THE DALLES DAILY CHRONIC!--. FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1921.
PAGE SEVEN
SOVIET VOTES By
SHOW OF HANDS
i
(RUSSIAN OFFICIAL SESSION) IS
MUCH LIKE MASS-MEETING j
, IN UNITED STATES.
ed consecutively beginning April 15.
United PreBB.
Editor's Note: 'Patrick Quinland,
an American citizen of Irish descent,
recently arrived in the United fetates
'from soviet Russia. Quinland' had
been connected with the labor move
ment of the United States. At fist
he was suspected Of being a spy and
spent a month in jail. Later, he was
allowed to see and hear everything
he desired during his 11 months' stay
in Russia. Owing to conflicting stories
regarding Russian conditions carried
by couriers and brought by travelers,
the United Press asked Quinland to ,
write of soviet Russia as he saw it j
The three stories- he wrote are releas-!
y Patrick Quinland
(United Prew sUff Correspondent)
NEW YORK, April 16. Imagine a
New England town meeting, discus
sing in a straightforward manner its
local affairs and voting by a' simple
show of hands. That briefly, is about
now a soviet, in the heart of Russia
looks to a foreign observer. Be.tweon
the Necy England town meeting and
the typical Russian soviet in session
there are, of course, several funda
mental differences. But these grow
out of the innate character of the Rus
sian people and the diversity of their
political ideals. I visited the Soviets
of Petrograd, Samara and Saratov,
among others, while in session. Thus
I .was afforded an object lesson of
the operation 'of present system of
government in Russia.
At the meeting of the Petrograd so
viet, to which I was invited by ZIn
ovlev, president and governor of the
Petrograd district, I was startled by
the variety of costume. Being the sec
ond largest soviet in Russia. Moscow
taking the first place, -it gave rather
. . .i -
ine appearance oi a nuge mass meoi-
ing attended by a nondescript crowd
of sailors from the Kronstadt fleet,
soldiers on leave dressed in khaki or
brilliant Cossack uniforms, working
men in their working clothes and
peasants garbed In simple white
blouses and shod with picturesque
sandals. Many women were present,
some fashionably dressed, sitting next
to their peasant sisters clad in smocks
with varl-colored handkerchiefs on
their heads. On the platform sat the
president of executive committee, as
well as numerous foreign guests and
special delegates from outlying dis
tricts, some having come from remote
places in Siberia., The delegates are
elected by their local trade-unions or
guilds. As each member entered the
ouilding in Petrograd the sessions
take place in the Uritzsky palace
where formerly the Duma convened
he was required to show his creden
tials to the military police who stand
with fixed bayonets at the .door.
The program for this session, n, .s
the custom, was read by ZInoviev,
who then proceeded to put each ques
tion as it arose to the delegates. One
of the propositions argued with not a
little vehemence was that of compul
sory labor. Speakers asked for the
floor and then passed down the aisles
addressing the assemblage .from the
platform. As in the British parliament,
the members arc frequently Interrupt
ed from the floor which fired all
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