RUSSIAN PROGRESS
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the five-year plan WONDfeRFUL IMPROVEMENT CLAIMED IN OFFICIAL REPORT the soviet status
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(Rec. 8.'30 p.m.) London, July 25-. As evidence of the fulfilment of the Five-Year Plan an offi'cihl S'oviet report published in London, claims : tha't three and "a-Half million un'ettl- ; ployed at the beginning of the plah were abolished in 1930. The average annual wage per worker was increased 103 per cent between 1928 and ' 19'32 while social ihsurance increased fo'urfold. The number of workers j ' during the plan had risen to 22,000,- | 000 from 11,000,000 including mhny women who freed themselves from , househ'old drudgery ahd entered skill- ! ed bccupatiohs. In the sahie period, the population increased from 154,0000,000 to 165,000,000. From aj backward peasant country the Soviet j had been transferred into a powerful, | definitely-advanced industrial nation,; with agriculture on the largest scalei in the world.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 593, 26 July 1933, Page 5
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