Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-30
SOCIALISTS TO RUN
RUSSIAN FACTORIES
Will Operate All Plants and Pay
Owner or 6 Per Cent, Is
Trotzky's Plan.

New York, April 2S correspondence Of
The Associated Press ~ Profits of Rus
sian factory owners arc to be limited to
five or siX per cent on their investment
and the manufacturers are to be required
10 reinvest quarter of their profits
under the Bolshevik economic plan rs
outlined by Leon Trotzky. now Russian
minister of war and marine, in an inter-
view with Professor +. A. Ross of the
University of Wisconsin
Professor Ross WAS sent to Russia by
the American Institute Of Social Service
to study the social conditions OF that
country and has reported has conclusions to
the institute The Bolshevik revolution
took place while Professor Ross was
in Russia Trot7ky was foreign minister
when he explained tho BolShevlk economic
program
is it the intention Of your party to
dispcsSess the owners of industrial plants
in Russia? Professor Ross asked him.
No Trotzky replied We are not
ready vet to take over all industry.
That Will come in time. but no one can
sav how soon. For the present, We expect
out of the earnings Of 8 factory to pay
actual investment What we aim al now
Is FOfiITOl TAAiltI AIlAi ON
What do YOU mean by control?
Il mean that We viii see to II that the
factory is run not from the point Of view
81 private profit but from the point Of
view OF social welfare democratlcaIly
conceived For example, We viii not
allow the capitalist to shut up his factory
in order to starvc his workmen into sub
missiVencSS or because II IS not Welding
him 3 profit II il IS turning out eco
onncallv a needed product il must be KEEP
running If the capitalist abandOns II he
will lose it altogether for q board Of
directors chosen by the workmcn will be
put in charge
Again control implies that the books
and correspondence Of the concern will be
open to the public SO that hencciorth
there will be no industrial secrets.
DO YOU propose that the profits
earned 10y a concern shall be divided
among its workers asked the professor
No. said Trotzky, proht-sharing Is
bourgeois notion. The workers IN a mill
will be paid adequate wages. All the
profits earned will belong 10 society Il
is only pure profit that would be divided.
w here will the money come from
that will build new factories?
We can impose on the capitalist to
W0OIn We allow q UiNi1c0Q OF I'VE OF SIN
per cent on his capital the obligation TO
reinvest in some industry a part say %
per cent Of what he receives.
IF in Russia you hold the capitalists
down to tive or SIX per cent while IN other
countries they can hope for twice or
thrice as much return. won't Russia be
stripped of capital?
They wont be allowed to remove their
capital from Russia al will, said Trotzky
significantly.
Il submitted this Bolshevik program
to various Russian economists and all
agreed that the Russian workmen are too
ignorant and short-sightcd to conform to
the sound principles which may be held
10y their leader, added Professor Ross.
CONSCIOUS of being masters Of the indus
trial properties, they will not submit
themselves TO indispensable discipline
They will not follow the counsel Of tech
meal men and they VIII eat up the
capital, 50 that before the factories have
been long in their hands il will be IN
possible to keep them going