SOVIET FACES A CRISIS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20736, 22 December 1932, Page 11

SOVIET FACES A CRISIS.

. . ■■ DEFICIENCIES IN WAGE FUNDS. FINANCIAL) CHAOS ADMITTED. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—UY ELECTRIC telegraph—copyright:) (Received December 21st, 7 p.m.) LONI)ON, Decern tier 81. 'lll© "Daily Mail" savs that M. Stalin is facing Russia's most serious political and economic crisis. A special financial- discovered enormous deficiencies in the wage funds, threatening millions of workers with a cessfttiqn of pay. Chaos in the national finance is now admitted and the people are wrecking istaUn s plans for agricultural and industrial development. The newspaper I ravels says that high officials are Minimally ignoring the Government's instructions. The rank an; 1 , file are absenting themselves from work, relow" 1g Productivity to a dangerously OUSTING TRAITORS. DISAFFECTION IN COMMUNIST PARTY. LONDON, December 15. A third general purge of the Communist which "Pravdft" authoritatively declares must be thorough and merciless, has been qrdered by the central conimittep, says the Riga corresjjpndent of "The Times." The decree is aimed at ousting traitors working among peasants, White Guards, and other anti-Soviet organisations in the Ukraine and elsewhere, who are forcing thp failure of the Soviet's agricultural plans. * The purging operations involve loyalty tests before disciplinary tribunals, and must prove a severe strain on an already overworked organisation, hut >vill provide scapegoats. Moreo\'er, the choice of the present stressful time for the purge indicates the gerioijsness of the disaffection within the party.