MODERN RUSSIA
SYDNEY LABOUR VISITOR A CHAT WITH KALININ LONDON, June 1 "The only thing I ever killed in my life was a chicken," said Michail Ivanovitch Kalinin, president since 1923 of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Republic, when questioned at the Kremlin by Mr. It. A. King, secretary of the Sydney Labour Council, on the trials of the old Bolsheviks. Kalinin justified the executions on the ground of their deterrent effect, and suggested that those who denounced them should give their attention to the tens of thousands of innocent victims of Fascism in Spain and China. Mr. King to-day paid a tribute to the efficiency of the Soviet peoplo and army. He was impressed, ho said, by the tremendous amount of social work, especially for women and children. Mr. King attended the International Trades Union Conference at Oslo, which rejected the Soviet's unity proposal. He will go to Geneva shortly to attend the 40-hours discussion by the International Labour Organisation, after which ho will study labour conditions in Britain.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23058, 8 June 1938, Page 13
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