SOVIET INDUSTRY
SUCCESS OF FIVE YEAR PLAN
CLAIMED IN OFFICIAL REPORT,
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON. July 25
As a fulfilment of the Soviet Five Year Plan an official Soviet report is being published in English an London which claims that there .were three and a half million unemployed in Russia at the beginnng of the Plan, and this unemployment had been abolished by 1930. It also claims that the average annual wage per worker increased by 103 per cent between 1928 and 1952 while social insurance funds Increased fourfold.- The number of workers during the Plain' rose to twenty-two millions from eleven 1 millions, including many women freeing themselves from houseIh.old (drudgery and entering skilled occupations.
During the same period, the population /Increased from 154 millions to 165 millions. Prom a backward peasant country, the Soviet was transformed into .a powerful, technically-advanced, industrial nation, with agriculture on the largest scale i n the world.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1933, Page 5
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