RUSSIAN QUEUE STANDERS
> PROFESSIONALS " ROUNDED UP LONDON, August 23. The correspondent of ‘ The , Times ’• in Riga says that the O.G.E.U. (Soviet secret police), has rounded -up hundreds of “ professional qucue-standers,” the trials of whom will begin to-morrow. The prisoners long ago established themselves as a secret queue, for the facilitation of fraternities, the members of which, numbering from ■ thirty to seventy (persons, not only discovered where milk, sugar, flour, butter, bread, vegetables, and other commodities were available, and circulated the news, but organised a queue service for others on a commission basis. The authorities have decided to mete out exemplary punishment to the offenders.
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Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 1
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104RUSSIAN QUEUE STANDERS Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 1
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