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PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA FRIDAY APRIL 22, 1932.
Admit Soviet Forces are Defensive
IE EXPOSES FAKE PROSPERITY
PLAN OF WISE. COUNTY AGENTj
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County Agent of Iron County Brings Soecialist to Get
^ ' Destitute Farmer« tr> rL
L 1 sluule r armers to Kaise Lggs
;
By SOPHIE MUTANEN ,
Van Buskirk, Wis., April 11— ]
The Iron County, county agent
called a meeting of the farmers
April 7th bringing along with
him from Madison a specialist on
raising poultry. As Iron county
is the one part of Wisconsin whose
main item is not poultry farming
here to tell the farmers
they were
what a great item poultry raising
at present, and in general
might relieve the discouragement
of the farmers. Now that outside 1
work besides farming is scarcer 1
the county agent wagered that [
poultry farming itself would be a
great outlet for killing time. It
would keep the people in a good
mood, working along with the in
duttrious birds, and thus while thr
depression is on they would be
able to educate themselves and
study so when better times come
flying they could then fill that va
cant pocketbook this crisis has
flattened out.
The specialist as usual spoke a
bout the industrious type of bird,
The farmer could at least bear in
mind while raising eggs for his
own family and selling a few to
keep him in pocket cash, that life
itself is not so hard after all.
When the floor was opened for
discussion, many farmers took the
floor and told what they thought
of poultry farming with eggs hit
ting the market at 10c per dozen,
They saw no reason on earth why
these parasites wanted them to
raise poultry when eggs Were way
below the price that it costs the
farmer to produce them.
The idea of the County Agent
and the specialist was to hypno
tize the farmers into believing
that good times were behind the
door and prosperity was lurking
around the corner. Comrades, the
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MINN, UR LOCAL PROTESTS
NEW FISH AND GAME ORDER
Veterans of Foreign Wars Attempt to Expel Militant
Member of United Farmers League
By BRUCE N. TAYLOR
Palisdale, Minn., April 11.—The j
roads here are, in poor shape due j
to the frost going out, so our last i
regular meeting was not as well
attended as usual.
The demands and protests of the
U, P. L. finally foced the "Aitkin
Republican" to publish the resoiu
CHARLES E. TAYLOR
WILL SPEAK AT 11
MEETINGS IN MINN.
*
The organization tour which.
Comrade Charles E. Taylor has
been conducting in Koochiching
County, Minn., has been very sue
cessful thus far. Many member
ships have been secured for the
United Farmers League and many
subscriptions have been obtained
for the Producers News. In the
ten-day period, May 2-12, Comrade
Taylor will cover the rest of the
county in his tour.
The dates* for these meetings
are as follows:
May 2 —Wildwood, Hans Ettestad's
Place
May 3—Northome, City Hall
May 4—Mizpah
May 5—Margie
May 6 —Sturgeon River
May 7—Town of Henry, town hall
May 8—Cingmars, town hall
May 9—Dentaybow
May 10 —Indus
May U —Birchdale
May 12 —Beaver townshie
The meetings will
P- m. Any changes in the sched
ule will be given in next week's
Assue of the Producers News.
at 2:00
Tav TY«,i: *
1 ax delinquencies
In Oregon Increase
Tax delinquencies in the vari
ous counties of Oregon increased
from 16.76 per cent on March 1,
1931 to 29.57 per cent on March 1,
1932. This represented an aver
a ?e increase of 13.82 per cent for
lue past year.
RAIN TODAY
,^|| e high wind that has prevail
' the greater portion of the past
eek resulting in considerable
aniage in fields brought a fine
tn ln Di ear ly morning (Friday)
, ^mtywood and vicinity. The
• N is still overcast and the wind
ntinues to blow but the »great
owy dust clouds have disap
K round has been
S J* a ud the rain comes at
me when needed altho very little
n ° Smin has been planted.
county agent is nothing but a par
asite to us farmers and steps must !
