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GREETINGS TO LABOR SHANNON BROTHERS 420 East Washington St. Phone 3-6079 GREENSBORO, N. C. Kasco Franchise Dealer Complete Feed Service — Remedies end Equipment Complete Equipment Far Spreading Agricultural Lime, Super Phosphate end Fertiliser 11 ■ 1 LABOR DAY GREETINGS . . 1109 Battleground Ave. Phone 9834 GREENSBORO, N. C. V C. G. TRULL DISTRIBUTING CO. WHOLESALE WINES — CARLING'S ALE Champagne Dnmsrtir end Imparted Sparkling Wines Phone 3-3272 311 South Davie St. GREENSBORO, N. C. • Article Exposes Soviet Mind Control h Denying Russians Voice In Affairs By GEORGE 8. COUNTS Teachers College, Columbia University Since the October revolution of 1917 the Russian Bolsheviks have developed the most comprehen sive and*far-reaching system of mind control known to history. They have been able to surpass earlier despotisms in this respect because they have had at their disposal all of the agencies for the molding of the mind that modern science and technology have created. They co-ordinate and employ these agencies—the school, the press, the radio, and the moving picture, the automo bile, the airplane, and the ma chine gun, science, literature, and art—with utter ruthlessness and singleness of purpose. The key to the understanding of this system of mind control is the All-Union Communist Party, or the Party of Lenin and Stalin, with is 4 million members its central committee of 72, its politburo of 14, and its complex and far-flung apparatus. Here also is the real key to that ‘.'un derstanding” of the Soviet Union which so many people are asking for today. In fact the party, and not the government, is the Soviet state. The Party of Lenin and Stalin of course ia not a political party at all in the sense in which the term is used in democratic states. It rules neither on the author ity nor with consent of the peo ple. Like its predecessor, the em pire, it can be dislodged only by violent revolution. In general structure and mode of operation it is a kind of political army. Following with amazing precision the plan for a revolutionary or ganization outlined by Paul Pas tel a Russian revolutionist of the early nineteenth century, it has three levels or circles of mem bership: it. has its commissioned and noncommissioned officers, its high command. The duty of the soldiers and officers is to carry out the orders of the high com mand. The latter consists of the 14 members of the politburo and 72 members of the central com mittee. In Lenin’s time the operation of the party was supposed to pro* ceed under the principle of “dem ocratic centralism.” According to this principle all policies would be fully discussed by the rank and file in the thousands of cells which constitute the base of the organization. Thereafter dele gates would be chosen presum ably to represent the members at regularly called party con gresses and the policies adopted would be binding on the entire membership. Under Stalin this entire process has been abandon ed, and even reversed. The last congress convened in the spring of 1939. And if another congress should be called in the near fu ture. as promised, one may be certain that every delegate will be carefully picked by the leader ship and will support without qualification the basic policies of Stalin and the politburo. Under this system of control there can be no public discussion of grand policy either foreign or domestic. Such policy is discuss ed and formulated by the party high command, and is then com monly given to the world in the form of a resolution by the cen tral committee. It is thereafter the function of the other mem bers of this political army to carry the policy to the people, to explain and argue, to persuade and cajole, to secure the adoption of resolutions of approval, and to prevent the emergence of any kind of organized opposition: All branches of the cultural appara tus are made to serve the same purpose. The Soviet citizen reads and listens in vain for the slight est criticism of any policy adopted by the central organs of the party. W. R. Trotter, Former ITU Official Dies New York, Aug. 29.—William Robert Trotter of 362 Riverside Drive, former vice president of the International Typographical Union and original organizer and direc tor of its bureau of statistics, died in a nursing home here, after a long illness. His age was 70. Born at Morpeth, Northumber land, England, he first was ap prenticed to a book printing firm, and while in that capacity became a Methodist lay teacher. He vol unteered for service in the Boer War in 1901, and later went to live in Winnipeg Canada. Mr. Trotter roee to prominence in labor circles, and in 1907 was ap pointed by the Canadian Tradies Congress as a special commissioner in Britain to study the activities of societies active in the promo tion of emigration to Canada. ‘ I In 1922 be was elected second | vice president of the ITU at Van couver, B. C., and shortly after came to the United States to work | a the ITU headquarters in In* dianapolis. Subsequently, Mr. Trot-j [ ter organised and became first di rector of the statistics bureau, re maining in the director’s post un til 1939, when he returned to lire at Vancouver. Three gears later he came to New York to live with a son. Mr. Trotter was many times a delegate to conventions of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. In 1907 he was fraternal delegate to the British Labor Party and the Scottish Trades Congress. He was an ITU delegate to the , American Federation of Labor con ventions from 1927 to 1938. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Ellen Boyd Trotter, and a son, Ernest, of Port Jefferson, L. I., editor of Printing Magasine. LABOR DAY GREETINGS Frdm D.W.Winkelman Co.,lnc. CONTRACTORS P. O. Box 2566 GREENSBORO, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR King-Hunter, Inc. General Contractors GREENSBORO, N. C. 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