Communications and transit > Enquiry on national public works

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POLAND.
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Summary.
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Introduction 153
Report on the Labour Fund 154
(a) Roads and Bridges 164
(b) Railway Lines 167
(c) and (e) Works for the Redistribution of Properties, Improvements and
Construction in Rural Areas 170
(d) Navigable Waterways 173
(g) Maritime Ports 182
(h) Airports 183
(i) Construction of Dwelling-houses 184
(l) Telegraphs, Telephones, Wireless, Posts 185
INTRODUCTION.
The present report comprises a statement of the activities of the Labour Fund
functioning as a public institution for the execution of public works as a remedy for
unemployment, together with a list of the works undertaken by the various branches of
the State administration, in the order prescribed in the questionnaire.
It has obviously not always been possible to give complete replies, particularly as
certain problems, such as the distribution of expenditure between materials and labour,
frequently present considerable difficulties. In the main, however, the plan of the
questionnaire has been followed in alluding to the various works.
The report refers to certain categories of works (water supply and water mains,
electrification, gas supply, etc.), in so far as these have been carried out principally by
autonomous territorial bodies. For such works, certain data will be found for the years
I933_34 an(i I934_35 in the report, attached hereto, of the Labour Fund, which helps to
finance the works carried out by these autonomous territorial bodies. Another source
of information is the table of approximate credits for works in the extraordinary budgets
of the communal unions (after deducting the sums for the repayment of debts and the