Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-04
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a delegate to the central workmen's
council, which in turn is very in
f1uential with the government. But
the provinces refuse to peremit the
esta blishment of shop councils or to
obey Vienna in any respect.
All the peasants and the majority
bf the toWnSpeople are opposed to
the quasi-communist regime. They.
tolerate it from atIthy induced BY
famine and despair. When they get
ready they will change it. Mean
while it is to all intents helpless. for
sither good or evil.
Czechs ana Jugo S1avs
Czecho-S Iovakia, liberal. socialisttc
and democratic, sympathizes warmly
with Russia, but for reasons of race
affinity and foreign policy, rather
the country small and noisy group
of communists, but as there is no
aristocracy, and almost no reaction,
and as the government and the ma
jority of the people are already
strongly committed to revolutionary
to speak. no fulcrum for their lever.
The Czechs are not revolutionary
people. Their minds are steady, SLOW
and cautious. Their resources are
rich, they are visibly prospecting and
I do not expect to see them tempted
kind.
Jugo-Slavia is peasant democ-
racy. Strictly speaking, there Is
here no ''proletariat" The peasants
who form 3 per cent of the popula-
ton, are nearly all land owners: 1t
is true that in the recent elections,
the communists" are simply govern
ment mployes--railwaym post
men, clerks-who seek thus to exc
press their resentment against an ad-
ministration which does not pay
living wage. The movement is pro.
testatory, not revolutionary: Increase
their stipend to a reasonable figure
and their communism" will vanish.
The new peasants party" organ
lied by Mika Avramovitch, after the
Bulgarian model. is perhaps more
significant, but as the peasants here
are not as yet class conscious 1t has
made little Roadway
Bulgarian Peasants Rule
In Bulgaria, which is also a de-
mocracy of small land owners, the
peasants, exaSperated at their de-
feat in two wars under the leader.
ship of a car and of professlona'
statesmen. have taken things into
a government of their own. without,
however, expelling their figurehead
of a young new car.
The Russian Soviet leader had
been comment tnaC Bulgaria, IN Ilo
bitterness of it's defeat and ampu-
tation, would go Communist. A Com
munist party, consisting Of poor
peasants, poor or discharged govern
ment employees, and other malcon-
tents, was encouraged and subsidized.
The party felt itself t. be strong,
but instead of attempting coup
d'etat in the prescribed Bolshevist
manner it presented itself at the
elections last spring, and seated for
ty-two deputies in the sobranje, the
national parliament out of a total Of
about 210. Such communists, who
consent to sit as a powerless minor.
ity in a regular parliament, are OBJ
viously not very dangerous.
1t is, as I have said, the peasants
party which has the absolute ma
jority This party is initiating q
number of rather socialistic expert.
ments, but the peasants pride in
land ownership is so deep that the
principle of private property in Bull
garia may be considered relatively
safe.
Greece, the remaining Balkan state,
is socially as sound as a bell. II
there is to be any internal trouble
there it will be of a strictly political
character.