The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-24
RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL WORKERS ARE
j., VICTIMS OF BOISHEVIST OFFICIALS

unheard Of in western countries.
Strikers are not only imprisoned but
deprived OF their rations.
almost all branches of industry
are under martial law. Workers can
not change from one factory or oc-
cupation to another. They are forci-
bly, enlisted in so-called labor ar
mics" and overtime is compulsory.
sAs a result of this policy, the Rus
sian Industrial workers, being put
into a desperate position, and unable
to obtain help firm their own organ
izations, desert the cities and go to the
villages
Because a large number of wonk-
men have deserted the cities and are
seeking their living in the country. the
document declares that Il norder 60
save the situation and to detain the
workers in the towns the soviet gov
eminent has had recourse to measures
Of compulsion."
From the beginning of 1920 militia
rization of the Russian industries has
been introduced" continued the re
port. This measure was at first APP
piled only to the railways, but grad
ually it was extended over the coal
mines, metal industries and finally
over the timber, flour and sugar in
dustries.
Authorization means a complete
and absolute subsection of the work
men to the works arrangements. 1t
embodies a number of stern measures
also restriction of leases and cruel
suppression of strikes.
az
government suppresses strikes by Sc
we're measures; the strikers are ar
reted, deprived of food rations and
even shot"
Overtime work is compulsory, it was
stated, and the Russian metal worker
whose working day is normally eight
hours and "A hours per week, is now
IL hours day, and ~ hours a. week,
Sometimes compulsory work is per-
formed on Sundays, which makes SO
hours a week. it was stated.
Seeing that the remuneration IN
money is quite insufficient" contin-
ued the document, the soviet govern
merit shows tendency to pay the
workmen in kind--food and clothing
However, this remuneration is equally
insufficient In Petrograd each work
man has a ration card "A which en-
. titled him to from IA to 1-2 pound
of bread per day. This, together with
the 'Nasic card gives a pound OF
bread per day. Other necessities are
distributed occasionally and different
~ 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, Ia pound of tobacco, 3-4
/ pound OF sugar permonth per head.
Footwear and clothing are distrib-
uted irregularly and therefore it i:
| impossible TO state even approximate
| ly how much worker gets of this
kind 70 remuneration.
| "Workmen from the Kolpinsky
works (near Petrograd) announce: Il
is sad and shameful TO think that the
Russian workman is condemned to ex;
| tinction owing to the foolish ecnomi,
plicy of the Bolsheviki. Half of tn,
Russian proletariat have already per.
ished Outside the towns there is foot
in plenty; 1t is, however, impossible t.
| get at IL. Purchase and sale are pro
hibited. prices are high beyond
/ reason
"A workman from the Pootiloft
works Gin Petrograd) says: nj the full
sense of the word we are starving, as
we exist on bread and soviet souI
alone We are completely exhausted
owing to excessive overtime and in
sufficient nourishment'