Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-08-28
AMERICA WARNED
BY RUSS SOCIALIST
Workingmen Brought to Ruin by
BoIshevism, He Says.
SEES OPPOSITION AT HOME
Description of the Situation There is
Told by a Member of the Second
Duma-RecentIy Escaped
From Prison.

Washington, Aug. 25.-OHlclal ad-
vices here state that the Russian So
cialist, revolutionary and member OF
the second duma, G. A. Alexinsky, VINO
recently escaped from Russia after un-
dergOing ten months imprisonment at
the hands of the bolsheviki, has writ
ten description of the present STU
alton in Russia.
According to this information" the
report says, 'in spite Of the terrible
conditions of life and the fact that
the bolshevist spying system is quite
as we'll organized .as was that OF the
old regime, a great deal Of cryptic ac-
tivity is going on in anti-bolshev1st
circles.
cat present three considerable or
CARNATIONS have united against the
bolshevists namely, the League OF
Russia's Regeneration, the National
Center and the Committee of Public
Men. These represent all the groups
from Octoberists to social revolution
aries, inclusive.
"Alexinsky is deputed to represent
these united organizations, and he
states that their policy is to support
Admiral Kolchak, with whom they are
in regular communication through
couriers. They have only one point
in view: that those who are not with
.Kolchak are with Lenine.
"Frequent attempts Of bolshevists to
relieve their isolation by arranging
contact with the socialist revolution
aries and the social democratic in
ternationalists have failed, and the
members of these parties have been
imprisoned, with the exception of two.
All the left socialist-revolutionar
are still in prison and Maria Spirido-
nova is kept in madhouse.
'The prestige of Kolchak continues
to grow among the wOrkmen, and a
sure sign of their bitter discomfort is
the amending cOmmOtiOn among the
hands in works and factories.
Nations Labor Decimated.
'The economical measures of the
bolshevist government have complete
ly ruined the larger industries, and OPP
eratiOns have ceased at most OF the
mills. There are now only 2,OOO,OOO
workmen left out -of 100000. Two
thirds of the industrial proletariat of
Petrograd have disappeared. In this
way the idiotic policy Of the Russian
bolsheviks is destroying the labor
movement.
"This," says Alexinsky, fought to be
made known to all socialist parties
and syndicalist organizations of Eu-
rope and America, in order that the
bolshevist regime may be properly
weighed in the balance with respect
to the interests of the organized prOle-
tariat.
"Bolshevism has not benefited the
real and true proletariat, but only the
rascally proletariat; bolshevist social
ism is not prOletarian socialism, but
socialism Of rascality. This it not
understood by the better elements of
the Russian proletariat.
Before Alexinsky left Moscow on
May 3 he managed an important Sec
ton of the general labor confedera-
ton (all-Russia central council OF
professional unions of workmen). He
is therefore able to state that the Rus
sian syndicalist movement has been
enormously damaged by the bolsheviks
and that the syndicals, instead of be.
ing a rampant in the struggle for the
interests of the working masses, have
become simply bureaucratic officers
serving the interests of the governing
clique"