CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 13

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

ANTI-RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN. NO OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY. (United Frees Association ) i (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MOSCOW, November 7. Partly refu ng the unofficial story that the five-day week had broken down because families wanted the same day off, the People’s Commissars have sanctioned a year’s delay lor 1,500,000 workers till there is a sufficiency of technical supervisors to, permit of continuous working. Meantime, a new anti-religious campaign has been launched in order to break down the tendency to observe Sundays ns church holy days. The Supreme Economic Council asserts that 75 per cent, of the workers will be under a non-stop system at the end of the year, and claims thjit it has already increased the oqtput between 15 and 33 per cent. A decree was recently issued introducing a seven-day week. This meant that operations would proceed continuously, including Sundays, each workman taking one day’s rest every days. Thus Sunday as a. civic faipily holiday would disappear.

PEASANTS OF GERMAN BLOOD. THOUSANDS LEAVING. BERLIN, November 8. (Received Nov. 8, at 10 p.m.) The Tageblatt states that 4000 more fugitive peasants of German blood have arrived at Moscow from all parts of Russia, raising the number encamped round the city to 10,000. Canada does hot want so many Germans and the Government is considering offering them a permanent sanctuary in sparsely populated districts in East Prussia.