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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, 0: CTOBER 10, 1927 rage Three BELGIUM PLANS TO CELEBRATE 1 MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Oct. 9.—The delegation of Belgian Officeworkers YEAR OF BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION Establishment of the Soviet Regime in the USSR is a Factor of World Improvement in the Conditions of the Workers. Considerable achievements have been attained in the | sphere of improving the conditions of the workers as the following facts show. 4 During the past three years the government has ap- | 115 km. of rails whole program of ¢ appointed time, section from Semipalatinsk in the direction of Ser; have been laid down onstruction wi already be carried out by the A New Centrosoyous Cold Storage Plant. who visited the USSR several months aoe faa Whole Working propriated 350,000,000 roubles for housing. The total Rapid progress is being made with the construction Bee ae) come es Ceneean one ie at ely j gee foes as outlay for this purpose in the current year amounts to| of a new large four-story cold storage plant for the mittee of the Soviet Officeworkers | Strengthening and Developing the | 499 900,000 roubles. Next year the estimate expenditure | Centrosoyous in Moscow. This plant will have a capac- Union that it has organized a special| Soviet Republic. Assistance to the ‘Alia wontae committee in Belgium to arrange for the celebration of the Tenth Anni- Soviet Union Against all its Enemies is the Best Guarantee of International for this purpose will be 450,000,000 roubles. of the house construction carried on during the past three years, housing accommodation will be provided for A special branch railway line is being laid down to the plant, | ith New Construction in U.S.S.R. | S& CATHEDRAL NOW A MUSEUM a 2 ae ‘ z : i r i P 2 eoee ‘ Refrigerator Ship Built. RES vey lates eee hs 4 1,500,000 persons. In this connection it should be point- ut ae pies : $ , ; ih st chairman o: e delegation, e|a dele vorkers anc Om | ee Ba BY Sok Het of \comvenianten Gene yards. 2 secrtary of the Clerks’ Union of Bel-| workers to Moscow to take part in|®UPcTior from the point of view of conveniences and | - ope See y s : ri . sanitation to those built in the past. =e gium, Comrade Etterling, and a num-| the Tenth Anniversary Celebration Th ‘ Sean toe the, § : Giateaiey T° ealed the excellent qualiti It has a be? of prominent trade union leaders| and has appealed to all the labor or- i Ranae Oren muecernary 10F “tite Unprowetiany e capacity of )0 tons of le goods and can de- bales ii ta The C ittes haai ganizations in Belgium €o take af sanitary and technical conditions of labor have also been | Wie ahead SEAT 6 hi The “ Ale Rykov” Ce ish Ses aoc err aes Lee . = jextended. The expenditure for safety appliances and) YP 4 Speed of 17 v PE MOUS. Ane ge aa yee ¢ issued an appeal to all the Belgium|in selecting the delegation. labor organizations and to all manual | and mental workers calfing upon them| to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Revolution under the following slogans: Ten Years of Soviet Progress; Ten| Years of Capitalist Decline; Ten Years of Proletarian Victory. The will start out on its first voyage to F sanitation in the state industries planned by the govern- gland this month. | ment amounts this year to 34,000,000 roubles and next year according to the estimates, will amount to 43,000,000 roubles. . The medical service fund for insured workers is in- | |}creasing and is overtaking the increase in the number Nbf insured. There is also an extension of prophylactic | U.S. COMMUNIST ADDRESSES BI 6 }measures. Thus according to plan the number of places jin sanatoria and rest homes this year is 513,000 and by next year these will be increased to 600,000. MEETS IN USSR. With regard to social insurance: “in pre-war .days | (1913) the amount spent on insuranee represented 2.4% lof the wages paid. Refrigerator Vessels for the Caspian Sea. | The “Red Shipbuilding Yard” in Leningrad has re-| ceived an order for the construction of two refrigerator | which when completed will be employed for the} fishing industry of the Caspian Sea. Rice Cultivation in