The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-07
Delegate Meetings Give
Working Women Chance
For Social Legislation
LIQUIDATION OF 1LLITERAcY.

tory (mnus the Red Army 4O,9oI centres LOT Inc q
dation of illteracy among adults
On January 1st 1926 there already 44,375 suc
centres with 1869 021 scholars and on December LIST
1926, 46,759 centres with 1,515,969 scholars.
Work in this direction developed most rapidly IN tn
villages On December 1st 1926, there 41220 vii
age reading and writing schools with 203 scholars
Village liquidation of iteracy centres constitute So2a
of the total number
On the whole the network of these liquidation Of it
eracy schools has taught II million people to read an
write between 1921 and 1927
1t should be pointed out that this number will be con
sideraby exceeded if takes into account the wor
done in this direction in village reading rooms circles
and in the Red Army.
In the current year 736 schools for iterates vii
be opened in the RSFSR and 231 schools for semter
ate people.
WORKING AND PEASANT WOMEN DELEGATES.
Delegate meetings of working women are one of tn
special eectng social organs created by the labor democ
racy of the U. S. S. R.
Women delegates elected by all the working o
peasant of an enterprise or village.
The function of women delegates is-to learn to gov
ern and develop the Soviet country Women delegate
are who, in the opinion of the will hav
to fulfil responsible functions in the state organism bu
who have not yet sufficient experience and knowledg
for it. 1t is this experience and knowledge that tn
women delegates must acquire Important cutura-edu
cationa work is done at the delegate meetings. More
over women delegates attached to departments o
Sovets and to various institutions (creches kndergar
tenS Scn00S, economic or control lnStltut0nS) Wher
they go through course of practical work While the
study they also function organ of social contrc
over working
Delegate meetings becoming more and more pop
uar among the mass of workers and peasants and tn
number of elected delegates as well as the nun
Der of their women electors is rapidly growing. w
give here figures in regard to the growth of the
delegates movement:
In 1922 there were in the U. S. s. R. $4,000 wome
delegates in 1923-24-2O8 704, in 192425-378 163;
1925-26- 900 and in 1926-27-620,O00.
Of the 2O8,7O4 women delegates elected in 1882
1884 working women 1851 peasant womer
1851 engaged in office work and 16168 work
ing mems wives.
The social composition of women delegates elected i
1926-27 is as follows 96,510 $3.50 working womer
3S589O (62.2@o) peasant women, 26150 (4296) wome
agricultural laborers, and women engaged in agrcu
tural work in general 52250 $3.50 women engaged
office work and 51,240 $3.50 working mems wives
Most OF the peasant women delegates come from tn
poor peasantry in 1927 their percentage was 68 80
An overwhelming majority of delegates $3.50
are non-Party.
POWERFUL LOCOMOTIVES
/ The Leningrad works "Krassny PutioyetzD are ins
completing the first ten powerful goods train locomc
uves with carrying capacity of 10000 poods spec
! 40 kilometres an hour
A superpower locomotive will be constructed shortl
to draw trains weighing 10000 pools with speed {
| SO kilometres an hour
The Biggest Telephone Line in Europe
| The new telephone line Leningrad- Moscow-Tiflis wa
opened Sept 90 1t is about $500 kilometres long an
will he the biggest telephone line in Europe
An Irrigation Canal in Georgia
The first section of the first irrigation canal
Georgia is finished 1t is in the Kutas Uyezd For tn
present the canal rrgates $500 hectares but will irr
gate $500 hectares next year.
Electrification of Ukrainan Villages
AS result of this years labor Ia new electric sta
tions VIII be ready for use next year. They will Civ
light and power to 100000 peasant farms. Moreove
the Electric" company has made agreements with If
dvdual villages for construction of another 36 eect
stations in 1929.
Machinery for the Cotton Industry.
In Tashkent Central Asia) the first big engneern
works IN these parts will be opened shortly 1t will prc
duce machinery for the cotton industry which was fo
mery imported from America and Great Britain. TIL
works will employ 500 workers
A New Settlement
new settlement is springing up on the third kill
metre of the Erivan-Ashtarak high road Caucasus
The buildings are being put up by immigrants from tn
Turkish town Malatia and the settlement will be cae
Normalata All the immigrants artisans, most {
them tanners. Normalata will consist of 800 houses
big sanatorium, theatre etc.
Progress of Subscription to the Industriazaton LOAF
Industralizatio S5onds selling briskly Accordn
to statistics which far from complete, 19444O
roubes worth of bonds sold up to Sept IL in I'll
three biggest towns, Moscow, Leningrad and Kharko
alone
Cotton in kirghiza.
This year the area under cotton in Krghiza has o,
ceeded last years by $3.50 and has reached SO
dessiatins The cotton plants are in satisfactory CO,
dition. The cotton cleansing works in Karasou is II
first of its kind in Kirghzia This works will send tn
for the first time $4,000 pools Kirghz cotto
fibre to Moscow.
Enormous Deposits of Iron-Ore
Big deposits of tin, lead and silver have been disco,
cred in the Mertchinsk district (Sberia). =
In the district of the Magnet mountain (Uras) the,
deposits of ironore estimated at eleve