SOVIET DECREE
LARGE NUMBER OF DISMISSALS. MANY OFFICES CLOSED. LONDON, Nov. 21. The News-Chronicle’s Moscow correspondent reports that from 10 to 20 per cent, of tire Soviet’s eight million bureaucrats have been dismissed under a decree, the publication of which was postponed until the rejoicings on tlie fifteenth anniversary of the revolution had ended. Great syndicates controlling industry, commerce and agriculture have been abolished as superfluous, he says. Half the Moscow offices of the provincial, political and trade organisations have been closed, and 83 per cent, of tho staff summarily dismissed. The decree affects the entire political and economic life of Russia from powerful commissars in Moscow, Tiflis and Kharkov to village clerks.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 304, 22 November 1932, Page 7
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113SOVIET DECREE Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 304, 22 November 1932, Page 7
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