SOVIET RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 8

SOVIET RUSSIA

THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE Press Association—By Tekgriph-’-C'opyright. LONDON, December 15. Messages from Moscow report that the Central Executive has approved of the Budget. It passed measures for the Soviet elections, also for increasing the crops by 55 per cent.. during the next five years.—Australian Press Assyria tion-Unit cd Service. PRESENT POLICY CONDEMNED. OBJ K( TOR SUMMARILY DEALT WITH. Press A ssy c I a t i o n —By Te I eg r .1 p h - • Cop y r i g h t . lIIGA, December 1(3. During llio Moscow Trades Union Congress, M. Krol (ex-president of th© Food Workers’ Union, and a member of the Central Council) began: reading a resolution attributing the unfavourable conditions of the workers to the present policy, and urging the recall of Trotsky and his followers from exile. He was shouted down, the closure was applied', and ho was deprived of his mandate, and expelled.—Australian Press Association-United Service. TRADE UNION FUNDS. LARGE AMOUNTS EMBEZZLED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RIGA, December 17. “Embezzlers should be shot,” said M. Tomsky, when addressing the Trade Union Congress. He painted a gloomy picture of the conditions in trade union circles, especially among the higher officials. Financial abuses at present were the greatest sore on the trade union bodv, and they had discovered embezzlements of trade union moneys amounting to £50,000. The illegal appropriations affected every union ami factory committee and pension funds of clubs. —London ‘Times’ Cable. ANTI-COMMUNISTS. MOVEMENT IN RURAL AREAS. Pre«« Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 16. The Riga correspondent of ‘The Times ’ states that the Communist organisations have summoned a special conference of 600 election officials at Moscow, to devise means to counteract the anti-Comrhunist movement in rural areas, which is the outcome of the Government’s drastic election measures. The biggest casualty on the'official list for the past week is M. Bandikoff, the chairman of the Election Committee m the'Tula district. He began systematically disenfranchising all untrustworthy peasants, forbidding them to attend meetings, but they held their own meetings.. M. Bandikoff dispersed the

meetings, and the peasants shot him at his lodgings. The secretvy of the Soviet Party informed the conference that such cases are increasing. M. Zinovieff has worked out a plan to organise landless peasants into a village army to fight the rural anti-Soviet supporters. He estimates that •‘1,000,-000-landless peasants arc available. — London ‘ Times ’ Cable.