STATE OF CHAOS
RUSSIAN INDUSTRIES BRIBERY BY OFFICIALS “MOUNTAINS OF WORTHLESS RUBBISH ” ■ SLUMP IN PRODUCTION LONDON, June 9. The Daily Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent says that the Soviet officials admit a great slump in production. M. Mazhlauk, Commissar of Heavy Industries, addressing the conference of factory directors, described the decline in the output of the iron and steel industries as alarming. Even more serious is the decline in the quality.
The newspaper Pravda declares that mountains of worthless rubbish are delivered at the State shops. Some of the directors actually bribe the checkers to pass worthless goods. The Times’ Riga correspondent says that the Government, in announcing an extension of the anti-Trotskyist purge, reprimands Liubimoff and Ivanoff. Commissars of Light Industry and Timber, for slackness, particularly in connection with the thread famine. The Soviet has ordered M. Vyhincky to arrest and prosecute Korotsky, head of the Leningrad cotton industry: Sosmin, director of the Leningrad cotton trust; and others, a number of whom are already in custody.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 137, 11 June 1937, Page 7
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