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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-16
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We reprint from the Chicago
Herald and Examiner, one of the
most reactionary capitalist papers
of Nov. IL:
MOSCOW, Nov. 1O.-Q.N.s)-
One of the paradoxes of Soviet
justice is illustrated in the case of
a man arrested for embezzling
large sums of money.
HE has been made night-watch-
man of collective farm and gets
a days holiday every fortnight to
visit his family.
"The idea is that if the criminal
Is punished harshly he will only
get worse. But if given a position
OF responsibility during his i'm
prisonment, he will soon see the
error of his former ways.
Guards who watch the convicts
employed in building the Moscow
Volga canal are taken from among
the criminals themselves. Thew
are even allowed to carry loaded
rifles with bayonets.
"Few cases of escape are re-
ported"
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government to buy all the goods this highly develonad
technique of the country produce above the aonnt
OF what workers are allowed to consume that this pan
y notnng put payment OF giant subsidies to industry
at the expense of workers and farmers If won't do tb
any good ~ 'il0iii
People all over the country will be impressed nv
Inc Superatlve br1lancy of the Brain Trust idea and
they will be eager to swallow it. IF will Eo e.
Brain Busters to convince the people because after ali
tney have already experienced the great help the AAA
crop obstruction program has given the country We
are already on our way to recovery and all we need 10
90 now is to destroy manufactured goods n . sniff;
dory. s WIN oe nunky
Wouldn't it be lot easier save LOT If rod TO- S
much unnecessary work if the government wouId inst
pay the manufacturers for NOT producing these "s
pas goods the same as the farmer being paid for
not raising any wheat? We would like r. offs Az;
suggestion and if it is accepted we shan 90 nto S +S S
printing business big scale and we would also stout
manufacturing white cheese and felt slippers
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BRAIN FEVER AGAIN
(Continued from page onel

ducts as fast it buy them? They have gathered
lot OF experience In destroying things and NAV have
learned SOME new methods of destruction from Brazil
and other countries but doubt that their expert de-
sructlve talents will be sufficient to get rid of all the
workers and farmers produce but cannot buy back
1t is an awful large amount
But maybe they can do it if they appoint Henry
wallace as Secretary of Commodity Destruction His
department could put several millions of workers on the
government payroll for the purpose of dumping into the
ocean, blowing to bits and smashing all what the rest
OF the millions produce but cannot buy
Another sales tax could take care of the navol and
also OF the prices paid the manufacturers IF that is NOT
sufficient we are sure many other taxes can be in
vented M " IL
But we already know what is going to hammer
1here are some people in the country and their nnm
per seems TO grow who to think that they know
IL Detter than Roosevets wise men," They are ooin
TO raise he'll they raise anything Thev will he ino
pertinent enough to tell the Brain TrusteTs that there
are some flaws in the plan, something thew have over
looked the little matter that for as long as workers have
10 produce not only the value of their WAGES hit a1s
rent, dividends and profit they cannot buv bac bt
Chey make and that therefore there win always he
so-calIed surplus for which there is no market
They will get into an awful argument with +ho
monopoly holders OF brains in Washington but most I
~ II won't do them any good They can aro11e NIL
tney get blue IN the face that it is impossible for tb
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-16
We WILL NOT
FORGET

The cold damp of early morning
II hung over the city as Kurt
--urried along the side of his father
Aurt did not usually accompany his
father to the factory, but this morn
ing something was going to happen
IL was a secret that Kurt shared
with few workers with whom late
the night before, he had helped to
carry out a bold plan. Bursting
with excitement he urged his father
20 hurry. Soon they joined a stream
Of workers nearing the factory gate
cut instead of entering, the men
stood around in little groups. talk
ing quietly.
Silhouetted against the weak SIM
light, the tall iron gate stood closed
IN the center of the gate. and FROM
Is very highest point hung a huge
Treath. Draped across was a
Dad red ribbon with the words
70 the Memory of Hans Huber and
Walter Gottheb. We Will Not For-
get." The day before. two Com
,nun1St workers from the factorv
had been executed. They were
caught with leaflets and the rens
lty was death.
Several men pushed their uav
oughly through the crowd Thev
we're foremen, and others I'm ths
factory who were known as NazsS
AS they passed, little pro,,ns 80. ~
workers turned to watch them -
what win they do?" asked = t.u
worker. . van
"Tear It down, suppose an
other answered.
mo. they can't" said thru a.
he pointed to the gata. aoa.,sf 49,, 49,.
see the reason2" 80
As the Nazis came close A tra
wreath, they stopped ana go. -
open mouthed. For, daneIine Svcs,s
the wreath was Q strong wirn r.
TIE end q this vine WA affs.s,s,S
ID large box, with Q warning 1890 1890
On C. @Dangws Dem't toHes-hs~S,s
IewpEosaves~
Look, lex father Han t,,v~...
Is his fathers sleeve. 49, ssSs sss
dare t0uch b ,
Immediately, Go ganaa h.oa-..
voEy excited. They swora 80 -
s@an0sa lsaaE ~WAa - eass~s
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WITH OUR YOUNG RE DIR

