The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-16

comm unlSIS WOulu HI IdIuIHsAil9 I1dAa with envy. Every known device is employed by the bolsheviki to swell the communist vote. If ordinary pleading fails. threats of losing the payok (food ration) and of arrest do the work"
 In describing what an arrest means in bolshevist Russia, Miss Goldman thus characterizes the notorious "Cheka": The cheka, the all-Russian extraordinary commission, unqueS- tionably Is the blackest measure of the bolshevik regime. It would require the master pen of a Dante to bring home to the world the in- ferno created by this organization, the brutalizing, disintegrating ef- feet it has upon the extraordinary commissions themselves, the dread, distrust hatred, suffering and death it has wrought upon Russia" To this Miss Goldman adds that "Exery com munist, by the discipline of his party, must at any time be ready to serve in the Cheka. But the majority Of the Chekists are from the Cars ok hrana,' from the black hundreds, and from the former high officials of the army. They are adopts in the ap- plication of barbarous methods The Cheka has been recently transformed into a department in the commits sariat of the interior, but its organ ization remains intact, and the mo- torious executioner, Dzerhinsky, is still at it's head.
 Effect on Peasantry
 Referring to the policy of the bol- shevist regime towards the Russian peasantry, which constitutes S5 per cent of Russias population, Miss Goldman quotes the following sig nifcant anecdotes now current n Russia: "A peasant committee is re- ceived by Lenine. Well, dedushka, little grandfather says Lenine to the old peasant, you should be satis- fed now; you have the land, the cat tie, the fowls; you have everything.
 "'Yes, God be blessed replies the peasant, yes, little father, the land is mine, but you get the bread; the COW is mine. but yours the milk; the chicken mine, but yours the eggs. The Lord be blessed, little father.
 Miss Goldman points out that "the inefflciency of the bolshevist regime and the corruption of their bu- reaucracy contributed much to the dissatisfaction of the rural popula- ton. The manufactures promised to the peasants in exchange for their produce seldom reaches them, or when actually received, proved to be dam aged goods, short of measure and so forth" Consequently, the bolsheviki .were compelled to resort to the razvyorstka (forcible food collection in the villages) because of the refusal of the peasants to feed the city.
 Punitive expeditions" says Miss Goldman, following upon villages resistance to the governments food collectors and always in charge or communists, would attack the place by force of arms and often literally destroy 1t. Unbelievable as it may seem, it Is fact well known in Russia that the razvyorstka sys- tenn was partly responsible for the present famine. For the peasants were not only stripped of their last hood of flour, often they were robbed of the seeds they had put by for their next planting. The drouth is of course the main cause of the narrowing con- ditions in the Volga districts. But 1t Is nevertheless true that if the peasants had been able to plant at the proper time, and freely, at least certain areas would have been in position to help lessen the famine on the volga."
 Attitude to Workers
 Such are the accomplishm ents Of the "dictorship of the proletariat' towards the peasants. Analyzing the Bolshevist policy towards the work CTS in the cities Miss Goldman con- firms what was established long ago, and that Is the fact that the so-cslled "dictorship of the proletariat" is in reality a dictorship over the pro- letariat. In describing the mobiliza- ton of labor which, was heralded to the world as the greatest asset or Communism, Miss Goldman says that what 1t (this Bolshevist meas ure) did accomplish was to establish, while 1t existed, chattel slavery and to replace the bourgeois parasite by the machinery of Bolshevik parasi- tism. It's function was to drive the workers to toll, oversee them on the fob and have them arrested and oc- casionally even shot for deserting the tob Under such enslaving and degrading conditions one need not be surprised tha tthe people shirked the work because they hated 1t and were driven to 1t. They began to look upon the Communist State as the new leech that was sapping their life blood. The workers of Petrograd. the most revolutionary.-vha won- der if even they came to loathe the false revolutionists and everything connected with them"
 These few quotations from Miss Goldman's series of ten articles will suffice to show that. in spite of the fact that she entered Russia two years ago expecting to find there a real "paradise on earth", she Is now courageously declaring to the world that Instead of the much-heraAed government of peasants and work ers," a red autocracy has been estab- lished in Russia, which governs tho masses of the Russian people by cruel and bloody means far exceeding those practiced under the Tzars regime. She explains also why the Boishsviki have succeeded In keeping some Of the credulous people throughout tho world thoroughly misled as to the real workings of the Boishevlst sys. tenn,
 Schools In Petrograd,
 Being interested In children, Miss Goldman visited In Petregrad ths o-called ''Pekazatetnaya Shkola" model school. literally show school"