SOVIET REGIME
i INCREASED PRODUCTION {Australian and N.Z Cable Association.) LENINGRAD, Oct. 10. | Reporting to the Soviet executive on the past 10 years' economic progress, M. Kuibyshi, chairman of the People's Economic Council, points out that the Government, has specially given attention to the development of industries. Such machinery I 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 j 1027, increased the oil output 30 per cent., and was now producing gener : filly 20 per cent. more. Plans for the next five years aim .at 180 per cent, increase in machine construction, 288 per cent, electrical, 108 per cent. i chemical, and 10 per cent, agricultural, simultaneously increasing the number of workers 24 per cent., and their wages 43 per cent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 7
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