SOVIET DENIES “INTOLERABLE” CAMP CONDITIONS
GO a.m.) MOSCOW, Mar. 9. The central organisation of the Soviet trade unions has told the New Zealand Labour Federation that the allegations of intolerable conditions in Russian labour camps are a “slander repeatedly spread by the enemies of the Soviet Union."
The organisation was replying to a cable from the federation suggesting that impartial representatives of the United Nations should investigate these charges. It asked the federation to support the Soviet proposal to the United Nations for an international commission to investigate labour conditions in the capitalist countries and the Soviet Union.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22891, 10 March 1949, Page 5
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