the Amur District. The Amur (Siberia) regional Agricultural Administra- | tion is to develop t first regional rice plantation which is to cover 2,000 h res of land in the Ekaterine- Nikolsk district. These plantations will be of enormous | industrial value to the distric The dand under rice} cultivation this year in this d is five times that of previous years. Transition From the Three-Field to Multiple-Field At the present time it represents Karl Reeve in Crimea; |, Positive achievements have been attained in the sphere | { Visits Odessa. Kiev | of improving cultural life. During the past 3 years the | System, i 4 jimprovement of the conditions of the workers’ fund has Recently, the Volokolomsk County of the Moscow| MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (By Mail) | mereased considerably. In 1925-26 this fund amounted | Gybernia celebrated the transition from the obsolete to 49,500,000 roubles, in 1926-27 Karl Reeve, a correspondent of The! 790,000 rouiiak: DAILY WORKER, has just returned thera here ‘after an extensive tour through| b the Crimea, Odessa and Kiev. At} every city and town he addressed | it amounted to 59,- Parallel with the increase in the fund, is an inctease in expenditure for cultural and club three-field stem of land cultivation to the improved multiple-field system. This county w the first to ere achieve the 100% transition to the new system. Now| uilding purposes. ‘ other districts are following the lead.. The complete Ukrainian Industry During bg Past Eleven ene | abolition of the three-field system is taking place in the | iinae During the past 11 months the output of the Ukrain- | Rodinkoy di of the I Vosnesensk Gubernia Lares meetings that were arranged | ian industries_amounted to 748,900,000 pre-war roubles. | (in cent 3R). In this ict there are 280 vil- oem: 7 |The annual output program of the All-Union industries lages with 7,48 rms, | been P In paises: Besvestonls part in the| has been fulfilled to the extent of 95.5%; the republican | He Tiade Union nternationa ith Day ting, | j stri 7 2 i i % = ° ra fon on y ceng,| industries program by 89% and local industries 73%. The All-Union Council of Trade Unions has yeceived ee oe eamerne, ot) The Turkestan-Siberian Railway. | from the various trade unions the sum of 1,2 workers. : ‘ i j ; e i : 33,747 ; os ae store = ABOUT OIL INDUSTRY 1S REFUTED The “Cathedral of St. Basil,” pride of the ezars and their lackeys, has turned into a museum by the authorities of the Soviet Union. The mag- |nificent building is situated at the southern end of Red Square, near the Kremlin, Aeroplane Construction Fund. and Vanzetti,” said Reeve. “Long live the unbreakable union of the working class of the whole world. LENINGRAD PROLETARIAT CELEBRATES Juguslavia Beging — Long live the Communist Youth GEE G : In th Long live the world revolution and it: Saul G. Bron, chairman of the Am-} parison that to the Soviet a eid leader, the Communist Internation torg Trading C ation r years. yesterday | 1 issued the following state it, i reply to the latest attack of Henri | a Deterding, head of the Royal Dutch Shell group, upon the Soviet oil in-} | approaching tenth anniversary of the ‘ inauguration of the Soviet govern; ment in Russia as the proper time to “cock-pit of | make still another prediction that the | Soviet Union is headed towards dis- aster. No one taking note of De ing’s propaganda can escape the con- iction that this is really the most al!” When Reeve concluded his! speech he was greeted with tremen-} \f|dous cheers, a of pre-war ns of the Soviet TENTH YEAR OF THE TRADE UNIONS Hostile Measures; y. u i en ee een ul (elie Gaus tina nn LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R. Oct. 9.