Take it down at once, at onceI"
And they stamped back and forth
waving their arms EelpleSsly in their
terror and anger. Then one of them
nad an idea. Wen have to call
the Storm Troopers" and he SEM
Two OF his men off to get help.
The crowd stood silent, all ewes
raised to the brave message. that
raLled the workers to carry on the
tight where their dead comrades had
leIt off. Suddenly, big police cars
came rumbling over the cobble
stones. The detachments Of storm
troopers had arrived. An officer
naWled out his order. Break M
this mob" And with their o1,ns
the Storm Troopers pushed aside
the workers. There was a great
zeal OF running around. Men Scat-
tered and watched from a distance
hurt became separated from his
Iatner. Somehow, he found himself
alone, behind a wagon and Quite
near the gate. He watched breath
leSsly.
Having scattered the workers the
NAILS approached the gate. The bic
brave words on the wreath threw
tnem into terrible rage. one Of
the officers, his face distorted with
anger, muttered, these cursea
communists, what viii thew 40
nextY The big warning on the
Dox Tiled the Nazis with terror AND
Kept them a safe distance away
MOI one dared come near it. Thev
gaGnered together in little huddles
70 decide upon a plan, while thev
kept one eye turned fearfully toward
the box hanging from the wire.
These Reds would do ANYTHING >,
4 swear I can hear a ticVrin0
inside, can't you?" said one his
eyes round with fear.
FINALLY an officer had An idao
Ae gave orders. The Nazis turned
and walked away from the FACTOR
ABOUT 100 yards. Then with rifles
box. sing
'sFirees
IkeTe was Q loud repor& ~.
ended IN silence. There was M 80
ploSion. o ~ ~
Verdammdtl Cant you bak ,.os
AGAIN they fired, and-silenca
:. someone VIII have to - wS.4.,
sne matter" said the offIca~ -
NO answer came for eevnr~I 49,.
S& 1h@ one stepped forward
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-16

tionary government of Kokand
and against the tyrannical govern
ment of the Bokhara Emir. When
Khoziat came there in 1922, fash
kent was already in possession OF
a rich revolutionary tradition; a
marvellous atmosphere for an eager
convert. What was most import
ant as far as Khoziat's personal
development was&lconcerned was the
fact that Tashkent was at the
heart of the woman's movement in
Central Asia. However, just when
she came to Tashkent and was
drawn into the work, the woman's
department was in a rather bad
way. The main reason was, of
course, the institution of the new
economic policy. AS a result of
the Nep, the woman's department
had to make fundamental read
justments in its method of work.
Previously, students were being
paid during their part-time appren-
ticeship, in the schools, offices and
factories. The Nep, by abolishing
this privilege, made the task of
attracting Uzbek and Tadjik wom-
en- students much more difficult.
Then, again, with the establish
ment of the Nep, the state ceased
to substitute the artels. And with
out this support, the rather weak
and inefficient artels, where the
efforts of the woman's department
were mainly concentrated, began to
disintegrate.
On the other hand, as the party
was gaining in members and pow
er, its. attack on the old grew
holder and more determined. And
one must bear in mind that not
everywhere were the representa-
tives of the woman's department
as diplomatic and tactful as were
Marchenko and Dvorkina. In many
places the enthusiasts were fore
ing the issue, removing the par
anjas, and losing their heads in
the process. This naturally brought
a sharp reaction. Resistance, at
first passive and peaceful, began
to assume more ominous forms. In
Auliae-Ata, where Khoziat had
been commandeered in 1924 to or
ganize woman's department. the
mullahs lodged the following COM
plant against her before the revo-
lutlonary committee: "a certain
woman in a red dress and a little
cap seduces and corrupts our
wives. We know that this is not
woman, but a man in disguise.
We request that he be arrested in
conformity with the laws of the
Sheriat. If this is not done, We'll
take the law into our own hands. y
TO forestall violence, the commit
tee had to make a pretense at ar
resting Khoziat. She was then
urged by the authorities to stop
all propaganda which might re-
suit in serious trouble.
Hers was not by any means a
unique case. Tadjik and Uzbek
communists were seized, beaten
and forced to swear that they
would make their wives wear the
paranja; they were summoned TO
the mosque and were made to re-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-16

