Post War England
LATHAM, CHARLES
Post War England London's Labor Gov't Plans To Rebuild It Into Slumless City By CHARLES LATHAM (Successor of Herbert Morrison as Laboritc Leader of the London County Council) LONDON (Passed by...
...Afinogenov...
...College tuition is 400 rubles in the cities and 300 in towns...
...Now it is upon the local government that the duty falls to...
...1*HUS, the problem of replanning and rebuilding London * cannot be considered in abstract, but as an integral part of the orderly arrangement of its communal life, in which public interests must be paramount, and as a section of a complete structure which will include the provision of transport, public services, social services...
...Gandhi's speech was moderate in that he explicitly admitted Britain's claim that there was an "unbridgeable gulf" between Congress and the Moslem League...
...This legalization of capital punishment for children is consistent with G. B. Shaw's account of Stalin's "new interpretation of man...
...The party worker is afraid of being-accused of idealism, the technician of being charged with sabotage...
...Miss Gordon strips the rose-tinted glasses from the Dean of Canterbury and his book "The Soviet Power...
...Replanning must be an inspired design for living...
...in his play "Fear," has this to say on the non-existent subject: » "The owner of a cow is afraid it will bo confiscated...
...many signed membership cards...
...The fantastic mechanization has become a menace...
...Thus Communist Russia has actually overtaken and outdistanced the United States in the mechanization of agriculture, but the results simply attest the ignorance of the Soviet planners in practice...
...it was missed...
...These must be thought of and planned at the time and not after the buildings are erected and the people are there, as has so often been the case in the past...
...Tickets at 50c are obtainable from M. Altschuler, Room 491 7 E. 15th St...
...There are signs too that the Moslem League is moving from its intransigeant position which demanded the partition of India...
...It has become, along with "In Fact" and "Friday," one of the dominant pipelines of Communist propaganda...
...It prohibits the shipment of "inferior", and "unfinished" products...
...Stained glass infinite beauty cheek by jowl with bug-infested slums...
...The originators and popularizers of the thesis that religion is an opiate for the ignorant, are now making every effort to disseminate the Dean's version of Stalin's new order...
...And his relatives will be politely informed that they need have no anxiety about him, because he is not coming home any more...
...During the last World War, Russia was saved, according to the Communist economist Lyashtenko, by her primitive method of cultivating the soil...
...monuments to history at «e point and monuments to greed at another...
...Bronx tor Britain" Affair To Be Held May 18th A "Bronx for Britain" Tea and Superette, arranged by the Joint Committee to Aid Britain, of the Bronx Social Democratic Federation and Jewish Socialist Verbajid will be held Sundv...
...not creative...
...In the accompanying article...
...In 1937...
...The humiliating blackboard "snails" and other symbols aroused the indignation of Walter Citrine when he was in Russia, but the Dean of Canterbury does not even deign to notice them...
...When it has been decided to plan an area with buildings which are either to house the population or provide employment, there immediately arises the need for the provision of all the public and social services, roads, transport, water, light, heat and power, schools, hospitals, open spaces, libraries, community centers, fire protection, main and local drainage...
...This fact is largely responsible for Stalin's subservience to Hitler...
...This master-plan must fit into the national plan...
...organizer, spoke on the "Social Democratic Youth...
...Gandhi Drops Demand For India's Freedom BOMBAY, India.—Mohandes K. Gandhi, leader of the Hindu Congress Party, in a speech on April 26 declared that his party has dropped temporarily its demand for the independence of India...
...The tragic famine of consumers' goods is too well known and need not be discussed here...
...Nevertheless, a fee of 250-360 rubles a month stands in comparison with the average Soviet wage of 259 rubles a month...
...His assertion that as a result of Stalin's successive Plans there has been a constant increase in wages and a corresponding decline m the cost of food and consumers' goods will not hold vvj»4er...
...Pravda of October 20...
...Striking examples of this uncontrolled development is to be seen along practically every one of the arterial roads built during recent years at great expense to national or local authorities or both—hideous bungaloid development, unsightly ribbons of shacks and huts, of factories and houses...
...Drawn mainly from groups outside both Congress and the Moslem League, this.body of opinion urges a scrapping of old slogans which have "become meaningless in the face of a Hitler-dominated Middle East with a threat to India...
...activity is not restricted to the campuses alone...
...It is a pity that the Dean cannot read this and other recent reports in Pravda, testifying to the skill and ability, after nearly a quarter of a century of ex--perience, with which the Communists administer the planned economy which inspired his whole-hearted enthusiasm...
