Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 28 | Soviet Seeks to Conquer Plague of Bureaucracy

SOVIET SEEKS lU CONQUER OF f BUREAUCRACY Would Stamp Out Time- Time Wasting System Inherited Inherited In- In 7 1 From Czar BY WILLIAM Associated Press Correspondent MOSCOW April 27 21 AP AP Bu Bureaucracy Bu- Bu rea e inherited inherIt d from tram Czarism clogs the soviet union tion to such an extent that the thc government go gov e is openly th the In int v efficiency of the time state apparatus apparatus' The press has joined In the One of ot the manifestations Is ll the tha su superfluity of paper er E Every tra trans transaction i action however slight i Is by no end of questionnaires receipts stamps f signatures apI approvals ap- ap I ide documents and whatnots There Is is too a tremendous waste of time of which official Russia seems to havo have no conception Con Com tomorrow Is as common in those thos circles as Manana tanana in Spain The government has s final finally Undertaken un undertaken undertaken un- un a wide widespread reform One of tho the first steps Was a raid X o n h some of the Moscow office The worst voist offenders were brought Jc be pe- pe tort fore A A. court of workers tried and aM found guilty guilt and fifteen of them some In ill rather high places lost their jobs Jotis HOUSE CLEANING The house-cleaning house Is going on ona ona on on- a general scale but with difficulty Some Sonic of those in charge believe that tha t former fonner policemen secret nv operatives land o owners ners and rl IC mel merchants hants should not bo be tolerated mi ll But others argue that many a former form form- er cc czarist has rendered great reat eat service ser ser- vice to the new regime r Removals from office have hae also alsO- brought out cases of or excessive zeal In one Instance several girls lost places anI only because they were vero ero dau daughters of priests In another C mechanic was discharged because he did not wish to invest his earnings earn earn- earnings ings in a government o Industrial loan Three outstanding causes s e-s prompted prompt prompt- ed the tIe overhauling o of the government government govern govern- ment apparatus Foremost was th the severe lesson of th case cast In which CO riO mine officials were ere sentenced to imprisonment for fot swindling S' th the government and five fhi were shot for counter revolutionary r activities The case rudely a aroused rous the government to the fact that the I wrong men were occupying man many responsible positions It showed l also that the sp specialists at the lH head d of affairs were not always reliable SPECIALISTS S SKEPTICAL SKEPTIC L. L In the second place the tIle government govern govern- government ment had been n made aware of incongruity In- In congruity between the pro pr blem of industrial reconstruction and the indisposition ill iH- disposition of ot people entrusted 1 with the he solving of them It transpired d that hat a greater part of or the special 5 were skeptical about tho the success suc sue cess ces of or the thc plans The government intends to rectify this b by gradually replacing luke Juke warm specialists with enthusiasts newl newly graduated from frons soviet colleges S The third reason actuating tire the movement mo is tIme tIle menace of the fists or wealthy peasants who have been gaining upper tipper hand band Inthe in inthe the he local provincial councils With the he fists around the thc government can never be sure of or the Integrity of ot even party men At the thc recent election many fists were from local councils but the percentage percent age did not satisfy the government