THE COMING SOVIET PURGE
NICOLAEVSKY, BORIS I.
The Coming Soviet Purge By BORTS I. NICOLAIVSKY ON JANUARY 12, the Moscow newspapers were extra large. They contained a list of election districts fox the recently prescribed election* oi the...
...One man of mystery that we would like to see checked on, however, is May wood Boggs of the boilermakers, who reported his total expenses for the quarter as $1,902.65, but then answered the question "To whom paid" with a cryptic "No one...
...It has long been evident that on the Soviet Olympus things aire not running as smoothly as the semi-official scribes would lead you to believe...
...by the Automobile Manufacturers Association...
...And another enigma, come to think of it, is W. D. Johnson, a vice-president of the Order of Railway Conductors, who answered the same question by writing: W. D. Johnson...
...The fifteen essays, which were published recently in a pamphlet called Why / Am in the Labor Movement, unfortunately leave labor rudderless and adrift on an ocean of cliches, e.g., Eric Peterson's "A sound, progressive, and militant labor movement la inseparably tied up with the great future of a nation of free men and free institutions...
...Stalin's decision to restore death sentences deserves careful scrutiny...
...The substitution for capital punishment of a sentence to 25 years in a concentration camp, as prescribed by the 1947 law, actually did not save the life of the accused...
...CHRYSLER'S ANOMALIES...
...and [31 that he "did, however, support, advocate, or oppose, certain bills...
...The stgni/icance of the data is obfuscated somewhat by the maddening vagueness oj the questions that have to be answered: some labor lobbyists reported their full salaries, but many seem to have reported only what they get specifically for lobbying, which frequeivtly, of course, is nothing...
...And he didn't know what to get her...
...We passed an evej ning last weep squinting (literally, this time) at 46 pages of seven-point type in the Congressional Record...
...If Malenkov, in this gala article, found It necessary to elaborate on the need tor self-criticism (coming from below, and not only from above at that), the obvious implication is that the purge la assuming vary great proportions...
...ALLEGATION...
...and a teamster reported $3,750...
...So he finally decided that what she probably wanted most of all was a pair of falsies...
...First, as a result of the war and the mass executions of the first postwar years, there arose an acute shortage of manpower...
...Some Anomalies in the Steel Hoard's Report, by Theodore R. Iserman...
...Simultaneously I have sent In my resignation to the Communist Party...
...The CIO telephone workers, for reasons which are entirely obscure to us...
...It only protracted the process of killing him over a few years...
...It's an uninhibited assault on the whole principle of fact-finding, done la the manner, if not the spirit, of an old-fashioned Leninist polemic...
...He is trying to lay a solid and lasting foundation for his future, and for this purpose he needs executions—big trials with executions on the pattern of the 1938-1938 purges...
...Stalin's decision of May 26, 1947, to abolish capital punishment was not impelled by "putrid liberalism.'' People of Stalin's brand never suffer from sudden attacks of love for humanity...
...The record does show, however, that the labor contingent on the Hill is continuing to ncrease in sire...
...wanted to give this girl who worked with him some kind of a birthday present...
...A MORAL ISSUE...
...PIE CARD A LA MODE...
...None of them reported spending money on the subversion of legislators—mostly, their salaries seemed to go for food, rent, and transportation...
...Boris Nicolaevsky's latest book is Forced Lubw in the Soviet Union...
...The National Planning Association has conspicuously muffed a unique opportunity to define, once and for all...
...A representative oj the machinists' District 44 made $2,000.06 for his three-months' work...
...Effective today I hereby resign my position as Field Representative of Local 1150 which I have held for the past four years...
...If it does, Chrysler is apt to be embarrassed by a pamphlet currently being distributed, gratis to anyone who writes for it...
...There can only be one answer: the renewal of the death penalty is linked to the internecine struggle now developing in both the government and the Politburo...
...At that time punishment by death was abolished for two very practical reasons...
...At the same moment, the publisher of Izve&tia, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, put its stamp to the decree re-introducing capital punishment, a decree that had Just arrived from Stalin's personal office...
...It ie now dear that the disgrace of Voznesensky and Kuznetsov marked the inauguration of a full-scale purge of the late Andrei Zhdanov's followers...
...2] that he was "not employed to support or oppose any specific legislation...
...So Harold said the company was really firing him for "union activity," he having been active in the United Office and Professional Workers of America twelve years, not to mention shop chairman and local, treasurer...
...The names of alt Popov's closest aeaociatta have disappeared from the Soviet press...
