task of great inn
portance to the state, task no
smaller than that of creating our
grain farms.
The second factory, chiefly for
milk production, is the cow. While
in the care of hogs the chief task
is the maximum increase of the
droves and of marketable meat
per unit of fodder, the problem is
somewhat different with regard to
cattle.
What is the situation here? In
order for COW to give the pres
ent average of milk (about 22O0
pounds a year, she needs 1,7OO
fodder units lin terms of grain. }
For this same cow to give twice
the present quantity it appears
that the fodder must be increas-
ed by only 80 per cent (and not
doubled, as might at first appear. }
And for this COW to treble hel
milk supply her fodder need be in.
creased by only 60 to 65 per cent
All of this is clear from elemen.
tary text books. Perhaps it i.
hardly worthy, at a congress o.
| the Communist Party of the Sow
Iiet Union, to speak of such things
My task in general is not to pop
ularize farm and live stock prim
ers, but to make elementary fact
a weapon for the practical worl
Of the party; and on this basis a
least to double the consumption O
milk in the Soviet Union by tn
time the Five-Ye Plan is fin
t ished.
There is nothing fantastic i
this. Many considered as shee
fantasy the proposals of tn
Workers and Peasants Inspectio
e for increasing the grain yield 8
S Ito S5 per cent an acre by the en-
e lof the Plan period. But when tn
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FARMERS DEMAND.
OUSTTNC OF MINI.
ICOU NTY AGENT
FARM BUREAU HEAD TRIES
TO SAVE BANKERS AGENT
IN RANKS OF FARMERS.

In order to stem the growing
revolt of the farmers in Minnesota
the outrageous taxes
which are levied against them by
the capitalist state, J. S. Jones,
secretary of treasurer of the Min
nesota Farm Bureau has come out
in the capitalist press of the state
with vicious statements, trying to
play down the Importance of the
revolt and to prevent it from
cleaning out one of the chief enc
mics of the farmers-the county
agent.
He states that the revolt is due
to enemies of farm progress and
those who fear that an income tax
will be adopted if farmers con-
tinue to work together through
their organizations, for tax re-
form"
The main purpose of Jones is tx
save the county agent racke'
against which thousands Of farm
ers are struggling. Jones said il
his statement that, "On learnin;
the true cost of county agen
work, farmers are rallying to tn
support of their profession by pc
titioning county boards to maxi
the necessary appropriations"
This is a damnable lie and tolC
just because the farmers ar
strengthening the attack on tn
county agent racket. The farmer
are rapidly learning the "tru
cost Of county agent work" No
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holds of the collective farm MEM
bers.
The meaning of these measures
becomes clearer if we keep in
mind that tho Hog Breeding Trust
alone is to make available in 1892
SO, according to its program as in
Dictated in the theses, one and a
half times as much meat as the
total which the Commissariat of
Trade procured in 1928-29. H.
$4,000 pounds of meat will be
the marketable surplus of this
Trust, while the entire amount of
meat handled by the Commissar-
lat was 1,012 million.)
The task is not an easy one. We
can solve it if we avoid two pos
sible "deviations." The first lies
in policy of constructing unnec-
essary buildings for hogs-a sheer
, waste, when it is quite clear that
1--we must get along with the abso-
lutte minimum of building materi-
/ ais, and that these must prefera-
bly, be of local origin. We have
! had this same danger in industry
! You all know how, in its time, we
built Shattra Ga large power sta
ton 80 miles from Moscow.-Ed.)
e its walls will last for many dec,
S AIDES longer than the station itsel.
