RED RUSSIA.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 54, 22 March 1912, Page 2

RED RUSSIA.

flse syndical movement of Moscow, *' the centre of Russian commerce and ■industry, is on tlio point of dying. .This unfortunate fact is not aston.ishing. Every day now persecution and repression is directed against the labor organisation of tin's town. Tlio unions of book-keepers and tea-workers having been dissolved, the Moscow papers now announce that the unions of tailors and tailoresses and that the furriers have been dissolved. Those tihreo unions, which recently united iv a syndicate of the clothier trade, have existed over' seven years, had over 900 numbers and wore the most active unions iv the town. In fact, that was their undoing. They had a bureau of legal advic<>, a registry office where places were found for workors free of .charge, a library and a reading-room and meetimproom where numerous , : public and trade meetings wero held. . , Hiey had made arrangements for the . winter to hold gratis lessons and lee- ' titres. All this activity was far from pleasing to the Czarist authorities, hostile to all progress, or to the large employers, who saw in this growing syndicate a dangerous weapon iin the hands of their workers— formerly do- . oile slaves turned into conscious work-ing-men. Once this had been rccognis- ' ©d by the masters, the fate of the union was sealed.