THE OREGON, DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY, fr.CH' 10, 1B20.
DATA REGARDING
SOVIET RUSSIAN
STATUS IS GIVEN
Bjr MU-hiM-l Farbman'
5 IpeetaJ tMf to The Journal nd The Chlcuo
Dally Sm.
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I . Moscow. March 5. (Via, Riga,
'Livonia, March 19.) What Is go
ing on in the thousand of vlllag-ea
in this country? That its admittedly
a moat important and yet a most
Obscure question. The opinion of
the outside world about the change!
wrought by the revolution In the
economic affairs of the villages and
- concerning the peasants' place in the
revolution la based on occasional
i observation and is usually erro
neous. The central statistical department of
the soviet government has Jut pub
lished some Interesting figures on the
economic changes In the villages since
' the Bolshevist revolution, but so far
these figures' are confined to the gov
- ernments of Tula, Kostroma and Jaro
lav. The department la continuing
the Investigation end promises to pub
lish figures for the other governments
In due course of time. The figures al
1 ready published permit some important
general conclusions.
. PERCENTAGES ARE SHOWS
The most striking fact is the complete
disappearance of the peasant bour
geoisie, small as well as big-. While in
1917 per eent of the peasants were posr
sensors of more than It dessiatines (43
acres) each and 6 per cent possessed
more than SO dessiatines (81 acres)
each, there are now left only six in 10,-
000 possessing more than IS dessiatines
and none possessing more than 22 des
siatines (69 acres). On the other hand
the number of landless peasants has
considerably decreased. In two years
the percentage of landless households
has diminished from I to 4 per cent,
while the number of peasants possessing
one deesiatlne (2.7 acres) has Increased
from 9 to 22 per cent There is also a
considerable' increase In the number of
peasants possessing two , dessiatines
M acres) each, namely, from it to 31
per cent. From two to four dessiatines
(10.8 acres), the Increase is very slight,
but from four dessiatines a gradual de
crease begins. Thus those owning more
than s four dessiatines have decreased
from IS to per cent, those owning
more than six dessiatines acres
from to per cent, and thoue having:
more than 10 dessiatines (27 acres)
from 5 to 1 per cent.
LITKSTOCK DATA SITEJT
In the livestock statistics the same
tendency Is shown. Peasant, households
possessing no horses at all have de
Creased in the two years from '39 to 1)
per cent, while the households owning
one horse each have Increased from 4
to S4 per cent. ,; Households possessing
two horses have decree sed from 28 to
21 per cent, three horse households from
7 to 2 per cent, while households pos
sessing more than three horses have
disappeared almost entirely.
The' number of households with no
cows has remained stationary at 20 per
cent ; those possessing one cow have In
creased frem 64 to 2 per cent; those
having two cows have decreased, from
20 to IS per cent; those having three
cows have remained at the same figure
or just over 1 per cent, while households
possessing more than three cows have
completely disappeared.
If these tendencies are confirmed by
the investigations in other districts, the
following conclusions, according to the
Bolshevik statisticians, can be drawn :
CONCXUSIOH 18 DRAWN
First, a great reduction in the number
of the agricultural proletariat ; second,
the disappearance of the village bour
geoisie, and, third, a decrease in the
number of peasants of the middle class.
The villages, say the Bolshevik!, are be
coming more homogeneous, having no
classes, no antagonism of interests and
no room for class wa. From now oh,
each small peasant household will pos
sess one desslatlne (2.7 acres) of land,
one horse and one cow.
MUST ARBITRATE
DISPUTES IN
Changed His Tune
London, March 19. TJ. P.) Strenu
ously, denying purchasing an army over
Coat from a deserter, a Willesden man
was convicted and fined $5, whereupon he
asked if he could recover the $5 be paid
the soldier for the garment
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FRANCE, BILL SAYS
By PanI Scott Homer
Epemal Cable to The Journal and The Cbieafo
Dally lUwaJ - .
(CeOTriaht. 1B30. by Chiracs Daily News Co.)
Paris, March H.-yUnder the gov
ernment bih for the settlement of
labor disputes arbitration is made
compulsory in ail public services,
namely, railways, street railways
and all .other public transportation
agencies, gas "and electrical plants,
fuel mines, water, light and power
plants, and hospitals, and. in cities
of more than 26,000 inhabitants, in
the city health and cleaning serv
ices. In all such services the em
ployers must within a month sub
mit to the government for approval
a statement of wages, working con
ditions and pensions. In all other
commercial, industrial and agricul
tural establishments employing more
than 20 workers, although the final
right of strike and lockout is main
tained, a ' preliminary attempt at
conciliation is made obligatory.
