“FACING SERIOUS CRISIS ”
REPORTS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA
FINANCE COMMISSION’S DISCOVERIES United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 21, 7.0 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. “The Daily Mail” says that M. Stalin is facing Russia's most serious poliIcal economic crisis. A special finanial commission discovered enormous leficiencies in the wage funds, these hreatening millions of workers with a essation of pay and causing chaos in katicnal finance. It is now admitted that the people are wrecking M. Stalin's plans for agrimltural and industrial development. The newspaper "Pravda” says that ligh officials are criminally ignoring he Government's instructions, the ■ank and file absenting themselves Srom work and reducing productivity o a dangerously low level. PAYMENT OF TAXES CRITICISED. OUTCRY AGAINST JUSTICE. United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, December 20. The system of contract collecting of iairy produce from farms has been mpplanted by a new method, under Fhich the producers pay taxes in milk, Witter and cheese. There is already an outcry against the injustice of a fixed scale of values; tor example, a farmer is credited with wily 4d per litre for milk, the market ralue of which is 10/-.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19372, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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189“FACING SERIOUS CRISIS ” Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19372, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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