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COUNTY EDITION
Workers
of the World
Unite!
Join the
United Farmers
League
Published W eekly
^5l XIV. No. 40
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE IN THE NORTHWEST
PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1932
Price 10 Cent®
Entered as sneond Class Matter, Oc lober It, 1912, at the Poet
•fflse at Flentywosd, Montana, Unde r the Act of March 8, 18X8
Will Complete Soviet Five-Year Plan In Four Years
Hans Concludes the
Story of the Hunger
March to Washington
With this chapter we conclude
dayby-day account of Hans
Rasmussen, who began his trip to
Washington as a delegate to the
National Hunger March, on Nov.
22nd, and returned to Plentywood
on December 24th. It is not the
entire story of the Hunger March,
or rather of column three in which
Hans was a delegate. In our next
shall have an article by
summarizing his impres
the
issue we
Hans l
tioBi of the entire trip.—Editor.
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Minot, N. D., Monday, Dec. 21.
-After driving all night we
nred in Grand Forks, where, a
itack of hot cakes and plenty of
coffee at Mothers Cafe was
enjoyed by all.
Bidding farewell bo Bill DeLux,
set out for Minot.
I getting homesick.
I was waiting for us with a roast
I turkey donated to the Hunger
I Marchers by Stanley Christensen
I of Powers Lake.
I the coming of Christmas.
I Quite a lot of people welcomed
I
ar
warm
We are
Mother Bloor
we
It tasted like
I ns back to Minot.
I morning, a load of students from
I the Plentywood Young Commun
! ist League school knocked at the
I door and beds were made on the
I floor for them.
I ******
At two in the
Belden, N. Dak., Tuesday, Dec.
22.—Spent all day in Minot. The
boys fixed up the car, then they
took it out and smashed it up
some more. We finally got start
ed, leaving James Allen behind.
Surprised the people of Beiden
by showing up at their dance.
Sulo and I had to tell them about
the Hunger March, M?my stu
dents had just arrived from the
Plentywood Y.C.L. school, some
from South Dakota. How they
praised the school and how thank
ful they were to the people of
Sheridan county for helping put
this over.
Stayed over night at Geo.
Husa's place.
******
Powers Lake, N. D., Wednesday,
traveling
alone. In Powers Lake I run
across Pete Menholt, who invites
me to stay over night.
Sender Garlin is showing his
Russian pictures at the hall to a
Dec. 23.—I
am now
packed house. He talks well and
the pictures are making a hit with
the crowd.
I was introduced and gave
short talk.
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Plentywood, Mont., Thursday,
Dec. 24.—After traveling 4,744
wiles I am home again and
, x. - , , , , , ,,
than I had before and they ane|
I are glad to see me back. The
I most interesting trip I have ever
made (and I have made many)
I completed.
■ Right here at home I have been
«ported killed, arrested and ac
«»«d of wntms a millicm dollars
I 1 X. Um checks ' and ^ ere 1
I am weighing a few more pounds
I j 11 I
I 1 also find it is Christmas Eve
and my cupboard is not quite bare
«Janks to the good farmers of
Sheridan county, and I extend my
Christmas and New Years greet
»P to all my friends.
feels good. I have more friends i
Prostitution Grows
Among Daughters of
Workers Thru Crisis
The
worsening of the economic
fnsis means more and more pros
1 ution of workers and farmers
Ehlers thruout the
country.
serious has the situation be
conie that even the agents of the
^P-talist class that
ÏÏwî ° f the toiling
eir bodies so that they can
a have
Sv
drives the
masses to
j Wething be done. Patrick Car
Di- \iT? a . yCs ' Catholic archbishop;
l ', . j lliam T Manning, Episcop
' bl fhop; Rabbi Nathan Krass
jj, , le ^ ev '- Harry Emerson Fos
cf i, ]C1 < ned in a l< P lea for support
iJ '. com mitee of 14" whose ob
Y * s ''elimination of New
ork ? underworld."
tiem H*e "perilous posi*
Cct r . Womcn and girls who can
WOrk " tlie y sald
activn U • lf! stv °wing increasing
thi- i m t& king advantage of
Quation."
in« l Unde / World which is exploit
41 hes f daughters of the toiling
tvsler« I; , ? art the capitalist
ti.:_ which has driven them to
extremity. The preachers
complain about this are
- same gang of exploit
*♦
who
now
of the
«î*.
MOTHER BLOOR
ARRESTED IN
MINOT MEETING
POLICE CHIEF BREAKS UP
MEETING FOR RETURNING
HUNGER MARCHERS.
