Word: collectivistic
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...abroad, using the gold received in exchange to buy foreign manufactured goods. Since foreign manufacturers will not take their pay in Russian rubles, the surplus grain which equals gold is vitally important; 2) During the past two years thousands of kulak estates have been confiscated and turned over to collectivist farm workers for intensive cultivation under the direct supervision of the State. It is now found that in 1929 these collective farms produced a greater export surplus than did the kulak farms in 1927; 3) Ergo, argued Stalin last week, the Government is no longer dependent upon the kulak...
...present, according to Dictator Stalin, the Government is still too dependent on the Nepman (Businessman) to exterminate him as a class. But Stalin served fair warning that this will be done as soon as the Government's collectivist industries reach a point of efficiency at which the businessman can safely be converted into the collectivist business worker...
...prevented British Manager J. D. W. Holmes of the Mexicano Railway from hiring strike breakers. Finally President Fortes Gil intervened and settled the strike by decreeing that: 1) The company shall pay employes their full wages for the period they were on strike; 2) The company must sign a "collectivist contract" with the men, within 45 days, giving them a voice in the administration of the railway. It was this demand which Manager Holmes had fought tooth & nail until overawed by the Chief Magistrate of the Republic...
...personal needs. But ruthless Dictator Joseph Stalin is outsmarting the peasants with a policy called "Confiscation & Collectivization." Last week he celebrated "Collectivization Day" while mujiks glowered and grumbled. When a peasant does not sow and reap on all his land it may be confiscated by the Government, proclaimed a "collectivist farm," and thereafter worked by communized cultivators who may or may not include the former owner. Last week the Government announced that 3% of all peasant farms in Russia have been thus collectivized. Five million communized yokels now toil on 60,000 collective farms comprising what were once more than...
...figures and crispness that have become part of the "Today and Tomorrow" tradition. He moves solemnly through a thicket of statutory references to the conclusions, neither of them unique, that society needs to simplify and codify its laws, that individual liberty is vanishing in the face of collectivist economic movements...