The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
Plenty of Food in the Soviet
Union
BY JAMES BARNETT.

IN the Soviet Union, where the workers, begin
i ming with very backward industrial develop
nnent, are doing, in few years, whit it took the
the United States one hundred years to do, one
of the big Jobs Is to provide more and better
food for the workers. Previously they had the
most meagre living on the poorest food.
Next year the government is investing seven
and three-quarter million dollars in food in
dustries, besides what they have already devel-
oped. The state food industries will produce
over twice as much as they did this year-124
per cent more. By doing this they expect the
food consumed per worker to increase by to
II per cent.
TWO hundred more large scales state hog ranch
es are to be started in 1881. This is in addition
to the $40 already organized. Big meat pack
ing houses are to be built in different sections
Of the vast territory of the Soviet Union, to
supply the population BY 1928, there will
be many more milk COWS, total Of 80 million
head (they now have only about one and one
half million) and the supply Of milk to the city
will be doubled In addition to the increased con-
sumption Of milk in the country
While the dairy industry Is being built up.
while COWS are multiplying so as to supply the
workers with an adequate supply of milk, cheese
and butter, strong efforts are being made, in
the meantime, to furnish vegetable oils as a sub
stitute for butter-fat. Already there are 470
large depressing plants. On July LIST, the first
margarine factory started in Moscow. Seven
additional factories will be built in 1881. with a
combined annual output Of 10000 tonss. $4,000
tons Of fish were caught in 1918. In 1880 the
marketable catch was 100000 tons. A catch
of 2h times this has been set for 1928.
supply Of sugar double that of pre-war Is
now assured to the population.
been small in the past, but by 1928 the garden
acreage is to be double the present area. The
minimum annual consumption per person, at
present. has been set at: 275 lbs. of potatoes
800 lbs. of other vegetables and IS lbs of fruit
1t is expected to greatly increase this during
the next five years. The largest cannery in
Europe is being built in the Crimea, which will
be able to produce 80 million cans Of food per
year. The construction Of 10 new plants was
begun by the United Canning Industry in 1880
with total capacity of 2O5 million cans; other
plants are also being built and old ones remodel
led. 1t is expected that the entire canning pro-
duction for this year will be 1.3 billion cans at
the end Of the Five-Year Plan this will be in
creased to billion cans annually. Millions Of
dollars are going into the extension and develop
ment Of milling and bakery production.
Great cooperative and factory restaurants are
peuiS puii1 oil oVer Iile ooViet OIllOn 10 IurnlSn
the workers with hot, well prepared food at the
lowest cost At least so per cent of the workers
families will be served by large state or cooper
alive restaurants by the end Of 1881.
| All of these industries and increased benefits
are for the toilers Of the city and country. To
| the working class, which has been starved for
| centuries, for the first time, nourishing and
plentiful food is assured; many new wants come
into existence and they are carrying out these
and other plans for a greater supply and more
varieties.
| In the Soviet Union the workers eat!