The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-23
By International Labor News Service.

By International Labor News Service. Following the months of impartial investigation from all available Bol- , shevist source, the League of Ma tions has just isued voluminous re- port on the Russian famine. The International Labor News Service se- cured one of the first half-dozen copies of the report to reach the United States.
 Clearly the experts who prepared the report for the League of Nations operated absolutely without bias one way or the other and produced a . document which presents the facts as precisely as they could be presented by any human agency. In every case the original sources of the informa- ton are given in the report.
 The document contains and makes available to every one all of the i'm formation necessary for a thorough understanding of the Russian famine and of the conditions of agriculture that produced 1t, as we'll as the de- gree of Bolshevik responsibility.
 Huge Grain Efforts One of Many
 Evils.
 The incontrovertible facts brought out in profusion by the League of Nations show that the huge amounts of grain the Bolshevists are now sending out of starving country are but the last of a series of infamous crimes against the Russian peasants and worHngmen. These crimes of the Bolshevists have added immeas- urably to the suffering which were inevitably created by the drought and by international and civil war.
 The salient fact is this-the drought Is over, the national and civil wars are over and the Soviets alone are now responsible for the continuation of the famine. Russia was and is one of the greatest agricultural produc- in gand grain exporting countries of the world-provided it's agriculture and industry are carried on in mod ern civilized manner and provided the : agriculturists are given a fair voice in the government of their own coun try-of which they constitute more than 90 per cent.
 Starvation to Continue While SoHets
 Continue.
 Any money, any moral or material aid to the Soviet government will but strengthen it's hand in the frightful warfare it has been carrying on against starving population. It is only necessary to face the facts to see that this is so. The best way to summarize the crimes of the Soviets against the peasantry'is to quote with enumeration from the League of Ma tions' report. Each number indicates a separate and distinct Soviet contri- button to the starvation of the Rus sian people-a starvation which must continue, in one form or another, so Al
 It will be noticed that the Soviet agricultural policies have already gone through many vicissitudes-but the peasants have always been the victims. No sane man can give any reason why the authors of all these crimes and blunders should be fur ther entrusted with the fate of the Russian peop1e-or encouraged in any way by foreigners either through financial credit or political recogni-> ton. The fact that neither universal suffrage nor free speech exists under the Soviets is sufficient demonstra- ton that they know that the moment these fundamentals of civilization are established the peasantry will sweep them from power-and that they main in power only against the will of the Russian people.
 Here Are the League or NatlonS
 Specifications.
 Here is partial list of these Soviet crimes and blunders enumer- ated by the League of Nations.
 I. "The policy of naturalization and confscation pursued by the Sov- jet government after their rise to power in October, 1917, destroyed the market which had already been dis organized by the breakdown of in dustry and the depreciation of the rouble in the early days of the Revo-. lution. Thus there were neither manufactured goods nor a reliable currency to offer the peasant in ex- change for-his surplus, which he, therefore, withheld from market; and as these conditions persisted he be- gan to reduce his production.
 2 "The new Bolshevist govern ment proceeded to give effect to policy of confscation and nationaliza- tion which so paralyzed production