The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09
Foundation Laid For Turkestan-
Siberian Railway.

The working out of the project for
the Turkestan-Sib Railway line
has already been completed. By the
End of August IS klms. had already
been laid out. Work is in progress
over distance of 100 klms. The line
will be 800 klms in length.
The construction of the telegraph
line between Semipalatinsk and Ser
giopol has already beens begun.
Seventy-fice klms. have been con-
structed so far. Over a thousand
workers are engaged in the work,
mostly of the local population.
A collective agreement has been
arrived at between the administration
and the trade union affecting all
workers.
The first temporary station of the
Observation-Disclosures Railway, named
"Iltysh" will shortly be opened.
Tractors in the Caucasus.
Already 4,765 tractors have been
delivered to the northern Caucasus.
The First American Type of Shaft
In the U.S.S.R
Work will begin at the end of
August in the Chastkov district Don
bas on the construction of the
"Amerikanka" mine 1t will be of
modern American type. 1t is esti-
mated that it's annual output will be
about 600 million pools of anthracite
200 carloads day. At the pres
ent time the equipment of an cleo
trio station in the district is nearing
completion. Cranes and compressors
are set up. Plans are laid out for
the district and railway lines are be-
ing built.
Automatic Bakery.
The equipment of large automatic
bakery is being completed in Lenin-
grad. 1t will be the second largest
in Europe
Seventy per cent Of the baking pro-
cess will be mechanical It's pro-
ductivity will be 1900 pools in 20
hours.
At the end of this year the bakery
will start work partly, it will be en-
tirely completed by the end of the
winter
The bakery will cost about 8 million
roubles, the building costing 100000
of the sum total
Timber Export Through Leningrad.
Extensive work has been started in
the direction of an automatic timber
export harbor in Leningrad.
Good Sugar Beet Harvest.
The sugar beet crop this year sur
passes all expectations and beats the
record for the last 10 years. The
average yield is a thousand pools per
dessiatin and in some places it is
1000.
Owing to the improvement in sugar
raw materials the sugar industry
will proceed with the construction of
the two sugar refineries in the
Ukraine one in Kharkov and one in
Kiev, which will work up 10000
pools of beets a day. Next season
there will be also 3 idle sugar re-
fineries put in operation.
Grain Purchases.
The grain purchasing campaign is
developing intensively in the Ukraine.
100000 pools were bought in July
in July last year 100000 pools. The
new harvest is at least 25 per cent
higher than last years both qualita-
lively and quantitatively. There are
more than $50 tractors employed in
threshing in the Dniepropetrovsk
district
A marked increase in the buying
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days Of July in North Caucasus.
100000 pools were bought between
July 25th and 31st. This is rs per
cent more than the preceding 5 days.
Altogether 1,746,000 pools were
bought in July, over rs per cent of
which is wheat.
The buying of grain in the Chimea
is proceeding more successfully than !
last year. The main buyers bought |
100000 pools in July which is double
the purchases of last year. Owing to
the delayed harvesting because of the
rains, the harvest will be competed
within the next few days which will
increase the purchases to a still
greater extent, particularly of wheat.
The role of the private buyers has
been reduced practically to nothing.
Wages Grow.
The last collective agreements re-
suited both in higher wages and
higher productivity of labor During
the period of October-May, 1926-1927,
the average monthly wage in big in
dustry increased IL per cent. The
productivity of labor per worker, has
increased IA to Is per cent.