The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10

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Donbas where, after years of in
sistent labor, he rose to the posi-
ton of locksmith; later he be-
came an electrical mechanic. Com
rade Goloded went through the i'm
perialist war and the Civil War.
He has been president of the Coun-
Gil Of Peoples Commissars since
1927. simultaneously he is a mem
Der of the Central Executive Com
mittee of the U. S. S. r. and a cam
didate to the Presidium of the
G. E. c., U. S. S. S. R.
In reply to question about the
growth of the economic well-being
of White Russia under the Soviets,
Comrade Goloded called the atten-
ton of his interlocutors to the view
opening through the window. On
the other side of the street one
could see old wooden shanties, bent
with age, with half blind windows.
The differece between these build
lngs and the new Government
Building, said Comrade Goloded,
symbolizes the difference between
the old and the new Minsk. Minsk
is unrecognizable The new Gov
ernment Building would look proud
even in the U. S. A. The Govern
ment Building occupies 100000 cubic
meters. 1t was built in the last
few years. The building which
formerly housed the Governmental
institutions We're all given over TO
the workers to be used as dwellings.
Thus the living space of the work
erS considerably increased.
Tells of Growth of Economy
Comrade Goloded dwelt at some
length on the growth of the econ
omy of White Russia, general and
communal.
White Russia of the past. as
part of Czarist Russia" he said,
was backward country. The
annual production of White Rus
STA before the Notwithstanding
the boundaries of the present Re-
public-was forty million. 1t was
confined almost exclusively to the
production of means of consump-
ton with the prevalence of handi-
craft> which yielded 70 per cent of
the entire output. The production
lof factories and plants in White
Russia before the Revolution never
exceeded 1872 per cent. This year
the production of Soviet White
Russia, expressed in pre-war rubles,
amounts to $50 million rubIes. The
production of capital goods now oc-
cupies the foremost place in the
production of White Russia.
White Russia has its own ma
chine building industry Our plants
produce boring and turning ma
chimes, also machines for road
buildings: concrete mixers, rollers,
stone crushers; We produce ma
chimes for the building trades and
machines for the extraction of peat,
among which the peat combine
forms the leading machine; we pro-
duce agricultural machinery for the
cutting of silos materials. for the
digging of potatoes, for threshing,
| etc.
White Russia now can point to
new industries like the artificial silk
mill in Mohilev. This factory is one
of the few units in the U. S. S. R.
where artificial fabrics are pro-
duced. The woodworking indus
try and the textile industry are very
well developed The production Of
electric energy has moved to one
| OF the leading places. We already
have electric stations in the dis
Itricts; they work on peat. This fuel,
which is one of the major fuels in
Soviet White Russia, is being pro-
duced in large quantities. This year
the peat production will amount to
100000 tons, of which 10 per cent
is produced by machinery of our
own making. We have factories
that produce cast-iron tubes: we
also have automobile repair plants
These industries arc enumerated
only by way of example"
Help from the Government
Comrade Goloded paused for a
minute. Raising his head he lev
elled his quiet eyes, the eyes of a
thinker at his attentive inter-
locutors and then said:
we must now ask the following
question: Where did Soviet White
Russia get its metal, industry? We
have neither deposits of iron ore,
nor deposits of coal; still the metal
industry develops. Obviously we deal