Working days, 52,651. Taken to the railway stations, 5,334 cubic
sazhins. Working days on transport, 22,840. One hundred carpenters
detailed for the Kizelovsk mines. One hundred carpenters detailed for
the bridge at Ufa. One engineer specialist detailed to the
Government Council of Public Economy for repairing the mills of
Chelyabinsk Government. One instructor accountant detailed for
auditing the accounts of the economic organizations of Kamuishlov.
Repair of locomotives procceding in the works at Ekaterinburg.
January 20, 1920, midnight."


The Labor Army's Soviet received a report on the state
of the district covered by the army with regard to supply and
needed work. By the end of January it had already carried
out a labor census of the army, and found that it included
over 50,000 laborers, of whom a considerable number were
skilled. It decided on a general plan of work in
reestablishing industry in the Urals, which suffered severely
during the Kolchak regime and the ebb and flow of the civil
war, and was considering a suggestion of one of its members
that if the scheme worked well the army should be increased
to 300,000 men by way of mobilization.


On January 23rd the Council of Defense of the Republic,
encouraged to proceed further, decided to make use of the
Reserve Army for the improvement of railway transport on
the Moscow-Kazan railway, one of the chief arteries
between eastern food districts and Moscow. The main
object is to be the reestablishment of through traffic between