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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
White Guardist ProvOcations
In Harbiu

Hardin, Sept 2s.-ProvOeative leaflets have
been issued in Hardin signed by a mysterious
Northern Manchurian Committee calling upon
all Soviet citizens to "resist to the utmost with
strike and sabotage" the administration formed
by the Japanese and Manchurisn authorities. The
Soviet Consul-General Immediately demanded the
police should make Investigations with view to
tracking down the authors of these palpable for
Eeries. At the same time the Soviet Consul-Gen-
erd vas compelled to point out that all signs
pointed to the fact that the -prOvOcateurs
were to be found in the ranks Of the police them
selves. It is interesting to note that this new
white guzrdist drive cOineided with an action on
the part of the diplomatic corps heated by the
y. 8 Consul Hanson to secure the recruiting OF
500 whites for the Hardin police.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Friend. of S. u. League Formed

Toxic, Sept ga japanese section OF the
Friends of the Soviet Union has been formed IN
Toxic at q conference in which 55 delegates OF
numerous organizations including trade unions
cOOperatives, peasant and cultural organizations
took part representing over 100000 members IL
was decided to send strong japanese delegation
to the fifteenth anniversary of the Russian revo-
luton. Workers from Toxic, Osaka, Kobe and
other Industrial centres will form the major por-
ton of the delegation. The newly-formed Organi-
zation will also hold anniversary celebrations In the
various japanese towns in order to spread the
knowledge of the Russian revolution and the work
of socialist construction in the Sovitt Union
amongst the Japanese masses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Students Protest Gao Rule.

New York City, October 4-AuthOrities =.
Columbia University have decreed that all ont
door meetings of the students must cease TS,-
action was taken to prevent a protest meets
against ruling of Secretary of Labor. "Deno-.ee
uon" DOak, to prevent self-suppOrting fors;~n
students from entering the United States rs
students, under the leadership of the Social proI
lens Club of the university and of the Nation,
Student League are protesting the rulino IT,
university authorities have also refused perm;t
for an indoor meeting of students to discss cha;-
gang conditions in Georgia and the condition, -
the Kentucky miners. u
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
The Russian
Revolution
CHRONICLE OF EVENTS


The government declares the
Military Revolutionary Committee
to be unlawful.
The staff Of the Petrograd Mill
tary districts adopts measures to
fight against the Military Revolu-
tionary Committee.
The Mensheviki declare them
selves to be against the revolt and
in favor of the government COM
batting the revolt by military
means.
In the night Of 9Th to 7th of
November the Military Revolu-
tionary committee goes over to the
offensive.
November 7th
The troops Of the Military Revo-
lutionary committee occupy the
Railway stations, the electricity
works, various bridges, the tele-
graph office, the telephone ex-
change and various government Of
fees. No resistance is offered.
The Cossacks refuse to fire on
the insurgents.
Kerensky, in a car carrying the
American flag, drives from Petro-
grad to the front in order to fetch
troops
The Petrograd Soviet declares
the overthrow of the government.
Lenin speaks for the first time
at the Petrograd Soviet.
The Bolsheviki are released
from prison. The front is informed
by telegraph of the events in Pet
rOgTad and the victory Of the pro-
letarian government.
The Bolshevili occupy the Win
ter Palace and arrest the govern
lment.
| At 10:40 a. m. the second all
Russian Soviet congress Is opened
lin the SmDlny Institute.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Cut Teachers Wages to Supply
School Children with Food

New York City, October New York school
teachers are being forced to contribute" to
fund to provide free meals to $4,000 children Of
unemployed workers in New York. So desperate
is the condition of the children becoming that It
is now necessary to supply meals to $1,000 chill
oren at once. Children are getting 1900 pairs
of shoes day. Thousands of children are stary-
ing and going ragged because this "relef" is only
covering small portion of those who need it.
The contributions of the teachers is one way in
which the capitalists are making the working class
bear the burdens of the crisis
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Admit 100000 Jobless In New
York Civ

