FOOD PRICES

Grey River Argus, 31 March 1932, Page 6

FOOD PRICES

AT RUSSIAN CAPITAL Housewives’ Riot (Aus. <fe N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received March 30 at 9 50 p.m.) LONDON, March 30. The “Daily Express’s” Moscow coricspondeiit states; One thousand housewives, attending the headquarters of the Butter Trust, following the announcement of a butter sale, rioted whc n they were told that the prico had doubled. They attacked the salesmen and smashed the windows. They wrecked the store. Other women, who stood in a queue for twelve hours for sugar, started a riot when they were told that the supplies were exhausted. The correspondent says that there, has been literally nothing fo buy in most of the Moscow stores recently. The staple diet of thousands of the people is black bread and tea.