Moscow, June 16, During the past tew' days the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union considered the preliminary results of the spring sowing and problems connected with the harvesting campaign, the problem of railway transport, questions connected with the economic situation, and problem of the capital and other: municipalities in the Soviet Union.
After hearing the report of Comrade Rukhimovich, the People's Commissary for Railways, the following resolution was " adopt "The successful industrialization of the country has resulted in an ormous growth of the work of the railways. Loadings increased to 230 million tons in 1980 as against 182 million tons in 1981.
The railways carried in 1930 as many as 557 million passengers as against 185 in the last year before the war.
Tu comparison with the pro-war period the total work of the rail: ways has doubled and is now only 7 per cent. below the provisions for the last year of the: Five Years Plan, However, the growth of shipments was accompanied by a relatively small volume of new railway construction and resulted in a great strain on the railways.
Until 1930 the Soviet Union built 12,800 kilometres of new railways.
The daily run of freight cars is now 93.4 kilometres as agains; 72) in 1913, Approval is given to the proposal to attach locomotives to definite drivers and to increase the wages of railwaymen by 13 per cent. Recognizing that electrification constitutes the basis for a reconstruction of the railways, it is hereby urged to electrify during the next few years altogether kilomeres, During the present year 1,038 new locomotives, 47,000 freight-fears, 197,000 tons of rails and 22,- (000,000 sleepers must be secured. Furthermore the necessity is pointed out of a Widespread application of the piecework system, the extensive granting of bonuses, the provision Of housing facilities for the transport workers and the improvement of the supply of daily necessities by perfecting the ce-operative _organizations of the transport workers, June 17. tral committee of the Commucist The plenary meeting of the cen-
Party after hearing the report of Comrade Yakovlev, the Pesple's Commissary for Agriculture, adopted the following resolute In the main grain districts such! as the Ukrainian steppe, the Northern Caucasus, the lower} reaches of the Vkiga, the East. eva and middle Volga region and the Crimean steppe por cent. the households and ever 90 per lent. of the entire peasant popula. tion' have undertaken the work of sowing on a collective has Tu the remaining grain" cotton, and. sugar-beet districts, this has been the case with over 60. per! cent. of the peasants." This shows that collectivization will be "com pletely realized within this year, ler in any case not later than in the spring of 1052. "The state-farms have become the main producers of grain acd other agricul: tural raw-materials.
Individual poor and middle-class peasants are now only of second ary importance.
Ta the grain and technical eulture regions the liquidation of the Kulaks as a class is nearing com Pletion. "The Soviet Uni: n has become the largest country in the world. million collectivized households and 4,000 state-farms sowed over two-thirds of the spring corn of the whole country.
In order to strengthen the col-if lective farms the whole work of the collective and state farms will be organized on a piecework basis. at toa permanent group of Bach machine and horse will "be workers. Each district will in die time distribute ite income, atrong its collective farmers.
Be it further decided that in the! summer and autumn of the present year winter corn will be sown over an area of 43 million hectares and that the Supreme Economic Q: uncil shall secure more harvesting ines this year and urge the agricultural "machine building] plants to develop their production in such a degree that next year, 50 per cent. of the harvesting of all cultures will be mechanized. June 18.
The plenary meeting of the Cenral Committee of the Communist} Party having heard the report on the position ard development of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.