Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-02 | Page 3 | Soviet Scored in Dying Speech of Dzerzhinsky

Soviet Scored in Dying I Speech of I MOSCOW Aug 2 AP In AP-In In what proved to be his dying speech Fe Felix Fe- Fe e lix E. E chairman of ot the supreme economic council shook th the communist party to its depths In terms of remarkable candor and scorn he condemned the tho present bureaucracy red tape duplication of effort and complicated governmental governmental governmental govern govern- mental machinery in soviet Russia M. M I. I died shortly after ater a sensational three-hour three attack on the opposition during a meeting of the central executive committee of the communist party In n the Krem Krem- Kremlin lin ha Although the speech was delivered delivered delivered de de- livered a lI fortnight ago Its text appeared ap- ap appeared appeared ap ap- In the soviet organs only today todar LACKS EFFICIENCY Declaring that he was horrified at the tho lack of efficiency and the system existing in almost ever every government department h he ho said More than once I came to the president of the peoples people's commissariat commis commIs- begging him to let me resign or to give me the trade commis commIs- If you but but look at our intricate Intricate in intricate In- In government machinery un unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented un- un red tape and lack of system you will be shocked I II M. l. l the trade commissar commis commis- sar assuming that the speakers speaker's strictures were directed at him shouted You have e been a commissar four years whilst I have served only several months If It you were a commissar fort forty forty- four years ears retorted you ou still sUll would be useless because you busy yourself with politics and not with work I never distort my soul If I see disorder I I 1 attack at attack attack at- at tack it with all my might but itis itIs it itis is difficult for me to do It all alone Therefore I ask your aid ald A satirical thrust from Leon angered M. M to this heated retort Wo We have witnessed for several everal days how the minority tries the majority's majority's majority's ma ma- patience and I shall Ignore such interruptions because the themore themore themore more attention We give to these tricks the more opportunity we give to th the opposition to disorganize our work M. M ridiculed the oppositions opposition's oppositions opposition's op op- positions position's tear fear of ot l a a growth of private private private vate c capital among the peasants pointing out that the tho peasants had accumulated four hundred million rubles rubles four four rubles each which each which produced outbursts of laughter After fter admitting his own erroneous policy of advocating the expenditure expenditure expenditure expendi expendi- ture of rubles rubles' in the metal industry that could have been put to better use M 1 launched Into his attack Finished the sp speaker aker scarcely had wiped the perspiration from the fevered brow when his heart failed him Shortly afterwards he ho died