TROTSKY’S BOOK

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 36, 6 November 1928, Page 11

TROTSKY’S BOOK

BROUGHT ABOUT BANISHMENT ENTIRE EDITION DESTROYED REVELATION OF CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, November 4. The Berlin correspondent of the “Dally Express” states that it was the discovery of Trotsky's book which brought about his banishment. The book was discovered just when it was about to be broadcasted throughout the country. The Tcheka worked swiftly and silently. Within a couple of days everyone in any way concerned had been arrested and exiled to the farthest corners of Russia, and the entire edition destroyed. Trotsky exposes the breakdown of the industrial system and says that the Soviet bureaucracy is tyrannising over the workers worse than their former employers. The youth of the country is growing up illiterate owing to the failure to organise schools. The sovereignty of the people is a mere fiction, all power being vested in the Stalin oligarchy, which immediately removes anyone voicing differing opinions. ’ , , , Official returns of unemployed tor April last year were a million and a half. The real number was two millions and it is steadily increasing by the stream of those out of work pouring into towns. TRADE UNIONISTS WARNED MUST NOT PARTICIPATE IN RELIGIOUS SERVICES (Rec. November 5, 11.10 p.m.) Riga, November 4. At the request of the Anti-God .Societv the Central Council of the Soviet has decided that any trades unionists participating in religous servces will be expelled from the unons.