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HUNTING WAY
TO REFORM
is
SUMMER
THEY CALL IT WINTER
I CAN
TAKE IT?
THE "VERY IDEA"
RAILS ARE WHAT WE PUT OUR FEET ON
By Eddie "Stephenson" Kelly
GASPS of relief greeted
our return from Canton. We came down by train. George was with us. He was like the engine-a little loco.
Knocked about by the constant jolting, we were. We should have taken cushions. The engine may have had a tender behind, but it had noth- ing on us.
We were delayed for over an
fair raid that didn't happen.
-Gurney in Melbourne Herald hour at Chekwan, waiting for an
OG PU
(Callit
Gay Pay Oo)
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Today the Soviet Secret Police
make front page news. This
article tells exactly what the
OGPU is, what it
does, how it works
The Japanese didn't want to dis- turb the railway sleepers.
We've often heard of people be- ing on the water wagon, but we weren't like that yesterday. In fact, we were on the Wagons Lit.
There was a honeymoon couple in the next compartment.. They didn't uncouple once. It was a strain on we buffers next door.
The ignorance of most people about trains fa amazing.
Trains roll on steel rails which men steal from the bowels of the earth. This is the principal differ- ence from ships, which steal pretty well everything from the bowels of men when they roll.
Steam makes a train go, although the K.C.R. lots of people blame clock for being fast.
Westinghouse brakes make them stop. Our doctor once applied the brakes to us by putting us in Westinghouse.
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The K.C.R. people should be good weather prophets. Their outlook is mostly fare.
That will be all to-day, girls.
As we say in the goods-sheds: "My, doesn't she look a freight!"
Mr. Citizen of Hongkong has roused himself to protest vigorously against what described as the "Rent Ramp." In more explicit terms this is the alleged exploitation of
VERY dictatorship tenants by property owners,
has its Terror, be- who, it is said, have taken.
110 · dictator advantage
cause of the abnormal demand for accommodation to could carry on in business impose excessive increases in for long if anybody else' rent, with the alternative: "Pay was allowed to have much up, or get out." Mr. Citizen is of a say. demanding rent control, or at
the Lubyanka, Moscow, as far and the peasant provinces of Laj in insurrection All the dictators now littered as the pleasant Kensington re- Vendee were least some form of Government action which will protect him about Europe have their organi- sidence of the Soviet Embassy against the Paris Government.
Lenin got his Cheka, and from these landlords he con-sations for stopping everybody in London; to the palatial Em- siders rapacious profiteers. But clae from expressing an opinion. bassy in Berlin, to its Embassy Robespierre got his Committee the problem has a dozen pros. Take Hitler's Gestapo, or secret in Hankow and to its headquar- of Public Safety. For whole- and cons, and does not seem to police, and Mussolini's Ovra. Iters in Tokyo. The fist of the sale slaughter the Cheka put the lend itself either to an immediate forget the name of Kemal GPU gripped from every part of "committee" in the shude. or an easy solution. The land- Ataturks narks, but they are the world the suspect Soviet lords claim they have a reason-sticking around, you can be sure. diplomats accused of Trotskyist in 1918 they killed 6,300 people clude the red-capped railway.....
hauls them in the central provinces of patrol and the green-capped able case. Only now, it is! Stalin's GPU is as good as the sympathies, and argued are they beginning to rest. In fact, it is probably the home for police trial and sen- Russia, which was all that the frontier guard. They are the Soviet then held. That was not best-paid, best-equipped, and receive an adequate return on
most efficient. terror machine tence.
bad for the first year's business best-disciplined troops that the their capital outlay, due to the that the world has seen up to
in butchery, but in 1919 and Stalin regime commands. fact that rentals have been date. It needs to be, for the hitherto forced down to such a Russian dictatorship is exercised
STALIN is striking down 1920 the Cheka beat all records,
year the GPU passed low level, and that, in point of
his enemies and critics and is credibly reported to have over 170,000,000 people, which fact, the increased rents now being charged are really the fair makes the 100,000,000 empire of right and left, and like Hitler in bumped off 50,000. (This in- through another metamorphosis. rents. This implies that up to the Caesar, the first European dicta. the June purge of the Nazis includes the pitiless crushing of Officially they were abolished, present Hongkong house-holders tor, look pretty small beer.
stretch
You can't count spies, but soldière you can нес. The GPU has its own According to its own figures, army, 50,000 strong. They in-
O
O
Last
1934 he is not concerned with the the Red Navy mutiny at Kron- and their functions taken over particular degree of their stadt.) When Dora Kaplan shot by the new Commissariat for have been given more than
offence. The mere suspicion of at Lenin in 1918, wounding him, Internal Affairs (Narkomynu-- the Cheka put 500 prisoners in del). Many people in England value in accommodation. The:
it places them within the pro- Leningrad against the wall with- thought "Hullot Russia is going tenants counter-claim that in-
T this moment the vince of the GPU. AT
to have a respectable Home jcreased rents have leapt above a
world is witnessing GPU are the initials in Rus- out trial.
