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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

In the United States of Ameri-
ca twelve million men are unem-
ployed. Twelve million men and
their families are starving. Our
teachers tell us that this country
is the richest country in the world.
Why then are these men not work
mg7 Is it because they have too
much food and clothing that they
don't need to work any more? Is
it because there is not enough raw
material out of which to make the
things they need? Then why are
thousands of bushels of vegeta-
Aes, grain, and cotton, rotting on
the ground, or being dumped into
the rivers before they reach the
market? Perhaps there are not
enough machines with which to
make what is needed? America
has millions of machines standing
idle while in the Soviet Union with
many less machines to help the
workers. new products are being
made all the time. There the
workers are better fed and cloth
ed than the workers of this coun-
try. What then is the matter =?
;Hsw can we understand this stu
,Ation?
In America as in all capitalist
countries things are made and sold
only for profit. What does this
mean? 1t means in the first place
that the amount of food, clothing.
and houses made, does not depend
on how many people need these
things, and how much each person
needs. 1t depends, rather, on how
many people can BUY these
things and how much they can af-
for dto pay. The bosses, although
they work together to Cypress the
workers, cannot unite to plan in
dustry. That is because theil
profit depends on paying less tc
the workers than other bosses, or
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19
by Y. A. YakOvIsV
Peoples Commissar of Agriculture
Translated by Anna Louise Sto4

this excess apparatus and really
help its members to organize their
farming. Hence, in such cases
the question Of withdrawal liz a
question of organization. That
during the first spring 40 per cent
of the artels had no norms for the
division of labor was understand
able and pardonable, but in the
second spring we shall regard
such a situation as crime to be
brought to the attention of the
appropriate authorities.
And finally there are the with
drawals inspired by the kuIak.
The kulak wages war against the
collective farm. In the collective
farms there are quite a number of
kulaks, and elements inclined to-
ward the kulaks, ready to take
for themselves Or or S7.5 acres of
land sown by joint labor, besides
their horses and implements, and
even to receive in addition a guar
antee that they are not to be clas-
sified as kulaks. The better the
sowing, the greater the tendency
among such elements to leave. SC
as to use the first collective sow
ing for their individual enrich
ment. Such elements can only be
regarded as deserters. Any Iiber.
atty toward them, going as far az
readiness at any moment TO allot
to them portion of the land Of
the collective farm in spite of thi.
being strictly forbidden by I'll.
statutes must be regarded as Civ
ing direct support to the kuIak.
The confused extremist-who a
first drove the peasants by fore,
into the collective farms and nov
is ready at any moment TO lie
them out again, dividing up tn,
sown area among them-is tn,
most dangerous enemy of the col
lective farm.
The artel is not a passageway
which any one can enter and leav
at pleasure. Millions of peasant
did not join together in COLLECTIVE
farms in the spring of 1880 an,
sow S2.6 million acres in Drde
that any kulak or elements inclin
ed toward the kulaks, should b
allowed to break up the collectiv
farm. The collective farm Is not
passageway. Every peasant mus
understand this before he Joins
Voluntary entry does not in tn
: least imply dividing up at viii
: The rules for withdrawal are sti
. pulated by the statutes. The stat
utes provide: The combined are
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

