SOVIET PROBLEMS.

Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1932, Page 5

SOVIET PROBLEMS.

SERIOUS CRISIS REPORTED IN RUSSIA. ENORMOUS DEFICIENCIES IN WAGE FUNDS. PEOPLE WRECKING STALIN’S PLANS. (Received Wednesday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. The “Daily Mail” says that Stalin, the head of the Soviet Government, is facing Russia’s most serious political and economic crisis. ,A special financial commission has discovered enormous deficiencies in wage funds, threatening millions of workers with cessation of pay and causing chaos in the national finance. It is now admitted that the people are wrecking Stalin’s plans for agricultural and industrial development. The newspaper “Pravda” says that high officials are criminally ignoring the Government’s instructions and that the rank and file are absenting themselves from work, reducing productivity to a dangerously low level. CANADIAN INQUIRER. STUDY OF SOVIET METHODS. TORONTO, December 20. Following the denial of the Canadian Labour Defence League of a link with the Communist Party in plotting disturbances throughout the country, as alleged by the Mayor of Vancouver, Inspector A. Murray, of Toronto, stated to-day that the league president, the Rev. A. E. Smith, was now in Moscow studying Stalin methods. TAXES IN KIND. PROTESTS AGAINST SCALE OF VALUES. MOSCOW, December 20. The system of contract collecting of dairy produce from farms has been supplanted by a new method, under which producers pay taxes in milk, butter and cheese. There is already an outcry against the injustice of a fixed scale of values. For example, the fart* Tedlte v Wlth Only M a ,itre for milk, the market value of which is 10s.