The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-05


sideration the entire industry Of Rus
STA is depending upon cheap electric
power then we can understand how
great are the accomplishments thru
this road In electricity
Textile Industry.
TNHE textile industry Is the second
\ one in the country, The entire
population is In need of cloth and
more so In Soviet Russia because the
clothing fashion Of the largest part OF
the population is depended upon its
native color and native tradition.
They use, for instance, shawls instead
of hats in the villages among women
and every district has it's own native
artistic design in regard to color and
fashion. The clothing in the street is
entirely depended upon the output of
the textile industry and when in 1921
the government took over the textile
industry, it found it nearly impos-
sible to turn the wheels around, we
must also take into consideration that
great deal of the textile industry of
old Russia was located in districts of
Poland, like LODI and White Russia,
Bialostok, which is now under Poland,
so the textile industry was a very diff
ficult problem to deal with. In Oc-
tober 1922-1s23, 272,OOO workers were
occupied in the "a textile trusts; in
October, 1923-1924, $4,000 workers;
in September, 1929, the textile in
dustry of Soviet Russia occupied
100000 workers; in September 1928
1924, $4,000 workers were occupied
in the same industry. The average
wage of worker per day in October
1922-192S was 3 rubles a day; in Oc-
tober 192S-1924, rubles day.
But in order to understand the rela-
tive growth of the textile industry, we
will take for an illustration the Kom-
volni trest, which is one of the "a
trust of the industry. Comrade Men
del Deich, who was once in America,
is the chairman of this unit. He is a
worker himself, very devoted to
Soviet Russia and very able in his ac-
compishments and when he took over
the leadership of this trest, the budget
for the year was 36,000,0O0 rubles
with eighteen factories. In 1924, the
budget was already 100000 rubles
and the profit for the same year,
seven million net.
The specially of this trest is long,
soft, very delicate wool and half wool
weaving and shawl production. OF
the Is factories that are included in
this trust, only is are working and
are in reserve and will be put in &C.
tivity as soon as the necessity will
arise. The Is factories are represent
ing circle of finished production
that is in this here circle are included
factories which are beginning with
very raw material up to the coloring
of it and finishing the complete prod
uct. The factories work in full speed,
those that are preparing the raw ma
terial are even working three shifts
day, and in order to complete the
program of Accomplishment the trust
is compelled to buy raw material as
raw wool in foreign countries, because
Russia was never able to furnish its
raw wool for its industries. entirely.
Now $4,000 weaver chairs and $4,000
brush machineries are working, 1900
workers are occupied in this trust.
The war and the civil war runined en-
tirely these factories, but since the
| new industrial development it is max
ing great Roadway. In 1922 the brush
machines produced one-third of a mil
lion kilogram. In 1923, one million
and one-sixth kilogram. In 1924,
they produced already two million and
two hundredths kilogram; parallel
with the wool finishing developed the
weaving side of the industry. In 1929
this trust produced eight million and
nine hundredths of meter material.
In 1923, 100000 meter. In 1924,