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HUNTING WAY TO REFORM

E

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. He George was with us. 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 teader behind, but it had noth- ing on us.

We were delayed for over an

-Gurney in Melbourne Herald hour at Chekwan, waiting for an

OGPU

-

(Call it Gay Pay Oo)

-

Today the Soviet Secret Police make front page news.

This

article tells exactly what the

VERY dictatorship

has its Terror, be- cause no dietator,

OGPU is, what it

does, how it works

air raid that didn't happen.

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 hext compartment. They didn't uncouple once. It was a strain on we buffers next door.

The ignorance of most people about trains is amazing.

Trains roll on steel rails which men ateal from the bowels of the earth. This is the principal differ- enco from ships, which steal pretty well everything from the bowels of men when they roll.

Steam makes a train go, although lots of people blame the K.C.R. clock for being fast.

Westinghouse brakes make theni stop. Our doctor once applied the brakes to us by putting use in Westinghouse.

The K.C.R. people should be good weather prophets. Their outlook is mostly fare.

Mr. Citizen of Hongkong has roused himself to protest vigorously against what is described as the "Rent Ramp.”. In more explicit terms this is the alleged exploitation of tenants by property owners, who, it is said, have taken advantage st the abnormal demund 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 least some form of Government All the dictators now littered as the pleasant Kensington re- Vendee were .in insurrection action which will protect him about Europe have their organi- sidence of the Soviet Embassy against the Paris Government. from these landlords he con-sations for stopping everybody in London; to the palatial Em- Lenin got his Cheka, and siders rapacious profiteers. But else 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-

You can't count spies, and cons, and does not seem to police, and Mussolini's Ovra. Iters in Tokyo. The ast of the sale slaughter the Cheka put the

but soldiers you can' lend itself either to an immediate forget the name of Kemal GPU gripped from every part of "committee" in the shade. seo. The GPU has its own or an easy solution. The land- Ataturk's marks, but they are the world the suspect Soviet According to its own figures, army, 50,000 strong. They in lords claim they have a reason-sticking around, you can be sure. diplomats accused of Trotskyist in 1918 they killed 6,800 people clude the red-capped railway ablo case. Only now, it is Stalin's GPU is as good as the sympathies, and hauls them in the central provinces of patrol and the green-capped argued are they beginning to rest. In fact, it is probably the home for police trial and sen- receive an adequate return on most efficient

terror

machine

tence.

their capital outlay, due to the that the world has seen up to date. It needs to be, for the

That will be all to-day, giria.

As we say in the goods-shells: "My, doesn't she look a freight!"

Russia, which was all that the frontier guard. They are the Soviet then held. That was not best-paid, best-equipped, and bad for the first year's business best-disciplined troops that the in butchery, but in 1919 and Stalin regime commands. 1920 the Cheka beat all records,

Last year the GPU passed

fact that rentals have been hitherto forced down to such a low level, and that, in point of Russian dictatorship is exercised STALIN is striking down

his enemies and critics and is credibly reported to have fact, the increased rents now over 170,000,000 people, which being charged are really the fair makes the 100,000,000 empire of right and left, and like Hitler in bumped off 60,000. (This in- through another metamorphosis. rents. This implies that up to the Caesar, the first European dicta- the June purge of the Nazis in cludes the pitiless crushing of Officially they were abolished, 1934 he is not concerned with the the Red Navy mutiny at Kron- and their functions taken over present Hongkong house-holders tor, look pretty small beer.

particular degree of their stadt.), When Dora Kaplan shot by the new Commissariat for offence. The mere suspicion of at Lenin in 1918, wounding him, Internal Affairs (Narkomynu- the Cheka put 600 prisoners in del). Many people in England it places them within the pro- Leningrad against the wall with thought "Hullo! Russia is going

out trial.

