The Washington times., 1935-05-29
MEMBER OF COMMUNIST PARTY
TELLS or EXPERIENCES

At the last Finnish station the Soviet border there
restaurant displaying abundance of clean food at
reasonable prices Some of fellow wanted to
eat and stock up there. restrained them. I urged:
Don't you buy anything here You that little bridge
down there where the red flag flying It Soviet terri
tory You will get better food there at cheaper prces
We all very hungry but the entire group followed
advice and waited until crossed the Soviet border to
Belo -Ostrov.
No brass band no speakers there welcome as
they did % months previous when arrived in BeoOsrov
Some poor peasants looking very emaciaed passed We
called to them and yelled out three cheers:
Long live the Soviet unon Long live the workers
public! Long live the Red army
The peasants looked in friendly They
passed YEARLY without answering Women and children
waiting the railroad station covered with filthy
Some of them muttered:
more foreigners! They won't starve the way we do'
Smell Of Food 7ndescribdble
We made haste to find the station restaurant terrible
stencil greeted noss The tables bare and to their
dcoored tops cngng decayed fish The mattresses
wore dirty smocks The menu consisted Of fish SOUP which
cost 40 kopeks portion.
When served the smell ndescrbabe One could
see the fish eyes and heads and entras all floating something
that looked like dish-water Ny wife turned to me-
ANDREW why don't eat? You are in your workers
paradise now"
felt terribly ashamed could not look straight into the
eyes of my comrades and away heartbroken AS
from the table number of ragged and chill
dren swoopd down upon the food and rapidly swallowed all
there including the black sour bread which tasted like clay
that had been served especially because foreigners
A Russia opened before 1t as II magic
castle had suddenly turned into pauper hut 1t stag
gering blow but Strengthened myself quickly AS Com
muns determined to bear any hardshps for great
ideal.
Spent Three Full Years There
spent three full years in Russia working and battling all
the time there during the famine in which 6OOOOOC
people pershed In to of letters to Sta the
American Communist representative the Soviet Trade
Unions by the of Skr to to discuss my appeal
In the his argument Skar made the following state
ment:
Suppose 100000 people die from hunger what OF
it? It is still worth the price of communism "
But it is the few million who died from starvation, but
the fate of the 1OOOOOO living that makes Soviet Russia
such CHASTITY challenge to humanity.
The tragedy Russia not the tragedy of sudden famine
not the tragedy of the dead but the tragedy OF chronca
starved people in chains the tragedy of the living.
left Russia little months During the three
there witnessed gradual sinking of the condl
ton of the large
Last winter harder winter than the one OF the year
before. And in 1884 it than in 1888.
Greatest Fran1e-Up System
America testify that all the employed workers of Rus
STA would only too gladly exchange places with all the unem
ploved in the United States.
The Russian workers would regard the garbage discarded
by the American workers royal fare.
have the serfs of the Stain regime gloat food
which dog in America would disdain.
Coupled with this fare of despair is the Stain system Of
slavery system which holds all labor under gigantic
ze which sanges every outcry which Furnishes mercess
which subjects millions to the iron rod of wefed government
parasites verabe of slavedrvers of Spies of
tonehe greatest frameup system developed earth
This OF OF articles Soviet Russia By
2mHH0 Smith AnneHie Nj m