New York City, October More than 15o
OOe workers, more than one-third of the ponula.
ton Of New York City, are now unemplovad a..
cording to an admission of the Welfare Connr1
made public by its secretary, William HodsOn
At the present time 100000 month is beina
spent for relief In order 10 take care of the most
needy jObless this must be increased to at least
100000 at once. HodsOn recommended that the
present relief, which he admits is inadequate" be
Increased to $35 per month per family.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
200 Miners Arrested for Picketing
In Oklahoma

McAlester, Okla, October 6-MOre than zoo
striking coal miners were arrested by state Of
ficials for conspiracy against the state" while
picketing the Little Bolen shaft near McAlester'
o. P. Ray, operative of the state criminal Dureso
was aided in making the arrests by guards ifOm
the state penitentiary. "We're going to keep On
arresting these strikers in wholesale numbers VI
til picketing is broken up" said the Murray agent
Of the coal companies. The striking miners WIN
are members of the United Mine Workers o.
America, were picketing despite an Injunction u'
coal companies had obtained This is democracy
In Governor Bill Murray's stamping GROUNDS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14

Marx and Engels write, is disap-
pearing.
Collective agriculture is clearing
the way for socialist agriculture.
The line of demarcation between
city and country is fading.
Steeled in the struggle to con-
solidate and expand collectivised
agriculture, the U. S. S. R. viii
emerge victorious and on a higher
plane of socialism.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14

that held them in blind subjuga-
ton to landlords and capitalist ku.
laks, and priests, and were won
over to the Revolutionary alliance
with the working class, to be able
to learn in the shortest possible
period of time a life that is genu-
mely human.
This book wildly portrays the
uprooting of the last remnants of
capitalism in the village. "The
idiocy of village life," about which
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14

The Nicaraguan rebels are threatening the
capital, Managua- On Oct the village of San
Francisco de Carnicero was attacked and several
buildings were burned. During the last four days
Of September there were five encounters between
rebels and the National Guard. According to the
National Guard reports thirty-one rebels have
been killed and more than thirty have been
wounded Two guardsmen have been killed and
three wounded, according to the same sources. The
NstiOnal Guard is led by u. s. MARINE CORPS
officers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Soviet Vessels
Conquer Ice Seas

The icebreaker 'Lenin' is now
permanently stationed in the Car
ian sea in order to keep a free
waterway to the barber Igarka on
tn Yenissei river. This water
route is frozen almost the whole
year round, but the ieebreaker
Lenin keeps open a channel from
the southern end of Novaya Zem-
liza to the mouth Of the Yenissei.
Twenty journeys have been made
so far this year. The water trans
port in the northern waters Of the
Soviet Union is rapidly rising and
Soviet vessels are steaming thru
seas held to be impossible for
marine transport under Czarism.
This new water transport traffic
is very important for the timber
trade and Igarka Is the Siberian
timber yield.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Another Proof of MONEYS
Innocence

Paul M. Callicotte, mountain guoe' "a 81.
fessed on September % that he carried SI.
case on July q, 1916, which he believes eAasss
the Preparedness day explosion Tor VIZ. e.
Mooney and Billings were framed ana :.
which they have been In California oun -.
for sixteen years. CallicOtte was only So -
years old at the time and got IS for eSliy 80
the suitcase. BE had not mentioned IL =.
because he had been misled to believe Q, =.
capitalist press that Mooney and BllilnS'
guilty.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Huge War Budget Increase In
Japan Reported

Toxic, Oct. Tin order to intensity the war
Preparations against the Soviet Union and to carry
on the campaign in Manchuria the Japanese gov
ernmant is reported to be asking for huge in
creases in its war budgets during the coming year
The army is reported to be asking for 56o,OOO,OOO
yen (about $132, 900 at the current rate) and
the navy almost as much Last years figures
were 1Ss,OOo,OO0 yen for the army and 211,O00,-
600 for the navy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
BROOKLYN Edison Fires 2 300

New York, October 4-The Brooklyn Ea;.
Company has thrown $500 men On the LIS"
IN the past three weeks This is the nroo .'ee's
capitalist organizations. Last April John = y. VI
ker, president of the company, promised tS..
wages and employment would be MANIFESTO 1e
their present levels. These are the 49,, Al
regularly made and just as regularly brolar
force the burden of the crisis on the yro-,, !"
class. iAhg
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Told In Brief
Proctor and Gamble Cut Waco.
of EMPLOYEES

