Evening journal., 1920-08-07
MOSCOW TRADE
At STANDSTILL
Workers Tell How Leaders
Frame Rush Business
on New Writers
ALL IMPORTS
ARE CUT OFF
BY ]. II. DUCKWORTH
y. +. A. STAFF Correspondent

- - AINoAA correspondent
fiENAL, Esthonia, Aus. 6.-Industry
stlll.
How then could privileged guests
OF Lenin and TrOtsky come out OF
russia ana swear that they had seen
mills working full blast?
| had an opportunity 10 put this
question TO a group OF cotton mill
engineers and masters" (carders,
splnners and weavers). They laugh
ed at my ignorance.
a correspondent or a labor dele
gate comes TO Moscow" one explain
ed, 'and asks TO be shown some mills
at work. Crtainly. Next morning
an a1able cOmmissar drives up TO the
hotel in an auto and takes the cor
respondent to a mill. OF course only
that small part working Is shown.
Would the visitor like TO see an
other mill? Yes. he would So on
they dr. We TO another part OF the
town. Again only the busy part OF
the mill Is visited
/ Then when he returns 10 his own
country he tells how all the mills in
Moscow are working. He saw them.
Not more than per cent. OF the
mills in the Moscow district are in
/ operation And only a fraction OF
these shops are in operation four
days a week on a fOur-hour day bd-
| sis.
These Investigators are the chaps
who allow themselves TO be deceived
| into believing that the restaurants
and night clubs in Moscow are all be
ing run wide open because they have
been taken around 10 gay places such
as the private clubs Of the commun-
/ lists.
zone day last year hundreds OF mer
turned out to clean up the streets
The electric light was turned on IN
N nc'ghborhood OF Theaier-pl, Lu
lbianka-pl. the Gostinni Dvor anc
Koonznesti Most. Tramcars appearee
on the streets.
Were the good old days returning
No After three days we went Daci
again 10 dirt and darkness. Then w
learned thOt two allied newspaper
men had been In town"
But back TO the mills. Tue com
munlsr leaders, deallstlc dreamer
iand honest fanatics though they ma
lbc. are undoubtedly doing thelr Des
10 make conditions for the worker
LAT least bearable But they nav
neither raw material nor compeleh
men 10 carry out their orders.
The following facts ] have take
from Economical life, an onlclal or
gan OF the highest council OF stat
economy. peoples commissairlal'
finance, food supply stores and eA
, terror trade.
In the textile industry the grea
, war largely cut Russia on from SUI
niles of cotton and machinery part
After the outbreak OF the civil wa
Imports became gradually small'
. mill now they have entirely cease
n In 1911 the Russian empire had /
edition and spinning mills. SOW
- Rusias is left with q big cole
D mills. Most OF the sO-called Russia
mills are now in the new repuDhc
e poland. Finland, Esthonia, LatN
q mo population OF Soviet Russia
y about sOO0OOOO The twenty-iol
million pairs Of socks, four miilH
4 suits OF underclothing and thr
n hundred arshincs (arshlne-2o inohe
OF calico planned for this year
n NOT much FOR SO,OOOOO people.
: Frononical Life pointed out. -,
= 1T is hardly enough TO cover u
nakedness OF the Soviet Citlzens. a.,
y The outlook for clothing for y
e suffering people OF Russia IS as Dla'
as the prospect OF getting suuio'c
j. food