Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-17
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Follow the Great
World War?
HUMAN NATURE VS.. IDEALISM
Conmunistie Theory of Ownership Of
Land, Put to the Test in Russia,
Has Proved Dire Failure
In Practice.
Article XVI.
BY FRANK coMeRFoRp.

The bOisheFik government seized In
dnstry; the working men took over
the factories Il was par Of the plan
Of communism. TIE promise was that
the specialization Of industry would in
crease production and free the work
PRS from exploitation. The owners and
managers were driven from the plants
These men were of the bourgeois class
They had no place In the new scheme
OF things They were tainted" with
success They had inteligentIy and
efficiently built up their industries.
This was enough The bolshevik gov
eminent denied them citizenship and
drove them from the enterprises they
had built
Everything was to he owned in
common private property Of all kinds
had been abolished The men who
worked In the factories or mills were
70 he their own bosses They were
part Of the state. and the state owned
ADD operated everything. The gov
eminent of the factory was to be by
committee every man was the equal
If every other man orders were given
md orders taken with this thought in
mind. The result was insubordina-
tion. Every man was boss: all sys.
TEN banished system made slaves
Down with system The business
brains having been driven out, insub-
ordination having come In. produc-
ton declined until it almost ceased.
many workers gave up in disgust and
returned to their villages The exodus
from Petrograd was marked. Prior
10 1915 Petrograd was q city Of nearly
100000 In 1918 its population had
shrunk TO less than 100000. Fac
tories closed Again the theory Of
communism, when put to the test.
failed.
Trotzky Had Remedy.
Trotzky. In confessing the failure OF
BE hoIshevik program TO successfully
s"ciallze industry. charged it to the
sabotage Of the intellectuals." BY
ibis he meant that the bolsheviks
drove the specialists. the technicians
and managers OF ministry out Of husi-
ness; that the working men. not hav-
ing the training for these places re-
quirlng special Skill and knowledge.
we're unable efficiently ana successfully
10 carry ON the business Having
pointed ont the cause Of the failure.
he presented "a remedy He truly said
that the intellectuals have the benefit
Of special training education and ok.
perence, and that shops and factories
filed with machines material and
working men cannot be run without
the Skilled manager the intelligent.
experienced foreman But Totzkv
has not lost faith In the plan of in
dustriai communism, nor has he lost
belief In the theory that II can be-
made TO increase production. He
says thar the bourgeois brains. when
forced into the factories BY the state.
do not work with the same ambition
to make success of the business thot
they did when it was their private
property and they had a PERSONAL---VERY.
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