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A CATHOLIC WEEKLY CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE PRICE THREEPENCE
PHONE B5447
ADDRESS: BOX J633, G.P.O.
STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. ESTABLISHED 1874.
Registered at the G.P.O., Perth, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
Vol. LIX •
PERTH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1933
No. 2,791
Workers Under the Soviet THEIR TRAGIC PLIGHT ( Transint, '
- Osservatore
Communist, :it their systematic pro- ,:t.‘a,e pr, claiining—espaganda, tirn,:.----that the only peeially to pr cent-tlay t:conomic 11 9 remedy or • • t ,:usis ita(1 in g: eneral social is to they say) would put upheaval whi r ights. In To.tch an am...:ing truth, the : t ter can doubtless be s regarded as .,,tund contribution. It was sent, eiiot' recently, by an employee in a ' .:7-ge Russian town to a friend of hi, another country, who 'nut been to provide some measure of s:: r to its writer. . The :etter is al, ielpressive document on the painftt: oditions forced upon workers in Bolshevist world. It e is given he i its eniirety: just as t it was quoe :I in the hi-weekly -Mes: Tager d'Alsatz- of Colmar: "My dear anti - true friend—to tell :fou that im most appreciative of , your assist;'- . . e is to tell vou too little. s It could n. .. have come at a more : teedful I.ife is always a , nightmare t ire, and every dav it beam in ern.Just now ‘ ad I work during the , :light: that ineens thAt only one night -,ut of six ‘lt,.I get a chance to sleep it t my lodgings. Sometimes I am so ' Ted that I "St . . , tilers." For my -Aork I am allowed threeluarters A pound of bread per day.
faces so emaciated and savage, nor and for this lit'it piece of bread I pay And all bodies so ill-clad in rags. ind should I wish to fifteen kopekthese suffering and oppressed people sell it to an outsidtr, I could get from are dying without making any show of The place is four to five roubles. Truly the whole thing is s warming with beggars and starving rebellion. people. Women abandon their babies past comprehension. Just now all emon the streets. It is torture even to ployees are obliged, on their days off, to work in the fields, because the farmhave bread. since Avith the little I can ers. wishing to participate in 'collec1,tty I have to pass through rows of tivisation' no longer, run away and s tarving mothers, their faces drawn Then they are abandon their land. with hunger, and holding in skinny arms their little children, screaming and arrested and deported in hundreds and thousands. The prisons are full, and weeping: or else through the midst of new ones are continually being opened. tottering old men who implore all 'for charity's sake, in the name of Jesus Epidemics of fever of every sort prechrist.' to give them a scrap of .bread. vail all over the country, since soap ' Strange that those who have learned can scarcely be had now, or else it is too dear, and baths function very selto deny Him should cry out in the Nor is there any firewood or dom. name of God, and not in the name of And who can give coal. to give warmth. their idol, Stalin.) the bread Everybody is half-Starved. "State of Chaos.'! How is an employee able to live who "The country is in a state of real receives eighty, ninety qr a hundred Wages are cut down, em- chaos. Every day trains runs as much roubles? ployees and workers are being sacked: .as six, seven, even fifteen hours late. where two or three persons once worked Railway accidents are the order of the day, but of course the newspapers are t here is now left only one with a reforbidden to mention them. Unregisduced wage. Pillage and robbery octered letters hardly ever arrive, and it our with incredible frequency. Living would therefore be better that you things especially are stolen—poultry. write me still less frequently and alcows and pigs—and there is certainly And then ways be registered mail. no chain nor lock that can secure them t he misery in the villages is even more terrible than in the large towns. Peo' During the dav, morning or afterhome you cannot carry bread openly, ple who arrive here from country dis tricts narrate that often, because one *cause the poor starving wretches or another person has not been seen snatch it from your hands. If you resist, they bite your hands or wound leaving a house, the doors are forced open and corpses are found, already in them with knives. I have never seen
a.state of putrefaction: dead from starvation. You would have to live here to understand and believe . how wideOnly to-day, spread is the misery. when I went to the market, I saw soldiers loading the bodies of two men who had died of hunger ,one on top of the other, into a hand-cart. Value of Soviet Money. Our poor N "How do we live !-' gets no bread, and yet he is burdened with enormous taxes. If his parents do not help him, he is as good as dead. There is that fine character, D—, who on his rare visits always buys him something or other and in this way helps him along. But there are days when the house is bare of food and he goes to bed without having eaten Soviet money is worthless, and is earn. ed at the price of insupportable difficulty and the sweat of blood. Thus. at Torgsin. a litre of sunflower-seed oil costs one gold rouble, and in the market costs. in Soviet money, 45 roubles Butter costs two gold roubles a kilogram and 65 roubles on the market. A box of matches costs a gold kopek. and in the market 30 kopeks. Millet costs (always at Torgsin) 20 hopeks, and 15 roubles on the market "There are many other horrible things that could be told of. but then I should never be done. If you were to see us You would not know us, so thin have we become. I. particularly, am very much weakened. This is but a sample. The description of things terrible could go on and on."
