Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — SAYS ARMY RUSS NEED [ARTICLE]

SAYS ARMY RUSS NEED

TROTZKY DECLARES MOBILIZA TION IS NECESSARY NOW. Bolshevik Trade Delegation Seeks U. S. Recognition—Sweden Removes Ban on Litvinoff. Copenhagen, Denmark,' April 9.— Conversations with members of- the Russian commercial delegation which has arrived here give the impression in authoratlve rlrclles that it Is seeking political objects primarily to secure recognition of the soviet government by the United States and the allied powers. Sweden recently placed a ban on Maxim Lltviuoff, soviet assistant minister of foreign affairs, but has been obliged reluctantly to reverse its position after M. Tchitcherin, soviet minister of foreign affairs, threatened to break off ail commercial relations between the two countries. Moscow, Russia, April 9.—Militarization is the only means to utilize Russia’s man power fully, said Leon Trotzky, bolshevist minister of war, addressing the ninth convention of the communist party. The address was chiefly directed to defining the relation of the mobilization of the Industries to the industrial rehabilitation of Russia. . “Mobilization is more necessary now than it was formerly,” he declared, “because we have to deal with the peasant population and masses of unskilled labor, which cannot be utilized to the fullest extent by any other means than military discipline. Trade unions are capable of organizing great masses of qualified workers, but 30 per cent of the people cannot be reached by this means.” Commissar Trotzky declared the working army, built on the principle of compulsory work, was no less productive than was the old system of competition. The general tenor of the speech was In support of centralization of power in the hands of a strong government.