INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20332, 13 August 1929, Page 9

INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA.

GENERAL REORGANISATION.

PLAN OF ECONOMIC COUNCIL

(Received August 12, p.m.) Times Cable. LONDON, Aug. 12

Tho Biga correspondent of the 'limes states that after a lively discussion the Supreme Economic Council of tho Soviet decided to reorganise the management of Soviet industry from top to bottom, with a view to eliminating the stale of war for privileges existing between tho syndicates and trusts and the business concerns.

At the suggestion of the Leningrad workers the- Soviet lias proclaimed a day of industrialisation, upon which the workers will be compelled to sacrifice the day's earnings to promoto industrialisation.

The -proceeds are estimated at £2,000,000, which will be devoted to training skilled workers in the mechanisation of farming. Iri an article published in (lie Izvestia Stalin urges the abolition of all holidays except the revolutionary festivals, in the interest of continuous production.

The Supreme Council of National Industry on June 15 ordered all (he main State trusts to have their plans ready within three weeks at tho latest for abolishing the Sunday stoppage of work in their factories, mines, brickyards, etc., so that plant may bo kept working continuously, stated the Moscow correspondent of tho Sunday Times. The workers will bo employed in six-day shifts, such as have already been adopted at the Dnicperpetrovsk (Vckaterinoslav) steelworks and elsewhere. Various exceptions are made for industries with an inadequate supply of raw materials, but, as a general rule, it is hoped to abolish the Sunday cessation of labour soon enough for the result of increased output to Lc apparent in the autumn trade returns.

The machinery will cease running only on major l!ed feast days—two days for the First of May, two days for the anniversary celebrations of the October Revolution, and one day for the Paris Commune celebrations.