SOVIET FOOD CARDS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1933, Page 5

SOVIET FOOD CARDS

GREAT CONCERN SEARCH FOR HOARDED GRAIN. (United Press Association—By : Electric Telegraph—Copyright) , RIGA, January 3. Although thefi Soviet’s second five year plan began dn January Ist, the plan is' not yet ready. It will not even, be presented to the central executive at its meeting on January. 20th. V Meanwhile the agitation is increasing in Moscow and the' other centres,. owing to hundreds of thousands of people being ineligible for the new. edition of food cards. There are many more without cards owing to the inefficiency of the distribution. As the possession of food card's removes the menace of expulsion during the, impending depopulation operations, the anxiety of the non recipients of cards can be appreciated. '< Last year ended with open warfare between the grain collectors and , the peasant's in' many' of the regions of the North Caucasus, the Volga Basin and the Ukraine; ■ Expeditions' at night surround the suspected habitations, arrest - the inmates, and search fsr the hoarded grain'which the‘peasants often, destroy. Horses are perishing' in thousands owing to starvation, _ ' .

CAMPAIGN AGAINST RELIGION.

PREPARATIONS IN BRITAIN.

LONDON, January 2. The British Communists are preparing an anti-religious, campaign. They have now formed council to: arrange for an inaugural conference for a new organisation which is called the British section! ofthe Proletarian Free Thinkers International; It is to expose churches'' nad creeds, - >jnd their ideology, a s' fostered to defend) bourgeois society," arid / therefore- as . a barrier to emancipation of workers. The organisations also, intends at attack the ! churches for their charity, as being demoralising-arid degrading; and also to oppose as “indsidious, demoralising, reactionary and imperialist the policy, of the missions to the heathen.” Finally it is to vindicate the Soviet’s anti-religious policy.