Minot, N. D., Dec. 26.—The
Hunger Marchers, the Unemploy
ed delegation from the northwest,
have kept Minot stirred up in a
lively fashion for several days.
First, the Montana and North
Dakota delegates headed by Hans
Rasmussen returned and were kept
busy in the restaurants, on the
streets and at the headquarters of
the U. F. L., interviewing their
friends. On Thursday, the big
Washington and Oregon truck ar
rived with ten delegates from the
Pacific coast.
This delegation was a remark
able one, in its composition a real
cross-section of the working class:
A fine colored delegate; an Indian
farmer from Washington State; a
lively youth from Seattle; Com
rade Powers, one of the old fight
ers in mine strikes; Comarde Kan
tola from Astoria Oregon; an ex
service man from Seattle; and
longshoremen and shingleweavers
from Aberdeen and Oregon.
We arranged an open air meet
ing in front of an empty theater.
We had sowed the town with
delegates
waiting for
dered the meeting stopped, saying
that we could not speak anywhere
hand-bills, se there wa» a ciowd
Among others,
Chief of Police O'Leary. He or
us.
in Minot. He also frothed at the
mouth about the North Dakota
banner seven feet long, held up by
Comrade Scottland Heith. This
banner had gone through the en
tire march to Washington and
contained the message to Con
Unemployed Insurance;
$150 Cash Immediate Relief," etc.
gross:
otc.
This banner was read by hund
1 reds of workers as the marchers
j never faltered, keeping it up con
tinually in spite of the shouts
the Chief. "Take it away I
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Roll
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it up," etc., etc.
Comrade Bloor, who had been
elected chairman of the meeting
by the Hunger Marchers, kept
continual appeal to the crowd,
"These unemployed
went to Washington to demand
Unemployment
a
it
Insurance, not
.only for the unemployed workers
of geattle aild Oregon, but also
fof the discharged railroad work
erg of Minot „
These firemen an d other rail
road workers unemployed are of
fered ^ days - work on the roads
with ick and shovel by the city
and are iven scrip _only good for
[a little macaroni and beans,
Not & cent of money t o buy any
thing "on their own.
. % 11T1PTTm loved infuri
, ., oh; e f and he roughly
d ed Comrade Bloor to the big
^ bnU j, bt for him. One !
the" Hunger Marchers tried to
/et intT thf oar ^ Comrade
Btoo/but the Chief pushed him
Bloor, out me ^ v
off the car, tellmg h.m to mind
his own business. w mbl -
is my business, but he w.« mmbi
ed out of the car. The Chief led
Mother Bloor into the jail cellar,
where she patiently waited the
"official performances, booking,
etc. She pleaded not guilty, and
then ™t e d for! a kangaroo"
knew well it was a kangaroo
court, and if $25 was P" ? „
bonds it would be a
to O'Leary & Co Mr Brekke th
lawyer, demanded her release m
until the hearing w^hout
etc.
This talk
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his care
This was fina y inciting to riot "inadequate.
bond.
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MINNESOTA UFL
PRODUCERS
i
cember 20, 1931:
WHEREAS, the Producers
News, a weekly paper, has now
become the official organ o e
United Farmers League, and
i WHEREAS we fully appreciate
i the fact that a fighting publica
tion if properly used can become
St.!an
Resolution adopted at the
Conference of the
which
Louis County
United Farmers League
held in Virginia, Minn., D*
waa
Giant Lenin Statue
Will Be Erected In
Port of Leningrad
A giant statu© of Lenin, the
largest in the world and bigger
than the statue of Liberty in the
New York harbor will be erected
by the Soviet government in the
Leningrad port.
The idea was originally initiat
ed by Leningrad factory workers,
who started to raise funds for it
and pledge voluntary labor to help
complete it.
The statue will be 370 feet high
as compared to the statue of Lib
erty which is 305 feet from base
to the torch, and a light house
beacon for ships will be erected
on top.
NORTH DAKOTA
HOLDS FARMERS
CONFERENCES
CONFERENCES WILL LAY
BASIS FOR GREATER
FARMERS STRUGGLES.
Conferences will be held in
North Dakota, in the following
places:
Williame County, Epping, Sons
of Norway Hall, Jan. 3rd, 2 P. M.
iDickey County, Forbes, on Jan
uary 6th, 2:D0 P. M.
These conferences like those al
ready held in Minot, Stanley and
Burke county, are held for the
purpose of laying plans for a mor®
intensified struggle against the
terrible conditions now existing
among the masses of farmers and
workers.
