The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

ldrfllS III lJZ0-ZO TO 40 III Jne eco
nomic year just elapsed). The So
cialized sector of agriculture will
this year supply II per cent of the
commodity share of agricultural pro-
duction, as compared with ST. per
cent last year. The number of work
ers employed in industry has in
creased by $4,000, and today totals
almc-t half million.
During the last two years the
average wages of the Moscow worker
have risen by 21.5 per cent. In
1926-27 we expended 16 million
rubles for unemployment benefit, in
1929 over rs million rubles. In
the. course Of the two years under
report we spent 1S5 million rubles
on the erection of dwelling houses,
14S million Eubles of which were al
lotted to the city of Moscow This
enabled us to provide housing ac-
commodation for 100000 persons.
"a per cent of the workers of
Moscow are catered for by the COM
munal kitchens. 1t is expected that
this number will be increased to 35
per cent in the current economic
year. The newly erected mechanical
large-scale central kitchens will play
great part in promoting this.
The public health service has also
its successes to record. The clinics
have served 300 more patients
this year than last. The number
of clinics has increased by 10 per
cent, that of the hospitals by IL
per cent.
Private Trade Being Wiped Out.
How is the task of developing the
socialist sector being solved? In
1926 the share taken by private
trade in the retail trade of Moscow
was 33.5 per cent, in 1928 % per
cent, and in 1929 (see our prelimi-
nary estimate) it will be 17.9 per
cent. 1913 per cent of the total pro-
duction of the census industry
| Undertakings employing more than
16 workers) has been supplied by
socialized industry.
1t need not be said that here too
there are weak spots. The degree
of specialization among the small
and home industries is only A per
cent; this percentage is however
double that of 1926 (22 per cent?.
The membership of our co-opera-
tive societies increased by II per
cent in the two years under report.
The corresponding increase in the
agricultural co-operatives was CT
per cent, in the productive co-opera-
tives 81 per cent. Only 43 per cent
of the. peasants farms, however, are
organized in the co-operatives.
Taken all in all, the following
conclusion must be emphasized: Our
economy is growing yearly, not by
a few units per cent, but by dozens
per cent. This is distinct symptom
OF the colossal achievements of oul
socialist construction. The mair
tasks of industry in the immediate
future are naturalization and the
reduction of the costs of production
Seven Hour Day.
We shall introduce the seven-houi
day this year in a number of under.
takings, not only in textile factories
but in the metal, leather, tobacco
ready-made clothing, and other
trades. In the course of the cur
rent yecr 25 per cent of the work.
ers employed in the state industry
of our gubernia will go over to the
seven-hour day.
The proportion Of our agricultural
production reaching the market is
still extremely small: from the peas.
ant farms Is per cent, from the col.
lective undertakings 33 per cent, anc
from the Soviet farms 81 per cent
Horticulture is comparatively feebly
developed 1t will be promoted ir
the current year by new Soviet fruit