Evening star., 1925-02-07

Ing worse for education. Even as
late as 1921 there were $50 universi-
ties and higher schools and 80 tech
nical schools; now there are less than
100 such. In 1921 the students of the
universities and higher schools num-
bered 10000: now less than loo, 600
These are figures taken from the
official report of Lunacharsky to the
second session of the Russian central
executive committee, made last Oc-
tober, as published in the government
organ. the Pravda. October 10, 1924.
The Pravda also gives the report
OF Dogadov at the sixth congress of
trade unions. concerning wages be-
tween last July ! and September 30,
as compared with wages before the
war. For example, metal workers
are now receiving 5e.6 per cent as
much wages as before the war, tex
tile workers s1.f per cent, miners
52.2 per cent, chemical 89.2, railway
so per cent and clerical As per cent.
The average Of all workers through
out the country is rs per cent aver
age of all industries in Leningrad, 80
per cent; in Moscow, the capital
where discomfort would be dangerous,
l0s per cent. In general, heavy in
dustry is getting SO to SIS per cent,
light industry 80 to 80 per cent of
pre-war wages.
Education and skill are especially
penalized-for such workers are in
the minority of the people. Doctors
or medicine, outside Of Moscow, re-
cefve only IL per cent Of pre-war fees,
when the Provinces of Moscow and
Petrograd are included In the survey
excluding those two provinces. the
country Doctors get only 10 to .12
per cent according to Semasko, the
peoples commissariat for public
health, reporting at the eleventh all.
Russian congress Of Soviets, Janu.
ary, 1924. 80,
1t is not surprising that production
keeps pace with reduced compensa-
tfon of workers. The AGRICULTURAL
production of 1929, as reported by
the Supreme Soviet of Peoples Econ
omy and published in Investia-gov-
ernment controlled-December- 4, 1924.
was IS per cent of pre-war produc-
ton. The industrial production for
the same period was only 80 per cent.
By the same authority, 1t is noted
that to produce what 100 men did
before the war, now requires the
following numbers OF men, Coat 2r4
men; petroleum. 179; petroleum refin-
ing. 213; cement. 212; glass. 2o3;
WOODEN, 1O6; chemical, 292; tobacco
318; shoes, 235.
In metallurgy the annual output of
one worker before the war worth 3.227
rubles; in 1923-24, 98S rubles In machine
making. $4,000 men before the war pro-
duced goods valued at 173, 600 900 rubles,
but in 1s23-24 $4,000 men turned ou.
goods worth only $4,000, 600 rubles
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The comforts of life are indicated by
the food consumed. In America the en-,
tire population averages 100 pounds OF
sugar per capita annually: in Russia,
prior to the war, the sugar consumed
was 20 pounds per capita: In 1921-22 80
pounds; in 1928 1t was A. pounds, and
in 1894 IA pounds. In cotton cloth
the consumption last year was trife
over one-third Of the average before
the war. OF pig iron. the universal IN
dex OF construction. the pre-war aver
age amounted to 72 pounds per capita;
in 1929 3.2 pounds, and in 1924
IA pounds.
All through these years the govern
ment has been exporting grain to force
q favorable trade balance. though mil
: lions Of Russians were starving; the