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PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932.
Entered as second Class Matter, Oc tober IS, 191*. st the Po«jt
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VOL.
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Japanese Apply Torch to Chapei
capitalism in the
BUSH COUNTRY
CHARLES E. TAYLOR
/Concluded from last week)
T find the land mortgaged, lor
f.; ta worth, if not for so much
•"St » northeastern Montana. I
- » üb ner tent or mo.* oï the
nn the delinquent tax list lor
I"* ° n * and turee years. I find
closing and taxpayers aa
to find ways to
road and poor
to find the money to
By
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tVvO
it- 1 ,
*cbools
the school,
°interest and sinking fund
T.ries to keep the bonds from de
faulting and in order to
liilh this, the white-collared poll
£tois moat suffer a wage cut,
.«Itbe County Agent is on the
*r" ds The leaders in these tax
„sedations are lawyer agents for
holders, and the program is
^ake the bonds good at the ex
•ense of the small and middle
farmers. Just the same
nroirram, just the same motives, as
STpire taxpayers associations ev
erywhere.
And I also find butter fat .18
oetts a pound and dropping, x
find eggs 9 cents a dozen for
trying
cut
levies
tliO
pay
accom
bond
to
mdeâ No. 1 eggs, and price fall
intf and this is the first week in
February, just when the cows are
freshening and the hens are get
tlag in full swing. What will the
nrices be when the cows—Guern
seys. Jerseys, Holsteins, Bed Poll
ed and Durh am —full bloods, for
the farmers here have improved
their herds—get onto clover again?
I find there Is no wood market
to speak of—a few days ago the
heading' mill at Aitkin startea xo
buy basswood for., barrel., heads,
paying §6 single cord, and it is be
mg hauled on trucks for forty
miles, by those who have any
basswood. And about Aitkin the
railroads are taking a few hard
wood ties. Over at Cloquet me
paper mill is taking such pulp
wood and tooth-pick timber as is
delivered at the factory grounds,
end farther north, box factories
are taking such poplar as can be
hauled in. And all has to be
"traded out." But no sale for
other timber, and no sale for any
•xcept in a very limited way—X
could say, practically no sale at
all The little saw mills are all
ital.
Over on the Cyuna and Mesaba
ranges, the mines are practically
closed: the underground .mines
are nearly all closed. A few strip
mines are operating. Every few
days another mine closes. My
hrother, Bneben, and two nephews,
James and Phillip Byan work in
an underground mine at Ely on
▼ermlUlon range. They work 8
shifts a month, nmMiig less than
130. They hang onto their jobs in
H T
lost would mean no work at all.
Even this mine may close.
The mines are not "buying tim
ber, except a little which they can
fet close. This is evidence that
no extended operations will occur
this summer.
The boys who work in the mines
and their families are now back
home living with their folks on
the farms, so most farm houses
are packed full. It is only in this
way that thousands avoid starva
tion. The deserted farm houses,
on the deserted farm, and all un
occupied cabins are now inhabited
by those forced out of the cities
about the mines. These workers
and their families come where
they need not pay rent, where
wood and water are free, where
they can fish and earn a few dol
lars trapping, I overlooked trap
ping as a source of income in my
recital above of the general di
versity of activities in this coun
try. Thousands and thousands of
dollars worth of fur has been
shipped from this country yearly,
since fnr was the chief industry of
the country, which Is was prior to
»hont 1860, when lumbering start
ed in Minnesota. These squatters
»iso cut cor wood which they sell
in the villages. Bas» winter dry
hlrch brought $6.00 a cord, dty
tamarack, $5.00 % cord: this win
ter birch is $2.50 and tamarack
«100 delivered. People have shop
ped burning coal entirely in town
as wood is so cheap. Those Job
less men also get a few days work
on tho roads In the summer time,
l>y which with their gardens and
vith a cow they eke out a miser
able living.
There has occurred in the past,
dry seasons, in which fires have
burned out the old cedar and tam
arack swamps. On this land wild
nay has sprung up, and on much
It tame hay has been seeded, so
* l°t of hay is raised In tho coun
try. A lot of it Is very choice
clover and timothy. Some years
there is very little market. This
Zoar, owing to drouth in tho west,
"a? found a good sale and raised
to a good price. There is talk that
■ome of it brought $17 a ton de
livered in Minneapolis at South
lators bought up a lot of this hay
*t low prices. ..The baling afford
ed some work hut the wages paid
were low. ..Some farmers held for
netter prices—those who could.