We must build more Township
Committees of action, and orga
nize the unemployed workers in
towns and cities, for struggle
against the starvation program of
the capitalists.
We must organize and fight
against foreclosure sales and evic
tions from our homes.
We must organize and fight
against all taxation of the now
bankrupt farmers, and demand
that the rich pay the taxes.
We must organize and demand
cancellation of all debts of mort
gaged and tenant farmers, we
must demand adequate food and
clothes for ourselves and families,
seed for our next crop, and feed
for our stock.
We must organize and fight
against a system that keep®
third of its population on the
country where
there is plenty of everything.
The United Farmers League
the only farm organisation that
has such a program.
All farmers and workers are in
our
of
breadline, in
up
a
vited to these conferences.
ELLA REEVE BLOOR
State Organizer,
United Farmers League.
become mass pressure
release of Orlando Spartaco, 2o
year old worker sentenced for
shouting at Foreign Minister Dino
Grandi of Fascist Italy, that the
judge who sentenced him and
twice refused bail. finally signed
$1,000.00 bond for his release,
^ HarIy s . McDevitt „f
Quarter Sessions Court, in signing
w ^ ^ ^ ^
^ ^ become „ a com .
martyr " No decision has
^ ^ ^
7 Int emational Labor Defense
^ gtate Supe rior Court. Judge
William H. Kelkr of this court,
fee]g so strong i y fa sym
thy with Mussolini, dictator and
Tabor oppressor of Italy, that he
ted ^ ^ daily press
h Sparta co's maximum sent
calling *p« years on a charge 0
Pressure of Workers
-
Philadelphia, Pa.—So great has
for the
Anti-Fascist Worker
Granted Bail Thru
as
GETS BEHIND
NEWS CAMPAIGN
and leader
effective organizer
of the farmers' struggles, so
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLV
ED that we take advantage of the
Producers News in our organiza
tion work by getting hundrfris of
new subscribers an dreaders in St.
Louis county and by organizing
active correspondence for the pa
per in every locality in order tna
we may help make the paper
real voice of the f |^r AEY ,
COUNTY AGENT, VICIOUS ENEMY
OF FARMERS, MUST BE OUSTED
Hundreds of Farmers Have Loans Refused By Agent
Because They are Militant Fighters.
Confidential Documents Show County Agent Demanded
Reasons for Loan Refusal Be Kept From Farmers.
Plentywood, Montana, Dec. 29—
The United Farmers League has
been able to secure confidential
papers which prove conclusively
that in the applications for feed
loans the members of the Feed
Loan Committee and the County
Agent of Sheridan county have
played the role of vicious enemies
of the toiling farmers, stabbing
them in the back while they ap
proved their applications to their
face. The Feed Loan Committee
and its boss, the County Agent,
have discriminated most viciously
against the leaders of the United
Farmers League who have forced
them to grant the applications
dozens of farmers in the county
after they had first refused them
The information which we have
about two cases in particular re
veals their treacherous double
dealing.
The case of Rodney Salisbury,
state organizer for the United
Farmers League, shows up this
brazen treachery of the entire
Black Hand crew in all its vile
nakedness. Salisbury filed his ap*
plication with the county feed
loan committee on October 30th
for $90 for six head of dairy cat
tle and $90 for six horses for a
total of $180.00.
The back of the application cov
ers the information—the stool
pigeon lies—supplied by the Coun
ty Feed Loan Committee. To the
question of whether Salisbury had
the stock for which he applied for
a loan they answered, "Don't
know," altho every farmer could
have told them that the stock was
there, and altho they could have
gone to the Salisbury farm in five
minutes and ascertained this for
themselves.
THEY DID NOT
VIRGINIA. MINN. CONFERENCE
LAYS BASIS FOR STRUGGLE
Next Step In Organization of Tax Strike of Small and
Middle Farmers By United Farmers League.
200 Farmers Join UFL In St. Louis County In Three
Months Period Since Hunger March.
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By RUDOLPH HARJU
The St. Louis county, Minneso
ta, poverty-ridden farmers have
again taken the lead fa their
United Farmers League activity.
f
Sept. 20th last the poor and mid
dle farmers of St. Louis county
under the leadership of the Unit
ed Farmers League organized one
of the most successful mass de
monstrations of farmers ever at
tempted in this country. About
1,200 farmers from almost every
comer of the country participated
in the Hunger March to Duluth
where they were met by over 4,000
city workers in one of the most
militant
demonstrations
ever
staged in Duluth.
