FOOD SHORTAGE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 December 1932, Page 5

FOOD SHORTAGE

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RUSSIAN PEASANTS TO SELL ON OPEN MARKET SUPPLIES EXHAUSTED

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Loml'on, Dec. 5. The Times' Riga correspondent states that attempts to utilise- food cards invalidated by the dismissal of workers for truancy from factories are to be punishable hy death aceording to Stalin's decree, authorising the directors of factories to control food supplies. Another decree permits peasants in certain areas to begin selling grain and flour in the open market without restrictions as to price instead of waiting until J anuary. The decree explains that the privilege is due to areas being supplied with the Government' s gram quota, but the truth is that the measure_ is necessary to correct the food scarcity in Moscow and Leningrad, where people are often in the bread queues for from ten to twelve hours, after which they are not supplied owing to supplies heing exhausted. - The Riga correspondent of the Times reported that in order to check the drift of workers who sought better position the Soviet had issued a decree affecting all industrial areas, the inhumanity of which was unparalleled since the 1929 drive against the Kulaks (well-to-do farmers).