SHORTAGE OF FOOD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 178, 30 July 1932, Page 8

SHORTAGE OF FOOD

PLIGHT OF RUSSIANS LONDON, July 20. Chaotic conditions prevail everywhere on the food front in Russia, writes the Riga correspondent of the Times. This is declared to be the result of vague instructions issued from Moscow. The managers of factories have been ordered to organise a “self-supply” system. Trade unions have been told that they must relieve the Government nf the obligation of feeding the masses by establishing local pigsties, poultry farms and fisheries. They also have to assume responsibility for distributing the food. Each factory manager has been ordered to call meetings, at which attendance is to be compulsory, to explain to the workers that their food supplies depend upon themselves. The workers are to be told that they must arrange their winter supply by going into the country to conclude contracts between their factories and collective farms. The rationing of bread remains centralised. The Soviet Government has forbidden peasants to sell grain privately. Spring sowings are considerably reduced as compared with 1931.