FOUR YEARS IN A CUPBOARD. THE WINNING OF RUSSIA.
7
HOW FRENCH PEOPLE SAVED A BRITISH SOLDIER.
A PRACTICAL POLICY.
Russian
correspondent
If there was a means of register writes to the fathester Guardian
as follows re ing an opinion as to who is the
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*were :16,055 eredit Societies, 90,000 soniation, Sc3,000;1; tatal af47,253
Bodieties of all kinds. The men- bership of the co-operative mOTO- ment on January 1. 1917, WAS 137 millions, or together with their families 6771⁄2 million persons, equivalent to 39 per cent,, of "the total population.d
tion.
movement in Russia has not been The growth of the co-operatiei- stopped by the Bolshevist Revalu
On the contrary, co- operative unions became the only power supporting and regulating the economic life of Russia in the most difficult conditions of exhaustion and disintegration. After the Revolution the co-
happiest woman in the world the Whoever wine Russia wins the public would probably plump for military force but by a real un
war. Who wins her not by Mrs. Patrick Fowler, who with derstanding of her mentality, her her two young sons, occupies a needs, and her prospects of do- tidily-kept little cottage in mocracy and freedom, wins not Wharf-street, a little pat-of-the-only the war but also the future. way thoroughfare in the ancient If the Allies use their advantage and royal borough of Devizes and take the right way to meet Mra. Fowler said farewell to her the needs of Russia, they are husband, a gallant hussar, atcertain of the support and cal Aldershot in 1914, just as
laboration of all Russia's republic- the
an democratic elements. storm of savagery broke over Europe, and since then the only If the Allies are to gain the has confidence of the Russian people communication she received from
and secure their co-operation, him
they must speak to them in a postcard written on the
different language from that of Gold" and addressed to her at the Germany, and in a language plain quarter ahe then occupied in the to a people just awakening to a England might take the lead in The co-operative societies in great Hampshire garrison. wider comprehension of their own the movement The help of the Latters she had addressed to her ways and needs. They must representatives of the Co-opera- husband never reached him, and tell Russia that they
Artivo Society, the Wholesale Socie
EL
was
operative societies amalgamated into more powerful co-operative unions. The number of large co- operative unions of co-operative societies in Russia on January 1, 1918, was about 800, against some 300 on January 1, 1917.
the solitary field carl, a few days willing, first, to acquire know-ty, the Women's Co-operative after he arrived in France, is all ledge of the urgent needs of Guild, &c., would be very useful. the tangible proof that she has the masses; secondly, to satisfy bad that he ever landed in that those needs.
.She country.
The first step is to let the grief-strickau inquired of everyone and every- Russian people understand where, including the War Office, through President Wilson by
message from all the
Allied
Perhaps a small committee of co-operators working here, might take the initiative in summoning an inter-Allied committee of co- operators to prepare the Economic Conference. It might even send
but still no news, till eventually, peoples to the Russian people-a deputation to Russia to explain
knowledge of Russian conditions,
in March two years ago, the that the Allies wish to know more clearly the aims of the con- War Department informed her what are the present require-ferences, acquire 遐 first-hand that no trace could be found of ments of the population of every the missing soldier, who mast part of Russia in order to help to and come into contact with the therefore be presumed to have satisfy them. The message must Russian local co-operative or- fallen in action or about be conveyed to all through the ganisation
ON
and professional August 26th, 1914.
press, by word of mouth, through unions. The death certificate" was notices, leaflets, and pamphlets the whole dated March, 1916, after which distributed
Following upon the the Government allowed the full country. pay for six weeks, and then a message there must be a con- structive effort to build up the "widow's" pension, with an economic position of Russia. allowance for the two "orphaned" children.
bat
over
large
WORK OF AN INTER-ALLIED COMMITTEE.
(a) The place of meeting of the
(b) The steps necessary for organising urgent help.
The Inter-Allied Committee of Co-operators and Trade Unions Committee might then elaborate For this purpose it is desirable basis for the work of the Still the widow to start with an unofficial econ: Economic Conference of Recon clung to the faint hope that one omic conference, composed of struction. It could, among other day her husband would be found, representatives of the
things, decide: that slender hope was organisations working for the scattered to the four winds in the people in Russia (especially co-conference. autumn of the same year, when operative unions and trade un- she received a communication ions, perhaps the most stable from the soldier's captain which economic organisations in Russia seemed to establish the question at the present time), and repre- beyond all doubt; it gave the sentatives of corresponding organ probable date of death, and the spe No Russian Government would isations among the Allied peoples. where he fell as being four miles have reason to raise difficulties in south of Cambrai. This intima the way of such an unofficial tion from Capt. (afterwards Cal) non-Governmental Lawson, to whom Patrick Fowler because the conference would was servant, blanketed every-have as its aim not the solving of thing; there was no doubt in the the internal problems of Russia, woman's mind now that that she but friendly, social, and economic was a widow, and her children co-operation.