About Christmas time the market
woke and has continued to drop
■"ce. ..Pine hay in the stock is
advertised for $3.00 per ton, and
there is a lot of it that cannot bo
a>UL
X came here to speak under the
»uspices ot the United Farmers
**»8rne, many requests having
come to the national secretary for
® e i fox the miserable farmers in
the hnshland of Minnesota, Michi
ffan and Wisconsin want to know
»bout the militant farmers' organ
motion. They want to Join It;
-" e y want to fight rather than
starve. _
county, my old boyhood home, for
k series of meetings. Shortly aft
• r I arrived the weather turned
▼cry cold and as I was suffering
® severe attack of bronchitis
** th. request of the farmers the
meetings were delayed for warmer
weather, for they said: "The farm
end their families cannot come
« ♦ 0014 weather. They do
not have overcoats or warm un
, * r ^f ar l their cars are poor and
, ill repair; they cannot
«Jcohol to put in tho radiators,
«ley cannot come out now."
lt was agreeable to all, the
"•*_-iage were postponed hut will
Trv »gain as eoon as the weath
©often* rg.
» «"w meetings
wS.rVî Kotvorv the woxk started,
yy Aid I fin« I sound that tho
•r™*" X»d lees muuey than tho
In the drouth stricken ar
H . ®f northwest. I find that
ha fi sacrifice for them to dig
to Aitkin
I was
afford
so
or SI for a three or six
subscription to
News, tho they like
very much.
Z find these people who had a
hamper crop last year, penniless.
X find many In actual want, es.
peclally of clothes. There Is no
Red Cross aid here and the town
ships and counties don't do much
—they can't, when over 65 per
cent of all land in the county Is on
the delinquent tax list. Next year
many wil Inot even have schools).
Then there Is going to he trouble.
Owing tc the slow and conser
vative development of this section
hanks came In slowly and were
always conservative. The first
bank organized in this county, the
old State Bank of Aitkin, after
wards the National Bank of Aitkin
was organized back in 1894 or 95.
months'
the Producers
the paper
Tbe 1920 debacle wasn't felt liere
Reserve BaSt^ter tiS^raf a«w
touched a bank in the brushland.
Not a bank failure lu this section
until the Galamault bank, the Na
took all the good paper and that
no t go good was given to deposi
tor as settlement in full, most of
which will never be collected. The
Qolarnaults and BeBaittres took
the bum paper. This saved a run
on the rest of the banks, of which
there are two left in Aitkin. Close
ly following the failure of the
Bank of Aitkin, the state Bank of
Hill City closed. Hill City Is a
pretty village in the hardwood sec
tlon, built about a big butter fir-1
kin and meat box factory located
there by Armour & Co, meat pack
ers, about 20 years ago, which
factory was abandoned a couple of
years ago when the timber became
exhausted; and since burned down,
The other banks are In a precari
ous condition resulting from the
collapse of land prices, the price
of dairy cattle and live stock gen
erally, and the lack of any price
vegetables, and the lowering
P* »»* »a®
the total failure of the timber
market,
Before many moons pass banks
will be as scarce in the old con
servatlve backward sections as in
the great open spaces of the wheat
area of the northwest, when the
misery of the workers will be still
more miserable.
so Z find the scenes of my boy
?f od "
the environs of my middle age.
ings of around a million dollars,
collapsed—the one hank everybody
thought would bo open on dooms
da y- 1
„. T1 " w , as t t k ® a °J e f 4 the
First National and liquidated 1m
mediately. The Birst National
Those who thought they were pre
pared for old age, find themselves
lu poverty and facing want; they
find the children which they had
sacrificed so much to rear and ed
with
their
ucate, without Jobs, home
their families, living with
no
The conditions discussed here
c ^n^ion f ven«lny-^t;
tlre^same story everywhere. There
better land," one is os well
off one place as another. The
same causes that tove
Slry ^unS^Smd tho one crop
country is no more broke than the
country of tho widest diversity.
