The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-02-05

mited quite without the intention directiy 70
harm the Soviet power, but simply for per-
sonal advantage not considering the conse-
quences. Such are speculation, malpractice m
office. banditisn desertion. But since such
deeds do the Sviet power no less harm than
direct countefsevolutionary activitis, they
were prosecutts by the Extraordinary Com
mission no less Than the former"
DEALJN(xWtTH OLD OFFICIALS
AT this point the report begins to take UP
in detail the activties of the commission
against obstructio1ism, counter-revolution,
speculation malpractice in office, banditisn,
desertion. and tht like Only the more inn
portant sections o. general interest have been
selected for pubLcation here Concerning OBJ
structionist tact]Sby old officials, the report
says:
"The Soviet pswer had to force the officials
to work. This task the All-Russian Extraor-
dinary Comm3sion for Fighting the Counter
Revolution took upon itself, and the task was
not light one
At first the bourgeoisie paid the former
officials salaries not to work Thus, when on
the 18th of November, 1917, there began a
strike of all the For1ers in credit institutions,
the central administration of the All-Rus-
sian Union of Credit Society Workers organ
lied for the support of the strikers central
strike committee. This represented coalition
of all groups, beginning with Mensheviks
(right wing of the Social-Democratic partly
and ending with Kadets Constitutional Dem
ocratic party), and in it the chief role was
played by the Mensheviks. A fund for COM
batting the Soviet power was established.
(Here follows an account Of the method Of
collection Of the fund.-
"Only by depriving the officials of this
material aid was it possible, Joy exerting pres
sure through their stomachs, to force them
to submit to the new power In the second
month of the existence Of the Soviet power it
was finally possible to destroy the source of
the fund.- and the officials began to get to
work.
However obstruction did not cease Off
cials often did not work as they should or
worked in ways harmful to the Soviet power.
"Obstructionists SjsEsas sshot by US and put in
prison; but, de2Dftesthis, they still conceal
themselves from us in considerable numbers
and disorganize our apparatus for food supply
and transport Such activity is nothing less
than counter revolutionary 1t was so consid-
cred by the Extraordinary Commission, and
obstructionists were punished without mercy.
To this struggle the commission devoted its
best energies, and is working now in various
institutions. There is only one way to get rid
of this sore-burn it out with red hot iron.
This the commission is doing.
FIGHT WITH COUNTER REVOLUTION.
"The October revolution turned the entire
former world upside down.. The former
slave, the worker, or peasant became master,
and the former master became his subject.
The land was ceded to the peasants. -. The
factories were turned over to the whole
people Large capital funds were confiscated
in favor of the state. Debts were cancelled.
"Thus the former pomiestchik (estate own
er) was left without land and income, the
former manufacturer without profits, the
banker without percentages, and the Czarist
burea6crat without power place, OF money.
They did not relinquish the hope of restoring
the old order and went to work for the over
throw of the Soviet power.
"All this brotherhood constituted the direct
counter-revolutionaries those who know what
they are after and why, and who cannot fail
to fight with their foes-the worker and peas
ant, who pushed them out of the saddle.
MODERATE SOCIALISTS ARE STUPID.
"But there is another sort Of cOunter-revo-
lutiOnaries-those who are cOunter-revolu-
tionaries for lack of clear thought.
"These are people often sincerely desiring
the victory of the working class, but not COM
preheding how to achieve it. These are all the
'Socalistic parties consenting to an agree
ment with the enemies Of the working class
the bourgeoisie. There are several such par
ties among us: Right Socialist-Revoution
aries, Left Socialist -Revolutionaii and Men.
sheviks.
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