This is based on a true story
which happened recently in Ger
many. In many other WAYS the
workers are carrying on their FIGHT
Ior a Workers and Farmers Gov
eminent. There is much work ia
ne done. but they win do it. And
we win help, too.
Ernst Thaelmann, who has been
IN prison since Hitler's rise To
power, viii be brought to trial
around Oct, Is. The Nazi courts
VIII bring forth their lies and faxed
papers. They win do their best 10
SEND Thaelmann to his death. The
German workers are calling on
Their brothers throughout the world
q save him. Only the determined
acslon OF workers In every country
wan force the Nazis to free Thael-
mann IS they did Dimitroff.
IA their cities, children form
picket lines in front OF the German
ConsulateS. In Cleveland, Pioneers
Dac1eeed the COnszl. IN Phfladel-
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Il will CO."

COX, he saw that it was bullst-rid-
oen. There must be nothing inside
at all. Then, with one ierk he
pulled the wire, bringing the box
and wreath to the ground.
The wreath was down. but its
message had stayed up long enough
Tor every worker to see. eve viii
Not Forget"
Kurt walked SLOWLY home
thoughts jumped through his head
as he clattered his stick along an
IRON fence. It would be nice in the
evening to see his fathers com
radeS and have them call him a
good brave comrade, and plavfullv
cal him monkey" because he had
cllmoed the factory gate so easily
he felt a little thrill of p1ide at
Delng able to help the cause of the
workers, Of Torgler, of Thaelmann.
and D1mitroff. Kurt's chin vent
up and he walked faster-brayelv-
IKE D1mitroff. How boldly had
Dlmitroff faced his accusers' Now
ne was in the Workers Fatherland
the Soviet Union. And he had been
rescued by workers all over the
w.orid-workers like his father. and
py workers children-Pioneers like
himself.
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nounce their struoo,o
ligiOn and custom against re,
~ ~, were threatened with 'os .f
t tSi", ostr "a. The fighter a'' w.
the IN ne. new life were being driveS lOt
of their homes and o,7. uii'eh out
ments. Parents of married S Sessle,
were taking them awav f' women
Bolshevik husbands. VioIenn.' a o5
terror spread throughout tbs ,' ana
women who wished to study 'H 1.s.
removed their paranjas WERE - b %ao
en-, raped, murdered UH M Oeat:
lagos rose in brutal fran. we VII
those women. Even 49, against
years 1927 and 1908 la'1 !, as the
of Womenis dav. on Al ~ ule eve
of March, several scoro. seventh
V velled women were slain. From
march to November, 1928, $50 M.
yelled women were slo;n :OO uh'
bekistan alone. =" ~
One can 90 on recourtin.
cases by the hundreds. The uoiDt
! am trying to make is that om'
battied forces of react;o. ''' elll-
putting upIa stiff fight. To carT
on its Wof k at all, the womanis
department. had n comnroU Ua.oH ;
great oeal' 1t is no exaggeratOn
to say that the Soviet d s ,a''Ol !,
1911 pertaining to martial rela.
lions were in many places simply
not being enforced. It would have
been suicidal to try to enforce
them. In domestic relation case,
the administration of justice wa,
still largely in the hands Of ths
beys and cash. The Communists
had to be extremely cautious. Thew
Nad' 20 neutrallze the provocative
propaganda of the beys and the
Mullahs.
This does not mean that tho IA
partment had suspended its work
By the end of the fifth wear. IS
per cent Of the best workers If
the department were Uzbek and
Tadlik women. The department
was. winning the sympathies and
often the cooperation Of the DOOR.
est sections of the population.
There wer e many amusing and
curious cases. One afternoon a
niddie-aged Kirghiz peasant sham.
bled into Khoziat's office and sub.
Tnitted a Rrefully written request.
The request read something like
this:
''I. being a poor peasant, have
not the means TO pay kalym-and
get a wife. I, therefore, apply for
your cooperation in that if you
have some unmarried Kirghiz wO-
man or one that has run away
from her husband, I should be glad
to marry her"
Khoziat had much trouble trying
to get into his head that the wO-
mans department was not engaged
in supplying wives, arranging mar
riages, and that it did not keep
a reserve stock of old maids and
runaway wives. He left the Of
flee terribly disappointed.
Ito be continued next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-16
The Townsend
Old Age
Pension Plan
By HANS RASMUSSEN


