The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
FARM CONGRESS
SPEEDS ACTIVITY
USSR Land Workers
Tell Experiences
By n. BUCHWALD
european Correspondent Daily
WOrker)


(By RadiOgram) The newspapers
today published Stains speech to
the Collective Farmers Congress.
Stain pointed out that the coIlec-
tive farms raised the status of mil
lion masses of the former poor
farmers to the level of middle farm
ers. The division into poor and
rich farmers was undermined.
The kulaks we're defeated and
the poor peasants were helped to
become master of their own labor.
. Twenty million poor farmers were
thus saved from poverty and serf-
dom under the heels of rich farm
ers (kulaks). 1--WE shall succeed in
raising all collective farmers in the
course of two to three years to the
level of well to do people enjoying
an abundance of products and lead
ing an entirely cultured life" said
Stain.
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Radio
gram) -Reverberations of the his
toric First Congress of the Collective
Farm shock workers, is echoing
throughout the country. Numerous
messages from different sections tell
of the surge Of activity in the col
lective farms brought about by the
remarkable first gathering of the
Socialist farmers bent on pulling the
majority of the collective farms up
to the high standards manifested by
the model collective represented at
the Congress.
Your correspondent interviewed
many delegates from different re-
gions and found them all full OF
optimism and certainty that most OF
the collective farms in their region
could and would be made efficient
and prosperous.
Combat Kulaks
From personal experiences these
delegates told your correspondent OF
many cases OF disruptive influence of
the kulak clements, resulting in some
instances in undermining the col
lective farms, disorganizing work,
damaging machinery and generally
lowering productivity. Stern meas
ures against disrupters and damagers
as we'll as against shirkers are con-
Sidered to be of vital necessity.
Along with this, concrete conStruc-
tive measures were suggested in lead
ing speeches and in reports of indi-
vidual delegates, promising to go a
long way in strengthening all COL
lective farms and assuring complete
success of the spring sowing.
Yields Unity
The delegates we're tremendously
impressed by the Red Capital and by
the reception given them by workers
from the factories. Ties of friend
ship between the workers and the
collective farm peasantry were DEM
onstrated not merely by formal re-
ceptions, but also by the feverish ac-
tivity of the factories to help the
collective farms to carry out their
spring sowing and strengthen their
organizations.
Greet Red Army
Many delegates remained in Mos
COW for the celebration of the 18th
anniversary Of the Red Army. The
identity of the interests of the Red
Army and the masses of the pea
santry was splendidly manifested in
the enthusiastic reception accorded
by the delegates to the leaders of the
Red Army. The ovation given to
Voroshilov was exceeded by that
given Stain at the concluding ses-
sion of the Congress.
VoroShilov and other representa-
tives of the Red Army displayed re-
markable familiarity with the affairs
of the collective farms, giving sound
practical advice, pointing out the aid
of the Red Army, offering the col
lective farms to communicate the ex-
periences of the Red Army in tend
ing horses and in working efficiently.
Far from being coerive force, the
Red Army is truly part and parcel
of the toiling masses lending them
the best of its forces and experience
for the common purpose of building
Socialism. 1t is a force for peace as
well as defense.
Jewish Farmers
Among the 1900 crack farmers
bent on building Socialism, there
were ten delegates from Jewish COL
lective farms in Ukraine, Crimea and
White Russia. They told your cor
respondent of their former life, full
OF privations, without prospects for
the future, and of the regeneration
brought about by settling on land.
In several regions the Jewish pea
ants form the majority and have the
opportunity to conduct local govern
ment affairs in their own language.
The Woodworking, well managed
jewish collective farms prosper. while
in others the same causes that make
for inefficiency and disruption in the
collective farms, also obtain in the