The farmers through their elect
ed delegation submitted demands
to the county board of commis
sioners which included: exemption
of taxation for small farmers,
cancellation of mortgage debts
and the stoppage of evictions, etc.,
etc. The St. Louis county pover
ty-ridden farmers showed the way
for other sections of the country
how to organize masses of small
farmers for successful struggle.
On December 20th there was
held at Virginia, Minnesota, the
St. Louis County United Farmers
League County Conference. This
conference was an example of how
organization work must be car
ried on. The conference from the
very beginning resolved to go to
work instead of doing much
ing which usually is the case.
The ' conference heard reports
about the work thus far done and
the tasks that must be accom
plished if the organization work
is to progress. The reports to the
conference showed that the com
rades have not been asleep since
the huge farmers' Hunger March
0 n Sept. 20th. Over 200 members
have been enrolled into the orga
nization since that date. The con
ference, however, did not want to
rest on the laurels of past achieve
ments. It pointed out that, while
there has been marked progress
in enrolling members into the or
ganization, the comrades have not
taken full advantage of the op
portunities after the successful
Hunger March of Sept. 20th. In
sufficient local struggles had been
WANT TO FIND OUT. THEY
WERE DETERMINED TO PER
SECUTE THE LEADER OF THE
UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE
IN MONTANA.
They then answered that the
loan was not justified and that
they had known Salisbury for
eighteen years. Eighteen years,
during which they had discovered
that he was a militant leader of
the small and middle farmers
against the robbery and double
dealing of the bankers.
His general reputation, accord
ing to the Committee was "poor"—
because he is a leader among the
farmers of the state.
To the question of "Is farming
his only source of income?" the
committee answered,
Organizer," meaning that he was
organizer of the militant United
Farmers League, and should
denied credit whether he legally
No/ United
ii
Reserved it or not.
After rejecting the application,
the committee gave the reason as,
He applied for seed loan in 1931
—not granted," despite the fact
that Salisbury never applied for
any kind of a government loan
before and despite the fact that
this was clearly stated on the ap
plication itself. Dealing from the
bottom of the pack is the regular
procedure of the County Feed
Loan Committee.
The Grand Forks Seed Loan of
ü
fice acted according to the recom
mendations of the County Commit"
lee and rejected the application
on Nov. 12 without offering any
reasons.
Between the time the applica
tion was filed and rejected the
Grand Forks office received
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developed; not enough attention
had been given to strengthening
the local units of the organization;
inadequate attention to the devel
opment of local initiative and
cal cadi for the
es
the struggles,
pointed out to be serious short
comings that must be overcome in
the shortest possible period of
time.
All these were
Development of Tax Struggle
Regarding the future tasks the
Conference discussed at length
problems facing the small farmers
In the county. It was decided af
ter a thorough discussion that the
program formulated for the Hun
ger March must be now made the
rallying point around which thous
ands of farmers must be mobiliz
ed. The program will be present
ed to township meetings of farm
ers, from where a real mass base
can be built for our organization.
Particularly did the discussion
center around the tax question.
The conference was unanimous
that the next step must be the de
velopment of a county wide tax
strike. The matter was left
the UFL County Board with
structions that immediate steps
taken for preparations of the tax
strike on a mass basts. In con
nection with this work of prepar
ing for the tax strike, it was de
cided to organize another mass
monstration of farmers some time
in April or May that will
many times bigger than the one
held Sept. 20th.
The conference elected an en
larged UFL County Board of
members to be in charge of the
work during periods between dele
gate conferences. The Board that
was elected is representative
the most militant and experienced
types of small farmers in the
county. The board will jspK r e
and guidance to the activity
the local units of the organization
and will ec-ordinate the plan
activity on a county-wide scale.
Organized Leadership
St. Louis county United Farm
ers League Conference was a trail
blazer ii the work of organization
for every section of the country.
Our task everywhere is
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United States Never
So Depresed and
Gloomy," Says Duckman
The gloom and the desperation
of the United States was stressed
also by Sir Arthur Duckham
president of the Federation of
British Industries who returned to
London on the day the Soviet
Congress opened in Moscow,
have never seen the United States
so depressed and gloomy as I ob
served it this time," said Sir Ar
thur.
