The Connecticut labor press., 1920-01-10
BOLSHEVlKI RULE BY
 BAYONET SAY UNIONS

peasants and workmen it is my wish to | explain.
 People reading and hearing the thun-
 derous logic and blatant rhetoric of
 Lenln, Trotsky and their associates, but
 unfamiliar with the actual state of af-
 fairs in Russia, are not in position to
 understand it. They may think that
 the party 'Tlcn is fighting against
 Soviet rrsc, as established by Lenin and
 !rotsky( consists of the bourgeoisie and
 the old reactionary group. To emerge from this illusion 1t is necessary to mas
 ter the history of the situation It is | necessary to listen to the voice of the
 real Russia.
 l We recognize that Russia economical ly lags behind other nations, that Rus sian manufacturers are i'll their early stages of development, and from ecoh- om1c laws 1t IS certain that there can be no working classes consequently 1 there can be no bourgeoisie
 In Russia, out of 180,000,000 inhabit- | ants, 150OOOOO0 are peasants and about 100000 are workers. Then we hear the Bolsheviks talk about power for the peasants and workers" But is that what they have brought about? No. The voice of real Russia proclaims to all 1 the world the following story: HS DOlSIlGNlkS Ine1r power by bayonets and broke the strength of peasants and workers, broke the elected assembly, which was on the principle of Universal, Direct, Equal and Secret voting-broke all societies of democratic nature, such as the Zem- stvos, that self-governing body elected by universal, direct and secret voting. The Bolsheviks ruth1ess1y, like auto cratic gendarmes, killed all labor, po1iti- cal and Socialistic organizations, throt- tied the Labor Press Gas, for instance, its origin of the s. D.s and s. Rs), and finally the Bo1sheviks established by decree the dawn of their own Tsarist Socialism.
 Who split up the reserve funds of the trade unions? The Bolsheviks. Who split up the trade unions as a class. By whose orders were all strikes put down by force of arms and amid plentiful executions? It was the Bol- sheviks who broke the workmen's CO., operative societies and converted their shops into communal stores. The Bol- sheviks promised the Russian people peace, bread and freedom
 Actually, in place of peace they gave civil war, which destroyed all manufac- ture and stained every side with blood in place of freedom, prison, exile and the shooting party; III, place of bread, famine and the grave.
 So 1t was that, having drunk to the full cup of humiliation and tasted this red-bayonet Socialism, Ijevsk and Vod- kinska recognized that further life of this sort was impossible, and though without arms, and armed only with the armour of Right, with only their blis- tered hands to fight with, united in spir- 1t, to a man they rose against the op- pressors, and by virtue of their strength of will, snatched the rifles from the hands of the Red Guard and began the battle for citizens rights and the free dom of the Russian people.
 The reader asks why Bolshevism holds out so long if the peasants and workers are fighting against 1t. This is the true answer: All the world knows that the Bolsheviks concluded peace with Wilhelm, disarmed the Rus sian army, and with the Germans began to shoot down the peasants and work CTS. All the time their. chief power has rested in Magyars, Chinese, Let's, Tsars' gendarmes, capital criminals and communists.
 All these dark forces, armed to the teeth, are driving, under threat of death, father against son, brother against brother, and the Russian people, which bore the rst brunt of the mailed fist of Teutonic junkerdom and in the first