...Time Forward," and the official press is full of it...
...Tbe Hunter College group of the S.D.Y...
...But for the manner of its destruction no one need rtgret the passing of much old, decrepit, and dilapidated property, both residential, industrial, and com-taercial, which should have disappeared long ago...
...In a country where civil liberties are considered a bourgeois invention and labor strikes are "a crime against the State" the only way of helping the Russian workers is to tell the truth, to disseminate all the facts about their tragic plight...
...This English-language p«felieatibn is the most unscrupulous of all Stalin's agencies for the beguilement of credulous foreigners...
...Town-planning never became a part of the whole problem of meeting the needs of those who would work and live in the buildings it permitted...
...Yet the Dean of Canterbury assures his readers that fear does not exist in Soviet Russia...
...If so, it were better the human race should Pwish...
...at the 23rd Street branch of C.C.N.Y., more than 30 students attended...
...In too many places there has been disclosed to passers-by whole blocks of slum and unhealthy dwellings, worn-out factories and shops which are a disgrace and a social evil, and which are served by narrow streets, sunless courts, and alleys which are "radiating centres of disease and ill-health," as a former Minister of Health said some years ago...
...It is a pity that he looked at Soviet Russia through the rose-tinted glasses of the Soviet Intourist Service...
...Fear begets labor truancy, late trains, interrupted production, general poverty and hunger...
...The Communist Party has utilized its controlled unions anrfc fellow-traveling outfits to spread this book...
...Had he known the real facts about the Soviet Union, ire migijt have employed his facile pen in the interest of the toiling Russian masses instead of singing the praises of their oppressors...
...The law of 1935 merely prescribed that the "weeding" should begin with children aged twelve...
...Other signs indicate that there shortly may be a good chance for an amicable settlement...
...Lenin was wise enough to recognize the importance of Grinevetsky's proposition...
...1JIS laudatory description of the status of the Soviet wage * * earners has similar omissions...
...Commenting on J.he new statute, Pravda declared that children with criminal tendencies "must be made to understand that they will not be fed on lollipops...
...Pianist, graduate of the Vienna Conservatory...
...The Dean's enthusiasms about the care of children in Communist Russia is scarcely borne out by Pravda of May 17, 1938, which demands that the "fee for a child in the pioneer camps (a variant of our own Boy Scout camps) should not be more than the cost of maintenance, 250-350 rubles a month...
...Had those responsible at the time these roads were projected possessed the vision and courage to acquire a sufficient depth of land on both sides of the roads, not only could there have been controlled development, pleasing to the eye and convenient for the community, but the increased land values which the mere projection of these roads immediately led to, would have accrued to the public benefit and could have offset the high-public cost of the roads...
...The Moslem premier of Bengal has urged the League to cooperate with Gandhi's Congress party, and other prominent Indians such as the Christian leader Kunwar Sir Mar-rahaj Singh have urged similar steps...
...1940...
...Hundreds of mean streets are but senseless gashes, as it were, in solid blocks of squalid buildings, and, beyond giving inconvenient access, ti*y serve no purpose and many of the roads which have °*onie important thoroughfares are narrow, tortuous, and •*re in origin accidental rather than planned...
...Max Eastman, in Jlis "Marxism: Is It Science...
...The group is sponsoring a series of lectures and talks...
...actually it was 75 rubles and the food budget consumed 51 per cent...
...Women and minors replaced the men and required neither oil, iron or steel...
...Post War England London's Labor Gov't Plans To Rebuild It Into Slumless City By CHARLES LATHAM (Successor of Herbert Morrison as Laboritc Leader of the London County Council) LONDON (Passed by the Censor) .—What exactly 'do we mean when, in the fine fervor of emotion flowing from the attack on London, we talk of the jepianning and rebuilding of London...
...Valentine Kataev describes it in his novel...
...nevertheless, according to Pravda of October 21, 1940, the cost of a kilogram of bread (two pounds) was 15 copecks more than the previous year...
...There have, of course, been efforts, laud-jbje within close limits, to plan small sections within themselves as a part of rebuilding...
...It was dispersed at the point of the bayonet because Lenin was out to establish the dictatorship of the Communist Party...
...The Dean is fabulously wronr about the fabulous success of the Five-Year Plans...
...In addition, entertainment will be supplied by Homo Frierman...
...Butter was less than a ruble a pound in 1928 and 25 rubles in 1932...
