CRISIS IN RUSSIA.
Officials and Workers Ignore Stalin’s Orders. LONDON, December 21. According to the “ Daily Mail,” Joseph Stalin, head of the Russian Government, is now facing the most serious political and economic crisis of his career. The special Financial Commission has discovered enormous deficiencies in the wage funds, threatening millions of workers with stoppage of their pay. The existence of chaos in in the national finances is now admitted. The people have been wrecking Stalin’s plans for agricultural and industrial development. The newspaper “Pravda” says that high officials have been criminally ignoring the Government’s instructions and the rank and file of the workers have been absenting themselves from their work, reducing productivity to a daogerously low level.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 1
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