CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA
A MORAL QUESTION RAISED. HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATE. (United Press Assoclatlm.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 5. (Received Feb. G, at 11 p.m.) In the House of Lords Lord Newton initiated a debate on Labour Conditions in Russia. He stated that the Soviet’s own documents showed that every citizen was either a military or an industrial conscript. The Bishop of Durham said that conditions in Russia raised a moral question which Britain could not leave unanswered without losing her national self-respect. The whole episcopate felt sorrow, consternation and shame over Britain’s relations with the Soviet. Even at the eleventh hour the Government ought responsibly to dissociate the whole Empire from the abominable proceedings in Russia. He criticised the failure of the trade unions to manifest sympathy with their fellow workers in Russia. Lord Ponsonby, in reply, said he did not desire to defend the Soviet system of government or labour conditions. There might be horrors in Russia, but Britain could not set out to correct every nation with different standards of morality and social decency from hers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21254, 7 February 1931, Page 11
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