Office Administration, with a reasonable level of increase com-with amazement the culminating sian of the "Unifled State Poli-
nice Scotland Yard and generul pared to the purchasing power of wages. In fact, despite an in- trial in Moscow of a series of tical Police." The full initials
Russians HEAD of the Cheka in control of the police." creasing cost of living, wages arrests which forced the GPU to are OGPU, but the
these days was Felix What happened in fact is that have remained comparatively
its arm arcoss 2,000 long ago dropped the letter "O"- stationary. The position there miles from its grim bare head and spoke always of the "Gay- Djerjinsky, the Pole, a post and the Secret Police, Ogpu, Cheka, fore is that the public is calling quarters in the Inner Prison of Pay-Oo." Unless, that is, they an ascetic, a man, of pure life call them what you like, so long
Like Saint
a state within the State, have preferred to whisper, with con- and noble ideals. upon Government to legislate in
spiratorial glee, of the "Three Just, the most terrible of the begun to swallow up the State its favour, even though, it is
Jacobin terrorists, he killed from the inside. They still hold Letters." possible the landlords have them-
"without passion," "Old soldiers never die, they
believing secret "administrative" trials, selves a very reasonable claim the very system which would
any open: for protection of what is recog-give arbitrary judgment. That simply fade away." Old (sceret) that the revolution must be they still dominate nised by democratic capitalism system is forced to deny itself, policemen, on the other hand, saved for the sake of living trials, they still shoot without to be their right-profit from and to admit that it has no simply fade into a new kind of millions and future generations. trial, as they did when Stalin's The Cheka sentenced men by friend Kirov was assassinated formula which, while meeting (secret) policeman. capital investment.
If it were a purely sentimental the insistent demands of one
The Gay-Pay-Oo are the lineal secret trial, or if time pressed, and 117 prisoners in Leningrad
change, but not Secret Police. THE BOMBAY SILK STORE issue, the so-called exploited outraged section of society, can descendants of the Chen, who shot them without trial. Times were executed out of hand.
tenants would have unavold outraging another section were the Soviet secret police
an
When the civil war ended, the. case. But challengable
when the revolution was in its the of society. offers the Tootal fabrics which tenants, like the landlords, are
task was This may appear to have put carly days. Before that, in the Cheka's immediate
THE methods of the GPU for the name. living under a system which has the "Rent Ramp" problem in the Czar's time, the secret police done. But it is easier to create an all-powerful organ in any
and anopy- absolutely Guaranteed little or no time for sentiment. abstract, yet in the long view, were called the Okhranu. Many State than to destroy it. Too sticks-are secret
denunciation, midnight Both are liable to suffer as a the essential issue would appear of the Okhrana went over to the many men have vested interests mous result of that system; the tenant to be, not so much whether or Cheka when their own business in it, and they are desperate arrest (when the vitality is low because he is asked to pay rent not rent control, or some equi-was wound up.
men whose trade has made them and publicity, too) and third de-
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which is out of proportion to his valent legislation, should be im- The Cheka flourished from implacable enemies. income; and alternatively the posed, but whether society must 1918 onwards.. The word is So the Cheka became the You may doubt. the stories of landlord, who through rent con- not, in fairness to all its mem- composed from the initials of the OGPU-under the same chief physical torture. There is no trol, is prevented from realising bers, find a system which pre Extraordinary Commission to and with the same officers. They question of the mental racking that which Society says is his cludes such problems, If this Combat Counter Revolution. were reorganised into a dual that the GPU prisons practise.
roft on capital expenditure. between profit-making producers days of the civil war ethical and economic right is not forthcoming the struggle It was set up in the bloody service, detective and military. Prisoners are urged to "confess" (1018- This is the two-edged sword that in order to lighten their sen- Faced with such a position it is and overburdened consumers will 1922) when 14 foreign armies, Stalin now wields.
tences. They are tricked into easy to understand why the continue as demonstrated by the with "White Guard" Russians, The GPU has its own budget, incriminating their colleagues on authorities hesitate to introduce rent ramp. Meanwhile numbers were trying to pull down and and it is secret. Until the other the pretence that the others have legislation which must be of tenants in Hongkong, willing arbitrary in its effects ofther for to pay charges proportionate to destroy the infant Soviet Repub- day it had its own courts. It already betrayed them.
And then they are cynically -Sovint law courts. Its sples are
shot after spread throughout the land. No. double-crossed and
De-their
one side or the other.
economic ablilty, aro mocracy, because it is proud of threatened with ejection if they ita "justico tempered with refuse to submit to increased im- mercy," will finally demand that positions by certain landlords. adjudication be given in favour The situation cannot be allowed
llc.
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still dominates the ordinary
LENIN called for an in- body has over assessed their all, as the wretched figures at to stamp number: But their strength the wailing wall of Moscow
strument
of the "under-dog," but that to remain unattended, and the out "treason to the revolution" may be gauged from the fast proved when thoy died under goes nowhere towards dealing authorities must act, and act just as Robespierre called for it that overy Russian half-belleves the firing squad bullets the other with the fundamental issues. quickly to remedy the position.in 1798 when foreign Powers that the next one belongs to the day. They are issues which challenge S. A. G.
were invading, republican Franco "Three Letters.
Nathan Walters