HERDED IN HUTS
T.OXDOX. July M. At the same time as everybody is 1 beginning to realise that the industrial situation in this country is perilous, the sane and moderate lenders of I trade unionism are expressing anxiety in case their men should be misled j by the dap-trap that is being talked and advocated by those leaders who hove become infected with the fever of Moscow Communism. This is what the workers in the Krasnoholm factory think of the life under the Bolsheviks: l- We are under the most horrible conditions. The communal livingroom is indescribably filthy. The communal bedrooms are in every way bad. Adults and children are all herded together. whole families are forced to sleep together in one bed, and the very narrowest space separates thorn from the next lied.’’ Tn the Anzliero-.Sud.shen mines, where the whole population, numbering about 27.00(1 is under Bolshevist I control, the workers are said to l-e j herded together in overcrowded bar- j racks that are avor-run with beetles j and fleas. i Their pay i- 20 to 22 roubles a I month tint! is to sav. frum eo ; f) ‘ £2 -Is. i
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1925, Page 4
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193HERDED IN HUTS Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1925, Page 4
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