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Show . s. socu SCORES SOVIET BUJLE Human Rights Trampled Un- der Foot by Bolshevist j Leaders lhf iaMelatr4 PreM. r.KKUN, Jb. 19. There is a class system In Hussia more rigid than in hat the bolshevlkl rail the 'capitalist 'capital-ist le countries." and It even extends to !th manner in which soap is rationed, yavs M. Mehwaris. the San Kranctso Socialist, who rently was rleasd ! from prison in Most-ow and sent with ' his dving wlfp to the Kslhonian border. "Hffore 1 went to Kupsin and saw the soviet government at close rang-I rang-I believed Lenin and Trotsky were really trying to do awav with the class nianv interesting details of his sojourn In the land of the Soviets, supplementing supplement-ing th statement which he made immediately im-mediately upon his arrival here, fti HTKM KIXKI. "I soon found iut in petmgrad and Moscow and other Kus.1an citi-s and villages that the class system iindr the holshvists Is morn fixed than in capitalistic cap-italistic countries,' he went on. "This svxteni is administered with utter dls-r-icard fr human rights and the teachings teach-ings of modern civilisation. Inln and Trotiky and their asso-clatrii asso-clatrii at the top of the scheme enjoy the greatest luxury. There Is plenty of food for the eommlsars, but the folks further down the scale are rationed according ac-cording to their attitude toward the government. "Even the soap Isgradrd according to the class system. The commissars have good toilet soap. Slightly less desirable desir-able soap Is given to their immediate subordinates and there are third and fourth grada soaps for those further awav from the Kremlin crowd. The fellow who gets the fourth grade soap must have a terrible time scrubbing up with it for it Is about like pumice stone. RITHLK. ASD BRlTAL, "I can't see why laboring people the world over should support another kind of class government In Russia, a class government which is ruthless, brutal and unjust to a degree that would ovsr-throw ovsr-throw any set of rulers not supported bv a gigantic nrrny," said Mr. Srhwartx. "Mr fellow workers in England and America, have been hoodwinked, many of them, by such men as John Heed and other communists who didn't know the Kusslan language." j "I found the opposition t the government govern-ment was universal. Men, women and children of all classes with whom 1 talked told me or the norror or me suualion. And bear in mind that these people talked at the pril of their lives. If I had repeated what they said to! any official of the government they I would probably have he-en shot. Hut their misery is so great they are Indif- , ferent to their fate and they can't refrain re-frain from talking to a stranger " Mr. Schwaris was born in CJermany. hut waa taken to Russia by his parents when he was still an infant and grew up in Odessa, and Kiev. He attended a KussUtn university and became an officer of-ficer in the old army. When about 27 years old he went to America, where he became a cltlsen and haa lived for twenty-seven years. He first worked in America as a street railway employe and then became a labor orgsnlxer. |