New York City, October 4.-Proctor
Gamble, great soap corporation, is puttina t slu
employees still working in its plants on s sue
day week. This is supposed to be part :. I've =,
"share-work" movement but is only par+ :. NJ me
wage cutting program of the capitalist class Tue
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
IDON'T WANT TO DIE
(BY MARK HYICH IIPOV)
So Years of Age, Miller at Collective Farm, Has Not
Missed Single Working Day

A long, long time ago a major
general by the name of Alexis
lived in our village. I
am So years old and that general
died before / was born, yet l re-
call that nobody had good word
to remember him by. He was a
hard man, that general, and it Is
good thing that our village has
since changed It's name Of Mash
lykino and Is now called after the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Workers PARTY Deputies Arrested

Sofia. Sept 29.-The Workers party deputies
Roris Krasteff and Alexander Naumoh have both
been arrested in connection with alleged offenses
under the press laws. They are both in prison
swait;ne trial. AS members of parliament both
of them are entitled to immunity and may not be
arrested without the express permission of paria-
nent unless they are caught in flagrand which
was not the case.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
International
News
scboOl Council Elections In Sofia

Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 2s.-In school council
election which took place in Sofia last Sunday the
Workers party pOlled 1890 votes and won eight
seats, the Peoples Block" government block
poued sy047 votes and received five seats, the
zankOff group pOlled 6,422 votes and received one
seat. The other parties pOled less than 1000
votes and received no representation The cleo
torabe for the school council elections Is more
limited than for the normal elections.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Large Investment House Is
Forced Into ReceiYershin

New York City, October is. w. Strauss
and Co, one of the largest bend investment
houses in the country, was forced into receiver
ship in New York. The charge is that the CON-
pany had been Systematically deceiving small IN
vestOrs who purchased its bonds. The company
virtually admits its past guilt by saying that
these practices were discontinued some time ago.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Dawes Reoreanizes Bank

Chicago, Ill, October 6.-Charles G. DsweS =
order to stabilize his banking interests has fOreu
the City National Bank and Trust company % a. :.
over the deposits and commercial accounts Oh N
Central Republic Trust Company. Dawes w.
continue to head the new bank Last suniin.-
Dawes got loan of s800OO,OoO from tne ~
struction Finance Corporation. He IS VyHe
new manoeuver to save his bank.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14

peasants who are now engaged in
The task of organizing large scale
collective agriculture in the So
Wet Union under the guidance OF
the Communist party, which will
bring about complete change in
the old life of the village. The
book was written at the time the
struggle to consolidate the collec-
tive farm (kolkhoz) movement in
the Northern Caucasus was at its
height, the locality chosen being
one of the first sections of the
country where mass collectivisa-
ton became an actual fact. In
this part of the U. s. S. R. small
peasant agriculture had ceased to
exist by the spring Of 1881.
FIRST STEP
But this is only the first step
toward erecting the huge struc-
ture of organized socialist agri-
culture. Productivity must be
raised to a higher level, and new
methods of work must be found
Yesterdays small landowners must
become class-conscious builders Of
socialist society. 1t is a very
difficult and complicated task
which can be carried out only BY
attracting the broadest masses o.
the people to participating il
every phase of the struggle TO
socialism and government work
and by recasting their old Gus
toms and remoulding their opinion
| in this process.
NO MORE nLITERACY
The Millerovo district is locate
lin the North Caucasus. Spring G
1881 saw in this district the thor
liquidation of illiteracy. News
papers and books began to circl
late in the villages in great nun
bers. Much work was carried {
by the local newspaper Banner
Kolkhoznik' (member Of a cole
tive farm). When the spring SOY
ing began, this newspaper a
nounced that there was going
be socialist competition among t
collective farms. The district col
mittee of the Communist par
offered a red flag as a trophy +
the best sowing record.
PAPER GIVES NEWS
Thirty one collective farms
the district attentively watch
the progress of each others wol
During the fever-heat of the ca
paign for collectivisation the ne
paper came out twice a day, a
men on horseback brought it
; lrectly from the post office TO I
, workers in the fields.
Soon, two collective farms VI
in the lead, Pervaya Pyatilet
First Five Year Plan and
Krasny Volshenets. Pervaya P,
tiletka finished the spring sow
first. According to the rules
e the contest, the red flag sho
s have been awarded to this coll
n tive farm, but the kolkhoz Kral
h Voloshenets sent a letter to
4 local newspaper stating that
quality of the work done by F
: Vaya Pyatiletka was poor
e therefore it would not be just
o give it the red flag. The memt
= of the Pervaya Pyatiletka disI
l. ed this and demanded that a 81
s ial commission be sent to exam
s their work. They offered to "
= about their work in detail anc
10 prove that their work was g,
: Thus was born the desire of
= farmers to write a book about
collective farms.
Oh WORK FIRST RATE
A special commission exami
the work of Pervaya Pyatile
and found that the quality of
work had not suffered from
first-rate speed at which the v
~ had been done. So Pervaya 2
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Arrest Sam insult In Greece

