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FREDA UTLEY'S LIFE STORY.............FIFTH INSTALMENT
LOST ILLUSION
J
the
paring to sponsor super-in- OGPU guards and treated like was almost certain to be worse tion, enough
dustrialisation, collectivisa- the slaves of Pharaoh or of aut tion, liquidation of the Asiatic lyrant. Kulaks, and savage coercion of the peasantry,
Arrest Of Kulaks
than today.
Bring the prices down closer 80 that I can look at thom without hurting my oyos and my pocket
THIS SLOGAN HAS SAVED A SLUMP
By VINCENT EVANS
years over. Now I can afford to tako good years with bad."
is
And that is the point. There scarcely a farmer In the whole vost Mid-West who is now in, debt as a result of his For in the past. farming. every slump has been preceded by drop in farm prices.
Of every seven dollars of tho national income one dollar goes 10 the farmer. When ho it looked as though he slumped everyone slumped, And slumping to rock bottom this time.
Yankton, South Dakota. YEAR ago I jumped into a little plane at Brussels Airport with a package under my arm, It contained a precious bottle of perfume. The tail-conted man who sold it to me on the Boulevard d'Anvers produced it on a black-velveted platter, baw ing and praising my taste. At London Alrpori the Customs officer handled the cut-
Now that the American glass bottle with affectionate farmer is out of debt he is care. It was rare, beautiful, and gambling with his own money- exolic.
and it makes a difference.
was
eye on Mr
The other day, when I walked
Knocking Loudly into drugstore in this little Mid-West South Dakotan cow- DUT keep a wory boy town, where Sioux Indians American Farmer, and the come down from the reserva- tions to do their shopping, there other on the American Indus-
trialists. on the counter was a similar
I saw Down in Washington bottle of perfume-gum on one them knocking pretty loudly on side of it,
Hoffman
on the and a pressure cooker Prul Hoffman's floor.
Is director of Marshall aid, and And there it will stay with its just lately he has been letting fantastle price tag. There, too, some of these farmers in to sco will stay the three-guinea Ent- him. I have talked with n lish pipe and the 54-guinea couple of thousand of them in English bristle hairbrush. Life Des Moines in Iowa-and they has passed them by....
talk fast and persuasive.
ກ
Touch and go
.
IN fortnight of near panie, an
J.
boys.
First it was the boys from the Catton Eelt who buttonholed Hoffman in a quiet corner. They had more collon than they could era came to an end in the handle. So they wanted to
of tinited States. Prices all dump it in Europe under Mar- children were machinery imporis, Butter
vital goods went scampering shell alt. TN July 1928, Stalin was and bables-were thrown out of state, and their
allowed to go to
exis school, and
disappeared, being
Next came the sugar still insisting that in their homes, their personal pos- not
Meat, and down-beef, wheat, cotton, pork, sessions seized and event their Thus Stalin used the technique dumped abroad,
clothing, shoes, and the rest. Un- Then they came down from the focussing hatred even herring, became dividual cultivation of warm clothing torn ulf of them, of artificially
coal- are employment hit a new postwar wheatlands. Then the luxury. the fand must be supported, Then, packed! Into unheated on the innocent.
The fitter boys jumped miners went in. They have ail high Foreign visitors. carefully
fot surpluses
want And they and collectivisntion would eattle cars In winter, they were
The Russlan pensant sank shepherded by Intourist, and
For a few days it was touch them officially declared surplus. be a mistake. But by Octo- sent off to Siberia or other wante
further into slothfulness and lyen huge meals in the hotels ber Stalin hud reversed him- parts of the Soviet Union,
hopelessness. Since to raise of the starving land, went home and go. A coreless push could For under the terms of Mar- self and Bucharin, Rykov, Women and children perished, himself above the level of his to deny the rumours of famine. have sent the economy toppling, shall old goods umetally declared
Stalin's
us in the 1930s. But the reckless surplus can no longer be pur- was now ac-
utter ruthlessness thousands Hundreds
of beasts of burden of
other country chased from any and Tomsky were being con-
crime against the won the day. The resistance of hands were caught in the act
dolbrs. And peasants were herded off to the counted demned as bourgeois liberals timber prison
in
as little the state. he worked camps
as the peasants was broken. Since and held. The "great American with American
slump" merchants have been what does that mean? they have known Unt desiring the restoration of Arctic regions, to die like les possible, and ate and drak 1832
means that Britain cannot they disappointed. he could without they will sturve unless
What bas happened? capitalism. Stalin was pre- from hunger, cold and exhaust whenever
The buy wheat from Canada without by quota taken morrow, which produce the
citizen
has realised American permission. And cach g labour, whipped by the thought of the
American zal. government and.
