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Show MILLIONS STILL ON MOSCOW PAYROLL MOSCOW. June 17 Over four mM-lion mM-lion and a half people, exclusive ol the Red army and navy, draw the H living direct from governmental sources in Russia, and this In spite of the recent dismissal of 3,00u,u00 such employes Nor do these figures cover the Ukraine, with Its 30.000.000 people; the Ear Eastern Republic, with perhaps 10.000,000. and fjie governments gov-ernments of Trans-Caucasus, Bokhara and Turkestan These 3tatlst1c mean, says the newspaper "Economic Llfo " that one out of e ery 20 persons per-sons in Russia has a government Job not counting soldiers and Svillorv Tho new budget will reduce the number of governmental employes still further fur-ther to 3,300 000. Of the 4,671.000 still employed, the supreme cconomlo council which operates op-erates a number of factories, pays 1,-630 1,-630 000. Railroads come next with 960,000 and the department r.' tdu-catlon tdu-catlon has 420 000 In th3 state political po-litical police there are 103.000, and In the uniformed police 160,000. The 3,000,000 recently discharged, deprived of government rations, have had to turn to the open markets to secure their sustenance, |