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Holy See and Germany Bishops Praise Concordat by the individual provisions eel at any time when warranted His Ei , : ,,11 Cardin:1i Ber- Church and State to achieve these ends execution of Catholicism in Germany the number of pupils. treaty, the of the in . as has found H solemn expression 1 his Cie tram, of Be Sufficient guarantees are offered fot may look forward to a new era of pro:hrotteh definite and clear hairman of 1.i. i- e i:ui(la Episeopai Con- t oncrdat o independence and State protection the acof spheres The peace. and With its deep and cordial gress ,- - . , -. 7'7,'•-• -.erl appreciation to principles :erent-,: , those Catholic associations which all of both defined properly tivity have been 0 .t.ler on the occa- thanks for the. prompt realisation of to non-political tasks, and devoted are with and for the Church and the State, of the Concordat thi:: et - Attract between the highest au''"n Oi t: proper provisions are made to protect no is there prevailing, spirit right the the in joins e tween tac •e and the German thet-itles the F,piscopate the religious interests of the member doubt that future relations between i Reich. earnest wish that in its execution and such groups which may not be under of in satisfactory be to two ought the " The Epis of all the German consummation a cordial and sincere immediate supervision of thethe himHitler Chancellor respect. every . loceses,' :nal Bertram's let- spirit, of helpfulness may prevail so those organisaticms of CaChurch. to hand his out self haying stretched Church may. find it the easier "as is sht.p.cii by its statements to th•, ' were formerly devoted which tholics Reichthe Church in his now historical ' op the high forces.of our holy * he . public. was glad to express as soot, t o to political activities remain dissolved eliminto possible was it speech, stag God, in Faith the promoting re ,s it was made possible after the rt A list of assocations which will from ate practically all of the difficulties ;eta change in the political situation the moral laws and the true obedience on be in the class officially sancnow attian prompted formerly had which ' Ilrough the declarations of Your Ex- to the leading authorities for the beneby the government will be pubtioned Hierarchy. the for reserve of tude • ellency, its sincere readiness to co- fit of State and nation shortly. lished C.hiarch the of view-point From the Satisfaction over the conclusion of 'Perate to its best ability with the new Special emphasis was put by the gain achieved important most the limmeans any by not is Concordat he t 4 Owernment which has proclaimed as government on the provisions whereby through the Concordat is the assurance 1t,s goal to promote Christian- educa• it0 to the Bishops or the clergy, but the Catholic' clergy must from now on instruction religious on now from that ex• widely also is ,Ion, to wage a war against Godlessness sincere gratification from all political activities. The refrain public the all for recognised officially is strengthen the pressed among the faithful ever since 4 1'151 immorality, to in question states specifically article •Caof children ,for that and , schools I l3irit of sacrifice for the common good the officieal text of this important ruling will have to be issued the that be will instruction such tholic parents the Church. treaty, the first one of its kind in GerSee and makes it' clear Holy the by 1 Tolditto protect the rights of of the At supervised by the Church. the Holy man history, has been published. It is due to the "'Mom that members of the clergy cannot any to given is recognition full time, same esall the that recognised generally `ets and to' the statesmanlike foresight is longer be members or he active on bethe existing Catholic schools while fur ",nd the energy of the Government that sential requirements of the Church half of political parties. establish. bf can schools Catholic ther o.operation bettveen have been met. and that with a loyal ,he harmoniou 14.NN-NN 1
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