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~ IX articles in which Maur-
‘Rush describes his recent
i to the USSR, East Ger-
“Y and Czchoslovakia.)

/ BY MAURICE RUSH

Whe of the things which
tresses you most about
ad is the huge apart-
eit building program under
ton’ From whatever direc-
~ yOu enter the city you
ba Many blocks under con-
“tion and others already
Mipleted. Some of the blocks
Sw were beautifully laid
‘with parks and_ playing
| 88 for children.
a housing problem has
® and remains a * very
jpcUS one in the Soviet
08: The government is now
| taking a big housing pro-
by throughout the country
he Olve this problem within
tbe next few years. It is
yi uding large sums
ag building apartment
ban S and is advancing state
i 3 to encourage cooperative
he ‘ndividual building. Any-
: Wishing to build his own
be €can get a government
a found out that many
hy tS have built summer

0
Wes on the outskirts of
Seow,

vgibent a whole afternoon
ite F .leading Moscow ar-
heat 5 He showed me apart-
a locks already completed
thy OOK me to a new project
|, °° construction.

fin @tehea Moscow construc-
‘me Workers assemble large
mOricated sections of an
it nent block. This method
be ‘struction makes it possi-

i 09 tA “
i, mle buildings very

la’ finished apartment
ie SI saw in this project
litte, Well laid out and of
Mone ot Shapes and sizes and
i, “ith lots of green area
hui “en and around all the
: dings.
ity © apartments are cent-
“bp heated by plants which
a a large district.
ad are constantly experi-
hougs 8 With new types of
{if ‘ng. I talked with a class
‘by “NE student architects,
ho of whom spoke English,
thy Were anxious to get my
‘ba sions of the different
ih Ment blocks going up
Plied me with questions.
hin © I found, as I did in
Y other fields of activity,
ty, Vite the Soviet people
Neen proud of their achieve-
4) €y are also very criti-
iy “4 are constantly looking
Moar to improve their
he’ aehitect told me that
Yerall plan for Moscow

Good housing for
all is Soviet aim

is to provide new housing
accomodation for two million
people between 1956 and 1960.

Already 800,000 people are
living in new apartments. In
the next year and a _ half
enough living quarters will
have been built for another
1,200,000.

“The aim of our housing
program now is to provide
good minimum standards of
housing for everyone. Once
that task has been accompli-
shed we shall be able toturn to
better quality housing if the
people want it. We are build-
ing towards Communism and
that implies good housing
conditions and more comfort
and leisure time for every-
one,” he said.

Before I left the housing
site an interesting conversat-
ion took place. I was enquiring
about working conditions for
construction workers. I asked
what happened during the
winter when it was too cold
to work oUtdoors. To this the
architect replied that they
moved inside.

When I enquired what hap-
pened if there wasn’t enough
indoor work to keep all
workers on the job during
the winter I was told they
were sent home. Then I want-
ed to know if a worker lost
pay for the time he was off.

The architect looked  sur-
prised. “Why certainly not.
It’s not his fault if he can’t
work. His pay goes on.”

I wondered as I came away
what the building trades which
suffered mass unemployment
last winter would think if
they could have listened in
on this little conversation. I
was sorry I wasn’t able to
record it for use by unem-
ployed delegations at home.

KRUSHCHEV AT ANNIVERSARY:

‘USSR needs peace

to build communism

MOSCOW—“We don’t.need war. To build a Communist society we need peace.” This
is what Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev said at a reception here marking the 41st anniversary

of the October Revolution.

“The general line of our foreign policy is that of peaceful coexistence and establish-

ment of friendly relations between all peoples,” he declared.

Referring to the U.S. elec-
tions, Krushchev said: “We
are glad that the people of
the United States condemn the
policy of brinkmanship.

“Although we understand
that there is little difference
between the Republican Party
and the Democratic Party as
regards foreign affairs, we
view the result of the election
from the standpoint of a pos-
sible improvement in the re-
lations between our two coun-
tries.”

