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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22

and Sidney ranges from $3.50 to
$500 per hundred. At Fairview,
10 miles from the factory, sugar
retails for $500 per hundred, 10
pounds for rs cents. In Minot,
200 miles from this factory, ten
pounds Of sugar retails for Soc,
100 pounds for $5.s5. If the farm
er in the valley objects to the
high price of sugar, Mr.. Merchant
Immediately says: "That is just
what we want-the higher the
sugar the more bonus for you"
We have been told that the farm
er is able to send to Minneapolis
and buy sugar cheaper than in
the Yellowstone Valley where it is
produced.
Well-to-do farmers known as
the Big Five are the official bali
lyhooers for the sugar company
They praise the Valley and talk
about the tremendous profits in
raising beans and beets. They
claim that they raise at least
Cwice as much as anyone else, get
their names in the newspapers as
production wizards. If these gen.
clemen along with the commercial
interests of Sidney had done as
much sucking as they have blow.
ing they could have sucked enough
water from the Pacific ocean II
lrrigate the valley sufficiently.
The small farmers IN the valley
are broke and they know they're
broke. Dan Kinds, County Super
intendent of Richland, last yea
swore out a warrant against Ellel
Stjerne, go, for keeping two ad
opted children out of school. Mis-
Stjerne lives four miles from tn
Noley school and wanted tn
school board to furnish her wit
gasoline so that she could TAX
the children to school, because sh
did rot have money and her Ian
was being foreclosed on by tn
water board for water she had no
had. At the trial County Attol
ney Laxton, acting as prosecutor
recommended she be fined So
: She could not pay the fine so tn
5 justice took her note. These chi
dren were not working in the be-
E fields, though hundreds of chi
Y dren of school age wsrk in I'll
beets long hours day, and nett
a er County Attorney Laxton M
: the superintendent of schools Of
p pens his mouth. In fact arrang
: ments are made with the superb
r tendent of schools to keep the
v children in the fields during but
e months, though the law says thu
10 must go to school until past t
2 eighth grade.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22

Montana State Organizer, United
Farmers League
The Yellowstone Valley irriga-
ton project, reaching from Intake,
Mont. to Corr, N. D., comprises
about $4,000 acres of irrigation
land, in one of the most produc-
tive valleys in Montana. About
twenty-five years ago when the
government started this project,
most of the old settlers were OPP
posed to it. Many of these old
settlers had private irrigation
bitches run from the creeks tribu-
tary to the valley, where they
raised alfalfa for the stock.
Since the government ditch has
been completed there has been a
constant struggle among the farm
ers to pay taxes and water rights,
A few years ago the Holly Sugar
Company built the sugar factory
at Sidney, about the center of the
valley, and the farmers began
raising sugar beets and selling
them to the factory by contracting
in the spring for a certain price
per ton for deliveries made in the
fall.
Today the farmer on 80 acre:
pays from $500 to $3.50 for take:
and water rights per year. II h
does not pay his water rights a
mounting to about three dollar!
per acre his water is shut off anC
at the end Of three years his Ian,
is sold by the water board to tn
highest bidder.
Last March, Gerald Wells, o
the Beet Growers Association
which is supposedly a farmers or
ganization, but in reality control
led by the sugar trust, made
statement which was published i
the papers of Fairview and Sid
ney, saying that the beet grower
could raise beets for $3.50 pc
ton. Mr.. Wells was sick at tn
meetiig of the Beet Growers AS
ISOLATION. The sugar compan
put over the $3.50 per ton contraC
and Mr.. Wells was given the 10
as field man for the compan!
Wells sold out to the sugar trus
for a job
Then the farmers were tol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22

letic meet that will be held next
July in Chicago with an interna-
tional participation. It is counter
to the Olympics which is a sports
and athletic meet of the rich and
boss class that is being put on in
July at Los Angeles.
We must get big delegation b
participate in the Spartakiade
from this section of the country,
also North Dakota, South Dakota
and Montana.
If you want TO learn more about
the Labor Sports Union and Spar
takiade write to address: Oddie
Hill, Belden, N. Dakota. He is
the L. S. U. sub district organic
er.
WORKING CLASS YOUTE
JOIN IN THE LABOR SPORTS
UNION!
BY Little John.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22
Do1 N.o~oc W. The FIVE YEAR PLAN w by VA Yakovv
A~7rI ~
rmhdH mLm@ sessions
by Y. A. YakovIev
Translated by Anna Louise Strong
Peoples Commissar of Agriculture