The horses and foal have been fed
in good peasant style, and the
plow-shares are new. / move that
we be admitted into the collective
farm, in accordance with the ex-
PLANTATION of dear Comrade Stain.
Good health to him! And give the
text of the resolution to Simka."
The members of the collective
farm resloved: That the "runa-
ways" be accepted as "cand1-
dates;" that they be organized in
to a punishment "hrigade;;" that
they pillow separately and that
special brigade foreman be placed
over them. AS result, those
who had turned in their applica-
tons refused to go into the "pun-
ishment brigade" and remained
individual peasant farmers. The
members of the collective farms,
who imagined that they had acted
so radically" actually thrust
their neighbors back into individ-
ual farming.
Hence, as regards admission in
to an artel, there can be only one
restriction, a restriction as to
time. Perhaps in the interests of
the sowing, it may be advisable
to close admission into the collec-
tive farms for one or two months
prior to the sowing season, so as
not to break up the fields of eth
er the collective farms or Of the
individual peasants, but this ques-
ton must, of course be settled To-
cally, in accordance with local
conditions. In this matter w,
must not surrender to the feeling.
Of the members of the collective
farms. We must fight the tend
ency to close the doors Of the col
lective farms. OF course, i
would be very easy, after the re
suits of this springs sowing, Il
close the doors of the collective
farms and entrench ones position
but then the decay of the entirl
collective farm movement woul,
begin. We cannot issue such slo
gansl We regard the individual
peasant farms of to-day as collec
. tive farm members of tomorrow
and We shall carry on struggl
) to the end that the present STRAIT
! UNI of collective farm member
} shall be augmented by numerou
| additions beginning with this aul
umn. We now take up the strue
t gle to win these new addition
) This follows from our theses. /
this lies the essence OF our rels
!. dons With tbs individual peas
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

mean better horse prices. 1t
would therefore, seem wise for
farmers to keep their best mares
and breed them to the best stall
ions and jack available, not only
to replenish their own stock of
horses and mules but also to sell
their surplus stock on what now
seems win be a good market"
The Department of Agriculture
admits that the farmers of the
United States are finding it i'm
possible in thousands of cases to
use the very machinery which put
the United States in the fore
front of technical progress in ag-
riculture. They cannot buy the
oil and fuel to run the tractors.
On advice Of the Department Of
! Agriculture the farmers Of the
United States, particularly in the
northwest, invested in millions of
dollars worth Of agricultural ma
! chinery on which they still have
to pay the implement trust mill
ions in tribute. And now the De
partment of Agriculture advises
them that, since they cannot pay
for the gas for these tractors
they should return to cultivation
Iby horses in view Of the increas.
ling demand for them.
| The advice Of the Department
is part Of the attempt to keep tn,
farmers enslaved to the bankers
In order to prevent the farmer,
from organizing for struggle a
gainst the bankers they are at
tempting to get the farmers tt
raise horses in order 10 pay of
the tribute the banker demand
When those farmers who do no
yet know that they cannot rails
horses except at q loss do find
out then the Department Of Ag
riculture viii advise them 10 rails
something else.
The advice TO raise horses 70
motive power on the farms Is tn
admission Of the decay Of capital
list agriculture.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

For that reason the workers and
farmers of this country and of all
the capitalist countries know that
they MUST organize. And we,
the workers and farmers children
must stand by our parents in the
class struggle. We must join the
only working class children's or
ganlzation- The Young Pioneers.
We must read and sell the only
workers children's magazine-the
New Pioneer. And we must draw
all workers children away from
the Boy Scouts and other bosses
organizations into our own Young
Pioneer clubs.
Do you know the meaning of:
~ Class struggle?
(2) Demonstrate
(3) Organization.
Write to the Pioneer Corners,
Box %, Station D, New York City
and tell us what these words
mean to you.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19
THE SCOTTSBORO
BOYS

am a Negro boy,
And / cannot have much fun.
l earn a few cents to support us,
For it is better than having none.
/ am going to another state now.
In the freight yard a mob 1 meet.
Of men, women and children,
Who for days have had nothing
to eat.
l hitched on to the freight train.
When a white man cried out:
"Hey! you dirty niger,
What's all this about?"
They say we attacked two White
Eight other boys and l.
They always say that about Ne.
groes,
But it is one big lie!
Now we're in the Birmingham jai
The whole world to free as fights
To make a workers and farmers
America,
Also to give Negroes equal rights
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19
PICKET LINE IN THE
MOUNTAIN

