FINANCIAL ABUSES
IN RUSSIAN TRADE UNION CIRCLES A GLOOMY PICTURE (“Times” Cables.) London, December 17. According to the Riga correspondent of “The Times,” “Embezzlers should be shot,” said Tomsky, addressing the Trade Union Congress, from which Kroll was expelled. Tomsky painted a gloomy picture of the conditions in trade union circles, especially among the higher Financial abuses were at present the greatest sore in the trade union body. During six months they discovered embezzlements amounting to £50,000 of trade union moneys. Over 30 per cent, of the offenders were Communists, chiefly trade union presidents, but illegal appropriations affected every union, factory committee, and the pensions funds of clubs.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 73, 19 December 1928, Page 11
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