Therefore I have devoted the first
two parts of this report TO an an
alysts Of the different manners in
which the revolution in agricui-
ture In being carried out by capi.
taltst and by socialist methods.
The technical revolution In the
agricultural production Of the So
Wet Union is secured by the Five
Year Plan. It is secured-and this
Is most important Of abby the
general line Of tina Communist
Party OF the Soviet nUion, in so
cialist forms, on the basis OF the
development Of state and collective
farms. Our perspectives Of devel-
opment are determined IN this
manners we are accommodating the
decisive possibilities for the
changing of the technical basis Of
agriculture.
Our collective farms need not
wait much longer for the day
when the tractor and its aces
series replace the present system
of machines. In the last year Of
the Five Year Plan, by using the
five million hores power of trac-
tors, we shall cultivate approx
mately 200 million acres. We
shall utilize the capacity Of our
tractors to such an extent thai
by the spring of 1884 the great
er part of the sowing (which m
that year will cover 440 million
acres of land) will be carried out
by them. This means that a rev
plan of agricultural machine
building is urgently needed. Inc
nine million horsepower Of trac-
tors which will be used on our
fields in the spring of 1894 must
be reinforced by corresponding &C
cessories (and it is not necessary
that these be copied exacty
from the machines in use in cap
italist countries, where the ma
chinery is adapted to the scale
Of production there obtainingJ
The caterpillar type Of tractor
on a state farm of 100000 acres
does not require those accessory
machines which are supplied oy
modern industry under capltanS'
conditions. We need our own ac'
cessories.
Experience has shown US tns'
we can insure a supply Of sultaDDS
machinery to our agriculture ~
reconstructing old plants and y :,
building new ones, provided we y
not cling to yesterday, but realll.
at once that in the next few years
it will not be foreign but domes.
tic industry which will have =
supply the greater part of the a. y
cessory machinery required ~ y
the five million horse power v
/ our tractors. 81
These are the bases on wni1'
we must take up the work Oh :. y
vising the Five Year Plan fof wv ~
organization of agriculture. -
tasks which we set ourselves ~, !,
the last three years OF tine 80 4,
must take as their starting pV q,
the fact that by the end Of =,
Five Year Plan the decisive n,s ~.
es of the peasantry will be MI, =,
bers of collective farms anu 20,
state farms will cover the -. a,s
set in the decision Of the C
Committee. -,
CONTINUED next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22

viii be among those expected TO
participate.
Following the street runs, other
athletic events will be planned, to
take place at short intervals until
July, when the entire program Of
the Provisional Counter-Olympic
Committee will eliminate with the
holding of the international Work
ers Athletic Meet in Chicago as a
counter meet to the Los Angeles
OlynIpics.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22
REACH NEW HIGH AT
STALINGRAD WORKS

Moscow, Dec. q. = YESTERDAY
the record production of 119 trac-
tors was achieved in the Stain
grad tractor works. Next year
the workers hope to reach the TO-
tai capacity Of the works lao
tractors daily.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22

