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MBER 9, 1948

Log huts, big The Biggest

flats, high prices

and iron-cur- tained minds

I

HAD expected, on enter. Ing Moscow, to see some- thing other than old, broken down tog houses, for Communist propaganla BUR gests that the majority of Soviet workers live in fine flats and houses.

- But, instead, in the suburbs one saw only the ok, typically Russian, wooden log houses, some in an 'appalling" state of disrepair.

We were struck by the poor dress of the people, who seemed consider. ably worse off for clothes than the people of Berlin.

Towards the centre of Moscow log houses gave way to brick buildings,

Double Identify.

Moscow. Village

In

In Britain the place would licen called a slum.

hava

mosily built before the Soviet re- I was shocked at the 'editions. volution.

Moscow has been described with "the biggest Bome Justification as village in Russia,"

On

We are surprised when we hear that a Soviet citizen may own his house; but these houses are the little log hits one sees all over Russia.

They are built by the peasants,

Europe'

by BRUNTON BEATTIE of Pembroke College) Cambridge, who has returned after a year's stay in Russia

In Leningrad. there When I visited Leningrad not only

are-taxis Incul authorities encourage

was bread scarce, but soap and something like ours. But ́in Mos- them. They may even get technical

the sugar were almost unobtainable. I cow a faxi is a small open lorry, advice And

grant from

saw & militiaman strive in vain to scating about a dozen or so, aud Government.

pacify a quette of women fighting they run a service like a trolleybus

service, for rbread.

Trains are slower than:õuts and

The finest Bats are en Gork street, but finis elsewhere show that building is not a Soviet strong point.

rind many recently bull blocks poster is already beginning to fall off and other defects are obvious.

Muscovites have heard the Joke et the fat man who falls through the Bloor into the But below so often that they no longer think it funny.

Medern dati are given only to "high-up" and reliable party people, and the majority of dwellings need repaire,

I Was Shocked NEAR the centre of Moscow are many large brick houses once be- longing to the aristocracy. Today a caretaker lets the Government

forma.

I visited a friend in one of these houses. He was fortunate; he had a room to himself.

HORNER

ho, mintri

Cace the house is built, its owner can do anything he wishes with it exerpt destroy it He can sell it, or he may bequeath it, and he may let part of it.

An

not nearly so comfortable.

Therò are three passenger classes. The equivalent of our first class is called the International elask. Then comes the accond class;, arif "soft" wagond.

their way on to crowded trams and an engineer or a well-paid official, is travelling "hard," that is, in the

When a person tells you that he "hard wagon," he means third class.

Brend supplies are better now, but there is still not enough to go A Soviet citizen does not eat round in plenty. Moscow starts the day early. By nearly so well as a Briton. Fix the streets are husy, Chikens unskilled worker can afford only hurry to the Metro stations or fight the simplest food.

It is of course, different for. sav. trolleybuses,

Others queue for food. Although who can pay the very high pricas rationing was abolished last Decem-' for batter, meat, milk and eggs. ber. food is still xenres.

Eating out is a problem. There are three classes of restaurants.

and The first is very expensive, far beyond the means of unskilled and even the lower grades of skilled national workers.

Then comes the second class res- luctant to express taurant, and finally the cafes, the cheapest of all, but even they for information about what goes on

with whom I spoke was

The food position is not at all ns healthy as we in the West are led to believe.

HORNER

By Cummings

The Communist

Horner v Lawther

MAKE no mistake about it.

This Horner-Lawther busi- ness is the biggest trade union It is not mere- event for years.

ly that one or other of them must go. The issue of the die- pute is fundamental to the future of the whole trade union movement--that is to the future of Britain.

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Mr Horner dislikes Americas. id. So do I. But the plain fact is that without it we should, on present production levels, be broke in week.

R

Distorting Glass

wanted to know what the average

Russian thinks of the

inter- situation today-and of Drilain. Soviet citizens VITA re- their thoughts

thirating

to foreigners, but every Russlan

costly and an unskilled worker 19 cannot afford a good three course Dutside Itussia. meul even in a cafe.

