THE SOVIET 'ELECTIONS'
DALLIN, DAVID J.
East and West The Soviet 'Elections' By David I, Dallin IT WOULD BE WRONG TO OVERLOOK the significance of the Soviet parliamentary elections because these elections are a fake. Of course, the...
...On March 3 it displayed in exactly the same spot and in precisely the same type: "U.S...
...it includes the Soviet "elite," the men at the very top...
...To make the Supreme Soviet representative of the Soviet Union, the most loyal and fawning professors, academicians, writers and artists are rewarded with a seat in oone of the two Houses...
...Called the Department of Mass Campaigns (it was recently renamed and reorganised), its proper name should be the Department of Wirepulling...
...By William E. Bohn ON FEBRUARY 27, TONI SENDER brought before the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations an accurate and authentic account of slavery as it is carried on inside the Soviet Union...
...All right...
...In the first Supreme Soviet (1937-46), non-Communists constituted 19 per cent of the membership...
...I have seen much of these hard-working and unfortunately-situated people in many different states...
...I notice that the WDL has just released to its friends File No...
...It is always carried unanimously...
...ELECTIONS TO THE SUPREME SOVIET proceed on two levels: First, the future deputies are selected behind the closed doors of the Central Committee...
...The task of this agency Is to make an unpopular law or political act appear to be the product of a spontaneous popular movement and so to shift responsibility for it upon the people...
...This was a hard job...
...the title "Member of the Supreme Soviet" not only provides for considerable material privileges, but classes its bearer among the most powerful, honored and of course loyal adherents of the supreme leadership...
...According to the account given by Mr...
...These two headlines equate the system of contract labor here in the U.S...
...For many years this organization has been one of the most alert, energetic and useful outfits to stand guard along our social borders...
...To select the right men in an atmosphere filled with intrigue, jealousy, ambition, insult, claim and counter-claim is not easy...
...Since nomination is tantamount to election, the first stage is the more important of the two...
...Watts described before the United Nations...
...One-fourth of the 1,159 whose names were published, the largest group, are Communist party secretaries and high officials of the party...
...On the other hand, there is a compact group, 152 men and women, designated as "chairmen of collective farms"— a privileged profession specializing in extracting grain from peasants, collecting arrears, and supervising "labor discipline" among the peasant-members of the kolkhoz...
...There Is no WDL...
...For such a cause we should give them more...
...Immense good has been done by exposing the social cancers...
...non-party" representation is necessary to stress the solidarity between the people and the Communist party...
...But there is no record of anyone crossing any body of water to reach a Russian concentration camp...
...The Soviet Parliament is a body of 1,302 men and women carefully selected from the "very best" and "most talented" people of Russia...
...Besides, certain instructions of the Politburo had to be observed: the percentage of women has to rite from one election to another to manifest the growing equality of sexes in the Soviet Union...
...But the mailing of this appeal gives me a chance to remind them of these facts: In Russia no tueh appeals go out...
...Watts, 200,000 so-called Mexican wetbacks entered the United States illegally last summer in order to work on farms and in orchards...
...718-S, which contains proof of peonage in the turpentine camps of Florida...
...next, an...
...It is thus a kind of exclusive club...
...W|«hed periodically the repo^NiCj™11 who have escaped fromHSfc sian concentration camps...
...Is Charged Before U.N...
...In addition, 120 ministers of the central government and of the governments of the "republics" sit in the new Supreme Soviet...
...The fake "scientist" Troflm Lysenko, whose theories of genetics have won Communist party blessings, is a Soviet MP...
...It is the sort of thing which is carried on by the enemies of democracy...
...Of course, the Supreme Soviet is no reflection of the political moods of the country...
...Miss Sender calls the Russian forced labor system slavery...
...Rowland Watts to deliver a report on slave labor in the United States...
...Hears That Soviet Bases Its Economy on Slave Labor...
...some of them are known in this country: Ilya Ehrenburg, Vanda Visilevska and Konstantin Simonov...
...in the second (1946-50), 16 per cent...
...laNOW I COME to a part of this revelattontJ^lifhljtonu^^ 28 the TimesTcarneo on its front page a twodecker head:*"'U.N...