...roads must be driven, factories allocated, open spaces Wovided, dwellings built,, social services provided, transport r^Ked, so that we can achieve a unity of purpose for the "•We...
...These were unacceptable then ,but might perhaps be modified...
...And strange as it may seem it mu^t first be **f on the home front—a war against slums, disease, pov-1...
...And yet the Communists ntake no secret of this inhuman feature of "Socialist competition...
...Richard Keneren, tenor...
...Miss Gordon details here what that belonging means...
...Jinnah, the League's head, is reported saying that he will drop his demand for partition and would cooperate in forming a popular government within the framework of India's present constitution...
...They think it a good chance that the reader will not remember Russia's destitute children or the death penalty for children of twelve, and will swallow Dean Johnson's uncorroborated assertions...
...S.D.Y...
...Lillian Weiner has undertaken the job of starting an East Bronx neighborhood branch of the S.D.Y...
...Thus, in describing the rise to power of the Bolsheviks the Provisional Government is merely referred to, but there is not a word about the Constituent Assembly, the elections to which took place under tht* guidance of the . Communist regime...
...It is a sober and painstaking account of production and workers wage and living standards in the Soviet Union, drawn in the main from factory reports, trade documents, and a- close following of the Soviet industrial press for a period of many years...
...Fear haunts the footsteps of a person, makes him suspicious, uncommunicative, lacking in honor, indifferent and unprincipled...
...It contains not a word about the subjugation of the trade unions, the law of May 27, 1939, imposing compulsory labor on all kolkhoz ttihi-bers, male and female, or the decree of June 26, 1940, forbidding all workers to leave their jobs without permission...
...There was a splendid opportunity to secure for the community the betterment which resulted from public activity and public money...
...They are all anti-Nazi...
...Only children who enter trade schools, handicraft or railroad schools receive a wage and free tuition...
...Another illustration of Communist planning is the decree of July 10, 1940...
...Barring the unscrupulous official propagandists, "The Soviet Power" could not have been written even by a Russian Communist...
...It was regulative...
...It is a web of the most fantastic wishful thinking in which the original plans and aspirations of the Bolsheviks are described as existing reality, and machines are glorified at the cost of human relations...
...Directors, chief engineers and technicians who wore "guilty" of delivering "trash" were condemned to five and eight years' imprisonment...
...Afinogenov's play was produced in Soviet Russia, but later his plain speaking sealed his fate...
...Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, premier of Punjab, declared that there would be no exclusive Moslem, Hindu or Sikh rule in his province—and Punjab is the heart of any scheme for a separate Moslem state within India...
...Much rebuilding will now be inevitable...
...With the exception of the chairman, G. Krzhizhanovsky, the commission which Lenin appointed to study Grinevetsky's book and to draft a plan for the electrification of industry did not include one Bolshevik...
...Propaganda makes strange bed-fellows...
...Dean Johnson rightfully condemns Great Britain because not all the children of her poor have the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the countryside...
...His guide on that heavenly journey, according to the well-known correspondent Spencer Williams, whose letter to Eugene Lyons is reprinted in The American Mercury, was The Moscow News...
...Public ownership of those Ueas needing to be replanned must, where necessary, be J^Pted and unrestrained landlordism which has defaced the of London must not expect, nor be permitted, to hold up "'nation to ransom for high prices...
...This statement is revealing not merely as to the class of children who frequent the pioneer camps, but the cost of living in Soviet Russia generally...
...Now all these must come down if the London of tile future is to be made worthy of its people...
...The Communist Gladkov in his novel "Energy" makes the Engineer Kryazhin say: "We have no longer our I. I am not I. I am a slave...
...It must not be missed again...
...essential, when considering this gigantic task, to look yond the present conception of town-planning with its lim-*° and slow-moving series of regulations and controls and realize that it must become a part of the job of planning and development...
...twisted and broken bodies and...
...The great entrepot and shipping business of the Thames, employing thousands of workers, requires adequate housing accommodation readily accessible, but the *»terfront boroughs on both sides of the river must in many P*rts be rebuilt, as must also many of the almost century-old warehouses both in or near the docks...
...f"\NE illustration will reveal the practical effect of Stalin's plans: In the United States only 15 per cent of the farms are cultivated by tractors, but in Soviet Russia thfe edict of April 6, 1940, makes it obligatory for kolkhos members to use machines and tractors or pay the State a tax of 15 per cent in grain, rice, potatoes and seed oil...
