CONVICT LABOUR
SOVIET BUILDS BIG CANAL. RIVER ACCESS TO' MOSCOW. (Ur'ted Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10.50 a.m.) MOSCOW, October 26. The Soviet’s flair for grand scale operations was revealed by the mustering of 100,000 convicts and political prisoners of both sexes to excavate an eighty m'ile Veanal, connecting tjhe river Volga- with Moscow, enabling the largest ships to anchor almost in sight of the Kremlin. The huge army of workers’ houses and barracks are not heavily guarded. Indeed the authorities explain that the guards are there chiefly to prevent pilferage of materials. These unfortunates are sustained in their long job bv the hope of a large scale amnesty as was the case when the White Sea canal was finished.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1933, Page 5
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124CONVICT LABOUR Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1933, Page 5
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