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Show ipZKf OUTLINES BOLSHEVIST PLANS W0 Convert Red Army Into ! Ubor Army and Reorganize National Economy ; nN)0K. Feb- 28. Leon Trotzky, ; . i.Ver of war of soviet Russia, ad-' ad-' inir the Third Russian congress iln Moscow January 25 last, out-"' out-"' Vthc Bolshevist plan for convert-1113 convert-1113 the Red arrnj' ,nto an nxmV of Ia- 55. according to reports of his speech - Ttn3erTingrto the work of -the Red XheV&l soldiers) have 'learned Ac- the very hardest conditions to iM 1 'hundreds' of thousands of orc.v ' tf'rH masses and have ld peasants S battle. They vrill be trained offj. There Is still one way open to w reorganization of national ccon-nv ccon-nv the way of uniting the array and fibor and changing the military detachments de-tachments Into detachments of a labor 'ffg )r Soldiers Must Work. " ' .yany in the army have already ac-;rvlCt. ac-;rvlCt. ! rornpllshcd their military task but , ihox cannot be demobilized as ye'. 0(1 . ,: vqV that they have been roleased Lju, their military duties they must ' rich against economic ruin and 7 ; ins' hunger; they must work to nauiou3 ) ob(am fuel, peat and other heat pro-31 pro-31 as-ro duclDg products; they must take part 'cts -at iv, 1 jg building, in clearing the lines of "?? svej, :' ;30,v. in repairing roads, building ries on 'ft, !fK grinding flour, etc. '" ' "V.e have already organized several ' " ' df these nrmies and they have been , v allo'.ted their tasks. One army mus I!"EJ , obtriin foodstuffs for the workmen of rsize i; ' he districts in which it was formerly 'I tfsj' stationed and it also will cut wood, 'akingtijj ' cart it to tn0 railways and repair en-sizesp en-sizesp , pines. Another army will help in the fletcr?, laying down of railway linos for the itnf'ijfat f transport of crude oil. A third labor roeter.to'j arm 1)e ,Isefl t0 repair, agricui-QstrtyjtI( agricui-QstrtyjtI( turil implements and machines and vi'th'tb fn the sPrinS wiI1 talce ParMn tho Jand'ij,' ' voiking of the land, a TniJe h ' "At t,ie PrcsenL time among the fn'oiih i vorKiDg masses there must be the entj-'nk, ' ?rftcst exactitude and conscientious ally'raf- ' nesSt together with responsibility' to the end and there must bo the utinos ,r ', strictness and scerity both in small and great matters. If the most ad 3'f vanced workmen of the country will ': derole their thoughts, all their will 1 and all their revolutionary duty to the i caufe of regulating-economic affairs. H . thsn 1 have no doubt that wc shall lead B i Russia on a new free road to the con '! founding of our enemies, and thq joy j of our friends." H Economic Situation Acute. Trotzky pointed 6ut in his speech j that the economic situation in Russia lodny it not unlike that existing S - ! throughout Europe, only the problem ; are more acute. "We were cut off from our coal sup-j sup-j pl7, crude oil and cotton." said Trotz. '1 ky "Under these conditions-can thy soviet regime be blamed'' Is it the! t ( source of evil? A factory may be- run! on capitalistic lines, it may belong to I !; one person or n company, it mav foci '. s)calizetrorjria6?maT(oYa conr-1 " ; pleie communist stale, but if it lacks tat materials it cannot work The' V-- i Rus.Man proletariat nlrendy feels re-i 4 '& : EpouFible for the welfare of its coun--; try ana for its economic life. The, fj$. :, hardships and poverty we are suffer ''f i are educating the workers of th! ; proletariat. Under those conditions1 i every workman and every work woru-i j:?: r an is beginning to realize what eco-i ; nomic life means to the country. This i ' mal'esis confident that we wiil over-! 'j come economic disorganization. ; Qualified Workers Needed. :' "Te shall succeed if qualified and K; 1 trained workers take part in produc-fjg1 produc-fjg1 tjv labor. Trade unions must regis-IB; regis-IB; 1 tcr qualified workmen in the villager. HB Only Jn those localities whore trad. Ks ; union methods are Inadequate other E j methods must be introduced, in par-HP par-HP ticular by compulsion because labor K conscription gives the state the right ,0 11 the qualified workman who is L, employed on some important work in his village: 'You arc obliged to leav; Kf' ?our present employment and go to 3 . Sormovo or Kolomna, because there ; your work Is required ' g 'Labor conscription means that the H I quairfiod workmen who leave the army i nj ; must take their work books and pro-H pro-H cccd to places where they are requir-H requir-H cd, whore their presence is necessarv mm o the economic system of the coun-j WW 'i try We must foed tliese workmen and mm J guarantee them the minimum food ra- |
