Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

pie were wage earners waiting to deposit their
money in q government savings bank.
There Is no doubt that the Soviet officials
do invite, and pay the expenses OF, foreigners
who are expected 10 be of use in spreading
Communistic doctrine to nations that have not
yet seen the Red light In Moscow personally
saw parties of Peruvians, Chileans, Mexicans
and American Negroes being wined dined, mo-
tored, "womaned' and generally made much
Of Understanding Spanish, was able TO over
henr many comments of the Latin Americans,
who were reveling in the lavish entertainment
and eagerly swallowing the political paoulum
provided for them AS for the Negroes, they
were in their glory. They delighted to swagger
through the streets with pretty Russian girl
on each arm.
THE Russians regarded it as significant that
soon after the South Americans went home
there was a successful revolution in Peru and
an uprising in Chile. They attribute all the
recent Latin American upheavals to Soviet
propaganda. After my return to New York
heard one of the Negroes deliver Communist
Grafton in Park Row.
While the Russians despise us as supine tools
of capitalism, because do not follow their
example and cast off the yoke, they hate the
English more The most unpopular nation
with them, when / left Russia, was Great
Britain.
EVERYWHERE I heard that the workers Of the
Soviet Union had collected free will Offer
ing equaling 81 900 600 for the purpose OF
swinging the English Labor party to Lenlnlsm
The fund was delivered so the popular story
went but was diverted to other uses.
Speaking Of free will offerings, claim an
interest in the Soviet navy. One day Gunnar
Peterson, another American, and were walt
ing with his interpreter in the geological de-
partment of the Svetmetvoloto at Moscow.
woman approached and addressed us at some
length. Her speech was interpreted as an an
nouncement that grateful citizens all over the
union were making a gift to their beloved
government, and If we chose we might be priv
LEGGED to join in defraying the cost thereof.
Peterson and I gave her rubles apiece and
she went on. Curious, I asked the Interpreter
what form the gift was to take.
"A submarine" was the reply
Donations for this that holy Communistic
enterprise are forever being solcited-no, not
solicited but taken. Ostensibly they are voted
in labor union meetings, which are held four
or five times q day in the Ural copper mines
and also take up an unbelievable amount OF
every workers off-shift time. I was given to
understand that these citations are always
proposed by Communist party agents and that
no mere citizen has ever had the temerity TO
object.
When was in the Urals the nominal wage
Of a laborer in mine or smelter man or woman,
was two TO Tour rupleS Gay IN store CIeolt
But no one ever knew how much was being
subtracted from his account in satisfaction OF
some special tax or voluntary contribution" OF
which he may never have heard.
Trust stores outside the larger cities and
often there as well, are places OF filth. Myriads
of cockroaches and flies in Summer, dust and
CRIME the year through. But the food Is often
spoiled before it is ever delivered from the o.
crepit railroad trains, there is not much
more that dirt and insects and bacteria can do
toward the further deterioration of Russian
groceries.
The system of food distribution is chronically
disrupted. Locomotives and freight cars have
mostly gone unrepaired since 1917 and are
slowly falling to pieces. Although there is only
a thrice weekly train service on most OF the
lines, it is nothing uncommon for one train to
catch up with another that has broken down.
1t is likely that the food situation is worse
in Sverdovsk and other Ural settlements than
1t is in the farm districts, for they are pretty
well north and must depend largely on pro-
visions hauled long distances.