AGAINST SOVIET

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 11

AGAINST SOVIET

MEANS TO COUNTERACT MOVEMENT CONFERENCE OF OFFICIALS AT MOSCOW ORGANISING LANDLESS PEASANTS - (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph —Con v right.) (‘'Times" Cables.) (Rec. December 17, 8,55 p.m.) London, December 16.

“The Times” Riga correspondent states that Communist organisations summoned a special conference of six hundred election officials at Moscow to devise means to counteract the antiCommunist movement in rural areas, the outcome of the Government s drastic election measures. . The biggest casualty on the official list for the past week is Bandikoff. chairman of the Election Committee in the Tula district. Bandikoff began systematically disenfranchising all untrustworthy peasants, forbidding them to attend meetings, but they held their own meetings. Bandikoff dispersed the meetings. They shot him at his lodgings. „ , x . The secretary of the Soviet Party informed the conference that such cases were increasing. Zinovieff worked out a plan to organise landless peasants into a village army to fight the rural anti-Soviet supporters. He estimates that three million landless peasants are available. UNFAVOURABLE CONDITIONS OF WORKERS ATTRIBUTED TO PRESENT POLICY (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) Riga, December 15. During the Moscow Trades Union Congress, Krol, former president of the Food Workers’ Union, a member of the Central Council, began reading a resolution attributing the unfavourable conditions of the workers to the present policy, and urging the recall of Trotsky and his followers-from exile. He was shouted .down. The closure was applied, and he was deprived of his mandate and expelled. THE RUSSIAN BUDGET (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, December 15. Messages from Moscow report that the Central Executive - has approved the Budget, which is balanced at 7,731,000,000 roubles, and passed measures for the ■ Soviet elections, also for increasing the crops by 35 per cent, during the next five years.