ectrification of agriculture, devel-
opment of horse breeding, i'm
provement of seeds, especially for
fodder crops, etc. not because
these are of lesser Importance but
because / must confine myself to
a few decisive problems. Discus
sion of them win clearly show not
only to the whole Party, but to
the peasants of our country, the
new possibilities offered for the
raising of our agricultural level by
the development of state and col
lective farms,
z. The Basic Characteristics of
Our New Method of Agri-
cultural Production
In conclusion may / be permit
ted to-. return. TO-. the. question:
What is the meaning Of the revo-
luton which we are witnessing in
agricultural production?
we have seen that this revolu-
ton Is taking entirely different
forms in the nUited States and IN
our country. In the one case,
that of America, It is the rich who
enjoy all the advantages Of the
new methods, while the small and
middle farmers are at q disadvant-
age; in the other case, that Of the
Soviet Union, IL Is the poor and
middle farmers who enjoy the ad.
vantage, while all disadvantages
are borna by the kulahs. In bott
cases, however, the change in the
methods Of production remains az
incontesta'b1e fact.
What Is the assenca of tn,
changer Not merely that this Of
that machine is replaced by an
other and more perfect one, bu-
that the use of the tractor and al
! of its accessory machinery, b.
state and collective farms has al
tered, the very method Of agricuI
tural production. This fact is hes
! confirmed by the actual change il
the basic components Of the cos
OF producing wheat as compared
with those of agriculture unde;
the old system.
According to the production ant
financial plan of the Grain Trus
for 1880, the cost of the whea
crop per acre is made up chief,
! Of the price of the metals and tn
! oil products used: amortization
{ and materials (that is, chiefly o
} metal) make up "a per cent; gas
oline and lubricating oil II pc
+ cent; seed Fl per cent; wages 2
= per cent. If the seed, as a trans
ferable item, is counted neither i
: receipts nor expenditures, the dat
7 supplied by the Grain Trust sho,
{ the following costs: amortizatio
and materials 43 per cent, case
r line and lubricating oil Fl pc
D cent, wages SO per cent. The fig
4 ures supplied by the administra
: ton of the machine and tracto
e stations 1.-THE Tractor Center) al
: similar, except that semewha
: larger share falls to wages, ina:
I much as the calculations of til
: Tractor Center are not based upo
the work Of combines, but upo
b that of the sheaf binders and tn
: threshing machines driven by I'll
( tractors.
I quote further the cost of Gu
e tivating one acre by the machir
. and tractor stations for eight sue
S stations, the figures resultin
+ from an inquiry made by the Il
/ stitute for Large Scale Farmin
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22
SUGAR CO. EXPLOITS FARMERS
AND AGRICULTURAL WORKERS

Farmers Sons Get 35c Hour in Sugar Trust Mill for
Tweve-Hor Slavery for to Months in Fall
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22

FORCE YOUR DEMANDS FOR
REDUCTION OR CANCELLA-
TON OF TAXES BY REFUSAL
TO PAY THEM.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22

LONG LIVE THE INTERNA-
TIONAL SOLIDARITY OF ALL
EXPLOITED AND OPPRESSED
PEOPLESI
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22
By RODNEY SALISBURY.

Montana State Organizer, United
Farmers League
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01

WHEREAS, the resignation of Mr..
E. ]. Coltrane as superintendent of
the Salisbury City Schools has been
regretfully accepted by the City Board
of Education,
AND WHEREAS, this Board de-
sires to place on record its apprecia-
ton and high regard for the notable
services rendered by MI. Coltrane a
Secretary to the Board, as Superintend
ent of the City Schools and as usefu
citizen of Salisbury and of the State,
AND WHEREAS, this Board com.
mends Mr.. Coltrane's splendid leader.
ship and declares him an educator Of
vision, efficient and practical.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED
that this Board express t Mr.. Col.
trane its gratitude for his untiring eff.
forts in maintaining and developing {
conservatively progressive educationa
program, regrets at the loss of his val.
liable services, and best wishes for hap.
piness and success in his new field Of
educational work.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that F.:
copy of this resolution be given Mr.
Coltrane, that copies be given the pres
and that this resolution be incorporat.
ed in the official proceedings of thi'
Board.
MRS. B. V. HEDRICK,
ED. L. HELLO,
w. o. RYBURN,
C. S. MORRIS,
Committee
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01

