IN RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1932, Page 5

IN RUSSIA

STORY OF CONDITIONS.

REPORTED FEARFUL PLIGHT

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(Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 17.

Grants for the communal feeding of jlßussia are included in the Five Year

)IMan. It >is anticipated that 90 per

cent, of the industrial workers .will be '"""'communally fed by tile end of the year, thus “freeing them from the cares of providing their own food and ensuring them of cheap, plentiful and nutritious fare,

. An official who visited the heart oi reported that very few canteens had their own quarters, most of them being housed, either in unheatecl old ihuts and sheds or bath houses. The author says there is dreadful filth, darkness and insanitary conditions in all eating rooms.

Workers in Pobiediensky mines have

to eat standing. There is no water, and packs of dogs and swarms of ravens, instead of pigs, devour the scraps. One ■ canteen had only ten spoons for 750' people; another, three tumblers for six .hundred. Dishes were never washed.

They were merely dipped in dirty water

The miners were treated worse than ♦swine and are starved, having n 0 .strength to work.