The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-16
MOSCOW STARTS WAR
 AGAINST CHAPTERS
Passengers Held Up for Food FTips' By Rail Workers Throughout Ma ton.
(By International News service.)


 Moscow, Nov. 16-The grafters in Moscow are scared. Fourteen were arrested the other day, and recently the number was 211. Among them were eighty porters. sixty police, thir- weight passengoes, besides weighers, servants and ten higher-ups, conduc- tors, assistant station masters, con trollers and inspectors. Passengers, after giving information, were at once released.
 Dzerinsky is the head of the Com mission for fighting the graft in fear, as Dzerinsky was the head of the former Extraordinary Commis- sion. the dreaded Cheka, which was charged withA crushing opposition from the beginning of the Soviet re- gime.
 Wholesale Graft
 The graft in transport has assum- ed such proportions that it is impos- si ble to ignore it. You may be travel eral persons in a freight car with all vcur baggage under your eye where you can watch it, but unless you pay graft your car will be side-tracked for day, for two days, for a week or maybe month. And when you have paid it in a few days your car will going with a group of your friends, In special (freight) car to Petrograd and back for your vacation, but you will never reach Petrograd unless you
 
 or some flour for the trainmen.
 l saw an American on the Moscow Express recover his berth by means of club, but this is most un- Rus sian. The Russian method is to sub- nit. or pay a larger graft.
 Graft in the placing of baggage has been a gold mine. Every ounce of baggage in Russia is charged for, and only 15o pounds is allowed on one ticket. According to the letter of the law, hand baggage is very limited. With the great impulse to trade now taking place in Russia the temptation to graft in baggage is tremendous.
 Graft in transport is only frac- tion of the graft in Russia. There are housing contracts, the holding up of material and payments-aH fruit flu sources of graft And there Is an enormous amount of just plain. ordinary stealing .o,. ,
 Graft is no new thing in Russia. The old regime was well described as tyranny. tempered by bribery" Zin- ovieff recently said that much of the orally much Of it was to feed the children for. as Tomsky, the labor leader. said in addressing bis men and supply have been so miserable that, were statistics to be relied dpon all you workers should have died two years ago. But" he added, you are still alive" And many of them have openly said they lived only by what they could make lone the side" But conditions are much better now. Hence the drive on graft
 The grafters are scared. There is no friendly haven to which to flee, and if there were the conditions of transport are such that unless you are travelling under Government aus pices it takes a week, two weeks often a month to get a ticket, to say nothing of a passport.
 The mobilizo tio7 against graft is cert inly on. So re say that a mont in jail, with only half a pound of bread a day. will cure the worst Firing squads are frequently men toned Conditions have assumed pro portions of a national peril. Foreign wars and civil wars, cholera. typhus and amfne-Russia has survived them all. Thoughtful men are ask. ing: Can she outlive graft3