Evening star., 1920-03-14
GO BACK TO WORK..
TRDTSKY'S DECREE
TO HIS FOLLOWERS
Utopian Methods Banished
as BoIshevik Russia
Faces Necessity.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.


Dreams of leisure days and pleas
| ure-f1lled nights haven't come true in
soviet Russia. Instead the rugged
hand of discipline which, like the
governing classes Of the past, threat
ems severe punishment to the Stacker.
is yoking millions Of workmen in an
army of toll
News from the inside of Russia is
rare. Communication is difficult. But
budget of information has just come
from authentic sources and through
inquestioned channels. 1t tells of re-
generation inside Russia. not by the
nebulous programs and utopian meth
DDS so long preached by the dema-
gogues. but by the familiar process
of conscription and enforced labor.
from the soviet military forces are
working Sundays and overtime on
weekdays. Even women in the Petro-
grad section are assisting. Profess
sional unions are registering qualified
workmen. Idlers find no comfort in
sia-a program of get back to work.
Trotsky Proclamation.
Comrade Trotsky himself as presi
dent of the revolutionary war coun-
ell. signs the proclamation ordering
the first revolutionary army to work.
He exhorts his followers to show in
defatigable energy" in their work,
''as much as if it. were a combat or
Il fight
After referring to the necessity for
the production and collection of food
supplies. Trotsky says,
Spring is coming. This is the sea
son OF agricultural work. AS the
productive force Of our factories has
lessened. the number of new farm i'm
plements which can be delivered has
become insufficient. The revolution
airy labor army will employ it's work
shops. as we'll as its workmen' IN or
der to repair such tools and machinery
as are needed. When the season ar
rives for work. in the fields the red
cavalry and infantry will prove that
they know how to plow the cart
The results are already beginning
to show in cleaning up the territory
controlled by the bolsheviki: Condi-
tions IN Petrograd especially have
been improved.
To conscribtion can be attributed an
increase of 80 per cent in the labor
force available for the bolshevik gov
ernment. With conscription goes in
tensive education. In Moscow cam
paign has been begun against lint
eracy. The bolshevik leaders have
raised the slogan, "Illiteracy is the
worst legacy of autocracy. After
certain dates no illiterates will be al
lowed in the membership of trades
unions. They must learn to read and
write, though they will be paid for
the time spent in studying.
Numbers to Be Enrolled.
From the conscription process the
supreme committee in charge states
that this years requirements neces-
state the enrolment of 100000 quail
flied laborers and moro than 100000
unskilled laborers. Individuals must
be ready to proceed to any place at
any time, just the same as the Sc
lective draft law was operated by the
United States in time of war. /
All persons between the ages of
eighteen and fifty have been required
to register for work. Out of the total
number. mechanics and workmen ia
miliar with the production OF equip
ment needed in transportation were
promptly put to work in rolling
stock factories. Large bodies of SOL
diers were mobili3ed to saw timber
and produce agricultural machinery
and mend farm implements.
1.-The revolutionary tribunals" says
Trotsky's order, SHOULD punish the
lazy and the parasites and the thieves
of national property. CONSCIENTIOUS
soldiers workmen and revolutionary
peasants should be in the first rank.
Their bravery and devotion should
serve as an example to others and
inspire them to act similarly
The bolshevik experiment still con-
tinues But the latest information
from inside the revolution-torn coun-
try shows that it is not the Russia of
the soap-box orator nor the happy
hunting ground of the proletariat. but
the same, familiar, day-by day grind
by which nations have given their
men, women and children an economic
sustenance for centuries.
Copyright 1920,