FAR EASTERN SIBERIA
SPECIAL PRIVILEGES
STALIN LOOKS AHEAD
MOSCOW, December 13. M. Stalin has issued a decree increasing by 50 per cent, the pay of Russian sojdiers in the far eastern areas of Siberia. The decree also increases the wages of workmen and specialists in the coal industry by 30 per cent., and in other industries by 20 per cent. He is also exempting farmers from delivering quotas of grain to the Government and reducing the compulsory deliveries of meat, potatoes, butter, and milk. #16 "Daily Express" says M. Stalin's aim is to build up a larger, well-fed population just inside- Russia's far eastern frontiers, where now the best troops are being sent.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 9
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