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...Soviet Foreign Trade Commissariat was more brusque. Retaliating against Britain's embargo, they declared a counter-embargo against British goods. This was to be no 50-80% embargo but a complete stoppage of the importation of British goods of any description. Three riders to the Russian embargo made it even more stringent...
...Soviet Water Transport Commissariat further ordered chiefs of Russian ports to charge British ships higher port duties than the preferential duties paid under the old Soviet-British trade agreement...
Every landsman in Russia who has worked on a ship of any kind within the past ten years was ordered last week by the Commissariat of Labor to leave his earthly job, report for duty on the "water front...
...heroic Water Front Fighters the mobilized men will be used to speed up transport on Russia's inland waterways, now ice-free for the short, hectic summer season (May through August). According to the Commissariat of Labor 71,000,000 tons more freight must be carried by the rivers this year than last, an increase...
...Moscow last week the Commissariat for Labor took action against two Russian engineers who had refused to do work as signed them in the Siberian Kuznetsk coal fields. It was decreed that no one in Russia shall employ these "deserters" for the next six months, and that their food cards be canceled. If they do not starve to death clandestine charity will be to blame. In the Soviet mind, Russia is now fighting an ''economic war," and it is pointed out that in other kinds of wars deserters are shot. Thus, Moscovites argue, the Soviet State is "more merciful" than...