Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
WOULD SEND u. S.
ARMY TO RUSSIA
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sociates on the mission, Charles Ed
ward Russell suggested that Amer
lean troops be dispatched to the
eastern front for the moral effect on
the Russians.
Six special reports probably will
be submitted. Upon arrival in Rus
sia each commissioner was given 4
special assignment to cover some
particular branch of the new gov
ernment that he might give the
Russians advice and be of particu-
lar aid to United States officials up
on his return home.
Ihe assignments were as follows:
Mr.. Root, ministry; Charles Edward
Russell, Workmen's Council, political
parties and Socialists; Cyrus H. Nc
Cormick and Charles r. Bertron,
finance; James Duncan, labor; John
X. Mott and Charles r. Crane, reli-
glon; Major General Hugh L. Scott,
army; Rear Admiral James H. Glen
non, navy.
Workers to Do Share
Mr.. Duncan gave an outline of
some of the principal features of
his report to-day that he might set
at rest conflicting stories which
! have gone broadcast.
THE Russian workman certainly
will do his hare" Mr.. Duncan said.
He has done it already, and he is
entering into the spirit of the new
government with whole heart.
| When the scheme of government
finally Is routed out, he will be
found to have big hand in 1t and
he will discharge his duties proper
ly.,
Gradually the workingmen are
assimilating the idea of organization
and 1 expect them to round out
some sort of federation, embracing
both skilled and unskilled labor.
more similar perhaps to the British
system than to ours. While L was
! in Petrograd a meeting of twenty
| nine trades was held for the pur-
pose of organizing, and the men
listened with apparently keen in
terest to my explanation of how la
Dor operated its organizations in this
| country.
Still DazzIed
Russian workingmen are dazzled
| by their freedom to organize. OF
course under the Car they had no
labor Organizations because such
| bodies were regarded as revolution
ary and its members were subject TO
the severest penalties 1t is not UNI
usual for the workers to leave their
benches in the middle of the day,
call a meeting and advise their en-
ployers that they are displeased with
conditions.
Their street meetings are pecu-
liar. Guaranteed the liberty of
free speech, they. are making the
most of it. They have some heated
wrangles on street corners. At the
close of these debates, however, 1t is
customary for the leading belliger-
| ents to exchange cigarets, shake
hands and proceed to other meet
ings.
Lack Only Collars
"The eight-hour day, enforced
soon after the revolution, has great
| ly pleased the workers.
I'm many cases wages have been
raised a hundred per cent"
Describing the sessions of the
| Workmen's Council, in which he sat
almost daily, for a month, Charles
Edward Russell said it compared
very favorably with other similar
legislative bodies. The greater ap-
parent difference, he said, was in the
absence of laundered collars. Only
the newspaper reporters wore them,
he said.
lated" he said. There is no such
disorder as might be expected. While
there are more than 1000 members,
$40 with votes and 200 without
votes, they are under good control"
Their work practically completed,
the members of the mission plan to
leave for their homes within few
days.