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NEARING][THE END..

ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF

BOLSHEVIK RULE

WEDNESDAY~~

1919

duce no surplus bain any - surplus there The Soviets are now prepá an-agricultural censua," which fis to show the actual and possible yield of crops in their 16 provingÈÉ; and meantime some fragmentary |but probably typical figures have come out. In the provinces Vladimír, Tula, and Faroálavì the springrye sown in 1918 was 43 per cent of the normal, and the winter rye 38 per cent. In Kalugs: Orel, and Smolensk, a group of provinces west and southwest of Moscow the estimated total crop- last summer was 60` per cent, of the pre-war figure, and in the wheat-producing provinces neat the Ukraine it was 30 per cent. The decline took place Dot only On the large farms, which aimed at producing no more than the farmer And his family needed, but also on small farms which in normal times did not produce enough for household consumption. One of several official explanations is that farm machinery has been either destroyed or has got hope- lessly out of repair. Soviet Russia last

year imported. * large quantity of agricultural machinery from Sweden and Den-

mark, but since the break-off of relations Swedish and Danish Firms have refused to sell more. The peasants, says the Finanzi f Narodnoe Khozaistvo, are now ploughing with the mediaval wooden sokha.

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is not easy 10 see what products Russia can the only self-governing organs, offer in exchange for the replacing the former municipal, badly wanted imports, now that ities and the government and her chief resource, foodstuffs, has. district Zemstros, and therefore dried up. At the same time the are entitled to raise "taxation [demand for imports of manufac-

In for local purposes. Stockholm, Feb:13.-Irregular-

fact, tured goods of all kinds is the however,

Central unlimited. The Soviet national- ly arriving Bolshevik

news Government, as shown in the ized industries, which were to papers, which in view of the clostwo Budgets, January-June and make the country independent ing of the Russo-Finnish frontier

July-December, paid out in 1918 of to travellers are almost the only over 625,000,000 roubles in sub-manufacturers, are

foreign capitalist source of information on Russian sidies and doles to the local trouble than ever.

in greater The Gov economical matters, give a very Soviets of 16 provinces. The real ernment has, indeed, taken new anfavourable picture, a picture "local taxation," as the Moscow measures to compel citizens to little less gloomy and much more Pravda admits, is a kind of con- work and has impressed as detailed than the stories spread querors forced contribution. The black labourers" (such is the by refugees. The one-time

Soviet of Vladimir, ·an Russian term) the hated bour levy" on capital of ten thousand

industrial province of Northgeoisie, but these measures do not million roubles

the which

Russia. lately levied

amean that there is a lack of labour bourgeoisie" was

to pay be local contribution of 3,000,000 and enough work for all. On the tween October 3 and December 15 last, and which was apportion-roubles, and when a similar con- contrary. The Moscow provincial ed in fixed sums, between pro- not paid the Soviets seized private 108.000.000 roubles a month to Soviet is paying doles totalling vinces. has yielded in some provinces

chattels, including

of Bolshevik workmen whose fac only one

Bolsheviks, and sold them. Ac- tories and workshops are closed thousandth of the sum estimatcording to the Russian newspaper from want of raw material, buf provinces up to the end of the published at Helsingfors, 1.750,- who refuse to move to centres TEL. 482. BEST CARS IN THE COLONY TEL. 482. year was so small that it is 000.000 roubles have been ap where labour is needed. Hence officially stated as hardly worth propriated in the form of taxes" the local conscription of the

In Petrograd and contributions" by local bourgeoisie.

in entering in the Budget as a Soviets since November, 1917. mid-December 70,000 persons separate item." Equally bad is

were without work out of a the prospect of the tax in kind)

total population variously

ten-

ed. The total from all

seven

tribution levied at Yaroslav' was

those

LESS FOOD GROWN.

then

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on the richer peasants, which The failure of the "tar in kind" estimated between 800,000 and Krestinsky declared in the is ascribed by the Bolshevik 1,200,000. In Moscow the preamble to his Budget would official Press to mistaken estim- unemployed yield foodstuffs worth

amber thousand million roubles. The ates of the surplus of food re-ed only 60,000, but in the six maining afte the feeding of the surrounding provinces, nearly taxation authorities in three pro-peasant producers." K. Kaestinsk 300,000 men were without work, vinces Orel, Kaloga, and Tula report that it will be wholly im-bold's estimated this surplus at Not only against the unemploy

