SOVIET RUSSIA
ENGINEERING TECHNICAL WORKERS NEW DECREE ISSUED. Pr««s Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. MOSCOW, August 3. A decree has been issued, announcing improved living conditions for engineering technical workers, who will be given equality with industrial workers regarding housing, health insurance, food rations, and supply of manufactured articles! The decree "also prohibits a reduction of salaries when the workers are transferred to managerial or highergrade posts, while the progressive income tax on salaries exceeding 500 roubles a month is abolished, and is replaced by a tax amounting to 3J per •cent. The Intelligentia’s children are also admitted to schools similarly to the offspring of workers. ROAD CONSTRUCTION. ALL PEASANTS TO GIVE SERVICE. MOSCOW, August 3. (Received August 4, at 11.5 a.m.) Russia’s lack of even good arterial roads, whereby farm cartage is seriously handicapped, has led to a decree ordering all peasants, male and female, between 18 and 45 years of ago to give six days per year to road construction, on which £100,000,000 is being spent.
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Evening Star, Issue 20862, 4 August 1931, Page 7
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166SOVIET RUSSIA Evening Star, Issue 20862, 4 August 1931, Page 7
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