CONCILIATOR CHOSEN
When trouble threatens, the employes
are obliged to choose not more than five
delegates, men or women, more than 21
years of age, who have been employed
at least six months, but when an en
terprise employs several categories of
workers each, category may have its
own delegation. The management must
receive this delegation within 24 hours
and give an answer within another 24
hours, unless the time is extended by
agreement. If no conciliation results.
It is obligatory upon both parties to
agree on a conciliator or each shall
choose a conciliator and shall address
themselves to a special conciliation com
mission or to a Justice of the peace.. Both
parties are then subject to a summons
within 24 hours and must have author
ity to sign an agreement. If concilia-
Strikes Are Upsetting Holland
Bosses Won't Pay Big Wages
By W. J. Ij. jbebl '
ipsaal Ciblt to Th Journal and Tha Chicac
Pally New.
(Ocrrirtt J 920. by CUcaso Daily (ten Oa.) '
The Hague, Holland. March. 19.--
In copsequence - of the repeated
strikes and demandu for higher
wages and new labor insurance laws
something like a return to ancient
conditions is being witnessed in Hol
land, especially in such handicrafts
as carpentering, painting and the
like.
Master painters and others are dis
charging all their workmen, shouldering
the tools themselves and notifying cus
tomers that henceforth they and their
eons will attend to the work personally,
as they cannot possibly continue to meet
the constantly increasing demands of
the workmen. In some places 60 per cent
of the workmen were employed by the
r.ien who now one' after the other are
tftrcharging their personnel. So as there
are but few contractors engageg an im
portant public works requiring many
workmen, mostof the men discharged
either have become bosses on a small
scale themselves or are suffering from
want,,
The new era Is hailed as a way out of
of tha labor difficulties and a return to
more moderate price. The same sort
of thing la happening on the farms. More
of the farmers are returning to the old
fashion of doing ail the work there is to
do with the help of their children. The
farm laborer in late years has demanded
higher . wages and the farmer, with in
creased taxes and higher rent to pay,
finds that he cannot afford to spend so
much on wages.
Farm laborers, however, are not with
out means of making a living. Almost
every peasant has a small allotment of
land on which, by proper cultivation he
ran raise enough to provide his family
with food.' Thus he is not forced to go
to the city, there to increase the army
of unemployed. It is likely that a more
intensive cultivation of the soil may re
suit from the new conditions, especially
when a proposed land law is enacted
which allots to every agricultural labor
er sufficient land to support him.
tion again fails arbitration ts ojkional
If arbitration is agreed upon, both par
ties may name one or several arbitra
tors. If the arbitrators disagree they
themselves may name another or leave
the choice to the proper judicial officer
of the dsitrict. - ,
Forbid strikes or lockouts
Strikes or locaouts are forbidden dur
ing the process of arbitration. Arrange
ments are provided for establishing spe
cial conciliation committees in various
industrfes by government decree in
agreement with the employers and work
ing people. Another interesting article
provides that the delegates In any en
terprise 'may be made permanent under
regulations drawn up by the employers
and ratified by the majority of the em
ployes. The bill will probably receive favor
able consideration in the chamber. The
majority groups comprising 495 out of
a total of 626 deputies have been hold
ing meetings recently on this very ques
tion because of the railway strike. They
are agreed that strikes are perfectly
admissible in ordinary Industries where
the employer has the right of lockout
but they are not permissible in public
utilities where lockouts are Impossible
and where the contests therefore are
unfair. The sentiment was that the
government Should be invited to pro
pose a compulsory arbitration measure
for public utilities. The government's
bill appeared just in time to meet the
chamber's demand.
Sentence of Death '
Denied by Latzko
By A. R. Decker
Special Cable to The Jcurnd and The Chicago
Daily News.
( Copyright 1020, by Chicago Daily Nawa Co.)
Vienna, March 12.-t(Via Copenhagen,
Denmark, March 19.) Andreas Latzko.
the Hungarian writer, denies the report
of his sentence to death. He Is at pres
ent in a sanitarium near Budapest and
is neither interned'' nor charged with
crime. The Hungarian embassy here
corroborates this. The report probably
was started by those of Hungary's neigh
bors, who desire to discsedlt anti-socialist
Hungary.
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