CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 11

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.

HARDSHIPS OP PEOPLE. DREADFUL EATING HOUSES. COMMUNAL. FEEDING PLAN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Times Cable. LONDON, March 17. Grants for communal feeding in Russia are included in the Five-Year Plan, says the Moscow correspondent of the Times. It is anticipated that 90 per cent, of the industrial workers will be communally fed by tho end of the year, thus " freeing them from the cares of providing their own food and ensuring for them cheap, plentiful and nutritious fare." An official who visited the heart of Moscow reported that very few canteens had their own quarters, most of them being housed either in unheated old huts and sheds or in bath houses. The author of the report says: "There are dreadful filth, darkness and insanitary conditions in all the eating rooms. The workers in the Pobiedinsky mines have (o eat while they are standing. "There is no water, and packs of. dogs and swarms of ravens instead of pigs, devour tho scraps. One canteen had only 10 spoons for 750 people. Another had three tumblers for 600 people. *" The dishes were never washed, they were merely dipped in dirty water. The miners were treated worse than swine. They are being starved and have no stiength to work."