The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-01-14

fought hard against the workmen. az
OF factory owuors. tho object OF which
ers' SOyicts, by agreeing upon lock-
outs. etc, This. Of course. was smash
ed BY the October revolution. TN
Gle" he said. after being forced. as
IL property owner. to pay considerable
contributions. watched the ncwspa-
pcrs closely. realized hat after the
naturalization Of the banks resist
anco was hopeless. and resigned him
self to do what he could. not to lose
his factory altogether"
He called together all the work
men and proposed that they should
form an artel. or cooperative SO
ciety. and take the factory into their
own hands. each man contributing q
thousand roublcs towards the capital
with which TO run It. % course the
workmen had not got a thousand
roubles apiece, so uncle oncred to
pay It In Tor them, on the UNDER
standby that they would eventually
pay him back This was Illegal. but
the little town was "a long way from
the ccutrr Of things. and h seemed
a good "a out of the difficulty. He
did not expect 20 get 10 back. but
he hoped la this way to keep control
OF the tannery. which he wished to
develop, having a putcrnal interest
in a.
Things worked very well. They
elected "A committee OF control. TN
Gle wns elected president, | WIS elect
ed vice president aud there we're
three Workmcn, We are working ON
those lines 60 this dag. They give
uncle 1900 roublos n month. me "A
thousand. and the bookkccpor a
thousand. The only diutCulty b. that
the men will treat uncle ar the own
ct, and this may mean trouble if
things go WrCn.T. Uncle b. for ever
telling them. ITS your factory. don't
call me Master and they reply. Yes.
It's our factory all right, hui you are
still Master. ami hat must be-
Trouble anne fast enough, with
the tax levied on the prOpcrtiod
Glasses. Uncle" very wisely, had
ceased to be "a property owner, lie
had given up his house to the factory
and been allotted rooms in Il, as
president Of the factory so let. He
was, therefore, really unable to pay
when the people from the district
Soviet came to tai him that he
had been assessed to pay u tax OF
NNH'NN ANNhNNNH nv - NHAhNAAAf' Wv N"
sitiOn. The nephew was also present
and Joined IN the argument, where
upon the tax collectors consulted "a
bit Of paper and retorted, "A tax of
20. 900 has been assessed on you, too.
BE 50 good Us 10 put your coat on
That meant arrest ana the nephew
said he had 5000 ruublvs and would
pay tlat. but could pay no more.
Would that do?
"Vcry WE'LL said The tax collector.
fetch a."
The uewhew fetched IT,.
And now put Nuur COat on
But you said DO would be all right
10 / paid the 5000"
That's the only way to deal with
people like YOU. We recognize D %
.yuur case b. hard, and ~ dare Say
that you will set on But d Soviet
has told ~ TO collect the whole tax
or the people who refuse to pay 10,
ana they have deCrced that u We
come back without one or the other.
we shal go To prison ourselves. You
can hardly expect MS to Eo and sit
IN prison ot pity for you. So, ON
with your coat and come along
They went. and az the militia
Headquarters were shut into a room
with barred windows where they
were presently Joined hy most Of h
other rich men Of the town, all IN "a
rurr state OF Indignation, some OF
them very pngry with Uncle Tor
taking things 80 quietly.
NcNt day the workmen from the
taunery came To the uHlitia-house
explained that Uncle had real
IS ctufed 10 Doe a member OF he
propertled classes. that he was nee
r-stry to them as president OF their
soviet, and that they were willing Ia
his release hy paying half Of
the tax demanded from him out Of
the factory funds. Uncle got together
thirty thousand, the factory contrib
utcd another thirty, and he WIS
freed, being given q certificate that
he had ceased to be an cNploitcr or
q property owner and would IN fu-
ture be subject only to such taxes
might ho levied on the working
population. Tho nephew was also
freed, ON the grounds that he was
wanted "a the leather works,