The workmen employed in the Petrograd munition factories were audacious
enough early last month to strike against Bolshevik rule. They objected, it seems, to the industrial con- scription enforced by the Bolsheviks, and were so old-fashioned as to ask for the personal freedom which our miners, ae their delegates told the Coal Commission, prize above everything. Lenin tried to bribe them with promisee of food, but was invited by them to resign his dictatorship. He then brought up his alien mercenaries, arrested hundreds of the workmen's leaders, and drove the rest back to work. That is a typical incident of Bol- shevik rule. The foolish people who declaim in the name of democracy against any attempt to check the aggressions of Lenin and his crew fail to realize that the Bolshevike are far more hostile to demooracy than the Tsardom was. The Team had some regard for Russian opinion, whereas the Bolsheviks' arc a law unto themselves.
