The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-08

for treason June IL.
the southern mountain ranges, the
Soviet Union comprises the largest
connected realm of any nation on
earth. 1t is sub-tropical, it is Arc
tic, it is desert and it is verdant
farm land.
Ninety per cent of all the area Of
the union is included in the largest
of the eleven constituent republics,
the Russian Federative Socialist Re-
public, which also includes more
than two-thirds of the population.
The other ten are: Ukrainia, White
Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ar
menia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
Tadjikistan, Kazakhstan and Kirghi-
zia. All except White Russia, Ar
menia, Turkmenistan and Kirghizia
contain smaller republics within
themselves.
Rich in Natural Resources.
The 175,0O0,O 900 people are as va
ried as the photography. They fall
into some $50 different groups and
speak $50 different languages and
dialects; the government makes no
attempt at establishing a national
language.
There are more Russians than
persons of any other nationality,
the Russians composing about half
the population. The other principal
groups, in order of their number,
are: Ukrainians, White Russians,
KAYAKS, Uzbeks, Tatars, Georgians,
Turks, Armenians, Jews, Germans,
Mordva, Shuvash, Talks, Poles,
Turkmens, Kirghiz, Bashkirs and
Votyaks.
These are some of the reasons
Russia's tremendous natural re-
sources have been little more than
dipped into. She is almost COM
pletely sef-suficient, with a vast
wealth of coal, iron, oil, gold and
other minerals, as well as rich farm
lands and wide stretches of fine vir-
gin timber.
Josef Stains personal dictator
ship is all-powerful. He is secre-
tary-general of the political bureau
of the central executive committee
of the communist party of the Union
of Socialistic Soviet Republics,
which is quite a mouthful any way
you chew it. The party bosses the
state (for law has decreed that it
is the only party which shall be rec
ognized), the central executive COM
mittee bosses the party, the politi-
cal bureau bosses the committee,
and Stain bosses the bureau.
By virtue of the constitution adopt
ed in December there is a parlia-
mentor soviet-composed of a So
Wet of the union and soviet of the
nationalities, and called the Su-
preme Soviet. Together the two
bodies exert all legislative and ad-
ministrative authority, through a
cabinet appointed by the Supreme
Soviet and known as the council of
peoples commissars. But through
the political structure outlined in the
foregoing paragraph it may be seen
that what they do is dictated by
Josef Stain.
Production Speeded Up.
Russia is now in the last year of
its second Five-Year Plan for ag-
ricuftural and industrial develop
ment by the state, under which the
state controls the entire economic
life of the nation. The first of these
plans was started by Stain in 1928;
private trade was suppressed, land
owners iquidated and agriculture
collectiviZed.
Production under the second Five
Year Plan was speeded up greatly,
for both economic and military rea-
sons.
A few facts serve to illustrate the
effectiveness of the programs. Elec-
trio power production in the Soviet
Union was 5,OO7 100000 kilowatt
hours in the year before the first
Five-year Plan; last year it was
80, SOC, ZOO, 900 kilowa att hours.
In steel production the Soviet
Union rose to position second
only to Germany among European
producers last year. In 1927 it man.
ufactured total of $50 automobiles;
last year, $4,000. The total grain
harvest was 92,010,OO0 metric tons
in 1895, although it fell off to less
than n, 900, 900 metric tons last year,
because of widespread drouths. The
1886 cotton crop set a new record.
Latest reports are that there will
be a third Five-Year Plan started
which will go into effect January l.