The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-20

rubles a pound. according to quality, these salaries are ridiculous.
 Workmen in some of the automo- bile factories are reported to receive from 100000 to 100000 rubles a month. Others are paid less paper money and receive perquisites in the way of manufactured products, food, rent, etc. So, in all the maze of fig ures, it is impossible to reach any av- craze wage or salary.
 Under the revised economic plan, fares must be paid on railways and street cars. Charges are also to be made for light, telephones. telegraph and postage. Free rent is also disap- bearing and renters are to be required to keep up repairs at their own eX- pense under the direction of house committees.
 These changes are increasing the difficulties of persons without incomes and forcing gentle folks into the street markets with their remaining furs, jewelry, sifverware, china. linen and clothing. However, most of the old-time aristocracy has long ago learned the ways of trade and it is not the hardship it once was to stand in the streets and barter away ones personal effects.
 Many of the former members of leisure classes have taken very nat urally to changed conditions and gone in for trading on a strictly commer- cial basis. The only two restaurants in Moscow where satisfactory meals
 
 women who speak German and French as 1uently as Russian and re- ceive diners with all the courtesy found in better class drawing rooms. The manager of one of these restaur- ants is the wife of an officer high in the Bolshevist Red army who was formerly a colonel in the Imperial army. Her husbands salary is who'll children and aged parents, she worked for the government until the new economic policy made it possi- 1 ble for her to enter businesss of a more remunerative sort.
 kraSSine and other economic eX- perts who are working out the new | trade policy make it plain that both | retailers and wholesalers are free to engage in domestic trade without gov | ernment interference. However, all 1 exporting and importing are to be | through governm ent channels, and, as | the government Is not inclined to eX- l pend large sums of money for pur- | cha ses abroad, it Is difficult to see | where Russian merchants are to get | foreign articles after the small stocks which have been uncovered are ex- | hausted
 Krassine hopes to get foreign cred it's through a consortium which will enable Russia to buy on long time or l to exchange raw materials for nanu- | 1ons are slow and uncertain and the | broken-down railways make it impos- | sible to assemble raw materials speed | fly. Consequently 1t is difficult to un- | derstand the optimism of Bolshevist | leaders who say they believe England will supply Russian markets very shortly with the great tea surplus which is burdening London dealers They are equally optimistic about South American coffee, American and Canadian grain and other food pro- ducts.
 | When the correspondent asked Krassine if he thought Russia's repu- diation of foreign debts and oonfisca- l tion. of the property of foreigners ir Russia would be much encourage to capitalists or foreign governments to make loans to the Soviet govern rnent he replied.
 That's what always happens in revolutions"