he taken to liquidate him. The far
mers must be shown that the
county agent is of no use to them,
but on the conrary nothing but
harmful. It is up to the cöunty
agen t to report regularly to the
state officials of the farmers con
ditions. With the reports they lay
heavier tax burdens on the on
pressed farmer. *
The County Agent does all in
his power to get our children to
function in the 4-H Clubs, etc., in
order to keep them from organfz
ing into their own class ranks
with the Young Pioneers and the
UFL youth sections,
The co-operators organization
that the county agent asked the
farmers to join must be some sort
of offspring of the bosses. How
ever, none of the farmers took ad
vantage of the chance of joining
it. This, however, would have
been different had not the
hers of the United Farmers League
participated in this meet and un
covered the fake schemes of these
bankers' tools,
i the fact that there is no prosper!
jty behind the corner for us. W
1 must join the United Farmers
League and get active in the des
perate struggle that confronts us
Certainly no relief can be secured
by the Seed Loans the county ag
ent brings forward. We must or
ganize and in masses begin to de
mand immediate relief and no*
charity. Tbs U. F. L. is the only
organization that carries on the
| struggle of the poor oppressed
j farmers, and no matter how much
| petty talk the county agent and
his like give us it is only true
deeds that show the farmer there
is something behind it after all.
mem
Farmers, we must wake up to
irions adopted by the Waukenabo
Tax League for which it "couldn't
find room" for two issues, though
its Easter edition had almost two
pages of church news. The "Ait
kih Republican" is the official pa
per in the county and has had the
printing contracts the major part
0 f the time which probably
counts for its lack of space for
"radical" demands of the farmers.
ac
Resolution were passed endors
ing the Soldiers' Bonus and de
manding that preparation for war
cease and the moneys be used in
paying the Soldiers' Bonus and to
provide food and clothes for the
unemployed workers and poor far
mers.
A resolution was passed endors
ing a letter written by the execu
tive Secretary to Gov. Floyd B. Ol
demanding that the order of
son,
the game and fish commissioner,
forbidding the spearing of suckers
and other rough fish, be rescind
ed. The letter caller his atten
tion to the fact that the fire war
dens were being furnished pianos
by the conservative commission
and to other abuses by the game
and fire wardens in illegally tak
ing prisoners long distances for
trial, to places where they have
stool-pigeon justices of the peace
and demanding that these prac
tices cease at once.
A resolution was passed de
manding that a mainstreeter ex
tend the contract of A. F. Gray
for one year without interest, as
conditions over which Mr. Gray
had no eaaM had made it impos*
j s ibi e to meet the terms of the
contract for purchase of the farm.
This same mainstreeter had at
the last meeting of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars attempted to
have the Executive Secretary of
the United Farmers League read
out of the V, F. W. upon charges
of Communist activity. Upon hav
ing his attention called to the fact
that the V. F W. is no a religious
or political organization and bad
no religious or political require
ments for membership and that
•; d i d not fore
swear any constitutional right,
those who had sought to ha™ the
executive secretary of tne U. F.
fired from the V. P. W. were very
apologetic but a reoccurrence
the spasm is expected at the May
meeting' for which everyone con
kerned ? will be prepared.
a
upon joining one
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jwith it a continued drop in the
wa 8 es of the agricultural workers.
From January Ï to April 1 there
wag a drop four per !
drop is even greater than indicat
ed since during this period there
is usually an advance in wages
paid to agricultural workers. In
the five years prior to 1931 there
was an advance of from 3.2 to 6.8
points from January 1 to April 1
with the average increases in the
five years 1926-1931 amounting to
4.7 per cent.
The decline in wages has result
ed from the continued increase in
the supply of agricultural workers.
The "supply as expressed as a per
centage of demand on April 1 was
193.4 per cent." This means in
other words that for every job
available on the farms there were
two workers without jobs.
SHARP DROP IN
FARM WAGES IS
UNPRECEDENTED
FARM PRICES DROP
THIRTY PERCENT
IN TWELVE MONTHS
WALL ST. TARIFF WIDENS
GAP BETWEEN FARMERS'
SALES AND PURCHASES
The decline in the prices of farm
products continues steadily after
the slight hesitation in March.
Wholesale market prices of farm
products which had risen from 71
per cent of the pre war level on
Feb. 15 to 72 per cent .on March 15
fell by April 2 to 69. At this lat
ter level they were 33 per cent
lower than a year ago.
The prices actually received by
the farmers for their goods are
30 per cent lower than a year ago.
On March 15th, these prices were
at 61 per cent of the pre war level
and by the early part of April had
declined somewhat further.