Athens, Greece, October 1o.-Samuel InSun,
former head of the insult utility organization, has
been arrested for extraditon to the United States
insult is to be questioned in court concerning some
Of the more fragrant Of his manipulatiOns BY
which he robbed millions of small investors N
his utility operations.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
School Children Strike
Against Scab Coal

Kincaid, H., Oct. ga group of 164 school
children walked out of the Kincaid high school in
protest against the use of coal in the school from
the Peabody mine in Lanleyville, where the work
ers are on strike. Many of the pupils are CHI
Gren If mfrs
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14

young people will not have to re-
member that landlord.
NO ELBOW ROOM
After Mashlykin we had another
landlord, his name was Ivan Ivan
ovich Efremov and he was a rela-
tive of the general and so in
herited the generals land. We
remember that fellow very well
indeed. He planted a park on his
estate that fenced off, as it were,
thousand acres of land that to
as peasants was forbidden ground.
We are using all that land now,
but at the time we could only
lease it from him. He took every
third hay rick for himself under
the lease. There was no elbow
room at all, for we owned very
little land and so We had to buy
or lease it from the landlord.
Sometimes Efremov let one of
US off when it came 10 a tax pay
ment when times were hard, Just
show how kind he was, but he got
five times as much out of his
tenants afterwards.
ABSENTEE LANDLORD
He lived in Petersburg most of
the time. He kept former to man
age the property and they always
tried to collect as much as they
could, putting away something of
course for themselves.
We had three other landlords
They also had large estates. One
had 5000 acres, another 1900 and
the third 1850. They also leased
out their land.
The men who leased the land
lords land were mostly rich peas
ants who had settled here from
other provinces. Many of then
came from the province of Vor
onezh and they founded the Nov
orussky farm. That farm is only
40 years old.
LAND TOO EXPENSIVE
Just before 1905, one of tn,
landlords sold his land to his leas'
holder. It was bought by 30 farm
ers. Each bought about SIS to 81
acres, some bought as much as 81
acres. The price at that time wa
$14 to $18 per acre, so, of course
only the well-to-do and the kulak
could afford TO buy.
i In 1905 there was a revolution
In the cities. In our village tn
peasants plundered the shops; Cos
sacks came and arrested about 1
people. Three of them were drive
out Of town to shift for themselve
as best they could and after ths
they spent their lives CONSTANT,
lon the move until they died.
After 1905 the other landlord
began to wriggle away from I
too. They sold their land fl
about SGT to $S7 per acre. Tn
peasants wanted land badly emu
They formed land associations an
bought up land 5 to 8 acres TO
each one. But most Of the lar
went to the kulaks. In each a
sociation there were five or Il
men each Of whom bought q
aeres or more and employed aho'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
ANSWER TO ENEMIES

