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WHAT IS RUSSIA (NKVD. The NKVD operates crican earned a suit in 4392 the lack of proper disposition ty and the countryside in PROGRAM?
through a vast network of hours.
in existing labor laws, such the amount of 00 and 50 live in American workers Russian should spies who inform on every in.
workers establishments as the Rancho respectively.
Message to American Workers: dividual, reporting any state poverty, are treated with conBeer Garden and the Atlas We observed in the project understand Soviet Russia ment or act which appear po. tempt by their rulers and de.
Club charge the waiters from of Workers Code that the mat. plans for world domination so litically suspicious, that is, nied a vote which makes it 50 cents to 75 vents whenever ter is dealt with in such an they can preserve their free critical of the regime. The impossible for them to ima tablecloth is lost or a glass elastic manner the three party dom and living standards. The NKVD can seize any political prove thei rconditions. Govwho rule or cup broken and ig the em commissions to be appointed American Federation of Labor ly suspicious person, imprison ernment officials com.
ployee protests the injustice to fi xthe minimum wages in has consistently refused to and torture him and send him them are given every because such brokage or loss the various branches of labor permit Communist control of to a concentration camp. Mil. fort and luxury. It is signifimay be the result of an in are surely going to conflict, policy in our unions, but Com. lions of innocent persons have cant that Russian soldiers oc.
voluntary accident, the em for the difficulties that will munist efforts to penetrate and been thus condemned. The cupying countries where liv.
ployee is suspended for five arise will be to the benefit of use other unions for their own number in concentration caps ing standards had developed or ten days or even discharg those persons who through political ends have met with today is estimated at 10 to 20 under free enterprise were are able ed. And it happen in the ma. training go considerable success. There million, including Soviet ci amazed to find workers famjority of the cases that in mak through the lengthy and ar fore our members should know tizens and people seized in ilies living in apartments of ing hast to serve a customer, duous process. We are defin. what the Soviet world pro neighboring countries the So two rooms, kitchen and bath, to the benefit of the employer, itely of the opinion that a mi gram is and how it is carried viet. is trying to dominate. In able to buy adequate clothes such accident may occur, when nimum wage be fixed by the out an election, the Soviet vitizen and furniture Desertions from in reality the only party to be Workers Code for all unclasThe Soviet program frankly has no choice of candidates; Red occupying armies have benefitted in the long run is sified workers. We understand aims at destroyingfre e and de he may vote only for the slate been so high as to worry So.
the soulless exploiter of the by unclassified workers, the mocratic governments when of candidates nominated by viet officials. The new Rus.
laborer and the consumer helpers of the classified work.
sian five year plan lays great the employer. For this reason ers who through training are ever they exist and substitut. the Communist party.
The average Soviet worker stress on developing industries governments ing Communist it is proper that we legislate able to carry out specifications on the matter, mater which given them by their superiors. subservient to Moscow. 10 The lives crowded with others in which will raise the nation a barrack or shack without military power but measures create one seems small at first view but Workers for whom we are de objective is to world, a Soviet world ruled electricity, running water or to raise livin gstandards apwhich is of vast importance manding the minimum wage from Moscow. In the middle sewage disposal. His wage and pear absent.
from the viewpoint of Social are counted by the thousands: European countries near Rus ration card give him a bare Because the Russian workJustice. More so now, when they are the common laborers sia, the program is carried out minimum of food, but beyond ers living standards are so the state is obliged to seek or peons, workers in refresh. through military occupation this he must buy in the gov. low, the productivity of Rus.
out and support the rights of ment parlors, hotel workers, in and pressures from the secret lernment commercial stores sian industries is far below of the worker.
restaurants, fanitors, watchpolice; the United States. Soviet Rus Communist which are legalized black mar govern.