...Factories, commercial buildings, shops, etc., must exist, for industry, trade, and commerce must go on and in general workpeople must be reasonably near their employment...
...Not telly must we not build on the foundations of what has been destroyed, but any rebuilding must be replanned not only to replace buildings demolished but also replace those still left as far as they fail to conform to a proper standard or fit into an essential broadly conceived plan...
...Within the master-plan there would be sectional plans of varying orders and characteristics...
...According to the famous - British anti-vivisectionist and ardent admirer of the Stalin regime, "a considerable share of the secret of the success of Russian Communism consists in the fact that every Russian knows that if he will not make his life a paying enterprise for his country, then he will, most likely, lose it...
...provide and maintain these social services, and therefore any proposals for planning London by od hoc bodies divorced from local government are fore-doomed to failure...
...The trouble today is that dwellings, factories, warehouses, ek-, are all mixed up pell-mell, crowding down upon themselves without order and without plan...
...The first speaker will be Fred Shtll-man...
...Of course...
...The following table by Prof...
...The promulgation of ?he law was followed by the usual Communist procedure...
...near Southern Boulevard...
...nor will they suffer and endure it.- This is a people's war and it must be a peo-™» peace, not only on the international front but on the ¦"•"e front...
...Stakhanovism is acclaimed, but no mention is made of the factory newspaper, or blackboard with their endless jibes ano» caricatures directed against those workers who fail to equal the speed of the pace-setting Stakhanovite...
...The penalty for violating this ordinance is two to four months' imprisonment...
...People receive the book through the mail without knowing the sender...
...4.9 12.2 25 .10 — 12* ft Stalin is fleecing the destitute Soviet population in order to supply his ally, Hitler, with grain...
...Demianovich's plain statement of fact will not bring back the liquidated engineers and technicians, nor will it mitigate the mortal fear of those who replaced them...
...The step last July was taken over the protest of Gandhi who is a pacifist...
...Another example of the cost of food in the Soviet Union is given by Pravda of April 8, 1938, when it reports that the food of a patient in the Moscow hospitals costs seven rubles a day or 210 rubles a month, not far from the average monthly wage...
...and the paralyzing fear not only of losing one's job but forfeiting one's life...
...When we talk of a fair city can we still mean beauty in *e part and squalor in another...
...WE must not just put up dwellings where dwellings were or factories where factories formerly stood...
...Martin Benjamin, S.D.Y...
...The peasant fears forced collectivization...
...The structure must be planned by the people who w-ill live in it and upon whom will fall the responsibility for its servicing...
...Nevertheless, it is a fact, whether the Dean is aware of it or not, that the oil fields in and near Baku still supply 90 per cent of the Soviet Union's oil...
...Stalin's labor passports are much more rigorous than those introduced by his ally, Hitler, in Germany...
...Thus when we speak today' of planning we mean much more than zoning, than the location of industry, than the siting of roads, than the fixing of building lines, or, indeed, the architecture of buildings...
...Between 191G and 1938 the number of horses declined from 35.8 million to 17.5 million...
...The muddle and untidiness that we see in and around our big cities arises from the fact that in the past building development has been permitted—latterly with certain minimum restraints—to plant down houses, factories, shops, cinemas without any regard as to how they fitted into the general scheme of things or to the social problems they created...
...obtained new members at its organizational meeting...
...HPHIS is the humane philosophy which the Dean of Canter-bury extols in the name of "Christanity and Jesus...
...In 1939 the Soviet Union boasted of a bumper crop...
...They argue that the natural inclination of a Dean of Canterbury would be to hate the Soviet Union for its atheism, but truth compels him to describe it as the happiest country on earth...
...brilliantly traces the ^motive-patterns of social-' ism...
...So far as this humanitarian ordinance is concerned, the Communists are indeed pioneers...
...The Dean's assertion that the Soviet Union is the most democratic country in the world will not help the Soviet citizens to achieve freedom of the press, speech and assembly...
...The Communists, according to the author, seem to have opened new oil fields all over Russia...
...Miss Gordon was active in the Russian democratic Socialist movement, and later studied under Prof...
...The price of a quart of milk in 1928 was 20 or 25 copecks, in 1932 it was 11 i rubles, and the following year it was 2'A rubles...
...The Dean seems to be one of those souls who "yearn to belong" to a strong and powerful movement...
...The Fabian cynic compared this method of Stalin's New Order to the "weeding of a well-kept garden...