The

the approaching its favour, even though it is

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have been given more than value in accommodation. tenants counter-claim that in- creased rents have leapt above a

T this moment the vince of the GPU.

to have a respectable. Home world is witnessing GPU are the initials in Rus- reasonable level of increase com-with amazement the culminating slan of the "Unified State Poli-

Office Administration, with a pared to the purchasing power

nice Scotland Yard and general 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

its arm arcoss stretch have remained comparatively

2,000 long ago dropped the letter "O"

these days was Felix What happened in fact is that stationary. The position there- miles from its grim bare head- and spoke always of the "Gay- Djerjinsky, the Pole, a poet 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 upon Government to legislate in

preferred to whisper, with con- and noble ideals. Like

a state within the State, have spiratorial glec, of the "Three Just, the most terrible of the begun to swallow up the State Letters."

Jacobin terrorists, he killed from the inside. They still hold possible the landlords have them-

"Old soldiers never die, they "without passion," selves a very reasonable claim the very system which would

believing accret "administrative" triale,. for protection of what is recog-give arbitrary judgment. That simply fade away." Old (secret) that the revolution must be they still dominate any open.

the sake of nised by democratic capitalism system is forced to deny itrelf, policemen, on the other hand, saved for

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. capital investment.

formula which, while meeting (secret) policeman.

The Cheka sentenced men by friend Kirov was assassinated 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 issue, the so-called exploited outraged section of society, can descendants of the Cheka, who shot them without trial. Times were executed out of hand. tenants would have

avold outraging another section were the Soviet

secret police change, but not Secret Police.

When the civil war ended, the challengablo tenants, like the landlords, are

the of society.

when the revolution was in its This may appear to have put early days. Before that, in the Chaka's immediate task was 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 little or no time for sentiment, abstract, yet in the long view, were. called the Okhrana. Many State than to destroy it. Too sticks are accret

an all-powerful organ

an un-

cago, But

in any

-

THE methods of the

GPU-for

the name: and anony- Both are liable to suffer as a the essential issue would appear of the Okhrana went over to the

denunciation, midnight 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

many men have vested interests mous because he is asked to pay rent not rent control, or some equi-was wound up. which is out of proportion to his valent legislation, should be im-

The Cheka flourished from men whose trade has made them and publicity, too) and third de- income; and alternatively the posed, but whether society must 1918 onwards. The word is Implacablo enemies.

gree interrogation. landlord, who through rent con-not, in fairness to all its mom-composed from the initials of the OGPU under the same chief physical torture. There is no So the Cheka became the You may doubt the stories of 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 aaya is his cludes such problems. If this Combat Counter Revolution.. etnical and economic right is not forthcoming the struggle

were reorganised into a dual that the GPU prisons practise. profit on capital expenditure. between profit-making producers days of the civil war

It was set up in the bloody service, detective and military. Prisoners are urged to "confess" Faced with such a position it is and overburdened consumers will 1922) when 14 foreign armies, Stalin now wields.

(1918- This is the two-edged sword that in order to lighten their sen- 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 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 legislation which must bo of tenanta in Hongkong, willing arbitrary in its effects either for to pay charges proportionato to destroy the Infant Soviet Repub- day it had its own courts. It already betrayed them,

one side or the other. De their

Hc.

still dominates the ordinary

economic ability, aro mocracy, because it is proud of threatened with ejection if they

Soviet law courts. Its spies are And then they are cynically: itu "justice tempered with rofuse to submit to increased im-

spread throughout the land. No double-crossed, and shot after mercy, "will finally demand that positions by certain landlords. LENIN called for an in- body has over assessed their all, as the wretched figurea, at Ladjudication be given in favour The situation cannot be allowed

strument to stamp number. 'But their strength the walling wall of Moscow of the "under-dog," but that to remain unattended, and the out "treason to the revolution" may be gauged from the fabt proved when they died under goes nowhere towards dealing authorities must act, and act just as Robespierre called for it that every Russian half-believes the firing squad bullets the other with the fundamental issue.quickly to remedy the position. In 1798 when foreign Powers that the next one belongs to the day. They are issues which challenge —S. Å. G.

wore invading republican France "Three Letters."

Nathan Walters