The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-31
RUSSIAN SOVIETS OUT
GROW EXCLUSIVENESS
Are Admitting the Intelligent Glass
Anarchist Terror Has Been Stopped
and Arbitrary Executions Give
Way to Formal Trials.

Vladivostok, March 20 Correspond
ence of the Associated Press The fun
damentsl principle of the bolsheviki that
the sOviets as organs Of revolutionary
dictatorship must be the strict expires
sion of class government is undergoing
marked changes, according to member
Of the Moscow All Russian Central Co
operative association. He summarized
the situation when he left Moscow as
follows;
Russians of the intelligent class were
being induced to work in the soviets and
in other organizations for restoration
Of the normal course Of life. The an.
srchist terror which had prevailed since
October had been stopped and arbitrary
executions, in some cases, had given way
to preliminary legal investigations and
trials.
The intelligentzia and some Of the Of
fieers, under the influence of hunger and
want, had relinquished the tactics Of
sabotage Others who were inclined TO
do likewise were yacllating on account
Of doubts as to the durability Of the
soviets and because they feared the con
sequences under new regime.
The economic policy was essentially
the same as before. Naturalization of
ammunition factories and of financial in
stitutions was continued. Former ad-
ministrators of factories participated in
the management as members of factory
committees. Small enterprises had been
left in the hands of their owners, who
worked in contact with factory commit
tees OF their districts. Many factories
and mills were closed. Life was sus-
tanned by drawing up wealth previously
accumulated.
1t was then reported that the soviet
army would be increased TO three mil
lion men by spring. 1t was being trans.
formed into a disciplined army. Army
committees had been abolished and for
mer officers were being attracted TO serv-
ice. The system OF election OF officers
was being supplanted by appointments
by chiefs who had full charge of direct
ing operations. Commissars represented
the soviet political authority
Public education was superintendent bv
a commissariat and by a special body
tional sections OF labor organizations
Many new schools were being opened
Science and art were being adapted to
the understanding of the masses, A
great deal of arior and temperament
we're shown but very little system The
Moscow university which formerly at,
tracted hundreds Of workingmen was
attended only by dozens.
The attitude toward cooperative or.
CARNATIONS has changed. Owing to the
results of disastrous experiments which
have destroyed private commercial en-
terprise and failed TO replace it with
something else, the bolsheviki have be-
gun TO regard the stability of the coop.
eratves with good will Special DEGREES
have been issued protecting them from
soviet interference. They are receiving
big orders for the supply Of various dis.
tricts with articles of necessity. The
turnover of capital of the Central Coop
erutiye association for the year exceeded
one billion rubles The soviet govern
ment has proposed TO the association to
undertake to supply the whole country.
The workers co-operatives asserted their
right to direct the activity of the asso-
citation and succeeded in electing one
third of the directors.
The National bank, the financial center
Of the co-operatiyes, has been national
ized but measures have been taken to
render realization of the reform less
painful" All employees have been re-
tanned and the direction is entrusted to
a conference of eo-operatives, CORE
spending roughly to a meeting of stock
holders. Under such organization nor
NAL banking operations may easily be
restored.
The relator concludes with a summary
of the general situation, which he de-
scrbes as catastrophe"
Transportation facilities, he said, are
going from bad to worse, Foodstuffs are
scarce. Articles in store are being con
sumed and are not being replaced Star
walton and epidemics are exterminating
entire villages.