The prices of the commodities
which the farmer has to buy, were
is
which the farmer has to buy, were
according to the figures of the
Hoover government itself, still at
117 per cent of the pre-war level.
As a result of this there has been
a sharp decline in the relative ex
change value of farm products
during the past year.
During the early part of April
the relative exchange value of,
farm products, that is the value j
of farm products related to the
value of the products the farmers
have to buy, was at 52 per cent
of the pre-war level as compared
with 68 per cent a year ago. This
shows a decline of about twenty
five per cent in the exchange
value of the farmers products re
lated to the commodities which he
has to buy. While the prices of
his products have been sliding
down the tobaggon, the prices of
the commodities which he has to
buy have been kept up by the
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FLOOD IRRIGATION
REVEALED AS WORK
OF COUNTY AGENT
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to
of
Don't that sound good to some
of you farmers; "At the request of
Sheridan county commissioners
JÏ»
the ^ end , , % y
L». Commissioner Carl Han
gen heard abqut it, he was
of prised and sa id that he knew ab
1 solutely nothing about it. Nothing
con- had been said to him about it. He
further stated that the county
SHERIDAN COUNTY FARMERS
ARE UNABLE TO FIND
EVIDENCES OF WORK
The following news item is clip
ped from a Great Falls paper:
BOZEMAN, April 17.— E. G.
Ferguson, county extension agent
in Sheridan èounty since 1928, has
resigned to accept a position with
the Farmers' Seed Loan office of
Minneapolis, according to J. C.
Taylor, director of the Montana
extension service. In his new
work, Ferguson will be in charge
of field work in southern Montana.
At the request of the Sheridan
county commissioners, the assist
ant agent, Edwin Austvold, has
been appointed to fill out Fergu
son's unexpired term which ends
July 1. Austvold will continue the
extension program organized by
Ferguson, which includes for this
year emphasis on flood irrigation,
club work, crop standardization
and the more pressing problems of
locating and distributing seed sup
plies.
Flood irrigation has been one of
the major points in Ferguson's
and many farmers al
program
ready started on private projects
will have the work completed this
spring, according to Director Tay
lor.
sur
Miss. Share Croppers
Strike Again§ [^Misery
_ ,, .
VICKSBURG, Miss. —
against their state of virtual aLv
ery, 19 Negro families, numoenug ;
9a persons, share-croppers of
Holmes county, Miss., have packed
U P their belonging and left thclpers,
plantations.
Thi share croppers arc on strike
against working for "furnish"—
that is > receiving no 'money, but
onl >* the rotten food, worn-out
clothing and weather-beaten shel
ter that the boss class of Missis
£i PPi bas been throwing in their
faces.
' Vhen the 93 croppers moved
from their cabins on the planta
^ ons the yard of a Negro
church in Jerusalem, Miss., the
Holmes County Health Depart
ment came to the aid of the la nd
lords and ordered the croppers to
disband. The croppers refused to
budge an inch from the yard. The
health department is therefore ■
commissioners' proceedings would
show where Mr. Ferguson's term
expired May 1, and not July 1, as
stated.
To most farmers of Sheridan
county it has always been a mys
tery just what our county ag-enl
was doing. We know it now. This
clipping tells the story. "FLOOD
IRRIGATION." That's what Mr.
Ferguson had done for us all these
years, and we didn't know any
thing about it. Even after v/?
know what he did, none of us are
able to find just where he did it.
We have been told this new man
was sent here to straighten up Mr.
Ferguson's business and will only
stay a few days. We hope this
rumor is correct
OUTLOOK UFL
GROWS IN INTEREST
A rousing U. F. L. meeting took
place in Outlook Friday evening,
April 15th. More and more farm
ers and their families are turning
out to these meetings. The farm
ers are beginning to realize that
"a strong back and a weak mind
is not bringing results," and find
this is the place to congregate and
talk things over, and participate
in .the social side of life, altogeth
er too much neglected in the past.
After the business meeting was
over, a program that was a credit
to any community, was presented.
.
Guitar, mandolin and violin mu
'sic was rendered, also songs con
sisting of solos, duets and quar
tette was enjoyed by the crowd.
Four readings were presented.
A very interesting letter from
DEMONSTRATE MAY DAY IN
PLENTYWOOD FOR DEFENSE
OF THE SOVIET UNION
Mass Meeting Called for Farmer-Labor Temple
Sunday, May First, 2 P, M.
