The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
|COllectivizatiOn Moves Forward

that through the kolkhoz the farmer
had become a victor over the worst
natural scourge of agriculture, had
ended the battle of thousands of
years, battle which had hitherto
always defeated the farmer.
The remaining individual farmers
in all parts of the Soviet Union are
now registering their decision. Thou
sands of them have made up their
minds, and are joining the collec-
tives. Reports from various sections
pour in, showing something like a
general rush to collectivize. For
instance, from Samara, on the
Volga, it is reported that $40 peasant
families have applied to join the
Cherdaklinsk collective farms, and
in the same vicinity, $50 more fam
lilies are joining kolkhozes around
Saransk.
At Voronezh, in the Central Black
Soil Region, statistics from the sur
rounding territory show that this
year alone $1,000 families have
Joined collectives; they have joined
in such numbers that rs new collec-
tive farms have had to be organized.
In the Cork district, also on the
Volga but nearer its headwaters, 1866
new kolkhozes have been organized
in the third quarter of 1884 alone.
One single old kolkhoz, called
struggle" got in one month this
Fall, $50 applications to join.
These are examples, taken from
districts where the percentage of
collectivization was little lower
than in most parts of the country.
They show what is happening every
where.
Finds Warm Welcome
The individual farmer, when he
joins the kolkhoz, finds a warm
welcome. Local governments Qocal
Soviets) and Communist Party
forces are organizing great meetings
in which the new recruits to the
kolkhozes are made welcome, and
advised by older collective farmers.
They are taken to see the best kolk-
hozes, which organized their labor
this year in such way, and made
such use of machinery new to
farmers, that they got unusual
crops. For example, there are
kolkhozes in Moscow oblast Estate,
or province) which reap 80 bushels
per acre, and in a part of the coun-
try which was never hitherto con-
Sidered very good grain growing
area. In the Central Asian repub-
lies, there is the best crop seen in
the last so years. The sugar beet
harvest, partially completed, had
produced by Oct. 20 of this year,
80,498,000 centners "a centner is
about 220 pounds of beet root, as
against 49,949,O00 centners at the
same time last year.
The collective farmer lives in a
different world from the individual
farmer, and this chance to get the
advantages of city life, hitherto
barred from the farmer by the ma
ture of his work, has undoubtedly
affected the decision of many in
dividual farmers. The kolkhoznik
has chance to build and to make
use of clubs, creches, radio stations,
schools, to take technical and liter
airy courses of study and in general
become new man.
Has Own Airplane
We begin to notice such items of
news as the following: At the kolk-
hoz named after Thaelmann, near
Stalino in the Donbas, there are al
ready ten members of the collective
farm trained as pilots. The kolk-
hoz has its own airplane and aer-
drome. The machine tractor sta
ton in the vicinity is opening a
school for kolkhoz filters this win
J ter. It may be mentioned in passing