There is no prosperity »round
l^li C0 ^rm er An^ricaT there is
only war ahead and deeper and
deeper poverty and misery and ap
pi-chensiona or in
the wo^and
old parents,
warm where they do not have to
pay rent, and where father 1 m
longer ahl© to pay taxes.
These people have lost their
pride and respectability. They
are thinking as they have never
done before. They realize that the
same system that has bankrupted
the farmers of the west, of such
sections
rich and prosperous
southern Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Iowa, has at last wound up
Its hall of yam, until It has clear
ed up the hack woods where the
people are prlmatlv© and live the
simple life; that there is no escape
of its omnipresent ramifications
except the overthrow of capital
ism, the tearing of It out hy the
roots.
So they come to hear the mes
ZJnlted Farmers
to organize to
sage of the
Beague—of how
struggle against the system and
solve their immediate problems—
and they listen eagerly to news
from the workers' and farmers'
land, where capitalism has been
abolished, the Union of Socialist
Soviet Bepubllcs, the living hope
of tho tolling masses.
are
is "no
Everywhere, everywhere, com
rades. Tanners and workers, we
must organize and
SS:
dren* of the working does the
world over.
PIONEER JAN1S
SALISBURY DIES
AFTER OPERATION
Our beloved Young Pioneer
Janis Salisbury, fourteen year
of Emma and
old daughter ■HHiH
Rodney Salisbury, leader of the
United Farmers League
Montana, died in the Sheridan
County Memorial hospital
Wednedsay night following an
operation for ruptured appen
dix on Tuesday evening.
The funeral will take P*ac e
from the
in
Saturday at 2 p. na.
Farmer-Labor Temple, Speak
the funeral services will
for the United
ers at
be Ed Ferguson
Farmers League and Erik Bert
for the Communist Party. Her
comrades in the Young flo
will sing the militant
Janis loved best.
neers
songs
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199 War Vessels Assembled In Pacific for Attack on
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Chinese Masses and Soviet Union
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war in the Far East and for the
attack on the Soviet Union. The
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preparations for imperialist war
Involved in this move are shown
in the fact that the "training
«-rmnrlrrm of fW a^mifincr inmc*
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anf * the special service squadron
have been ordered to proceed to
the Pacific and "participate in
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Minot, N. 1A, UCD. 25.— ine
Ward county convention of the
Nonpartisan League was held in
the court house at Minot on Wed
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people present. They wert mostly
farmers with some workers from
Minot. The rest were old NPL
politicians, disgruntled Socialists,
remnants of the old Socialist par
the orders issued by the JNavy
Department cn February 29th for
the concentration of practically |
the entiie battle-fleet of the Unit- !
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ed States in the Pacific are part
of the preparations for imperialist
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PROGRESSIVES" OF
NORTH DAKOTA TRY
MISLEAD FARMERS
PROGRAM OF NONPARTISAN
LEAGUE IS ADMISSION OF
POLITICAL BANKRUPTCY
ty of Minot that used to be strong
when the Socialist party meant
something to the farmers and
workers of the stale.
These old Socialists today are
playing kite to the Republican
I
Street. They have forgotten their j
socialism, they have forgotten the 1
program of the class struggle, an
uncompromising stand against the
capitalist class, and have accepted
the program of class compromise
collaborating with the so-called
Progressive Republicans of the
James H. Sinclair type, who in the
last presidential election stumped
the state of North Dakota for
President Hoover, together with
Senators Nye and Frazier, Under
the leadership of these so-called
progressive" fakers, the old So
cialists of Minot are basking in
the sunlight of the Republican
party, talloig . of winning in the
next election, advising the farm
ers to stay with the good old par
^ ? oov <» f in order to win an
office for some political faker, in
j a capitalist program.
| Paul Campbell, the presen»,
states attorney of Ward county,
was one of the demogogues who
spoke. He said he started out as
a Democrat and when the Nonpar
tisan League organized a few
years ago he joined that, which
put the finishing touches to his
po iti C al education. He also spoke
about the good old days, before
the chain stores and chain banks
party, the Hoover party of Wall
came into, existence,
Hie local bankers who helped US a
i on ~ in business on our good rep
utation." You farm.ro remember
bow they helped us along, to pay
12% interest and a 10% bonus.
