SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1925, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

TRADE UNION' REPORT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OABLX ASSOCIATION LONDON, February 28. The official report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Russia in November and December of last year is now issued. It is a. voluminous document of 250 pages with illustrations, maps, index and glossary. Members of the delegation came to the following conclusions:—The union of Soviet Republics is a strong and stable Stare Its Government is based firstly on the system of State Socialism that has an active support of a large majority of the workers and acceptance equally of a large majority of peasants; seeonly, one Federal structure that gives very full cultural and very fair political liberties to racial and Regional minorities, together with full religious toleration. The machinery of the Government seems to work well. The Government is in every way better than anything Russia has ever had, and has done and is doing work wherein other older State systems failed, and are still failing. These good results have reconciled all but a very small minority to renouncing the rights of opposition that arc essential to political liberty elsewhere. This causes no resistance, partly because these rights arc replaced by others more valuable under the Soviet system, and partly because the recent movement has been steadily towards their restoration. Finally, the whole constitutes a new and interesting departure that is well worth foreign study, and is a new development that may greatly be benefited by foreign assistance.

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