Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-22 | Page 8 | Soviet Threaten to Forces Men to Work

It oo Soviet Threaten to Force Men to Work -LONDON, April 17. The RussiaL ' soviet government has threatened to put the workshops of the northern rail-.ways rail-.ways under martial lav, to put an end to "what it calls the "crime" of the workers in wasting time in holiday -making, according to a wireless message mes-sage from Moscow. , Tho government asserts that 1000 "wdrking days were thus lost in ona montlV, -and that "the railway men are arranging to have two days of idleness each week at a time when millions oY 1 people are hungering and when it 13 impossible to transport bread, owing to I; ck of railway engines." It notifies the idlers that they will either have to1 make uup-.for the tim.e "of which the republic has ,becn rob-I rob-I ,bed" or rcceivo full penalty under ' i martial law.