H

Food Monotony

†¤ carns about a hundred roubles a week. A good meal in a cafe costs about 25 roubles-a quarter of his wages.

His only view of Europe is

through the distorting Elass of Soviel propaganda. He is patheti- cally ignorant of what happens out- side his own country.

One day I was studying a huge plan of the Metro when a voice at my elbow raid in Russian, "You

Nevertheless, one can be sure af are

you hot a Muscovite, comrade, are good service and cleanliness.

One finds, however, a monotonous When I told him that I was uniformity of dishes and I ate for British he looked delighted, and we

months is Moscow res- talked for, two hours,

m9y

taurants.

This man did not tell me his

Shopping is expensive and the thoughts, but rather betrayed them goods not up to British standards, by his questions.

The

German stockings, Bavarian china, watches, clocks, and silver- ware are swiftly disposed of

;

quality of certain products of When I talked about Britain's Soviet light industry is very low. Socialist Government, he contra-

So the Muscovites, whenever dieted me end

told me that the they get the chance, buy foreign British Government who not goods. Czechoslovakian shoes cume Socialist, adding that if it wero It into the shops, but they were not would not tolerate the existence of long in slock.

capitalism in Britain.

They Want Peace HE

as his propaganda Moscow 1s a city of beggars, machine sald, that the present Many were maimed in the war, and British Labour leaders were only as In the Soviet Union one must "servants of American capitalism." work or want, they must beя. He would not believe that Our

A large number are elderly, Labour

lenders enjoyed the con- unable to work, and with no one fidence of the workers. to support them..

One Cold Night

spoke to one old man whose old- age pension was only 80 roubles a month, or the spending power of about 15.

TIE believed,

British workers, he thought, were living us Sovlet workers lived be- fore the revolution, in conditions in Britain at the similar to those

revolution. industrial revolut

He wanted to know if I thought there would be a war.

Husstans Most

asked

me this, baffled at the pos- seemed

I shall never forget one cold night seeing two elderly wamen. They working pneumatle

drills in Re- sibility of another war so soon.

want pe ce passionately, n always asking for assurances

volution Square. Such unskilled. The Russian people themselves

work is

is poorly paid. In Moscow there is always policeman in sight. They control this question, friend both traffic and pedestrians.

told my

and were

Dit

The way to get rid of American afd in atd 13 to make ourselves self supporting. But Mr Horner, if he is a good Communist, must oppose this as much as Marshall Aid."

A combination of Marshall Ald

the British and increased effort on the part of the countries of

of Europe could bring

Pedestrians

may cross the main wanted peace and the Government revived prosperity in a few years. rond only at crossings interspaced we working hard to assure it. But revived prosperity is precisely every 100 yards or so. To disobey One could not help but be amazed what the Communists do not want. means a fine of 10 roubles on the rt man in the street's Ignorance

So having failed to prevent the

#spot. Marshall

Plan from

Into coming operation, the Communist

W. J. BROWN, M.P. of Western Europe are out to dog-

14

Parties

troy its effects by precipitating strike and disorders. The French strike, it is estimated, is costing France all the help the is getting.

of life outside Russia.

SHE TRIES BRAINS

BY NUMBERS

Nowhere in the world has any nation accepted Communism as the result of free and open clcctions. And while Communist parties put up candidates for election to de- this iR. ал mocratic assemblies,

a throwing ol their part. merely Incense on the altars of allen gods. Long ago, the Communists saw

The Electrical Trades Union hope of sucEERS lay not in converting the masses to captured. So is the Firemen's Uniolt. frem, America,

The Amalgamated Engineering Communism, but in penetrating, At 2.30, 5.20. capturing and subverting the exist Union is heavily under Communist And of all influence. At least one Civil Service ing organs of society.

union is in the bag.. those organs the trade unions were

But, of all the unions, the Miners' tid of the former is besido the 7.20 & 9.20 p. easily the most important.