Lastly dealing with out sug ment, etc.
not even produce ments are established and kept kets where prices are deliber sia does gestions on matters of labor, clothe and we consider it of vital im whose duty is to justify the who liquidate political oppo We hope that those officials in power, with secret police ately kept too high for the enough to feed, average worker. Just before house its own workers accord.
portance that definite steps be rights of the working class nents by execution and imthe war in 1938 after 21 years ing to our accepted standards.
taken to guarantee a basis of will now give an ear to the of prisonment in concentration Communism, the Soviet It cannot become an import minimum wages to the work clamor of the laborer, that the worker Soviet camps.
methods are average monthly ant nation in world commerce ing class.
lawmakers of the country will frankly ruthless we do not wage ws 259 roubles; a pair of until it has surpluses to exE. That a basis of mini turn a listening ear to the de. want to accept tolerance said shoes cost 300 roubles, a man port.
mum wages be fixed for the mands of his humble country Vishinsky.
suit cost from 500 to 1500 rou.
In colonial areas unclassified workers in the ci men.
11 Conditions are apfarther from Russia, Soviet bles leaders encourage revolution proximately the same today. 10) For a mre detailed de.
by independence movements.
In 1938 it took more than a scription of Soviet program In independent countries like month for the Russian worker and methods, see article by USA, Soviet penetration beto earn enough for a pair of John Foster Dulles Thoughts gins by secret well disciplined shoes; in the same year, the on Soviet Foreign Policy. in average cells of persons who work into American worker Life magazine for June 3, positions of influence. They could earn a pair of better 1946.
try to develop a following, call shoes in 89. He could earn 25 (11) From John Scott Be strikes for political purposes pairs in the time it took the hind the Urals. pp. 234 and and spread Soviet worker to propaganda de earn one 243; Manya Gordon Workers scribing Communism as an pair. The Russian worked to Before and After Lenin.
ideal form of society. They months for a suit; the Am. 156.
CLIENTE QUE ATENDEREMOS, carefully conceal the facts CLIENTE FIJO. ES LA CASA POR about Communism as it actually exists in Russia today. Com.
EXCELENCIA PARA LA GENTE MUEBLERIA munists or their followers in key positions can influence a DE BUEN GUSTO country national policies, and Calle 16 Oeste No. 52. Apartado 3195. Teléfono 3214 especially its foreign policy toward the Soviet Union Panamá, Teléfono 575 WHY THE IRON CURTAIN GASPAR MODELO The iron curtain is vital in Propietario the Soviet program: First, be.
Muebles a Plazos y por sistema de Club Casa No. 11. 141 Central Colón cause the Soviet depends for its following in foreign counEspecialidad en Sala, Recámaras y Comedor, tries in persons who believe al estilo futurista the rosy pictures of Commun.
ism painted by the Commun.
ist agents. If these followers could know what life for workers in Russia is really like, Soviet prestige would suffer greatly. Secondly, because Soviet citizens must not Ofrece a usted los mejores licores nacionales know the vastly better living ESPECIALIDAD EN BANQUETES standards of workers in other y extranjeros con un eficiente servicio.
SERVICIO ESMERADO PRECIOS countries, nor the freedom that VISITENOS SE CONVENCERA exists where workers can vote RAZONABLES in free elections and organize Calle 22 Este. bis, No. Tel. 2979 free unions which have power Prop. ANASTASIO PEÑALBA Frente al Parque de Catedral to raise wages. The rests upon fear which grows on un.
certainty CAFE KRESCH PARIS EN CANTINA FUERTE 22 HOTEL CENTRAL COÑAC CABALLERO FONDA REFRESQUERIA ASEGUNDA CALIFORNIA 3. 25 la Bot.
WHAT IS IT LIKE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN?
Basic in the Russian Communist systemis the mein.
tenance of political unity by strict press censorship, pro paganda poured out through press and radio, absolute dictatorship of Stalin and his Po litburo of 14 men, carried out through Communist party members and the secret police Propietario FELIPE LUM En todas las Bodegas.
DURAN Tel, 426 Avenida Central, Mercado No. COLON, de BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL ERNESTO CASTILLEROR