: will exist. We therefore, certain
: ly face the danger that pigstie'
t will be erected which the pigs cal
e do without. In this, the Commits
f sariat of Workers and Peasants
d Inspection will no doubt help us
|. fighting all tendencies to spen
g even an extra kOpek on buildings
i when it is possible to do withou
: them.
n The second deviation" consist
l. in the idea that pigs feed O
n dung and sleep in dung and don
n need anything more, when actual
in order to produce seven millio
$ marketable head for the Ho
lie Breeding Trust in the last year {
re the Five-Year Plan, we must Civ
d 1900 million pounds of grain 3
e. fodder. And this does not incluC
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-01
by Y. A. Yakovlev
Translated by Anna Louise Strong
Peoples Commissar of Agriculture

party brought home to the "ius
masses thsse measures which
economists said would take decaoss
to realize; and when, WltnOu'
much ado, they began to be car
ried thru together with oIna
tasks, then we began to soNe =
practice the problem Of reacnms
those standards Of producuOn
which were indicated in the r .sso.
luton of the Central Conlml0': ..
on the report of the Comnllssaila.
of Workers and Peasants mspS'
ton.
An analogous task is now =
fore us in the domain OF NV
! stock. There is no doubt that g.
en- such an apparently tan'a s.S
task as to double the cOnsumpuOss
of meat and milk can be set on
fulfilled by us if we take "a
stand on the development OF s' -
and collective farms grasp
right levers and operate them
real bolshevik fashion. Such =.
ers at present are the developer, ~s.
of hog raising and the lmplO''
ments of fodder for cows.
That this is not merely our Os y.
imagination, nor an arm cnan 4
vention, and that the solution NV
our livestock problem is prsclsIsS y
in this direction, is shown al cs.4 !
the experience of the United osa .,,,.
where in the last decade the nun ID,
Der of cattle has decreased, =.
the number of mich cows mas ~ :
manned stable and the outpu lam
cow increased; and with a S s"ss
( fluctuation IN the number Of ngsa
the output of bacon ana inch inch
{ meat per head has grown as % mi,
! as one-third from 1a2O-2O. .. a
process goes on there IN q"
ganized fashion. .roceeds
That which in America p,O We
; in an unorganized manner, me
; should organize consciously o. Gums.
! basis of state and collec'i ~. stccE
D This is the key to our i've
d problem.
e CONTINUED next wseA''
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Flaxton, North Dakota, Dec. II
Friday night, Dec. 18th, the
Farmers Union local of this town
ship held its monthly meeting and
annual election of officers. After
this was over so-called "taxpay
ers" meeting was held. A large
crowd was present but very few
of the farmers had paid any taxes
this year. Many did not pay any
last year. After considerable dis
cussion the following resolutions
were adopted:
1. Whereas, we already have
enough roads 10 serve US and can
not possibly pay taxes for build
ing more roads; be it resolved that
we demand that the County Com
missioners cut their road program
to such an extent that we JUS
maintain what roads we have.
2. Whereas, the County Agen'
is absolutely useless to the tax
payers; be it resolved that we de
mand the immediate resignation o
the County Agent, also be it re
solved that we demand that tn
| County Commissioners dc not hir
another County Agent.
| 8. Whereas, the county off
Gals get far larger wages thai
the average taxpayer; be it resolv
| ed that we demand that the coun
| y officers wages be cut.
a. Whereas, the sheriff gets a
unreasonable amount for mileage
| be it resolved that we demand ths
the sheriff's mileage be cut.
5. Whereas, there is a gres
deal of red tape in regard to tt
transferring of public funds; be
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2. By what means shall we or
ganize the necessary fodder base ?
(Fodder is used here usually in
the sense of forage, cultivated and
pasturage food, roughages and
concentrates, etc.-Ed.)
The available data indicate that
hogs will help us to settle the
meat problem most quickly. Hogs
have two fundamental and ex-
tremely valuable advantages, which
must be understood by the entire
Party and the country as a whole.
They produce meat faster than
any other kind of livestock and
they give more meat per unit of
fodder than do cattle. These two
advantages put hogs in the first
place.
According to the data of the In
stitute of Livestock Breeding of
the Commissariat of Agriculture
of the u. S. S. R., the hogs of En-
glish breed and those cross bred
with ours Il call especial attention
to the fact that what follows re-
fers also to the cross breeds) give
meat equal to that of four oxer
1000 pounds in period Of Il
months as compared to the 50t
pounds produced by cattle. At the
same time it requires II pounds
of fodder, in grain units, to pro
, duce one of beef. Hence our con
clusion is: hogs are our chief mea
producing machines during tn
coming years. On them our chic
) attention and that of the state an
{ collective farms must be centerec
| Hence the aim set before the Ho
] Breeding Trust by the Contra
E Committee in the theses on my re
, port: a marketable productio
reaching 100000 head in 1903.
