NEW POLICY.

Grey River Argus, 21 January 1926, Page 6

NEW POLICY.

II r t - IN RUSSIA. I! ‘ ?.j RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. J : LONDON, January’ 19. The “Daily Express’s’’ Russian eor- ’.*) respondent says: “The new slogan in 9 Russia is State Capitalism. The mines, a | industry-, railway and eontmerce are I expected to make a profit. Production ‘ij is being stimulated by piece work, ■ r overtime, bonuses and other “eapital- ;‘| istie devices.” The population of 'i i Leningrad which fell to four hundred I thousand is now a million. Workers’ e [ houses are springing up like mushrooms I'M by’ means of co-operative organisations of workers known as Artels, made up ie lof ten to twenty-five builders, who k | erect houses in record time for wages I plus bonuses. Bricklayers lay fifteen “ hundred bricks daily. if The filial success of the new policy 11 1 however, depends upon foreign ered- ; its, and the peasant who holds the • v : key to exports, and is unwilling to I sell wheat iu order to improve ered:ll its. "I Soviet leaders may acknowledge part "’i of the Tsarist debts. it