(c) The means of informing (1). the Russian people as to the intentions and the measures to Allies on the conditions and the be taken by the Allies, and (2) the needs of the Russian people. conference, (d) The financial problem and the possibilities of natural ex- change that is the exchange of products for products, which is now perhaps the most practical form of exchange with Russia.
meet
(e) The quantity and the quality. the Allies for the purpose of exchange.
(f) The possibilities of transport. (g) The possibility of sending to Bussis skilled workers, en- gineers, &c.
be taken to open up the economic BAY (b) Generally the measures to intervention of the Allies in Russia.
the
The conference should be held
orphans. And, as though to en- To consider the urgent pre-of products at the disposition of tirely destroy any uncertainty, she liminary measures and to prepare received her husband's long ser- the conference it would be well to vice and good conduct medals form an Inter-Allied Economic from the War Office. He was Committee. The constitution of an old soldier, having joined the the committee is of the greatest Hussars in Dublin in 1896, sable
importance. It is highly undesir-
that members of that he has now 22 years' con Government should take part. It tinuous service to his credit.
would be wise to get represent GERMANS BILLETED ABOVE. jatives of co-operative societies After these years of agonising and trade unions. These repre- uncertainty, words fail to convey sentatives would the delirious joy in that little corresponding representatives of in the near future, at the place fixed by the committee. We must home when the wife learned that similar Russian organisations. know the special needs of the har husband is alive and well. They would at once win the various parts of Rassis, and also The dramatic message reached confidence of the Russian people the different possibilities of and guarantee that the object of the distracted wife and mother the conference was not only the exchange in this or that district, through the good offices of Lady material interest of this or that only through conference with This knowledge can be acquired Lawson, who lives in London. It industry, but the economic and the delegates from deigates is difficult to say which has gone social well-being of the peoples. through the greatest mental agony in the last four years-the husband, who has suffered
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from the local population sent up HOWITT-PHILLIPS especially for the purpose of ex plaining their conditions and enough to auhjage any ordinary In Russia the co-operative gesting the measures neces- sary for economic relations bo- man's" mind, or the wife, movement, strong before the war, who has quietly borne
became a particularly important tween Russia and the Allies. The economic and social factor after presence at the conference of these years of indescribable sus the Revolution, and the impor- the delegates of the local organ. pensa it appears that Fowler tance of the movement is especialisations should give the best was with General Sir Horace ly significant at the present time, security that the products and Smith-Dorrien's forces when they as it depends only to a limited goods sent by the Allies would made their great stand at Le degree on political conditions. It/indead come into the hands of the Monday |↔ PEGO' MY HEART.
Cateau in August, 1914. Fowler it is regulated by the ́ economic got cut off in a wood, and was needs of the large masses of the found by a Frenchman in the population. subsequent January in an almost hopeless state from starvation."
Russian population and not into those of Germany. The sending of relief supplies by the American Red Cross or YMCA to Russia and also the assistance of private organisations of the Allied coun- tries should be regarded as pioneer measures, preparing the ground for the work on a larger scale. Such proofs of humanity and
The gallant Frenchman got him have throbbed can be imagined back through the German lines from the fact that at night-times to the home of his mother in-law, the Germans used to steal from whom he asked to tend and care the loft and "lift" the potatoes friendship are very necessary in for the British soldier. She did from the very basket over the this most difficult transitional so, in spite of the life-and-death British soldier's head. It was period, but they should be regard
iak which it was patent she was rarely that he could get exercise ed as a temporary and local form running, sharing what food thereonly when the Germans hap-of assistance. The connection was in that little peasant cottage. pened to be out of the loft. between the peoples must be built The risks of detection were Then he would stretch himself on a large scale of international.
Thie very great, for overhead, in a loft out by means of a skipping-rope agreement and contact. of that
two-roomed cottage, and other improvised gymnas latter will in its turn open out German soldiers were billeted.tics. Until the Allies many possiblities of private and Fowler was concealed in a narrow reached Le Cateau again semi-private initiative. The cup board, where he could little recently those French folks ultimate co-operation of the States themselves is unavoidable more than crouch for days nursed, tended and shielded and necessary. But remembering together, whilst at other times he him, whose life they undoubt the psychological and political lay underneath a mattress which edly saved and, though their situation in Russis, this union of had been hollowed out in the food supplies were reduced to States must follow and dentre. At other times he stood the narrow limits of the meal of precede the relationship in a deep hole in the other cup the Widow of Zarephaththey, peoples and the linking board with a basket, in which like her, gave of what there was those social organisations were polatoes, over the mouth and the barrel of meal aid command the confidence
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