Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-13
our OF THEIR OWN Mourm.

III We are constantly witnessing the
HVcondemnation OF the whole system Of
siSaIiuasian Bolshevism u of the
Iiisarnouths of the Bolshevists themselves.
lhSConcerning the agricultural situation
!!nssin Russia Economic Lite" the OFF,
4 3cial publication of the Soviet Nation
eshl Board Of Public Economy at Mos
ss3ScOw, says:
iA WI are getting more and more
Handicapped by the raw material
~sa3shortage. The area under technically
cultivation is shrinking
sicatastrophically. We are in danger
sss3of remaining without textiles. sugar.
sS4tObacco and other products of the
Importance in the manufac-
4 3turing industries, thereby also being
.a.3left without all the other products
dive require. since the lack o. such in
Indispensable articles as the above-men-
SSStioned. is inevitably bound to cause
curtailment of the storage Of grain
N3and other cereal products"
The Petrograd "Pravda" No. 1919
a letter from Lenin on the
X1struggle against starvation as fol-
dslows:
III The condition OF Central Russia
sI:3has not been improved in spite Of the
a4finished harvest. Never before has
as1he Soviet Republic experienced a
E lworse predicament han at the pres
,Ssent moment. Work in the food
j Ssupply system is being carried on in
Ssyet the present moment demands the
u greatest exertion Of all our resources.
r.. We should send az Soviet
and Communist Party forces n the
Xcountry to the assistance Of the food
e. organizations. In order to wrest from
III we must resort, if needs be-, to
II %coercive measures: all who conceal
usaany grain should be arrested and con-
I'D fined to concentration camps for COM
pulsory labor" ".
4. The Foreign Affairs News Service
IA published in May. 1920, an article en-
titled Economic Russia in 1920" In
IA that article there appears the follow
Ing quotation from a report made on
|s January IS, 1920, by A.. Rykoff. pres
idenl Of the supreme council of the
National Board of Economy. Rykofi
y reports:
.Ine crisis Of skilled labor has q
special Importance for our industry
because even in those industrial.
N branches which work for our army
II make vain efforts because Of the lack
"a Of qualified workmen. ~. We
a experience enormous difficulty to. find
" even as few as twenty or thirty work.
e men. h wastage OF the mos
precious element which production
calls for, that is to say skilled labor
- Is one of the most dangerous phe'
~ pomena of III present day economic
= lie. This wastage has reached today
= colossal and .unheard of dimension!
~ and there are industrial enterprises
which we cannot operate even if W
had fuel and. raw materials, because
competent skilled labor is lacking"
M In the "Krasnaya Gazette" for No
s vember S, 1920. Larin, summing u
n The results of Soviet production TO
the last two years says:
q 9Th average output OF work pc
n man is no more than As per cent o
q what, it was before the TIL
III annual loss Of time has been, owini
] TO factories not working, So days
III ewing to sickness, 10 days; owing t
various reasons, s5.5 days: holidays
865 days. The total number OF work
Ine days per annum has thus bee
1915. The length of the working da
has been SIS hours" 4