SOVIET PEASANTS
COMPULSORY LABOUR DRASTIC DEGREE ISSUED H LONDON. Feb. 1 The Riga correspondent of the Times says the Soviet has placed the Northern Caucasus, which contains 9,000,000 people, under the control of a special cropping committee, empowered mercilessly, to estbilsh compulsory labour evict and deport recalcitrants and impose the death penalty without appeal. It is alleged that peasants are sabotag-. ing the Government's plans by making the bulk of the land derelict.'
The decx - ee, which is designed to ternn inate agricultural chaos, orders the organisation of the peasants into land-clearing gangs. Officials who show mercy will b» drastically punished. t The district was proclaimed completely collectivised in 1931, but the peasants badly cultivated only half of the prescribed area, resulting in open warfare with the grain collectors, who cruelly deported many suspects to the northern forests.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21411, 8 February 1933, Page 9
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