The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-05-28
THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIRELESS
TELEGRAPHY IN SOVIET RUSSIA.

had been completely isolated Tor
period of two years, and in spite o
the fact that the blockade cut Of
our specialists from contact with tn
technical science Of the West, Sovie
Russia made enormous progress il
the field of wireles3 telegraphy.
Previous to the October Revolu
tion, the wireless apparatus wa
under the supervision Of the Ministr!
of War, and was employed exclu
sively for war purposes, Following
the October Revolution special de
cree of the Council of Peoples Com
missaries was issued providing fol
the transfer of all radio stations ex
GLIDING portable ones into the hands
of the Peoples Comb fissariat of Pos
tai and Telegraph Sd vice. The latter
augmented the numl er of these sta
tions and introduced considerable i'm
provements in thei1 technique.
Beginning with that period, thu
application of wird ess telegraphy
was put on a basis utterly unknown
in former times. liking cognizanct
of the supreme Importance of tht
political education Of the wide mas
ses of peasants and workmen, th'
Peoples Commissariat Of Postal ant
Telegraph Service fnade it its busi
ness to install a widely spread sys
tenn of radio stations embracing vast
areas Of the country. For this pur
pose all the radio Equipments that
were transferred to fhe Commissaria
of Postal and Telegraph Service wer'
made use Of. Wireless operator
were sent out to jail the provincial
towns and the work Of installation
was carried on at full speed undel
the direct supervision and guidance
of the central authorities and TIN
sympathetic cooperation of the Wire
less Operators Union. The large
towns were provided with radio sta
tions first, then came the smallel
towns, and towards the middle Of
the second year Of this work of con
struction we find radio stations in
stalled even in the villages.
All through the territory Of Sovie
Russia we have today 250 receiving
radio stations and in addition At sta
tions belonging to the War Depart
ment, but put at the disposal of thu
Commissariat for Postal and Tele
graph Service. This makes wire
less system of about 300 units, which
is the most powerful information
agency on the Continent. The mum
ber Of transmitting radio station!
excluding those on steamers equals
AZ, which puts ass,f first on the lis
'of European countries in this con
nection.
All the powerful transmitting ra
dio stations which we inherited from
the Kerenski Government have beer
repaired and put into excellent state
With the assistance of the Contra
Committee of the Transport Work
ers' Union a staff of operators il
now being trained to man the newl!
built radio stations.
Immediate Uses. !,
Thus radio telegraphic tentacle'
are now reaching out from the cen
tire to the most distant and remot,
corners of the Republic. The un
trammeled wireless telegraphy af
forded the possibility of maintain
ing close communication between tn,
cities and provinces surrounded b!
the enemy, where the encouraging
messages coming from the centre
and carried through the air-waves al
over the vast area Of Russia, wa
spread through the local press ant
the posters of the Russian Telegraph
Agency imbuing confidence, enthu
siasm and strength into the hearts
Of the fighters.
Duting the civil war a wireless te
legraphy thus reconstructed did ex
cellent service. 1t enabled US to keel
in constant touch not only witt
Tashkent, Uralsk, Baku and the Uk
raine, but also with Soviet Hungar.
and with Germany, and afforded tn
opportunity Of intercepting wireless
messages from the hostile camps o
Paris, England, Italy and Constan
tinople.
Wireless telegraphy thus recon
structed on a new basis and brough
home to the wide masses Of peas
ants and workmen became q power
full agency Of propaganda and ags
tation in the hands Of the Sovie
Government. The installation Of wire
less stations and the development o
wireless communication would pro
tect even at much greater spec
II It were not for the necessity o
diverting the most skilled worker
! and most Of the equipment for tn
needs Of the war, and were It no
for the fact that the production .
wireless equipment does not kee
pace with the work of installation.
New Inventions.