s Eyre says:

"City and country food speculation, which the dictatorship thus far
confesses its inability to suppress or even control, is fast
developing a new capitalist class right under the Communists'
noses. One of the most painful sights in Russia is some pale, thin,
tottering old woman paying out more than she earns in a week for a
few lumps of sugar bought from a well-fed trader from the country
in the Sukfarevka, Moscow's open air market place."

Eighthly, the common people are nearly as cold as they are hungry. In
the cable printed in the "World" of February 27, 1920, Eyre says:

"Fuel is slightly less scarce than it was two months ago. The lack
of heat, however, is helping the food shortage to increase the
mortality rate, which is likely to attain 30 per cent in Moscow
before spring."

In the ninth place, disease stalks through the land, hand in hand with
cold and famine. The article just cited contains the following by Eyre:

"Disease is rampant, and the typhus epidemic in Siberia, where
Kolchak left many tens of thousands of victims behind him in his
retreat, is spreading swiftly westward. Owing to the absence of
medical supplies, the epidemic can be combated only by quarantine."

In the tenth place, "labor" in Russia, the real "working class," is
conscripted, enslaved under military discipline, and "exploited" under
an incredible system of military court martial--a degradation of
workingmen by the Socialist tyrants of Russia which no form of modern
"capitalism" has dreamed of since human slavery was abolished. On this
subject Eyre says, in the "World" of February 27, 1920:

"Four of Trotzky's sixteen armies have been turned into 'labor
armies,' which means that soldiers fresh from victories on military
fronts are being obliged to work, still under military command and
discipline, on the 'economic front.' They are used chiefly for
building up the transport system and assuring shipment of food and
fuel from the country to the city....

"Labor generally is being militarized to an amazing extent.
Discipline is being imposed upon factory workers by the
establishment of special tribunals with powers of courts martial.
Communist commissaries, no longer required at the front, are being
detached from their regiments and sent to stimulate production
endeavor in industries and