Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-02
Soviet Government Tries to
PIacate Them by Appoint
ing Members Of Sex to High
Cabinet Positions.
IMMORAL REGULATIONS
CAUSE PLAN TO FAIL
Woman Minister of Education
Responsible for Plan of
Smothering Maternal Love
Throughout Nation.

Warsaw, Feb. 27 (Thursday, by the
Associated Press. 1.-The Russian So
Wet government is carrying on cam
paign to secure the support of women
throughout Russia, according to refu-
gees from Moscow. Nine. Radek, wife
of Karl Radek, the chief Boishevik
agent in Germany, is prominent in
this work and is trying to attract the
attention OF women by having them
take positions in the ministries and
colleges. Premier Lenine is declared
to have made this remark TO Nine.
Radek:
IF Bolshevism fails it will be be-
cause we could not get the mass of
women interested"
Women refugees who have arrived
here rarely complain of the general
treatment of women under Bolshevill
rule in Petrograd and Moscow.
In the provinces of Saratov Nolga
and vladimir the soviets declared
that men and women had equal rights
and also that if a person of either sex
was not married, they were ob..ged to
accept the first offer made publicly
through selections made by consulting
names posted at soviet headquarters.
The children of such marriages, it was
deCreed, were to become the property
of the state.
scheme of One Woman.
II was on this theory, il is declared,
that the childless Nine. Kollontay Ca
prominent Bolshevik), Dobenko, at
one time the Boshevik minister OF
, marine Nine Kollontay believed
= that the children of the bourgeoisie, il
educated by the state, would grow up
with Bolshevik ideas. She also de-
vised a plan to eliminate maternal
affection by forcing mothers at child
ron's institutions to nurse inulscrlmi-
nately any children there who were
not their own. While she was minis
ter of education Nine. kollontay, it !:
said, was responsible for a number o1
such schemes.
The Bolsheviki attempted to please
women by the establishment OF
amusement centers in the cities anc
towns but this was counteracted by
the fact that the Bolsheviki closed the
stores and naticnalized women
clothes The women also held aloot
from Bolshevism because Of the diff
culties the soviet government threw
around housekeeping. The peasant
women were often beaten by theil
The wives of the Bolshevik leader
often were openly against Bolshe'
vism owing to the clothes question
With their new found wealth the
women wish to make a display and
even Premier Lenin, who is obliged
to use an automobile to go about, ha
been criticised.
Girl Refused to Shovel.
Nine. Lillina, the wife of Zinovieff
the Petrograd commander, is one o
those who have been delegated to viii
over the mothers to Bolshevism. Sh
has been making a special effort t
get food for the children, but has beef
having a difficult task as food ha
been very scarce.
During a heavy snow storm in Mos
cow this winter every person wa
obliged to do his or her share of shov
cling snow in the streets. Miss isabelle
Lutistavsky, the daughter of Prof
Vincent Lutistavsky, of the UniVer
sity of Paris, refused to obey the or
ders She told the Bolshevih tha
they might arrest her, but she woul'
not shovel snow. She carried he
point, but was later advised to leave
which she did, coming to Warsaw.
Bolshevik laws have led to ludicrou
results. A story is told in connectio
with the manner in which wome
servants do as they please. In Smc
lensk a bachelor household tried
discharge his cook, but she refused
leave On the advice of Bolshevi
friend, the bachelor filed a declare
ton that he had married his cook. II
then filed second declaration that h
had divorced her and he was then le
galy within his rights in forcing he
to depart.