The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-20
CF'ron1 The Dearborn Independent


 uation in Russia Is founded. The revolutions in all parts of the world during the past two decades have made the term dictatorship ia uilIar. We have seen, east and west north and south, men on horseback arise and declare themselves the heads of government. Mexico has had a succession of them, as have other parts of America.
 Russia is now under the strangest form of dictatorship the world has erer seeu-the dictatorship of the poorest class of the proletariat. The names Of Trotslky and Lentne appear as leaders, but the entire structure of the Russian Social Federated So wet Republic Is designed to bring the workers and peasants will 10 Una top. Whether the BolShevists meet the Allies in the Princes Islands VIII eventually be decided by the peasants who hold the vote. Lenine will sim ply send out the inquiry, shall we go?" and upon the majority reply all action will depend.
 To determine who comprise the dictatorship now ruling Russia it is only necessary to find who has the right to vote and who has not.
  liberals have not begun by granting .he ballot to everyone, but only to the workers Males and females eugagei in useful occupations and organized into trade councils are permitted to vote. This includes peasants who do uot hire help, all clerks of the Soviet government, all soldiers and sailors Of the Soviet government, and all CossacIs.
 The ballot is denied to the follow iEg classes: All who engage hired help to make profit; all who receive dividends from capital or property; all private business men or business agents; all members of religious com rGUniGes; all former detectives or agents of police; all members of the former royal dynasty; all deaf, dumb and insane persons; all who have been convicted of graft or miscon- duct
 That answers the question, Who compose the present Russian dictator ship?"
 With the voting rights go certain duties. t is one Of the slogans of the present regime, mo rights with out duties; no duties without rights" r. is ordered that an explanation Of duties shall be made with every proc Iamation of rights.
 The first aaty of 8 member of the new republic Is declared 10 be to fight with all means and power to es- ia bIish the complete rule of the working classes and crush by force any attempts against this.
 The second duty is that every citi zen shall do everything possible to decrease the disorganization caused by the war and the resistance of the upper and middle classes to the poor classes.
 The third duty is to get back to work and resume production at the earliest possible moment.
 The fourth duty is to forget per sonal interests in the group inter est
 The fifth duty Is to defend the so- viet government, which is described as "a new form of state" and the only sociaHstic footing for the people in the world"
 The sixth duty is to remember that the freeing of all the workers of the world Is the ideaI-an international brotherhood of working people.
 The seventh duty is to be patient during a time of transition, and to hasten to make such progress that soon the dictatoriaI form of govern uent may be abandoned for the smoothly working Soviet government and full socialistc cooperation.
 This first act of the dictatorship was to take control of a large part of the economic machinery of the country, the banks, the railroads, many of the industries. for the req son that only thus could the exploi- t-, 1ner social organization which made this exploitation possible was built upon private property as a founda- ton, hence the roofing up of this foundation. The theory was that pri- vate property. and the whole system of success by getting ahead of your neighbor was what induced the ex- ploitation of man by man, and of class by class.
 The first step taken was to make the country an Industrial unit, and to declare that all resources-land. forests, minerals, water supply, ani- uals and nachines-belong to the people.
 It was agreed that by all the peo- pie starting at the same level, with no economic advantage over one an other, they could rise together as cul- ture and prosperity increased. Pre- rier Lenine was to receive no more to live on than the peasant in the l fields or the man who cleaned rail way cars. They were all 10 i've 1 alike. --..E-.
 One of the earliest problems to be 1 faced was this: the skill to manage large undertak kings was largely in the hands of the disinherited class-''the 1 expropriators who had been expro- l rriated," as the revolutionary phrase | runs The poor workers who had | been prevented from rising for cen | turies. found that they had the fac ! tories and machinery on their hands | with no conception how to manage | them.
 So, to meet this situation, the SO l ctalisru of the present government was modified sufficiently to employ skilled managers out of the disinheri- ted classes at the only inducemen that class recognizes. namely, large salaries, and thus start industry go- ing again and begin the education o1 a class of socialist or peasant man agers.
 Many of the stories you have reac about the incompetercy Of the Rus