The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
SOVIETPARLEY.
OPENS TODAY.
IN UKRAINE.
Congress Comedies With
A nive rsary of Red
Victory Over Whites
lspecIal 70 n, naiIr work.rl

KHARKOv, Jan. IA (By Wire
less The opening of the Congress
Of Soviets of the Socialist Ukrainian
Republic tomorrow comedies with
the fifteenth anniversary of great
victories of the working class and
the laboring peasant1y of the
U. S. S. r.
In December, 1919. the Red Army
inflicted a crushing blow upon the
White Guard interventionist armies
and liberated one after another the
most important towns in the Tx
raine, Kiev and Kharkov.
The workers and collective farm
ers of Soviet Ukraine are coming
to their Congress Of Soviets having
achieved a number Of new and bril-
liant victories in the course of these
fifteen years. In 1884 the metal
lurgical works in the Ukraine pro-
duced 6.410,000 tons of pig-iron 40
per cent more than in 1889, 4,235,-
900 tons Of steel Cor At per cent
more, 3,710,000 tons of rolled metal
(36 per cent more than in 1889.
Achievements Clear
The extent of these achievements
will become clear if the fact is men
toned that one metallurgieal fac
tory alone, the Kamensky, smelted
84,700 tons of pig-iron in 1884, or
twice as much as the whole Of
Polish metallurgy; and the Makeev-
sky plant acne smelted 1913, 900 tons,
or 3S per cent more than the whole
of CzechosIovakia.
In 1884 the Donetz Basin ex-
tracted 100000 tons of coal
against 100000 tons in 1888.
Machine building in the Ukraine
has grown unparalleledly. Whereas
the production of the machine
building industry in 1912 amounted
to 83,00000O ruhles, in 1928 to 305,-
100000 rubles, in 1888 to 1,751 .800,-
900 rubles, and by 1894 it had in
creased to 1900 100000 ruoles.
New East Furnaces
During the years elapsing only
since the preceding All-Ukrainian
Congress of SovietS Is new power
full blast-furnaces, % open-hearths,
10 rolling mills, Q powerful bloom
ing mills, and IS new and almost
completely mechanical mines were
constructed in the Ukraine.
The victories attained by Soviet
Ukrainia in agriculture have been
no less grandiose. Seventy-four
and a half per cent of the sown
areas belong to collective and 1871
per cent to state farms. Catering
to the needs of the collective farms,
1872 machine tractor stations were
organized; these possessed $4,000
tractors, 1900 trucks, and $500
combines.
simultaneously Ukrainian culture
has been steadfastly growing. A
primary education encompasses all
the children of the Ukraine. The
number of pupils in the primary
middle schools in the Ukraine now
4 comprises 100000, which is thrice
more than in 1916. The pupils at
tending the primary middle schools
| are divided into the following ma
tionalities: Ukrainians, IS per cent:
Russians, 9 per cent; Jews, 2 per
cent; children of other Mathematics.
per cent. The network of chill
dren's cultural institutions has con-
siderably increased. In 1884 alone
IS new children's palaces and clubs
were erected.
/ Extensive work has been carried
on in the development of national
culture among the national minor
tiles Of the Ukraine. There are
teachers in the Russian, Polish.
Jewish, German, Moldavian and
Greek languages. Belles-letters and
political literature are published in
these languages and there are ma
tional colleges End technicums. The
/ general network of cultural institu-
lions has been greatly extended. In
1884 there we're 2,439 clubs and
houses of culture in the Ukraine
against 1,087 in 1880; also IS urban
theatres, against 40 in 1890; 3.5o5
rural moving picture houses against
l,75S and 1855 urban cinemas as
against 1893 in 1890.
The Ukrainian press is particu-
larly extensive. The circulation of
newspapers rose from $4,000 in
1888, to 100000 in 1884, over 90
per cent Of all newspapers being
published in the Ukrainian Ian
guage.