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REQUEST TO NEW ZEALAND Rec. 11 p.m. MOSCOW, Mar. 9. The Central Organisation of the Soviet Trade Unions has told the New Zealand Federation of Labour that allegations of intolerable conditions in Russian labour camps are “ slander repeatedly spread by enemies of the Soviet Union.” The organisation was replying to a cablegram from the federation suggesting that impartial representatives of the United Nations should investigate these charges. It asked the federation to support the Soviet proposal to the United Nations for an international commission to investigate labour conditions in capitalist countries and the Soviet Union.
The United Nations on Monday approved an American request for a world-wide inquiry into slave labour. The Russian delegates, who voted against „ the proposal, left no doubt during the debate that Russia would rebuff any United Nations efforts to investigate conditions behind the iron curtain.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27026, 10 March 1949, Page 7
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