: not less than three million head i
: 1881 80, and not less than seve
million in 1928.
d Hence, we have also the meas
1 ures with regard to increasing tt
e breeding Of sows on the collectiy
r farms, both in collectively ownt
droves and in the individual hous
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only have the county agents been
receiving salaries far in excess of
the net income of the small and
middle farmers, for which they
have given little or no return, but
they have been direct stool-pigeons
in the ranks of the farmers for all
of the parts of the capitalist ap-
paratus which have been exploit
ing the farmer.
This they have done thru work
ing with the leaders of the vari-
Gus old line farm organizations
This is pointed out by Jones him
self. He admits that the loss OF
the county agent would Gin many
instances cripple farm organiza-
tons and kill All club work" The
county agent is used by the bank
ers in these clubs in order to pre-
vent the misery of the farmers
from being transformed into mill
tant action for the protection OF
their homes and of their living
standards.
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Continued from Front Page)
strengthen and build our organi-
zation. We must now organize
the prevailing militant sentiment
among the small farmers into well
'functiOning and well organized
forms that will be able to lead
those struggles that the farmers
will inevitably have to go through.
In every section of the country
we must learn from the St. Louis
county farmers how to carry on
our work to organize masses OF
farmers for struggle under the
leadership of our organization.
But the st. Louis county farm
ers must also bend every ounce OF
their energy to carry out in de.
tail every task outlined by the
conference. The conference must
be followed up with energetic anC
persistent work in every locality
Only through hard and persisten
work will our organization be abb
to successfully rally thousands O
poverty-ridden farmers for tn,
impending tax strike.
In order to be able to carry on
these tasks, it is necessary, as I'll
Conference Resolution correctl,
points out, that the Producer
News must become the leader an,
organizer of large masses of far
mers by getting the widest pos
sible circulation for the paper
Hundreds of new subscribers mus
be gotten for the Producers New
J during the next few weeks. Tha
is the immediate task.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-01
JANUARY ISSUE
OF NEW PIONEER
IS COMING OUT

The January issue of the Pho
neer Magazine will be out next
week. There are stories on Lenin,
Lieblnecht and Luxemburg-three
of the greatest leaders of the
workingclass. The serial, "The
Awakening of Big HILL" will be
concluded. There are many other
features, so be sure to get your
copy early. Better still-Send in
your SUBJ, so cents year, 80 cents
a half year. The New Pioneer, S5
East IL Street, New York City,
New York.
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Continued from last week)

Continued from last weekly
The second five-year plan was
prepared under the supervision of
the agricultural section of the
State Planning Commission and
was published in 1927. Accord
ing to its authors, Oganovsky and
Vishnevsky, it was based on the
exterpolation of the tendencies in
herent in the development of ag-
riculture in the past. It's philoso-
ply was thu sformulated: rather
fore-guess than foresee." To show
how accurate these fore-guesses"
were, a single figure will
suffice. This plan fore
guessed" that in 1930-31 we
should have a sown area of 297.5
million acres, but the U.S.SR.,
not needing their "fore-guesses'
had already in 1929-3O a sown ar
ca of 1925 million acres.
The third document: draft Of
a general plan for the develop
ment of agricultural production
worked out by a committee of the
State Planning Commission il
1928. This draft, though it wa,
not considered by the Presidiun
of the State Planning Commission
and did not get any official ap
proval, deserves our attention be
cause it shows the type of agri
cultural development which tn
bourgeois specialists are not ad
verse to imposing on our country
1t was here proposed that, in 1914
we should have 3.75 million acre
sown to cotton, whereas in 1913
we have already sown 667 80
acres above that. They propose
three million acres for sugar beet
by 1910, and in 1880 we alread
have 2.785 million. According I
this draft of the committee "
were to have 1.25 million horse
power of tractors by 1910; in 19S
the number is already almost
million. It was proposed to il