PLANS WRECKED
SOVIET'S HARVEST DEFICIENT MACHINERY MANY ARRESTS MADE DIRECTORS OF FACTORIES THEFTS BY MECHANICS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 3. 5.5 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON. Aug. 3 The Riga correspondent of the Times says the arrest of numerous responsible officials, including 18 directors of harvesting machinery factories, was ordered by the Soviet in connection with its plan to stimulate harvesting by the prosecution of " grain barbers " and other " wreckers." The prisoners are accused of wrecking tho Soviet's harvesting plans by the delivery of incomplete machinery which lacked vital parts, with the result that thousands of harvesters are idle on farms.
Local mechanics have increased the disorder by attempting to correct tho deficiencies by stealing magnetos and carburettera from complete machines en route to the railways. These thefts have continued even when parts have been sent separately from tho factories. The authorities have proclaimed that the theft of magnetos is a capital crime. They have ordered a general lightning census of complete and incomplete machines and the distribution of missing parts by aeroplanes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21561, 4 August 1933, Page 9
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