He said he hoped the result
of the election would lead to
substantial changes, to the end
of the cold war and of the
“short-sighted policy of -brink-
manship.”

Krushchev asserted that the
day was not far off when the
Soviet Union would take first
place in the world both in
absolute production and per
capita production. .

“This will secure for our
peoples the world’s top living
standard,” he declared.

At an eve- of - anniversary
meeting attended by 12,000
people in Moscow’s Sports
Palace on Thursday last week,
Soviet First Deputy Premier
A. I. Mikoyan pointed out that
Soviet national income had in-
creased by 8 percent in the
past year — an increase equal
to the total national income in
1930.

New housing for Moscow’s millions

“We are now entering a
phase of development,’ he
said, “the phase of a still more
rapid expansion of the coun-
try’s productive forces and of
its swift advance toward com-
munism.”

Moscow marked the anni-
versary on Friday last week
with mass meetings and dem-
onstrations stressing the peace-
ful victories of socialism in
the Soviet Union’s onward
march to communism.

At all the gatherings the
emphasis was placed upon
achievements recorded in the
country’s main economic task
—to overtake and surpass the
principal capitalist countries
of the world in industrial and
agricultural production.

By tradition the civilian dem-
onstration began with a col-
umn of motor-cyclists, who
sped through Red Square with
streaming banners and a blast
of trumpets.

A burst of applause greeted
sportsmen carrying the flags
of all the socialist countries.
There was a great cheer, too,
for scientists carrying aloft

‘Socialism _
is stronger

PEKING—Theme of China’s
nation-wide celebrations of the
Soviet Revolution was that the
socialist countries and_ their
friends are already stronger
than capitalist countries on a
world scale.

Cooperation between the
secialist countries for peace
and a better life was high-
lighted by the announcement
that China has already over-
taken Britain in coal _ pro-
duction — a target set last
year for fulfilment “in 15
years or. more.”

It was also announced that
the Soviet Union has agreed
to equip a further 47 major
industrial projects in China’s
second Five Year Plan.

Speaking at the celebration
here, Vice-Premier Chu Teh
said that, in contrast to the
growing prosperity of the
socialist camp, the capitalist
world faced a decline.

November 14, 1958 —

full-scale models of sputniks.

There was also a scale model
of the world’s first atomic ice-
breaker and, towering over the
marchers, a scale model of an
atomic power station.

The routes taken by the
marchers were well-worn ones
along which millions have
marched to Red Square in the
41 years since the establish-
ment of Soviet power.

But there was one brand-
new route leading from the
new southwest district of Mos-
cow, past the great skyscraper
of Moscow University, over a
brand-new bridge crossing the
Moscow River to the centre of
the city.

The new road _ has_ been
named Komsomol Avenue in
honor of the millions of mem-
bers of the Young Commu-
nist League who have con-
tributed so much to the suc-
cesses the Soviet Union is now
celebrating.

The new mile-long bridge is
a unique engineering weat. It
is a two-decker bridge of pre-
stressed concrete carrying an
extension of the Metro-line on
the lower deck and a ffirst-
class auto road on top.

In all about 250,000 people
have been rehoused this year
in different districts of Mos-
cow and by the end of the
year the total will be not far
short of 300,000.

In Soviet towns and cities,
over six million people will
have been provided with new
housing this year, while mil-
lions more have new homes in
the countryside.

Store windows show the
plans for reconstructing vari-
ous parts of the city, provid-
ing new blocks of flats, parks
and gardens, sports stadiums,
theatres, schools and cther
amenities.

Kenya MLAs suspeded

NAIROBI—Fourteen African
members of the Kenya legis-
lature have been suspended
for “disorderly and insulting
behavior” because they walked
out of the House when the
governor, opening a new ses-
sion, rose to give a_ policy
speech, ~

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