UNEMPLOYED POLES
FORCED LABOUR IN RUSSIA [by CABLE —PRERR ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. Oct. 24. 10.15 a.m.). LONDON. October 23. The Moscow correspondent of the British United Press says that 10,000 Polish unemployed from the region of Lemberg have begun a compulsory trek to the Don Basin area of the Soviet Ukraine, where they will be forced to work in the.coal pits. Their labour is needed because Soviet, industry is consistently behind schedule. .1 A Copenhagen message stated that the Moscow correspondent of the “Politiken” reports that an additional 54.000 from a total of 90.000 Poles, unemployed in the areas occupied by the Soviet Army, will be transferred to Russia’s great industrial area.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 October 1939, Page 7
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