The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-27

workmen ard All stores fillcd with
raw material iu process. but that
there was no material aud only
about l.200 poor, dirty. ragged
workors
ION my arrival In Moscow. Innin
had given me liberty to travel and
understand the production and
transport systep," he said. TN re-
turn for this opportunity to get &C
quaintcd with labor under bolaho-
vism, he asked me 90 tell him when
| saw conditions not In accordance
with American practice. Therefore.
my long personal letter TO him OF
December ~. 1919, widely quoted in
the New York daily press. In which
| said that the factories OF the Mos
COW district were not producing, and
that there was no prospect OF any
production In the Immediate future.
The reasons were obyiOus; n painful
shortage OF trained workmen, raw
material fuel clothing and food.
During tho three years OF tho rev.
Vlution the propaEnndiHts had been
preaching to the workmen that they
were tho owners and proprfetore.
ana that IN the future they were 10
live In luxury and idicness, as the
previous owners had done. This ~
a serious problem for future Russia.
Tho present generation II 30 demor-
allied that there In no hope of their
ever doing satisfactory work. The
educational aystcn also haa broken
down The moral foundation is de-
stroyed. No one in the rising genor-
alton IL beng prepared for the re-
building Of destroyed Russia
~ was asked 10 spend somo time
with krasr!n. AZ this time com mis-
sioner department OF ways and COM
munication. took q look at tho
railway shops. locomotive and car
building factories and found tho
condition no better than In other
factories. although n greater effort
was being made 10 keep the rail.
roads running One day was talk
ing with one OF the former railroad
n,ritrE-fr uuuut f-rsir. r-rrnrrrti
that II WIS strange that Persia q
land bigger than the German en-
miro. had no railroads. Yes he said.
but hore Ia Russia there N a sixth
OF the worlds land area with no rail-
roads. We are accustOmod 20 theai
ana feel their loss. Our economic
and industrial life is built around
our transport. and without II we are
pRraly2ed,' krassln saw the UNDER
stood all this, yet ha continued 10
support the bolshevlkI. II can only
| bu assumed that no has motives Ho
is business man and an executive.
before the revolution he was manag-
er OF the big German Semens-IIalsko
factories In Russia, employing s0,-
900 men. The Petrograd factories I
found oven more dear than the Mos
COW factories. The big Trogoinik
Rubber company. With fine build
ings and equipment. employing be-
fore tho revolution $4,000 men. was
idle.
Export Plans impractical.
"Since had convinced myself
that there was no prospect OF re-
building Russia, or even supplying
tho common necessities at home un-
dor tho present regime. J turned
with some enthusiasm to tho newly
organized foreign trade department,
hoping that I might find there a
carefully worked out plan for saw
Ing the Russian situation through
trade--export and import The man
agcr outlined to me at considerable
length the whole boishsviSt plan. iis
told me that the spirit OF the indus
trial workers was fine; that they had
in their central labor union hall the
secretaries of tho various unions,
about thirty In all, who could be
called at moments notice on any
important question and Immediate
action obtained. They had an elabo-
rate theorctichl plan for the COM
plete reRrrangement and rebuilding
OF the manufacturing system. When
asked the manager " he thought
Russia could accomplish. all this
without the aid of foreign capital. he
said. NO | then asked him how
they would enlist this aid ana he
sad, BY exports when asked what
they wouid export, ne said timber
and wood, flax. gold, cotton. But
asked him, How Ia II possible Tor
| you 10 consider exporting wood
when your people are living In great
distress In houses improperly heated.
4 your factories idle because OF lack
OF fuel7' There IL no appreciabie
amount OF flax In the country and
no transport TO take n TO the ports.
| While no doubt there is gold In the
| Ural mountains there II no capital.
| no transport, no equipment. no
| trained workers, to mine II. I'urke-
stan is an ideal country for raising
cotton, but II would require an irri-
eating plant, costing millions taking
/ years TO Install, and colonization OK
the country.
More than year has passed
s'nce this interview. and no progress
I has been made either IN production,
exports or purchases. There Is no
possibility OF credit or business eN-
Iccpt on a strictly cash -in-advance
] buNlN Win n ENNfiHHl'hh y Nv - 49,
| no morals and no sense or obliga-
| tlon 10 written contracts
"Farly In 1890 Lenin sent me 20
SEQ RikoN, head OF the supreme
council OF national economy VINO
turned me over 20 the concessions
department Here ] spent several
weeks In conference with specialists,
I studied engineers and geologists'
reporta as II was a chance to learn
OF Vusalas natural wealth Finally
Rikon sent me 20 tho railway de-
partmcnt, whoro they told me they
had inH, ructious 90 give iro the best
train Russia could nrov.de, with an
automobile Tor side trips"
Mr, Kevleys first trip was to the
coal basin. halfway
across siberia. 1000 miles from
Moscow, where he found good coal In
great quantities In the Ural noun
Iaius. between Russia proper and ST.
IBERIA, Is a mountain of iron OF good
quality and the situation such that
costs would be low. The
problem was to bring the siberian
coal 1000 miles east 10 the iron ore.
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