CHAOTIC STATE.
SOVIET IRON WORKS.
Total of 200,000 Workers Have Fled. ALARM FELT IN MOSCOW. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 25. The "Daily Telegraph" Moscow : correspondent states that the disgraceful chaotic situation at the iron and steel centre of Magnetogorsk, in the Ural Mountains, the keystone of the Soviet heavy industries, and the cost of the first Five-Year Plan, continues to alarm the authorities in Moscow. Conditions are stated to be so demoralising that 200,000 workers have fled during the past two years and have been replaced by Unwilling untrained labourers. Consequently the Magnetogorsk plant has been damaged. The official Soviet industrial organ criticises the Magnetogorsk administrators for under-estimating the importance of living conditions. Though the city has a population of 230,000, only nine vehicles are available for public transport, and most of the workers are badly housed and clothed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 304, 26 December 1933, Page 7
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