"I
CHINA TROOPS
REMOVED FROM
CHINCHOW
MARSHAL CHANG, AGENT OF
JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS
AIDS INVADERS.
be
In order to permit the invasion
of the Japanese imperialists
proceed without any delay Mar
shall Chang Hsueh Liang has or
dered the withdrawal of his troops
from Chinchow. Chang Hsueh Li
ang is the agent of the Japanese
imperialists and the order for the
withdrawal is the most recent in
dication of his treachery to the
0 f Qiang leaves the Japanese in
complete control of Manchuria
Chinese masses. The withdrawal
ex
cept for the active resistance ol
the Chinese masses themselves
who have formed partisan detach
ments to repel the imperialist loot
ers. These are called "bandits" by
the capitalist press.
The real reason for the with
a
drawal of Chang is contained in
the capitalist press dispatches, tho
hidden. The capitalist press re
ports that the Japanese now "have
a free hand to wipe out so-called
bandit forces alleged to be a men
ace to Japanese interests in the
three northeastern provinces."
The hypocritical reason given
by Chang, the mass murderer, is
that now the Japanese will have
no "pretext" for the invasion of
northern China. The withdrawal
of these troops is the open admis
sion on the part of these butchers
who have been attempting to mis
lead the Chinese masses, that they
are tools of the imperialists and
that the invaders and the other
imperialists can now have a free
hand in the looting of China.
The Japanese invaders plan to
take the next step in the looting
of China aa admitted in the capi
talist press.
lo
of
"The possibility of fresh dan
gers in the Tientsin and Peiping
areas as a result of the expect
ed influx of evacuated troops
was not discounted,
In this
connection, Japan has had war
ships fa readiness along the
coast, particularly in the Shan
kaikwan area, to cut off the
retreat of Chinese soldiers if
such action proves advisable and
to aid in protecting Japanese in
terests in China proper if ne
cessary.
Japan has its warships
troops prepared for the invasion
of China proper in its attempt
crush the rising revolutionary
surge of the Chinese masses
are determined to throw out all
the imperialist looters and
bers.
Japanese Main Aim In Manchuria
Is War on Soviet Union
That the main aim of the
anese imperialists in their bandit
ry fa Manchuria is war against
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UR CONFERENCE GREETS MILITANT
ACTION OF ONTONAGON, MICH. FARMERS
Pledges to Carry on Struggle Against Evictions By
Sheriff of Small and Middle Farmers.
The St. Louis County Confer-1
ence of the United Farmers Lea
gue, which was held in Virginia,
Minn., on December 20, hailed the
militant action of the farmers of
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Ontanagon, Michigan, who, under
the leadership of the UFL recent
of|ly prevented the eviction of a
farmer by the sheriff by militant
mass action.
aid
of
cf
The conference adopted the fol
lowing greeting which was sent to
the UFL of Ontanagon:
December 20, 1931.
Ontonagon County
United Farmers Committee,
Bruces Crossing, Mich.
^ Comrades:
The St. Louis County conference
to of the Lmted Farmers League
wants to extend its congratula
400 DELEGATES TO
SOVIET CONGRESS
HEAR OF PROGRESS
DELEGATES REPRESENT WORKERS, FARMERS,
RED ARMY AND NAVY OF SEVEN REPUBLICS
Moscow, Dec. 23.—In the midst of the sharpening'
crisis in the capitalist world and the decline of its indus
tries, with the successful closing of the third and decisive
year of the Five-Year Plan of socialist construction, all
forces of the Soviet masses and government are
being
WILL OPEN ONE NEW BLAST
SOVIET UNION
CHEERFUL OVER
GREAT GAINS
to
FURNACE FOR EACH ONE
CLOSED IN U. S.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—"Cheer
fulness," "good humor and high
spirits," are the expressions used
by capitalist newspaper corres
pondent in Moscow describing the
opening of the Central Commit
tee of the All-Union Congress of
Soviets, which convened evoked by
the opening of the Congress of the
American capitalists.
Cheerfulness was the keynote
at the opening of the -All-Union
Parliament Uua evening," ca'uieu
Walter Duranty, New York Times
correspondent in the U.S.S.R., "as
the assembly listened to the
speech of Premier Molotoff."
The Associated Press added:
"Russian officials prepared, with
high spirits and good humor, to
day to attack the problem of com
pleting the Five-Year Plan in
1932, backed by the enthusiasm of
a rally last night in the former
throne room of the Czars at the
Kremlin.
Molotoff in his report to the
Soviet Congress told of the ad
vances of the Five-Year Plan.
"We are trying to erect next
year more blast furnaces than
the United States closed down,
he said.
tation of complete collectiviza
tion of agriculture next year
when the Five-Year Plan called
for only 40 per cent collectiviza
tion.
