SOVIET ECONOMY
EAILWAYS WEAK SPOT
STALIN'S DRASTIC DECREE
(Eeceived March 27, 2 p.m.) LONDON, March 26. "The Times" Kiga correspondent reports? that Stalin has signed decrees enjoining a supreme 'effort to establish order on the railways, which are recognised as the most unsatisfactory section of the Soviet economy. Henceforth the managing directors of each railway system must, appoint co-direc-tors upon technical and, not political qualifications. .
The decree declares that Communists are the most undisciplined section of the railway workers, being sometimes indistinguishable from wreckers. They will therefore be treated as enemies of the State, if they don't mend their ways. . ...
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 10
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100SOVIET ECONOMY Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 10
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