Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08
HOW B0LSHEV|K RULE
IS WORKING IN RUSSIA
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fancy after the years on the laborers'
bench. Averaging that this was indeed
the life. they bowed sagely one to
another. and sat them down. The
stage was set for the industrial con-
tribution to the era of a bolshevist
paradise. So it was throughout the
factories. works and foundries of
at hand.
The wheels of the factory proper
work man. with his newly acquired
distinctions, couldn't be expected to
work with the fervor Of old days
when he was dependent upon his per-
sonal efforts for the existence Of his
family. He was a part owner now,
and sweat was unbecoming to his
brow. But still the wheels down.
stairs continued to turn.
Neither Inclination Nor Ability.
Upstairs it was different. The bust
ness soviet. luxuriating in their new
offices. had neither the inclination
nor the ability to cope with the
banal problems Of accounting or the
humdrum phases of purchase, pro-
duction and distribution. The wheels
downstairs consumed the raw prod
ucts on hand and stopped. while their
operators took a holiday. Expense
accounts for the operations to date
were forwarded upstairs, as in the
past, with a request, Naturalization
more raw materials and q suggestion
that the yards be cleared Of finished
products on hand.
CONSERVATION upstairs. Where and
how did one get raw materials?
Whittier did one dispatch finished
tn IA
provide for this unexpected advance
budget? The 'brains' of the factory
scratched their puzzled heads, and
stumbled ahead as best they might.
1t was so much harder than the work
at the old bench. They wallowed in
rection. The factory's expenditures
grew colossally while its productivity
declined in worse ratio to the growth
of it's expenses.
There were weeds, plenty OF them,
in this promised paradise.
Cites Kishtym District.
But to be specific let US take. for
example. the Kishtym district Of the
Urals. which produced. until taken
over by the soviet, about one third Of
all the copper mined in Russia. or
100000 pools "a pood being q Slavic
measure equaling thirty-six pounds)
II.
During the bolshevist administration.
from December, 1917. to June, 1918, q
period of six months. the districts
output was $4,000 pools. i.e.. the pro-
duction fell to 5000 pools month
simultaneously. the expenses. with the
same number of workers employed.
grew from $4,000 rubles to 100000
rubles per month approximately
ITO per cent. The cost Of producing
IS rubles to So. while tho hxed mar
ket price Of copper remained 81 rubles
remained thirty-two roubles per pood.
per pood. In other words, every pood
Of copper produced represented loss
of IS rubles.
Yielded $4,000, 900 Foods; Closed.
Or to specify again: The Nadsshdin
works in the Bogoslov mining dis
ore districts in the Urals, with its nine
dynamos and six Martens furnaces,
yielded annually 100000 pools of
iron. In January. 1913. only six
dynamos were working. in Febru-
only three. and by the end Of Sep
tember. 1913. tho works were closed
down. There was no ore. no coal,
no manganese orc left. Tho old
stores had been consumed. and the
Pof "ao lo1I WbShOuI "0Ik
and food. to famish and die from hun
ger and typhus.
A comparatively recent letter from
the district states that the natives
were deyouring dogs and oats, and
were making bread out Of q mixture
of oats and willow bark.
A third example; The Cheliabinsk
coal mines, which until Nationalist
ton" had had an output of 10000, 900
pools a years., ooo,o 600 monthiy-had
yielded from January to May. 1913. an
The average number of shifts fell
from twenty-five to eight month.
and the y-eight-hour week was
thus reduced to eight hours.
Decline Everywhere.
And SO evarywhere. The provisional
government of the Urals found. after
the bolsheviki had vacated that Sec
before the canning Of the bolshsyiEi
only 20 were in operation upon their
departure. A colossal decline in pro-
ductien and corresponding increase
In expenditures took place through
The bolshevist ''soeialistio solution OF
the labor problems" with it's herald
ed development of productive foroes"
and characterization of labor" wasn't
even boomerang, 1t started back
wafo IRON tho TAKE on ana picked up
speed as II slid to it's inevita BILE end,
The paradise of a "sociaiistio re-
public" turned into an evil jungle,
whore wanders today the bewildered
peasantry Of Russia, deprived OF the
services of science and knowledge
seeking the light which may guide
them out, Toll that to tho parlor red
who next crosses your path through
the hemely truck garden Of oid-time
prosperity. and Let him know that
you are moro interested In facts
which disprove theories than in theo-
ries which distert facts.