The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
RUSS CLOTHING
SYNDICATE SHOWS
PRODUCTION CAIN
Industrial Progress Is
Told by RAIC


NEW YORK, March 10.-The
board Of directors of the Russian
American Industrial Corporation at
it's second annual stockholders meet
ing on Tuesday reported a satisfac-
tory years business in rendering eco
nomic aid to Soviet Russia.
The report shows that the activi-
ties of the corporation have been con-
fined to its investment in the ALI
Russian Clothing Syndicate, Inc, the
perfection of facilities for forward
ing dollars to Russia thru the Anal
gamated Bank of New York and the
Amalgamated Trust and Savings
Bank of Chicago, the purchase of
some $4,000 worth of machinery
and supplies for the Russian clothing
factories, and services performed for
other Russian businesses, chiefly in
supplying information on trade with
America.
Emphasizing the Importance Of the
transmission business the report
shows that some 100000 have al,
ready been transferred to Russian
citizens by friends and relatives in
America. The present rate of trans
mission is now over $4,000 per day.
Where the Factories Are.
The All-Russian Clothing Syndicate
has factories at Moscow, Lenin-
grad, Kharkov, Kazan and Nizhni
Novgorod; and district sales depart
ments at Moscow, Kiev, Rostov, Sa-
mara, Ekaterinburg, Novonikolay-
evsk and Irkutsk. Other branches
of the selling organization are at
Kharkov, Poltawa, Bachmut, Kras.
nodar, Tzaritzin, Astrakhan, Oren-
burg, Ufa, Simbirsk, Syrian, Bugur-
uslan, Omsk, Perm, .Petropavlpvsk
Kustanai, Tomsk, eemipalatinsk,
Krasnoyarsk, Vologda, Viatka, Ekat-
irinoslav, Kaluga and Tchelabinsk.
Important agencies of the syndicate
are also in Baku, Kursk, Odessa,
Tashkent, Nikolayev, Cherson and
Tifis. The branches are growing
both in size and in number
The directors report quotes Brick
er, the head of the Leningrad Cloth
ing Trust-"the production per man
has gradually increased in the last
two years and a suit can now be
made in just half the time it took
pre-war." The manager of the syndi-
cate is quoted as follows: "The quail
ity of work in Moscow has been
raised to the level of the average
quality of ready-made clothes in.
America. The labor cost to make a
mans suit or overcoat amounts at
present to not more than gold
rubles."
Production Increase.
Referring to the production pro-
gram for the present year the re.
port shows that the syndicate's fac
tories will produce 25 per cent more
this year than last. The plan of the
syndicate for the coming year in
cludes the purchase of S12,390,000
worth of made-up goods from the
clothing trust working under it and
the furnishing of raw materials to
the trusts up to the same value. The
production program of goods to be
furnished by the syndicate during
1924 by the famous Moscow Expert
mental Factory and the Leningrad
and Kharkov trusts includes $4,000
pieces of underwear, 394,100 special
working garments, 239,650 peasant
shirts, trousers and jackets, 279, $50
pieces of civilian clothing and 1880
fur garments, making a total Of
1874 $50 garments, a considerable
increase over the output for the
same units during 1928. This, of
course, covers only a part of the
goods produced by all the syndicate's
factories which will total over three
times this amount.
Cooperative Marketing
The Russian-American Corpora
tons directors report dealt also
with the great improvement In the
distribution end of the syndicate and
the new system of direct sales to CO.
operatives in factories, mills and
mines. At present more than so per
cent Of the clothes made by the syn
dictate are marketed thru these chan
nels. All the clothes made by the
syndicates are sold in Russia.
Summarizing the operations of the
syndicate the directors report shows
that the profits of the Russian en-
terprise amounted to more than 10
per cent of the invested capital.
General VOn L0ssOIU