East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-11

Red Army consists TO a considerable
extent OF unframed and undisciplined
soldiers and almost entirely lacks
heavy artillery; consequently. tho Ru.
manians. Serbs and Cxechs do not en-
counter amy resistance worth mention.
Ing. althoagh the Soviet government Is
rallying all available men to defrend
Hungarian Boishevism. Besides. the
SxelSely troops, as well as numerous
peasants and bourgeois have Joined
the Runnanians. forming white
guards" and marching upon Budapest
Vincent Macy, minister OF the Interior
in the Garolyi government. and Ga
hriel Usron, minister of the interior
in the Wekerle vabine, a Czetkely by
birth. are mentioned as the leaders of
the anti-revolution.
\ All Are Prolctarians
/ Meanwhile, the Soviet government
continues to publish one order after
another. There is, however, appoint in
the Soviet program, which. while
hardly known in America and in the
lrest of Europe. is surely the most re-
,markable and most characteristic fact
about Hungarian Bolshevism. 1t is
the way of moulding all classes into
one uniform class, viz that of the pro-
iletarians. The first step in this direc-
ltion taken by the Hungarian Soviet
government was the granting of spec
iial economic and political privileges to
iorganized workmen. 1t was declared
that there are both physical and
i"mental'' workmen. and that only the
organized among them wSuld be ad-
mitted the above privileges. Conse-
,,-n, .,f
n considera BILE disadvantage through
mot being organized, now speedily
formed their own trade union. there
by becoming organized proletarians" p"
Thus physicians journalists, writers,
servants, bank clerks, schoolmasters,
artists, in word practically everybody
formed their trade, unions. The or
ganization of trade unions of mer-
lchants. lawyers, and, of course capi-
talists. was not permitted. As to these
Soviet system claims g. have means
at its disposal whereby to achieve
their absorption into the solitary class
of communistic society. BY depriving
capitalists and aristocrats of their
means. Bolshevism claims it forces
them to apply for employment and
thus to become workers" This APP
pllSS dlSO 10 tIlt IleTCndDlS, WHO Will
be employed with the different estab-
Ilishments for the distribution of food.
clothing and other goods and to
! the lawyer, who now have to look out
for new occupation Thus it was
that subject OF state, William Lers,
n man over so, has become student
of medicine and is now freshman at
Budapest University.
Propaganda Wide Spread
Another special feature of Bolshe-
vism here is the organizations of wide
spread propaganda. The leaders of
Icommunistic Hungary know perfectly
well that the existence of Communism
in this country is only safeguarded If
it spreads all over Europe and if the
neighboring peoples establish it. too
Consequently. an efficiently organized
propaganda is being carried on, both
in the country, chiefly among foreign
ers, and abroad. Apart from the
strenuous work of the special school
agitators.'' which produces fifty
trained communistic agitators per
week, there are special courses for
German, Austrian, Czech. Jugo-Slav.
Rumanian. Italian. Russian. Bulgarian
Turkish and Russian subjects. who,
De1ore returning TO JnelF respective
countries, are carefully trained in the
doctrines of Marx, Engels, Lenine and
Trotsky.
A serious difficulty arises from the
shortage of food which is growing
every day This has a two-fold reason:
first, the most fertile parts of the
country are occupied by the Ruman-
ians, Serbs and Czechs: second. the
peasants do not send enough food to
the capital, although the government
made considerable concessions to them
even at the cost of giving up an i'm
portant item of the communistic pro-
gramme, viz, the communication of
all landed. property, large or small.
by issuing a proclamati ton to say that
the peasants owning less than 10
Hungarian acres of land remain law
full owners of their estate.
One change is chasing another: and
meanwhile the distance between the
Bolshevik capitol and the Rumanian.
Serb and Czech armies becomes less
and less.