Show COMMUNISM IS SLAVERY european dispatches re report P ort a scarcity of labor in ill soviet russia to keep industrial especially transportation operations going soviet russia has resorted to the most rigid conscription of labor all persons having experience as transport workers are required to enroll for this service under penalty workmen generally are arc required to remain on their present jobs except on orders of the go government ern ment and under penalty of withdrawal of their food cards since russia has a population of people and only a small fraction of these are industrially employed this does not mean scarcity of labor in the american sense of the term but scarcity of efficient labor and absence of a disposition of workers to stay on the jobs assigned them by the government at the wages offered which are little above the starvation level measured by american standards except for the willingness of the people to work nork under the conditions prescribed by the soviet government a re reservoir senoir of potential industrial workers would provide a surplus and not a scarcity of labor this situation is a revelation of the natural unwillingness of workers to serve the state with no greater incentive than that of the theoretical advantages to be conferred on russia by the grandiose five year plan if transportation and industry generally have suffered such a breakdown as would seem to he be suggested by these latest ukases from moscow it only goes to prove what those with ith a knowledge of human nature contend that men will not work with willingness and efficiency merely for the vague promises of some far off utopia it is evident that soviet labor can be held on the job only by rigid military discipline and the free application of force the success of such a scheme depends entirely on the ab ability ty of force to hold in line millions of people who do not find in the situation itself sufficient in incentive icen tive for effort up to this time the system prevalent in soviet russia has brought no benefits to the people they have only given unlimited limited power to the politicians in power and rich rewards to the foreign capitalists who are in partnership with this vast system of human exploitation american wage earners are exhorted by communist agents to overthrow our form of government and deliver themselves over to an unlimited political despotism but americans have not been shown where this sacrifice of liberty is to be accompanied by improvement in their conditions of life indeed if an effort were made to reduce the masses of the american people to that condition of poverty and slavery in which the russian masses are sunk under the soviet system there would in truth be revolution are abuses in our existing eco system as there are in all man made systems but they are slight ca compared imparl d with the evils of slavery and degradation imposed upon the russian masses abuses so grave that they can only be maintained by free use of the bayonet the secret police the noose the cell and the firing squad what is heralded here as a new freedom is only the old slavery 01 of oriental despotism |