1 free man. to feed. them again that he is
time any commodity is declared selves. They have been forced!
If he does not want to pay the
surplus by the United States it to work terms. They have become serts
government's blackmail prices the shopkeeper means that Britain is no longer On the
sks, be just darned well won't. free to decide where she can buy who again.
So for a couple of weeks he has it. She must buy from America sat back and said: "Bring the
or ask permission to shop else- prices down closer so that I can
where. look at them without hurting my Now take this surplus argu-
Tho ment back to the shops. RY 1035, forces were pulling eyes and my pocket."
The shopkeeper did not take American housewife called the Elussie back to individual
First he held traders' bluff and refused to pay farming and private property. him seriously.
New
Year sales. They failed, the prices demanded. The pro- The peasants were given perle turned them into Valentine ducers cried "Disaster." City workers sent to cocrve mission to sell any produce they sales. Trade perked. And now
But there has been no disaster. the peasants and manage the could spare from their own sub- collectives took far more wages, alstence after the government had prices
he is cutting his losses, and sale And now Europe seems to be the, have become normal obvious dumping ground. Many motives--fanatical faith, than the Kulaks had ever taken collected its very large gument prices. cultivating large
It was not only the and cultivate a small allotment revenge-played as profit.
It has been free enterprise horrible Kulaks who were expropriated, of ground to grow vegetables, massacre of the innocents by exiled or Imprisoned. Except fruit and a little grain. The working like a dandy plece of for the first time famine and the Bring squad: for the
landless peasant was also allowed to own clockwork minority of
a goat. On since the war. collec a pig, a cow or 1928, bread Jews who remembered old peasants, all regarded
this allotment he can work enrds were introduced. unem pogroms, workers who had suf- tivisation as expropriation.
The wounds after hours for his own benefit. ployment increased, and rent fered wider the Cossack whips
Bilter experience has taught wages fell. Fored buying-from--in-Tsarist times, gave vent-to War-On-Peasants-
him he cannot raise his standard the peasants at an unremunera- dusty and dim hatreds sanctifed
ORDERED by the state to pool of life, since for our govern
all their property and to give ment will in one way or an- deprive him of all to the Kolkhoz other everything up (collective farm), and faced profit of his labours. with exile to Siberia
with In the following years the all naturally spent slave labour in the concentra- peasants
they dured on cul- tivating the little personal plots
The Kulaks were holding the government to ransom; less and less food was procurable in the towns, and the workers began to suffer. Grain stocks were seized from the Kulaks and the middle- class peasants. Those they em- ployed found themselves with- out work, since the Kulaks saw no point in farms if the produce was to be confiscated.
By December
WH
The Soviet Government pass- ed laws penalising all worked hard and took thought WHEN the father of a Kulak for the morrow, Precisely those family was arrested, all peasants with the knowledge, industry to raise was con- sklil, and food in the house fiscated, down to the last suck Russian agriculture above of flour. The wife and children medieval level were liquidated. were left to starve to death. Mothers sometimes killed their babies to save them from linger- ing death by fanine.
{cor, sadism, thele role in
this
tive put did note taxes on under the banner of the class the Kulaks did not solve the war.
problem..
build I
or
its
Bitter Experience
1
Forecast
THESE dropping prices do not herald an imminent Ameri- con - or world depression. For these reasons;
bank and
the
to advances
traders farmers are well within THE result is that there are safety margin: a spending-pro- economic wounds being gramme of £15,000 million, and reasonable Take farmer that means more than Beked tonight. Seth Kissinger, out in snowed- employment; for the time being up Nebraska, He bough: 400 Marshall aid is bolstering indus- cattle a year ago. Today the tries which might be in trouble. "Honest Harry" And when price has dropped and Seth has lost £3,000,
Truman says "no slump," many That people feel it must be so.
But his comment is this: "For
Earnest young men and wo- Hid Their Grain men, perverted by orders given then by the Communist Party, THE peasants hid their grain convinced themselves that in de- tion camps if they refused, the the time
of their or refused to sow it, and mur- priving the peasants dered the Party functionaries last stores of food they were peasants lled their pigs, sheep of land. This budding of private eight years I have had the best is half of any economic battle.
and chickens, and ate socialist cowg who seized their crops. Coercion helping to
sold the
hides and enterprise was blighted by the them or Red army M and intimidation were linpractic society. OGPU and
ment for money, which could government by a series of de- able unless the peasants were aff
officers feared that if they were dilen. By 1934, the number crees in 1039.
absolutely merciless, they of horses in
These decrees declared that herded together like the workers not
was half the factories, Collective would be stabbed in the bark
into the farming was
therefore ordered on dark nights by desperate what it had been in. 1929, and the peasant's. private alloiment
the sheep and pigs less than had been converted
main source of income of the by decree-collectivisation with peasants.
half.
collective farmer.. Consequently only for equipment suitable
on the collective forms small-scale farming, with the
Stalln
caused the death of work object of getting all the peasants
ten million had been neglected. Ave and between together under the control of
peasants by starvation.