DR.. E. F. Townsend of Califor-
MIA has made himself pretty we'll
known over the country lately and
has started lot of discussions re-
garding his old age pension idea.
Old age pension is not a new
Idea. In many countries, little
further advanced than we are, it
has been in operation for many
years and done a lot of good.
Even here in Sheridan county we
have old age pensions, where peo-
pie have to be past 70 years and
starving before they will be al
lowed the miserable sum of from
five to twenty dollars per month.
Townsend's plan is different, and
it really appeals to many people,
young as well as old. He wants
to put a lot of money in circula-
ton and have the old people do it.
Give each one over so years old,
rich or poor, 5000 per month. The
old people must agree to quit
working and not invest the money
but must spend every penny of it
each month.
AS long as there are millions
of young people out of work, the
idea of taking people above 60 out
of production is good, but when
it comes to finance the idea thru
a general sales tax, we cannot a.
gree with Mr.. Townsend. The
general sales tax is the most I'M
fair tax there is, a tax paid by
the broad masses of workers and
farmers, but it is an easy tax to
collect and just the kind of tax
the rich people want.
Most of the people above 60
have produced plenty. We really
should be able to live in comfort
in our old days. We have saved
and scimped so we could have some
left over for the "rainy day." And
someone smarter than we stole
everything we had. Using every
hocus pocus they could think of,
five per cent of the people got
away with it all. They are the
ones who should pay us the old
age pension and not take it out
of the working peoples pockets as
they have always done.
Although Mr.. Townsend's plan
looks very noble, it is not formu-
lated out of sympathy for the old
people, but is for the purpose of
stimulating business and profit
He says, eve believe that the pro-
fit system is the very handspring
of civilized progress" But the
fact is that it is the profit sys-
tenn that has brought us to just
where we are, to the point where
we must destroy what we have pro-
duced in order that still more pro
fit may be made and more people
may be suffering.
Old age pension is something
that will be on the slate when con-
gress meets. In what form it will
come up we do not know, and we
hope against odds that it will be
something worthwhile. Just how
they can hand out some help to
the people and get it back again
as fast as they hand it out will
be the problem. But they have a
lot of schemes up their sleeves.
Besides the whisky and beer tax,
there is the sales tax, the lottery,
the gambling tax, unemployment
insurance taken out of those who
are working. Any way they can
squeeze it out of the producer and
save the profit maker.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-16

Conducted by Mary Morrow, Chill
dren's editor. The Daily Worker 50
East 18th ST.. New York City.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-16
By JOSHUA KUNITZ

