PURE SWINDLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 7

PURE SWINDLE.

TRICKS OF TRADE. "Fake" Progress Of Russian Industry. OFFICIAL REVELATIONS. ("Times" Cables.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 25. The "Times" correspondent at Riga states that at a conference* of the Soviet's Supreme Economic Council, Sokolovsky, the official spokesman, described the recent apparent progress of Soviet industrial production as pure swindling, j The factories merely responded to the Government's demands by sacrificing quality to quantity. He declared that 50 per cent of the agricultural machinery produced in Russia proved useless. Textile factories increased cloth production bj diminishing the width and weight of the material. Match factories decreased the number of matches in each box by 25 per cent and other industries resorted to similar tricks.

SEVEN-DAYS WEEK. Soviet Renounces Sunday As Holiday. RUSSIAN INNOVATION. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 1 p.m.) MOSCOW, September 25. A decree has been issued intioducing a seven-days week. This means that operations will proceed continuously, including Sundays, each workman taking one day's rest in every five days. Thus Sunday as a civic and family holiday disappears.