WORK IN RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1931, Page 9

WORK IN RUSSIA

"PACEMAKERS" UNPOPULAR

SEVERAL FATALITIES

("Times" Cable.) LONDON, 10th Febtruary. The "Times" Riga correspondent states that Soviet paeeinakinj;- gangs and shock brigades were dispaitjehed to the provincial centres to siltimulate transport, the slowness of *>|shieh is holding up exports. '

They have encountered hoatfility in many places, developing into i::lots and the destruction of property, fl;jpecially in the lower Volga and Caucasus region. Seven pacemakers were killed utid many persons injured during rio ting at Astrakhan. Eailwaymen in the Caucasus killed a pacemaker.

The Economic Council has ruci.sed the wages of underground minensv in tho Donetz region 20 per cent, scrwing to widespread restiveness and • fl.escrtion due to the diminished purchasing power. The Soviet is introducing lal'frour conduct sheets in order '' to enf ore o stricter discipline to combat disorgai 'Risers of production." The authorities ' i/ill label every worker with a record <of his qualifications, earnings, condti let, and punishments.

The British United Press correspondent at Moscow says that Russian orders of millions of dollars worth of American goods will be cancelled if the United States enforces t' tie exclusion of imports of Russian timber on the ground that it is produe md under prison conditions.