The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08

K. recruit 5000 new members and
told the Soviet workers that we'd
defend the Soviet Union"
When Dewey spoke about the
Amerikonka coal mine the Ameri-
can coal miners eyes almost pop
ped out of their heads. "They
pay nothing for explosives, tools
and work clothes. They have san
itary bathrooms where every min
er battles after his shift. The
bath rooms are cleaned thoroly
after each shift. There's a warm
tunnel with windows running
from the pit head to the bath
rooms so that the miners don't
catch cold when they run out of
the mine all sweaty and heated
up. There's a radio in the shower
bath room, imagine thatl' salo
Dewey looking at his miner au-
dience.
"The mine is 1000 mechanical.
The miners lay no track, load no
cars, pay for no dead weight and
work for no boss. The engineers
are one with the men. The engi-
neers work too. There's no clean
paws in Amerikonka!
II visited the homes of the coal
miners. Everything free-every-
thing clean. In one home l saw
a Vel. girl living with her mo-
ther. The girl has Lenin's picture
over her bed. Over her mothers
bed is picture of Jesus. l thot
I'd find out about this religious
persecution / heard so much about
1 asked the old woman whether
anyone ever bothered her on ac-
count of his religion and asked
her what she thought of the Sow
lets. I picked up a little howl-
ledge of Russian by this time and
could do my own interpreting. She
said to me, "I'm for the SovietS
1000 but it's God that makes the
Soviet so good"
John Robinson, negro coal min,
er from Coverdale spoke abou
the world congress. "I told tn,
comrades there that we are deter
mined to build our w. l. R. int
a mass organization, not only TO.
providing relief to workers il
their struggles, but mass organ
ization to stand for every demand
of the workers"
The Uzbeck country interested
Robinson greatly, "The Uzbeck'
under the car were oppressed jus
as the negroes are oppressed un
der the bosses here. Today the,
are learning what real freedom
means.
They are being trained and re
ceiving cultural development. Tn
: women are taking off their vol
: from their faces and joining wo
men't clubs" Robinson Treasure
e an emblem given him b$ an s
4 year-old Uzbeck girl, Young p
4 oneer. The emblem is very va
a liable. There are only thirty Xix
$ it in the entire Soviet Union.
was the girls fathers. With tn
: emblem Robinson received beat
Il tifully illustrated letter readin
o always Ready" 1 am donatin
my fathers emblem to the uncl
:, with the black face and the re
: soul. No wonder Robinson laugl
: ed when asked: "Did you find an
race discrimination in the Sovi'
Union?"
Martin Crampo, a steel workt
= from Youngstown, Ohio was Il
: last to relate his experiences.
= spoke at the world congress ar
J. told them frankly of our weakne
y in the w. /. R. and metal orgal
u izations. But 1 also told them v
are determined to redouble our e
lie forts to build these organization
le / was able to report some pr
y gress in this respect"
t. "I was elected to the credenti
e. and economic committees at Il
ID w. 1. R. congress. That gave n
# an opportunity to see how Il
United Front wroks. Many
lg the delegates were members
ID the Social-Democrat party and /;
e. of them signed the resolution tn
re the Soviet Union was the on
workingman's country. The CO
ir gress was splendid. The big m
8. jority of the delegates were re
in proletarian workers"
n. In the Soviet Union, Comra
as Crampo visited the Sverdloff t
mill. He found there that t
lie workers work only four hours a,
n 48 minutes a day at the hot 70
l. ing mills. In the U. S., he tt