That is about all there is to the
program of the Nonpartisan
League politicians. They want the
good old days back, with the local
banker and his 12% interest, and
of course Paul Campbell wants to
be re-elected states attorney.
The convention proved the bank
ruptcy of the Nonpartisan League.
All they talked about was to win
the election, to put up good candi
dates, such as Walter Maddcck
for governor, Walter Maddock who
in the last presidential election
supported the corrupt Tammany
candidate, Alfred Smith.
We have beard many farmers
say that they are thru with the
Republican and Democrat parties
of the Nonpartisan League, tni.
with the leadership that leads
workers and farmers deeper into
the clutches of capitalism with its
mortgage foreclosures and evic
tions, starvaton and misery.^ The
workers and farmers are going to
vote for the only party that real
ly represents and fights for their
interests, the Communist Ptrty,
the Party of the Working Ckmoi
the City Workers and tfce Toiling
Farmers.
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naval maneuvers" FOR i HE
pjRST TIME IN THE NAVAL
HISTORY OF THE UNITED
STATES j
The "training squadron
con
sists of the battleship Arkansas
and six destroyers, while the "spe
cial service squadron" consists of
the light cruiser Memphis and the
destroyers Wickcs and Phillip. As
a result only a minimum of naval
vessels will remain in the Atlan
This concentration of war ships
in the Pacific will be the greatest
since 1919. The "reasons" given by
ihe Navy Department for the
moves is that these ships will par
ticipate in the maneuvers in the
Pacific. The Navy Department
does not say that these maneuvers
are preparations for United States
participation in the imperialist
war in the Far East, for the loot
ing of China, for the crushing of
the Chinese Soviets and for the
attack on the Soviet Union.
tic.
Commenting on the naval orders
Admiral William V. Pratt, chief
of naval operations, said:
This will give personnel of the
training squadron and the special
service squadron an opportunity
to take part in fleet maneuvers
and is a plan of training we have
had under consideration since tl»
maneuvers were first announced.
We hope to make it a routine mat
ter in the future, where, as in the
present case it will not interfere
with regular schedules."
..
While there was no announce
ment at the department on the
subject it was understood authori
tatively that even the midship
men's cruise this year will be held
in the Pacific. This will probably
take the Wyoming also to the Pa
ific later. The midshipmen are
being taken to the Pacific so that
The categories follow.
Twelve battleships.
Seventeen cruisers
Thirty-tHiree submarine»,
Three aircraft carriers, and 53
auxiliary vessels,
Eighty-one destroyers,
Toiling farmers. These 199 war
vessels are being moved to the
Pacific for the attack on
brother toilers in China, to crush
them under the iron heel of Am
erican imperialism acting witJh the
0 the r imperialist robbers for this
purpose . Protost these war man
envers. Demand the removal »f
a jj u. S. marines and war vessels
from the Far Sast It ^ tbe blood
on 0 f American and Chinese
w<yrke rs and farmers that WaU
street plaits to spill in China for
its | mpex ialist profits. Rally to
the defense of the Chinese masses!
Defend the Soviet Union!
they can get training not only in
maneuvers but in actual war op
erations.
The orders by the navy depart
ment to the training squadron and
the scouting force will place 199
American war vessels west of the
Panama canal.
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WALL STREET AGENTS DIRECT
CROP LOAN DISTRIBUTION
Ivery Regional Office in 1932 Crop Loan Area U
Headed By Banker
The handling of the 1932 crop
production loans to the destitute
has been placed in the hands of
the Wall Street bankers by the
Henry S.
Hoover government.
Clarke, vice president of the Re
liance Bank and Trust Company,
of Chicago, has taken charge of
this under the title of National
Director of 1932 Crop Production
Loans. "Although the present
Farmers' Seed Loan Office will co
operate closely with the National
Director of 1932 Loans IT WILL
BE CONCERNED PRINCIPALLY
WITH THE WORK OF COL
LECTING THE UNPAID BAL
ANCE DUE ON THE 1930 AND
1931 LOANS AND THE COLLEC
TION OF WHAT REMAINS
OUTSTANDING OF PREVIOUS
CROP PRODUCTION AND LIVE
STOCK FEED LOANS." These
offices will be concerned with di
DIS ARM AMENT—The Wall Street government Continues with
intensified preparations for imperialist struggle while its repre
sentatives attend "peace conferences."
