In addition to nationalizing buildings, the Soviet authorities have likewise nationalized industrial undertakings, private works, gold fields, copper and coal mines, flour mills, factories, etc., ete. all of which formerly used to belong to private capital. These establishments now come under the direct control of the Higher Soviet of State Economy. The Soviet Government has endea-youred to work some of these enterprises, but in the majority of cases, more particularly in the gold mining industry, has failed. The chief reason for the failure is lack of honesty on the part of the officials and refusal on the part of the workmen to surrender majority of cases, refusing even royalty to the State and, in the to sell the gold mined by them to the Russian banks. It is scarcely reasonable to expect any other conditions because not very long ago the Soviet authorities instructed and insisted upon the workmen taking over all privately owned industries and mines, etc. and now the Government finds it rather a difficult matter to make the men recognize the "legal" point of the code of laws of R.S.F.S.R.
Honesty in Russia never was a very highly developed virtue and in the days of the Tsar its quality diminished to vanishing point from the peasant down to the
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