—]ing was opened py the president of hundred of them were present. He| The Leningrad proletariat celebrated the provincial, Trade Union Council, spoke on the general political situa-|the 10th anniversary of their trade Caneade eee bala: le | tion in the United States, using as unions with over 10,000 trade union this building Wetths trade relic BELGRADE, § a, Oct. 9. The Ae ae eee bat ate . itna- | members marching in a demonstra-jceived their first instructions how to| threat of another war was hanging le textile, mining and coal|tion, The demonstration started from |organize industry and how to fight|©¥¢" the Balkans—the SACCO and separate eee ee for the elec-|the iabor Palace and marched through |in the faetories for the establishment | Europe”—today. | /}| tion campaign and the reaction as a/ the Peter Lavrov street to the build-| of the Soviet Government. The trade) The Jugoslay (S VANZETTI ; da of the murder of Sacco and|ings where the trade union movement | unions carried out these instructions | ment, aroused by for | | Mok a was founded. |in November, 1917.” TOBER issue of the _ New Masses | OC il production was ction for ptember of 10,000,000 umption of nds per tion was jan) govern- | ys on Jugosla an Comitadjis, is re. in the soil by Bul; vi 5 ate i gre tL ‘ r “i inappropriate moment to make such a Baku o rubles per | At house No. 40 the demonstration | The Leningrad trade unions have) ported to have closed the Jugoslav Sk as about the Soviet Union. month. Du ‘ just ended AS : | Have Paid Your Contribution to} tected the first trade union secre-/now 734,000. members. The biggest | Bulgarian frontier, meanwhile making : 2 the average fs were over 95 ymposium on Hl| die Ruthénbeng Sustaining Fund? tary, the People’s Commissary for|union is that of the metal workers | strong demands wpon Sofia for guar- Unfounded Assertions. rubl As the pur ing power “OPS SACCO-VANZETTI -|Labor, Comrade Schmidt. The meet-| which has 120,000 members. | antees a; stefurther attacks. “What is there to say regardihg 0 per cent of | by ca = ee — | Bulgarian, or Macedonian Comitad- Cede eae Perea the pre-war, t present | - f jis, are irregular forces that occupy ust one refute such unfounded as- t to 45 1 are high Clarina Michelon BRITISH WORKERS URGE COMBINED DELEGATIONS the wild mountain region of the Cen-|sertations as that the Soviet Union gran the ores sidan eget a tral Balkans. They profess to be Bul-| Pays interest of 32 per cent per annum In all countries preparations are|£#"!@n patriots and are partisans of raeeiy oe noe peur a ey |under way to celebrate the anni-| the present reactiondry government of | 8¢t thirty-two cents per day in x \versary of the revolution with par- Bulgaria, and have long-conducted or- | Money? : é E ades, demonstrations and other mani-| £20ized attacks against Jugoslav out- _ “Deterding says that the Soviet oil |festations. The Soviet organizations, | PS They are accused of the as- industry has barely attained the pre- having sent out invitations, them- nation of General Kovacevich at | war level. He does not add that Sov- selves have in turn received invita-|JSstip ral day they | igt authorities took over Russian oil tions to take part in the October @€ reported to have attacked two fields five or six years ago with festivals which are being arranged Servian frontier posts. equipment almost completely destroy- by workers of countries under the| The Jugoslav minister is reported |¢d by forces with which Deterding is yoke of capitalism and imperialism. | to be preparing to leave Sofia. not entirely unfamiliar. Soviet money The celebration of the Tenth An: War between Was mae econ ie andes niversary thus becomes the most im-|garia mig! almost from the bottom to its present ve many bene- <nown in the pre- this, workers now r Jas. Rorty i orke c A. Giovannitti | Wm. Patterson Grace Lumpkin { Joseph Lilly Wm. Gropper (Continued from Page 1). of the ten years’ creative work of j many, Persia and everywhere the | the Soviet workers and peasants. emissaries of British imperialism are| France Suggests One Delegation. active plotting against the first so-| Similar efforts to unite all delega- | cialist state. |tions into one sole tvongress are on But at the same time in the capitol|foot and work is going forward to of Great Britain work is going on | rallying varius delegations of various with the object of surrounding the| organizations in different countries. | STORIES, POEMS, | first workers’ republic with its true | Thus, today the delegations of the | | CARTOONS friends and defenders. various workers and peasants organi- Will Review Eirst Decade. \zations of France addressed a re- | |} While the telegram of the National| quest to Soviet organizations which Committee mentions