VEOH ge OMcso Ss Aeroflot ‘stewardesses shop at their home base, Moscow aE PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 15,-1973—-PAGE 6 pe TES BRE a a AS Ss FD IES 2 BE MN ae RAD By Valentin Zharov Novosti Press Agency he Soviet state. implementing the current Five-Year Plan (1971-1975). has-‘raised the average monthly wages and salaries of factory and office workers by 7% and incomes of collec- tive farmers by 8.1% over the past two vears. These measures mean a real rise in earnings. In spite of the unprecedented drought that hit the USSR in the summer of 1972. there has not been any. even a minimal. increase in the price of food products. consumer goods. of transport. pub- lic utilitv and other services. The step-by-step fulfillment of the social pro- ‘gram of the Ninth Five-Year Plan has made it possible. by 1973. to raise the earnings of many categories of workers. giving them additional benefits. Machine operators There are about 4 million machine operators on the collective and state farms today. For- merly. a tractor driver's daily earnings for ful- filling his quota ranged from 5 to 6.5 roubles: A collective farm market A department store on the Nasha Rodina Collective Farm, Krasnodar Territory given to 600.000 meal} now. depending on the® or harvesting operat! to 7 roubles for the * 5 ments have been int? vice (from 8 to 16%!* who maintain the ™ order. Railw4) Wages and salarié) and white-collar Wo" transport. including © raised. This has a fem ' High-skill increments?) introduced for locomo! Dot} An average of 23°¢18 largest increase. in” their work. is goiné rural doctors (32%! * workers (35° ). Tee More than 9,600.00!