SOVIET LEADERS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 7

SOVIET LEADERS

IMPORTANT CHANGES

FOLLOWING ATTACK ON ■ ECONOMIC POLICY

GREAT UNREST AMONG __ PEASANTRY A number of Important changes have been made among the Soviet official leaders, presumably as the result ot the sharp divergencies manifested at the recent Communist Congress. By TELEGRArir.—PnEss Association. Copy eight. Moscow, January 17. Presumably as the result of the sharp divergencies manifested at the recent Communist Congress, a number of important changes have been made in official appointments. Inter alia, M. Kamencff, relieved of the Presidency, of tiie Council of Labour and the Assist-ant-Presidency of the Council of Commissaries, ionics Commissary of Foreign and •ne Trade, in succession to M. Zuriup.i. M. Rvkoff combines the Presidency of the Council of Labour and Defence and the Presidency of the Council of Commissaries. M. Frumkin is relieved of the position of Assistant-Commissary of Foreign and Home Trade, to which M. Krassin has been appointed. M. Sokolnikoff, relieved of the Commissariat of Finance, takes up the Assist-ant-Presidency of the State Planning Committee. The reshuffling also affects a number of the lesser-known leaders.

It is reported that much unrest previals among the peasantry, particularly in the Ukraine and White Russia, where armed anti-Bolsheviks are active and murders of over-zealous Communist officials arc reported chiefly in the Bobruisk district, where the militia and local authorities arc alleged to have refused to act against the rebels and are even co-operating with them —Reuter. London, January 17.

The “Daily News’s” Moscow correspondent says that, following the recent dispute in the Communist Congress, when MM. Zinovieff, Kameneff, and Sokolnikoff violently attacked the Soviet’s new economic policy, the ground being that of the concession to rich peasants, involving fundamental changes in the Soviet’s principles, MM. Kameneff and Sokolnikoff respectively resigned the Vicc-I’residency of the Council of Commissars and the Commissarship of Finance.

Both accepted minor Cabinet posts, but the fact remains that they have fallen from their former high positions. M. Zinovieff’s position is also precarious. Cabinet believes that his power at Leningrad, of which he is Mayor, menaces the party. It is practically certain that he will be removed from both the Mayoralty and the Presidency of the Third International. The editor of the “Pravda,” Zinovietf’s champion, has already been dismissed. M. Rvkoff has undertaken M. Kamciicft’s duties.—Sydney "Sun” Cable.