RUSSIAN WORKERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21598, 19 March 1932, Page 11

RUSSIAN WORKERS

COMMUNAL FEEDING TERRIBLE CONDITIONS. LONDON, March 17. Grants lor the communal feeding of Russia are included in the Five Year Plan. It is anticipated that 90 per cent, of industrial workers will be communally fed by the end of the year, “thus freeing them from the cares of providing their own food and ensuring them of cheap, plentiful and nutritious fare.” An official who visited the heart of Moscow reported that very few canteens had their own quarters, most of them being housed cither in unheated old huts and sheds, or bath houses. He says that there is dreadful filth, darkness and insanitary conditions in all eating rooms. The workers in the Pobiedinsky mines have to eat standing up. There is no water and packs of dogs and swarms of ravens, instead of pigs, devour the scraps. One canteen had only 10 spoons for 750 people. Another had three tumblers for GOO. The dishes are never washed, being merely dipped in dirty water. The miners arc treated worse than swine. They are starved and have no strength to work.—Times Cable.