hair wa matted with dried slime. His
eye-lids stuck together, his swollen
lips were dry and hot and his pants
were hanging by half their buttons.
His bare feet and legs were bruised
and caked with dry mud and manure.
He began to cry, tears forcing through
the sticky eyelashes, streaking down
his pitiful face. He had the aspect of
a forlorn waif, only his bare body was
brown and muscular, but his mouth
curled down and utter sorrow claimed
him.
His bed, among the bales of waste
paper, was jerking and swaying, and,
as he cried, a canvas flap was lifted.
An evil face glared into the van.
what the hell!"'A thick and I'M
friendly voice shouted at him. The
face had a wicked mouth, edged with
broken teeth, brown and green. john
ny saw a monster, a dragon, glazing
and cursing him. "Git tina hell u Of
there! Git out, va crummy rat!"
Johnny, still crying, sat up amid
the bales. His head bumped the ribs
of the van. He rubbed dirt into his
eyes and smeared the dried filth on his
face wet with tears. He was a dismal
sight.
"Out va git!" The driver reached
for his whip; Johnny slipped back ov-
er the load of paper. "Out an ia hell
wit ya!" The team, fresh, full of fear,
sensing the whip, started on a gallop
with the heavy load. The wagon reel
ed toward the curb and Johnny, slid
ing from the bales of paper, dropped
to the tailboard out under the end
flap. He let go and fell to the gutter,
stunned by his impact with the cobble-
stones.
The street was on a fringe of tene-
ments, where the Ghetto touches the
wharves. 1t was a fearsome neighbor-
hood. High houses doomed over him,
strange smells and noises COMPOUNDED
him as he slowly rose to his feet,
landing in the midst of a curious
crowd of half-grown children who
suddenly materialized, as if sprung
from the stones. 1t was an eager Sat-
urday morning crowd of waterfront
boys-a gang.
"Hully chez, lookit dat bum! What
in ELLIS bitin' i'm? He's lousy. Whew
what a. stink!
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01
QUICKER, BETTER
RELIEF from use of
Black Draught

II have taken Black-Draught, off
and on when needed, for twenty
five years, for it is easy to take"
writes Mr. George T. Wharton, of
Petersburg, Va. "I take it for con-
stipation and when I have that
dull, tired feeling. I take it for
colds and other complaints where
a good laxative is needed, and I
believe it gives me quicker and
better relief than any other medi-
cine I know. 1t certainly has
been a help to me-"
P. S.-T you haze CHILDREN, give
them the meU, pleGsGmt-tastimg
SYRUP of Thedtord's Black-Draught.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01
FIRST INSTALLMENT

Warm mist, filled with vague
forms, hung above the lower stretches
of the Hudson.
A boy, his arms folded, leaned on
the cabin trunk of a barge, the Cav
alier, of Haverstraw.
"Gee--!" The boy kept repeat
ing the one word-"Gee!"
His arms, bare to above the elbows,
were capable arms, Drowned by the
SUM-. His doubled fists were hard and
his face was freckled.
The barge carried way with her, as
the water slapped her low side, for the
Cavalier was at the stern end of a tow
Far ahead a tug, a little wooden puff
fer, exhausted white vapor in her
struggle with the river. The last two,
whipping about as the course was
changed to avoid the ferries, seemed
the tail end of a gigantic kite, some
times in view and sometimes lost to
sight.
A large black double decker washed
by, her paddles drumming an energet-
ic tattoo on the sluggish river, her
sharp stem carving and curling the
water into an open greenish scar, her
bows throwing off brave, white whis-
kers of seething foam. Rows of light
ed cabin windows marched by him,
square ports exuding radiance and Of
fering glimpses of a strange interior
region of flashing light and congest-
ed, breathing crowds.
A thought occurred to the boy
how he wanted to know those people.
Their names must all be different.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01

The crowd rubbed near Johnny. He
turned as they milled about. He back
ed to the enter of the street and
stood defiant, legs apart, his trousers
torn and half down, covered with dirt,
his shirt ragged and streaked, his mat
ted yellow hair over his eyes. Hostile
boys closed in and surrounded him.
"Doity. Where ia come, QUITO de
ever? Hey stinkey! Soak i'm! Lemme
at 'im!"
Several bigger boys, tough, daring
with the heartless ethics of the pack,
kicked and cuffed as Johnny turned in
torment. Idle men in shallow derbys,
men in black coats, and bearded men
such as John had never seen, paused
to watch the boys.
"De Grogan Geng is out! Oy, what
a business, de Grogan Geng!" The
tough boys were really the. Grogan
Gang, or part of them. A boy taller
than the rest, wearing a dented derby,
came close to Johnny and spat in his
face, A hard dirty brown fist shot out
with desperate force. The tall boy
howled, his derby rolling at his feet
in the gutter. The blow was utterly
unexpected. 1t caught him in the
stomach, and he doubled up. The
crowd backed and then came al
Johnny.
"He hit i'm below de belt.S HI
fouled i'm" The crowd looked ugly
and missiles gathered from the gutter
began to fly. "Kill 'im!" Suddenly
there was a hush. Down by the river
a blue coat moved toward them
"Cheeze it, de cops! Cheeze it, beat
it! Cops!"
The crowd began to run, Johnny
Breen at their head, having dashed
through the circle of boys under :
rain of tin cans and refuse.
By a supreme effort he distanceo
the mob and the rogans, long lost in
the rear and off for other excirements
but the wave continued. Johnny, run
ming into newer and stranger crowds
suddenly was greeted by a terrific
crash of noise as he lodged under the
shadow of a cross street. The NAV OF
the city seemed about to grasp and
grind him, body and soul. In a fina'
effort to escape humiliation, he closed
his eyes and plunged headlong into a
hole; a human rat seeking oblivion. HI
jumped into an open basement door.
way-an elevated train thundered ov-
erhead and behind him.
For a long while he lay in the hole
his head doubled under his arms, in a
dark, damp corner among rubbish. All
was dark; many trains passed by, and
he began to regain his breath and
sense. At last he determined to crawl
toward the light, when the trap door
to the walk flopped down. He heard
the snap of a paddock.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01
Bennett
At Capitol Theatre
Monday and Tues

