The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-24

communist party.
 At this bolshevist conference Lenine seemingly spoke for the outside world. making use of the well known bolshev- is phaseology and diplomacy" while the other participants at the confer ence, many of them high in the bol- shevist councils, were quite frank and reported the situation as it really is. to Lenine, since the con quest of governmental power by the workers has enabled the peasants to wipe out at once the power of the land lords, abolishing private property, the peasantry, in dividing the land, estab- lished maximum of equality and i'm creased thereby considerably the utili- zation of the land. bringing it up above the average" The bolshevist commis- sary for agriculture M. Sereda- how ever presents the situation in an al torgether different light. Says NJ. Sereda:
 The dissipation of the land reserve could not fail to have a lessening ef- feet on the productive forces. The peasantry has gained practically noth- ing from this dissipation The abso- ute size of the distributed land re- serve, 2S,oo0,000 deciatines (one deci- atine equals 2.7 acres), is very large. put 1T we observe how it was divided. we obtain astonishing figures; there was less than one deciatine per capital i1ere are some figures: Kostroma province, 0.lS; Viatka, 0.04; Yaroslavl, v'lo, ana 1t is only in the Province of Astrakham that we find a deciatine per capita. The dissipation of the and having failed to give anything to the peasantry in the way of enhancing same time proved to be a most tre- lheir productive capacities, has at the mehoous minus in the general .co. homie activity of the country"
 mus, the peasants have gained very lit.ie as a result of the bolshevist land ". of which even M. Sereda speak, as a largely uncontrolled. elemen- .ary process. Nevertheless. the neas- ants Who were able to produce enough rood Tor themselves even under tho SAars regime appear at present rich npAroo with the starving inhabi- tahts or the cities and towns of hoI- shevist Russia. Since, with tha Az ! seruction of the industries. the c,tie. " not produce anything, the neas.nts iAeuraiiy have ceased bringinp fhetr Ipouucts to the cities This has bro, ,-h |, :. "ooul the well known bolsbay,. 1 .oquisitions which have very often ra- ; leauisitions" of bread in the viuaa.. suited In bloody conflicts between th Y ! GU $ suards and the peasants who re- papor currency for their producers M , f,,sas the president of the All-Rus- | o 10 accept the now worthIas sian s congress of the Soyiets snsaLs a, ,oiiows in his endeavor to iustifv th..s e.s 1 villages: III the Russian l IL is true" says he. i've ar. roh,,
 ne peasant by taking grain for nara, no.es n that nave no value whatsoa,i.r i Dul we nave to ask this uuestion. oooH as the factories and mills uii, "a
 solne work, as soon as thera wiI, h. unJusn goods. will the working cl, SC
 when IS fighting all exploitation de.
 aa rom the peasant the additional ooe' VT course not. When all st,ras Will be filled with goods. er.;n x.,;,, toi ss = excnanged at its actual cost or nros,,o l tion.' oo0' or produc-
 Feeling however that this bar,,,, ,,,.
 tries robbing the peasant" Mr E,.ii. l iiiii orings in a truly bolsheyist ary,,. .aene when he says. The peasant iS n, ..iis moment new nobleman. a new "a n l.anst, living in privileged circumsta nc,.s
 Arue. they say What kind of privileged conoiuons are ours if we are starvinp ana nave no salt? Right, but then Vol ,ae SIX poods of grain. You have a, ieast hunger ration. You are sura ot
 naif pound of bread Show me any.
 oody. beginning with the chairman o, the aH-Rus3ian central executive c,,, mittee, Who owns six poods of grain :,
 mus we nave new application of "Rob the robbers" in the Russian villarea
 frst the peasants were invited to rot
 the robbers-iandowners now the peas
 anus have themselves become a priviI. eseu ciass in contrast with the starving citles and are, in turn, robbed as rob I bers." ioo It is only natural that under such con. oitlons even the central committee O, the Russian communist {bolsheyistl n.n
 " has to confess, to quote from ths preface of the above-mentioned official
 oolsnevist report, that fin the villa pes the party is not leading the laborint classes of the peasantry, but that. cn
 the contrary, in the overwhelming ma. Jority of localities the communists are regarded with ill feeling and even
 hatred.' At the conference one of tnt delegates, Snirnov. from the Tver nrov. ince, reported: The work of the wholf party was carried out wrongfully in rhs villages also; there was no educat tjona
 work oone among the peasantry, and the 1 only thing one could notice were corn, munists with guns in their hands walk. ing about from place to place to confjs- cate property. and to take away a COW nol oS' ctc. III VlteDSk province. the | great number of outrages perpetratao 1 by individual communists caused dissat. isfacticn among the population" In the Vileisky district responsible party worker visited the villages and whichever 1t was necessary to inaugurate one dr another measure he would pull out his gun and yell: 'Scoundrelsi If you re. fuse to vote for our resolution I an going to shoot every one of you!" Hence,
 in many places there were uprisinas that were liqddated by artillery"
 We need go no further in quoting from the article printed below. We may add only that the peasants, whom the boi 4 shevist leader. M. Kalinin, considers new noblemen, new capitalists" because, as he thinks, everyone of them possesses
 ''six poods (about 222 pounds) of grain. z have begun to feel. no less than the un- fortunate urban population, the curse oi
 the bolshevist rule. This year 10 Rus. sian provinces have suffered an immense fatal crop failure. Under normal con- ditions, the population of those provincea in Russia which have harvested gocd crops and consequently have grain sur- pluses. But the thorough disintegration of the railroad transport under the bol- shevist rule makes impossible the rem dering of any help to the unfortunate peasant and city population of these 1t provinces and, according to the data pre- sented by the prominent Russian econcm- ist K. R. Kocharovsky. in an article printed in the preceding issue of our Bulletin, thirteen million people will be- gin to suffer acute starvation in Jan uary oi. February. 1921, and seven mil i lion have already begun to suffer 1t in December, iS23. We are facing the totAi