DISMAL FAILURE

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1932, Page 6

DISMAL FAILURE

GOODS SUPPLY TO POPULACE. ADMISSION BY M -STALIN. United Press Association —By E!cctr«« Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, April lb. “Dismal failure” in supplying meat, milk and butter to the populace is act--mitted by the- Soviet leader, SI. Stalin, and the Commissar of Agriculture, M. Molotoy, reports the Riga, correspondent of “The Times.” This failure, they state in a decree, is causing the “toiling masses,” and also the Red Army, serious privations. The decree witheringly exposes the conditions on the huge State cattle, pig and chicken farms. The names of hundreds of delinquent directors and managers throughout the Soviet Republic are published. Thirty of these have been arrested and handed to the Red Tribunal for trial and exemplary punishment. The authorities have also dismissed 1700 farm workers and stablemen in the Ukraine alone, owing to unexampled neglect reducing the majority of draught horses to unfitness when they were needed for the spring ploughing. The decree announces the division of cattle farms, which are suffering from maldistribution of fodder and- unwieldiness, until limited to 8000 ;|)cad and of dairy farms to from 100 to 600 cows.