The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-10
NEWS OF u. S. S. R.

IEiS rapid urban1zatIon has brought
sharply to the fore the problem of
new housing. Pre-War Moscow
housed a third Of its people in filthy
slums, while 100000 persons had no
rooms Of their own, hiring parts of
rooms or beds, With the war and
intervention, the housing shortage
became more acute, another fifth of
the houses becoming uninhabitable.
The Soviet Government tackled this
problem Immediately. In Moscow
alone it removed half a million
workers from suburbs, Easements.
etc, into better apartments. New
construction began ten years ago.
In the four years ending with 1882
4,000,000000 T-ubleS $4,000, 1000 ,O00)
was expended on housing and as ,O00,-
coo square meters Of floor space built.
This was more than four times the
amount built in the previous twelve
years.
SOWING BY AIRPLANE
Sowing by airplane was begun in
Soviet Central Asia by March Is, and
was to have begun in the North eau
casus by the 25th and in the Upper
and Middle Volga Regions by April /.
This Spring 10000 acres are to be
Sown by plane, five times as much as
last year Some 200 planes will be
used, equipped with skis and wheels.
Planes and pilots have been appor-
toned and all preparations are COM
pleted Sowing by airplane can begin
before the snow has thaWed, or as it
begins to melt, which is the best time
for planting. A special sower, in
vented by engineer NTikhaiIov- Senke-
vich, which will be used for the first
time, permits of more even planting
and can SOW 40 to SO acres per hour
BRITAIN AND SPIES
In connection with the trial in
Moscow of the British engineers and
Russians charged with espionage and
sabotage, which was to start yester-
day it is interesting to refer to the
final Indictment of the Industrial
Party" for wrecking at the instiga-
ton Of foreign inperialists, in No
vember, 1880. The Metropolitan
Vickers Company was noted as being
involved, together with Deterding,
British oil magnate; Urquhart, mining
Spectator and eX-partner of Hoover,
Nobel, Russian oil king; Colonel Law
renee, British spy; the French Cen
eral Staff, and white Russian emigres
The aim of this gang was merely
to wreck the Fiye-Year Plan in order
to produce an economic crisis in 1880,
to disintegrate the Red Army, to cor
duct espionage under the direction of
the French General Staff, and to
bring about foreign military interven-
ton and a domestic uprising. They
aspired to bring about a military
dictatorship and then a democratic"
capitalist regime. The only him
ORANGES were the vigilance of the
revolutionary proletariat and peasant
ny intent upon building up socialism,
the o. G. P. u, etc.
LOCKHART, BRITISH MILITARY
INTERVENTIONIST IN 1918
While on this general subject, we
might refer to the latest darling of
the salons, Bruce Lockhart, one-time
British diplomat in the U. S. S. r.
He organized a plot, in August, 1918.
together with the French Embassy,
to overthrow the Soviet Government
and assassine Lenin. Comrade Ber-
sin, commander of the Latvian rife
regiment guarding the Kremlin, was
to be bribed with millions of rubles
Two Latvian regiments were to be
sent to Vologda. to unite with the
English and French troops to seize