Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-05 | Page 7 | Trotzky Works at a Dizzy Pace

v TROTZKY WORKS AT A DIZZY PACE Day and Night ' Mean Nothing to SoTiet War CommiMar MOSCOW. Aui. 4 (By A. P ) Pines lremler Lenin berama eerlous-ly eerlous-ly 111 I.eon Trotsky, aovlat Kuaelae war eommtasar, haa become tha fore-moat fore-moat figure In tha aovlat government. Ha haa no working day. Every workman, work-man, laborer or employe In aovlat Mueela haa an eight-hour working- day eonepkruouelyi looked after by tha trade union council and guarded by the labor coda. But Troasky haa none. His working say Is much tight hours, anil s regards tin day night art treated alike. Trotsky begins bis day with th nwsiapfrm. They srv him aa meaiis ot vcryday human conacc-, conacc-, tiott and business Information. ! rds them just ss ha would listen to a reiort by one at hts officers, and vary often tha naws.wp-ar Information Informa-tion Is followed by quick In tar y relations rela-tions and action. Very often a mws tetecram, ' reporter's re-porter's Item or a quits unintsraattnc IntervHew paves the road for an Important Im-portant decision. The a. at various times durlnc the dsy and n If lit, Trotsky Trots-ky reads and dictates. . Na Always reads with a pencil In hsnd, which he holds Hke a surgeon holds his instrument. Ha underlines, annotates, numbers tha author's thought., associates them, makes polemical po-lemical notes, and tha book returns from his anatomical dusk like aa crabs cra-bs Imed corpse. He dictates queries, resolutions, de-parmental de-parmental lnstructtona and advices, orders, articles, pamphlets, brochurea. fnenrtiy and sarcastic letters, replies, reminiscences short nd long ones, dry and fierce always bright and stylishly polished everything clear, exact and businesslike. A detachment of cyclists and motorcyclists, mo-torcyclists, day and night, carry all over Moscow with wartime speed this state business literature of the war commissar. I Hjrlng tha day tha quiet of his cabinet Is besieged by telephone calls, in thts way. which Trotsky value as an economic means of communication, he disposes' of half hi work. In hln work Trotsky does only what he himself must and ran do, everything; every-thing; else being completed by others, his assistants. He writes an article; others (librarians) will find for him the necessary quotations from Marx or i any other writer, as the case mar be. Trotsky's office la a combination of simple but mighty things stenographers, stenogra-phers, telephone switchboards, and a good automobile everything which curtails movement and serves to economise econ-omise energy. He rests by passing from one work to another or Indulging In sports when feeling very tired. His favorite sports ir punting flahliiaL oroquet"and cBesK.