SOVIET PARADISE

Evening Star, Issue 18093, 7 October 1922, Page 8

SOVIET PARADISE

a.MERICAX "REDS*** PLIGHT.' A special telegram to the Chicago ■Tribune’ from Riga says: “Five hundred I.W.W.Sr—member of the American organisation, the Industrial Workers -’of iho World—who entered Russia to aid Big Bill Haywood to reconstruct tlio Siberian coal Mid steel industry, have mutinied.. According to reliable messengers who have just arrived here, the plight of the'Americans is desperate. They are without food and) houses, mid are trading then cloihing for food. They, have aWdoned ard deserted the coal mines m the Kuzaoto-t Basin of Siberia, and another, colony ot Americans is starving xn the iron mires ot th “ Through Mr John B. Burroughs, a New York business man tvho visited the mutineers’ camp whilst Z Chita to Moscow, they have sent-the following message to Americans who are planning to emigrate to Russia. For &od/s sake stay in America, and ID sted of collecting money to aid starring Russia. collect money to aid starving Amenmans to return to the United Sto/Ws. We’U tell vou facts regarding the social-i-to 1 and Communists’ paradise.’ ■ . “The men belong to the American industrial colony who came out from New York several months ago. Ino} allege that the Bolsheviks broke their contract. They failed to provide houses for, the men to live in, food, or tools, and; did not co-opexato in any way. Tho colony at Kuznotzk has been m existence three months, but they have been unable to put a single mine into working order. Mr Burroughs says the plight of the I.W.W.s is hopeless, as they have no money and cannot depend on any' official American assistance.”