but one item on|invited them to help the work of sts in the lower than be- 1 the Baku field, nut equal to e time, De- assertions not- viet oil industry nd royalties, Grozny oil Fields fore the war, while production ec those of 19 terding’s ignc withstanding, pays both taxe | | OTHER ARTICLES, SHORT | Kerosene. methods used in much in advance Higher Quality Jugoslay and Bul-|} by leading writers and ht embroil Greece and Tur- artists. the agenda of the proposed confer-| uniting in one delegation and come to|portant factor for the mobilization ievel, This reconstruction required h the war imi. | ’ | key, Italy and France and thr 2 cf those usec the war. Primi- 1 ence _we know from the columns of U.S.S.R. on board Soviet steamer to|of the workers and peasant masses | their advocates among he ie ae about $200,000,000. tive drilling has been largely super- | a6 Olnts a Copy the English labor papers that the, participate in October celebration.|for a struggle against the coalition | perialist powers. . Oil Production Increases. seded by modern rotary and cable English committee intends to bring’ The British and German delegations ; up at the conference of all delega- | are arranging to come to Soviet Union j i tions not only the question of the | together as one international delega- | Wost U B Ss 1 R if B E! danget of war, but also the results! tion. j $1.00 Five Mos. |of imperialists actually waging war against revolutionary China and pre-| paring a new war against the Soviet | Union. “Sir Henri Deterding somehow al-! drilling. Natural gases, entirely wast- ways manages to forget that, in view|ed by former owners, are now being of the economic eclipse of Russia dur-| uti d. The o of gasoline from | ing the post-war period, the only com- | crude oil ha 1 ir ased from the | pre-war fi f 4 per cent to over BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS | THE NEW MASSES 89 Union Square NEW YORK, N. Y. (eteoTs 2 Belen ranenbsidit eet $2.00 a Year. ° ; e |7 per cent. “Soviet ker e is now of a higher mM quality than r before. Additional O treatment made necessary because } of dem ver encounteerd before | production from cultivated land was ;Wheat culture. In 1920, due to the civil war the quantity of wheat pro- duced was only 35 per cent of the total crop. Now in 1927 it has risen to 51.8 per cent. Oats, the most im- |portant crop next to wheat, formed better than before the revolution. | milk per cow per year. This was due}1926, 4.7 des. The amount of culti- Therefore, before the war 80 millions mainly to bad handling and lack of | vated land increased from 5,190,000 worth~of farm animals were exported | knowledge of proper feeding methods, | des. in 1924 to 5,202 11 and last year 64.5 million rubles |ete. Control uniens were organized | and to &, in 15 worth were exported. In 1926 the|by the Siberian Department of Agri-| The Soviet export of butter was 70 per cent of | culture, and better stock was intro: car the pre-war export from Siberia. duced at the same time that the pea By KARL REEVE. Agriculture In Siberia. NOVA SIBIRSK, Siberia, (By Mail).—In 1927, this year, 107.7 per feent of the pre-war number of de- jeatines ‘was cultivated in Siberia. Since 1926 the amount of land culti- . It will be inter- t coal production t ended was 39 per State tandard of agricultural methods and is raising the es for the cent higher than the figure given by ju Enclosed $ \ ripti 19.3 per cent of all land cultivated in Practice Crop Rotati isants were ta iry | mereasing production at the same x for 1912 \ mos. subscription, : ha 0 met i ‘op ation. sants were taught modew dairy : & é | Deterding for 1912. we vated in Siberia has increased 18.5 1913 and in 1927—23.1 per cent. Flax! The Department of Agriculture of|methods. The peasants using new ss Se oe aan economy de- | usuch the facts, irrefutable \ per cent. These figures and those|in 1913 was 2.1 per cent of the total/Siberia is making every effort to|cows with modern methods have in-| © P! tOWaTd Socialism. |facts. Sir Henri, Deterding’s propa- cited below were given me by Com- | _ | facts. |crop and in 1927, 3.1 per cent. The figures refer to the number of de- setines cultivated for each crop. Overcome Effects of Civil War. The general