...The entire value Of the book, according to the Communis'.?, is in the author's religious affiliations...
...There must be a master-plan covering the determined area which must be settled by and carried out by a local government unit having jurisdiction over that area...
...That the condition of a vast number of Soviet minors remained deplorable beyond description we can judge from the fact that in April 1935, after sfitjbnteen years of Communist rula, a law was enacted prescribing capital punishment for juvenile delinquents of twelve years...
...Stella Hal pern...
...Supermechanized Russia is not only menaced by the possible loss of the Baku oil wells, but a crucial shortage of iron and steel...
...True, it must include all these...
...After a violent campaign of "self-criticism" in the Communist press, including an investigation by a committee of the Soviet Army, the matter dropped out of sight...
...Are we still envisaging the problem as a pre-war one only larger, or do we see it as a great new conception of what the Jjfetropolitan City of the Commonwealth ought to be ? ' For many years parts of London have been in the process of being rebuilt but not necessarily re-pUrined...
...But in these schools the children are so happy that minors of 14-15 have to be conscripted...
...The Soviet Power" is being sold for a trifling sum and is, as a matter of fact, being distributed free of charge by Communists and their fellow-travelers...
...As in the pioneer camps, the food in the hospitals is the simplest...
...The Soviet worker fears the interminable purges...
...the strangling of production is not due to poor workmanship, the absence of technological direction or poor management, but to the shortage of small parts...
...Canterbury Tales MANY A GORDON'S "Workers Before and After Lenin" * is one of the major contributions to modern economic history...
...I can vanish any minute as a result of one word or caprice by any kind of Communist...
...a complete reversal again would be interpreted as a repudiation or slap at Gandhi...
...Leading scholars and critics have acclaimed "Workers Before and After Lenin" as the "must" book on the Soviet Union...
...1940, reported a catastrophic drop hi production...
...These victims of the "Socialist State" attracted so much attention in 1927 that it compelled so good a friend of the Soviet regime as Walter Duranty to send his famous story to the New Yoik Times about the frozen corpses of children in the streets of Moscow...
...Nor docs the Dean remember -the compulsory overtime, the exorbitant fines for the slightest infringement of "labor discipline," the OGPU representative in every office and factory, or the labdr passports...
...It is a vicious circle, the constant turnover of directors and workers for no fault of their own...
...May 18, 4 p. m. at 862 East Tr-mont Ave...
...he also added: "Why don't British statesmen admit it is a domestic quarrel...
...College Chapters Of S.D.Y...
...In Czarist Russia, Baku was the largest center, which yielded 83 per cent of Russian oil," the Dean informs his readers...
...Thus between 1929 and 1937, a worker family's food costs increased 5.4 times, while the head of the' family's income in rubles increased only 3.3 times...
...I am a sacrifice...
...This must be news to the Communists, who know quite well that their most dangerous enemy is fear...
...It requires little imagination to visualize *the catastrophic effect upon Russia's mechanized agriculture should the Nazis become masters of the Baku oil fields...
...The sequel to this invariable Communist method for solving national and economic problems, namely, the liquidation of the more experienced administrator* and replacing them with new ones, was panic...
...the reasons impelling a man to uncritically accept: Stalinism...
...In 1928 a pound of meat was 40 copecks, and in 1932 it was ten rubles...
...S. N. Prokonovich in the Quarterly Bulletin of Soviet-Russian Economics is an eloquent comment on the truth of the Dean's assertions: Kopeck* per kilogram 1111 1528 1932 1*24 IMS 1927 1940 KM before after Oet-21 Oct II Rvf bread 7.3 8 12.5 50 K7 St 1M Wheat bread 17.5 H IH If* IN lit Potato...
...TOWN-PLANNING in the past failed because it was a neg-' * ative and not.a positive agency...
...gVT the people do not mean this...
...and Mary Loch-ran, soprano...
...Beard at Columbia University...
...Otherwise the Dean could not maintain that in Soviet Russia education is free and that a child can begin with the elementary school and complete his higher education without paying a cent...
...Oft has it, so to speak, washed its hands...
...In 1928, at the beginning of the collectivization of agriculture, and on tho eve of the first Five-Year Plan, a dozen eggs cost half a ruble in Moscow, In 1932 they cost eight rubles, and in 1933 sixteen rubles...
...This is one picture of the Dean's Russia where they know not fear...
...taking the fixed prices of September 25, 1935, in government stores as a basis, the same amount of ordinary food cost 250 rubles, while the average wage was 259 rubles...