Composed by Charlie Hyatt, min
err IN Bell County Jail.
(Tune: There's a Church In the
Wildwood"
o come, come to the picket line in
the mountain,
o come to the picket line, don't
delay,
Well hold our picket line in the
mountain
Until we get more pay
See the scabs coming up the In
cline
Well hold the picket line for the
union
Until so cents a ton they pay.
Hear the children crying in the
valley
"We have no bread today
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

belonging 10 the artel must not ?
any circumstances be reduced
members leaving the artel can Re
ceive land only from the free aa
reserves in the possession Of ne
state; settlements are mad. Wal
those withdrawing from the colsI'
tive farms after harvest; the nd
visible capital, however, remains
inviolable. / have talked with d'f
ems Of collective farm members O
this subject and have asked thsn
whether this was not cOntradlcIoq
to the principle of voluntary e
try into the collective farms lns'
all gave me the same reply: 'V'S
erwise you can't build a farm Wv
untary entry doesn't mean ''r
verting the collective farm lnp
passageway." This we declare y
emily not only to the members !
collective farms but to the Nv.
vidual peasants wishing % y"
them.
(Te be continued next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19
Labor Sports
l%%*%*~~%***s s*********%%s
A HUNGER AND WAR OLYMPICS

in showing the war lineup against
the Soviet Union.
If additional proof were needed.
one could cite the fact that not
One COLONIAL land, not single ma
ton dominated economically by a
stronger, imperialist power, will
be represented at these games. In
answer to those who may claim
that, because colonial countries
are for the greater part situated
in tropical climates, they would
naturally have no representatives
at a winter-sports meet, our ans
wer is: look through the hist Of
track-and-field entries since 1896,
when the Olympic Games were in
stated. Besides one or two
Rhodes scholars from South Afri-
ca and other British possessions in
the, South Pacific, and besides a
few sons of American concession
aires and businessmen in South
and Central America, the colonies
have not been permitted to parti-
cipate in these amateur" sports
events. Except for one or two in
dividuals, so outstanding in their
athletic prowess that they could
not very we'll have been overlook
ed, few natives Of colonial lands
have competed at Olympic games
Towards the International Work.
ers Meet.
Because the cIass-coEscicus
working class throughout the
world realizes the above-mention
ed facts it has created its owl
sports organization. Workers cal
utilize sports as a weapon to coun
teract the war threat Of interna
tional bosses sports. We, as work
ers and farmers must organize GU
own broad sports movement, il
opposition to boss-controlled ath
letics. All the efforts of Ameri
can worker-sportsmen Will, for tn
next six months, be directed to
ward the complete exposure Of tn
class-nature Of the Olympi
Games, and toward the successful
preparation of the InternatiOns
Workers Athletic Meet.
The exposure will be aided b
the conflicts which exist With
the structure Of capitalist-con
trolled sports, just as it exists i
other capitalist institutions and i
4 the system itself. The continue
|, riffs in collegiate and Information
e al sports concerning profession
e alism" are substantial proof {
: these conflicts. In the mterRs
t .lOnal Workers Athletic, Meet, "
r must count on the mass support {
r all working-class organizations
+ the United States. The Nation;
s Provisional COUNTER Olympic Con
!, mite, of which Tom Mooney
chairman, will be the Unite
:, front of all these American worl
= ers' organizations against the n
/ dictionary hunger-and-war frol
It that will be on display at the Ii
t Angeles Olympics.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

