The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-23
The Soviet Government
Helps the Countryside
Solve Its Many Problems
Government Aid to the Countryside,

up to the czarist treasury and to big landowners up
to one-third of their The and-tax alone con-
stituted the enormous sum of 665 million roubles
about 4 of the entire annual revenue of the peasanry
The Soviet government confronted with the task OF
helping the fundamental of the peasantry the poor
and middle peasants to improve and develop their home
steads.
The Soviet government initiated big campaign which
the form of advancing seed to the peasants In the
of the last eight years about million pools OF
seed advanced to the peasantry. Twothlrds OF
this went the poor homesteads and one-thrd
to the homesteads Of the middle peasantry'
The legacy of the past was bad land management
fields separated from each other by strips of land be-
longing to other propretors, strips of land long dis
tance from the homestead etc. which impeded the de-
veopment of the productive forces of agriculture In
the period between 1919 and 1926, 05 million desians
of land, about 800 of the European part of the
Soviet Union have been modelled up-to-date basis
The first to benefit by this modelling were the home
steads of the poor and middle peasantry
The villages are at present much adequately
provided with agricultural implements than prior to the
revolution. There at present throughout the u S.
s. R. $4,000 tractors, most of which 5000 in the
hands of middle and poor peasants.
Credit co-operatives play important role in regard
to raising the level of poor and middle homesteads In
the of two yearsfrom October 1924 to October
1926,the membership of agricultural credit co-opera-
tves increased nearly threefod from X million to
4.3 mIlion) Most of the members Cup to 90Ge)
poor and middle peasants.
Up 25fo Of peasant homeseads have been exempted
this year from the agricultural The greatest
centage of this has been transferred to the suak
sections of the peasantry
The price reduction campaign leads slowly but surely
to the elimination Of the disproporon between prices
for manufactured goods and those for agricultural
duce
This is general outline of the policy of the Soviet
State in the countryside.
Wage-Rises Turnout the Moscow Gubernia.
The average wagerse per head in all the industries
of the Moscow Gubernia shown by the following fig
IN NH IyOTNo in rb1
kps.; in 192760 RIBS 40 kps The railwaymens month
y wage was in 1926-68 ribs. rs kps. and in 1921
RIBS. l KIP These wage rises guaranteed by real
price reductions which has led to the reduction of the
of living provided for in the budget (cost of forty
necessares of life January L. 1925 roubes, SO
kps. August 1st-24 RIBS 40 kps, which a
daction of 6196).
IN regard to unemployment an improvement has taken
nee during the last seven months There has been a
25e reduction of unemployment between April 1st and
August list throughout the Moscow Guberna.
Opening of Another 18 Kilowatt Radio Station.
Another IS kilowatt broadcasting radio station has
been opened in Leningrad
1t is proposed to raise the power of this radio station
to 30 lowatt by January 1928 It will be possible
have its transmissons received by the simplest and
cheapest radio apparatuses
A Working Mans Invention
On the Tver station of the October Railway two pow
erful for lifting coal onto locomotives in the
of construction These cranes are the invention
of worker employed in the railway workshops, Com
very economical.
American Savants on the U. s. S. R.
Prior to their departure from Moscow to Leningrad
the delegation Of five American savants gave their i'm
pressons of their tour to representatives of the
Professor L. Huntington said: 'The first thing that
strikes when studying the life of the U. S. S. R.
which is being constructed entirely principles is
the high social development and also the development
all enterprises. In all the places and institutions which
visited asked to transmit to America a pro-
test against the sentence of death Sacco and Van
zetti In of the villages Moscow, where the
delegation found itself quite unexpectedly, met in
the fields old peasant, who learning that
Americans, startled by the question: How is it that
the American people have not yet torn Sacco and Van
zetti out of the hands of their executoners?
Gas we had full opportunity to convince ourselves,
the Soviet does not only take for
improving the economic position of the workers. it also
pays considerable attention to everything connected with
education and culture" Here said Professor A. Wood
'labor science education and culture work hand in
hand"
''In the U. S. S. R. there no national racial
prejudices which still strong in other countries
particularly in South America The populations Of all
the republics of the Soviet Union feel themselves full
fedged citizens. Confidence in human nature and labor
In to the question: What the which
is the foundation Of Soviet construction"
prevent rapprochement between the u S. S. r. and the
American people? Professor L. Huntington said
an the course of conversation which had with
of the leading members of the Soviet government
he remarked that the main preventing rapproche
ment between the U. S. S. R. and America is that here
life is being constructed principles which lead to
Socialism whereas life in America is based capitalist
principles"
eve have been able to see for ourselves that Social
ism is really being constructed in the u s. s. r. and
convinced of it. Another impedent to rapproche-
r3ert is the political ignorance of America in regard to
everything which is being created in the Soviet Union
those classes Of American society which are very
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