A May Day mass meeting will be held in Plenty
wood on May first as part of the world-wide demon
strations on that day against the imperialist war
preparations and for the defense of the Soviet
Union. Each day brings additional evidence of the
preparations of the capitalist countries for the at*
tack on the Soviet Union, The Japanese imperialists
are the spearhead of all the imperialist forces. Their
invasion of Manchuria and ruthless bombardment
of Shanghai was carried thru with the agreement of
the other imperialist powers because they saw in
this the opening beginning of the armed attack on
the Soviet Union, the only workers and farmers gov
ernment.
The struggles of the Wall Street bankers about
the Japanese invasion of Manchuria has been
around the question of which of them should head
the anti-Soviet war front of all of the imperialists,
which of the mâhould reap the greatest loot from
the crushing of the Chinese masses and the attack
on the Soviet Union.
These bankers and their agents are the very ones
who exploit the farmers of the county. Those who
would lead the armed attack on the Soviet Union
are the ones who have robbed the small and middle
farmers thru every possible means. They are the
ones who now decree that those farmers who cannot
pay their taxes and interest would be evicted from
their homes.
The May Day mass meeting which will be held at
the Farmer Labor Temple will rally the farmers of
Sheridan county in solidarity with the workers and
farmers thruout the United States and thruout the
entire world AGAINST THE IMPERIALIST WAR
DANGER AND FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE
SOVIET UNION. ALL OUT TO THE FARMER
LABOR TEMPLE, MAY 1, 2 P.
This mass meeting is called und. r the auspices of
the United Farmers League, the Cjimraiist Party,
the Young Communist League and * le Young Pio
neers of America.
„ _ . . , .
" ln plaln
jEnglish, rMjITOng^m.
Facts which have come to light
in connection with this strike
show the extent to which the crop
especially the Negro crop
ipors, are being crushed by the
landlords. In Holmes County, 4,
910 of the total of 5,000 farms are
worked by Negro farmers. But
of this total, only 472 fams are
owned by Negroes, and only 265
others have the Negro farm ten
ants received any cash for their
labor. Fully 65 per cent of the
Negro farm tenants in this sec
tion have been working for "fur
nish"—that is, they have been the
virtual slaves of the plantation
owners, working for food and
clothing just as the slaves did ^
the pre-Civil War day.
A Croppers' Union was recently
started in the farming neighbor
hood around Charlotte.
the Pioneer director of North Da
kota was read.
Hans Rassmussen gave a speech
explaining that no matter what
your religion might be or what
nationality happens to be yours, it
does not conflict with being a
member of the United Farmers
Mr. Rassmussen ex
League.
plained that the U. F. L. is an
organization for the purpose of
bettering conditions for the farm*
ers.
After the program, the Garrick
brothers and Wunderlich boys fur
nished the music for the dance. ,
Guests brought lunch and the
League furnished coffee.
On account of work progressing
in the field the next meeting will
not be held until Saturday, May
14th.
MAY DAY BUTTONS
ARE NOW READY
The new May Day Button, is
sued by the Communist Party, is
ready for shipment and distribu
tion. The button carries the main
slogans of the Party: FIGHT A
GAINST IMPERIALIST WAR,
DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION.
Orders should be sent in at once
for immediate shipment, and sales
should be begun among all work
ers organizations; unions, clubs,
leagues, fraternal organizations,
etc. The cost is 2c per button,
and cash should accompany all or
ders.
FIVE MAY DAY
DEMONSTRATIONS
IN N. DAK., MONT.
Five May Day demonstrations
will be held in North Dakota and
Montana to rally the toiling farm
masses of these states for the
fight against the imperialist war
and for the defense of the Soviet
Union. On Saturday, April 30, a
mass meeting will take place at
the Dover Hall in Bonetrail, North
Dakota, under the auspices of
the United Farmers League at
8 p. m. Demonstrations and mass
meetings will take place in Minot,
Williston, Forbes, Portal, North
Dakota and in Plentywood, Mon
tana, on May 1.
