The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

the common property of the sailors. | Next Lubovitch fell On suspicion of
 clemency to certain "bourgeoise' who had been marooncd for death by star ! vation on one of Kronstadts island forts. he was murdered by anarchists.
 Since then anarchism has been the real power in Kronstadt. Communication is TOW fully carried through. Lenine's own newspaper, the Pravda, admits that in October, 1919, over eighty girls were de. tained in the mining school. and that nc Petrograd girl ever went near kron. stadt for fear of being seized
 The Kronstadt eommunized girls have
 no husbands" They are wives to any one who comes along; and. in fact they are sold, because only anarchists or old communists (extreme bolsheviks). who have paid 150 rubles for race protection cards have right 10 enter the vast harem.
 Kronstadt sternly regulates the ques- ton of children All children whether born to communized" women or to law ful wives are imprisoned in an anarch- ist creche. Their mother have a right to visit them thrice fortuight, but as the \ vast majority of mothers are suspected | of "counter revolutionary" eanings. the education of the children is entirely in ' the hands of the race protection com
 mittee.
 l kronstats communication originated in lpre-bolshevik times. Communication ot women in Saratoff began when the ho,- sheviks seized power Saratoff is gov ernment capital, and q big commercial 1 city on the Lower Volaa In 1917 it was part anarchstic and part holshevik. On the 18th day of May, l9lS Saratoff's an- archistic association, which then entirely dominated the local bolshevlSs, issued
 "A Decree for the Abolition of Private I Ef~xa asArfx f.. Ff4- 4tIs 1 decree has been adonted by anarchists and old-communistsf all over soviet Rus sia
 The decree contains nineteen clauses. | Women between 1T and 8 are declared the common property of the proletariat. Q | Women with more than five children are exempt" 'The distribution of the requi- sitioned women is the function of the l Saratoff sovietr rThe collection of the requisitioned women will be effected by the housing committeesn "Requisitioned women receive compensation of 232 rubles month. "Requsitioned women who lose their health will be provided for by the commune Every citizen who applies | for use of a requisitioned woman must prove that he is a .proletariat manual worker, and that he does not employ | any hired help" "Requisitioned women may be used By persons not belonging
 
 of 100 rubles monthly to the race protec- tion committed"
 This race protection committee, borrow ed from Kronstadt, is supposed to work on rigid eugenie lines and crop of healthy anarchist babes is the expected result, Americans will find it hard to be- lieve that this commu-'zaton proved practicable. But 1t did There were few scenes of violence and tive suicides but l the of tnff trIp Russian passivity
 The anarchist soviet proclaimed shril- 1 liant results Tn 1919. tho anarchists lost all power, and communication was re- placed by naturalization which simply lays down that every girl or widow be- longs to the state. and must take the husband whom the state provides for her This system is harder to control than communication. where the women are herded in vast barracks Radek declared that though ROO Saratoff servants and work girls were married by force, and that though these marriages still counted as valid no fresh standardization is now taking place.
 The third form of state ownership of women is in force in orel, Kursl1 and Ka1uga provinces. In Crel province where if originated. it is called "Erotic Naturalization" It consists of state pro vision of good looking and attractive wives for bolshevik con missares and other great men who are not able to win pretty wives by their own manly charms The law maker of Orel was Basil volkof, a bandit, who. in Kerensky's days, robbed, burned and ravished in Moscow's environs, and who is now soviet magnate of repute, volkoffs de- cree is that all good looking girls of over IS who obdurately refuse to take hus- bands shall be given three weeks warn ing, and that, if they persist, they shall be forcibIv but legally married to off cially chosen husbands
 The system is re1uated hv an inettu- ton known as The Marriage Table to which every four months marriageable girls are summoned TTgly girls are dis missed because VollSoff holds that if is not to male interest to prevent ugly girls from enjoying spinisterhood. When a girl remains obdurate a Red Guard and a "comrade" armed with the usual de- cree come to her door, carry her off, and make her wed man whom perhaps she has never seen before Tn Orel prov ipce this twice led to riots: on the sec ond occasion the insurvent peasants, whose daughters had been kidnaped. renetrated to volkoffs headquarters and wounded him in the head before they were beaten off. After that followed massacre of peasants: and report was sent to Moscow alleging that resistance by the villages against the requisition- ing of their rye was the cause of the revolt.
 RAIDS FOR GIRLS
 All, over Russia flonrishes tine fourth kind of standardization This is girl-raid- ing. It consists simply in hunting for women without even the authorization of soviet decree: and Is carried on by