(S. 51), was ordeied favorably reported to the Senate, Feb. 23, by its
Committee on Naval Affairs.
The naval construction lull
Passage of the bill," said Senator Hale, "would strengthen the
hands of our delegation at the Geneva Arms Conference immeasurably.
The bill carries authorization for replacements and for new con
st ruction totaling $616,000,000 in dost. This amount would be spent
over a period of years, continued Senator Hale.
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Senator Hale admits that the "peace conferences" are only
at are
meetings of the imperialists where the agreements arrived
u„„ rf i
based
the amount of armaments with which eadh one can threaten
on
the others. The appropriation of $616,000,000 will be used for expen
ditures on murder machines, like the airplane carrier "Saratoga" of
the U. S. Navy pictured above.
The Hoover-Hunger-and-War government has hundreds of mil
lions to spend on armaments "fior the attack on the Soviet Union and
for murder and looting in China. It refuses all relief bo the unem
ployed and to the destitute farmers. Demahd all war funds for relief
for the toiling masses! Hands off China!
i armed forces from the Far East!
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Withdraw all American
COAL OPERATORS PUT PRICE ON
HEADS OF KENTUCKY LEADERS
Organized Terror of Coed and State Thugs and Local
Fascist Elements Against Miners
BULLETIN.
The Harlan County Operators Association has posted a
thousand dollar reward fior Harry Jackson, dead or
alive. Jackson is District Organizer of the Com mutais*
Party.
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JELLICOSE, Ky., Feb, 28.—A strike conference with one or more
delegates from each mine in the sixty-mile area, those working as well
as striking, is to be held here this afternoon.
The conference has been called and will be held in the face of the
bloodiest and most widespread terror in the recent history of the
class.
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This terror is on the increase
throughout the strike zone and is
under the personal direction of
leading figures in the capitalist
The following is but one
of many examples of the cold
blooded preparations that are be
ing made for the issue of the
Knoxville Journal under the head
Kenluckian s begin death
and
world.
«<
line
drive on Communist Party"
reads as follows;
More than 200 ministers, ed
ucators and citizens of Knox
and other Southern Kentucky
counties girded themselves for a
'battle to death' with commuta
ism' today at a mass meeting in
Barbourville, Ky.
'Christian Patriotic League,'
was the name given the organi
zation, and former Governor
Flem D. Sampson was elected
president. The Rev. M. T. Dis
ney was cShosen vice president,
and Professor H. T. Nelsota sec
retary and treasurer.
"Efforts will be made to form
similar leagues in other Ken
tucky counties, with the goal of
"death to Communism, more re
spect for law and order 1 .
While the weakening of the
strike and the lack of trained for
ces are preventing the organiza
tion of mass resistance to the con
stantly increasing terror, virtually
spontaneous resistance on the part
of individual National Miners
reeling the attack on the farmers
for th© collection out of their mis
erable returns of the loans which
were made them to tide them thru
the drought.
The managership of the various
regional offices has been placed
directly in the hands of agents of
Wall Street by Soviet-wheat
dumping-Hyde.
The office at Scokane. Wash.,
will be managed by JoCm F.
Davies, director of the Ameri
can Bank. Spokane, and mem
ber of the Washington State
Legislature; the Minneapolis of
fice will be managed by Lawr
ence J. Paulson, banker of Al
bert Lea, Minn.; the Dallas of
fice will be headed by O, W.
Sherrill, présidait. City Nation
al Bank of Georgetown. Tex.;
(Continued on Fug® Twel
Union is taking place in many
sections.
In Prude, Kentucky, a bloody
battle was narrowly avoided two
days ago when members of the
N. M. U. local there told 11 of
Sheriff Broughton's gun thugs
that they would die with their
guns in their hands rather than
adjourn their meeting. The gun
thugs, learning of the whereabouts
of the meeting had come to break
it up on orders of Broughton in
accordance with his edict last week,
illegalizing the National Miners
Union in Bell County. The gun
thugs retreated before the armed
defense of the strikers and the
meeting continued.
Similarly in Brush Creek the
strikers have organized an armed
defense troop which is escorting
Workers International Relief food
trucks into the area despite the
waming of the gun thugs that
drivers of all relief trucks will be
killed along with their escorts.