Bread Tax that they the secret police so could be forced to labour.
dered the liquidation of the
"in a
Class Warfare
the New Economic
Policy period, the state, encouraging
from
Russia
H
TODAY'S AMERICA
the Kuinks with one set of de- Russian morale has never re- crees to "get rich" by produes covered
those terrible ENCEFORTH the maximum ["ain't." Ing
discouraging years. The Communist Party size of individually WUB
more,
In order to stimulate
Three
class
on
owned
of
By NEWELL ROGERS
soled because they were made- NEW YORK
there. FOLLYWOOD resents a
And tonight Hollywood's charge that its highly cultured chiefs received a com-
are too cul plaint that they paid picture producers say
tured. A
cinema meeting of
to discover stay away proprietors called
from why people
"You're making pletures for the pictures told the producers: Broadway reviewers and phisticates, not for small-town folks who go to people, the the neighourhood local."
So
Also, Stalin simultaneously pensants), and Bedmalaki (poor
peasants). In villages where generation of Communists was the standard Inaugurated the Five Year Plan there was a dead level of pover- brutalised in youth by the Russian people, while increas to an art school. But the re- flour mills
75 themaining support
$0-
The accusation la made in In November 1929, Stalin or them by treating every pro and the Comsonels became the plots of land was strictly limit- Kulnks as a class, and the sperous pensent as a social cut- expropriators of the people-an ed, and a minimum number of a new Broadway play which Inciting the LogTer army of occupation in their own days set during which the vigorously satirises the film peasant must work on the chiefs. It says the picture establishment of collective forms cast and
country,
collective farms. Recalcitrant
"ain't" everywhere and for everyone, peasants against them. He had decided to solve the
The war the Russian peasants were threatened with makers are at the level of intelligence. agricultural problem
Hollywood digs into socialist sense by violence and warfare, the peasants were repentants was more brutalising expropriation and exile.
GREAT WHEAT in
classes- Alstered
than war against another nation,
40 have The net result of Stalin's statistics, Trie,
no AMID THE Kulaki, Seredniaki (middle-class for the peasants were unarmed
the reduction formal education. Two were surplus, Americans are cat- error,
and defenceless. The present socialism is
of living of the secondary schoolboys. One went ing less and less bread. Twenty But have closed. bonst University children are on a sweet spree. against lug taxation for industrial development. The
They can now buy three three- ty, the local Communists were, programme conducted
Communist bureaucrats, thedogrees.
bars for six- peasants were expected to work nevertheless; ordered to, and the peasants.
secret police and the Red Army. One Hollywood executive. penny chocolate practically nothing, since the Kulaks even where none existed,
Harry Colinha blography pence and as many Meanwhile the factory workers The income from, the brend tax
in "Who's Who", says he want. government could not supply
themselves The Soviet Government In- found
suffering bus been the largest item in with clothing and other
to Soviet went only of the
elementary revenue degree of the must almost as great a
IN THE LOBBIES of Congress re- Just been manufactures of prime necessity. sisted that each, village
Not
did Government. The peasants, like war.
only one Kulak elvil
Д shareholders by his produce at least
force but whispered de- Then began the wholesale family to be hated and oppress- Stalin's violent agurian policy the city workers, cut less and
clothed than pro- reduce food drustically murder of the Kulaks by the ed,
duced in Russia, his indus- were under the Tsor. Soviet state, unparalleled in
food history for its cruelty. I UFC These Kulaki had no electoral 'tralisation; plans caused
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and manufactures to bu 11- percent of the word deliberately. Whole rights, pald
miserable income to the parted from Russin' to pay for Continued Tomorrow), familles-men, women, children their
them
NANCY
KERE
WHAT'S
are worse
to
they
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By Ernie Bushmiller
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NOW DON'T FORGET TO LET
OUR OF STRING BUS FOR ?
RIDE ON
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ME OFF AT OAK
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BUS
TOP
BUSES
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schools-has
hired
As they
at a salary of £875 a week, bate rages: Does the fact that free in
plus a £75-u-week expense Senators get haircuts
account.
the Capitol barber's shop entitle Another producer sends his Senator Margaret Chase Smith shoes to England to be half- to free beauty services?
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