Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-25
Oppression Under
BolsheyiSt Rule
Barred by Leader
II
of Russian Labor
Quotes Gompers as Up
holding 1oilers Stand
Against Reds Follow
ing Meet in Capital.

New York, March a.
George B. Stroomillo, a Rus.
sian labor leader, who arrived
in the United States this week
and conferred Thursday with
Samuel Gompers, president OF
the American Federation OF
Labor, Friday night issued a
statement regarding present
conditions in his country and
quoting Mr.. Gompers as up.
holding the position taken by
Russian labor against bolshev.
ism and promising that Stroom.
illo's arguments about the dis
tressing experiences of work.
ingmen and peasants would be
distributed throughout this
country.
Mr.. Gompers, the Russian labo,
leader said, asked him to say that the
labor movement in the United States
would not give eountenance to bolshe-
vism, either in this country or Russia
and that the labor movement stood
for the right of the Russian people to
exercise their function to determine
their form of government
From Perm District.
Mr.. Stroomillo is member of the
board of trade unions of metal workers
of the Perm district and was delegated
by the trade unions of Ural to proceed
to other countries for the purpose of
warning labor against bolsheyist prin-
ciples.
Equipped with statistics concerning
the destruction of Russia's industries.
transportation and agriculture under
the bolshevist regime. he said he is
prepared to show that the conditions
OF the workingman under the bolshe-
visit dictatorship are worse than those
of the peasants. While the greater
part of the Russian peasantry, spread
over an immense territory, is out of
reach OF the bolshevist dictatorship
and is able at least to live its own life,
the Russian working class as whole
is the immediate sufferer under the
bolshevist regime"
OUOU tI00uVuU AUUHSUoUs
"As the result of the destruction of
industries" said Mr.. Stroomillo, 'the
Russian proletariat has shrunk to one
fifteenth Of its former size. Freedom
OF the unions is abolished. The unions
are established and work under the
control of the soviet authorities. and
can act only in the way prescribed BY
the soviet authorities. Freedom Of
meetings and of speech is abolished.
1t is crime to utter word against
the bolshevist. Strikes are declared
counter-revolutionary acts Workmen
who go on strike are punished with
brutality unheard Of in western coun-
tries. Strikers are not only imprison-
ed but deprived Of their rations. Al
most all branches of industry are under
martial law. Workers cannot change
from one factory or occupation to an
other. They are forcibly enlisted in
he so-called labor armies and over
time is compulsory.
Unrest Is Spreading, Ayers.
1.-The pitiful condition to which
bolshevism has brought Russia resulted
in the upheaval against the bolshevist
tyranny which We witnessed recently in
he very heart of Russia. Once more
,he bOlshevist tyrants have succeeded
n drowning in blood the revolt of the
Russian people against themselves. But
he revolution against the bolsheyist
power is not confined to kronstadt, |
.etrograd and Moscow alone. 1t is |
spread all over Russia. What we wit
less today is only temporary victory |
# bolshevism in the center of Russia. |
Is the result, the bolshevist regime
nay last few months longer, but its
md is well at hand
Hoover Is Praised.
''T'he Russian working class shares
he gratitude which all the Russian
'eople feel toward the people and the
of the United States for
heir policy of nnselfish friendship to-
Yard Russia"
The statement by Secretary Herbert
1oover declaring that the treaty con-
luded by the bolsheviki with Great
Britain is not trade treaty at all, but
urely political move on the part of
9th the bolsheviki and the government
t Great rBitain, was praised by Mr.. |.
'troomill0.