U. M. W. Aids Operators
The United Mine Workers are
collaborating closely with the op
erators in all these measures
terrorization.
An unconfirmed but probably
reliable report states that the an
ti-Communist meeting in Barbour
ville last Wednesday at which the
leading speakers were Senator
Robison and former Governor
Sampson, was called under the
auspices of the U. M. W. A., but
because the audience consisted
wholly of gun thugs.
The. U. M. W. A. is offering N.
M. U. members forty cents for
each miner they bring into the U.
M. W. A. and are not requiring
these new metnbers to pay dues.
These strikebreaking attempts
have been so far completely un
successful.
Clarence Sanders, a striker from
Cary, Ky., ha® been hailed for
contempt of court for refusing to
heed a federal eviction notice.
The report in the capitalist
press that the big Anchor Block
mine in Brush Creek has gone back
to work is untrue,
Section strike conferences were
held Friday and Saturday In Four
Mile and Clear Pork respectively,
The United Farmers league of
South Dakota has protested the
brutal murder of Harry Simms by
the deputized gun thug? of the
coal operators of the state. The
following protest ha® been sent to
Governor Laffoon of Kentucky:
(Continued on Page Twe)
that the U. M. W. A. fearing that
the meeting would be a fiasco if
it became known that it had called
it, kept this fact secret.
A meeting which the U. M. W.
A. had called two days previous!»
in Pineville had been called off
Chinese Soldiers
Take Up Position
On a New Front
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DRIVEN FROM LINES BY SUPERIOR FORCES
AGAIN TAKE UP DETERMINED STAND
The Japanese imperialist murderers after slaughtering
tens of thousands of Chinese workers and driving 600,
000 from the city are now completing their bloody at
tack by setting the torch to what is left of the native sec
tion of Chapei in Shanghai. For over three weeks their
planes and heavy artillery have made shambles of Chapei and now to
complete the task of imperialism they have decreed that the remains
of the city should go up in smoke.
The capitalist press in reporting
ese in burning the city states that,
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INTERNATIONAL
117 A in f IT J C n I y
W If nfl r. N ^ Il A I l
If Vlllbil U Villip
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By V. I. LENIN
The most important and the
chief task of Bolshevism and of
the Russian October revolution
consists precisely in drawing into
the process of government those
who were the most oppresed under
capitalism. In the bourgeois-dem-,
ocratic republics, as well as in tht
monarchies, the capitalist oppress,
betray and rob the working mass
es. This oppression, this betrayal,
this robbery of the power of the
people by the capitalists— these
are inevitable, as long as there ex
Lsts private property in land, fac
toms and shops; '
The essence of Bolshevism, the
essence of Soviet rule, consists in
the fact that the lies and hypocri
sy of the bourgeois democracy are
exposed, that private property in
land, in factories and in shops is
abolisbed, that the entire state
power is gathered in the hands of
the toiling and exploited masses.
They themselves, these masses,
from now on decide the policy,
that is, they take into their own
hands the building of the new so
ciety. That is a very difficult
task ; the masses are oppressed j
and downtrodden by capitalism,
are robbed of the free play of
their powers; but there is and can
he no other way out of wage slav
ery, out of the slavery of capital
ism. '
. . . . And these masses can in
RO wa y be drawn into the exercise
0 f power unless women are also
drawn into power, for the female
half of mankind is doubly oppres
sed under capitalism. The women
worker and the woman peasant
bear the yoke of capitalism and
have not even "equal rights" in
the most democratic of the bour
geois republics, for the law does
not give them the same rights as
men; secondly, and this is the
chief point, they bear also the
chairs of "household slavery,
They remain "household slaves"
f or there presses upon them the
yoke of the pettiest, dirtiest, heav
i €s t slavery, they are chained to
that work which most of all dead
j ens and dulls human beings—
'housework and kitchen work; and
the burden of individual house
keeping chains them to the spot.
The Bolsheviks, the proletarian
revolution of tfce Soviets, have
hacked away the roots of the op
pression and inequality of women
as no other Party and no other
revolution in the world has dared
to do. There remains in the law
of Soviet Russia no faintest trace
of the lack of equality with men
in civil rights. The especially de
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grading, subtle, hypocritical in
equality in marriage and family
rights, inequality in relation to
the children—these have been
completely abolished by the Soviet
republic.
