REVOLUTION ANNIVERSARY
CONCESSIONS TO PEASANTS. ' By 'J-el.'traiC)-Bros A-sn.—• Leningrad. Oet. 10. The great White- Hall in tlie> Palace of Catherine the Great was to-day decorated with flowers and a portrait of Eenin when 032 members of the All-Rus-sian Central Executive Committee met on the eve on the tenth anniversary of the revolution. The President, Kalinin, read a manifesto promising as a "national gift” a severiyhours’ working day for all industrial labourers in 1928, the abolition of the death penalty’ for all crimes except military offences of banditry or the intended ruin of the existing regime, also the exemption of 35 per cent, of the peasantry from taxation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1927, Page 7
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