FREE WORK DAYS
RUSSIAN RAILWAYS PAY TO DEFENCE FUND (Reed. Aug. 14, 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, Aug. 13. Twenty million roubles have been hanued to the Russian national defence fund as a result of “free” days of work by Soviet railwaymen and their families. Over 1,309,000 workers gave one Sunday to' assist the railways, for which they took no pay. Many observers thought communications would prove the weakest link in the Soviet defence. Official quarters .admit that the railways were subjected to a severe strain in the first d&ys of the war, but stood the test. Large numbers of maintenance men are always stationed ready to the tracks at any point. As a resuu there has been no serious hold-up of tfital lines. Furthermore a vast quantity of rolling stock has been brought b£iCk from western Russian and the Baltic States. Railwaymen, before abandoning any section, always destroy operative parts and also any equipment they are unable to bring away:
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 14 August 1941, Page 5
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