New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-06
Independent Socialists
Delegates Who Visited
Russia Call Sovietism
Worse Than Cars Rule
Communism and
Socialism Absent
Convention Adjourns i'm
Confusion; No Action ON
Lenine's Proposal Taken
Special Gable to The Tribune

COpyIlBNt, 1os!' ANc" 1oi n tiooHo 4uS.
BERLIN, Sept. 5.-The Independ-
ant Socialist party conference, rep
tesenting the radical German Social
lists, came to an end last night amid
scenes of great excitement and con-
fusion. The conference was called
10 consider whether the party should
adopt the humiliating terms which
Senine imposed as conditions Of ad-
mission to the Third Internationale
Of whether the party should continue
Is an independent body.
No decision was reached. but violent
speeches of denunciation Of sovietism
delivered by members of delegation
Of German Socialists who recently Wis
tied Moscow were greeted with loud
applause.
Assails Spy System
Herr Wirtmann, himself a revolu-
tionary German Socialist, who earlier
last week gave a damning account
TO the Berlin Socialist press of con-
ditions in Russia under Soviet rule,
returned to the attack In a speech de-
hvered at the closing session of the
conference. Whitman denounced the
Red spy, detective and police agent
system which he said the Bolshevik
government maintained in Moscow as
worse than the old Czarist curse. He
said that any one in that country who
uttered q word against the government
was denounced as a counter-revolution-
asy and arrested.
sThere is neither socialism nor COM
munism in the towns or in the country
districts of Russia" continued Herr
Wirtmann. "Things there are worse
than in the Czarist days. Deserters
from the Soviet system are shot on the
spot. Industry is militarized and the
light to strike has been withdrawn
from the workers"
Other members of the Socialist dele
CATION to Moscow expressed similar
views, and their exposures seem likely
b discredit sovietism entirely in the
syes Of the German workers.
Faith in Soviet Fails
BERLIN, Sept. (By The ssociated
toward the Russians may be, the fact
4 remains that they have not given proof
that they are able to establish social
ism in their country" said Professor
\ Garl Bailod, who has just returned
& from Russia. where he spent several
4 months carrying on research work for
the Latvian government. He is me-
Der of the German Specialization Com
3 mission and ranks as one of the fore
aost interpreters Of Russian eco
honics. His statements were made
1t the meeting of the Independent So
4 ealists to discuss the Moscow 1nterna-
4 tionale
81 once was of the opinion that Soviet
4 Russia and Germany could support one
Another economically, but | have now
tsandoned this opinion" Professor
Ballod told the German radicals. He
was pessimistic regarding Russia's
q food resources, which ne said were
heavily Influenced by climatic condi-
dens. which have brought about q
scarcity in the so-called "black soip
districts. The entire Volga region
would yield only enough grain for seed
Dad there were not sufficient supplies
q sight for the needs of the popula-
bon, he said.
The transportation collapse in Rus
sia, he declared, also had been destruc-
I'VE in its effects on the rehabilitation
" the country, while the complete de-
probation Of paper money had resulted
PEASANTS refusing to surrender their
PRODUCTS, in 80 far as they possessed
my.
4 Professor Ballod urgently advised
sgainst recommending that German
workers settle in Russia.
Industrial Production Decreases
Industrial production of Soviet
aassia, ne said, has fallen to about
sne-sixth of its former volume. This
way due partially to lack of raw
sGs3nais. the peasants refusing to
ssys up fax and other products in ex-
Sasnge for paper currency and also
ss underlying principles of the Soviet
ssasfnment. The sugar industry had
nelly collapsed, while coal produc-
son In the Doretz Basin was only one
a LIE OF the former yield. He as
sea that Russias rich oil lands
s.s not being exploited because OF
ssasportation difficulties.
n aae speaker said that he believed
Sshe idealism Of the Soviet leaders
~, ~ asserted they had proved them
h ''ss wholly incapable of cffectine
economic restoration of Russia.
Bureaucracy in Soviet Russia was
oad as it was under the Gar and
On the ascendancy owing to the
III mat many persons are being
$50 by poverty to take govern
Siasai jobs, he said.
~ the course of the discussion 8
snsy Of the independent leaders
ssed themselves as opposed u
sea with Moscow. Frau Louise
d 80 asserted that the German pro.
ss would refuse Moscow,
'anship, acceptance Of which
,ssaid, would mean that the part,
- become wholly submerged By
Aeseow government, which had M
4 sseanding Of German conditions
ssfge Ledebour was warmly an
ssd when he charged the Moscow
ssssIssaent with carrying on dan
Tss anti-soeialistsc policies" i,
49, wn country, which showed then
alihed to assume internationa
ssnip or dictate terms 20 others
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