Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-11
RUSSIA NOW RULED
BY CRIMINAL CLASS
Bolshcviki Government Made Up
Of Released Felons Seeking
All-Pay- No Work.

professor, of Socialist leanlngs, who made
long tour in Russia recently, declares
the active followers of the Bolshcvik
leaders are composed III great part of
an immense swarm of prisoners. These,
he. saws, are not the political criminals
that warrcd against the Gar but ac
tual ielons who when the Revolution
took place, were released from prisons
in Siberia Pctrograd, Moscow and other
places General \. Dobraiansky gives
many specific instances of cX-convIcts
and former JailbirdS who are now ut the
head Of various Soviets or who occupy
other powerful positions under the Boil
shcvik Government When freed from
mlson the first thing they did was TO
burn police and court buildings con-
tanning their criminal records. With
those, discriminating documents destroyed.
they boldly put themselves forward as
political martyrs, confident that no papers
could be produced proving their criminal
careers. MANY OF them had been CON
victed Of robbery and n number for muir
der Th chairman of the Workmens
and Soldiers Council at Tambotf was
hfe-tcrmcr released from Siberia, where
he had been sent for - murders which
he admitted.
ARMY TURNED INTO \ NOR.
they vested all authority IN the hands
OF these committees. The utter de
moraliEation of the Russian army at the
instigation of Germany Is wCll-known.
The scheme of the soldiers clccting their
officers DESTROYED all discipline and turn
ed the army into mob. The real officers
were degraded into cooks and scavcngers
and the men who talked the loudcst
and fastest were elected officers In any
army such n scheme would be thoroughly
destructivc, but 1t was especially so In
the Russian army, where of every 10000
soldiers 6.ll0 were ilhterate.
Although thi IllItcracy was general
the Bolshevlki went ahead 10 apply the
elective committee system 10 every in
dustry. Only four per cent of the Rus
sian people have been 10 public schools
and about 65 or is per cent Of the entire
population Is IllItcratc. Most Of the
Russian people arr peaSants-fullv al
Of cverv .0o0-and only 10 per cent OF
the people are industrial.
USEFUL MEN REMOVED.
\ backward country. Russia had few
wnough administrators who knew how To
manage factories, banks railroads, street
car systems and other utilities. These
comparatively few experts were promptly
disposed al by degrading them To mcnlals
or by removing them by summary or
violent methods Thus happened not
only in industry but IN hospitals and all
other institutions In No Cnion oi
Towns Hospital-one of the largest hos
pitalS in Pctrogad n sell constituted
committee composed oi WATERS, !anltorS.
nurses, ScrubmCn and vardmcn deposed
the chief doctor, made him Scruhman
and elected scrIbman chief doctor
~ IL Ia.
enough for the patients. This Is merely
one instance of large number Of similar
instances.
''Sovicts have been the great craze
narratcs Professor Grondys Every
great apartment house has 2 Soviet
Every factory was put under the domi-
nation al so-callcd Council of Workmcn
/ personally saw the application of thor
theories IN many factories. For example 4
IN koopp' agricultural machine factory al
Alexandrohsky, they voted 10 make
koopp an cmployc 81 500 ruhle> month
and made particularly loud talking
workman director 81 the factory Every
day they held meetings III the factory.
read newspapers, during work hours.
and did not work more than four and i
half hours day But they voted them
selves salary increase OF from $40 - 600
per cent.
PAID WITH STOLEN FUNDS.
Where did they get the funds Thcv
rified the factory vaults. and after tAcy
were empty, took hoopp private funds
hv force al arms They ~,lzed and dis
trlbutcd about 1000 600 r4s!c~ among
themselves When these were gone
the factory would have had Is close own,
If the Germans had now stepped III
restored koopp's property T. h-u
"AiauV Of he Technical staff oi tho lac
tories were killed on tho charge of fhclr
icing 'bourgcoIsle Many other adnunls-
traitors. experts, foremen and Others fed
Still Others OF tho factory technical stats
were ordered to 80 10 the factories. and
If they refused were shot on the spot
Nearly all o. the factories IN Russia have
been discontinued
The Soviet system doesn't represent
the peoples will Il Is forced on the
people There are no real elections The
Bolsheviki use the Red Guards to pack
assemblies and force their candidates
Voters are exclusively Bolshcylki, and
only Bolshcviki Or those claiming 10 have
no property are eligible to Office But as
q matter Of fact many oI The BolshcvlkI !
have amassed money IN all my tour !
mot only few oi hem who were honest
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS DESTROYED.
How the great Industrial plants Of Pet /
io.grad and Moscow have been virtually Z,
des' royed y told IN detail by Lieutenant I.
Borls Brasol The Oboukhoysky steel /
Works. near Petrograd, employed 1900
men IN 1916 making guns arIuor and mu-
nitIons for the Russian government The E
average mechanics wages were 700 10
500 rubleT $3.50 10 $500 month
When the BolsheY'Ikl began 10 apply
their theories. they INTRODUCED shop com
mittees, which. IN fact, were not com
posed OF workmen. but oi outside agi-
tators. Not a single instruction would /
be gwen by the technical staff, but what I
shop meetings would al once be called .
during hours oil work 10 discuss them and .
decide upon them Every day long and .
noisy meetings We're held, for which time
the worknen insisted upon being paid
Often they would refuse to follow IN
structions because, they held the tech T
meal staff were their -cnenles The Z
men didn actually work more than a
few hours day, and # there Was a pro-
eession, which was frequent. they Wouldn +
work at al. Gut they would rush 10 take /
part IN il Yet within four months they +
bad received from the Navy Depart 4
meilt an increase In their pap of 90. 900 900 I
rubl,e Notwithstanding then efficiency
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