TEXAS LAND BANK
SALES MEAN MORE
LOOT FROM MASSES
BANK PUSHES LAND SALES
TO NON-FARMERS AS MORE
FARMERS LOSE LAND
Because of the fact that 77 per
cent of their sales have been to
non-farmers, officers of the Hous
ton Federal Land Bank stated
that, "We believe that the land
market is in the strongest position
it has been for a number of
years." Of the land which has
been sold in 1931 only 23 per cent
was sold to farmers, the remain
der 1 » city or town dwellers, é
The reasons for this as given by
the Land Bank, are;
"During the. last few years re
turns on farm investments hava
not been satisfactory when com
pared with almost any other form
of security, but almost all invest
ments have proved a disappoint
ment and it now appears that
there is a feeling among invest
ors that land, selling at present
levels, offers the safest and most
satisfactory security."
What this actually means is that
,
is
thousands of
are
and small businessmen who have
been driven out of business,
using their last savings to find
some security from the terrors of
the crisis on the farms.
During 1931 there were 191
sales for $521,771
with 104 sales for $391,500 in 1930.
The Federal Land Bank is forced
to admit, however, that during
1931, about which it talks so much,
"ACQUIREMENTS EXCEEDED
SALES.
as compared
I
In order words, at the
very time when the Federal Land
Bank was enticing non-farmers on
to the farms,
more farms from small and mid
dle farmers than it was selling to
non-farmers.
it was acquiring
The acquisition by
non-farmers of farms from which
small and middle farmers had been
evicted means that the Federal
Land Bank is now going to expro
priate these new owners of their
éittle savings.
ERICKSON REPLIES
TO RESOLUTION ON
CO. ROAD WORK
STATE WILL BE UNABLE TO
SELL DEBENTURES AND
NO WORK IS IN SIGHT
The resolution, passed at the U.
F. L. mass meeting demanding
that Federal Aid road work should
be given to the county at estimat
ed cost, was mailed to Governor
Erickson, the State Highway Com
mission, and our County Commis
sioners.
The reply from Governor Erick
son has been received and is print
ed below. From his letter you
will see where they do not expect
to be able to sell their debenture
bonds. These bonds are backed up
by our gasoline tax, which should
be as poor a guaranty as there is.
Still, they don't think they
sell them. It shows how the whole
system is collapsing in the State
as well as in the counties—and
still, some are yet looking for
prosperity around the comer un
der our present system.
can
STATE OF MONTANA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Helena
April 15, 1932.
Mr. Hans Rasmussen,
Plentywood, Montana.
My dear Mr. Rasmussen:
I am in receipt of your favor of
April 12, containing copy of reso
lutions passed by the farmers and
workers of Sheridan county asking
for employment on State high
ways.
I have called the attention of
the Highway Commission to these
resolution and have urged them to
do everything possible in the way
of giving employment on roads to
local farmers and workers.
I In view of the fact that it ia
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400 WHITE GUARDS
ATTEMPT PROVOKE
RED ARMY ATTACK
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Attack Soviet Railroad Manager of Chinese Eastern
Railway In Harbin
Japanese Imperialists Use White Guards to Instigate
Attack on Soviet Union
The attack of 400 White Guards on the offices of the
Chinese Eastern Railway, in which the Soviet manager
of the railway was also attacked, is a deliberate attempt
on the part of the White Guard agents of the imperialists
to incite the imperialist attack on the Soviet Union. This
attack oH the Chinese Eastern Railway offices was car
ried on with the full knowledge, if not at the direct insti
gation, of the Japanese imperialists who are in control of
the city and who could not plead ignorance of an attack
of 400 White Guards in the heart of the city.
In preparation for the direct attack on the Soviet Union, the foreign
office of the Japanese imperialists in Tokio gave out a statement to
the effect that if a clash occurred between the Soviet Union and the
imperialists, the Soviet Union would be the cause of it.
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to
of
Even the
statement given out by the Japanese foreign office, tho, shows the de
fensive nature of the Soviet
forcements which have been sent j
into eastern Siberia. J
The foreign office statement j
read in part as follows:
"The exuerts assert the dispo
sitions clearly indicate the Rus
sians are expecting a clash with
Japan. Although they arc of a
defensive nature, they are cap
able also of assuming the offeh
' sive."
