A party of Czecho-Slovaks who recently arrived in Prague have made the following report on conditions in Patrograd to the '"Russian Echo": Commissioners and artists in Petrograd lead the best life. In comparison the situation of the workmen is dreadful. The first get an allowance of 40 Ib. of bread, 6 Ib. of sugar, jam, chock elates, and other delicacies. But not all.the artists are so lucky, they have to belong either to the party of the Communists or be ballet-dancers.
Officially the allowance tickets are divided into four categorics: (1) the Red Army on the front, (2) academy students, (3) the Red Army behind the front, and (4) the middle class. It is interesting to note that the Bolsheviks divide the middle-class into two parts. "The middle-class of the second rank only bread, the first rank a erust. Electricity is working only from 9 to 12 p.m. The trams hardly run. On the Nevsky, which is a bourgeois centre, there are no trams at all.
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