The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-06-25

farms for work, while they are wait
ing to be sent to their homes. They
ask only for ploughs, spades and
hammers and they say that they will
do their share in making bright |
future for Russia.
A New Factory.
A new match factory has been set |
in operation in Rybinsk, the building
began last summer.
Sport.
In Moscow the factory workers have
formed sport club which contains
$500 members.
No More Night Printing.
Since the Middle of May night work
in the printing shops In Russia has
stopped and thereby thousands of
printing shop workers will obtain the
elementary right of human beings of
working in the day time and sleeping
at night, right that the old news
paper custom has taken away from
them.
(This measure which would cause
much grumbling in a western Euro
pean country will cause nc inconven-
ience in Russia. In Russia today all
people work and therefore the morn
ing paper is no longer necessity for
ascertaining the state of the stock
market, nor for bringing peace and
quiet to the family breakfast table
School for Soviet Administration.
In order to meet the needs OF Soviet
Russia for officials instructed in So
Wet administration number of
schools are in operation throughout
the whole country. The model is the
Swerdlov University of Moscow which
was established in 1918. There are in
this college two departments one for
the Communist Party and one for
general Soviet administration. Similar
schools are now in all the provincial
capitals and in the county towns. The
course in the provincial school lasts
six months and in the county schools
! four months. The different courses
call for period Of instruction Vary
ing from 1873 to 450 hours.
j The subjects taught are Evolution
4 Of organisms, materialistIc conception
il of history, lessons from classes, evo.
luton of societies, history of civil.
cation in connection with the economic
structure of the societies, theories of
the capitalist and bourgeois states and
the state in general, finance capital
and imperialism, the world war as
conclusion of the bourgeois society
and breakdown of capitalism, history
of the international, preparation for
the world revolution, dictatorship OF
the proletariat, constitution of the
Soviet republic, history of their ap-
i plication, Russian economic geogra-
ply, industrial and agricultural poll
!, cy of the Soviet power, tasks of the
trade unions in the dictatorship, re-
lation to the Soviet power, the Red
Army. The national question, popular
| | education.
II One of the greatest difficulties was
the supplying of teachers and this was
met by taking the most successful
students from the Swerdlov Univer.
sity.
Booze Instead of Bread.
After the example of the Spaniard:
? in their colonies the Geek govern
ment spreads culture in the Russian
Carpathian by means of liquor. AL
ready in the previous year wagon.
of liquor were sent instead of bread
Although the sale of liquors is for
hidden in this country and Slovaki,
big firms importing grain from Rou
, mania have always been able to brint
, truck loads of liquor in quite openly
> (This is one way of breaking tn,
spirit of the workers. Liquor solder
men are incapable Of organized action
and it is small matter to reduce th
bread shipments and to wink at tn
substitution of liquor shipments in
stead. Besides, the profits on liquo
are much greater than on bread.)
Switzerland adopts Reactionary Laws
The Federal Council publishes tn
proposed law for the punishment 0
those who are guilty of crime
against the order Of the state and tn
security of the cantons." Not onl
acts will be punished but all attemr
to make propaganda by "word, pic
= ture or writing" or even "to prais
= those actions which threaten the s,
. curity Of the state will be punishe
!, under this law.
. Press Persecution In FINLAND.
=, "Suomen Tiemies' reports that Il
= Left Socialist paper "Bala Kansa"
d being prosecuted. In the course ,
- three weeks the paper has been co,
70 fiscated four times and summoned
I. court nine times.-