...Children of workers who must subsist on the minimum wage of 185 rubles a month are no better situated than the1 poor children of Great Britain who aroused the compassion of the Dean...
...According to the law of 1940, city children in the eighth, ninth and tenth grades pay 200 rubles...
...Unfavorable facts are either ,not mentioned or soft-pedaled...
...But he is completely out of touch with reality in his expansive praise of the life of the children in the Soviet Union...
...This Congress leaders will not do, although the majority, following Nehru's leadership, will not cooperate with the British for tactical reasons rather than pacifist objections...
...on the other hand, the output of machines during 1937-1940 increased 76 per cent...
...At the Kalinin works the gross fulfillment of the plan was 81 per cent, but the finished product was only 12'ji per cent...
...The impetus towards a truce to political controversy within India is growing, and its strength is truly amazing...
...Thus we will approach the problem of replanning and residing London from the standpoint that private interests **t give way to public needs...
...At the same time the planning cannot be left to a large number of local authorities...
...N. Y. C. Proceed* will ?o to the British War Belief Society...
...it is 150 rubles in towns and villages...
...An agent of the OGPU will take him by the shoulder anrl will conduct him to the cellar of this famous department and he will simply stop living...
...Whether, but for the war and tt^fcmage arising from enemy action, any plan-iiifswould have been done does not now really matter...
...The Dean of • Canterbury was taken on a visit to Soviet Russia and came out transfigured with all the bliss of Paradise...
...Concert Mandolin artist...
...But apart from this and from the limited effects of town-planning repijjpents, no large-scale planning of London has jefcjjm attempted...
...One searches in vain for the slightest mention of the destitute children of Communist Russia...
...The bar to this step is the desire of Indian leaders not to offend Gandhi...
...e mean this...
...music and dramatic fees were fixed at 500 rubles...
...The Communist strategy is based on the assumption that the American reader is still completely ignorant about conditions in Soviet Russia, or at least that he will have forgotten the crucial points...
...but the increase in the production of iron and steel was about 3.5 per cent...
...A Review of The Soviet Power What the Red Dean Didn't Learn From Intourist About Russia By MANY A GORDON Author of "Workers Before and After Lenin" UEWLETT JOHNSON, Dean of Canterbury, is a Fabian Socialist with a rambling pen who is Inter-- ¦ ested in the welfare of labor...
...According to a Russian legend, the Virgin Mary wag taken on a journey through Hell and there experienced spiritually all the tortures of the damned...
...The real author of the electrification idea and the industrial plans was the non-Communist Professor V. I. Grinevetsky...
...Grow At the first organizational meeting held by the S.D.Y...
...but it is much more than all -these...
...Instead of exposing Soviet conditions and rallying British labor and liberal opinion in support of the saner elements among the Communists, the Dean commits the unpardonable sin of eulogising a nonexistent paradise...
...According to Engineer Demianovich, in Pravda of October 27...
...Tbe problem before us is to create out of the chaos, the "POlor, and the untidiness of London a planned city wherein *Dthe requirements of a decent life may exist, wherein in-tostry, commerce, shopping, living may proceed in a manner Providing the greatest measure of ordered living for the Reatest number of people...
...Observers see this as a possible step towards limited participation in Britain's war effort and a reversion, possibly, to the party's policy of last July, when the creed of non-violence was set aside and full cooperation offered to Britain on certain conditions...
...He vanished and no one knows where...
...At that time Krupskaya, the widow of Lenin, asserted that the Communists and not the Czarist regime were responsible for the tragic conditions of these juveniles...
...and private interests and private ownership have been quite content to leave local government' to meet those problems at heavy cost to public funds...
...The food in these camps is of the simplest and is bought wholesale and prepared collectively...
...At the Stalingrad tractor works, incomplete products and castings to the amount of 18 million ruble* are piled everywhere...
...spirits, a war against ** denial of opportunity for the children of the people, the •"toers of the race and the fathers of posterity...
...The average monthly wage of a head of a family of four persons in 1929, according to some official sources, was 9D rubles...
...The Dean is fascinated by the Soviet Plans to the point of attributing the idea of the original plan for the electrification of industry to Lenin...
...The machines are waiting for 400 nuts which cost one copeck a piece and heating-tubes to the amount of a thousand rubles...
...It would be difficult to find anything more cynical, even in the present confusion of real human values, unless it be Communist enthusiasm in this country about the Dean's book, "The Soviet Power...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 19
