The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-20
Soviet Lumber Workers Answer
Imperialist Attacks

lately the English conservative newspapers
II have started another campaign against the
Soviet Union under the guise of For the defense
of Free Labor" In order to prove the USSR is
using forced labor" several papers have printed
the testimony of witnesses Of three criminals who
escaped from Archangelsk. Using this false teSti-
mony which is altogether invented, the conserva-
tive element wanted to prevent the sale of Soviet
lumber in Britain For the workers OF Soviet
Union it is quite clear that this unexpected step
of English imperialists is just one link in the
chain of the furious daily preparation for inter-
vention against the Soviet Union.
Who Are These witnesses?
The member of parliament, Mr. Hilton Young,
the fiery author of different articles about the
affair." for unknown reasons has withheld the
names of the three witnesses (see the Timber
Trade Journal" 20123o). But we know that in
July, $780, hiding in an English ship, ran away
three important criminals; the first one Kuzma
Petrovich Zajcev, condemned for five years of
imprisonment for murder. The second one was
Fedor Nikitich Chajko who was condemned for
years in prison for sexual indulgence with girls
Of sexually immature state. The third one was
Cavril Dmitrovich Barishnkov, sentenced for
years for robbery. These are the men who de-
fend the honorable capitalists
SANDER and Facts.
Hilton Young writes: Il was informed that the
captain of the ship on which the criminals
escaped related that in Arhangelsk are docked
hundreds of foreign ships leading up with lumber,
500 men loading each ship" A surprisingly silly
lie. Usually about 80 to SO men load up ship,
because more men would only be in each other
way.
Hilton Young continues: Their living condi-
tons are terrible. Medical assistance is not
known. Workers are tortured in many different
ways, therefore they die in large numbers"
Well :. how similar is this picture to the con-
ditions during the intervention in 1918 under the
English general Pull, with the help of the white
general Miller (who at present is collecting 10O0-
900 army for against Soviet Union on the
Islands of Death as they are called now-Mudjua
Iakanga and other islands near Archangelsk).
In fact the lumber workers are fully equipped
with medical help. Quite a number of them are
resting up free of charge in the southern santa
RUINS. One and half million rubles (s75O,Ooo)
vas spent for social insurance during 1890 The
same amount was spent for cultural needs and
developments of the workers. Workers have good
communal lodgings, free working clothes, and
linen.
About the various demands the author of this
article and other workers will be very glad to
give you the information. Workers OF USA send
in your demands expose the tricks OF the cap
italists build frmer contacts with our organiza-
tons thru correspondence
About $4,000 of foreign sailors have visited
Archangelsk and other ports of the Northern part
Of Soviet Union. They have seen lot Of the
conditions here, they can be witnesses. Evidently
his source Of information is not desirable to the
capitalists.
American Engineer Answers the Attack.
Valon was interviewed by the 'Pravda Severa"
and here is his answer. Workers who operate
the transportation (by means Of tractors) work 10