SOVIET RUSSIA.
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.}
RUSSIAN PROGRESS
LENINGRAD, Oct. 19,
Reporting to the Soviet executive on the past ten years’ economic progress of Russia, M. Kuibyshe (Chairman of the People’s Economic Council) points out that the Government has specially given attention to the development of industries. Such machinery was nonexistent during te Tsarist regime. The Soviet had brought up the electric capacity from 780.000 kilowatts in 1913 to 2,100,000 kilowatts in 1927. There had been an incease in the oil output of 30 per rent. The plans for the next five years aim at ISO per cent of an increase in machine construction; of 288 per cent in electrical construction; of 19S per cent in chemical output, and lfi per cent, in agricultural output. They aimed simultaneously at increasing the number of workers by twentylour per cent and their wages by fortyfive per cent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1927, Page 2
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145SOVIET RUSSIA. Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1927, Page 2
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