Show 1 lad in Rags' Rags Labor in Soviet dogs Bogs tJ Described by Skive i note Elso Else a old r old I German girl irl who uti fled to United I States States- Germany worked for forn 1 l ors a as a forced laborer n Russia Rusia ia in the bleak In the th f follow folio I l written for s s Service second in of j e three she hc tells of trim I h conditions i in n the city here Ru Russian sian and ami O 11 slaves es work by aide ide Bib rJ riot 1 tat IC ICH t Feb 21 In 21 In the froS fro- fro ha bogs S of f the Urals Urals- haU starved If-starved J i ed German w wom- wom om 1 j t p by y side aide among ono them la labored ored With Wilh our Russian in rugS rags like Delves they anly I I r bu but t a at the u u Us sand and tried toOne toe to e Li too language barLi bartoo bar bar- great One of our a little Russian ned that these I women hadi had i to work or would be sent across I II the mountains to dread Siberia I I This was at a northern I Ural mountain city of where I was transferred from also in the Urals These I Inre are arc north of the important city of S in the province of the same name crt lo Poverty Appalling I The poverty of the Russians inthis in jn inthis this industrial area arca is appalling The standard of living of Germans I in the thc United States zone zona is far farhi hi higher her I The average Russian laborer in earns carns about rubles about a month There is one movie house and one opera I house in the city but the worker workers I Ican can afford neither Only skilled craftsmen party officials and Red army officers attend There Is no rationing but the average worker cannot afford a aI dinner or a suit of clothes Every- Every I See Seo Page lage 2 i Column 3 s I r. r r. r Slave Labor in Russian Bogs Described by German Girl Continued from Page PaJe One thing thing- he or she earns goes to pay pay for the bare necessities of life The factories in work I 24 hours a day seven days a week Later when I 1 was transferred from digging peat to a rubber factory factory factory fac fac- tory I discovered that the Russian laborers had little initiative e I almost never ne heard one call another another another an an- other comrade What amazed us most was the thelong thelong thelong long arduous hours put in by the Russian women Strangely enough they were assigned the jobs considered considered considered con con- too strenuous for the men The peat fields were considered the worst place of all to work Our detachment of women worked I extra hard 10 hours a day As Asa a reward we were ere given gi noodles I with our regular diet of soup and I bread Freezing Winds We Ve were split into groups of three and given gi a quota of peat to be dug before we could return to the barracks Sometimes we ve worked through the night when the temperature fell to 30 below and freezing winds swept across the bogs Two women in our group almost froze to death they had their theil feet amputated The Russians gave ga us fur jackets and heavy boots the next winter Some of us became to too ill to work and were vere reported sent back to Germany But our number stayed at There were vere always replacements G Germ German e r m a n women who had been told they were going home after leaving former places of bondage Lice Bugs Rats i The barracks as crawled with lice and bugs and rats Two women had to sleep on a wooden bed four feet wide and six feet long After a few weeks when most of us were coughing and ill with colds the Russians gave ga us blankets There was no doctor at our camp Every six months a Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian woman physician from a nearby nearby nearby near near- by factory would give us vis a so- so called medical examination She I would glan glance a at t our tongues and examine hearts and lungs A few women who became sick not not sick enough to go back to Germany were Germany were sent to a RUssian Russian Rus RUs sian hospital where their hair was shaved at once They protested protested protested pro pro- tested but were told it was an anold anold anold old Russian custom for sanitary rca reasons sons j On Oct 6 1948 1918 CO 50 0 of us were vere selected for work at a local rubber I factory We Ve were replaced in the I frigid peat bogs by Russian men women and children Although I we were captive laborers of an I enemy state and they were Soviet citizens they worked under the I I same dismal conditions and had the same quotas to fill I Tomorrow lion v the Russians i I I try to indoctrinate German slave lla laborers th communism I |