The foreign office has added the|
statement that the forces of the
fensive character in order to cov
er up its own admission that the
Soviet Union could assume an of-;
Soviet forces are essentially of à
defensive character. The foreign
office statement further reveals
the reasons for the attack on the
Soviet manager of the Chinese
Eastern Railway.
"We don't believe a clash is
imminent," it said "and __ unless
Soviet Russia sends troops into
Manchuria there is no reason
to be alarmed,
have no intention of attacking
-Russia and we do not believe
Russia would be so rash as to
challenge Japan."
We certainly
The Japanese imperialists,
their White Guard agents, are at-1
tempting to provoke the Soviet
Union by these vicious attacks in
to sending troops into Manchuria,
so that the imperialists could have
a "legitimate" excuse for the at
tack on the Soviet Union.
Open war threats against the
Soviet Union were made recently
by high Japanese gdVemment of
ficials in both Tokyo and Man
churia.
Seizing on the dynamiting by
insultent Chinese troops of
Japanese troop train in Manchu
ria as a convenient pretext for
further advancing the program of
the infamous Tanaka Document
for a robber war against the So
viet Union, Japanese officials, in
cluding Minister of War Araki,
brazenly attempted to connect the
Soviet Government with the dyna
miting of the troop train. A Tokyo
dispatch to the New York Herald
U WORKERS AM) FARMERS AT
COMMUMST PARTY SCHOOL
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Students At Minneapolis Appeal for Support for School !
Training Them for Leadership
MINNEAPOLIS,
1932 district training school of the
Communist Party opened at the
Workers Cultural Center on Mon
day, April 11th with 23 students
enrolled. It is a real proletarian
school with young workers from
the mining sections of northern
Minnesota and Michigan, and from
the farms, cities, factories of
these sections and of Wisconsin
and North Dakota.
The importance of the school to
te the workers was brought out
clearly at a reception given the
students the Sunday preceding the
opening. A student who is a
member of the National Miners
Union declared that even the min
ers that are working are slowly
starving, that their wages have
been slashed to $20 to $50 a
month. Another student who is a
Minn. — The
rein-*
Tribune quotes
ces aS follows:
1
the Japanese sour
"Reports from the Chang
chun, where the plot to blow up
the Shanghai bridge is being
investigated, hint that if evi
dence supports the assumption
that the scheme was fostered
by Russians, 'adequate measures
will be taken against the coun
try responsible.
"The evidence so far brought
out in the investigation is re
ported to indicate that 'a cer
tain osuntry is attempting to
embroil relations between Jap
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an and the new Manchurian
state. The plotters are said to }
have been promised a large re
ward if the attempt against the
railway bridge was successful.
5
Thus, the Japanese try to blame
the Soviet Union for conditions in
Manchuria which developed as a
direct and expected result of the
Japanese attempt to subjugate the
Manchurian masses by
butcheries of Manchurian workers
i
i
bestial
i
and peasants daring to resist the
Japanese invasion and conquest of
their country. And what is "the
evidence so far brought out?" The '
thru!Tokyo dispatch says of the at :
tempt to blow up the bridge:
1
•"'Electric wiring devices dis- '
covered on the span were said ]
to be too ingenious to., be., the
work of Manchurian bandits."
General Sadao Araki. Japan
ese War Minister, is reported
by the dispatch as declaring
that the blowing up of the
bridge would be "investigated'
thoroughly, a!nd that "proper
steps will be taken upon the 1
result of the findings.
These threats have only one
interpretation. They are the di- •
rect prelude to an immediate arm
ed attack against the Soviet Uni
on! Japanese troops are already ?
massed on the Soviet borders! i f
Japanese troops are advancing •
through the Chiento district in •
Manchuria to within striking dis- • ■
tance of the Soviet port of Vladi
vostak.
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member of the United Farmen
League described the terribb
plight of the poor farmer. Mort
gage foreclosures, sheriff's sale; ;
are every day occurrences, bu
with a program of tax exemptions
no evictions, cancellation of al
debts, the League is organizinj ;
the farmers to fight for these de ' *
mands.
The comardes are learning _ ,
first hand from each other of th
struggles that are going on in th , '
various sections of the districl
These contacts are making ther ' i
realize keenly the solidarity o
their interests, and that by unite ,,
struggle only can their immédiat ! !
demands be forced through
capitalism overthrown.
Each of the students has bee !
assigned to units in Minneapoli : ;
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