EXCHANGE OF FOOD.
SOVIET'S LATEST ACTION. LONDON, June 9. The Soviet, says the Riga correspondent of "The Times," has appealed to private citizens to assist in food distribution and has ordered the railways to encourage townspeople to fetch food from the villages and exchange manufactured goods.
Every railway station must organise a market-place where peasants can sell food to visitors. Passengers are allowed to carry 781b of produce free, as the peasants are reluctant to sell food for money, which is useless owing to the scarcity of clothing and other commodities. The Soviet has ordered the Commissar of Industry to distribute a maximum amount of" industrial products at the new markets. In order to attract them, only peasant producers and town workers are permitted to participate ir. the markets, kulaks (well-to-do farmers) and middlemen being threatened with arrest.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1932, Page 7
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