The fear that #ews comprising the declassed ele#ents in large part will be affected in ### important degree by the internal ###pulsory passport system, already in operation, gained ground yesterday when 800 workers employed in the Moscow electrical plant among 220,000, were refused passports by the controlling brigade.
Two hundred of the workers who were refused passports are placed in the category of deriving from declassed elements. The remaining six hundred are allegedly former kulaks, former White Russians, former criminals.
In accordance with the regulations all those to whom passports are refused must leave the city within ten days. They will be unable to proceed to other large cities inasmuch as the passport system has been introduced there as well.
The passport system was introduced to weed out unproductive elements from the large centers owing to the food and housing shortages. Under the regulations all persons above the age of sixteen are required to register giving their employment and stating their antecedents.
The supervision of the passport system has been vested in the Gepeu, secret political police.
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