Fold up your fan magazine. Never
mind about the radio chatterer's Elm
side stuff" Put away that dime novel
purporting to be the confessions of a
California cook. Discard hat actress
maids recollections.
If you want the truth about Holly
wood, it will be at the Capitol Theatre
Monday and Tuesday in the shape of
RKO Pathe's "What Price Holly
wood"
Constance Bennett is starred in this
farcial and keenly penetrating picture
of the movie capitol, and again proves
she is as talented a coincidence as she
is a dramatic actress.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-01

thick"
'Where we now?"
Turned up of the East River.
Them's the Fulton Ferry bells. I'll
call john"
Johnny, his eyes drawn into the
deepening blur of the warm envelop-
ing night, hearing strange sounds,
thinking huge thoughts, heard the talk
below, coming up out of the square
of light. How he loved his mother!
He was going to school-perhaps to
school in the city-the monumental
city shrouded in the fog.
Suddenly there was a crash!
In the Morning Advertiser of Sat-
urday, May 18th, 1900, fourth page,
column six, near the bottom of the
page, smothered ON n side by a read
ing notice for Peruna, was a scant
news item:
THREE DROWN ON BARGE
The brick barge Cavalier of Hav-
erstraw, McGurtney Brother Brick
Company, collided with an unknown
craft in the East River just south of
Brooklyn Bridge during the heavy fog
last night and sank. Captain Breen,
wife, and son are missing.
At the point where Manhattan
shoves an elbow into the river and the
Brooklyn Bridge swings high above
the shipping, We must take up the
story of Johnny Breen. His dreaming
kept him on deck. The conversation
below, the warm mystery above the
river moaning and whispering, held
him in a spell. Then a terrific blast
was followed instantly by a crash of
rending wood, the snarl of rushing
water, the panic cry of Mother Breen
Johnny" 1t was the last word he
heard; he was tossed over the side by
the sudden impact and sank beneath
the surface. The weight of water
drummed in his ears as he went down.
He struck u boldly. He gained the
line of piers, his hands slipped from
the Shiny cluster piles, he washed up
stream, swimming bravely. At the
next pierhead he made a desperate eff
fort, lifted himself on a cleat roughly
nailed to the piling. 1t was the bottom
~ ~ %Lo., ~,,Io JsIJo~, oo-o~,,
found on pier ends; devices nailed by
the river rats-the thieves. Johnny
Breen dragged his aching body above
the water, climbed to the stringpiec,
: and rolled exhausted in the mud
; For a time Johnny Breen lay Their
stunned. His muscles were sore, hi
head throbbed, he was sick, nauseated
from vile water he had swallowed
l The world spun about him in a mael
strom of disaster. He stood, ther
walked unsteadily in the dark. He saw
the dim shadow of a covered van. l
| offered shelter, he climbed in. He sanl
5 between two bales, the sounds of tn
river were stilled. The water was blot
ted from his clothing, a warm glow
crept over him; strong arms seemed
, to enfold him. The terror and turmoi
0. the night melted away.
THE GHETTO
Johnny was awakened by the move
ment Of the wagon.
"Mama!' he cried with a start O.
terror. The horror of the night burs
upon him anew. A torturing thirs
closed his throat. His orr shirt wa
= streaked with mud and grease. Hi