...Inside the boundaries of our country there is a good deal of labor which is performed under various forms of compulsion...
...But it is much worse than what was known as slavery is this country...
...Unlike the British Parliament, the Supreme cialsM]iniy~9_per cent of the totaTTu&Ti'i ub'iSkip are workers, roost of them "Stakhanovites...
...he is the strong link between the Kremlin and the vast machinery of the state...
...It could have been published immediately, for all the difference the formal "election" will make...
...There is, too, a good deal of labor which is performed under unsanitary and unpleasant conditions...
...We —especially sound and effective reformers like the men of the Workers Defense League— should not commit such blunders...
...But still another task remained to be performed by a second department of the Party's Central Committee...
...They swam the Rio Grande seeking this "slavery...
...What there is left of this mode of oppression should be attacked energetically and continuously...
...On March 2 there appeared before the same UN body Mr...
...electoral campaign" is launched in public...
...To make a frontal attack on peonage, these men and women need $85,000...
...The Home Front When Are Slaves...
...That is agreed to...
...We hav...
...Add finally 30 MGB-MVD (secret police) bosses, 52 industrial managers, 107 city mayors and chiefs of provinces...
...A group of Communist party officials, acting under constant supervision of the Politburo, spent a month compiling the membership lists of the new parliament...
...It is particularly horrifying to have children living in the shacks which serve as homes for these wandering toilers...
...As a representative of the American Federation of Labor— and not without encouragement and assistance from The New Leader—she has done a thorough research job...
...The slaves have no friends...
...this time they will probably amount to less than 16 per cent in order to demonstrate the growing support for Stalin and his party of the non-Communists (who number 97 per cent of the Russian people...
...simple workers" and "simple kolkhoz-peasants" cannot be omitted for reasons of propaganda...
...Those Soviet authors who have been noisiest in their denunciations of America are how legislators...
...ACCORDING TO THE REPORT in the New York Times, the picture of American slavery portrayed by Mr.~ Watts was made up chiefly of details drawn from accounts of imported West Indian laborers on the East coast ami from those of Mexicans employed in the West...
...yet the elections have serious meaning...
...Watts did or said...
...I also agree that every American should give as much as he can to support the Workers Defense League, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Child Labor Committee...
...If he is loyal and efficient, the party secretary is the local boss and his power is tremendous...
...15 or even 40 per cent of the labor in peris'" "fayiet industries '^t£gi3gjg'^bv slaves...
...It is a small sum...
...Watts spoke as the representative of the Workers Defense League...
...To pretend that the two evils are at all comparable is to perpetrate an enormous and dangerous falsehood...
...Certainly nobody in any country ought to be asked to work or be allowed to work under conditions which prevail in the eamps where these people are herded together...
...only 2 per cent are peasants...
...The professions of the selected Soviet "lawmakers" have been announced in the Soviet press...
...After strenuous effort and dispute, and after sifting through thousands of communications from local party committees, the list of the Soviet's new "legislators" was completed about a month before election day...
...This other agency is one of the most remarkable institutions in the 5*a£m*t party machinery...
...The poor victims of the Soviet slave system lead th* lives of animals for a few years and are then dumped into unmarked graves, although most of them are guilty of no crime...
...From the start I want to guard against the impression that I am against anything which Mr...
...In a public meeting some unknown person, a "man from the people," a common laborer or a peasant, takes the floor and proposes to elect to the Supreme Soviet N. or X. Everything is prearranged, of course, and the local party bosses support the motion...
...All of these groups have fought vigorously and successfully against the kind of thing Mr...
...Then comes the "election" which 'supplies millions of votes in favor of a set of representatives who were selected, approved and confirmed well in advance...
...In the election campaign it was the task of this Department to have future representatives "nominated from below...
...She showed that as much as 10 or...
...which sends a few hundreds of thousands of^workers across the country under admittedly evil conditions, with the Soviet system of concentration camp slavery which means death to millions...
...Laws have been passed and the number of sufferers has been enormously reduced during the past three decades...
...With Tolerating Slave Labor...
Vol. 33 • March 1950 • No. 11