receive Lnelr miserable few CO.
pecks, and uncomplainingly go
home to starve some more. Many
of these women had whole fami-
lies to support. Either the hus-
band was sick, or there was no
husband altogether. Such women,
head of families, are more indie
pendent, and tend to become more
emancipated than the helpless
women from the intelligentsia.
It was with this material that
we began our work. We entered
into an agreement with the De-
partment of Home Crafts. We
sent our representative to watch
that our women got better cotton
to work with; we won a higher
price for the piece workers, and
so on and so forth.
We then called a meeting of
the women working in the artels.
There was no trouble to get them
to come. The place was like a
beehive. Noise. Complaints. In
the new city, milk is handed out
for babies free of charge. No such
thing in the old city. In the new
city, they occasionally get a ra-
ton. No such thing in the old
city. And so it was from the ma
terial side that we approached the
native woman. and she of course
gladly responded.
But what to do with the tradi-
tions that pressed like a yoke on
the Moslem woman. We had to
grope along. On the one hand we
were advised not to wake the ma
tive woman, for it might compli-
cate the political situation; on the
other, we were being urged by
some bold souls to proclaim the
slogan, "Down with the paranja!'
Such "down-with" radicals were
unhesitatingly sat upon; age-old
traditions cannot be knocked out
by a straight from the shoulder
blow. Let, in the meanwhile, the
Moslem woman wear her paranja
that is nothing. What we have
to do is to help her economically,
to put her on her feet, to give
her a chance to earn a livelihood.
And perhaps she will herself be-
gin to do things. To raise the
economical and cultural level of
the native woman, to help the So.
Wet government to find a way of
doing it-these were the first
steps. And here Dvorkina did
everything possible. Not even one
of the native women with whom
we worked removed her paranja
though many of them were at
congresses and in Soviets, both as
members and delegates.
It was in this careful manner
that, together with our work in
the artels, we began to do a little
cultural work-little plays and
concerts preceded by meetings.
We began to take our Moslem
women to the new city-to the
Lunacharsky House. These affairs
attracted not only the poor women
We had drawn into our ranks.
Funny things would happen occa-
sionally. Imagine concert-meet-
ing in the Lunacharsky House.
The speakers and the performers
are in the back of the stage wait
ing their turn. At the door stands
our guard. Men are not admitted.
While all around the house there
are the Moslem husbands, watch
ing whether it is really true that
only women are allowed to the
concert. And the women in the
hall feel perfectly at home. Some
are listening in a reclining rosi-
ton; some help the performer with
her song. The kids are there too.
Altogether, the thing is quite in
formal and gay. To these affairs
we succeeded in attracting wives
OF most jealous and conservative
husbands.
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Picture Puzzle

Read the pictures from. lefI "
write. You viii find the names !.
two of our working-claSs leau'. y
and BOO! the third is the name "
an enemy of the workers.
If you can find two names VIZ
them on the back Of a penny ~ ~,
card and mail it in. Then you I, os,,
become a member Of tine O'N''
Worker Puzzle Club.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-16

phia not long ago, q group = ne
neers succeeded in getting n.S .,,ied
German Consulate ana pLs 49, re-
their demands for Thaelmann. .hlI-
lease. Throughout the couns-y ., ~,
dren are collecting 50,0Oo Sgn''
aT,d nennies for ThaelmanA
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-16
THE WINNER OF "INFEkNA-
TIONAL WORD PUZZLE

The most correct list Of words "'s
sent in By Jane Raevky, who iou
22S correct words. The ne1' -
lists were sent in by Blansn KuS
and David wieck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Striking Ne'Osboy 5 Dead in
Cleveland after Thug attack

CLEVELAND, May 23.-Hundreds
of police we're modified in down
town Cleveland yesterday and to-
day to terrorize and break the mil
liant strike of 500 newsboys. One
of the strikers is dead, stabbed by
company thug. Mounted police
galloped down sidewalks, police in
uniform and plain CLOTHES detectives
make deliveries and sell papers.
This entire display Of police force
was made to sell the Plain Dealer,
the Cleveland News and Cleveland
Press-the three newspapers which
pay starvation wages to the newsies
On their way to mass meeting
yesterday, many of the young
strikers we're s1ugged by the cops,
under the personal direction of Po-
lice Chief Matowitz. The police rode
into a parade of neWsboys on Public
Square, and, without word of
warning, dubbed the boys to the
ground and arrested so.
Many of the strikers are orphans,
boys of IA and Is years of age, who
are the sole support of poor families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
list Bronx Meeting on
cts Friday To Fight
i've Race Segregation
Workers r allyn To
Defense of II Negro
Families

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting
to protest and organize mass re-
sistance to the attempt of Bronx
property owners and banks to
evict IA Negro families from their
homes at l636-40 University Ave,
Bronx, will be held this Friday, 8
p. M, at II w. Mt. Eden Ave, cor
ner Of Jerome.
The meeting is called under the
Joint auspices of the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights and the
Bronx Section of the International
Labor Defense, which are leading
the fight against this vicious cam
paign of the bosses to prevent the
united struggle of Negro and
white workers for better condi-
tionS.
Charles Alexander, noted Negro
leader of the working class and
National Cultural Director of the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, and Edward Kuntz, I. L.
D. attorney will be the main
speakers at the meeting.