Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-03-24
Seeing 1ERed"
A column devoted to comments on Communism and
existing conditions in Russia
Our Country-May She Always Be Right
- But, Our Country, Right or Wrongl"

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sent north were described by rail-
road workers" The Report of the
Fish Committee mentions the same
subject: 1.-THE O. G. p u. has charge
of the prisons and the lumber concen-
tratIon camps in Northern Russia
Hundreds of thousands of inoffens-
I'VE Russians, because they were born
of bourgeois parents or held positions
IN the Cars government or Of the
Army or were priests who remained
faithful to their trusts. were exIled
together with SOC, 900 or more Kul-
axis, to the prison camps near Ach-
angle or in Siberia and disappeared
inc the Russ an forests without a
trace. Tha stark horror and pitiful
tragedy Of the men and women of
all ages and all classes and creeds
who once get into the hands of the
O. g. T. T. is net conceivable to Am
ericans-' 1t is to be remembered
that the liquidation OF the KuIsks was
carried out in 1880.
Another part of the structure of
present day Russia is the Commun-
its Union of Youth, or komsomol, an
organization of young people Of both
x between the ages of Ii and %,
patterned very closely after that Of
he Russian Communist party. a train
ing school for party members, and
under it's immediate direction and n
troll According to Professor Har-
per, 1T has some $4,000 cells and
100000 members including candid
ates. There IS an organization for
children between 10 and Is years
also, called the Young Pioneers. The
Pioneers are not patterned ON the
Boy Scouts, but are given definite
tasks and training for future party
membership. They are organized t.
help collect junk, TO sort seed foI
sowing, to agitate for sociaiistic com
petition and collectivisation OF agri-
culture and to help in the elimination
of i~lIiteraey" -
Under the auspices of the Komin-
tern have been founded various sim
liar institutions, such as the Young
Communist International, the Rex
International of Labor Unions. o.
Pr~ofintern, the NJ O. r r. or Inter.
national Society of Aid to Revolution
aries, sometimes known as Interna.
tional Red Aid, the Workers Inter.
national Relief founded in Berlin By
Clara Zetkin, a special member of thu
Komintern, and the Farmers and
Peasants International
On account of present day organ
lzaticn in Russia would be compiet.
without mention of the O. G. r T..
or secret police, whose terrorism es
tablished and makes possible tn
continued existence of the .presen
regime by the immediate extermina
ton of all opposition Its eentra
headquarters are in Moscow, and i
has 4 special corps of troops witt
tanks and aeroplanes under its con
troll Its special personnel are re
cruited from liberated comI-ts
thieves, a-ssassins, from the most un
reputable agent of the old Cars pc
lice, and from the scum of man,
races, including Jews, Let's, Asiat
les and Negroes The whole power i
at preent concentrated In the hand
of the secret operative management
which keeps the register of suspects
1t also controls the telegraph and tel
ephone system, censors the mails an
organizes the elections.
According to figures published b
the International Entente against tn
Third International, the III. S. S. r
is about to double its army, nov