Such is the history of this book.
1t is a graphic illustration of the
tremendous enthusiasm which per-
vaded the great bulk of the labor
ing peasants in working for the
socialist reconstruction thruout the
U. S. S. R. countryside. Enemies
of the workers and peasants are
rapaciously clawing at every short
coming in our construction work;
we repeatedly hear the venomous
Kisses of these serpents TO the eff
feet that the Five Year Plan is q
failure, and that it is neither pos
sible nor desirable. Many of the
difficulties we encounter in the
socialist reconstruction of the vii.
llage have even scared some Of ou
less staunch friends who have but
la poor understanding Of what il
now going on in our village. Thii
book, written by the peasant mem
bers of the collective farms them
selves, is the best answer to on,
enemies, and to our friends stil
sitting on the fence. 1t shows b,
concrete examples how the work
ing peasants cast off the shackle
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
First Fiive-Year Plan Collective
Farm peasants write Of their lives.

10 farm hands; they had plenty
of cattle and bought up grain,
wool and eggs. They were not
afraid of the peasants, as land
lords were. They knew better
how to keep on good terms with
Us, but fleeced US just the same.
Trade was very brisk then. Our
traders were rich; each one had
$4,000 dollars in capital. Take
wan Zakharovich Kostin, for ca
ample; he owned 270 acres Of
land, bought up our products, had
his own steam thresher and wool
beating mill, and plenty of cattle
and sheep. When his house was
torn down, short time ago $780,
600 were found hidden away in
the walls.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
(BY ANNA KRAVCHENKO)

lletka carried off the red flag as .
a trophy for its excellent record )
during the sowing campaign.
Without any delay the members
of the collective farm commenced
writing about their work but vir-
tually all Of them were Of course /
deficient in literary training. So |
the editorial board of the Peas
ants Newspaper for Those Begin
ming to Read came to their rescue. !
This newspaper of the Central !
Committee of the Communist par
ty is published especially for those
who have just learned to read
and write. 1t keeps those who
only yesterday were illiterate post
ed on all political events. It also
teaches the peasants TO become
correspondents for their news
paper and to make use of it as a
tool in the struggle for socialism.
TELL THEIR EXPERIENCES
At a general meeting of all the
members of the collective farms,
the peasants were asked TO write
about their daily work. The next
day the first articles were handed
in. They were written by hands
ill-accustomed to guiding a pencil;
they were written by people who
did not have the faintest idea of
literature, but who had had many
worth while experience and were
imbued with a passionate desire to
work and live in the new way. It
even happened that middle aged
people came to the newspaper Of
flee and said 81 can't write. ]
/ am not used to it. But there is
{ "a tale that / couldt tell" They
, we re encouraged to unboson
: themselves to their hearts con
: tent and a stengrapher took dowI
they said. Thus ever
n those who could not WELD a PEI
f took part in composing the pres
: ent book. About forty people
: worked assiduously on this book
/ collecting and collating the nee
o essary data.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14

first Five Year Plan 50 that our
young people will not have to re-
member that landlord.
The Washington times., 1932-09-08
COUPLE GET LICENSE

William Wallingford, 81, and
Evelyn Boileau, 18, both of Land
over, Md, were licensed to marry
yesterday at Upper Marlboro.
The Washington times., 1932-09-08

~ months to pay. Free in
stallation. Choose from a num-
ber of models and pay as little
as 1Oc A DAY.
The Washington times., 1932-09-08
SOBS At LOSING
COURT ACTION

Weeping copiously, Mrs. Rose
Scheer, pretty blonde carnival
performer, was ordered by the
court to be quiet and was led to
her seat by policeman as Judge
j. Chew Sheriff, of the Hyatts-
vile police court, over her loud
protests, dismissed warrants she
had sworn out against her land
lady and the latter's son.
The warrants charged George
w. Stephenson, 80 Arundel Ave.
Hyattsville, with cursing Mrs.
Scheer and setting her belong
ings out on the back porch.
Stephenson's mother, Mrs. Ida
Stephenson, 10, same address, was
charged with setting fire to a
truck belonging to Charles T.
Norris, of Hyattsville, and to
Mrs. Scheer's property after she
had loaded it on the truck to
carry it away.
Judge Sheriff held there was
insufficient evidence to sustain
the charges against either of the
accused.