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Show RUSSIAN MASSES CROW RESTLESS Overthrow of Red Masters by Middle Classes Is Predicted Li"NI"N'. tut 9. (By the Associat ed Eress) Bnima Goldman and Alexander Al-exander Berkniah, ioth want to return to the I'nitcd States, according to Borl Bokoloff, forme professor of biology in Petrograd univ ersltv , and known as Socialist wrlty who hu Just urrlved In England "There are 240 of the passengers of the soviet ark, Iluford, who were sent' away from the United States last Do-1 cember now In Petrograd and 239 of them want to return." was part of I'.erkman's comment on present life conditions In soviet Lussla when T talked with him In P-trograd a few. weeks ago," Mr Sokoloff trHd the As-i OClated FJre"s this afternoon. MAY OVERTJEiKOV I VuANTS ! 'Within B month I ani going to New ork where 1 hae been Invited to report re-port to the American workers m observations," ob-servations," said Sokoloff 'I did not want to leave Flussla because great .iii.-- are ripening there and discontent discon-tent with the soviet government Is growing more and more. "The workmen and peasant masses I mpletely withdrawn from the Bolshevikl and serious trouble Is ex-pscted ex-pscted In Moscow and Petrograd. One need not niftitlon that there Is no communism com-munism or socialism in Russia. My j opinion I- that the process of the crystallization crys-tallization of the middle class Is nearb I finished and that Russia will soon follow fol-low the example of France by over j throwing Um tyrants. i i ))Mi posprtos HAD The economic and commercial po- I sitlon of the workers is very bad Tho' aerag age of the Petrograd work-' men. rations premium included equals one-fifteenth part of his earnings in; 15" 1 7. Il- receives about one eighth: i he normal quantity of food In other! words he Is In a chronic stale of semi-starvation. semi-starvation. Because there are no goods! available for export and owing to the. disruption of transportation s renewal of commerce with the outside world) will be impossible for two years. Emms Goldman and Berkman and the other persons deported from the. United states .u-e living comfortably without working, according to M So-' koloff, Sokoloff returned to Rusjsia nine months ago as s socialist investigator Since then he has spent three pionths. In a Moscow prison I n his release j from prison, he went to Petrograd i Where he was elected a workers' mem-! ber of the Petrograd soviet. (JndfT the Kcrensky regime Sokoloff wa minister of domestic affairs. He wax a member of the National Aasemblv in 1917. oo |