...Second, the abolition of capital punishment was an excellent propaganda move—outside of the U.S.S.R...
...The CIO had 25 nen listed this time, the AFL 20, and the various independent groups 14...
...the philosophy, if any, oi the American labor movement...
...BUT REINTRODUCTION of capital punishment—in vjew of the wide publicity given the step—is an event of first-rate importance...
...The replacement of Popov by Khrushchev as Secretary of the Moscow Party Committee indicates that a sweeping purgf is due in Moscow-too...
...Malenkov's article in Pravda's Stalin jubilee issue seems to imply that this is exactly what has happened...
...Most of the labor lobbyists answered this- either with "none" or a reference to something in their own union papers...
...We have no way of knowing, as this is written, whether the UAW strike at Chrysler will ever reach the stage at which a factfinding board of any kind will be called in...
...This purge is still going on...
...Well, it seems that this fellow Harold Moskowitz...
...Fraternally yours, Lee Lundgren...
...So their company, which happened to be the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Newark office), fired Harold for being immoral or worse...
...The record also shows that the labor movement, at least at the Washington level, can pay pretty ivell these days...
...These figures do not mean that 59 unions are lobbying, of course: several lobbyists were from AFL or CIO headquarters, and several unions had more than one man working for them...
...the new law will cause little change in existing conditions...
...an agent of tht hotel and restaurant workers pulled down $2,720...
...Squinting at Labor By Daniel Seligman LABOR IN THE CLOAKROOM...
...The Bolsheviks took full advantage of it, carrying their cynicism as far as proposing in the UN Committee on Human Rights, that the whole world follow the generous example of the Soviet Union, in abolishing death sentences...
...still fewer have a chance to endure 25 years...
...It is aimed not only at Zhdanov's personal party machine in Leningrad, which of course could aspect no forbearance from Malenfcov...
...Printed on thee* pages, in compliance with Public Law 601, passed by the Seventy-ninth Congress, was a hypolhelically complete record of the names, addresses, employers, and activities, of the lobbyists who skulked about the Capitol cloakrooms and otherwise influenced national policy during the fourth calendar quarter of 1949...
...led the pack with nine registered lobbyists, including President Joe Beirne...
...Incidentally, Popov himself was a stooge of Shcherbakov, Malenkov's companion- ' in-arms during the war, which may indicate that "treason" has penetrated into the party machine much deeper than has been assumed...
...But for a few years, each of these prisoners is able to work for the state...
...But.Russ Nixon . . . Perhaps the most interesting statement of the day was filed by Joe Ball, whilom a Senator from Minneof the United Electrical Workers named the Compass...
...Net because it will inflict new suffering upon the people...
...What prompted Stalin to make this gesture...
...They contained a list of election districts fox the recently prescribed election* oi the Supreme Soviet, and announced that the election campaign had already begun...
...So the company said, Harold, you have a* funny idea of union activity...
...Dear Brothers & Sisters," the letter reads...
...This is what the revival of the death penalty really means...
...Then why was it promulgated...
...So that's wtiat he gave her...
...Less than one out of a hundred camp prisoners could survive a 10-year sentence...
...To a large extent this work had been carried on by inmates of forced labor camps, but the executions reduced their number...
...The CIO News of January 16 reprints a photostat of an interesting letter which had been addressed to UE Local 1150 in Chicago earlier in the month...
...It set itself this task last year when it aaked fifteen reasonably prominent labor leaders to submit their answers, in 1.500 words or leas, to the "allegation" that labor has no philosophy, that it is "without coordination or standards...
...Actually .of the 200-odd internationals in the country, only 28 have registered lobbyists...
...Plans for reconstruction were made on a tremendous scale...
...The questionnaires filled out by the lobbyists require them to provide "the names of any papprs, periodicals, magazines, or other* publications, in which [they] caused to be published any articles or editorials...
...Reading these lists, we decided, is a lot like reading the apart - ment-for-rent pds in the Times: both are fascinating but essentially unrewarding, both are hard on the eyes, and neither gives a very good idea of how much money is really changing hands...
...COINCIDENCE...
...All of this comes before the NLRB on March 21...
...So the union supported Harold, and the Daily Worker supported the union, but it didn't say who's supporting the girl...
...It seems likely that hi certain respects the present campaign will be reminiscent of the great purge of 1938-1938...
...Malenkov is tackling this task with great energy...
...sofa, who reported [1] that he had been paid-up to $1,250 for lobbying...
Vol. 33 • February 1950 • No. 7
