Conditions in Russia
SOVIET ANXIOUS. United Press Association. —By Elec:rir Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 0.50 p.m. RIGA, April 14. The Soviet’s great motor works at Nijninivgorod, employing 25,000, arc reported to be a failure, the authorities’ latest attempt at manufacturing revealing conditions tantamount to sabotage. Millions of roubles worth of plant, motors, electric apparatus and machine parts are lying in three feet of water in ■ flooded warehouses. A special commission has ordered the immediate construction of new warehouses and also an investigation to discover tho culprits. The Soviet is further anxious regarding the unsatisfactory condition of the Five Year Plan in connection with coal, metallurgy and agriculture. Tho Ukraine and North Caucasus are so backward in production that torchlight ploughing and sowing brigades are working all night.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6835, 16 April 1932, Page 6
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