The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
MAY DAY IN THE SOVIET UNION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Textile centre). The founda-
ton stone was laid Of new spinning mill which is to
have 10000 spindes.
The mill is being built on the banks of the River
Iaka where the workers in the Ivanovo- Voznesensk
usually celebrated the of May pre-revoutonary
days, when they had to conceal themselves from the
persecution of the police.
Leningrad. The "Red Putilox" works put out the
first locomotive of the IN" SERIES which is the
powerful locomotive in Europe Such locomotives have
hitherto been built only in the United States
The Karl Marx works in Leningrad produced the first
wool combing machine to be produced in the U.S.SR
Hitherto these machines have been imported from
abroad.
In Nicolaiev (on UErainian coast) The Russud ship
building yard completed repairs and started work This
yard has been idle for the last years The yard will
be engaged in building merchant vessels.
In Moscow. In the outskirts of Moscow the first
asbestos works in the US.SR started. Up till
asbestos goods imported from abroad in spite
of the fact that there the richest deposits of as
bestos in the world in the U.SS.R.
In Kanavina (Nijhagorod province). The first CO.
operative large scale kitchen in the province was
opened capable of providing 10000 dinners per day.
The meals will be distributed in special thermos utensils
to the factories scattered throughout the Kanavin dis
trict.
Sports in Soviet Russia
According the incomplete returns for 1926 there
over 100000 workers and women engaged in
physical culture in the U.SS.R. In many provinces
spontaneous growth of sports organizations is observed
For example, in year, the number of persons en-
gagged in physical culture in the Vladimir Province in
creased by 226 per cent and in the Pkov Province by
358 per cent
Everywhere considerable work of construction or
stadiums, sport grounds, swimming stations rifle
ranges etc. is going In Lenngrad the great Lenin
Stadium has been completed In Moscow the Moscow
Trades Council Stadium and the stadium of the Food
Workers Union the largest of their kind in the coun
try have been completed. At the present time the
Dinamo Stadium is in the process of completion and
will be the largest in the U.S.S.R.
In order to indicate the extent to which sport will
develop during the coming summer, it is sufficient to
point out that the Textile Workers. Union alone will
spend less than 100000 roubles on physical culture
One hundred and fourteen teams have entered for
the Moscow football championship this year. No less
than 300 referees will be required for these matches.
international Matches in 1927.
During recent years, Soviet sportsmen took part In
60 matches and contests abroad This year matches
and contests with working class sport organizations
abroad will be arranged much larger scale.
The RSFSR football team which has acquired con-
siderable popularity abroad will this year visit Ger
many, France Belgium Finland Turkey and Latvia and
possibly also Sweden Light athletic teams have been
invited to visit Latvia Germany and France. Boxers
have been invited to visit Braunschweg, swimmers to
France and Belgium; boat teams to Germany and
shooting teams to Austria and Turkey In addition to
this large excursion Of 100 participants will visit Fin
land during the labor sports festival
In June Yaroslav, Moscow, and Razan will contest
teams in light athletic contests from the Working Glass
Sports Federation of France. In June, July and
August matches with football teams from Hungary,
Austria and Turkey will be played in both Leningrad
and Moscow. The visit of a Swedish football team is
expected in September. In July, German cyclists are
expected to visit Moscow, Tula Bogorodsk and Lenn-
grad Moreover representatives of working class or
CARNATIONS, from Finland, Latva, Germany, France
Norway Czecho-Sovaka, Austria and Switzerland are
due to arrive to take part in the All-Union sports
festival