RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1930, Page 5

RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE

COLLECTIVE FARM WORK

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LONDON, March 3

The “Times” coi re-.'-.ipondeiu- at Riga states: Complete militarisation in -Russian agriculture becomes immediately effective by Government decrees .just issued, establishing collective farms worked by labour brigades under brigadiers. Various brigades are mobilised for specialised duties, for example, horse brigades, oxen brigades and a-ru-ctor brigades. Brigadiers arc expressly forbidden to esablish equality of payments, which vary according to the importance of the work undertaken and tile actual work accomplished either by individuals or by whole brigades. Schedules of premiums and lines are being drawn up for g| ,-od and bad work respectively. Nobody will be allowed to receive move than sixty per cent of his earnings. Peasants are- now mobilised under a collective farming syscm. j.i> is stated as a result of collective orrj'i,nisatjio'n in Rlussia, families are mostly leaving their entire possessions behind, and Russians daily suddenly appear before the Polish frontier guards saying they re fuse to 'be enforced into collective farming. A hundred parties crossed the bordre on Friday despite increased vigilance. The remainder wijl bo withheld for at least a year as a guarantee of payment of fines. It will also enable the Soviet to levy a subscription to Government loans. Any peasant quitting a farm in order to escape brigade duties will have the farm confiscated and will be sent into exile. Soviet authorities assert more than half of the Russian part, of the Soviet guards of the Polish Government is' becoming anxious as Russians are destitute: It contemplates forming a concentration camp.