agricultural produc- tion based on amount of products is establish a high standard of agricul-| creased their production of milk an-| ture and with much success. In pre-|nually from 45 to 148 per cent, and|Keep Up the Sustaining war days the method was extremely | some of these cows are giving, in-| _ |primitive. The peasant farmed his! stead of 40.5 pds. per year 140 pds. | jland for a few years, then when the! of milk. z soil was exhausted farmed another! The number and s |ganda cannot withstand the light of Fund | reality.” , trade Skoropeshkin, head of the jSiberian department of Agriculture. Before the war 5.6 per cent of all land in Siberia was cultivated. This year the figure has risen to 6.1 per cent of the pre-war level. ze of the com-| , a 115.9 per cent of the pre-war pro-|Piece and let the first plot lie idle| munes and collectives is growing cS Sere tli idee ee gj./ duction. "The animal stock before the for a few years. Now the five field| yearly as are -the number of co-| : ac tat apis eee Di i f the| War totflled 14.9 millions. and in|S¥stem of crop rotation is being in-| operaty one of, the achievements | Revive the f sberia. < Int 8) Oa mper Cane 0 | 1927—21.5 million. In 1927 sheep and troduced. In 1925 only 642 peasants | of the Soviet State in the building of | used the modern five field system,| socialism. There are now 700 good Cee reeks eae: ct PaaS ages communes in Siberia where «.( acres). As a result of the educa-/the system of agriculture is social-| tion carried,on by the department of | The mumber of production and | agriculture, 1926, 217,000 desiatines | or dit co-operatives for buying in ee cultivated pene he are common etc, has increased as follows: | system, an increase 0: x de- | siatines. j Improve Quality of Harvest. | i Pe} 022 The Department of Agriculture is Co-Operatives For Buying Machinery also sping good Piseucoth Slah ae The machine buying co-operatives campaign to raise the’ quality of the for buying tractors ete. have in- crops by introducing a better quality | creased from 28, in 1924 to 1206 in| of seed. In 1925—700,000 poods of | 1926. In the last two years the num- good quality wheat were sold to the! ber of seed co-operatives has increased peasants, much of it on credit. Last| many times 100 per cent. The num- year five million poods (1 pood-—36 | ber of co-operatives for increasing tne separa pounds) i ired ey #Y | quality of the stock has increased | wheat was given out. is has al-| 825 per cent in the last 2 years. ready materially increased the quality ; Develop Toward Socialism, of the wheat, including that which is/ The peasants as a whole have in- exported, creased their land holdings, and the | abl Bere of Live Stock. ‘ a aod eee pensnna, aut oe 1e@ COWS 0: eria give very rich|ter than the kulak or rich peasants. | creased above the pre-war level.|milk, but the production before the| In 1924 each person held an ae Segond the peasants are living much|war was low, being only 40.5 nds. of | ave of 4 des. in 1925 4.1 des and in ' ; 4 goats formed 208.7 per cent of the pre-war number, hogs 119.7 per cent, cows 122.4 per cent and horses 98.5 per cent of the pre-war level. The number of horses is somewhat lower because of the ravages of the civil war. Not only Kolchak occupied Si- feria, but the Cheko-Slovaks and the apanese visited violence on the popu-|! lation. The Agricultural economy of Si- beria in 1913 divided as follows, 28.1 per cent field crops and 71.9 per cent production such as dairy products and stock raising. In 1926 the division was 42.5 percent field crops and 57.5 per cent stock raising and dairy products. Export is not so large now as before the war. This is due to two causes. First the population of Siberia has grown 28 per cent since 1913, the increase being ahead of the increase in agricultural products, altho as stated above that too has in- Daily Worker Sustaining Fund Many comrades have allowed their to lag during the summer months. Now is the time of renewed activity. Now is the time to start again with the Sustaining Fund and build it up on a stronger and firmer basis. With a strong Sus- taining Fund, our financial troubles will be things of the past. 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