propose it. We must arouse the
others to activity"
Ivan Yelkin Individual peas
anti: Beyond Zhokov's strip l
shall plow an extra acre and
quarter. Further one can't go, it's
swamp"
Yefrem Yelkin: 81 have been
reproached here for not having
plowed part of my land. The
ground has been too wet there,
comrades, up to now. l shall pillow
it tomorrow.
Resolutions adopted: "That an
inventory be taken of all unplow-
ed lands and that they be plowed
in common"
Connected with this is the ques-
ton of the attitude to be adopted
toward the so-called "runaways'
or "deserters" or whatever they
may be called in the various dis
tricts, i. e., toward those who have
withdrawn from the collective
farms either on account of ex-
cesses committed or just because
they got frightened. There are
quite a number of these "runa-
ways" of these "deserters." The
question as to what is to become
of them is Of considerable import
ance.
It is natural that a man, who
resisted the temptation to leave
the collective farm, who took up
on himself the risk of the first
attempt to organize farming OF
new lines, is not inclined to trust
the "deserters," who rushed our
of the collectives, even if now they
return confessing their error. Blu
from the political viewpoint sucl
an attitude is very injuious, If /
leads to closing the doors Of tn,
collective farms. Here is an ex
ample:
In the village of Veshki, in tn
Lower volga Region, after tn
publication of Comrade Stains an
ticie, ga Reply to the Ccmrade
on Collective Farms" a score o
former members applied for read
mission to the collective. Here /
one Of these applications: an
J wife, YevdOI1iya Kochetkova, an
/ send our greetings to Conrad
: Stain, for his true words. I NOV
r that resolution be adopted i
! line with his words, as my wit
: Yevdokiya, my son Paul, M
: daughters Alexandra and littl
!, Simka and / are again all agree
: to be IN the collective farm. Jus
q wait, tomorrow we shall 90 OF
{ to plow with a team Of horse
y and mended harness. We sha
give them over 10 the eOmmun'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

developing leadership ann.
Youth Section, We will aI.i
Op leadership among the a''S tss
Our play is called 9Th s'Ss
er's Problems and the 'I S hs
We put this play on at '*S't
January Goth and have h.. Na
ed to put it on again ~
was a success and from q. u
pliments we received, '
well repaid for our efs, "
expect to put this plav ~
tywood and also Peerless :, ! 70
roads get so we can trsv. Sl'a
The play is both educatio'o.yi e
interesting, so we ask IN
bers of both the Youth %. as
and U. F. L. to watch f., d sssas
both PlentywOod and Pss,, ss
AUDREY HOLMDSSi
Cultural Director, NJ,
Youth Section, U Ing
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

For the scabs are all wOrk,.
And taking our bread awavs
Repeat first verse for eh.,,.,
Come all you miners and ,.h
And let US stand a uieE,, /
today "
For if we win this battle
Fifty cents a ton they'll nav
(ChOrus)
Soon the scabs will all be h,,:..
For they have no place to =,
And the picket line in Ii. ~.
tain
Is what it takes to win the M,
Pioneers! Learn this song # 1
Kentucky miners and then =.
it to your fathers and motAs,
Be sure that every United Frr
ers League local learns It i,
Wen go into struggles SINClN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

ants, with the poor and middle
peasants.
5. Voluntary Entry and C0ndi-
tiOns of Withdrawal
With all this is bound up the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19
Red Villages Has E7EH HHAa R5AH !Z

question of the relation between
the voluntary entry into a collec-
tive farm and the conditions of
withdrawal from it.
In the general Introduction to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

WHITE AND NEGRO WORK
ERSt ORGANIZE MASS DE-
TENSE TO SMASH THE RIS-
ING LYNCH ATTACK AGAINST
NEGROESt
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

CONTINUED from last weekly
Evening star., 1932-03-13
RIZIK FIRE ORIGIN
STILL UNSOLvED
Connecticut Avenue Apparel Shop
Damage Given as About
$25, 900.

Origin of the blaze which damaged
the Rizik Bros. women'S apparel shop,
1108 Connecticut avenue, to the extent
of about $25, 900 still was undetermined
last night. An investigation was being
made by Fire Marshall Calvin G.
LAUDER. He could not be reached last
night
The flames, which broke out before
the establishment was opened for buSi-
ness, were discovered by the janitor,
John Craig, %, colored, 2227 New York
avenue After turning in an alarm he
was overcome by smoke and had to be
taken to Emergency Hospital for treat
ment.
Two additional alarms were sounded
in rapid succession, bringing all avail
able fire apparatus in the downtown
section. Dense clouds of smoke bill
lowed over Connecticut avenue, attract
ing hundreds to the scene.
One fireman, Presley Thrift, 81, Of
ABB Buchanan street, also was over
come by smoke and taken to the hos
pital
Unable to get into the basement,
where the blaze broke out, flremen
broke through the sidewalk and poured
streams of water through the opening
into the smoke filled cellar.
Evening star., 1932-03-13
FORT RENO SCHOOL
WILL BE DISCUSSED
DR.. Simon, DR.. Ballou and Miss
Slbyl Baker to Be Speakers
Tuesday Night.

