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ON THE LEFT … C. B. R. Fishing in Troubled Waters. Com- munists are trying to make Red capital out of the farm crisis. The National Farm Commission of the Communist Party, USA, has published its decision in a pamphlet titled “The Farm Crisis,” which presents some novel methods of solution, namely: 1) “We have no business in China or Indo-China or Korea.” 2) ”The danger of McCarthy- ism-fascism-can be defeated when workers, farmers, and others, realize that Communism is not the issue today or in the near future, and resist all efforts to curb democratic liberties.” 3) “Production p.ayments … to guar- antee at least 100 per cent parity on all farm commodities”-a direct road to .financial bankruptcy. 4) “Democrat- ically-elected farmer committees”- no doubt on the order of Soviet democracy. 5) “the abolition of all Congressional witch-hunt commit- tees.” 6) Repeal of “the Smith Act. McCarran Act, the Communist Con- trol Act, and the McCarran-Walter Act.” 7) “Trade between West and East in farm products.”

The Party is now mobilizing its forces in the agricultural areas. A new Iowa unit of the National Farmers Union was recently established in Des Moines under Fred W. Stover, presi- dent. This chapter had been kicked out of the Nation.al Farmers Union in 1954. Archie Wright of the Farmers Union of New York has appeared before the Senate Agricultural Com- mittee. He was a speaker at the Communist Party convention held at the St. Nicholas Arena in New York City beginning June 24, 1936. The three-day convention of th.e Michigan Farmers Union, held at Scot- ville, has demanded repeal of the Smith Act and the McCarran-Walter immigration law.

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ON THE LEFT … C. B. R. Fishing in Troubled Waters. Com- munists are trying to make Red capital out of the farm crisis. The National Farm Commission of the Communist Party, USA, has published its decision in a pamphlet titled “The Farm Crisis,” which presents some novel methods of solution, namely: 1) “We have no business in China or Indo-China or Korea.” 2) ”The danger of McCarthy- ism-fascism-can be defeated when workers, farmers, and others, realize that Communism is not the issue today or in the near future, and resist all efforts to curb democratic liberties.” 3) “Production p.ayments … to guar- antee at least 100 per cent parity on all farm commodities”-a direct road to .financial bankruptcy. 4) “Democrat- ically-elected farmer committees”- no doubt on the order of Soviet democracy. 5) “the abolition of all Congressional witch-hunt commit- tees.” 6) Repeal of “the Smith Act. McCarran Act, the Communist Con- trol Act, and the McCarran-Walter Act.” 7) “Trade between West and East in farm products.”

The Party is now mobilizing its forces in the agricultural areas. A new Iowa unit of the National Farmers Union was recently established in Des Moines under Fred W. Stover, presi- dent. This chapter had been kicked out of the Nation.al Farmers Union in 1954. Archie Wright of the Farmers Union of New York has appeared before the Senate Agricultural Com- mittee. He was a speaker at the Communist Party convention held at the St. Nicholas Arena in New York City beginning June 24, 1936. The three-day convention of th.e Michigan Farmers Union, held at Scot- ville, has demanded repeal of the Smith Act and the McCarran-Walter immigration law.