Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-24
ORGANIZED LABOR IN RUSSIA is
PROSECUTED BY The Dol HEvIST
AUTHORITIES; REPORT CHARGES
Freedom of Unions, Meeting and Speech Is
Abolished; Strikes Are Declared Counter
Revolutionary Acts; Most All Branches of
Industry Are Under Martial Law.
tBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


imprisoned but deprived of their
rations.
almost all branches Of indus
try are under martial law. Workers
cannot change from one factory or
occupation to another. They are
forcibly enlisted in so-called labor
armies and overtime is Compul-
auiy,
TRADE unions do not exist as in
dependent bodies; they are subor-
dnated to a central organization
and thus converted into Il cOmpul-
sorry government apparatus.
LAS a result of this policy the
Russian industrial workers, being
put into a desperate position, and
unable to obtain help from their
own organizations. desert the cities
and go to the villages"
COmpulsion Resorted To.
Because a large number of work
men have deserted the cities and
are seeking to earn their living in
the country. the document declares
that lin order to save the situation
and to detain the workers in the
towns the soviet government has
had recourse to measures of COM
pulsion" ,.t.H -......
"From the beginning of 1920
authorization of the Russian in
dustries has been introduced,
continued the report. This meas
ure was at first applied only to the
railways, but gradually it was eX-
tended over the coal mines, metal
industries and finally over the
timber, flour and sugar industries.
Naturalization means a COM
plete and absolute subsection of
the workmen to the works man
agements. 1t embodies number
of stern measures, also restriction
of leases and cruel suppression of
strikes
1T is needless to say that the
soviet & government suppresses
strikes by severe measures; the
strikers are arrested, deprived of
food rations, and even shot"
Overtime Work Compulsory.
Overtime work is compulsory. it
was stated and the Russian metal
worker, whose working day is nor
mally eight hours and forty-four
hours per week, is now twelve
hours a day and seventy-two hours
a week Sometimes compulsory
work is performed on Sundays,
which makes eighty hours week,
1t was stated.
Seeing that the remuneration in
money is quite insufficient" con-
tinued the document, "the soviet
government shows a tendency to
pay the workman in kind-food
and clothing. However, this re-
enumeration is equally insufficient,
In Petrograd each workman has
ration card "A which entitled
him to from a quarter to a half
pound of bread per day. This. to-
gether with the 'Nasic card gives
a pound Of bread per day. Other
necessities are distributed occa-
sionally and differently in various
districts. ,
"In Petrograd this summer card
"a entitled the holder to five or
six pounds of wheat. three or four
pounds of fish, quarter pound of
tobacco, three-quarters pound of
sugar per month per head.
Footwear and clothing are dis
tributed irregularly and therefore
it is impossible to state even APP
proximately how much a worker
gets of this kind of remuneration.
Foolish Economic Policy.
"Workmen from the Kolpinsky
works (near Petrograd) announce:
Tt is sad and shameful to think
that the Russian workman is con-
demned to extinction owing to the
foolish economic policy of the boil
sheviki. Half of the Russian pro-
letariat have already persisted.
Outside the towns there is food in
plenty; it is. however, impossible
to get at it. Purchase and sale
are prohibited, prices are high be-
yond reason.
"a workman from the Pootiloff
works Gin Petrograd) says: In the
full sense of the word we are
starving, as we exist on bread and
soviet soup alone We are COM
pletely exhausted owing to excess
sive overtime and insufficient
nourishment.'