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Show RUSSIA CALLS REFUGEES BACK Bolshevists Must Admit Brains and Experience Essential After All MOSCOW. Feb. 3. Russia lack of constructive leadership for Its !r.-dustrlal !r.-dustrlal and commercial reconstruc-' tlon becomes more apparent evcrv day ntad the necessity for Inducing refugees refu-gees to return is Clearer to the Bolshevists, Bol-shevists, perhaps, than to non-Bol-Kh ovists who have less knowledge of the Inefficiency of government departments de-partments and the difficulties thu Com m 11 n I -as have behind the scene's. Prcnvler Lenlne has repeatedly troflsed the desirability of attracting back to Russia the 2,000,000 Russians Rus-sians who have fled .o other countrl-and countrl-and represent the cream of Russian lnlelllirence The- engineers, scientists, scien-tists, bankers, teachers and merchants merch-ants arc greatly needed. 1 KPERTS LI 1VE RUSSIA. Letts, Esthonluns -.nd Lithuanians played large part in the business life of old Russia. They had enjoyed the benefit of both Swedish and German culture. Many of them nre hlghlv trained specialists and managers ind directors of various -enterprises BUt they have nearly all left dlaorgmnlad Russia and taken up residence in the now Baltic st it I Bnltlc merchants will not re-enter trade in Russia for they lack confidence confi-dence in the Communist government M mufacturers nre "Jnw illing to resume re-sume their old work under government govern-ment concessions. Even property-owners, property-owners, or rather former property-owners, property-owners, are unwilling to take bi-k their apartment houses and hotels under the proposed , concession plan. Consequently the new economic policy pol-icy is falling far short of expectations. expecta-tions. CARRIER SYSTEM USE n. Free domestic trade is not entirely free. The term is misleading. It is Impossible for merchants to ship goods at will on Russian railways. Permits are requireil for each shipment. ship-ment. It is difficult to get these. The pilfering on rail lines is extensive. There Is no insurance. Il Is largely through the goods cfu-rie.i cfu-rie.i by hand that markets in the great c itics aro supplied Railway men carry flour and sugar from the Ukraine to eke out an existence. It brings a better price in Moscow and Petrograd. Meat is also carried to the cltiex by railway employes and regular regu-lar dealers who employ carriers. Lenitie s insistence that the government govern-ment must win th confidence and support of the intelligent classes Is generally regarded as a preparation for further movements to the right In goernmental policies as soon ad it Is possible to make them without disrupting dis-rupting the Communist party utter. y. ANTI-REDS WINNING. The Communist party is rapidly becoming be-coming a party li the sense that the I'nlted States mi Kngiand have parties, par-ties, lis Important leaders show dally signs of making further concessions to the hostile- mujorily which will have nothing to do with Communist principle; 01 half-Conimuniat schemes, such as the concession plan of letting factories to old owners The building up of the Far Eastern East-ern republic at Chita under Bolshevist Bolshe-vist domination but vaith general elections and right of private property, prop-erty, is looked upon in Russia as ..n indication of revised policies which will eventually be adopted in European Euro-pean Russia. 00 - |