DR.. Abram Simon, president of the
BOARD OF Education; DR.. Frank w.
BaIlou. superintendent of schools, and
MISS Slbyl Baker, public playground
director, will discuss plans for develop
ment OF the senior high school and the
puohc playground in the Fort Reno
section, at meeting of the Alice Deal
Junior High School Association at 8
0 CLOCK Tuesday night in the school
auoltorlum at Thirty-eighth place and
Howard street.
members of various home and school
associations, parent-teacher associations
ana cltzens' associations have been in
VlCeo 10 attend, according to an an
nouncement by R. D. Marsden, CORE
spending secretary.
hearings already have been held on
InSt part OF the District appropriation
plll which would provide $50,OO0 for the
preparation of plans for the proposed
new hlgh school. The normal increase
IN enrolment at Western High School.
~ mas peen pointed out will require
tnat school to adopt double-shift
scheoule next year unless relief be
diloTued IN some manner
Evening star., 1932-03-13
DISTRICT HAS BAD
SEASON IN HOUSE
Given z Out of 6 Days, With
5 UnWanted Enactments.
Senate More Liberal.

The Democratic House has not been
kind to the District so far this ses-
sion.
Out of six scheduled District days,
only two have been devoted to consid-
Grafton Of legislation recommended by
the Commissioners. In addition it has
passed five unwanted bills, four IN
tended to add approximately $4,000 900
in taxation upon the District and the
other to repeal the 60-40 ratio of fiscal
relations as provided In substantive
law.
Another District day. scheduled for
tomorrow, will be passed up to per-
NIT vote on the Beck-Linthicum
Eighteenth Amendment repeal resolu-
ton. The next opportunity for con-
sideration of District legislation will
net come until March %, unless the
1888 appropriation bill is reported to
the House in the meantime
So far the House has passed but five
OF the several score of bills introduced
at the current session, excluding the
flve unsolicited bills forced on the
District by the special Mapes commit
tee appointed to study the question of
fiscal relations between the Federal
and District Governments.
Senate More Generous.
The Senate has been more generous.
It's legislative calendar shows it has
passed 20 pieces of District legislation.
including bills and special resolutions.
The Mapes bills were not taken I'D
IN the House on District day, but were
rallroaded" through in the early part
OF the session when the House was
cropping around for something to do.
The total production Of legislation
a1ectng the District actually disposed
OF IN the House ON District day in
GUIDED the bill authorizing incorpora-
tlon OF the District Bicentennial Com
mission and four minor measures
Dill relieving the Commissioners of
certain ministerial duties, a bill author
izing the tax assessor to testify in con-
oemnat1on cases, bill to protect union
labels, and bill providing for an i'm
provement on property on Georgia
avenue.
IL mas been the general understand
ing IN the House that the second and
fourth Mondays Of each month would
be District day. Since Congress con-
Vened there have been six Mondays,
excluding Washington's birthday, when
Congress was not in session, referred to
as District days. and on only two of
them has District legislation been con-
sidered. The loss of another District
day tomorrow means that District legis-
lation not upon the consent calendar
must wait until March % for consid-
Grafton.
The delay in District day may make
1t possible to get the street car merger
hafnr0 hn for Ia
month, although the measure is still in
the public utilities subcommittee of the
Districts Committee. 1t is expected to
be reported out favorably, however,
within the next 10 days, although Rep
resentative Black of New York, chair
man of the subcommittee, has threat
ened to hold up the report because of
sudden pressure ON his committee to
hasten its action.