SLUMP IN PRODUCTION

Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 11

SLUMP IN PRODUCTION

ADMITTED DY SOVIET OFFICIALS MOUNTAINS OF WORTHLESS RUBBISH Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 9. (Received June 10, at 10.15 a.m.) The ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ’ Moscow correspondent says Soviet officials admit a great slump in production. 31. Mazhlauk. Commissar of Heavy Industries, addressing a conference of factory directors, described the decline in the output of the iron and steel industries as alarming. Even more serious was the decline in quality. ‘ Pravda ’ declares that mountains of worthless rubbish have been delivered to State shops. Some directors actually bribe checkers to pass worthless goods. COMMISSARS REPRIMANDED LONDON, June 9. (Received June 10, at 1 p.m.) The Riga correspondent of ‘ The Times' says the Government, in announcing extension of the auti-Trotsky-ist purge, reprimands Liubimoff and Ivanoff, Commissars of Light Industry and Timber respectively, for slackness, particularly in connection with tho threat of a famine. The Soviet has ordered Vyshinsky to arrest and prosecute Korotsky, head of the Leningrad cotton industry, Sosmin, director of the Leningrad cotton trust, and others, a number of whom are already in custody.