The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04
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TRANSPORT AND AGRICULTURE

TRANSPORT AND AGRICULTURE
Travel in Union
The traveller Russia today will find the railway
again normal and though prewar luxures are still
sent yet puncuay and in cleanliness there considerable
Improvement One member Of the Delegation sleeping in
coach rural branch line Yerminous
CUSHIONS but his experience unique in six weeks travel
The compromise as between Communism and comfort
takes the form of kinds passenger COACH not dsin
guished Class H. and Class Ill., but soft
he soft means carriage to good secondcass standard
for day Journeys similar sleeper for night Hard
means wooden seats berths The place of afrscass
taken by wagon hts known as mternatonas on the amil
lar model which on the main lines generally in connection
war Cheap excursions run to the Caucasus and the
the summer and the arrangements for reduced fares fami
lies and workers liberal Fares much lower
IN Bngand and within the Union passenger traffic may be
considered comparing well with Continental country
tween the Union and Europe At the regular
Into the Union through Latva Ehoni. Finland
nope quite unreliable in winter The railway
reliable comfortable and comparatively rstclass
fare from London Moscow Journey
can be done for less than half that. sh
Ruin of Railways oasso
is course only very superficial Side of the
transport question which is as vital matter to he Union as
the United States The continental class and
cvhad reduced the railways BY quarter of
the engines down lines working were
reduced from 10000 $4,000 which agansfe during
1918 to 100000 The civil ruined 1872 bridges including
line stations thousands Of miles of
telegraph and telephone telegraph and telephone
thirds OF the engines and onequarte of the trucks
aged.
Rape of Shipping
Matters were bad with transport The docks
most of the ships fell into the hands of the Whites
sank carried all they including 900
ers and 1880 sailing vessels barges boats shipping
suffered Sixty going otalng
tons destroyed and 800 totang
and sold by the French More than half going
tonnage thus lost and the Black
steamer tonnage piece of piracy unexamped in modern his
tory.
War Observation-Disclosures of Railways
These figures may give faint idea that
faced the Soviet Government far
all transport with far less than
other war-ruined people But it begun in 1920
before finally ended the Delegation
impressed by the labors of the subboni
and the gayde engines that
overtime. This the period when the slogan Qosung)
War Communism al hands transport,
of this concentration the front remarkable
propaganda and kept alive by daily bulletins of sick engines
cured convaescen and sound engines
One of these bulletins shows that January
total number of engines 9438 of which 1888
sound In November with final peace 1893
which 451 sound practically all the recaptured
engines having been damaged The number
ary 1920 258729 of which 204983 damaged
November 419455 of which 320309 damaged To give
traffic start LOO engines ordered in Germany
Sweden in 1921 with 500 tank CanadaLand
Germany but otherwise the repair shops kept pace with require
AT the end Of 1923 there reserve 34
engines and 60724 trucks Efforts
repairing the and bridges mad BY the end
1921 only II bridges were still impossible.
War communism-Shipping Reconstruction nv
The of river shipping less
the end Of 1921 there had been repaired 60eames
Lib vessels and relocated 76 steamers 593 and