This is only the first step to
i wards the emancipation of women,
Yet not one of the bourgeois, not
j one of the most democratic of the
; republics, baa dared to take even
■ this first step, it has not dared to
j do so because of its awe before
! sacred "private property.
The second and most important
step consists in the abolition of
private property in land, in the
factories and shops. In this way,
and only in this way, will the path
be opened for the complete and
real emancipation of women, for
their liberation from "household
slavery," by means of the transi
tion from individual household ec
onomy to collective economy.
This transition is difficult. For
it is a matter here of overcoming
the deepest-rooted, the most tra
ditional. and best-supported "order
of thing®," in order to show the
truth: degradation and barbarity,
but no "order." But this transi
tion has already been begun, the
wheels have been put In motion,
we have set our feet upon the
path.
h
new
And on International Women's
the horrible brutality Japan
"fortunately there was no wind and
*the flames did not menace the In
ternational Settlement,
imperialists are satisfied if the
Japanese imperialists- use fire and
All the
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sword to crush the Chinese masses
so I cn K as there is 110 danger for
capitalist agents involved.
Despite this brutal desolation
spread by the Japanese the Chin
ese army has taken up new pori
tions several mile® to the rear of
Lhe old defenses. After st andmg
the attack of all the Japanese
forces and finally bemg forced out
hy superior forces they have tak
nev, \ positions to continue tn®
determined straggle against the
Japanese imperialists who would
wreak thruout China the same
desolation they have wreaked out
in Chapei and in Manchuria,
The spirit of these soldiers is
summed up in the words of one of
their leaders, "Far from ending
thu battle, it » just beginning."
This is the spirit with which the
Chinese workers and peasants
thruout China are rallying behind
the Chinese Red Army and the
Chinese Soviets for an accounting
not only with the Japanese im
perialists but with all of the im
perialist butchers and exploiters,
About 340,000 workers have
been thrown out of their jobs in
the city of Shanghai as a result of
the destruction of 930 factories
an d workshops by the Japanese in
Waders in Shanghai. In the Inter
national Settlement about fifty
percent of the shops are closed,
Of the 340,000 workers thrown out
of employment, 200,000 are fac
tory workers and 140,000 are han
dicraft workers. A total of 600,
000 workers and members of their
families have been driven from
the Chapei and the Y angstepoo
districts thru the brutal murder
ous attack of the Japanese troops.
These 600,000 members of the
toiling masses have been left tu
starve. Tens of thousands have
been murdered. Hundreds of
thousands have been made desti
tute and left to starve. This is
the program of attack on the toil
ing masses that is supported by
the Hoover Wall Street govern
ment.
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BULLETIN
Hamburg, Feb. 28.—The win
dows of the Japanese Omsulate
in this city -were smashed by in
dignant workers protesting the
robber war against China and
tihe war provocation® by the
Japanese imperialists against
the Soviet Union. The demon
stration took place on February
11. The stones used were wrap
ped in leaflets protesting a
gainst the imperialist slaugh
ter in China and expressing sol
idarity with the Chiiese Soviets.
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Day, numerous meetings of wom
en, in all countries of the world,
will greet Soviet Russia, which
has begun the unbelievably diffi
cult, but great, enormously great
work of the real liberation of
women. Stirring appeals will be
heard not to lose courage in face
of the threatening and terrible
bourgeois reaction. For the more
"free" and "democratic" a bour
geois country is, the more fierce
ly do the capitalists threaten the
rebellious workers. An example
of this is given by the democratic
republic of the United States of
America. But the mass of work
ers has already awakened. The
imperialist war has awakened both
in Europe and in America, as well
as in backward Asia, the slumber
ing masses.
In all ends of the earth, the
ice has been broken. The libera
tion of the peoples from the yoke
of imperialism, the freeing of the
proletarian men and women from
the yoke of capitalism goes on
unceasingly. Hundreds of mil
lions of proletarian men and wom
en from the yoke of capitalism
goes on unceasingly. Hundreds of
millions of proletarian men and
women, peasant men and peasant
women, carry the revolution for
ward. And for this reason the lib
eration of labor from the chains
of capitalism must be victorious
all over the world.