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* Our local apologists for Bolshevism will be interested, no doubt, in. the cabled item of neWB from Kussia. yesterday which, gave an example of the Soviet method of securing industrial peace and harmony. Petrograd strikers struct for higher pay, but armed Red Guards compelled them to work seventy-five hours continuously withput pay. The boldest capitalist Government has not yet attempted such measures, but. under Communistic rule, it seems, there is no sacred right to strike, nor any bar to the ude of military forces in industrial disputes. The workers must work for Buch pay as it pleases the Soviet to declare as their portion, and if they will not, then they must work for nothing. It is rather puzzling, however, to understand why there should have been a strike at all, for the economic theories of the Communists ascribe all strikes to the greed and oppression of the private capitalist. ' As there is no capitalist to take the blame in this instance, we have the extraordinary spectacle of either a union of workers or a Workers' Government" being in the wrong,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 4
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184DOUBLE DIRECT ACTION Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 4
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