Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-02
RUSSIA STARTS
CAMP AIGN FOR
AID OF WOMEN
Nine. Radek, Wife of Chief
BOIShevik Agent in Germany,
Prominent in Work; Many
Others Cooperate.

Warsaw. March 1.-(By Associat-
ed Press. THE Russian soviet gov
eminent is carrying on a campaign
TO secure the support Of women
throughout Russia, according to
refugees from Moscow. Nine, RAJ
dek, wife of Karl Radek, the chief
bolshevik age~t 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 Le-
nine 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"
Many intelligent women are re-
ported to be cooperating with Le-
nine and Trotzky, but they point out
that it will be impossible to win the
support of the women as long as re-
ligion is Haunted and as long as di-
vorce is made so easy.
Promise Food in Spring.
The soviet propaganda bureau is
putting out notices 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 arrived
here rarely complain of the general
treatment of women under bolshe-
vik rule in Petrograd and Moscow.
According 10 the refugees and re-
ports there has been no general APP
plication of the much advertised
easy divorce and easy marriage regu-
lations. The province of Tula made
an attempt to nationalize women,
but nothing came of it. The same
result followed similar decree is
sued in Moscow.
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, requisitioned %
unmarried women and 90 married
women and women of the nobility.
In the provinces of Saratov, Volga
and Vladimir the soviets declared
that men aud women had equal
rights and also that if a person of
either sex was not married they were
obliged 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.
Nine. KolIentay Marries.
It was on this theory, it is de-
clared, that the childless Nine. Kol-
lontay Ga prominent bolshevik) mar
ried Debehko, at one time the boil
shevik minister of marine Nine.
Kollontay believed that the children
Of the bourgeoise, if educated by
the state, would grow up with boil
shevik ideas. She also devised a
plan to eliminate maternal affection
by ofrcing mothers at children's in
stitutions to nurse Unfortunately
any children there who were not
their own. While she was minister
OF education Nine. Kollontay, it is
said, was responsible for number
81 such schemes,
The bolsheviki attempted to
please women by establishing
amusement centers in the cities and
towns, but this was counteracted by
the fact that the bolsheviki closed
the stores and nationalized women's
clothes. The women also held aloof
from bolshevism because of the diff
fculties the soviet government
threw around housekeeping. The
peasant women were often beaten
BY their husbands because of the
lack of food. The wives of the boil
sheviS leaders often were openly
against bolshevism owing to the
clothes question. With their new
found wealth the women wish to
make a display and they also had
difficulties in obtaining silks, gloves
and other fnery.
Object to Display.
mere mas uCGH ulttCl 4SS4AAe
about every kind of display, and
even Premier Lenine, who is obliged
to Use an automobile to go about
has been criticised.
Nine. Lillian, the wife of Zinovi-
eff, the Petrograd commander, is
one of those who have been dele
gated to win over the mothers to
bolshevism. She has been making
special effort to get food for the
children, but has been having a diff
iicult task, as food has been very
scarce.
During a heavy snowstorm in
Moscow this winter every person
was obliged to do his or her share
of shoveling snow in the streets
Miss Isabelle Lutistavsky, the
daughter of Prof. Vincent Lutis-
tavsky, of the University of Paris.
refused to obey the order. She told
the bolsheviki that they might ar
rest her, but she would not shovel
snow. She carried her point but
was later advised to leave, which
she did, coming to Warsaw.