200,000,000 puds. a quantity ed "bourgeoisie" is rigour being possible to collect this tax. The which

at the

less Budget deficit for 1918 is now prices

swollen shown, but also, though now prevailling insystematically, against the pro- officially admitted to be ever Petrograd and Moscow (up to 20 letariat. Where the Govern 24,000,000,000 roubles. The com-roubles per lb.) would yield much ment of People's Commissaries plete failure of the direct taxation more than the seven thousand feels strong enough it refuses resource is put down to a newly million roubles promised in the bread and clothing cards to revealed cause. ie. the levying of Budget preamble. The taxes and contributions" by the Bolshevik newspaper Zhis states

anti-unemployed men who refuse local Soviets.

to move to centres of work, and it | that at the mere threat of this has even arrested such offenders,, tax the more prosperous peasants and threatened to send them for This the Soviets claim a right (who alone

to pay it) trial on the elastic charge of Krestinsky applies to actions of todo on the ground that they are vowed that they would pro-sabotage" by the Commission this kind."

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tio, Speculation, and Seborage. TRADE WITH SWEDEN, The Government is all the more Although the Swedish and dependent upon bourgeois "black Danish Governments have beer. labourers," because the peasants, obliged to break off diplomatic The Irish Association of Shang- who formerly did most of the relations with Soviet Russia, hai decided that, instead of mark- unskilled urban work-cleaned great interest is being taken in ing the signing of the armistice the streets, drove droschkies, both countries in the possible by holding a dinner or some such and so on-now7 never enter renewal and extension of Russo- form of entertainment, membera Scandinavian trade, and should be asked for donations to great optimism · is being a fund in aid of Irish military shown.

former hospitals. As a result £200 bas Swedish Minister at Petrograd, been realised, which sum is being In carrying through some of General Brandstroem, has taken forwarde i, half to Lieut Col de these measures the Government the initiative in establishing at Courcy Wheeler, Dublin, and half

cities.

of

PREMIUMS ON IDLENESS.".

The

People's Commissaries is Stockholm a Russian Trade Com- to the Lord Mayor of Belfast, for brought into chronic conflict with mittee, on which sit members of the benefit of military hospitals, the local Soviets. The local the Swedish commercial. or in those districts. Soviets, it is true, are always ganisation formerly established

ready to oppress the bourgeoisie at Moscow and Petrograd. In CHINESE POST OFFICE 'FOR and force them to work, but Denmark, the

ther

chief Russian i

VLADIVOSTOK.

usually support the interest circulates around plans The Peking Daily News says local working men against the for handling future Amer- that Chinese residents and troops central authority's attempted ican trade with Russia in at Vladivostok have suffered measures of constraint. The transit, in which branch Copen-various kinds of inconveniences Soviets lately complained that hagan with berfree harbour hopes when sending letters home. In the towns in four uyezds of Mos-to compete successfully with Vladivostok the Chinese can only cow provinces Were living Hamburg.

Germany herself, seni letters and parcels through practically entirely "on public despite her present difficult posi- postoffices of other countries. doles, and producing nothing.tion, is just as active as either and, for some reason or other, though some of these towns were of the Scandinavian States: these mails are often subject to seats of nationalised undertakings her

agents, the official considerable delay. To meet which were suffering from lack Moscow

long Finanzi i Narodnoe this

felt want, the of labour, The Council

of Khozaistvo reports, never cease Ministry of Communications has National Economy refused sounding the Government of made proper arrangements with to pay unemployment allowances People's Commissaries on the the Government for the establish to workmen in some of these subject of possible concessions, ment of a post office in that city towns. The local Soviets pro-In general there is firm belief for military use." Notices hare tested; and as the Council in competent Continental circles been given to the differant Gor- remained obdurate they levied in the relatively speedy reopening 'ernments of a postoffice in that a contribution on the bourgeoisie, of Russia to foreign trade; though city, the Ministry informing them and paid it over to the idling how, in view of the continuing that hereafter oficial documents: workmen. "Premiums on idle-disorder and the daily aggravated and private letters destined for ness and non-production" is the breakdown of communicat description which even the this is to be achieved optimistic Finance Commissary made clear

Vladivostok can be posted to the //

hot address there directly through

the Chinese portódice,- 20