WORST PAID WORKERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17076, 13 April 1927, Page 3

WORST PAID WORKERS.

IN RUSSIA. MOSCOW WANTS “NEW SYSTEMS” A vivid picture of the decaying condition of ail branches of industry in Soviet Russia to-day is given in a report issued by the International Labour Office of the proceedings of the Trades Union Congress recently held in Moscow.

j The chairman admitted that although [ production in Russia in 1925 and 192 G ! showed improvement over that of 1923 and 192-i, it was still a long way behind the pre-war standard. Thanks lo the introduction of piecework rates, the individual output had increased, but “all possibilities of industrial development by means of the capital and equipment remaining from the old regime are exhausted.” “All tlie old equipment is being used up,”’ said the chairman, “and Russia no longer possesses resources to enable her to increase production. This can oi.ly be done by reorganisation and the creation of new systems."

The meetings were enlivened by acrimonious discussions on the relations between the trade unions and State industry and the Slate regulation of wages which so far lias only succeeded in making the Soviet worker the worst paid in Europe.