SOVIET RUSSIA
REORfiAmSATION OF INDUSTRY
ABOLITION OF HOLIDAY'S URGED
Press Association —By 'Telegraph—Copyright,
•LONDON, August 12. The Riga correspondent of “The Times ’ slates that after a lively discussion the Supreme Economic Conned decided to reorganise the management of Soviet industry from top to bottom with a view to eliminating the state of wav for privilege which exists between syndicates, trusts, and business concerns. At the suggestion of Leningrad workers the Soviet has proclaimed a day of industrialisation, upon which workers will be compelled to sacrifice a dav’s earnings to promote industnaliaution. The proceeds arc estimated at £2,000.000, and they will be devoted to training -skilled workers in the mechanisation of farming. ■ M. Larin, in an article published in tho newspaper ‘ Izvestia/ urges, in the interests of continuous production, the abolition of all holidays except revolutionary festivals.—London ‘ Times Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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