A NO-WORK FACTORY.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16428, 23 January 1919, Page 3

A NO-WORK FACTORY.

Among the victims of the Bolshevists I who were released and came over to i this country with Mi* Lockhart's party i is Corporal Miller, a Russian-Polish | refugee who came to England some | years ago, and after working as a ] coal-minor, served in the British Army in the early part of this war (says the London' "Daily Telegraph"),; Ho was severely wounded, and after tho revolution 'in Russia* ho obtained permission to go to that country, whereho spent some fourteen months. _Ho was imprisoned by the Bolshevists, simply on the allegation that he was a British subject, and now, having obtained his .release, is about to start an anti-Bolshevist campaign. , among the working classes in this country. Corporal Miller related some of his experiences at a luncheon given by the executive of tho British Workers' League at. the Holborn Restaurant. Corporal Miller described the condition of Russia under Bolshevism as ono of anarchy and unspeakable horrors. The Bolshevists were cheating a military despotism, and his message to the British' workman was this—that if he wished to experience hunger and destitution, to see his children dying of starvation, and his daughters driven to choose between infamy and selfdestruction, then let him embrace Bolshevism. Xhe Bolshevist lenders hftdj Corporal Miller said, admitted to him that unless they obtained allies aniong the working classes in other European countries, they would have to go under. Describing lii's experiences of work in a-munition factory under the control of the Bolshevist Government, he said the men wero, supposed to work from eight o'clock till four. They drank and smoked, read the papers if they could read held a political meeting, had lunch, and then started making kettles and other utensils for their own homes. A Belgian workman tried to persuade thetii to do some honest work, but he was accused of being a tounter-revolutionist, and was turned out. He was present at a meeting which was addressed by Trotsky, at which 6ome women tailed out, ' Let s do him in, the dirty Jew." A good doal of the paper-money which ■ was circulating in Russia was, he declared, counterfeit money made in Germany; it was confiscated by the Bolshevist authorities when thev discovered it. A working man who snaved himself or washed every day was regarded as 110 longer belonging to tho proletariat.