RUSSIAN INDUSTRIES.
DEVELOPMENT UNDER, SOVIET REGIME.
8Y CABLE- PRESS ASSOCIATION- COPYRIGHT LENINGRAD, Ofct. 19.
Reporting to the Soviet executive on the past ten years’ economic progress, M. Kuibyshe, chairman of the People’s Economic Council, points out that the Government has specially given attention to the development of industries and .such machinery as was non-existent during the Tsarist regime. The Soviet had brought up the electric capacity from 780,000 kilowatts in 1913 to 2,100,000 in 1927, increased the oil output by 30 per cent. Plans for the next five years aim at an 180 per cent, increase in machine construction, 288 per cent, in the electrical output, 19S per cent, in the chemical output, and 16 per cent, in the agricultural output. Simultaneously this will increase the number of workers by 24 per oent. and their wages by 45 per rent.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 October 1927, Page 5
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