RED ROUBLES OF RUSSIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 7

RED ROUBLES OF RUSSIA.

TAINTED SOVIET MONEY.

STARVING MUSCOVITE MINERS

PLAIN ENGLISH FOR COOK.

(By Cable.—Pi ess Association.—Copyrignt.)

(Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. The "Daily Mail," in a leader, says that the funds which Mr. A. J. Cook boasts of receiving have not come from the miners of Russia, whose wages are 12/6 per head weekly. Russian railwaymen are paid a weekly wage of 30/ per man. It is preposterous to suppose that such wretchedly paid workers provided a sum of £370,000 to assist British miners. The "Daily Mail" proceeds to say: "It is the Soviet whidi provided the money for the purpose of working the political and commercial ruin of Britain. These bloodthirsty ruffians do not care twopence about the fate of the miners' wives and children. They have themselves already allowed thousands of Russian women and children to starve.

"Messrs Cook and Smith freely accepted this tainted money, forgetting that while British coalfields are idle the Russian mines have been developed upon starvation wages. The Government must stop Russian money being sent, it being a violation of the Anglo-Rus-sian treaty."—(A. and N.Z-)