LABOURERS’ HOSTILITY

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1931, Page 7

LABOURERS’ HOSTILITY

SOVIET MEETS TROUBLE

RIOTING AND DESTRUCTION

EMISSARIES MURDERED

WIDESPREAD UNREST

By Telegraph—Press Assn.- —Copyright. Rec. 7.5 p.m. London, Feb. 16.

The Riga correspondent of the Times states that Soviet “pace-making” gangs And “shock” brigades have been dispatched to provincial centres to stimulate transport, the slowness of which is holding up exports. They have encountered hostility in many places, developing into riots and destruction of property, especially in the Lower Volga and Caucasus regions.

Seven pace-makers were killed and many persons injured during rioting at Astrakhan. Railwaymen in the Caucasus killed a pace-maker. Khe Economic Council raised the wages of underground miners in the Donetz region by 20 per cent, owing, to widespread restiveness and desertion due to diminished purchasing power. The Soviet is introducing labour conduct sheets in order to “enforce stricter discipline to combat the disorganigers of production,’’ and will label every worker with a record of his qualifications, earnings, conduct and punishments.