Wherever the troops have arrived, proclamations have been posted advising the Communists and Labour Union leaders to leave within 48 hous under the direst penalties. In many places the Farmers' Unions} have provided a convenient instru ment forthe destruction of the Labour Union organizations. The farmers do not want communism.
They do not want to vee the rich driven out for, if that happens, who to finance their crops? They do not want bad paper money forced on them, and they object to having] their spare supplies of grain sealed up by government offi The farmers are indignant and in their] hundreds they have gone to the. Hearest towns and wrecked the Labour Union offices and, in some places, they have actually insisted fon the execution of the Labour Union leaders, Tu Kivkiang itself there has been a succession of the sort of incidents, 4o which we have grown accustomed the last six: months.
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