The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-26

One would hardly expect the
truth about a land ruled by the
workers ard farmers, from a man
who has an income of SS0,OOO,000
a year, who owns % newspapers,
two news services supplying 200
newspapers, a news reel agency,
five magazines, the richest gold
mine in the country, and 10 radio
stations. Yet the very fact that
this man (rat is a better name
for him) has 80 million American
people reading his newspapers and
countless thousands more listening
to his radio broadcasting, makes
his lies dangerous.
Without doubt thousands of
farmers who get teh Chicago Her
aid and Examiner, the Omaha Bee
News or other Hearst papers, have
been misled into believing his vile
lies.
A Hearst Correspondent"
But what is the truth? There
is Thomas R. Walker, the writer
who has been bought by Hearst's
gold and whose articles on "starv-
alton" have been smeared across
the front pages of the Hearst
newspapers.
Walkers articles were dated as
if they had been written from
KEW, Poltava, Belgorod and Khar-
kov, Russian cities, where he
claimed to have seen starving far
mers and workers.
Soviet officials and workingclass
newspaper writers investigated anC
found that this Walker came tC
the Soviet Union October II, 1884
and arrived in Moscow October Is
Five days later he left Moscow
on the Siberian express train, go,
ing direct through to the Man
churian border and leaving the
land of the Soviets forever. HI
was at all times thousands of miles
away from the Ukraine where HI
"saw" starvation. He was never
in Kiev, Poltava or Kharkov.
Another Tells the Truth
Walker is not the regular cor
respondent for the Hearst papers
in Russia. Evidently he was hired
for this special job. The regular
Moscow correspondent for the In.
ternational News Service and the
Universal Service, both of which
belong to Hearst, is a man named
Lindsay Parrot. But while Mr.
Walker did not go into the Tx
raine, Mr.. PARROT did.
When he was questioned by an
other newspaper man on his re-
turn, he made the following state
ment:
In the summer of last year
/ visited the VOlga regiOn-frOm
Astrakhan to SaratOv. l visited
the Friedrich EngeIs KOIkhOz
Collective FARM in Markstadt
and one of the fishing KOlkhOzes
whose good organization, order
and cleanliness astOnished me. |
have recently completed a trip
to other important agricultural
regions of the Soviet UniOn-tO
the south Ukraine, where saw
new collective farms. This sec
Ond trip made an even greater
impression than the first.
Nowhere in any of the towns
or villages on the way did I see
signs or traces Of the famine
about which the foreign press
likes to speak. Moreover. the
present is the very. time of year
when famine, if existing, would
sharply appear.
Il visited collective farms not
according to any prearranged
plan. During my stay in the
Odessa region, I spent a whole
day in the villages of the col
Lective farms. GrOsIiebentaI and
kleinliebental, in the SpartakOv
district.
Il happened by chance to sit
at the dinner table of a cOlIec-
tive farmers and taste kohkhOz
food. / was returning to town
by automobile, which got stuck
In deep snow. We could not pro-
coed and it was necessary to re-
turn to the collective. Naturally
the farmer did not expect us.
but we met with a hearty iwel-
cOnse, hospitality and a good
supper. We were treated to
picked herring with onions, vege
tables, pork schnitzel with egg.