CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 August 1931, Page 2

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

CLERGYMAN’S VIEW ANOTHER REVOLUTION COMING “We make a big mistake by permitting ourselves to be unduly perturbed by the Russian Communist movement,” stated the Rev. D. Gardner Miller speaking at the Christchurch Ad'vertising Club’s luncheon (reports tho “Times”). The speaker dealt with the Russian five-year plan, declaring that it would come to nothing but would be followed by another revolution. Mr Miller said that he had studied conditions in Russia and had delivered lectures in London on several occasions. Under Communism, there was growing up a type of capitalism among the peasants. Stalin wanted to break that incipient capitalism of the peasant class and was supplying the people with farm implements so that production might destroy the markets of the world. "The five-year plan is a lie and we will be adopting the wrong attitude if we cut prices to combat the prices of the ’ Riussian articles sold under unfair competition,” he declared. “Russia is ripening for another revolution and the five-year plan will come to nothing eventually because the regime of the Bolshevist movement is opposed to the integrity .and prosperity of the individual. There is • coming a revolution from the peasant class that will demand stabilisation of life and personal integrity and will have nothing to do with collectivism. You cannot collectivisuq as the collective man has no soul.”