Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-12
COMMUNISTS MAKE UP TIE PRIVILEGED
 CLASS OF RUSSIA
Red Leaders Have All the Best of It in the Soviet
 Country

Omsk. Sept. 15. Via Vladivostok, Nov. II. (By the Associated Press.) Communists and their sympa- thizers constitute the privileged class of Bolshevik Russia, says M. F. Toon- in. formerly a small land owner, m the Samara district. Mr. Toonin has lived there under BOlshevlk rule since December 1918, but lately arrived a. Omsk. He gives an Illuminating de scription of life under the bolsheYik regime.
 The civil government of the Sa- mara section is in the hands of ar executive committee, he said. This committee controls supplies, lodgings, fuel and military affairs. The con- trol of production and manufacturing industries is subject to a Council of National Economy which is subord!- nate to the executive committee.
 The population is divided into four categories. The first of these is com- prised of Communists and their sym pathizers.
 The second category is composed of employees of Soviet institutions, the third of ordinary citizens and the fourth category of officers, ther families and the bourgeoisie, the for- merly middle class.
 Only Communists and their sympa- thizers enjoy the right of election to the Council of National Economy. To them are assigned the best homes and lodgings. Their property is not subject to requisition. Under the rationing system they are allowed one pound of meat day while none of the others receive more than one pound week Their full require ments of fuel is allotted to them while that of the other classes is cut one-half or less.
 The Communists are allowed thir- ty pounds of baked bread or flour q month while the allotment to the other classes ranges down from 9 pounds to nothing. Textiles and foot wear are permitted to Communists and Soviet employees only
 People of the fourth category, of ficers, their families and the bourge- oisie, have little or no rights. No food or fuel is rationed to them. Dr. dinary citizens, composing the third category, receive one-haf more than the rations allotted to the Commun- ists.
 All houses have been appraised and those valued at more than 10000 rubles are nationalized. Lodgings are distributed to the inhabitants and no distinction is made between house owners and lodgers. All pay alike, the established rate for lodgings.
 The houses of commissioners and their friends are virtually exempt from Appraisal The belongings of all people, even their clothing and effects are listed Each person. is allowed to have chair, some plates, a spoon, fork, etc, and two changes of linen. The rest is taken away and put in warehouses. There are no ar ticles Of household utility nor cloth ing on the market and none is pro- duced. Ile Soviet controls the dis tribution f necessaries from the warehouses,
 Revolts against requistioning of their products are frequent among the peasants, but they are put down with the utmost cruelty. Toonin says that in Stavropol such revolt re- suited in the massacre of 6,000 per sons, men, women and children.
 Factories are shut down for lack of fuel and raw materials and workmen who faced starvation were driven to serve in the Red army.