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He told of the expec
On the other hand in the capi
talist countries, and particularly
in the United States Congress,
there was the gloomy picture of
growing decay and crisis. "The
crisis in the United States is now
worse than it was last June," said
F. H. Ecker, president of the Me
tropolitan Life Insurance Co., the
to
of
largest in the world, before a Sen
ate Committee. "This country is
like a patient approaching the
(crisis when the patient either gets
well or dies.
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While this testimony was being
given to the Senate Committee,
the Soviet representatives were
gathering in Moscow from the
mines, mills, factories, collective
farms where Socialism is being
built and where the conditions
the workers are improving at
rapid pace, and where unemploy
ment has been eliminated.
tions to the Ontonagon County
farmers who were able to prevent
successfully a sheriff's sale under
the militant leadership of the
United Farmers League through
mass action.
The St. Louis County United
Farmers League pledges to carry
on similar work to prevent evic
tion of poor farmers from their
homes.
We hail your determined activi
ty of your organization as a sign
of increasing militancy and deter
mination and the willingness of
the farmers to follow the fighting
United Farmers League.
With good wishes for additional
victories, we are yours in the
fight.
SECRETARY OF THE
CONVENTION.
mustered for the triumph
ant completion of the plan
in four years by the end of
1932 and for the continu
ance of the Soviet firm poli
cy of peace, declared Molo
tov, chairman of the Coun
cil of Peoples Commissars, i»
his report to the second session ef
the Central Executive Committee
of the Soviet Union held in the
Kremlin on the evening of Decem
ber 22nd.
•r
Molotov's speech was enthuias
tically received by more than 40§
workers, peasants, Red Army and
navy delegates sent by the seven
republics constituting the Soviet
Union, while foreign diplomatic
corps and press correspondents
from many countries turned out in
full for this session.
On the rostrum were such lead
ing political figures as Kalinin,
Litvinov, Stalin, who received a
rising ovation from the assembly
while the presence of the presi
dents of the Uzbek, Turkmenistan,
j Tajik, Ukrainian and other repub
lics emphasized the international
character of the Soviet Union.
In his opening speech, Chairman
Petrovsky, President of the Uk
rainian Republic pointed out that
Soviet industry in strategic
branches such as electric, chemical
and oil had already reached the
level of American, and German
technique while the organization •
of agriculture surpasses them.
I While the state budget for 1931
reached the big total of twenty
and one-half billion rubles, for the
next year it has been increased to
twenty-seven billion, at the same
time attention is being concentrât"
ed on improving the quality and
decreasing the cost of production
and the training of cadres of skill
ed workers and technicians.
Capitalist Production Drops
Molotov, who was warmly greet
ed, quoted figures from bourgeois
statisticians demonstrating that
while Soviet industry was develop
ing at an unequalled tempo, indus
' try in thirty-nine capitalist coun
tries dropped by 25 -per cent since
11928, world trade had fallen to the
1 level of pre-war. Today only one
! country, the Soviet Union, is able
i to increase its imports and indus
! try. The socialists' theory of or
| ganized capitalism has been shat
i tered by the facts of the world
crisis. The growth of Soviet in
dustry, as shown by facts, was
three billion rubles in 1928 four
billion six hundred million in 1930.
While wages and the standard
of living of the workers under
capitalism has fallen drastically,
the wages of Soviet workers this
year alone increased 18 per cent.
The Five-Year Plan has already
been over-fulfilled in the basic in
dustries, such as machine build
ing, tractor and oil. Each year
the achievements have been great
er than the plan called for. The
first year plan was 106 per cent
achieved; the second year 107 per
cent and this year 113 per cent, so
that the rate of over-fulfilling is
increasing.
The Plan called for a capital
investment of forty-seven billion
rubles, and up to the present thir
ty-three billion has been invested
and next year there will be invest
ed twenty-one billion, so that the
of
a
final total will be fifty-four bil
lion, or seven billion above the or
iginal plan, which will be complet
ed in four years.
Soviet Workers Forge Ahead.
Developments have proved be
yond doubt that Soviet workers
arc able not only to build indus
trial giants, but are also able to
run them, master technique and
problems of management. During
the next year four million addi
tional workers will be drawn into
industry, making a total of twen
ty-one million or twenty-two per
cent above the original plan.
In dealing with the shortcom
ings, such as insufficient increase
in labor productivity, lack of per
I sonal responsibility for machinery,
1 Molotov pointed out that energetic