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BOLSHEVISM AND "LABOUR.
A MERCILESS TYRANNY, FREE SPEECH FORBIDDEN.
We have received from an official source. (says The Daily Telegraph) the following details of Bolshevik rule. Every stato ment is vanched for, and is only issued after careful and minute verifiention by agents of the British Government. The official introduction, to the account is as follows
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* All, the information from Germany goes to show that, the return to a normal existence is proceeding extremely slowly.. Some people there are who declare that Many amiable persons in this coun
Germany benefits by the, low rate of ex- try labour under two delusions about change. for it is money that nets na a Russia at the present time. They believe
protective tarif se that foreign wares are; that if we were; to withdraw entirely from enable to compete with the home produe. the Russian Fronts peace would reign intion, und," as exporters, Germans can de- that unhappy country; and they base this liver gods ág lower prices than their cor. opinion upon the belief that the rast petitors. It is also said that the German majority of Russians are Bolsheviks, agriculturists are profiting by the pro Both views are false. The Bolsheviks in
tection afforded by the low rate of ex- pose their will upon the Russian work chauge, a protection higher than any men at the point of the bayonet, as, & Prassian agrarinn ever dreamt of. glance at the following notes, recently re- Foreign prodnets are twice as dear as ceived from Russia. will show." These home wards. These arguments contain a are the details :-
certain amount of truth, but they do not take into reckoning the capital difficulty that the low exchange causes in the pay- gent of the millions which Germany has; to pay abroad, multiplying the sum to such an extent that the extra profits by manufacturers and agrarians among their
On July 9th. last the workmen employ ed by a firma called the Skorokhod Boot Factory bed an unauthorised meeting to discuss the food shortage and the pos sibility of a change of Government. The meeting was dispersed by Bolshevik arm ed guards. Three women were killed and several persons wounded. At about the people cannot make up for it. On aame date 3,000 employee of the Nikol the contrary, if a better value in märks i sevsky Railway held a meeting with the
not brought about soon, a dangerous same object, and were dispersed by ridecconomic crisis may be expected in the: firg, the Bolshevika killing eight and automo wounding fourteen of the workers.
The above are instances of ho the Bolsheviks recognise the right of free speech The only meetings" allowed in Soviet Russia to-day are those authorised by the Bolsheviks themselves. Here are the accounts of two such meetinga në
But with tri speaker rose he was
1t will be remembered that a short time ago the Gerinan Government, in order to raffe by the threatened strike, drew ant exorcise the paralysation of railway
h very large sum to provide cheap in- parted food for the population. Thin artificial situation was to last three months. Meanwhile, imports from abroad have not come cheaper nor superfluous; on the contrary, the mark having again decreased in value, the price of imports is higher than ever. Thus, at the end of the three months period, the price of rationet bacon, rice, etc., will be doubled. This may easily cause a great shock to the unstable social life A rise in the value of the mark is the only hope, Did the Government speculate on this pos sibility? If the miscalculation might prove to have disastroq, consequences,
On July 11th, the. Bolsheviks organised mass meeting of railwaymen, which was herd in the Critsky Palace, Petrograd Zinovieff, a prominent Bolshevik presid ed, and was supported on the platform by the Commander of the Internal De fence of Petrograd, a a Bolshevik named Peters, the notorious Peter the Painter) and others. The platform was protected by a semi-circle of Red Guards, the entrance to the hall was covered
by a couple of machine-guns, and a detach ment of soldiers was drawn up behind the audience. The president opened the
The prospect is the more sombre ou proceedings, and, after a reference to the account of other dangers threatening. It food situation, began to o speak of politics is feared that the want of coal next Hootings At once commenced.
and winter will be worse than last year's. Zinovie was unable to finish his speech. A similar fate awaited his Bolshevik col cald, but industries will be severely Not only will the people be suffering As ench
of Bolshevik or rail. affected. Should the factories again Le When the reply was Bolat a standstill the bitter misery of un- the speaker was at ence bowled employment will recommence. In Bavaria down by the exasperated
workmen.
measures are already being taken te Those who attempted to continue speak economie fuel. Two-thirds of the schools ing did so to the accompaniment of such are to be closed in the winter, and the Cries As: Away with the Bolshevika. town woods of Munich are ordered to be We have heard many words but seen no felled for fuel. Moreover, a railway deeds."
