Recently returned to Toronto from Russia, Percy Hopkins, consulting geologist, remarked that he was greatly impressed with certain aspects of the Soviet mining situation. But he was not greatly impressed by other features, such as the common standard of living. The number of women working at hard tasks everywhere was striking. Half of the surface workers at the mines were women; and he saw women running drills.
Mr Hopkins attended the International Geologists Congress in Moscow and made a 22-day tour of the Urals. Reprinted from The Northern Miner, October, 1937.
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