LABOUR IN RUSSIA.
A DRASTIC DECREE. STARVATION AND EVICTION. FOR ABSENCE FROM FACTORIES. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Nov. 28, i 2.30 p.m.) RIGA, Nov. 27. In order to check the drift of workers seeking better provisions, the Soviet has issued a decree affecting ail industrial areas, the inhumanity of •which has been unparalleled since the anti-Kulak drive in 1929. It insists on dismissal and forfeiture of food cards for unauthorised absence from a factory for a single day, with immediate eviction from a dwelling, regardless of the season and without providing for another dwelling or means of transport. Offenders cannot be re-employed for six months; consequently starvation is certain in the event of full enforcement of the decree, which already is in operation in Moscow and Donetz, hundreds being affected. The Pravda warns factory managers against leniency to workers. The newspaper Trud states that the unions are forbidden to help dismissed employees.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18804, 28 November 1932, Page 8
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