strike is still threatening, under. Con- munist agitation. The events in Hungary A Menshevik Sosial-Democrat, named have by no means daunted the optimistic Kamensky, alone succeeded in making a Communist lendars. The object of the speech at this meeting. He called upon strike, already disclosed, is to get con the workmen to overthrow the Soviet Gos fral of the railways into the hands of the ernment and convene a Constituent As proletariat. The Government is forced sembly. He said that if the Bolsheviks to keep control by every means in ita, remained in power much longer starva- Fower if the economie life of Germany tion Would ingrense, would get worse, and Russia would suret will have to be taken, as the fre
disorganisation
sation is not to be killed outright. Severe men- Beither peace nor liberty. His speech
shevit
ANTI-SOVIETS ARRËSTED.
was listened to in absolute silence, and a sounding phrases of these agitators have an extraordinary influence on the din storm of
greeted its, conclusion satisfied and nothinking masses. applause Peters, the next
was howleri
Fur 3
down, whereupon 2 ang his bell long time it appeared as if the Inde-
and announced that if the noise contina pendent Socialists, with their well-dis ed he would
order the Red Guards to take ciplined forces, formed a sort of wall forcible action. At the end of the meet-defedce against a communistic oligarchy ing all who had spoken against the Soviet acending to the Russian example, but Government, including Kamensky, were among the Independents the intellectuals arrested as they left the building.
are being pushed into the background or Another official meeting had been fixed carried in a direction they furiously for July 12th. This was to have been a condemned at the beginning of the revels. mass meeting of
of employer at the Putilof Works. However, it was never bold, an
over.
tion.
the workmen managed to set away from Not only, however, from the Radical the factory directly work
was
The side do dangers threaten. The agitation Bolshevik
who had travel from the Right is, gaining an almost led down from
were therefore desperate character. Especially evil is obliged to return thither without having its anti-Semitic side, even to the extent delivered their oration. Two days later of a pogrom propaganda. In the Con-. workrien were outwitted, and the servative papers advertisements appear meeting was duly held. On this occasion offering prizes for ibe best pamphlets the factory ates were closed shortly be- fore work stopped it so the audience could too easy going in this matter. Officials against the Jews, The Government i, far not escape. The Commissioner for Pro
paganda, Lisovsky by name, made speech, in which he threatened with
and officers can allow themselves the eras. Hest liberties of expression on the Jews
penalties all workmen who attended, un
Joved an aggressive monarchistic agitation.
authorised meetings, or were in any way without being brought to book. Respect against the Sevicts, Armed sailers stood for the army is, indeed, still very 'great, over the audience throughout the There is not much change of heart" meeting, and resolution of confidence in noticeable in this respect in Germany. the Soviet Government was passed in Many people are anxionaly awaiting what silence. Since this meeting work at the will happen when the time arrives for Putiloff factory has been carried on under the Entente to demand the delivery of a guard of armed säilers,
culprits from the army for the trial for war crimes. This is one of the things the German Government would rather not think about and hopes will never happen.
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FARCICAL ELECTIONS. —' Equally tyrannous are the Bolshevik methods of carrying out elections. At a factory known as the Obukhoff Works, typical election to the Petrograd Border The Sovdep was recently carried out 19 body composed of Workmen's Pea sants, and Red Guarda deputies, and these are elected
nt the Obukhoff Works any objections against the official list of
workmen were told that there were too many Whites among them, and therefore the Works Committee would not listen to
in the "following Inanner. Before polling candidates. The list was accepted in commenced the Works
silence. The Skorokhold workers were
A that no White Guardttee that any opposition on their part
be suffered in the works
persons voting against the candidates would be instantly
would cause a repetition of what hap pened to them on July 9th. The dec ión"
accordingly passed off without
and would be debarred from findent, ander the riles of the
then
work
in any other establishment in Russia The official list of Belshevik candidates Was
read to the men, and duly elect a dozen hunting of hands. Only about
raised The were
led
of workmen did vote
Bot
Et
Guard.
Red
This is a sample of what is going on in Rasela to-day, and in view of the
all employes were present. A Red Guard a policy
watched the proceedings.
facts it seems incredible that any man of on progressive views in this country can seri all,
Lously support the Bolsheviks. Theirs is which constitutes the complete occurred at the Putiloff Works and the ever the original theory of Bolshevism Similar scenes negation of all democratic ideals What Skorokhod Factory Armod guarded the Putiloff Hall, where the gut as one of the bloodiest tyrannies ever sailors may have been, in practice it has worked (Continued it font of next enluma,} imposed upon a nation
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