Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-01
CLAIM LEVINE
DEPENDS UPON
WOMEN'S HELP
Without Their support BNlsHeYism
Fa:is-NaTTiage and Child
Raising Revised.

Warsaw. Thursday, Feb. 27.-( (By
the Associated Press THE Rus
sian Soviet government is carrying
on popular campaign to secure
the support OF women throughout
Russia, according TO refugees
reaching here from Moscow. Nine.
RaGek, wife of Karl Radek, the
chief BoIshevik ag snt in Germany,
is taking prominent part in this
work and with other women is try
ing TO attract the attention of the
large mass OF women hy having
won IN take positions in the minis
tries and colleges.
Premier Lenine Is declared TO
have made this remark to Nine
Radek:
IF Bolshevism fails it will be
because we could not get the mass
Of women interested"
The Bolshevik leaders, It is said.
were prompted by the invita- ion
from the supreme council in Paris
to attend the proposed conference
on the Princes islands, the Bolshe-
vik believing that they were being
given chance to test their tbeO-
ISO ~ I1C blJtCI Gnu.
Promise Food and Clothes.
Many intelligent women are re-
ported to he cooperating with Le-
nine and Trotsky, but so far they
have pointed out vatnly that II will
be impossible to win the support
of the women as long as religion
is fiaunted and as long as divorce
is made so easy. The Soviet prop
aganda bureau is putting out no
tices that with spring will come
food and clothes. They also harp
on the prospects for peace. as it is
peace, above all. that the women
and peasants want
Women refugees who have arriv-
ed here rarely complain of the gen
erai treatment of women under
Rolsheyiki rule in Petrograd and
Moscow. There have been some
individual cases of mistreatment
and of grief resulting from the
murder OF fathers, brothers or sons.
According to the refugees and re-
ports there has been no general
application of the much advertised
easy divorce and easy marriage
regulations The province of Tu1la
made an attempt to nationalize wo-
men. but nothing came of it. The
same result followed similar de
cree issued in Moscow.
Reds Mistreat Women.
However, women have frequently
been subjected to mistreatment. as
illustrated in the town of Briansk.
Troops of the Red Guard army.
when they arrived there, requisf-
toned so unmarried women and SO
married women and women of the
nobility In the province of Sara
TOW. Volga, and CIadimir. the So
viets declared that men and women
had equal rights and also that if
a person of either sex was not mar
ried they were obliged to accept
the first offer made publicly
through selections made by CON
sulting names posted at Soviet
headquarters. The children OF such
marriages, it was decreed, were to
become the property of the state.
1t was on this theory. it is de-
clared, that the childless Nine Kol-
lontay Ia prominent Bolshevikl
married Debenko, at one time the
Bolshevik minister of marine Nine.
Kollontay believed that the chill
dren of the bourgeoise, If educated
by the state, would grow up with
Bolshevik ideas. She also devised
plan to eliminate maternal sf-
fection by forcing mothers at chill
dren's institutions to nurse ind;s-
criminately any children there who
were not their own