Show w M MI I A Bolshevik Answers SS An editorial published in The Telegram a few days ago has Sought ought from a S Salt lt Lake resident nt a letter of protest We Ve are re informed that judging by the he editorial we are not familiar with is great movement which is sw sweeping pi g over the civilized world liS a The writer of this letter continues the correspondent news exactly what the soviet government of Russia Russi is doing j f help the workers of that country and the workers of this co country trill ill fill also know the truth in a very short time He adds adds' that of course we do not expect the working class of America to get the till truth th through the prostituted press but let us us hope U that at it will not be necessary always to misrepresent the truth J For our information the correspondent a leaflet on flue fe Soviets issued by the Socialist party at Oakland Cal Cat r J We Ve are glad to know there is one person in Salt Salt Lake City who who knows exactly what the soviet government of Russia is do- do irig j G Goodness knows the dispatches that have come out of Russia since since the revolution the reports that have been spread the articles that have been written and the speeches that have been made h have ve b been en so contradictory that an understanding of affairs in Russi Russia Russia Rus Rus- si sia seems as difficult of attainment as a knowledge of the great Hereafter r. r 0 However the pamphlet which h comes from Oakland gives us flits information The liThe right to vote is given to Russian citizens of either sex 18 years of age ag or over who do useful and productive productive productive tive work and who are members of labor organizations Those w wio cannot vote or hold an elective position in the Russian state jI include lude Employers of labor for profit pers persons ns who vho live on incomes in inc incomes in- in c comes mes profit rent or interest and merchants and agents of private private v vate te business v We do not believe the workers workers of America will ever ask for I s sch such ch a restrictive regulation It is certainly the rankest kind of class ss legislation It violates the principle of taxation without I r representation presentation gives the ballot only to the worker who belongs to toa I a labor Jabor union shuts out entirely the merchant and the employer and I Ib bars barp b r J Jeven even the labor union worker who through years of toil earns I a competence upon which he may retire and rest for the remainder of ohis his years I The pamphlet sets forth much else in regard to the Soviet i government much of it being commendable but ve we e would look I with fear upon the goal aimed at Th Th s s goal goals is is pictured in these words words I The tendency of the Russian Soviet Republic as Lenin has himself out Is away from political government of any kind and toward true Industrial democracy Lenin has even gone so far as t to f foresee the eventual disappearance arance of the Soviets in favor of an economic purely administrative b body dy s The prototype of the future economic parliament already exists in Russia It is called the Supreme Council of Public Economy and is made up of delegates from the Main Iain Land Committee and from the Council of Workers Workers' Control This Council has the power to regulate the economic life of the country to control the flow of production and direct it to administer in a a. large way the natural resources belonging to the government to control export and Import and to It alone belongs the right to start new Industries 1 or to undertake new projects of railroad and highway building the opening mines the of factories the development of waterpower water- water of new new building new or power i In other words word this council would represent t a greater I a autocracy than was represented by the kaiser in his day of greatest I g glary ry Undoubtedly there is much good in the plan now being being sl slowly worked out in Russia and it may ultimately result in a stable government The greatest danger danger is that of radicalism the J determination that one class of people alone shall govern govern all other cI classes We Ve all hope for a happy solution of Russia's great problem bul bm bt t we do not believe Russia has yet accomplished one thing that uld commend its plight for emulation in this country I ii |