Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-24
ALL FREEDOM IS ABOLISHED. AND
 MISERY RElGNS
cCoNTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

board of the Perm Metal Workers | Union, who, with l. G. Oopovaloff, , president of the Metal Workers Un- ion in Vodkinski (UraD compiled the document, is now in the United ! States as a delegate from his union, !; commissioned to inform the organiz- | ed workers of this country as to con- ditions under the Soviet regime in 1 Russia.
 ''The coup d'etat of November, 1917 put the Bolshevists in power" said the document. "and from that time on the terrible fnatricidal struggle continued. Those very men who only yesterday called themselves the friends of the workers. now began the furious persecution of those work CTS by wholesale arrests. atrocities and murder. melted by demagagism calumnies and lies.
 'Under the camouflage of Commu- nism. acting in the name of the work inc classes. using the language and battle cries of socialism the Com muniSt government commenced it's work of destruction. In order to clear their own way. the Communists declared that freedom of speech, un- ions. strikes and meetings was 'sunerstition of the bourgeoisie' and condemned all who demanded politi- cal rights as 'counter-revolutionist Many comrades perished in prison were sentenced to hard labor or even shot. for the crimes of asking for freodOm"
 The Russian worlImen. the rennrt added arc forced to suffer under those copditiGnG be"auSe "thav a~e oHIi~nl to ~emain silent. as thev arc diehaliavnd when thov sneak aoainet those who fallaciouslv and insoleutlv call themselves the representatives of the peonle and who are so afrai" ! of the workers that. in practice. they have abolished the right of voting ~nI of frea sneech.'
 '''rha whole nolirv Of the commit niet Soviet oovernp ant towards tho R,1seian working claeeaS ao@ +h0i~ 1 oroau :zatious. . edeclared the docu- r,orf ''can be summed up as fol- | lows:
 s''rI,a froador, of tho unicne is "hn'- ;ohoA -ha uni0nc arc established l and wn-.l- undo- tho control ne tha i Soviet authorities and ran oniv act in inc way rrescribed by the Soviet outhor'ties
 l ic h. i cd A decree has heen issued in ac- | cordance with which meetings can only hn arranoed bv permission of the Soviet authorities.
 1 "Freedorn of speech is abolished It is crime to utter word against tho Communists.
 | strikes are declared connter-revo- Iutinnarv acts Workmen who go on strike are runished with brutalitv uuheard 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' 1 cunation to another. They are forci' hlv enlisted in so-called labor ar mics and Overtimd is compulsory. Trade unions do not exist as Sn dependent bodies: they are subordi' hated to cd1tral organization and thus converted into a. compulsory government aDoaratus.
 "As a result Of this policy. the Rut sian Industrial workers, being put intn desperate position. and unable to obtain help from their own organ ization, desert the cities and go tc the villages"
 Becaue a large number of work men have deserted the cities and are seeking to earn their living in the country. the document declares thai "in order to save the situation ano to detain the workers in the towns the Soviet government has had re course to measures of compulsion.
 From the beginning of 1920 mili tarization of the Russian industries has been introduced" continued the rerort. This measure was at frs .
 gradually it was extended over tho coal mines, metal industries and ii nally over the timber, flour and su gar industries.
 Authorization means a complete and absolute subjection of the work men to the works managements. I embodies d number of stern meas ures. also restriction of leases anc cruel suppression or strikes.
 Tt is needless Co say that the Sc ' viet government suppresses stHke'
 bv severe measure; the strikers arr arrested. deurived of food rations
 anu even shot
 Overtime work is compulsory,
 was stated. and the Russian meta
 worker. whose working day is nor
 mally eight hours and A hours pc
 week, is now l2 hours a day, and z
 hours a. week Sometimes compu ,.a,,. 1.-ori- s- ,,crfprmpd nm Sundays