POVERTY IN RUSSIA
ACUTE FOOD SHORTAGE . AN ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 29. The ‘Daily Mail’s’ Riga correspondent states that owing to a food shortage the Soviet Supreme Council has ordered the Government undertakings to reduce the number of workers mimediately by 25 per cent. About 4 000,000 workers have been discharged during tho past ten days, and even> Moscow and Petrograd are crowded with unemployed. Famine conditions, prevail throughout the country, and serious disorders have been reported.
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Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 7
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