The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
By A. O. BOSE

The first lines Of the Moscow sub
way are expected 10 be completed by
Dec. l, 1884. To make this possible
capital investments for this year have
been increased from 90 million TO lie
million rubles CS5s,65O O00), plus 2C
million rubles worth OF auxiliary
plants, storehouSes, dormasoEieS, etc
to be turned over to II by other or
CARNATIONS.
Soviet, British, Fren6h and German
committees OF experts s<S advising on
the work. All agree on the original
plan, but not on whether open or closed
cut construction should be used, the
Germans disagreeing with the others
The government has decided to use
both types, underground lines where
streets are narrow and traffic dense
and open cut where they are broad
and traffic permits.
The progress of the work is not
considered to be satisfactory, and the
Central Committee of the Party is
taking steps to improve this. More
foreign engineers will be employed,
Soviet engineers are being sent
abroad to study conditions, and it is
planned to strengthen the adninis-
tration, to increase supplies and to
improve labor conditions.
MOSCOW LIBRARIES
Moscow now has over $50 libraries,
and the number is growing steadily.
More than 300 are trade union lib
rio 1f71 ArI oYaa ENy
for children (including a polytechni-
cal library, for foreign languages,
three for music, etc. The Lenin Lib
rary in Moscow is the largest in the
country, and the fourth in the world
in size, though first in the number
of readers. 1t has $3.50, 900 books and
10000 manuscripts; also the worlds
large st collection of incunabula
(hoOAS printed before 1500)-100,00O
Of them. 1t has as complete a cata-
logue as the Congressional Library in
Washington and the N. Y. Public Lib
rary.
Tint Lenin Library is working on
fhe Preparation of a 15-year cata-
iogue of all magazine and newspaper
articles, something which probably no
other library has, and which should
prove an invaluable aid to the stu
dent and research worker. Since the
library of Count Rumyantsev, which
it replaced, is too small, new library
OF five buildings, to cost Is million
rubles (s9,S70,0 00), is under construc-
ton
SOVIET CITIES
Since the days of Peter the Great
all peasants coming into St. Peters
burg had to bring along a few cob
bleStones for the streets. Even dur
ing each year of the Five-Year Plan
five million rubleS were expended in
paving the streets Of Leningrad with
cobbleS. Now asphalt and other pave
ments abe being laid, and by the end
of the Second Five-Year Plan all the
streets will be paved in modern fash
lon. Leningrad is now the fifth Iarg-
est city in Europe, with three million
population at the end of 1882, and
turns out sixth OF the eoumtry's in
dustrial production particularly ma
chinery, electrical equipment, ships,
etc..
The little Volga town OF Tsaritzyn
began industrial production IN 1880,
when a saw mill was built there. BY
the end Of the century only 40 small
plants had been constructed. But
under the Soviets, its successor, Sta
lingrad, built twelve great enterprises
in three years, including the great
tractor plant, sl1ipyards, steel mill,
power plant, etc. From a population
Of 10000 in 1920 it has grown to 400
600 today, and It's pre-Soviet indus
trial output of 40 million rtlbles dn
the best year, has become half BIZ
lion Gin 1892.
At the world congress Of bacteria
logists, held in London in 1912, Ros-
TOW was given third prize among the
dirtiest cities of the world (for it's
unsanitary state, epidemics, and high
mortality. Only Bombay and Shang-
hal had 1t beaten. Today this capital
of the North Caucasus Region is one
of the most sanitary in the world, |
surrounded by green ring Of trees, |
with green bouleyards, parks and
gardens in scores Of places. Its Park
u Culture and Rest will hold $4,000, |