A SOVIET SHIP
NO DISTINCTIONS OF RANK. INTERESTING ARRIVAL AT HARWICH (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. (Janie Association). LONDON, September 29. With everybody from the captain down to the cabin boy on a footing of perfect equality, the Soviet steamer Bolshevik has arrived at The whole of the crew regard one another as brothers. The stockers recline in the cabins smoking cigarettes to their hearts content. The cabins display photographs of Lenin, Trotsky, and other Soviet leaders. All hands live together, sharing the same food. The skipper is an educated man who has travelled all over the world. He told a pilot that his pay was eighty million roubles a month, equal to £35.
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Southland Times, Issue 19653, 2 October 1922, Page 5
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115A SOVIET SHIP Southland Times, Issue 19653, 2 October 1922, Page 5
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