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Show BILL HAYWOOD I ILL IMPORT I " ".imp I "Je lis IS2uIfeLlt.y Radical Leader Must Draw Nearly 5000 Skilled Men to Russia GIVEN IRON WORKS Soviet Promises Homes, Rations Ra-tions and Farm Lands to Immigrants Moscow, March 14. William D. "Big Bill Haywood heads a group of American 1 W. w men to whom H Premier l.enlne has granted a concea-slon concea-slon to operate the big Nadejdlnaky Iron Works In the Ural mountain region, re-gion, part of the coal mines in the 'ruavtr bjsin and auxiliary factorle (Haywood disappeared from th' H d States last year while under J k 1 ..-,11 nfter he and about ninety other I. w. W. men had been convict-ed convict-ed of espionage and conslpracy igs ni the government in the war Be has -:nce taken some part In tht deliberations of the third Internationale Internation-ale at Moscow ! 1MERI4 AS GOING. It Is stipulated that 4800 American srs with a technical personnel hall be brought into Russia to op- 1 ite the properties. Each must bring srlth him $100 worth of tools and ie to observe the Soviet labor code The production of the concession Is 0 u.. to tha go -rnmeilt. which un-' un-' ' 'o ';Vv 'he workmen with homes, rations and farm lands, and 1 them .r: of the production to carry 011 development. CONCESSION KXPTiAIVED K YORK. .March 14. H. 8. Calvert, one of the men associated wuh William D. Haywood in obtain- M ing n e ion to operate an iron works and coal mines in Rasala. ayn that a party of engineers and technical techni-cal men will soon leave for Russia to prepare the way for 6000 Amerl-can Amerl-can workmen. Calvert, like the other concessionaires concession-aires Is a member of the I W. W . and was formerly a foreman in the Ford automobllo plant in Detroit. Th" others In the group. Calvort said, are Thomas Barker and D. Bayer Bay-er who are well known ip I W. W. circles in this country, but Are now' I I in Russia with Haywood, and C J Rntgers. a native of Holland, wbo has been Identified with the L W, W movement !n the United States. SOVIET GETS SHARK Under the terms of tho concession Calvert declared, the Soviet govern-yient govern-yient will collect a revenue of 7 per I J cent from the properties and reserves the right to commandeer approxlin- ately .r0 per cent of the colony's out-put out-put of coal, iron and mnchlno pro-ducts, pro-ducts, for which It agrees to give th workors credits with which they can purchase other supplies. The n mslndsr, ho said. Is to be left to th- JMM workers to dispose of as they see fjt, The Nadejdnlsky iron Worki la tmM about 1.500 mile east of Moscow an ' the K.vsnetz basin Is about 3.000 mile- 'MM east of Moscow in tho Tomsk district tt of western Sibera. |