the most Important point. for Communist strategy, Shu

Shut the

nials plot to make the position of THE Ghost Club of Britain, which, in the 200's. Top scor is the 725: With 40,000,000 tons of coal more TWENTY votes in a Parliamentary pils and you sirut the factories tou.

usually confines its social activi- of Leonardo Da Vinci. Gandhi had.

and the sessions In 470,

Oxford. Groupers. But per annum we should be out of the non-Communists election matter little. twenty men on the executive com- red. With a few million tons less. then to supersede them. There istics to spook-laying mittee of a trade union might.con-

Communist position haunted houses or watching a film average 330-370. Which explains," we should have widespread une and that of the miners union,

about the Indian rope trick, has continued the doctor, "why people trol the actions of half a million ployment.

understand them." gap wider than the Channel which just had a different sort of dinner below that radiance rate could høver workers.

Mr Horner dew.

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For in, every union the Commu-

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by Eve Perrick

It was roast duck and "extra zen-

ters little, One man in suca Kot of penetration is not complete dards of life. It wants a prosperous sory perception" In the Dorchester & 80 percent.

That must be a lot of,seoplo, for of Europeans muster:

TN the Miners' Union the process

anti-Communist Britain.

So it supports increased mirrored Orchid Room for a handful only around 235.

of the

Da Vinci's randing, of course, was majority on the executive commit coal production and accepts Mar-160 including the guests)

to no. 1-k by the new machine. The club's 365 members. Present

shall Ald.

But the Communists have secured Horner, na secretary, is bound by applaud a Harley Street woman bram rays from his paintings were

of the posts as the secretaryship

ainers, the engineers, the electri, There clans, the railwaymen, etc., might matter a great deal.

Capture the essential officerships, the union. and you can capture

and Capture the union movement, thereafter, you need not much about General Elections,

"You choose Issues on which to the Government, you weaken the Government's authority by main

unrest, permanent taining a state of

the right At the

moment you estab- ilsh Action Committees in the factories, declare 2 general strike, ond bring the Government down.

The classic model of the strategy is Czecho-Slovakia.

throw the unions into conflict with

the difference

to that

of the wood, actress Mary Morris and speare's manuscripts of their

he

men-

a big success in getting Mr Horner'

that policy, But Horner, as Commu-doctor, her blometer, and her one picked up by packets of salt And appointed as the union secretary, worry and Mr Moffatt as chairman of the nist, owes first loyalty to his party, hour and 20 minutes after-dumner though it was not said in as many and the polley of that party is the speech, were author Algernon Black- words, the sait treatment on Shake- has almost Scottish miners.

Even when the Communist Party precise opposite

barrister Kow E, Shelley, KC.. the settled the old question

Butorship. Now the Bard's b.r. club's chairman. Was nominally supporting the pro- miners' union.

was only 525-all right for en actor, duction drive dificulties

Tho blometer, explained the but under that of the great, writers." emphasis caused

yon had 640, and even the Now the Communists have come

as well as politically disagree suring one's brain rate. It looks like Earl of Oxford got 508, openly out Into head-on opposition ST Communists are personally doctor, is an instrument for

n yard of polished wood, about six in the Government: They have con-, able. Horner is not. But were demned the Marshall Plan and re- twice as able and twice as likeable inches deep, inset with a steel rule this and a metal "diamond" at one end, pudlated Increased production. And as he is, it would not affect

pen issue. become embarrozzment has

open

whole But oh, what you can discover The issue challenges the rift.

While Lawther tries to get more trade union movement. It has been with a biometer. cool

in Britain, Horner pub- largely dodged until now. But the ur, itely.

In last declaration of policy of supports a coal strike Now in Britain the proces:

penetrating and capturing the France. And the two leaders have Communist Party makes it impos- unions, though much less advanced a clanging match in public, which slble to. dodge it any longer. than in Italy or France, has gone echoes round Europe and delight Britain must not become another

France the Kremlin.. a long way.

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