Evening star., 1924-08-23
ARTICLE XIX.

| These are perilous days for good
| Communists in Germany, Italy, Bull
| garia and other countries affected by
| the late wave of reaction in Europe
and the flood of political fugitives
| seeking asylum in Russia for their
health has greatly increased this
year.
The welcome sign. however, nc
| longer shines so brilliantly as in the
| old days of bolshevism, when Rus
| Sias rulers We're flush with funds and
full of sympathy for refugees from
! countries soon to be numbered. they
believed, among the Soviet republics
| The refugees can no longer count
| upon being put up as the guests of
the Soviet government, presented with
| the best of everything at Moscow
| gratis and given front stage seats
and access to. the speakers table al
| all big bolshevist functions.
| The Russian gates are still open,
but the sacred law of labor, the prin-
ciple, NO work, no eats is applied.
| The bolshevist authorities now re-
| quire the prosecuted comrades from
| abroad to do something to earn their
| keep after a single month of grace,
| and are trying to move them on from
| Moscow, where their numbers had be-
come an embarrassment, into the pro-
vincial towns. where they will be as
simulated more quickly and interna-
| tionaliZed into real bolShevists.
The central committee of the Rus
| sian Communist party recently sent
| out a circular of instructions to the
provincial committees and authorities,
| asking them to provide quarters and
opportunity for work for the foreign
| refugees who would be sent them.
For the Bulgarian and Baltic refu-
| gees this provincial exile is made more
| tolerable through a common Slav
| tongue, in which they can get ac-
quainted. The German can usually
| find comrades acquainted with his
language in provincial towns. The
| Italian or English speaking refugee,
| however, is in for a dreary time until
| he learns enough Russian to make
himself understood
Clearing Center for JaiIbirds.
| The chief clearing center at Mos
cow is a "house for political emf
grants with a theater, club, library
of books in all languages and athletic
grounds. Its capacity is, however,
only $50 persons, whose stay is linn
tied to two months in order to prevent
| the permanent settling down of refu-
gees approaching all these comforts.
While l was in Moscow, refugees
passed through the Immigrant House"
at the rate of more than 100 a month,
of whom, it is interesting to note,
| IS per cent reported they had come
| from prisons in their own country,
where they had been serving SEN
| tences of six months and more.
Some of the old-t timers, Big Bill
Haywood, Bella Kun of the Hungarian
| @
higher up in their home bolshevist
movements who came here early in
| the bolshevist era, have managed 10
establish themselves permanently In
| Moscow, with sinecure employments.
| A lot of them, Haywood included, are
quartered in a former hotel on the
| Tverskaia, where, in the approved
bolshevist style, they have a COM
| munity kitchen and dining room, and
share expenses of "the club" the pre-
vailing language of which is English.
Haywood has a nominal job as MOS
COW agent of the kuzbas American
| mining colony, but the glamour OF
| his presence in Bolshevla has long
since worn off, for Big Bill and his
| bolshevist hosts alike. He is rather
pathetic and lonely figure, sitting
throughout the day in his bleak hotel
room, reading such American maga-
zines and papers of past vintages as
| he can secure, and eagerly welcoming
American visitors for the chance to
hear the accents of his native land.
Haywood would like-oh! so much
| Ito get away from Russia, where he
LACKS even the Emma Goldman cons