Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-05

fortune" said William d. Hay
wood, commonly known as Big
Bill" in. an exclusive. interview
with the United Press.
81 never had much money in
the states" Haywood continued,
"and | never had nor will ] ever
have much money here. But l
never had to borrow any none
yet to pay my rent, as some pa
pers in the United States have
it."
Haywood was and still is head
of the Industrial Workers Of the
World, better known as the l.
w. w. He left the United
States while out on bail under
sentence of 20 years in the peni-
tertiary for alleged violation of
es espionage act during the war.
Most of his associates went to
prison and some Of them have
since been released, in some cases
being deported. Recently stories
printed in the United States have
pictured Haywood as jobless, in
poverty and regretting mis- trip
to Russia.
But Haywood isn't jobless. On
the contrary, he is very active
in the Anglo-American section
of the immigration bureau Of the
International Workmen's Relief
Association.
Part of Haywood's job is to
bring into Russia workers from
other lands, especially the United
States.
The work Hayw God is doing is
told by himself in letter to a
labor leader in johannesburg,
South Africa, which tells what
inducements are offered to colon
lists who seeks homes in Russia.
Haywood said in part:
Dear Contradict am now
connected with an enterprise of
many colonies, the Industrial En-
migration end of the Interna-
tional Workers Relief, This or
ganization, functioning under the
the Russian government, has at
this time land in fifteen different
provinces, comprising $50 estates
from $50 acres to $500 acres
each. These estates are located in
the provinces cf middle and south
ern European Russia, and were
previously the holdings Of the
old czaristic aristOcracy.
"Thesc estates offer the most
favorable opportunities for large
or small groups of colonists.
"The essential requirements for
colonists are, robust men and
women of qualification, not neces-
sarily communists, with knowl-
edge of modern methods of farm
ING and the kind of machinery
needed and the use and applica-
ton of electrical equipment when
ever practical.
Each group must have sutii-
cient finances for the machinery
and tools they will require; also
various kinds of seed, some of
which can be obtained here; food
and clothing or money enough
to provide the same for a period
of year.
This proposition presents to
those able to take advantage OF
a welcome offered by the Work
ers Republic, Il real living OPP
portunity to get under the Iron
Heel of Capitalism.
This invitation then is to those
who are prepared to rough it and
care dittle for the frills of shoddy
capitalist society and its ethics.
compare conditions here with
the rental of farmers of the
United States, who are compell-
ed to exploit the migratory agri-
cultural workers. For example,
the tenant farmers of the South
ern States, for access to the land,
gives Ii of the cotton and l-3
of the corn. In addition they are
compelled in many instances to
pay cash rent. Most of the land
owners refuse the tenant farm
ers enough land for cow pastures
or truck gardening. Throughout
the grain belt of the middle west,
farm rent is even higher than |
have described.
Here in Russia all rent OF
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